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Short Takes Page 5 2004
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| The Raad Cruise Missile, built by Iran, is now entering production. At this point they seem to be a defensive weapon. |
| The National Science Foundation has found evidence that the early oceans had no oxygen and early life may have been quite different than we imagine. |
| Russia and India are working together to develop anti-ship cruise missiles along with a land attack version. |
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The Tumbleweed Rover is a large, inflated ball that can
be windblown and used to explore the surfaces of Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan,
and perhaps Saturn’s moon Io (via supersonic volcanic wind) and
Neptune’s moon Triton (as evidenced by significant surface wind
erosion). (NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| The Italian Navy is having a vessel delivered next month that has radically different propulsion. It is powered by MEP drives. MEP drives are multi-electronic permanent magnet drives. |
| The Rosetta spacecraft was launched yesterday by the European Space Agency. It will be the first craft to land on a comet if it is successful. |
| We just keep discovering galaxies further and further away. French and Swiss astronomers have found galaxies they believe to be the most remote yet. |
| General Dynamics Electric Boat of Groton has received a contract for 8.4 billion dollars to build 5 Virginia class attack submarines. |
| Two previously unknown dinosaur species were discovered in Antarctica. One was found at the bottom of the ocean while the other was found on top of a mountain. |
| The U.S. Army has abandoned the Comanche Reconnaissance Helicopter Program. The army stated that the system was too vulnerable to anti-aircraft weapons. This was a multi-billion dollars system. |
| It looks like Britain will most likely turn to Air Bus
to supply it with new tanker planes. |