7/19/2003:
Intermediate Word: empery (a) legal rights to resources on
someone else's land (b) illegal encroachment on another's property (c)
absolute sovereignty (d) tunnel vision
Difficult
Word: - thremmatology
- (a) study of plant
reproduction (b) science of breeding (c) study of destructive
insects
(d) science of extracting patterns from seemingly random information
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Humans, Robots Work Together To Test Spacewalk Squad - SpaceDaily Humans and robots worked side-by-side this summer at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston to evaluate the concept of using human-robotic teams to improve the productivity of astronauts working outside the International Space Station, other space vehicles, or on the surface of other planets "We like to think of these as 'EVA (extravehicular activity) squads' - humans outside the spacecraft in space suits, dexterous robots, humans inside the spacecraft or on the ground tele-operating robots, free-flying robots, giant crane robots - all working together to get the job done," said Test Conductor Dr. Robert Ambrose of the JSC Engineering Directorate's Automation, Robotics and Simulation Division. Astronaut Nancy Currie stepped into an advanced concept space suit to participate in the test as the squad leader. |
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Boost for offshore wind power - BBC A big expansion in the amount of electricity generated from offshore wind power has been announced by the UK Government. Licences are being issued for thousands of turbines to be built off the British coast to generate as much energy as around six nuclear power stations. "We have got the best wind resources in the whole of Europe and it is crazy that we are lagging behind countries like Germany and Spain and Denmark, when we have the great expertise in offshore developments that we built up with North Sea oil," she told the BBC. "Hopefully this marks the start of a massive programme to harness the considerable opportunities offered by wind, tides and waves," said energy campaigner Bryony Worthington. "Renewable energy has the potential to provide all our energy needs and is a clean, safe and affordable alternative to nuclear energy and inefficient coal-fired power stations." "Global warming poses a unique threat to our planet, but the government is now demonstrating the ambition needed to defeat it." "Successful projects from this announcement could account for over half of the government's 10% target and could be supplying clean electricity to four million households by 2010." |
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Astronomers debate the Universe - BBC Left: Europe hopes to build a 100-metre telescope high up in Chile's Atacama desert. About 2,000 professional astronomers from around the world have gathered in Australia for two weeks of discussions. Topics up for discussion in Sydney include: Construction of the world's largest optical telescope (20 times as big as Mt. Palomar, and, with advanced optical techniques, capable of resolving light sources 125,000 miles apart in the alpha-Centauri system), construction of a giant radio telescope in Western Australia, and investigating what's special about stars with planets. |
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