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Thursday, 03 November 2011 14:46

520 Days Later: Fake Mars Mission Ready to Return

By Duncan Geere, Wired UK

520 days after being locked inside a fake spaceship in a Moscow car park, a six-man team of volunteer astronauts is about to emerge back on planet Earth.

The year and a half of isolation, dubbed Mars500 and run by the European Space Agency (ESA), was designed to see how real space crews would cope with confinement, daily activities and psychological stress on a lengthy trip to the red planet and back.

The all-male crew could only shower once a week, ate canned food and received emails on a delay, depending on how “far away” they are from Earth. Their li...

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Whole Lotta Shakin' at El Hierro Suggests New Eruption Might Be Imminent

False color ASTER image of the southern tip of El Hierro, taken on November 1, 2011. You can clearly see the small scoria cones on the island itself and the submarine vent is likely very similar to these cones. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory.

It has now been a little over a week since the submarine eruption to the south of El Hierro in the Canary Islands peaked. Since then, the activity on the southside has waned significantly, no longer the bubbling cauldron we observed last week UPDATE: Nix that – bubbling has returned to the sea off of La Restriga. However, as many images can...

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5 Wishes for The Next Generation of Consoles

So what do Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have in store for us with the next generation of consoles? When will we see the Xbox 720, the PS4 and the Wii-2, and what will they bring to the table to entice the consumers?

Naturally there is a lot of buzz on the Internet about what may or may not be in the next generation of consoles. As usual, the rumors of the hardware specs paint the potential systems as the next coming of Skynet, capable of generating graphics so lifelike that our heads will explode!! Another hot topic getting a lot of attention is support for 3D TV’s.

How much do these types of...

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