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The Adventures Of ASTRO And NextSat
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 05, 2007Picture this: Two robots hang suspended in space, nose to nose. One reaches out a crooked silver arm and begins to minister to the needs of the other. Fuel is exchanged, a battery is replaced; servicing complete, the two silently drift apart. These robots, named ASTRO and NextSat, are real and they are in Earth orbit now. On March 8, 2007, an Atlas V rocket boosted the pair into space. Their mis ... more Warner Goes Digital To Bring New Life To Films 
San Francisco (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Hollywood's shift away from celluloid continued on Tuesday as Warner Brothers Entertainment revealed its film editing and archives have gone digital. Warner said it worked with US computer giant Hewlett-Packard to build a sophisticated digital editing "infrastructure" used to craft recently-released "Oceans 13" and rejuvenate classics such as "The Wizard of Oz." "It is part of our studio m ... more Eurobot Makes A Splash 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 05, 2007Many of the best-loved science fiction movies show intelligent robotic servants working alongside their masters. Fiction is rapidly becoming fact as European engineers develop increasingly sophisticated machines that can operate in space. One of these, known as Eurobot, has just completed trials in the giant pool at the European Astronaut Centre. Eurobot has been under development since 20 ... more How To Manage Floating Fluids In Space 
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 05, 2007Six months is a long time to be away from home. But Astronaut Sunita Williams had plenty of work to keep her busy during her stay on the International Space Station, including a group of experiments she dubbed "lava lamp." "I call it the 'lava lamp' experiment because some of the fluid is pink, and we hang out watching it with video and pictures," she wrote in her mission log. "If only we had a ... more Boeing Could Build Missile Base In Poland 
Warsaw (AFP) Jul 05, 2007US aviation giant Boeing is set to build a base for a battery of American missiles in Poland, if Warsaw and Washington go ahead with a controversial US anti-missile shield project, the Polish official leading negotiations said Thursday. "If the US Congress approves the budget for the construction of parts of the shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, we can assume that Boeing will receive 400- ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2007The ballistic missile defense showdown in Central Europe between the United States and Russia took another grim leap forward this week: Russian First Deputy Premier and former Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that if the Bush administration pushed ahead with its plans, Russia would respond by openly deploying ballistic missiles targeted on the bases in its oblast or region of Kaliningrad. ... more Let Them Raise Catfish Says Indonesian Minister As Future For Mud Volcano Victims 
Jakarta (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Hundreds of hectares of land inundated by sludge spewed from a devastating "mud volcano" in Indonesia should be developed to raise catfish, a minister said Thursday. "We have tested this and it has been proven that catfish can be raised in ponds made of the mud," environment minister Rachmat Witoelar told AFP. Witoelar said the government's priority was now to try to reduce the mud outflow or ha ... more Green Campaigners Keep Watch On Dubai Man-Made Isles 
Dubai (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Giant islands taking shape off the coast of Dubai are sparking interest not only from celebrities but also from environmental campaigners jittery about the man-made structures so large they can be seen from space. Work is all but complete on the Palm Jumeirah, the first of three palm tree-shaped islands, which developers Nakheel say is more than one and a half times the size of New York's Centra ... more Hot Economy Means China May Miss Energy Efficiency Targets 
Beijing (AFP) Jul 05, 2007China may not achieve its much-trumpeted five-year goal on improving energy efficiency due to runaway economic growth, the nation's top planning officials said in comments published Thursday. "The trend of overheated economic development has not been contained," the Beijing News quoted Ma Kai, China's top economic planner, as telling a government panel on energy efficiency on Wednesday. Ma ... more Malaysian Rainforests Not Cleared For Palm Oil In A Decade 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 05, 2007A minister on Thursday defended Malaysia's plantation industry and said tropical rainforests have not been cleared to plant palm oil in the last 10 years. Plantations Minister Peter Chin was refuting allegations that palm oil production destroys rainforests and wildlife habitats or that it increases greenhouse gas emissions and leads to a loss in biodiversity. "I would like to reiterate here tha ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 04, 2007There are growing signs that Iran may be providing support to the Taliban in Afghanistan. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said on June 14 that the flow of weapons from Iran to the Taliban has reached such large quantities that it is difficult to believe it is taking place without the Iranian government's knowledge. U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns went even further, saying that ... more Russia Threatens Missile Deployment But US Shrugs Off Threat As Not Constructive 
Moscow (AFP) Jul 04, 2007Russia issued a veiled threat on Wednesday to deploy rockets in its Kaliningrad region bordering the European Union if the United States built a missile defence shield in central Europe. Moscow and Washington are locked in a standoff over the US plans for a radar station in the Czech Republic and interceptor rockets in Poland. Russia says the plans threaten its security. The threat to put missil ... more Eyeing The Shanghai Group In 2007 
Sapporo, Japan (UPI) Jul 03, 2007The annual summit of the presidents of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will take place this coming August in Kyrgyzstan. The SCO groups together Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The U.S. government has reacted warily to the SCO for several reasons. First, when Washington asked to send observers to the SCO summit meetings, its request was refused. Late ... more US And Russia Begin Nuclear Reduction Talks 
Washington (AFP) Jul 03, 2007The United States and Russia on Tuesday pushed for peaceful nuclear energy use and said they had begun talks to trim their nuclear arsenals "to the lowest possible level" ahead of the expiry of a landmark strategic weapons agreement. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which led to the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive weapons under the largest arms control accord in histo ... more Israel Cannot Afford To Confront Iran Says Deputy Minister 
Jerusalem (AFP) Jul 03, 2007Israel's armed forces lack sufficient funds to confront the perceived threat posed by arch foe Iran's nuclear ambitions, an outgoing deputy cabinet minister charged on Monday. "We need more funds than we receive currently to deal with this threat," outgoing deputy defence minister Ephraim Sneh told public radio. "If the (international economic) sanctions (against Iran) were adopted more firmly a ... more
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