NASA has set up two annual competitions to spur development of space elevator technologies – one in which the robot climber has to go up the tether at a minimum speed of 1m per second and one to measure the strength of the tether itself.
And we get to watch it – aparently these are the best pictures we’ve had yet of the closest colliding galaxy to ours.
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Last year 5 US nationals claimed asylum in the UK. There’s a lot of frustration about how failed applicants remain in the country.
This is the in depth story of how plane spotters found out about the secret CIA flights / torture taxis to detainee prisons based in Europe.