| Spitzer Space Telescope | Observations using the | indicate that extremely massive stars of spectral category O, which are mu ... |
| Sputnik 2 | ... work was completed, however, the Soviet Union launched a second satellite, | , on November 3, 1957. Meanwhile, the spectacular televised failure of Van ... |
| Cliff Branch | ... adelphia's 30-yard line, setting up Jim Plunkett's 2-yard touchdown pass to | 7 plays later. After each team punted once, Jaworski threw a 40-yard touch ... |
| purpose of reconnaissance | ... er observatories located in space that are pointed toward the earth for the | and other types of information gathering |
| TIROS-1 | ... nages many geosynchronous satellites and polar orbiting satellites. In 1960 | , NOAA's first owned and operated geostationary satellite was launched. In ... |
| orbiters | ... uttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of the retired | of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United State ... |
| USS Enterprise-A | ... Spock's katra to his reanimated body. McCoy rejoins Kirk's crew aboard the | in (1986). In , McCoy (through the intervention of Spock's brother Sybok) ... |
| GOES | ... to provide data for space weather predictions and applications include the | series of spacecraft, the POES series, the DMSP series, and the Meteosat s ... |
| Herman Potočnik | ... r communication purposes was first published in 1928 (but not widely so) by | . The idea of a geostationary orbit was first disseminated on a wide scale ... |
| Eurasian Plate | ... ent of the Indo-Australian Plate which is sliding under the eastward-moving | . The subduction zone in this area is very active: the seabed near the wes ... |
| Earth observation satellite | ... . Military forces also use geographical and meteorological information from | s |
| Commodore Datasette | ... program and data storage. A dedicated tape recorder along the lines of the | was never produced; Apple recommended using the Panasonic RQ309 in some of ... |
| B Reactor | ... as a general consultant. He was sitting in the control room of the Hanford | when it first went critical in 1944. His broad knowledge of many fields of ... |
| Nate Burleson | ... ther contract offers, including a contract offered to Vikings wide receiver | by the Seahawks, which, with irony fully intended, was structured as a sev ... |
| International Space Station | ... a one atmosphere, mixed-gas space station environment, such as that on the | , to the suit, without risking decompression sickness, which can occur wit ... |
| RF MEMS | ... lations, although mechanical RF systems do exist (see mechanical filter and | ) |
| Explorer 1 | ... lane imagery. Together with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), ABMA built | in 84 days and launched it on January 31, 1958. Before work was completed, ... |
| Mir | Finally, the Progress series of unmanned cargo ships for the Salyut and | space laboratories used the automatic navigation and docking mechanism (bu ... |
| Panavision Platinum | ... avored high-speed stocks to allow for more subtle lighting effects. He used | cameras with the company's Primo series of prime and zoom lenses. Hall emp ... |
| Skylab | ... a has been photographated at high resolution in the X-rays by the satellite | in 1973, and then later by Yohkoh and the other following space instrument ... |
| Haven Moses | ... Odoms was his main target, with 37 receptions for 429 yards. Wide receiver | was also a major deep threat, catching 27 passes for 539 yards, an average ... |
| Harold Carmichael | ... r, but the score was nulified by an illegal motion penalty on wide receiver | and the Eagles ended up being forced to punt. The Raiders later scored ano ... |
| Letter-quality printer | #Redirect | |
| Mir | ... ientific equipment, logistical hardware and water from the Space Shuttle to | . In the fifth and last exchange of a U.S. astronaut, STS-89 delivered And ... |
| Mobile phone | | (cell phone) microphones can be activated remotely, without any need for p ... |
| Stirling engine | ... is actually small in comparison), which Kamen is working to convert into a | -powered kinetic sculpture |
| African Plate | ... lcanic activity in the region is largely the result of the northward-moving | meeting the Eurasian Plate. There are three volcanic centres on the island |
| Mir orbital station | ... disinfecting agent, for example, the drinking water supplies of the Russian | and the International Space Station. The World Health Organization include ... |
| Williamson amplifier | ... he output valves with the low impedance of the loudspeakers. With the 1940s | as a much-quoted early example, audio amplifiers with hitherto unprecedent ... |
| Indian tectonic plate | Geologically, the origin of the Himalayas is the impact of the | traveling northward at 15 cm per year to impact the Eurasian continent, wi ... |
| Venera-1VA | ... aunch a probe to Venus, immediately following the launch of its sister ship | , which failed to leave Earth orbit. Soviet experts launched Venera-1 in t ... |
| Kinect | Milo and Kate was being developed for | , though speculation arose concerning whether it was actually a game or a ... |
