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9 Sep 2008, 4:39 pm
It takes the same amount of time to fall all the way through the Earth and back as it does to orbit it, if your orbit were right at the Earth’s surface (orbits slow down as the orbital radius increases). [read post]
7 Sep 2008, 1:32 am
Most active were the orbital frontal cortex, which is involved in the processing of emotions; the anterior cingulate, which is associated with conflict resolution; the posterior cingulate, which is concerned with making judgments about moral accountability; and--once subjects had arrived at a conclusion that made them emotionally comfortable--the ventral striatum, which is related to reward and pleasure. [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 9:04 pm
A photosensitive device comprising:a plurality of quantum dots, each quantum dot having a shell; andan organic matrix, the quantum dots being embedded in the organic matrix, at least the quantum dots and the organic matrix being photoconductive semiconductors, the shell around each quantum dot being arranged as a tunneling barrier to require an electron in a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the organic matrix to perform quantum mechanical tunneling to reach the respective… [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 7:47 pm
It looks like the storm won’t hit the Orlando area head-on, but it looks like it is going to orbit the area for days [read post]
18 Aug 2008, 1:00 am
What makes this site interesting is that it renders related Flickr tags as planets orbiting a central tag. [read post]
11 Aug 2008, 2:08 am
For example, relying on Global Positioning System technology which provides geographic information via orbiting satellites, the location of all parks, schools and day care facilities in the community can be entered into the LPR database and enclosed within a "virtual fence. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 10:06 am
He even said that Steve and Bruce were perhaps planning to assist in restoring public trust in the US Attorney's office, and of course everyone in Steve's orbit shared his passion for politics and for a change in the direction of the country. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 1:31 pm
Bottom line is in this statement from Elon Musk: "It was obviously a big disappointment not to reach orbit on this flight. [read post]
1 Aug 2008, 3:49 pm
But recent events at this hospital make is sound more like some third-world health facility, not a state-of-the-art hospital in the orbit of America's Finest City. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 6:10 am
The crime was directed toward political corruption, as a weapon against politicians who sold their good office and thus denied the public their honest services.But crimes have a funny way of spinning out of their intended orbit, as imaginative prosecutors see the words applicable to a host of other circumstances. [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 4:30 pm
Sputnik: Kick in the Pants that Launched the Net In 1957, the Soviet launched Sputnik (Russian for “traveling companion” or “satellite”), the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 6:04 pm
Red Orbit wondered whether the time has finally come to revise the ESA. [read post]
22 Jul 2008, 12:55 am
It is a previously undetected alien satellite of unknown origin orbiting the earth. [read post]
20 Jul 2008, 8:57 pm
A NEW PLUTOID: "A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said Saturday. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 12:50 pm
"During these flights, a spacecraft reaches space, but it does not enter Earth's orbit," she explains. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 12:40 pm
The Bush administration was highly critical of China's shootdown in January 2007 of one of its weather satellites, asserting that the orbiting debris created by the attack poses a danger to other assets in space. [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 6:07 pm
By 2015, the agency plans to begin orbital flights with Ares I and a companion heavy-lift cargo rocket, Ares V. [read post]
15 Jul 2008, 7:29 am
"We're doing jokes about people in his orbit, not really about him," said Mike Sweeney, the head writer for Mr. [read post]
14 Jul 2008, 4:17 am
It could fairly easily be retrofitted for operations beyond low-Earth orbit. [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 6:22 pm
In 1514, Copernicus hypothesized that the universe does not orbit around Earth. [read post]
