Tag: General Science
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Hubble gets a stay of execution
BBC is reporting (Google News) that STS-125 will be sent up to repair Hubble to extend it’s service life to 2013 at which point it’s successor will be ready. This seems to make much more sense than going without this amazing tool in the mean time.
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A Brief History of Time – Online!
Hawking’s great book A Brief History of Time is now available online for free. Check it out.
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High School Interface Design Contest
For all those budding Xerox Researchers out there, TAMU is having a contest. I found out about it through one a friend of mine who is involved. Wanted: High school teams who think outside the box and can design innovative and elegant solutions to non-conventional problems. A wide range of interests from art, education, psychology,…
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Eris nee Xena
Well it looks like Planet X (nee 2003 UB313), the planet formerly known as Xena of the group of objects formerly known as planets will be called Eris – the Greek goddess of strife and discord and her moon, is to be called Dysnomia – Google News. Why is this here? Well, the best way…
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Welcome Xena
It seems that there is now some confirmation that we have 10 planets in the Solar system. Planet X, nee planet 10 (get it?) may end up with the name Xena. It seems that people who don’t think Pluto is a planet may have issues with it, but everyone else will likely just wonder why…