| Eurasian Plate | ... ion is largely the result of the northward-moving African Plate meeting the | . There are three volcanic centres on the island |
| Envisat | ... cameras to identify and target wildfires. Satellite-mounted sensors such as | 's Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer and European Remote-Sensing Sa ... |
| International Space Station | ... ght capability and are used to ferry personnel and supplies to and from the | . With the retirement of the USA's Space Shuttles, Russia will have the so ... |
| proprietary | ... not one, but three incompatible machines which were each tied to different | architectures. The first, the DEC Professional, was based on the PDP-11/23 ... |
| Ranger 3 | Ranger 5 was a Block II Ranger spacecraft similar to | and Ranger 4. The basic vehicle was 3.1 m high and consisted of a lunar ca ... |
| Ultra-Linear | ... were produced with minimal inherent distortion and phase shift. Blumlein's | transformer design was used in conjunction with Williamson's principles, a ... |
| Charlie Smith | ... 4-10. Starting from their own 12-yard line, a 43-yard reception by receiver | sparked an 88-yard, 12-play drive that was capped by Jaworski's 8-yard tou ... |
| North American Plate | ... hter magnitude scale because Virginia is located away from the edges of the | . The largest earthquake, at an estimated 5.9 magnitude, was in 1897 near ... |
| Explorer 1 | On February 1, 1958, the US Army launched the | satellite. With the launch of Sputnik 1 & 2 the previous concern, of the r ... |
| Space Shuttle Columbia | ... began on November 19, 1997 as part of the six-astronaut crew that flew the | flight STS-87. Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second India ... |
| Nuclear power in Switzerland | ... ve voted on in 1990 which had passed with 54.5% Yes vs. 45.5% No votes (see | for details) |
| hard drives | ... rating system with its Service Pack 3. This Service Pack supported SATA and | that were larger than 137GB (48-bit LBA support) by default. The Microsoft ... |
| Space Shuttle Columbia | ... r is critically important (as seen by the failure of insulating foam on the | ). Re-entry through the atmosphere generates very high temperatures becaus ... |
| TiVo | ... included a video tuner that allowed one to schedule a VCR in a manner like | allowed several years later. The Plus also included a 56k modem. In order ... |
| Spitzer | ... cosmic dust surrounding a distant star 6500 light years away. Using NASA's | infrared telescope the scientists spotted the molecules' unmistakable infr ... |
| hard drive | ... ransmitted. Digital audio storage can be on a CD, a digital audio player, a | , USB flash drive, CompactFlash, or any other digital data storage device. ... |
| Nebraska license plate | In the | system, Douglas County was represented by the prefix "1" (as it had the la ... |
| Kinect | ... 360 and Playstation 3, published by Ubisoft. It is compatible with the Xbox | and Playstation Move controller |
| rooks | ... mber of squares in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, i.e., bishops, | and queens, can pin opposing pieces. Kings, knights, and pawns cannot pin. ... |
| European Remote-Sensing Satellite | ... nted sensors such as Envisat's Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer and | 's Along-Track Scanning Radiometer can measure infrared radiation emitted ... |
| Widelux | ... 980, he began photographing on and off set shot with his favorite camera, a | F8. He published many of these photographs online and published a book in ... |
| Vapor-compression refrigeration | # | #Vapor-absorption refrigeratio |
| Willie Richardson | ... lb), John Mackey (te), Tom Matte (rb), Fred Miller (dl), Earl Morrall (qb), | (wr), and Bob Vogel (ol) |
| Space Shuttle Atlantis | ... nce astronomer Galileo Galilei, it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the | on the STS-34 mission. It arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, via grav ... |
| COROT | ... ely with space-based telescopes that avoid atmospheric haze and turbulence. | (launched December 2006) and Kepler (launched March 2009) are the two curr ... |
| Sellafield | ... periods of time. One way to do this is through vitrification. Currently at | the high-level waste (PUREX first cycle raffinate) is mixed with sugar and ... |
| sound system | He made his way into the music industry first as a | (outdoor mobile discothèque) owner, promoter and disc jockey. He quickly o ... |
| Watts Bar | ... Boy is the largest manufacturing employer. The Tennessee Valley Authority's | and Sequoyah nuclear power plants are both within of the city |
| Indo-Australian Plate | ... va are part of the Sunda Arc, a result of the northeasterly movement of the | which is sliding under the eastward-moving Eurasian Plate. The subduction ... |
| Mac Speedie | ... ill Willis, and Otto Graham. Landry did not have a good debut as a starter, | , the receiver he was assigned to cover, set an AAFC record for receiving ... |
| film | ... vary the size of the pupil, and hence the amount of light that reaches the | or image sensor. The common assumption in photography that the pupil diame ... |
| Osirak | ... oyment in a significant air-to-ground operation. This raid severely damaged | , an Iraqi nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad, to prevent the ... |
