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What keeps Al Gore up at night? A few months ago, the Vice President was literally jolted awake at 3 a.m. by the idea of a continuous, live Internet image of this planet, an all-earth-all-the-time website. Within weeks, NASA was scrambling to put up the satellites to make his dream come true. Last July 4 he skipped the fireworks so he could stare for five hours into his office computer as it downloaded Pathfinder's first images from the surface of Mars. Another Gore brainchild--he calls it "digital earth"--would allow students with computers...
...intriguing concept of an "information superhighway." But Dingell is far from alone. Commerce Senators who have reviewed the thousands of grant applications pouring in complain that schools are attempting to use the program to buy everything from carpeting and paint to computers that exceed the power of those at NASA. What's more, lawmakers grouse, why should the Federal Government pay for something many schools would do on their...
...Research Institute asteroid expert, there are an awful lot of rocks out there, and fewer than 200 have been ticked off the list of an expected 2,000 near-Earth objects. But Chapman's star turn at the House Science Committee Thursday provided little more than an advert for NASA's proposed $5 million asteroid tracking program, a wrist-slap for the Clinton administration's vetoing of an Air Force asteroid mission, and -- whisper it low -- a chance for Congress to cash in on the "Deep Impact" craze before Godzilla stomps all over the box office. Perhaps DreamWorks, who spent...
...NASA Piles of dead rats in space are an embarrassment. Or the basis of a new Parker and Stone comedy...
...HIRF may often [have] inadvertent effects oncivilian aircraft," the NASA report says. Compiledby researcher Martin Shooman, report findingsindicate that EMIs occur at "an intermediate andnot insignificant level...