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APOD: 2009 July 29 - The Milky Way Over Devils TowerDiscover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 July 29 Explanation: Was Devil's Tower once an explosive volcano? Famous for its appearance in films such as Close...
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Photo: Docked Space Shuttle and Station Cross the Sun | Wired Science | Wired.comPhoto: Docked Space Shuttle and Station Cross the Sun A French photographer has captured a stunning photo of the space shuttle Endeavor docked with the International Space Station crossing the face of the sun. You couldn’t just aim your digital camera at the sky and get results like this. Th...
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Secrets of Communist computing | News | TechRadar UKSecrets of Communist computing How the USSR's thirst for computing power led to its downfall By Jon Thompson Cold War paranoia may have brought the world to the brink of destruction, but it sparked an era of invention on both sides of the pond. In September 1950, fearing that Soviet ...
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July 24, 1950: America Gets a Spaceport | This Day In Tech | Wired.comJuly 24, 1950: America Gets a Spaceport 1950: Cape Canaveral, Florida, launches its first rocket. Cape Canaveral , a name that would become synonymous with the U.S. space program by the late ’50s, was just an obscure spit of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean along Florida’s eastern ...
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Splashdown! The Ship That Picked Up the Apollo 11 Astronauts | Wired Science | Wired.comALAMEDA — The USS Hornet was on hand 40 years ago to
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Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories - Bill Gates - GizmodoBill Gates: My 1979 Memories Our Gizmodo '79 celebration may have ended last week, but there's room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates . It's no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in: I read those 1979 stories all last week, and it put ...
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5 Future Worlds Predicted by Epcot Center - Captain Eo Michael Jackson and Other Rides - Popular MechanicsEpcot has always been the most curious of Disney World's parks: a place of slow (and some might say boring) rides that focused more on education than on adrenaline-boosting thrills. This is a park where utopian ideals (the park's name originally stood for "Experimental Prototype Community of ...
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Stick your hand into liquid nitrogen... and not lose it.video Stick your hand into liquid nitrogen... and not lose it. I stick my hand (momentarily) directly into liquid nitrogen but don't suffer any injuries due to the Leidenfrost effect. The Leidenfrost effect is the formation of a gas barrier between a hot surface and a boiling liquid ...
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APOD: 2009 July 19 - From the Moon to the EarthExplanation: After the most famous voyage of modern times, it was time to go home. After proving that humanity has the ability to go beyond the confines of planet Earth, the first humans to walk on another world -- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -- flew the ascent stage of their Lunar Module ...
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