| offshore oil fields | ... e west by the Atlantic Ocean. Adjacent to the coast are some of the largest | in the world. Petroleum exploration began in 1954 by the Cabinda Gulf Oil ... |
| Dyson sphere | ... veral statite colonies into the beginnings of the true "swarm" concept of a | |
| Mockingboard | ... also a third-party 6809 card that would allow OS-9 Level One to be run. The | sound card greatly improved audio capabilities, allowing simple music synt ... |
| Indo-Australian Plate | ... continental collision or orogeny along the convergent boundary between the | and the Eurasian Plate. This is referred to as a fold mountain |
| video recorder | ... included an entire episode entitled "Nasty", in which the characters rent a | specifically to watch a "video nasty" (with the fictitious name "Sex With ... |
| Golden Richards | ... re a normal run play, but then Newhouse passed the ball to Cowboys receiver | for a touchdown. The score gave the Cowboys a 27-10 lead and put the game ... |
| Lynn Swann | ... ship Game against the Oakland Raiders, his fourth-quarter touchdown pass to | proved to be the winning score in a 24-13 victory. In the Steelers’ 16-6 S ... |
| Explorer 1 | ... later, the Soviets launched Sputnik 1. A Redstone based Jupiter-C launched | on 31 January 1958. Redstone was later used in Project Mercury and as part ... |
| Death Star | Red Squadron was essential to the destruction of the | at the Battle of Yavin. After the battle, the squadron operated as two gro ... |
| Hipparcos | ... imity to Earth. At a distance of 2.6 parsecs (8.6 ly), as determined by the | astrometry satellite, the Sirius system is one of Earth's near neighbors; ... |
| amplification | ... fifth interval, usually played on electric guitar, and typically through an | process that imparts distortion. Power chords are a key element of many st ... |
| cell phone | ... acture electronic capacitors, used in consumer electronics products such as | s, DVD players, video game systems and computers) |
| Greg Jennings | ... ork Yankees all-star shortstop Derek Jeter, Green Bay Packers wide receiver | , and free agent running back T.J. Duckett. Washington Nationals pitcher S ... |
| TerraSAR-X | ... Recent high-resolution ( 4 - 0.5 metre) private imaging satellites include | , IKONOS, Orbview, QuickBird and Worldview-1, allowing any country (or any ... |
| Kodak DCS | ... ing 35mm film SLRs from Nikon and Canon and the range included the original | , the first commercially-available digital SLR |
| NOAA-19 | ... rent operational satellites include: NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18 and | (launched 2/6/2009) |
| Thermographic camera | ... said to have the capabilities to detect stealth aircraft. Advanced forms of | s such as those that incorporate QWIPs would be able to optically see a St ... |
| Harold Carmichael | ... tions for 407 yards. The other main deep threats on offense, wide receivers | and Charlie Smith, along with tight end Keith Krepfle, combined for 125 re ... |
| Innotek (Belgium) | Ichtegem - Ickx, Jacky - Ingelmunster - | - International association without lucrative purpose - International rank ... |
| DSL modem | The customer end of the connection consists of a terminal adaptor or " | ". This converts data between the digital signals used by computers and th ... |
| Vanguard 1 | On March 17, 1958, | became the second artificial satellite successfully placed in Earth orbit ... |
| Eurasian Plate | ... eny along the convergent boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and the | . This is referred to as a fold mountain |
| Motorola MicroTAC | ... first two seasons, the Sliders used the Original Timer, made from a rebuilt | Ultra-Lite cellular phone. For the remainder of the series, the Egyptian T ... |
| Marvin Harrison | Manning and | broke Steve Young and Jerry Rice's NFL record for most touchdowns by a qua ... |
| Eurasian Plate | ... of being on the northern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate as it meets the | and pushes into South East Asia. The climate includes a long dry season wi ... |
| point and shoot | ... d equipment for attaching digital single-lens reflex cameras and even basic | cameras to telescopes. Consumer level digital cameras suffer from image no ... |
| Tony Hill | ... r an 11-yard loss on third down. On the ensuing punt, Cowboys punt returner | fumbled the ball at the 1-yard line, but managed to fall on the ball befor ... |
| Bob Chandler | ... nkett completed a 13-yard pass to King and a 32-yard completion to receiver | to move the ball to Philadelphia's 33-yard line. Then after a 4-yard run b ... |
| International Space Station | ... to be launched on October 30, 2002. The capsule was scheduled to fly to the | and land in a desert in Kazakhstan |
| NOAA-18 | Current operational satellites include: NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17, | and NOAA-19 (launched 2/6/2009) |
| amplifier | ... st Willie Kizart. The legend of how the sound came about says that Kizart's | was damaged on Highway 61 when the band was driving from Mississippi to Me ... |
| Palm PDA | ... . Cisco and Efficient Networks sell PPTP clients for older Mac OS releases. | devices with Wi-Fi are bundled with the Mergic PPTP client |
