From: “Google Shoots For The Moon - Forbes.com“:
The company on Thursday announced the first 10 teams of competitors in its $30 million contest to send a spacecraft back to the moon to gain greater insights into the solar system and to find new sources of clean energy.
More info is available on the Google Lunar X Prize web site.
Google. Space. Clean Energy. $30M. What’s not to like?
Via Digg.
From “Second employee leaves job over sale of space contractor“:
For the second time in as many weeks, a satellite engineer has resigned from Canada’s leading space contractor over the company’s sale of its space division to an American weapons maker.
Ethics are a powerful force.
From “Wikipedia: ISO 3103“:
ISO 3103 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO), specifying a standardized method for brewing tea. It was originally laid down in 1980 as BS 6008:1980[1]. It was produced by ISO Technical Committee 34 (Food products), Sub-Committee 8 (Tea).
Funny! I’m sure Mr. Rose is a fervent adept.
Via Viper007Bond.
Talking about the Ig Nobel, CNET announces the following:
The Annals of Improbable Research, best known as the host of the Ig Nobel Awards, will now offer a free online version of its journal.
Via Slahdot.
Update: ReadWriteWeb also reports on the news that “all research funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency with a $29 billion research budget, will now be required to be published online, free to the public, within 12 months after publication in any scientific journal.” Very nice! Twelve months is a long time in science though, and we’ll have to see what loopholes greedy researchers might find.
From “Sperm power could drive nano-scale robots“:
Scientists are examining whether they can harness the energy driving human sperm to propel nano-scale robots or deliver medicine to targeted sites in the body.
Betcha they’ll be nominated for the 2008 Ig Nobel.
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