Year: 2010

Gliese 581g – The next “Earth”?

[youtube= The fact that we've found a habitable planet candidate so soon after starting our search has important implications for the number of habitable planets that may exist in our galaxy - which was estimated to be around…

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Looking Up

This is charming — in 1925, William Huffman patented a “jumping balloon” that could carry its operator hundreds of feet into the air. He foresaw a whole new world: The balloon is particularly useful in jumping over natural…

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