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Live Giant Squid Dissection Tomorrow

Science · Science · 2008-07-16 09:00 · posted by timothy · from the this-can't-happen-often-enough dept. · 95 comments

BoogieChile writes "The dissection of a 245 kilo giant squid caught off the coast of Portland, Victoria in May will take place tomorrow at the Museum of Victoria. In a first for the museum, the event is open to the public and will also be streamed live to the internet from the University's website, starting at 0130GMT on the 17th of July."
Space Elevator Company Fission

Science · Space · 2003-04-06 21:54 · posted by Hemos · from the splitting-into-multi-lanes dept. · 209 comments

Dag Maggot writes "Highlift Systems seems to be going through some turbulent times with cofounder Michael Laine leaving to form his own space elevator company LiftPort. Interestingly, Liftport pledges to be a "transparent" company, and as such have provided the full text of the original space elevator proposal which was made to NASA NIAC." We mentioned Liftport before, but the proposal is new and quite interesting.