http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2005-09-29T16:28:26-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/29/another_route_toward_longterm_research.php Funding effective long-term research -- cutting-edge stuff that helps your bottom line -- is where nearly every company falls down. Microsoft has been pouring billions into its research effort for nearly a decade, but in terms of breakthroughs it has... 36663@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2005-09-29T16:28:26-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/13/meanwhile_back_in_space.php One good thing about covering space is that it puts what's happening to this Big Blue Marble into proper perspective. See if you don't agree: Closer to the Big Bang -- Space is a time machine. When you detect light... 8945@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2005-09-13T13:57:53-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/04/28/stepping_toward_a_space_elevator.php Amid all the recent stories about the U.S. abandoning basic science I offer a counter-example. Rice University, my old school has an $11 million deal with NASA to develop carbon nanotubes that will, at first, be big enough to act... 8677@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2005-04-28T08:19:55-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/02/07/lets_do_lunch.php Now that Star Trek is officially dead (no new shows or movies, even in production) the time has come for a new idea. Here's one. Stardate. It's an anthology series, built around various scientific "principles" that define the Star Trek... 8418@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-02-07T09:26:17-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/01/24/space_truth_stranger_then_fiction.php In all the great sci-fi written about Saturn's moon Titan, no one (to my knowledge) imagined a world where liquid methane carves the land as water does here. (The NASA image comes from Resa.Net.) But that's just what Europe's Huygens... 8372@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2005-01-24T10:05:32-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/12/22/new_galaxies_not_so_far_away.php The headlines were misleading. Recent galactic births surprise astronomers from New Scientist. Youthful Galaxies Surprise Astronomers from Space.Com. Here's the straight poop. (The picture is from the BBC story.)... 8273@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-12-22T14:20:25-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/12/12/big_dangerous_waste.php The launch this week of a new Boeing Delta rocket (picture from the BBC story) , without a real payload, demonstrates everything that's wrong with the current U.S. space program. The real problem in space is not addressed by this... 8237@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-12-12T10:24:29-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/10/29/science_friday.php It seems we have science every day here, but even so. Let's talk Titan. Titan has been a favorite of science fiction writers for many years now, ever since we got to the Moon (finding it empty) and got... 8097@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-10-29T14:38:24-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/10/04/xprize_captured.php Mission Accomplished! Congratulations to SpaceShipOne, winner of the Ansari X-Prize. What's next? (Image from the New York Times.)... 8001@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-10-04T13:17:30-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/09/29/one_down.php One to go.... 7988@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-09-29T15:13:53-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/09/29/the_age_of_private_spaceflight_begins.php While you watch SpaceShipOne make its historic attempt to win the XPrize today, I'm sure what you're asking yourself if -- what comes next? That's the question, after all, that eluded Apollo. What came next wasn't nearly as exciting as... 7983@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-09-29T08:25:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/09/27/the_winner_spaceshipone.php It's not just that they're on schedule while Canada's entry has been delayed. Nope. The big news is they passed the audition with the market. Virgin's Richard Branson announced he will back their play to put people into space... 7973@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-09-27T08:26:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/08/13/heroes_of_capitalism.php Space Transport Corp. made its play for the Ansari XPrize yesterday, launching its Rubicon I at the edge of the Olympia peninsula in Washington state. The launch was...a complete disaster. (Picture from eBay.) But, no matter. John Anderson, whose... 7863@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-08-13T09:16:03-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/08/06/meanwhile_in_saskatchewan.php The Canadian DaVinci Project has a launch date -- October 2. (Picture from the BBC.) On that date, a balloon will lift off from Kindersley, Saskatchewan bearing, among other things, the logo of the GoldenPalace.Com Internet casino and a rocket... 7843@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-08-06T08:45:46-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/07/30/in_the_year_2025.php Scientists predict that, by 2025, we'll know if there are any other species producing radio waves. Estimates are currently that we're about 1,000 light years from any other species with such intelligence, but that's just an assumption. Hard evidence is... 7817@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Space 2004-07-30T10:03:23-05:00