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...there are only two things you really need in life: a way to improve our lot on Earth, and a cool computer screensaver. Now I've got both, thanks to SETI@home, a nifty piece of software that searches for intelligent life in the universe whenever I'm away from my desk. The program, available for free at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu is the brainchild of SETI scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, who have been scanning the skies for E.T.'s radio signals for more than 20 years...
Asteroids are becoming serious business. Just last month a House subcommittee recommended a threefold increase in spending on observation of near-Earth objects. And only a year after astronomers triggered a short-lived scare by suggesting that asteroid 1997 XF11 might someday strike Earth, another newly discovered asteroid is causing concern. This one is 1999 AN10, a kilometer-wide hulk that in 2027 could hurtle past us as little as 20,000 miles away. First spotted in January, the asteroid attracted little attention when Italian astronomers posted preliminary calculations of its orbit on their website. But when these results were...
...Most of those years were smooth and uneventful." Now Mir's current crew will be its last. The three cosmonauts will abandon ship in August after installing a new computer allowing ground controllers to command the station remotely. From that point Mir's orbit, currently about 240 miles above Earth, will begin to tighten. When it reaches 125 miles, the Russians will pick an ocean -- unlike Skylab, which NASA dangerously allowed to deorbit itself -- and send the 120-ton station its final command. And then, says Kluger, "the last vestiges of the Russian space empire will be gone, which...
...years in orbit, the world's first -- and greatest -- orbiting jalopy has been scheduled for a Viking funeral. Russian space officials announced Tuesday that unless private funding (Donald Trump? Michael Jackson?) comes to the rescue, the space station Mir will be abandoned to die a fiery death in the Earth's atmosphere sometime in spring...
...part of it. NASCAR didn't go national until a Yankee became its star, and resentment is the breeze that keeps those rebel flags flying. "I'm not one of those redneck hillbillies," Todd O'Bryant says. "I just think Gordon needs to be a little more down to earth...