| Luna E-1 No.1 | ... ern observers assigning their own designations to the missions, for example | , the first failure of 1958 which NASA believed was associated with the Lu ... |
| Farallon Plate | ... part of the continent. As the North American continent moved westward, the | subducted under its western margin. As the plate subducted, it carried alo ... |
| International Space Station | ... exosphere. Within this layer, ultraviolet radiation causes ionization. The | has a stable orbit within the middle of the thermosphere, between . Aurora ... |
| International Space Station | ... ure of the Apollo program. However, the emergence of the Space Shuttle, the | , and a wide variety of advanced research in space sciences led to a resur ... |
| A4W nuclear reactor | All ships of the class are powered by two | s, kept in separate compartments. They power four propeller shafts and can ... |
| Apple II peripheral cards | ... expansion slots permitted a wide variety of third-party devices, including | such as Serial controllers, display controllers, memory boards, hard disks ... |
| International Space Station | As of 2011, the | provides a temporary, yet still non-autonomous, human presence in low Eart ... |
| NOAA-17 | Current operational satellites include: NOAA-15, NOAA-16, | , NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 (launched 2/6/2009) |
| QuickBird | ... 0.5 metre) private imaging satellites include TerraSAR-X, IKONOS, Orbview, | and Worldview-1, allowing any country (or any business for that matter) to ... |
| Indo-Australian Plate | ... e Upper Cretaceous period about 70 million years ago, when the north-moving | , moving at about 15 cm per year, collided with the Eurasian Plate. About ... |
| King Tubby | ... in. This was followed by a collaboration with the legendary reggae engineer | , 1975's Ital Dub |
| DMSP | ... nd applications include the GOES series of spacecraft, the POES series, the | series, and the Meteosat series. The GOES spacecraft have carried a X-Ray ... |
| NOAA-16 | Current operational satellites include: NOAA-15, | , NOAA-17, NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 (launched 2/6/2009) |
| Schmidt camera | ... as telescopes designed for precise imaging, for wide field of view (such as | s), or for work at specific wavelengths of light. Astronomical CCD cameras ... |
| Sputnik 2 | ... t the first stage of their launcher rocket. After the Soviet Union launched | , on November 3, 1957, then Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy directed ... |
| T610 | ... be confusing as, for example, there could be several phones in range named | (see Bluejacking) |
| POES | ... her predictions and applications include the GOES series of spacecraft, the | series, the DMSP series, and the Meteosat series. The GOES spacecraft have ... |
| Raymond Berry | ... ndry assistants: Mike Ditka, Dan Reeves, John Mackovic, Gene Stallings, and | |
| hard disk | Apple introduced HFS out of necessity with its first 20 MB | offering for the Macintosh in September 1985. However, HFS was not widely ... |
| Indo-Australian Plate | ... ures have been explained as the result of being on the northern edge of the | as it meets the Eurasian Plate and pushes into South East Asia. The climat ... |
| Digital Subscriber Line | ... Another way is IPTV, that is receiving TV via Internet Protocol, relying on | (DSL) or optical cable line. Finally, an alternative way is to receive dig ... |
| NOAA-15 | Current operational satellites include: | , NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 (launched 2/6/2009) |
| Calvin Sweeney | ... t a pop in his elbow while throwing his final pass, a ten yard touchdown to | in the second quarter of the Steelers' 34-7 win. Bradshaw later left the g ... |
| Integral Fast Reactor | ... e and transmute it to other, less-harmful nuclear waste. In particular, the | was a proposed nuclear reactor with a nuclear fuel cycle that produced no ... |
| Eurasian Plate | ... ng Indo-Australian Plate, moving at about 15 cm per year, collided with the | . About 50 million years ago, this fast moving Indo-Australian plate had c ... |
| license plate | In the Nebraska | system, Seward County is represented by the prefix 16 (it had the sixteent ... |
| Kepler Mission | The | endeavours to discover Earth-like planets orbiting around other stars by o ... |
| Orbiting Geophysical Observatory | ... and they have carried a wide variety of instruments. The spacecraft of the | series were among the first spacecraft with the mission of discovering the ... |
| ANTLR | ... escent parser which is usually coded by hand (although not always; see e.g. | for an LL(*) recursive-descent parser generator) |
| Resurs DK | ... m. Russian reconnaissance satellites with comparable capabilities are named | and Persona |
| USS Enterprise-D | In 2371, the crew of the | receives a distress call from a solar observatory. They find that everyone ... |
| Disk II | ... IC. Programs were entered, then saved and loaded on cassette tape. When the | was implemented in 1978 by Steve Wozniak, a Disk Operating System or DOS w ... |
| Vanguard 2 | # | - February 17, 1959 - Orbited 10.8 kg (23.7 lb) satellit |
