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Offworld Report - Weird Science: November 2003
Martial arts robots hit Asia, the day a meteorite crashed through
my roof, China sparks a new space race, and life across the stars:
why they're now betting on the system 37 Gem.
 November's
news and content roundup of all that is worthy and good in the world
of weird science, found living offworld the 'Nest.
Every-boty
was Robo-Fighting
Japan sees a new wave of martial arts droids
capable of Karate and Sumo moves.
The
Next Leap Forward
Look at the National Space Society's new position paper on what
the heck we can do to get humans into space.
The
Future of Flight
Seven visionaries predict the future of aviation across the next
100 years.
Life
on 37 Gem?
Apparently the 37th brightest star in the Gemini constellation,
aka 37 Gem, has the best chance of containing Earth-like planets
with life.
The
Great Drake Debate
NASA's exobiology forum, 'The Drake Equation Revisited,' reevaluates
the probabilities for finding intelligent life outside Sol.
Smart
Drive
The Smart 1 starship blasts up its groundbreaking ion drive as it
begins its Lunar-bound voyage.
Betting
With Dyson
Why scientist Freeman Dyson - Mr Sphere, to you - is now betting
that the first alien life we find will be found sailing around the
void, rather than planet-bound.
Die
Technology Die
Author Bruce Sterling on the technologies that just plain deserve
to die.
Stairway
to Heaven
Why the 100,000-kilometre high space elevator is only ten years
away from construction being started.
What's
the Chances of that Happening?
The unluckiest man on the planet talks about the day a meteorite
crashed through his roof.
Lifff
on Mars
Scientists' search for life-bearing planets picks up pace.
Are
you Anti-Antimatter?
Why antimatter could be getting a little more real every day.
Small
Satellites Get Big
Article on the explosion of cheap microsatellite use.
Meteorite
Maims Twenty
A shocking meteorite strike wounds twenty unlucky locals in East
India.
Your
Octopus Eyes
A new device simulates octopus-vision to help give robots the gift
of sight.
Alien
Invasion
The Milky Way is being buzz-bombed by thousands of stars yanked
from the orbit of a nearby dwarf galaxy.
The
One that Got Away
Another near miss from a space rock - the closest near miss yet
recorded.
Going
Up?
More guff on how new super-fibre research is moving the idea of
the orbital beanstalk elevator from science fiction to science fact.
Europe
to the Moon
The ESA’s ultra-cheap ion-drive ships gets going to the moon.
My
One-Atom Laser
The California Institute of Technology builds a laser made with
a single atom for the first time (by trapping a cold caesium atom
in an optical cavity). Quantum computing here we come?
Paying
the Robo-Piper
Why the Pentagon are paying a Scottish firm millions for their planned
robot soldiers.
NASA
Save Thyself
The changes NASA are trying to make in the wake of the Columbia
disaster inquiry.
China
Loves EU
China pumps millions into the EU's Galileo satellite system as the
European's new partner. The Pentagon craps itself thinking about
a GPS rival in the hands of the Reds.
Love
the Earth: Live Shorter
Why the latest immortality research sucks.
The
Alien Hunters
Large planets outside Sol might harbour intelligent life, says new
report.
Our
Tiny Universe
Is the universe a tiny soccer ball just 60 billion light years across?
Student
Builds Home Nuke
A student fresh out of Spanish Fork High School has the physics
faculty of Utah State University crapping flipping bricks with a
nuclear fusion reactor he cobbled together from parts salvaged from
junk yards and charity drops.
Giant
Rodent Very Scary
The fossilized body of a mega-rodent that best resembles a mutant
guinea pig is found in Venezuela.
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