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NASA: Tile patch test on next shuttle mission
NASA hopes to test a thermal tile patch on the next space shuttle mission that could have been used to fix the gouge that was carved into the bottom of Endeavour during last month's launch. The repair -- a squirt of goo -- was one of three methods NASA considered using before deciding the damaged tiles didn't need to be fixed in flight. ........ |
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Microsoft suffers decisive EU antitrust defeat
A European Union court backed a European Commission ruling that Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, illegally abused its market power to crush competitors. Europe's top competition regulator said the ruling could lead to a "significant drop" in Microsoft's 95 percent market share. Shares in the U.S. software giant fell before the opening bell in New York on the Luxembourg-based court's ruling. The stock was down 2.2 percent at $28.40 in pre-market trading. "Its clearly a major defeat for Microsoft. There is no doubt it will spur the Commission on to regulate Microsoft much more significantly," said Chris Bright, a British competition lawyer. They will find that future innovation by Microsoft will be hampered quite significantly." The second-highest EU court dismissed the company's appeal on all substantive points of the 2004 antitrust ruling and upheld a record 497 million euro ($689.9 million) fine...... |
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Galaxy 'Hunting' Made Easy Galaxie...are of Cosmic Flashlights
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered in a single pass about a dozen otherwise invisible galaxies halfway across the Universe. The discovery, based on a technique that exploits a first-class instrument, represents a major breakthrough in the field of galaxy 'hunting'. The team of astronomers led by Nicolas Bouché have used quasars to find these galaxies. Quasars are very distant objects of extreme brilliance, which are used as cosmic beacons that reveal galaxies lying between the quasar and us. The galaxy's presence is revealed by a 'dip' in the spectrum of the quasar - caused by the absorption of light at a specific wavelength. The team used huge catalogues of quasars, the so-called SDSS and 2QZ catalogues, to select quasars with dips. The next step was then to observe the patches of the sky around these quasars in search for the foreground galaxies from the time the Universe was about 6 billion years old, almost half of its current age. ...... |
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Should this be going in the greenies thread? A new rice type developed survives up to 14 days of being flooded:
----------------------------------------http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7001494.stm
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Never mind
 And I don´t if this should go in the jokes thread Someone tries to sell Belgium on eBay Hidden among the porcelain fox hounds and Burberry tablecloths on sale at eBay.be this week was an unusual item: "For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts ... free premium: the king and his court (costs not included)." The odd ad was posted by one disgruntled Belgian in protest at his country's political crisis which reached a 100-day landmark Tuesday with no end in sight to the squabbling between Flemish and Walloon politicians. However, the company decided to pull the add Tuesday after receiving a bid of euro10 million (US$14 million) Bottom line We decided to take it down, just to avoid confusion," he told APTN. |
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They should split Belgium, the Flemish are welcome to the Netherlands, as way back, and the Walloons should go to France. Problem fixed.
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