Links for 23-09-2006
Earth from orbit, human regeneration project, Chinese Next-Gen Internet, Saturn’s rings…
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“The average temperature of the water near the top of the Earth’s oceans has significantly cooled since 2003. New research suggests global warming trends are not always steady in their effects on ocean temperatures.” Cue denialist spin…
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“The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth from 1961 through the present.” Hell, yes.
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“When I sat down to read Julie Phillips’ biography of Alice Sheldon, I made a conscious decision that I wasn’t going to write a review of it.” Which means this lengthy post by Niall Harrison is anything but a review, then…
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“Prosthetics are getting better all the time, but they will never be as good as the limbs we were born with. So two teams of scientists at 10 institutions across the country are competing to regrow the first mammalian limb.”
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“A British nuclear plant recently constructed to make plutonium fuel for power reactors in Japan and Europe has been plagued with so many breakdowns that it may have to be shut down.” One of Tony’s pet projects, BTW.
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” … to top it all off, they did it a third time (check the video link below) with a just a photocopy of the master fingerprint and a little saliva.” Everything can (and will) be hacked.
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7 – Superbus“It is an electric bus designed to be able to switch seamlessly between ordinary roads and dedicated “supertracks”, on which it can reach speeds of 250kph (155mph).” But will it ever actually be built?
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“China’s Next Generation Internet (CNGI), a faster, more secure, more mobile version of the current one.” Blimey. They could really steal a march on the West if this comes off.
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9 – Pale Blue Orb“Cassini casts powerful eyes on our home planet, and captures Earth, a pale blue orb — and a faint suggestion of our moon — among the glories of the Saturn system.” Wow. Just wow.
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“The occultation of the Sun put the spacecraft in position to see the rings with exquisite and detail-enhancing backlighting, providing striking visual evidence for their extensive interaction with some of Saturn’s smaller moons.”

September 23rd, 2006 at 10:48 am
Look, it ended up longer than I expected, ok? :p