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STRANGE BUT TRUE: CURIOSITY'S SKY CRANE: How do you deposit a massive SUV-sized nuclear-powered rover to the surface of an alien planet without making an SUV-sized crater? NASA's solution for Curiosity will be attempted for the first time on August 5/6 when they gently lower the rover to the red sands of Mars using a Sky Crane. [full story]

 

EARLY PERSEID METEORS: Earth is entering a broad stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Meteoroids in the outskirts of the stream are now hitting Earth's atmosphere, producing as many as 10-15 meteors per hour according to worldwide counts from the International Meteor Organization. NASA's network of all-sky meteor cameras captured 17 Perseid fireballs on the nights of July 28th through 30th. Here are their orbits:

 

The position of Earth is denoted by the red starburst; all of the meteoroid orbits intersect at that point. The purple line traces the orbit of the parent Comet Swift-Tuttle. Fortunately, the comet itself does not intersect Earth.

 

US military developing insect surveillance drones

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PressTV.ir

Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:58PM GMT

File photo shows an insect-sized spy drone.

File photo shows an insect-sized spy drone.
 
Reports indicate the US military has poured huge sums of money into surveillance drone miniaturization and is developing micro aircraft which now come in a swarm of bug-sized flying spies.
 

According to various internet sources, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Arlington, Virginia, is helping develop what they are calling a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) that will undertake various espionage tasks.

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Key Senate Staffer on Military Issues Got Big Payout From Lockheed Martin

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by Justin Elliott
July 26, 2012, 5 p.m.

Ann Elise Sauer

Ann Elise Sauer

Lockheed Martin has big business in Washington, with Defense Department contracts representing [1] more than half of the company's $46.5 billion in net sales last year. And now, Lockheed has a former top lobbyist in a key position on Capitol Hill overseeing the company.

Former Lockheed vice president Ann Elise Sauer was hired by Sen. John McCain in February as the top Republican staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Giant UFO Vailixi Emerging from The Sun, July 27, 2012.mp4

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Vailixi Géant OVNI émergents du Soleil, 27 Juillet, 2012
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visit: http://erigia.blogspot.be/2012/07/vailixi-geant-ovni-emergents-du-soleil.html

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Germany: Is strongest European economy heading south?

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Published: 31 July, 2012, 16:56

German unemployment rose for a fourth straight month in July as crisis-hit businesses delayed hiring. It’s a reminder the country, which many in the Eurozone are looking to for help, may have to set its sights on its own economic problems.

The number of people out of work rose a seasonally adjusted 7,000 to 2.89 million, the Federal Labor Agency in Nuremberg said on Tuesday. The adjusted jobless rate held at 6.8%. The current rate is still low compared with 8.2% in the US, 10.1% in France and Italy and a euro-area average of 11.1%. However it isn’t showing a turn around with German unemployment sustaining an almost uninterrupted decline for more than two and a half years. Germany’s jobless rate was 5.6% in May, according to the latest harmonized OECD figures.

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Protests Against Election Fraud in Mexico Become Artistic

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Tania Lara
July 28, 2012
Protests Against Election Fraud in Mexico Become Artistic

A group of fashion designers, writers, and visual artists meet almost every week in Mexico City to create posters, costumes, and performances. Once they figure out a “visual concept,” their art creations walk alongside thousands of protesters against the winning presidential candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

US 'extreme drought' zones triple in size

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By Andrew Gully | AFP – Fri, Jul 27, 2012

Almost two thirds of the continental US are now suffering drought conditions
A field of dead corn sits next to an ethanol plant July 25, in Palestine, Illinois. The drought in America's breadbasket is intensifying at an unprecedented rate, experts warned, driving concern food prices could soar if crops in the world's key producer are decimated. (AFP Photo/Scott Olson)

Bankers found to have rigged Libor rate could face jail

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7:15PM BST 30 Jul 2012
 

Bankers found to have rigged Libor could face jail after the Serious Fraud Office said it will look to bring criminal charges against those who attempted to manipulate Libor, a key global borrowing rate.

Lifers, a Channel 4 documentary, visits convicted killers facing a lifetime behind bars at Gartree Prison in Leicestershire, home to Europe's largest population of life-sentenced prisoners.

Bankers found guilty of Libor rigging could face a prison sentence of up to 10 years Photo: Channel 4

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