Today marks the 100th anniversary of Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen reaching the South Pole. The event occurred on December 14, 1911, when the Norwegian explorer and four others managed to reach 90° 0′ latitude south, marking the first time this ever happened in recorded history.
The expedition was ext... |
14 December 2011
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The announcement that Gearbox was working on Borderlands 2 so close after the launch of the first game was somewhat of a surprise for the industry and the fan base has reacted with some distrust, prompting the developers to offer more information on how they plan to make the sequel more than just a cash grab.Jeremy C... |
21 September 2011
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Despite the fact that the twin robots of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission have advanced our knowledge of Mars so much that we can't really quantify it, engineers at NASA are annoyed by the fact that they can't make the little robots go into steep gullies, or other similar geological formations, for ... |
19 May 2009
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This relatively new field of robotics refers to future NASA abilities of controlling numerous machines on distant planets via single central command units. Only recently, the American space agency has awarded the Aurora Flight Sciences, the MIT's Manned Vehicle Laboratory (MVL), and the MIT Humans and Automation... |
21 March 2009
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PlayStation 2 owners probably remember the fun they had while playing a colorful game called Brave. It seems that they are not the only persons who recall it, since SouthPeak and Collision Games have teamed up to bring us an expanded reinvention of the title, called Brave: A Warrior's Tale. This time, even more ... |
14 July 2008
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Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking was invited yesterday to speak at NASA's 50th anniversary at Washington, DC. During his lecture, professor Hawking attacked the matters of Moon and Mars colonization, the underfunding of space exploration and the possibility of existence of alien life in the universe. H... |
22 April 2008
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The US Pioneer program of unmanned space missions was designed for planetary exploration. There were a number of such missions in the program, but the most notable were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, which explored the outer planets and left the solar system. Both carry a golden plaque, depicting a man and a woman and i... |
30 March 2007
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