MOSCOW – A Russian rocket manufacturer is proposing sending space tourists on a ride around the moon for $100 million, and a top official of the nation’s space agency said the project could be viable.
Just slightly more expensive than going with Burt Rutan and Richard Branson on Virgin Galactic at $100m
From his subordinates Yushchenko demanded – and received – a plan to dissolve the DAI and by the beginning of July the deed was done, the executive order signed.
Ukraine’s once-feared traffic police ceased to exist.
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But that’s not the way it turned out. Drivers in the Ukrainian provincial cities of Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv reported traffic was moving quite normally and most drivers were obeying regulations, even though there were few, if any, traffic cops around to enforce them.
The dual-chamber, double-acting, drug-packing “nanocell” proved effective and safe, with prolonged survival, against two distinct forms of cancers-melanoma and Lewis lung cancer-in mice.
Notwithstanding 9/11, people are still hungry to build skyscrapers – and even more hungry to build the Worlds Tallest Building ™
Currently there are a whole load of projects ongoing, including arguments about whether antennae and spires count.
Here is a page with some of the more realistic projects described…
ADS systems are a new class of nonlethal weaponry using 95 GHz-millimeter-wave directed energy. This technology is capable of rapidly heating a person’s skin to achieve a pain threshold that has been demonstrated by AFRL human subject testing to be very effective at repelling people, without burning the skin or causing other secondary effects.
Yup, in one of those wonderful studies I like, it turns out that:
Crashes are avoided by making a safe plan based on what you see. Cameras move attention away from hazards to speedometers
So the UK has stopped deploying them whilst it ponders this…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush, in a dramatic policy shift, promised India full cooperation on Monday in developing its civilian nuclear power program without demanding that it sign a major nuclear arms control treaty.
What about Pakistan? They sure won’t be happy… will this jeapordise the ongoing peace processes that are finally progressing in Kashmir?
A Secret Service invites you to submit your passwords and a timestamp for storage on the Secret Service website. It is then translated (text-to-speech), automated and broadcasted via webradio and live at Mediamatic Groundfloor every hour on the time of your choice. Because nobody can know that this is your password or what the purpose is, this seemingly paradoxical way of storing something very secret and intimate in public space can be considered completely safe.
To guarantee the absolute safety of your information, Mediamatic will take advanced security measures to protect the server on which your passwords will be saved. You are invited to the festive OPENING on the 15th of July, where the safety of these measures will be on display. If you are thoroughly convinced by the safety, you are invited to place your most sensitive information in our care.
Google Earth puts a planet’s worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call Paris exotic, but it really is a pretty fantastic piece of software. It’s free, but unfortunately Windows only (no linux or osx clients, grrr).
http://earth.google.com/index.html
Sorry Everybody is a site where Americans apologize to the rest of the world for another 4 years of Dubya.
Seeing a couple like this one, this one, this one, this one and this one should be enough to make the point that barely half the US citizens support Bush.
Oh, and this one’s for Robin .. Aarrrr!
themakeupgallery is the best photo-gallery on the Web featuring actresses in character and prosthetic makeups by some of the best makeup artists. There are over 5000 images from more than 600 movies and TV shows. The transformations from actress into character are illustrated with before and after shots and, wherever possible, with behind the scenes shots of the makeup process.
Science magazine celebrates its 125th anniversary with a list of 125 questions science hasn’t got an answer for.
I’ve always been a bit curious about no 1 myself.. ooh, and that one, and that one, ooh! ooh! and that one!
