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September 23, 2008
New animal species discovered?
Twisted Nudibranch, Chromodoris elizabethina, a type of sea slug, sits on the reef face off Heron Island in Austrailia.
Gary Cranitch / Queensland Museum
Christmas tree worm was discovered at Lizard Island.
John Huisman / Murdoch University
Cuttlefish was spotted in the waters off Lizard Island in Australia
John Huisman / Murdoch University
An algea called caulerpa cupressoides was found off Heron Island in Australia
Gary Cranitch / Queensland Museum
Scientists at several Australian museums have begun the complex process of working with the samples for genetic barcoding and taxonomy, the formal system of naming living things. That work is expected to take years, Caley said.
Julian Caley, a scientist from the Australian Institute of Marine Science
Gary Cranitch / Queensland Museum
Christmas tree worm was discovered at Lizard Island.
John Huisman / Murdoch University
Cuttlefish was spotted in the waters off Lizard Island in Australia
John Huisman / Murdoch University
An algea called caulerpa cupressoides was found off Heron Island in Australia
Gary Cranitch / Queensland Museum
Scientists at several Australian museums have begun the complex process of working with the samples for genetic barcoding and taxonomy, the formal system of naming living things. That work is expected to take years, Caley said.
Julian Caley, a scientist from the Australian Institute of Marine Science
September 22, 2008
Space Elevator from sci-fi into reality?
by James Alastair Miller
According to the chairman of the Japan Space Elevator Association it'd only need to be four times stronger than the current strongest nanotube rope.
Could be 100 times cheaper to get there than using a Space Shuttle.
“Just like travelling abroad, anyone will be able to ride the elevator into space,” Shuichi Ono, chairman of the Japan Space Elevator Association, said.
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Superstar: A Mobile China Town?
MAD’s proposal, ‘The Superstar’, takes the form of a New China Town.
Moving around the world, the mobile town would produce all it’s own energy and recycle all its own waste, requiring no resources from its host city.
The town would be home to 15,000 people and include health resorts, sports facilities, drinking-water lakes and a digital cemetery.
Along with shopping malls, petrol stations and branches of McDonalds, the old China Town renders all of our cities boring and alike. It is nothing more than restaurant streets and fake traditional buildings representing a kitsch image of contemporary China, with no real life inside. It is a historical theme park that poisons the urban space. There must be a shock therapy to remedy this situation.
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