Friday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 20, 2005 at 4:30:50 PM
Relax, today is Friday!
Turn polluting power plants into biodiesel.
Google delivers a major blow to RSS feeds. Check out the feeds at ASEville and be sure to add your own. For free.
A pair of blackholes in a galaxy.
NASA outlines Mars plans. Let's go already.
NASA may slow missions to ISS. Why is ISS relying on NASA so much. It is an INTERNATIONAL station after all. If this is going to be the case, the US should own it.
Turn polluting power plants into biodiesel.
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Using technology licensed from a NASA project, GreenFuel builds bioreactors--in the shape of 3-meter-high glass tubes fashioned as a triangle--to grow algae. The algae are fed with sunlight, water and carbon-carrying emissions from power plants. The algae are then harvested and turned into biodiesel fuel.
Google delivers a major blow to RSS feeds. Check out the feeds at ASEville and be sure to add your own. For free.
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The reason for the tragic reaction is today, Google officially announced the beta launch of AdSense for RSS feeds. Google's method of placing ads within feeds will work just like normal AdWords ads do: they are placed in the most contextually relevant area and when clicked, the person responsible for the feed receives money.
A pair of blackholes in a galaxy.
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But now a trio of astronomers, led by Damián Mast of Argentina's National University of Cordoba, says there may be two black holes inside the galaxy M83, which lies about 15 million light years away - even though it does not emit these X-rays.
NASA outlines Mars plans. Let's go already.
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The Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers have yielded far more data than ever anticipated, Garvin said, particularly data that has helped scientists better understand the geochemical and mineralogical workings of Mars. Additionally, the two rovers have set the stage for the follow-on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter scientific sweeps of the planet, and to target the Mars Science Laboratory in order for that large rover to analyze the best locales for the biogeochemical signatures of life, he said.
NASA may slow missions to ISS. Why is ISS relying on NASA so much. It is an INTERNATIONAL station after all. If this is going to be the case, the US should own it.
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Under normal circumstances, a shuttle stays in orbit about two weeks. The Soyuz can dock to the station for six months. Plus, the shuttle is to retire in 2010 and, while NASA is working to speed development of a replacement vehicle, it's too soon to tell if it will be ready to start flying astronauts to and from the space station at that time.