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A NASA robotic probe sampling particles flowing into our solar system from the galactic neighborhood shows we’re living in a cloud — and likely to stay that way for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Electricity Field Puts Out Fires
TIME Magazine highlighted a DARPA-developed fire-suppression technology naming it among the 50 best inventions of 2011. Researchers focused on electricity as possible safe and environmentally friendly means to fight fire. Fire in a combat vehicle, aboard a ship or other confined space such as an airplane cockpit puts warfighters at risk. Today’s fire suppression technologies are many decades old and focus largely on disrupting the chemical reactions involved in combustion by spraying water, foams or other chemicals on the flames. The key to transformative firefighting approaches may lie in the fundamentals of fire itself.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Electricity-Puts-Out-Fires-012412.aspx
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Rendezvous in Space
The sister missions, Gemini VI-A and VII, performed the first rendezvous in space between two manned spacecraft. They came within a foot of one another and could have docked, had they been equipped with the right rigging. The image above is a view of Gemini VII from the VI-A spacecraft.
Image: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University