| Wendelstein 7-X | ... devices have been built. Some important modern stellarator experiments are | , in Germany, and the Large Helical Device, in Japan. Princeton Plasma Phy ... |
| Deacy Amp | ... hrough an amplifier designed by John Deacon, affectionately nicknamed the " | ". Mercury's line "Nothing really matters..." appears again, "cradled by l ... |
| Kodak DCS | The | series of digital single-lens reflex cameras and digital camera backs were ... |
| Paul Johns | ... R. Asche, Ken Lassesen, Nigel Thompson (a.k.a. Herman Rodent), Nancy Cluts, | , Dennis Crain, and Ken Bergmann. They were the best developers that could ... |
| 3D Laser Scanning | ... . The renovation works included the building of a canopy to cover the tomb. | Technology in digital recording of structures was applied to capture 3D im ... |
| Vanguard 1 | # | - March 17, 1958 - Orbited 1.47 kg (3.25 lb) satellit |
| IOMMU | ... dows nomenclature) also known as bounce buffers (Linux), or it could use an | to provide address translation services if one is present |
| Pacific Plate | ... p in the Earth's mantle. The hotspot remains in a fixed position, while the | drifts over it at a rate of about per year. The upwelling of the hot magma ... |
| Farallon Plate | ... still part of the Pacific Ocean. Tectonic forces from the collision of the | with the North American Plate pushed up the Rocky Mountains between 50–75 ... |
| USS Enterprise-B | ... Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Starship | . During the voyage, Enterprise is pressed into a rescue mission to save t ... |
| Skylab | ... and a microphone. Due to the coloration of the version used for Apollo and | , which resembled the coloration of the comic strip character Snoopy, thes ... |
| Raymond Berry | ... catalyst. Years later, after witnessing Bell openly crying after the game, | attributed it Bell's immediate understanding of the impact the game would ... |
| Meteosat | ... de the GOES series of spacecraft, the POES series, the DMSP series, and the | series. The GOES spacecraft have carried a X-Ray Sensor (XRS) which measur ... |
| North American Plate | ... El Salvador, Mexico and most of Guatemala are riding on the westward-moving | that butts against the northern edge of the stationary Caribbean Plate in ... |
| Bob Chandler | ... r Cliff Branch (44 receptions, 858 yards, 7 touchdown), while wide receiver | contributed 49 receptions for 786 yards and 10 touchdowns. Running back Ma ... |
| Serial controllers | ... variety of third-party devices, including Apple II peripheral cards such as | , display controllers, memory boards, hard disks, and networking component ... |
| Apple Extended Keyboard | ... ad the customer was offered the choice of the new ADB Apple Keyboard or the | as a separate purchase |
| Leica R8 | # The | (1996) and R9 (2002) officially supported film speeds of 8000/40°, 10000/4 ... |
| Stanford torus | ... els set in a sentient hollow world reminiscent in structure to a very large | space habitat, but with a distinctly different personality. The three volu ... |
| Vanguard 3 | # | - September 18, 1959 - Orbited 22.7 kg (50 lb) satellit |
| Drew Pearson | ... lso gaining 171 rushing yards and 3 touchdowns on the ground. Wide receiver | was the leading receiver on the team with 48 receptions for 870 yards, whi ... |
| S1W | ... ak resulted in a fire, and the facility was shut down. In the meantime, the | and S2W pressurized water reactors, conceived for the USS Nautilus (SSN-57 ... |
| Telstar 301 | ... tion from coaxial cable–microwave delivery to satellite delivery via AT&T's | . ABC maintained a West Coast feed network on Telstar 302 and, in 1991, sc ... |
| International Space Station | ... tated.jpg|thumb|left|Southern and northern climbing routes as seen from the | |
| controller | ... or more other SCSI devices to a computer bus. It is commonly called a SCSI | , which is not strictly correct as any component understanding the SCSI pr ... |
| Dong Fang Hong I | ... ajor source of national pride. In 1970, China launched its first satellite, | . In 2003, China became the third country to independently send humans int ... |
| naval reactor | The D2G reactor was a | used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propu ... |
| Skylab | ... ere canceled, and the remaining Apollo and Saturn hardware was used for the | space station program in 1973–1974, and for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ... |
| Cable modem | ... services. Since the end of 1990s, broadband access techniques such as ADSL, | s, fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) have become w ... |
| Caribbean Plate | ... North American Plate that butts against the northern edge of the stationary | in southern Guatemala. The grinding action of these two plates creates a f ... |
| mobile | ... ny, building and operating telecommunications networks and marketing voice, | , internet access and pay television products and services |
| Mockingboard | ... pansion slots, users could add sound functionality via a soundcard like the | ). Similar techniques were used for cassette storage: the cassette output ... |
| Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer | ... res, which show up at night as pixels with a greater temperature than . The | aboard the Terra satellite can detect thermal hot spots associated with wi ... |
