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The Orion cockpit is just one of many features under review by NASA and Lockheed engineers as the agency discusses the requirements necessary for the capsule-based spacecraft, which is expected to begin manned flights to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2014 and return astronauts to the Moon by no later than 2020.
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But that test lasted for only six hours. Now, LiftPort has finished a 60-day test with a 100-metre-long tether held aloft by four helium balloons. The test was designed to see what kinds of problems would crop up if such a platform were used to transmit Wi-Fi signals. The lofty platforms would be especially useful for providing Wi-Fi coverage to rural areas, says company president Michael Laine.
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How the fuck can you counter something with an instant?
Said By Aron Schatz
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19125702.800
Global warming! No one doubts that the Earth is getting warmer and this permafrost melting is a display of that.