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...head, Meng says he found himself floating above his bed. As his wife and daughter slept below, a 3-m-tall, six-fingered alien with braided fur on her legs straddled his waist. After 40 minutes of levitational copulation she departed through the wall, leaving Meng with a 5-cm mark on his thigh. A month later, he says, he was transported through the wall into a spaceship. Meng asked to see the woman with the braided fur. Impossible, they said. But they gave him hope. "In 60 years, on a distant planet," they said, "the son of a Chinese...
...SCOTT HUBBARD, Columbia Accident Investigation Board member, after a test in which a chunk of foam insulation fired at shuttle wing parts blew open a 40-cm hole...
...Pathfinder's rover was a toy-size machine. Barely 30 cm high and 60 cm long and weighing just under 11 kg, it operated for three months and in all that time toddled across a stretch of Martian terrain little bigger than a football field. The new rovers are much closer to true space cars. Measuring 1.5 m tall from their wheels to the top of their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 180 kg each and should be able to cover up to 915 m in their 90 days of life - including many days they will spend standing...
...built it in 1984, casting it in concrete at a scale of 2 cm to 1 m. "I know every nook and cranny of the (real) place," he says, and it's no idle boast. Dy, 66, was part of a team of artists that drew up complete architectural blueprints of Angkor Wat in 1969 for the Ecole Fran?aise d'Extr?me Orient research organization. Those blueprints are proudly displayed on a wall in his workshop, along with an award from Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk in recognition of his work as an artist. In a visitors' book, one tourist rates...
...hardware and software, allowing them to handle TV signals. In other words, the Japanese get it: they are plugging computers into flat-panel displays, forming a home-entertainment center with no idiot box required. For now, few will be initially willing to pay a converged price; an 81-cm Sony flat-panel TV and a Netvigator Pro media PC clock in at a combined $7,000. Prices won't remain so high forever; analysts expect PCs with media-center capabilities to be available for $600 in the next couple of years, while flat-panel TV prices should drop...