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The recently announced startup Planetary Resources, whose main area of activity will be asteroid mining, has already attracted over 2,000 prospective employees. All of them want the chance to work in this emerging field, which was science-fiction just a few years ago.
Perhaps one of the things that lends so much cre... |
15 May 2012
09:16 GMT |
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Google co-founder Larry Page and renowned director James Cameron are among the investors in a newly-unveiled company, called Planetary Resources Inc. The purpose of this startup is to use advanced technologies to create spacecraft capable of mining asteroids.
Water and precious metals will be the main targets of th... |
24 April 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a recently discovered botnet designed to mine Bitcoins has been updated with components that facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.The so-called Miner Botnet uses a peer-to-peer infrastructure and can also serve as a malware distribution platform.However, considering t... |
26 August 2011
02:16 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec have identified a new trojan that uses the graphic card resources of infected computers to mine Bitcoins on behalf of its authors.Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer cash-like virtual currency that can be exchanged by users without the need of a central bank or payment processing service.Beca... |
18 August 2011
11:04 GMT |
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According to a new research paper, archaeologists recently discovered the oldest mine in the Americas. The iron oxide mine has been found in Chile, and initial studies estimate its age at around 12,000 years. Details of the discovery were listed in a report published in the June issue of the journal Current Anthropol... |
19 May 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Working under a contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), a private company in Canada is now investigating possible technologies that could be used in space, for drilling and mining. This will become very important in the future, as we extend our exploitations into outer space.Studies conducted on rocks collecte... |
12 May 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 is coming before the end of the year and the two main public voices of developer BioWare are saying that the feedback they are getting from fans is crucial to making the title the best it can be.
They mentioned that two of the elements that will be changed significantly in Mass Effect 3 include the w... |
2 March 2011
13:41 GMT |
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There is currently no doubt in people's minds that we will someday end up exploiting the Moon for resources, and some believe that that day may come sooner than anyone expected. Still, experts say that legal issues are still a challenge in this area, and that future companies need to solve this issue first. Thi... |
19 January 2011
01:48 GMT |
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According to a panel of space experts, scientists and engineers, the Moon should be our first stop in the quest to start mining the solar system for precious resources. Our natural satellite won the “competition” over Mars and near-Earth objects (NEO) primarily because it features other resources as well,... |
1 November 2010
03:36 GMT |
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Another argument in support of the thesis that Mass Effect 2 is a role playing game is that of feature grinding. Sure, it's not grinding for levels, as the game offers those on set when each mission is completed and reviewed by the Illusive Man. But the planetary exploration game in Mass Effect 2 certainly has s... |
8 February 2010
17:21 GMT |
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In James Cameron's new fantasy movie Avatar, a private corporation conducts an off-world strip mining operation on the exomoon Pandora. The script places this world around a massive gas giant located in the Alpha Centauri system, which is a real star system some 4.4 light-years away from Earth. But space analyst... |
30 January 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Just recently, the Mackay-based company Mining Logic Solutions has signed a contract with the Queensland University of Australia, which awarded it with the license to produce the new Nexsys™ real-time risk-management system, to be implemented at a global scale. The new system is expected to boost mine productiv... |
20 May 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Over the past few weeks, coal and natural gas companies have intensified their efforts to hinder the Australian government's plans, which call for the introduction of a carbon-trading scheme by 2010. Officials from these companies say that the new legislation, which is due to be voted in June, will cripple produ... |
2 April 2009
09:00 GMT |
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When cave tunnels collapse, the faith of the miners trapped behind is often sealed, mostly because emergency rescue teams can rarely reach the pockets where survivors are located in time, before oxygen supplies run out. In addition, drills cannot be performed with electric equipments, as any spark may cause an explos... |
26 March 2009
07:35 GMT |
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Last week, the Bush administration again favored the fossil fuel industry over the environment, when it allowed for new legislation, regulating the amount of debris that mountaintop mining companies could throw away into adjacent streams in valleys. As soon as the decision was announced, environmental groups started ... |
8 December 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Retired consumer electronics appliances could bring you a fortune, even before recycling, if you decided to mine them for precious metals. The new trend is as scientific as possible, and even got a name: "Urban mining". The idea behind it is the fact that scrap parts hold significant amounts of gold, silver, copper, ... |
29 April 2008
06:55 GMT |
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Undersea hydrothermal vents can be the most ancient ecosystems on Earth. They may have existed ever since the beginning of life on Earth and before the emergence of photosynthesis. The food chains of the hot vents are not based on solar light but on the chemical energy stored by sulphur metabolizing bacteria, which a... |
18 May 2007
05:14 GMT |
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The title of "The biggest truck in the world" belongs to the new T 282 B, and it's made by Liebherr, a well-known name in the mining industry.This baby can carry about 360 tonnes (400 tons) at 64 km/h, costs US$3 million, and it's used in the places where size matters, in fact, it's the most important... |
30 March 2007
11:01 GMT |
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