Tuesday, January 14, 2003

http://www.spacewar.com/ has news about military stuff going into orbit and being prepared for future conflicts involving higher and higher military high tech spy satellite development Japan's unmanned spy plane Advances in unmanned air vehicles such as robot helicopters Missile Defense System ... Republican controlled US Gov is GO GO GO on this, before Democrats get control again and shoot it down again 1:33:40 PM

http://www.astroexpo.com/about/gateway.asp discovered thanks to Moreover Science News right before my PC lockup lost me all my News Aggregation.  This outfit appears to be a virtual exhibit hall of all space industries, with tons of technical references. 1:10:34 PM

Julian Goh suggests we browse this site  www.technewsworld.com which releases news every minute 12:52:40 PM

Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Astronomy basis of Nobel Prize in Physics [Discovery Channel News] via [Moreover - Science news] reports QUOTE Physics Nobel to U.S., Japanese. Discovery Channel Oct 9 2002 0:33AM ET [Moreover - Science news] 2:41:04 PM

Wednesday, October 02, 2002

Remember Longitude, the PBS special shown in America on A+E, based on the book by Dava Sobel?  How about The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester?  Well, to that collection add The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder, featured Inside Borders Oct 2002 edition, a book store chain recently arrived in Evansville Indiana, where I live, but undoubtedly a familiar chain name in many larger cities.  What these 3 books have in common is that they help us understand the history of science by following along the struggles of the people who made the discoveries. 2 astronomers in the 1700'ds attempted to measure planet Earth, and their research led to our metric system, but apparently they made a mistake, and covered it up.  What mistake?  Aha, now you will have to read the book, 11:34:12 PM

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