A British space scientist has found that it is much more costly to send a message by cell phone than to transmit data from the Hubble space telescope to Earth.
Dr. Nigel Bannister from the University of Leicester in England calculated that one megabyte of SMS texting costs $730.63 to transmit based on U.K. rates. Hubble […]
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Texting Friends More Expensive Than Getting Data From Space Telescope
Posted on 16 May 2008
A bar named after canoeist
Posted on 16 May 2008
A bar in Hartlepool is being renamed after back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin.
Sinatra’s Bar, near Darwin’s home in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, is changing its name to The Seaton Canoe.
Customers were challenged to come up with a new name for the pub and win £100, but no one came up with the name owners Richard and Angie […]
Roach from space became a grandmother
Posted on 16 May 2008
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Russian cockroach named Nadezhda who spent 12 days in space as a part of a scientific research became a grandmother. According to local news agencies Scientists have sent Nadezhda along with other animals to space to test the survival skills and endurance of animals.
As […]
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