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Up, Up And Ka-Ching!(Science)(space tourism )
Newsweek International
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February 11, 2008|
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Byline: Jacqui Goddard
In a time of tight budgets and earthly priorities, the space business is getting a rejuvenating jolt from entrepreneurs who do the right stuff on the cheap.
For decades after Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit the Earth in 1961, the notion that space travel could ever be possible--or affordable--for ordinary people remained the stuff of Hollywood fantasy and comic strips. Now the dream is on the launchpad. The quickest of trips--five minutes of weightlessness and spectacular views--is a viable business proposition. Sir ...
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Stalking the green flash! (optical phenomenon)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Weatherwise
; ...it turns a vivid emerald green. An illusion? No! Just...phenomenon known as the green flash. What Causes the Green Flash? Early theories of the green flash were often just guesses...irrelevant for the many green flashes seen over land. Another...
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IN PURSUIT OF THE ELUSIVE, EPHEMERAL GREEN FLASH
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...of light is more elusive than the green flash. For 25 years I have sought it unsuccessfully I'm still looking. The green flash is a momentary blaze of emerald...unsuccessful year, for an ephemeral flash of green.(For more information about educational...
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Giant Green Flash from Texas Memory Systems Provides Cost-effective Application Acceleration; Texas Memory Systems' new RamSan-620 delivers the world's largest, fastest SLC Flash storage to boost essential application performance.
M2 Presswire
; ...2009-Texas Memory Systems: Giant Green Flash from Texas Memory Systems Provides...performance HDD. The RamSan-620 is a green IT choice, occupying only 2U of...at StorageIO and author of "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC...
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 "Herald Express (Torquay UK)")
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'Meteor shower' was a rare 'green flash' sighting
Newspaper article from: Herald Express (Torquay UK)
; ...phenomenon known as the 'green flash'. Initially it was believed...what is called the 'green flash', an atmospheric effect which is supposed to be a flash of green light across the...writes in a paper on green flashes that it is very difficult...
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Just Phenomenal The green flash
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...the rest of the sun has disappeared, the apple-green upper edge of the solar disc may suddenly become clearly visible - a phenomenon called "the green flash". To see the green flash , the horizon must be as low as possible...
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No, Green Flash is not new villain in 'Spider-Man 3'
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune
; HAVE you ever seen a green flash? It's an amazing phenomenon...wonderful beer: Try Green Flash West Coast IPA1/2from Green Flash Brewing Co. in San Diego county...someone said "How about Green Flash?" and they had a name for...Beer Store List. If green ...
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'Green flash' lights up s. Devon sunset
Newspaper article from: Herald Express (Torquay UK)
; ...extremely rare happening this week - a 'green flash'. Residents reported seeing strange...sunset phenomenon known as the 'green flash'. The flash is an atmospheric...upper edge blazes with an emerald green colour for a few seconds before disappearing...
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No. 17 Bowling Green overpowers Flashes at MACs
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...team lost to No. 17 Bowling Green, 89-66. "My assessment...of the game to help spur the Flashes (13-12, 9-5 MAC) to...the second half, but Bowling Green thwarted the comeback attempt. "Bowling Green's big-time players stepped...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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FOR GREEN, FLASH NOT USUALLY IN STYLE BRONCOS WIDE RECEIVER FITS INTO HIS BACKUP ROLE WITH LESSONS OF YOUTH.(Special Pullouts)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...number of double takes. As flash goes, this is where it ends for Willie Green. He is the other wide receiver...walk of world champions. With Green, the ego is small and the pretense...there in the public eye,'' Green said. ``But one of the reasons...
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ROAD RAGE STUDY HAS DRIVERS SEEING GREEN 'FLASH' SYSTEM COULD GO NATIONAL
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; ...antidote to road rage - "the Flash," a blinking green light they hope will soothe...decades. Volunteers will get a green light to put in their vehicles...if all goes as planned, the Flashes will start flashing. The idea...project demonstrates that the Flash works, it could become a ...
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