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Hi,
I want to highlight some news i read these days. The news are from real world, but we could discuss OA.
https://www.ornl.gov/news/nano-spike-cat...ly-ethanol
Nano spike catalysts convert carbon dioxide directly ethanol. This could impact Greenhouse effect.
http://asgardia.space/
Asgardia, a "fictional" nation in Earth outer space. People right now are subscribing to this.
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_...nd_landing
I think this landing could be interesting.
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep35019
Cathelicidins in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). With this we can fight supermicrobes.
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(10-21-2016, 06:30 AM)Avengium Wrote: Hi,
I want to highlight some news i read these days. The news are from real world, but we could discuss OA.
https://www.ornl.gov/news/nano-spike-cat...ly-ethanol
Nano spike catalysts convert carbon dioxide directly ethanol. This could impact Greenhouse effect.
Neat
(10-21-2016, 06:30 AM)Avengium Wrote: http://asgardia.space/
Asgardia, a "fictional" nation in Earth outer space. People right now are subscribing to this.
This looks like it could be interesting - although the website doesn't seem to have a lot of content on it yet. Or maybe I'm missing it?
(10-21-2016, 06:30 AM)Avengium Wrote: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_...nd_landing
I think this landing could be interesting.
I've been deep in the weeds of late, but I thought I saw something about a space probe landing and then going silent or something. Was that this one or something else? Or do I just need to get my medication changed?
(10-21-2016, 06:30 AM)Avengium Wrote: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep35019
Cathelicidins in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). With this we can fight supermicrobes.
This might have potential in OA as the basis for future disease treatments in the Interplanetary Age or perhaps disease resistance creating gene tweaks a bit later on.
Thanks for these
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(10-21-2016, 11:38 AM)Drashner1 Wrote: (10-21-2016, 06:30 AM)Avengium Wrote: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_...nd_landing
I think this landing could be interesting.
I've been deep in the weeds of late, but I thought I saw something about a space probe landing and then going silent or something. Was that this one or something else? Or do I just need to get my medication changed?
The Rosetta comet probe's solar-powered lander, named Philae, went silent shortly after it landed. Its landing was hard enough that it bounced, winding up in a shaded area of the comet's surface. Might that be what you're remembering? The Rosetta's mission was completed just recently. See
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_...archive%29
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The
Schiaparelli EDM lander component of ESA's ExoMars mission was probably lost the day before yesterday when it jettisoned its parachute too early and its landing retrorocket burn was too short, as reported
here.
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Mars is a tricky place to land, especially if you use a complex strategy involving parachutes and rockets, all operated remotely, with a light-speed delay of many minutes. ESA haven't managed to get it right once.
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Approximately two-thirds of all landing attempts on Mars have failed; none of the Soviet/Russian landers survived more than 20 seconds after landing (
Mars 3, 1971).
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