Big Data: NASA can now visualize lessons learned

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NASA’s Lessons Learned database is a vast, constantly updated collection knowledge and experience from past missions, which it relies on for planning future projects and expeditions into space.
With detailed information from every mission going back as far as the 60’s, every record is reviewed and approved before inclusion. As well as NASA staff, thousands of scientists, engineers, educators and…

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February 23, 2017 at 02:03AM

How Galileo Proved which Ideas were False

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During his lifetime Galileo Galilei demonstrated several accepted ideas, about the physical world, of the ancient Greek philosophers, to be false. Three of these ideas were: Bodies fall at a constant rate. Bodies twice as heavy fall twice as fast. The earth stands still while the rest of the universe revolves about it.

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February 23, 2017 at 01:33AM

GOP Considering Repealing Obama’s Methane Rule

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Republicans are pushing legislation to repeal federal methane rules that could impact communities in the western United States reliant on oil and natural gas. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released similar rules to reduce methane emissions from oil and natural gas wells. The House already voted to repeal […]

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February 23, 2017 at 12:11AM

Green Lunacy: £450 Million Lost Over Failed ‘Green’ Power That Is Worse Than Coal

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Britain is wasting hundreds of millions of pounds subsidising power stations to burn American wood pellets that do more harm to the climate than the coal they replaced, a study has found. Chopping down trees and transporting wood across the Atlantic Ocean to feed power stations produces more greenhouse gases than much cheaper coal, according […]

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February 23, 2017 at 12:11AM