| Canon A-1 | # The film speed dial of the | (1978) supported a speed range from 6 to 12800 ASA (but already called ISO ... |
| VGA connector | ... mean either an analog computer display standard, the 15-pin D-subminiature | or the 640×480 resolution itself. While this resolution was superseded in ... |
| Mir | ... ut was later given such residences as an iMac, a Palm III, a Coleco Adam on | , a Furby, a nuclear weapon guidance system, an SGI O2, a Hewlett-Packard ... |
| North American Plate | ... ic Ocean. Tectonic forces from the collision of the Farallon Plate with the | pushed up the Rocky Mountains between 50–75 million years ago in a mountai ... |
| Chandra X-ray Observatory | ... st in the system, and is considered somewhat unusual for a binary star. The | image shows Sirius B outshining its bright partner as it is a brighter X-r ... |
| Mir | ... nd hatch from a space shuttle, a seat from a Soyuz… control panels from the | ", and the control console of the Soyuz 23, as well as dolls, dice, and fo ... |
| point and shoot | ... d non-removable lenses. It has grown in popularity with the introduction of | digital cameras since most models also have non-removable lenses |
| Helically Symmetric eXperiment | ... r David Anderson and research assistant John Canik recently proved that the | (HSX) can overcome this major barrier in plasma research. The HSX is the f ... |
| International Space Station | ... months of cosmonaut training, and planned to join the TMA-1 mission to the | . However, after his financial sponsors backed out, Bass was denied a seat ... |
| Stirling engine | Kamen has worked extensively on a project involving | designs, attempting to create two machines; one that would generate power, ... |
| Explorer 1 | ... y unmanned rockets were launched early in the U.S. space program, including | , the first US spacecraft placed in earth orbit |
| International Space Station | ... well as developed space infrastructure, which took over all launches to the | from the Space Shuttle. The mountains in the south are important for apple ... |
| Kepler Space telescope | ... lation to the search for Earth-like worlds about to be embarked upon by the | , that "we Jesuits are actively involved in the search for Earth-like plan ... |
| Space Shuttle Columbia | ... own and its vicinity were one of the key search areas for wreckage from the | after it broke up over Texas. Search teams recovered some of the remains o ... |
| Apple IIe Card | Although not an extension of the Apple II line, in 1990 the | , an expansion card for the LC line of Macintosh computers, was released. ... |
| Rolleiflex | ... his trumpet forced him to consider other creative outlets, and he bought a | camera |
| Leica M8 | ... ard higher end products, Kodak announced on September 15, 2006 that the new | camera incorporates Kodak's KAF-10500 image sensor. This was the second re ... |
| Bob Hayes | ... he world of track and field for speedy skill position players. For example, | , once considered the fastest man in the world, was drafted by and played ... |
| International Space Station | ... ple, the drinking water supplies of the Russian Mir orbital station and the | . The World Health Organization includes silver in a colloidal state produ ... |
| Jack Dolbin | ... 3 yards out. The Broncos then committed another turnover when wide receiver | fumbled, and Hughes picked it up and returned it 19 yards to the Denver 27 ... |
| Coxsone Dodd | ... Isle. Reid forbade Rasta lyrics from being recorded in his studio and thus | was able to dominate the Jamaican recording industry. Reid maintained his ... |
| Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant | ... hority. TVA has two plants that provide electricity to the Huntsville area- | in Limestone County and Guntersville Dam in Marshall County. A third, Bell ... |
| naval reactor | The S1G reactor is a | used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propu ... |
| Cliff Branch | The Raiders' main offensive deep threat was wide receiver | (44 receptions, 858 yards, 7 touchdown), while wide receiver Bob Chandler ... |
| Pacific Plate | ... . Around 15 million years ago, the collision of the Caribbean Plate and the | resulted in the emergence of a series of volcanoes along the border that c ... |
| International Space Station | ... cles are now also used to launch unmanned Progress supply spacecraft to the | and commercial launches marketed and operated by TsSKB-Progress and the St ... |
| Space Shuttle Columbia | On February 1, 2003, the | broke up during re-entry, depositing debris across Texas. Much of the debr ... |
| Rick Upchurch | ... ing yards and 10 touchdowns. On special teams, multi-talented wide receiver | led the NFL with 653 punt return yards, while also catching 12 passes for ... |
| footprint | ... e satellite is locked to the Earth's rotational period and has a stationary | on the ground. All geostationary satellites have to be located on this rin ... |
| Indo-Australian Plate | ... th Island were formed by tectonic uplifting and pressure as the Pacific and | s collided along the island's western coast. The uplifting continues, rais ... |
