from SPACE.com Scientist Targets 2024 for China’s First Moon Walk China plans a manned lunar mission by 2024 that will include a walk on the moon’s surface, a top Chinese scientist was quoted as saying in a Hong Kong newspaper. The announcement by lunar program vice director Long Lehao shows long-term preparations are moving ahead […]
Read more "..Scientist Targets 2024 for China’s First Moon Walk.."“To put a human colony of four or five scientists on the moon for any extended period of time, it’s necessary to figure out how to produce the oxygen and water and propellant that might be required for simple life support, largely because it’s too darned expensive to get it all the way from Earth and stockpile it there,” says Dale Boucher, director of research and development at the Sudbury-based Northern Centre for Advanced Technology…
Read more "..Scientists work to colonize space.."An awesome treat here as Tom Maddox interviews Bruce Sterling for his podcast. Hear Bruce’s theory on what Asimov what be doing if he was just getting started today. Or why Bruce still hasn’t finished his ubicomp book, but is still publishing a novella on the subject.
Read more "listen to Tom Maddox and Bruce Sterling chew the fat"Adventures in Perth/Freo..
Read more "Perth trip"details of Microsoft Research project on digitally recording daily activities…
Read more "extreme bloggin’"adventures in zombie shuffling..
Read more "me pod-zombie"from Charlie’s Diary My next SF novel, the stand-alone “Glasshouse“, comes out in hardcover on June 30th in the US, and July 6th in the UK. And this is what Publisher’s Weekly had to say about it in their starred review: The censorship wars — during which the Curious Yellow virus devastated the network of […]
Read more "Charlie Stross has a new novel out soon – Glasshouse"With fears of artic melting and flooding taking place on more frequent basis some people are thinking into the future. Floating houses have been around for a while but just recently has there been a lot of development in foundation technology that will float whole city blocks. You can only image the possibilities.
The Dutch are gearing up for climate change with amphibious houses. If rivers rise above their banks, the houses simply rise upwards as well. Such innovation could be good news for hurricane and flood-stunned America. But are water lovers prepared to live on swimming family arks?
Read more "..Floating Cities: The Dutch might have the answer for global warming.."A promising possible adaptation of the William Gibson novel.
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