Archive for the 'Earth' Category

Voyagers celebrate 30 years in space – the Golden Record awaits intelligent life forms

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

The Voyager 1  spacecraft is a 733-kilogram robotic space probe of the outer solar system September 5, 1977, and currently operational. It visited Jupiter and Saturn and was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets.
The US space agency’s (Nasa) venerable Voyager mission is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Its [...]

Wreckage of old plane crashes found in search for Steve Fossett

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Rescuers searching for the adventurer Steve Fossett in the Nevada desert have found old wrecks of planes, some of them from crashes decades ago. Forty-five aircraft are involved in the search for the missing millionaire, who disappeared on Monday while flying alone in his small plane.
Teams have scoured an area of 10,000 sq [...]

Steve Fossett missing – millionaire adventurer with life experience degree

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Record breaking millionaire (billionaire ?) adventurer Steve Fossett has been missing for a few days now. (Its not Fosett or Fosset – Google corrected me)
Fossett, a Stanford University graduate with a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, went to Chicago to work in the securities business and ultimately founded his [...]

Marco Gallotta discovers Flight Simulator mode in Google Earth

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

The Internet has given credit to University of Cape Town student Marco Gallotta, a computer science major, with discovering that by pressing the right keys while checking out Google Sky (they’re totally different keys for OS X) users are given a choice of flying an F-16 Viper, for those that like to boogie, or a [...]