KCRG Iowa State University professor has plan to fight off asteroidsOmaha World-HeraldEngineering professor Bong Wie, who works with a team at the Asteroid Deflection Research Center in Ames, wants to use a nuclear device to stop an asteroid from hurtling…
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ISU prof has plan to save humanity from asteroids – kwwl.com
ISU prof has plan to save humanity from asteroidskwwl.comAn Iowa State University professor has a plan for saving humanity from a devastating asteroid collision, and he’ll soon meet with officials at NASA to discuss his proposal. Engineering professor Bong Wie…
Fancy a .bike or .guru address? ICANN announces 9 new Web domains – Digital Trends
Digital Trends Fancy a .bike or .guru address? ICANN announces 9 new Web domainsDigital TrendsInternet addressing authority ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has released a handful of new domain extensions into the wild, including .bike, .guru…
ICANN's UDRP as a domain name dispute redressal mechanism – Lexology (registration)
ICANN’s UDRP as a domain name dispute redressal mechanismLexology (registration)In November 2000, after a long and complex discussion, ICANN approved the much awaited creation of seven new gTLDs. However, any registry which wants to use these new gTLDs has to…
DotConnectAfrica Trust Attends ICANN 48 International Meeting in Buenos Aires … – CircleID
DotConnectAfrica Trust Attends ICANN 48 International Meeting in Buenos Aires …CircleIDDCA attended Buenos Aires ICANN 48DotConnectAfrica delegates were among more than 1,700 people from around the world that attended the just concluded ICANN 48 International Meeting that took place in…
Source: AWIN First – Aviation Week
Aviation Week Source: AWIN FirstAviation WeekNASA and startup Planetary Resources, Inc. have formed the first public/private partnership under the space agency’s Asteroid Grand Challenge (AGC) initiative to accelerate the search for near-Earth objects (NEOs) that pose a collision threat by…
North Korea plans space missions to Moon, Mars and asteroids – Pravda
BusinessKorea North Korea plans space missions to Moon, Mars and asteroidsPravdaNorth Korea announced an intention to launch its own space rocket no later than in 2020. Reportedly, the National Space Committee of the republic approved the revised space program of…
The Outer Space Gold Rush: Asteroid Mining Could Be The Next Big Industry In … – iScienceTimes.com
iScienceTimes.com The Outer Space Gold Rush: Asteroid Mining Could Be The Next Big Industry In …iScienceTimes.comAccording to Reuters, two of those companies are planning prospecting missions to nearby asteroids within three years. And this month, a company executive in Nevada…
NASA crowdsources asteroid detection – allvoices
ExecutiveGov NASA crowdsources asteroid detectionallvoices“The foundation of the asteroid grand challenge is partnerships like this one,” said Jason Kessler, program executive for the asteroid grand challenge. “It fits the core purpose of the grand challenge perfectly: Find innovative ways to…
Conflict in ICANN Dot-Radio Selection Process – Radio World
Conflict in ICANN Dot-Radio Selection ProcessRadio WorldAs Internet traffic cop ICANN slowly but surely draws closer to the conclusion of its top level domain selection process, George Bundy, CEO of BRS Inc., one of four applicants for the dot-radio TLD,…