| gauntlets | ... ring a very brief bikini-like costume of scale mail, usually with boots and | . As originally drawn by Barry Smith for "The Shadow of the Vulture" and " ... |
| other types of information gathering | ... ace that are pointed toward the earth for the purpose of reconnaissance and | |
| Disk II | An external 5¼-inch floppy disk drive, the | , attached via a controller card that plugged into one of the computer's e ... |
| North American Plate | ... ccreted at the edge of the Juan de Fuca Plate are being subducted under the | . There has not been a major subduction zone earthquake here since the mag ... |
| African Plate | ... 280 m at the Camarinal Sill). The strait is expected to close again as the | moves northward relative to the Eurasian Plate, but on geological rather t ... |
| Explorer 1 | ... en of the University of Iowa proposed a cylindrical satellite, which became | , the first American satellite. The Naval Research Laboratory finally acce ... |
| Luna 1 | | missed its intended impact with the Moon and became the first spacecraft t ... |
| Caribbean Plate | ... Central America and the Caribbean Basin rests on the relatively motionless | . The Pacific Ocean floor, however, is being carried northeast by the unde ... |
| Caribbean Plate | ... orming its own continent. Around 15 million years ago, the collision of the | and the Pacific Plate resulted in the emergence of a series of volcanoes a ... |
| International Space Station | ... ne full year (365 days) in space. Discovery has performed both research and | (ISS) assembly missions. Discovery also flew the Hubble Space Telescope in ... |
| Columbia | ... n significantly delayed. Early plans saw it being launched by Space Shuttle | on what was then codenamed STS-23 in January 1982, but delays in the devel ... |
| Golden Gloves | ... wins and 3 losses as an amateur boxer, including winning the 1963 national | tournament in the bantamweight division. Afterward, Steward became interes ... |
| Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer | ... e sources such as Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), | (MODIS), and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) for detectio ... |
| Eurasian Plate | ... xpected to close again as the African Plate moves northward relative to the | , but on geological rather than human timescales |
| Apple II accelerator cards | ... , allowing simple music synthesis and text-to-speech functions. Eventually, | were created to double or quadruple the computer's speed |
| Endeavour | ... he Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney Harbour. The space shuttle | is named for the original ship |
| DSL | ... vice provider in Hong Kong, using the Netvigator brand for dialup modem and | service. PCCW has been the object of much scorn in Hong Kong as a result o ... |
| Luna 1 | ... rapped by the Earth's magnetic field. In January 1959, the Soviet satellite | first directly observed the solar wind and measured its strength. In 1969, ... |
| Savannah River Site | ... ited States began using heavy water in plutonium production reactors at the | . The first of the five heavy water reactors came online in 1953, and the ... |
| International Space Station | ... reas may be useful for future endeavours similar to the construction of the | , which could rely on welding for joining in space the parts that were man ... |
| IKAROS | ... ance from the Sun. The concept has been successfully tested by the Japanese | solar sail spacecraft |
| Hipparcos | According to | , Alioth is 81 light years (25 parsecs) from Earth. Its spectral type is A ... |
| Lynn Swann | ... US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against | |
| Cocos Plate | ... floor, however, is being carried northeast by the underlying motion of the | . Ocean floor material is largely composed of basalt, which is relatively ... |
| Thunder Horse PDQ | ... 4. Following these improvements, the Blue Marlin delivered the oil platform | , weighing 60,000 tons, to Corpus Christi, Texas, for completion |
| USNA MidSTAR Program | The | 's first satellite, MidSTAR I was launched 8 March 2007. The planned MidST ... |
| XMM-Newton observatory | ... ly due to orbiting X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra observatory and the | . Infrared and ultraviolet are also greatly blocked |
| IOMMU | ... ing them in user space. Recently, an increasing number of computers feature | s, many of which can be used to restrict a device's access to physical mem ... |
| Tele-X | ... ul. The last Ariane 2 launch occurred on 2 April 1989, successfully placing | into orbit |
| Golden Gloves | ... is nephew, John LaMotta, fought in the heavyweight-novice class of the 2001 | championship tournament |
| Butch Johnson | ... Dallas expanded their lead, 20-3, in the third quarter after wide receiver | made a diving catch in the end zone for a 45-yard touchdown reception. Den ... |
| Bell 103 | ... end and receive data, up to rates of about 1200 bits per second. The common | and Bell 202 modems used this technique. Even today, North American caller ... |
| Discoverer 14 | ... the mid-air recovery by a C-119 of film from the Corona mission code-named | . This was the first successful recovery of film from an orbiting satellit ... |
