http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuv6TVv0r44&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sat, 05 May 2012 07:15:41 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuv6TVv0r44&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:20:09 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74mhQyuyELQ&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:21:33 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74mhQyuyELQ&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/traces_of_humanity/ What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space

Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth that nobody particularly intended to leave anywhere. But much of what we’ve left in space is intentional. Some of it is symbolic artifacts intended for an audience of people here on Earth - the fallen astronaut, the American flag on the moon, a CD containing a list of over half a million people who wanted to send their names to a comet, courtesy of a NASA… ]]> Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:32:57 -0700 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/traces_of_humanity/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-danger-of-cosmic-genius/8306/ Freeman Dyson is one of those force-of-nature intellects whose brilliance can be fully grasped by only a tiny subset of humanity, that handful of thinkers capable of following his equations. His principal contribution has been to the theory of quantum electrodynamics, but he has done stellar work, too, in pure mathematics, particle physics, statistical mechanics, and matter in the solid state. He writes with a grace and clarity that is rare, even freakish, in a scientist, and his books, including Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, Infinite in All Directions, and The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet, have made… ]]> Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:07:00 -0700 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-danger-of-cosmic-genius/8306/ http://nsidc.org/monthlyhighlights/january2010.html Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more. Researchers at NSIDC and NASA have shown that the oldest Earth observing satellite data can be made to yield new information, adding significantly to the view of Earth's climate history.

When NASA launched the first Nimbus satellite in the 1960s, they also launched an era of Earth observations from space. While the early Nimbus satellites provided meteorological and other observations, methods did not yet exist to… ]]> Sat, 29 May 2010 09:51:00 -0700 http://nsidc.org/monthlyhighlights/january2010.html http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m6d19-NASA-moon-bombing-violates-space-law--may-cause-conflict-with-lunar-extraterrestrial-civilizations The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep crater as an alleged water-seeking and lunar colonization experiment, is contrary to space law prohibiting environmental modification of celestial bodies. The NASA moon bombing, a component of the LCROSS mission, may also trigger conflict with known extraterrestrial civilizations on the moon as reported on the moon in witnessed statements by U.S. astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and in witnessed statements to NSA (National Security Agency) photos and documents regarding… ]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:39:00 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m6d19-NASA-moon-bombing-violates-space-law--may-cause-conflict-with-lunar-extraterrestrial-civilizations