Thursday, February 21, 2013

[Science] Private Mars Mission in 2018?

Private Mars Mission in 2018?
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/ZBX6lnHsfaGsdujFqvmjUM/India-to-launch-Mars-mission-this-year-President.html
Yes, you read that correctly. An entrepreneur wants to charter a SpaceX rocket to launch two interplanetary buddies on the ultimate joyride: A mission to Mars.

Mercury May Have Once Had An Ocean Of Lava
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/02/22/mercury-may-have-once-had-an-ocean-of-lava/
Researchers at MIT have recently published an experiment that demonstrates that 4 billion years ago, the planet Mercury may have had an ocean of magma on its surface.

Tech Titans Team Up to Award New Life Science Prize
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/it-pro/business-it/google-facebook-execs-award-us33m-in-prizes-20130222-2evre.html
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and other Silicon Valley power players on Wednesday announced their funding of the Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize, a new biology competition intended to incentivize the search for cures ...

NH scallopers make a mammoth discovery; may have pulled up prehistoric tooth ...
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/02/21/scallopers-make-mammoth-discovery-may-have-pulled-prehistoric-tooth-from-depths/2Upu5ErfORWd2pBzs1wkoM/story.html
As Mike and Padi Anderson sold their catch of scallops on the dock Wednesday night in Rye Harbor, N.H., it was not just their shellfish that drew people's interest.

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