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Celebrating the end of Mad March

March 31, 2020 2 Comments

What a month March has been! First we had a burglary and my son was assaulted in the house in the middle of the day. My life changed in an instant. Nothing can be as intense for a mother as having your child’s life threatened. How are people so brazen to commit crimes in broad daylight? Why did my big and uber defensive German shepherd not protect him? Was she drugged? How I … [Read more...]

NASA launches carbon tracking satellite

July 8, 2014 Leave a Comment

The ability of scientists to make accurate predictions about future effects of CO2 will be boosted by vital data from a new US satellite sent to take a detailed inventory of the planet’s sinks and sources of carbon. The US space agency NASA sent up a satellite on 2 June, which will provide vital data for predicting future effects of CO2by taking the measure of the planetary … [Read more...]

Asteroid Mining our way to intergalactic colonisation

October 22, 2012 Leave a Comment

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As our planet runs out of minerals and resources to support our even expanding need for development, is asteroid-mining a possible and viable option in the foreseeable future? Asteroid mining may sound like a science fiction term and it has had some pretty awful notions associated with it. Our imagination and history of the past often makes us picture certain greedy and … [Read more...]

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