Category Archives: earth

The Large Hadron Collider Will Not Destroy the World Tomorrow, or Ever

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Strictly speaking, the probability of doomsday isn’t any higher than it is on any normal Wednesday, but there’s been a fair bit of kerfuffle and hullabaloo over the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and whether it will create a black … Continue reading →

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Simple Actions to Reduce Global Warming

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

The future is not somewhere we are going. It is something we are creating. Every day we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely. Global warming already disrupts millions of lives daily in the forms … Continue reading →

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Isro,India to launch Italian, Algerian satellites

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

India – Antrix Corp. Ltd, the commercial arm of India’s space agency, has won a pair of deals from Algeria and Italy to launch earth observation satellites next year on the polar satellite launch vehicle, or PSLV, its workhorse rocket. … Continue reading →

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State Plane Coordinate System

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

The State Plane Coordinate System (SPCS) was developed in the 1930s by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey to provide a common reference system for surveyors and mappers. The goal was to design a conformal mapping system for the country … Continue reading →