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June 2000 A new aerial photo of Area 51 suggests that the site does more with nuclear waste than UFOs and aliens. The photo shows signs of a recent toxic waste cleanup. The base also has a runway that was built in 1990, right around the time the F-117 was being developed. There is probably little going on there right now since the photo shows mostly empty parking lots. The latest in bionics is a hand that can sense when an object begins to slip and then tighten its grip on it. It senses the object by hearing the vibrations made by the object as it slips. A new rocket design will allow flights to the international space station cheaper. The rocket intakes oxygen from the air during the first half of its flight and uses that to mix with the fuel to create the reaction. Conventional rockets store all the oxygen that they need on board, which greatly increases the weight and cost to launch the rocket. Images captured by Ukirt, a telescope in Hawaii, show that planets don’t have to orbit stars. The pictures were taken of the Orion nebula and show 13 free-floating planets. Declassified technology from heat seeking missiles is now being used to quickly identify chemicals. Then new method is up to 5000 times faster than conventional methods. It works by bathing a sample in infrared light and then examines the molecular signature. Any alien life that any be discovered is more likely to resemble something that you might scrub off the walls of your bathtub, not Klingons, or Wookies. This conclusion was met after examining the oldest fossils on earth. The scientists doing the research say that odds of intelligent life developing are so remote that earth may be unique. |
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