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...until you consider that that's where they will be storing Mars--or at least a pretty good facsimile of it. Spread out inside the sprawling structure will soon be a dead-ringer Mars base, complete with habitat modules, an extraterrestrial greenhouse and even a ground cover of volcanic dust shipped in from Hawaii--about as close as you can get to real Martian dirt without actually visiting the planet. Astronauts training for a Mars mission could spend up to 600 days in this little village, learning to live in an unfamiliar world at least 35 million miles from Earth...
...guide them, they will never be sure if they are on the right track. After all, the ultimate purpose of the canonical Bible is not to help us feel good in this life but to prepare us for what comes after. Therefore the Gnostic books will soon gather dust on the bookshelf, but they truly belong in the trash. John Bockman Tokyo...
Small Wonders Are you ready for dust that thinks? Scientists are building machines so tiny you can't see them, so powerful they will change your world forever...
Pister's company, Dust Inc., which he founded in January 2003, has a modest $6 million in start-up funding and 25 employees. The company racked up about $1 million in sales during its first year, but analysts say the mote market could be worth $50 billion in 10 years' time and the price, currently $50 a mote, could easily come down to less than 10¢ each in the same period...
...going to be a hugely revolutionary technology," he says. Already, he has performed an experiment for the U.S. Army in which a mere eight motes were dropped from a plane and used to detect a fleet of vehicles on the ground. Homeland Security will start using smart dust this summer in a pilot project to protect ports in Florida. And Honeywell has started using motes in supermarkets to make giant refrigerators more energy efficient. Says Pister: "There's a potential to do for the physical world what the Net did for the world of ideas." --By Chris Taylor/Berkeley