NASA releases video of solar flares

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Twitter and Amazon team up for new app

Amazon has a new feature allowing Twitter users to access the online retail site, without leaving the forum.

IBM is defending business computers with a new service aimed at thwarting hackers, before they do damage.

Australians will be able to submit their next tax return from their smartphone from July 1 this year.

IPhone owners are the most likely to send a sexy text message or 'sext', according to a new poll in the UK.

A defence contractor is creating a pilotless Black Hawk helicopter to help the US Army reduce its numbers.

Digital 'fingerprints' could be used to help police find and remove child abuse images from the internet.

Jurors have ordered Samsung to pay just a fraction of the big-money damages sought by Apple over patents.

Snapchat is adding a chat feature to its ephemeral messaging service.

Scientists have for the first time measured the rotation of a planet in another solar system.

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Three Pathways Into the 1980s

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In the 1966-1967 period, NASA began serious planning for its post-Apollo future. Alas, Apollo was widely seen as a means of demonstrating U.S. technological might on the world stage, not as a first small step beyond Earth. Our societys rapid abandonment of the moon causes me to question whether we have every truly qualified as a spacefaring people.

Had it been otherwise, what pathway might NASA have followed into the future? There were many possibilities, but in my forthcoming book I will describe in detail only three. I call these moon base, space base, and flyby. All might have led to humans on Mars in the 1980s, though in none of them was this a requirement.

NASA planners expected that, after a few early Apollo missions, advanced lunar missions in the Apollo Applications Program (AAP) would commence. These would lead by the mid-1970s to two-week lunar-surface stays. Some of these expeditions would have taken astronauts to the lunar Farside, where relay satellites in Earth-moon L2 Halo Orbit would have linked them with Earth. Others would have surveyed potential outpost and base sites.

By 1980, a space tug a new upper stage for the Saturn V rocket would have transported crews directly from Earth to the moon. Some tugs might have established a lunar-orbital way station (image at top of post). Others would have carried surface base modules and supplies. By 1985, humankinds first permanent base on another world could have been established.

Space tugs might have gone on to serve as propulsion stages for piloted voyages to Mars. Perhaps lunar-produced liquid oxygen would have combined in the space tug engines with liquid hydrogen launched from Earth to propel astronauts beyond the moon.

That was the moon base pathway. The space base pathway would also have grown from AAP, though not from planned AAP lunar missions. NASA planners expected to launch increasingly sophisticated AAP space stations into Earth orbit beginning as early as late 1968. By 1975, a single-launch space station for from six to 12 astronauts was expected.

After that, modules based on the single-launch station design would have been joined together to form a nuclear-powered Space Base with a crew of from 50 to 100 people. The Space Base would have revolved to provide its inhabitants with artificial gravity. Fully reusable space shuttles would have rotated crews, delivered supplies, and returned experiment results and (possibly) space-made products to Earth.

An intensive Earth-orbital program might have yielded specialized Space Bases such as zero-gee hospitals and assembly bases for Solar Power Satellites. Or, just possibly, a space base might have been fitted out with nuclear-electric thrusters beefed-up versions of thrusters used to maintain the Space Bases in their orbits about the Earth and relocated to Mars orbit. Space Base components might also have been combined in new ways to build a large Mars ship.

The flyby pathway would also have grown from AAP space stations, but would have aimed directly for Mars at an early date. A flyby spacecraft with only enough modification to enable it to serve as an Earth-orbital station would have been launched into Earth orbit as early as 1972. There, astronauts would have simulated a two-year piloted Mars flyby mission.

If the Earth-orbital test was a success, then a second flyby spacecraft outfitted for interplanetary travel would have left Earth orbit on a free-return path in September 1975. As it passed Mars, its crew would have released robotic probes, including Mars sample collectors, which they would have operated on Mars by remote control. The flyby spacecraft would have entered the inner Asteroid Belt before falling back to Earth.

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RMIT pours $30M into micro and nano tech

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RMIT University is spending $30 million on a new research facility to drive advancements in micro and nano technologies.

Its MicroNano Research Facility (MNRF) will bring to Australia the worlds first rapid 3D nanoscale printer and support projects in the areas of physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, and medicine, RMIT said.

The 3D printer will produce thousands of structures each the fraction of the width of a human hair in seconds, RMIT said.

MNRF is also providing 50 cutting-edge tools, including focused ion beam lithography with helium, neon, and gallium beams to enable imaging and machining of objects to 0.5nm resolution about 5 to 10 atoms, RMIT said.

MNRF director Professor James Friend said 10 research teams would work at the new facility on a broad range of projects, including building miniaturised motors to retrieve blood clots from deep within the brain.

This will enable surgeons to perform minimally invasive procedures on people affected by strokes or aneurysms.

The team will also improve drug delivery through the lungs using techniques that can atomise large biomolecules including drugs, DNA, antibodies and cells into tiny droplets to avoid the dame of conventional nebulisation, RMIT said.

RMIT vice-chancellor, Professor Margaret Gardner, said the facility is bringing together disparate disciplines to enable internationally-leading research activity.

RMIT has long been a pioneer in this field, opening Australia's first academic clean rooms at the Microelectronics and Materials Technology Centre in 1983, Professor Gardner said.

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EAMCET 2014 Medicine Counselling starts in Two states – 6tv Special Focus – Video

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Lucas King – Shelter You (Unplugged @ Land Of Medicine Buddha) – Video

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Medical school ribbon-cutting a milestone in Middletown

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A dream is realized

Med student Sarah Singh's dad, Dindial, helps put on her white coat at Touro College's ceremony SundayDAWN J. BENKO/For the Times Herald-Record

By Richard J. Bayne

Published: 2:00 AM - 09/01/14

MIDDLETOWN It was a mix of accomplishment and new beginnings Sunday as Orange County celebrated the opening of a new medical school, and the 135 brand-new medical students took their oath and donned their white coats.

It was a packed house at the Paramount Theatre as local officials joined those from the Middletown branch of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine to cut the official ribbon, turning the former Horton Hospital into a medical school.

Officials including Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus and Middletown Mayor Joe DeStefano welcomed the school, talking about the long-term benefits to the community and the boost to medical education and health care services it brings.

Classes started July 30.

"We are so proud to have you here," Neuhaus said. "You have the whole world in your hands."

DeStefano recalled how the city had been faced with the prospect of an empty 400,000-square-foot building, after the Horton campus of Orange Regional Medical Center closed when Orange Regional moved to a new home in the Town of Wallkill.

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