Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘Earth’
We’re men, and we look kind of mad, but we’re not Mad Men . FRIDAY, JULY 30 9 p.m., Syfy Eureka Allison (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) finds it difficult to relate to her son amidst the Space Week Festival hubbub, and Jack (Colin Ferguson) heads to Harvard to visit his daughter, Zoe (Jordan Hinson). 10 p.m., CBS Flashpoint Parker (Enrico Colantoni) gets caught in a dangerous trap and must either reveal a disturbing secret from his past or lose his life.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Facebook has a new service, Facebook Questions . As the firms’ Blake Ross explains, “Millions of people ask their friends questions on Facebook every day.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Jordan Pond, one of Acadia National Park’s most-visited attractions, highlights its natural beauty.
July 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Can you come up with the ideal solution for cleaning up the BP oil spill? If so, millions of dollars in prize money could be yours. The X Prize Foundation on Tuesday said that its new Oil Cleanup X Challenge will dare people to devise the most innovative ways to clean up oil spills, dangling a prize purse of millions of dollars as an incentive
July 27, 2010 | Posted in
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‘She’s Black Widow! She was terrific!’ ‘Green Lantern’ star says of ‘Iron Man 2′ star/ Ryan Reynolds’ wife. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Blake Lively Blake Lively has the pleasure of playing Ryan Reynolds’ love interest in “Green Lantern.” And while right now her character, Carol Ferris, is quite sweet, eventually she’ll turn sour and end up being a villain in the franchise. So, does the “Gossip Girl” star feel comfortable embracing her inner bad girl for the role
July 27, 2010 | Posted in
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There’s a feeling I get When I look to the west And my spirit is crying For leaving Yes, there is excitement in the air–high in the air–at the prospect of an elevator being built, one that ascends into outer space and allows humanity to go beyond its dreary earthly penthouses. The International Space Elevator Consortium is giddy at the prospect. Indeed, it has released information to inform the world that at the 2010 Space Elevator Conference , held August 12-15 at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Wash., the two men who are most au fait with developing an elevator to the stars will be telling of progress
July 26, 2010 | Posted in
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Song is about a painful breakup, and may be inspired by McCoy’s ex, Katy Perry. By James Montgomery Travie McCoy Photo: MTV News Travie McCoy always intended his Lazarus album to be the soundtrack to summer, but even he couldn’t have predicted the runaway success of “Billionaire,” his lilting, Bruno Mars-aided tune that’s become a surprise summertime smash. So, when MTV News caught up with the Gym Class Heroes frontman at the Los Angeles stop of the Rihanna/Ke$ha Last Girl on Earth Tour (for which he is the opening act/possessor of the Y chromosome), he admitted he was still “trying to wrap [his] head around” everything that’s happened since “Billionaire” made it big, especially now that he’s gearing up to release a video for the second proper single, “Need You.” And if this one hits, he may very well never be able to recover
July 26, 2010 | Posted in
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For skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere, late summer is usually regarded as the prime “meteor-viewing season,” with one of the best displays of the year reaching its peak in mid-August. But some lesser-known summer meteor displays can still dazzle.
July 23, 2010 | Posted in
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A magnetic tape at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project at NASA Ames. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Between 1966 and 1967, the U.S
July 23, 2010 | Posted in
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Between 1966 and 1967, the U.S. launched a series of five unmanned Lunar Orbiter missions that photographed and mapped 99 percent of the lunar surface. The spacecraft, equipped with a dual-lens Kodak camera, captured both a 610mm high-resolution image and a 80mm wide-angle low-resolution image and placed the two exposures on a single roll of 70mm film.
July 23, 2010 | Posted in
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