"Dwave Systems has fixed the dates for the demo of their Orion quantum computing system. [...] This 16 qubit system is the beginning of commercially usable and useful quantum computers." Thi

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"Dogged by rumors that Ares I rocket would not be able to lift the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle ... NASA’s Constellation program manager has shot back at unnamed critics in an e-mail missive he

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"Driving the ship would be a nuclear arsenal of staggering proportions: 30 million nuclear bombs, each of which would explode 120 kilometers behind the vehicle at intervals of 1,000 seconds."

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"NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. as the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, America's spacecraft for a new generation of explorers." $4billion - that's a lot of dou

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...and here's another - loads of dust discs discovered, but not as many as expected.

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Death in the cold of space can occasionally be preferable to some alternatives.

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