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Stories · 11

  1. Triggering the Lightning

    Science · Science · · posted by Hemos · from the ka-BLAM dept. · 5 comments
    angkor writes "...a group of American engineers plan to fire supersonic jets of salty water towards storm clouds in a bid to trigger lightning. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 91860"

  2. Clearest Photos Ever Of Horsehead Nebula

    Science · Space · · posted by Hemos · from the looking-deeply-into-the-continium dept. · 139 comments
    angkor writes "A new composite image created from high-res photographs. Wow, just wow. You can see it at SpaceFlightNow."

  3. Comparing Clarke/Kubrick's 2001 To Now

    News · Movies · · posted by Hemos · from the i'm-sorry-dave dept. · 177 comments
    angkor wrote us about a recent Economist article that explores and compares the differences between Clarke/Kubrick's vision of 2001, and what we've got. Of course, I'd point out that the literary one wasn't meant to be a literal 2001; but this an interesting comparasion nonetheless.

  4. Fossilised Rain Drops Found In India

    Science · Science · · posted by Hemos · from the tiny-tiny-fossils dept. · 9 comments
    angkor writes ""An Indian geologist says he has discovered imprints of some of the oldest raindrops on Earth, dating back more than a billion years."
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/ newsid_1713000/1713001.stm"

  5. Universal to Copyprotect All CDs

    News · Music · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the can't-say-I'm-surprised-by-this dept. · 887 comments
    angkor wrote in with a link to a story about how Universal Plans to copyprotect all CDs which will render them unplayable on Macs, DVD Players, PS2s, and some CD Players. And it won't even stop people from ripping MP3s I bet.

  6. Man Named "Shell" Loses Domain To Oil Giant

    Yro · Internet · · posted by timothy · from the spoiled-brats-with-lawyers dept. · 51 comments
    angkor writes: "'A German court has ruled that oil giant Shell has more right to the www.shell.de internet domain name than an individual named Shell who had already registered the name.' It's like the old saying: your name may be McDonald, but you can't open a restaurant named McDonalds ..."

  7. 78,000 Mars Global Surveyor Photos Online

    Science · Space · · posted by timothy · from the seeing-red-up-close dept. · 14 comments
    angkor writes: "AP is reporting that the Mars Global Surveyor snapped its 100,000th picture of Mars. The Viking orbiters took about 55,000 total. Even better is that over 78,000 of the images are online in the (MOC Gallery). You get to click on a map of Mars to zoom into a specific region. Wow."

  8. No One Wants The Not-Coms

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the dot-whatever dept. · 281 comments
    angkor points to this Siliconvalley.com article about companies not jumping for the newfangled TLDs like dot-biz. "This is delicious revenge for all the spam I've gotten reminding me to reserve new domain names now before they're all gone ... ." Besides the nice sound of "dot com," perhaps the restrictions surrounding the new official TLDs help to prevent them selling like hotcakes. The world won't be fair until the LED museum and similar sites are offered -- No, given! -- .museum addresses.

  9. Astonishing Image Of Shockwaves From A Dying Star

    Science · Space · · posted by timothy · from the when-galaxies-attack dept. · 10 comments
    angkor writes: "This is worth a look: "A new image from the Hubble telescope shows a pair of supersonic shock waves created when gas from a collapsing star hits surrounding clouds of cosmic gas and dust." And an enlarged image for your desktop."

  10. Mir on Death Row - No Clemency Expected

    Science · Space · · posted by michael · from the glub-glub dept. · 97 comments
    angkor writes "The date has been set. Space.com has the news. Mir will plunge into the Pacific Ocean on March 6, 2001. Farewell old friend!" It looks final this time. Update: 01/13 03:32 PM by michael : I swear we won't post about Mir anymore until the pieces start raining down. :)

  11. When Worlds Collide: The New Dot-Biz And The Old

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the no-please-use-the-*dooey*-decimal-system,-ok? dept. · 130 comments
    angkor writes: "It seems the new dot biz domain conflicts with domains registered in an alternative root system." This is where all the alternative root servers conflict with the (ahem) interesting name choices made by the ICANN board.