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Science news update: Clones, Mars, quantum computing, weapons technology and more (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Mars rovers get pity squeegee wipes The Mars rovers, which should have stopped functioning six months ago, are still rambling across the red planet thanks to their solar panels, which have been repeatedly cleaned and washed by some unknown phenomenon. NASA scientists, who are not easily fooled, are nonetheless baffled by the longevity of the rovers, although a recent stream of captured images might hold some clues: They appear to show scrawny Martian humanoids hobbling towards the rovers with dingy towels and a squeegee. This is intelligent design?

Titan probe failure demonstrates pattern of quality control failures at NASA Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I recall a recent satellite that was supposed to orbit Mars but instead slammed into the red planet and destroyed itself. Why? Because someone at NASA decided to do the calculations in the English system of measurement rather than the metric system. Funny thing, isn't it, how miles and kilometers don't measure up the same when you're trying to orbit a planet... So why don't we take some capable people and put them in charge of space exploration? Why don't we offer the job to Burt Rutan, the builder of Spaceship One, the first privately funded craft that has actually reached outer space.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Already, university researchers are working on novel ideas for moving around the red planet, and for improving the technologies for detecting biological activity. Of course, there are potential downsides to increased human activity in space. Within Earth's orbit, more satellites mean more chances for accidents; so-called space junk is already a concern. A proliferation of private satellite launches will only add to those headaches. Of greater long-term concern is the possibility of contaminating other planets with earthly microbes riding along on poorly handled space probes.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

I went on to other things, but I got to experience the feeling of anticipating what it would be like to go to the red planet. In these troubled times, I am grateful not to have fulfilled that dream in the role of a governmen-tally constrained spokesman. Instead I'm focussing on a new dream which could not only ensure our survival but open new opportunities which stagger the imagination. The Apollo Moon program taught me many valuable lessons. I saw it as a crowning human achievement, an example of what we can do as a culture when we put our minds to it.

Food Fight Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen See book keywords and concepts

An example is a program called Hungry red planet that was developed with funding by the National Institutes of Health and is available in versions for schools and home.86 Eliminate Fast Foods and Unhealthy Snack Foods from Schools Manipulating where vending machines are placed, keeping the machines closed part of the day, and offering healthier items are good but inadequate steps. Unhealthy foods should not be sold in vending machines, school cafeterias, or school stores. This seemingly drastic move is consistent with recommendations from an expert consensus panel on school nutrition.

The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Polyakov once asked John Glenn if he would consider traveling to the red planet, to which the veteran astronaut replied, "With you, Valery, anytime."10 Lessons from Space The disruption of appetite, sleep, and normal physiological processes during extreme stress contributes to anxiety and depression, especially in space. These problems become more severe as missions become longer. Studies of animals and humans in simulated or actual spaceflight have documented changes in neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and immune response.

101 Things You Don't Know About Science And No One Else Does Either James Trefil See book keywords and concepts

From the old obsession with "canals" on its surface to chronicling by early science fiction writers of the details of Martian civilization, people have always had some hope that the red planet would turn out to harbor life, as the earth does. Alas, modern astronomy and the space program have not been kind to our dreams of Mars. The canals turned out to be optical illusions induced by the use of small telescopes, and the Viking landers of 1976 failed to turn up any chemical fingerprint of living things.

The primary purpose of the Viking I photographic survey of the Martian surface was to help scientists choose a landing site for the Viking lander that was already on its way to the red planet. Regions like Cydonia were too hilly and broken up to be of much interest for a landing site. So when a blurry photograph showed a mesa about 1,500 feet high and a mile long, with what looked like a human face on it, the NASA people didn't pay much attention. As usually happens in this shadow world, a few people looked at the photographs and decided that vital information was being covered up.

The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch See book keywords and concepts

In 1969, two more US spaceprobes made flybys of the red planet. But 1971 was a banner year that saw two Soviet and one US spacecraft in orbit about Mars, transmitting data, including television pictures, back to Earth. At first it seemed that nothing would be learned from orbiting Mars, since it was impossible to see much through the atmosphere. Later it was found that the orbiting probes had arrived during a giant dust storm.

In September, the United States plans to launch Mars Observer, a space probe that is expected to map the red planet from orbit during 1993 and 1994- The mission is a cooperative effort with Germany, Austria, France, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom. In December, Galileo once again swings past Earth for its last gravity assist before heading toward its final destination of Jupiter. 1993 In May the European Space Agency plans to orbit the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). Depending upon fuel supply, Galileo will fly by the asteroid Ida on August 28.

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