| Seeing Stone of Minas Anor | ... h was high, so that its pinnacle was one thousand feet above the plain. The | rested in a secret chamber at the top of the Tower. In a court before the ... |
| Hipparcos | ... ever, greatly improved distance measurements to globular clusters using the | satellite and increasingly accurate measurements of the Hubble constant re ... |
| Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite | ... Mapping System combines remote-sensing data from satellite sources such as | (GOES), Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Advance ... |
| Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D W1 | ... re are also special EXIF fields describing its purpose. This is used by the | camera, Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20 & DMC-TS4 (FT4), Sony DSC-HX7V, HTC Evo 3 ... |
| Vox AC30 | May has used | amplifiers almost exclusively since a meeting with his long time hero Rory ... |
| USS Enterprise | She first appeared in 's initial pilot, "" (1964), as the | 's unnamed first officer, "Number One". Barrett was romantically involved ... |
| Pacific Plate | ... Hawaiian island chain over tens of millions of years. The slow drift of the | will eventually carry Mauna Loa away from the hotspot within 500,000 to on ... |
| International Space Station | ... s programme came about when Russia agreed to transport one Malaysian to the | as part of a multi-billion dollar purchase of 18 Russian Sukhoi Su-30MKM f ... |
| Model 102 | ... yle of telephone was introduced in the early 20th century, including Bell's | . A carbon granule transmitter and electromagnetic receiver were united in ... |
| Jim Lee Howell | ... t two years, 1954 through 1955, under the guidance of new Giants head coach | . Landry ended his playing career with 32 interceptions in only 80 games |
| USS Enterprise | ... ts, and Kelley was Roddenberry's first choice to play the doctor aboard the | . However, for the rejected pilot "The Cage" (1964), Roddenberry went with ... |
| Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant | ... Plant in Limestone County and Guntersville Dam in Marshall County. A third, | in Jackson County, was built in the 1980s but was never activated. Due to ... |
| Lumix | ... purpose. This is used by the Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D W1 camera, Panasonic | DMC-TZ20 & DMC-TS4 (FT4), Sony DSC-HX7V, HTC Evo 3D, the JVC GY-HMZ1U AVCH ... |
| voltage follower | ... n V 2 is "off", V 4 is "off" as well and V 3 operates in active region as a | producing high output voltage (logical "1"). When V 2 is "on", it activate ... |
| Space Shuttle Discovery | ... escope, Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched on April 20, 1990 by the | (STS-31) |
| Bell 202 | ... ve data, up to rates of about 1200 bits per second. The common Bell 103 and | modems used this technique. Even today, North American caller ID uses 1200 ... |
| Death Star | ... nous orbit within the world's atmosphere, and thus is often compared to the | of Star Wars fame |
| Lincoln Experimental Satellite | ... . RTGs had been used for years in planetary exploration without mishap: the | s 8/9, launched by the U.S. Department of Defense, had 7% more plutonium o ... |
| Nikon Coolpix P5000 | ... omas Bresson - Sud-lune--2008-05-14 (by).JPG|Image of the moon taken with a | digital camera via Afocal projection through an 8 inch Schmidt–Cassegrain ... |
| Large Helical Device | ... ant modern stellarator experiments are Wendelstein 7-X, in Germany, and the | , in Japan. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory started building a new ste ... |
| USS Enterprise | ... Coy came to be known as Bones. McCoy later helps get Kirk posted aboard the | |
| Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite | ... batch of data. Also, most populated areas on Earth are now visible from the | s (GOES), which aid in the nowcasting of tornadic storms |
| Guitar amplifier | ... d in plate reverbs, to create and capture vibrations within a metal spring. | s frequently incorporate spring reverbs due to their compact construction ... |
| MIDI controller | ... e Moog Ethervox, while functionally still a theremin, can also be used as a | , and as such allows the artist to control any MIDI-compatible synthesizer ... |
| Juan de Fuca Plate | ... he Cascadia subduction zone, where the terranes accreted at the edge of the | are being subducted under the North American Plate. There has not been a m ... |
| Van de Graaff generator | ... her current than electrostatic high-voltage generation machines such as the | . One of the applications of the resonant transformer is for the CCFL inve ... |
| scanners | ... own as vanilla and chocolate flavors in the TWAIN standard PC interface for | and digital cameras |
| vehicle registration plates | ... y their two-digit postal code number, which was until recently used for all | . They have inspired similar divisions in many of France’s former colonies |
| Farallon Plate | ... iginated below sea level as an offshore area depressed by subduction of the | into a trench further offshore. The San Joaquin Fault is a notable seismic ... |
| Jordan Shipley | ... d many years there and died in Rotan on December 17, 2008 at the age of 94. | once attended school at Rotan High Schoo |