Gee that is (almost) enough money to fund a Mars sample return mission; something with actual scientific value. But that will never happen as long as NASA is run by flyboys with delusions of Star Wars....
What a ridiculous theory. Reminds me of the Dartmouth College research that suggested that racism was a mental disease. Seems like the old punative psychiatry in Soviet Russia used to punish political prisoners.
Radar??? How is RADAR useful for measuring ocean volume??? The idiot author must have meant active SONAR right?
Science reporting by the mainstream media is appalling. They are good at gossip and scandals and political correct-itudes but horrible at science. And they don't even known it.
Nice try at Chinese propaganda, but if it was only a bunch of bored teenagers then why did they try to steal information about Tibetan dissidents? Bored teenagers would be more interested in other targets.
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Gee that is (almost) enough money to fund a Mars sample return mission; something with actual scientific value. But that will never happen as long as NASA is run by flyboys with delusions of Star Wars....
What a ridiculous theory. Reminds me of the Dartmouth College research that suggested that racism was a mental disease. Seems like the old punative psychiatry in Soviet Russia used to punish political prisoners.
Radar??? How is RADAR useful for measuring ocean volume??? The idiot author must have meant active SONAR right? Science reporting by the mainstream media is appalling. They are good at gossip and scandals and political correct-itudes but horrible at science. And they don't even known it.
Nice try at Chinese propaganda, but if it was only a bunch of bored teenagers then why did they try to steal information about Tibetan dissidents? Bored teenagers would be more interested in other targets.
Sorry, it was the Chinese government.
Lead-free solder, of course!
"voluntary donation" is a loaded term in a Stalinist state.
That was a short honeymoon; Obama is not even elected yet and it is over.
Atmospheric accumulations of rime ice would be a constant problem. Water vapor can go directly to ice on mountaintops, i.e. Cerro Torre.