Humans race could become extinct, a new study concludes, but no single event, could do us in, and all extinction scenarios would have to involve some kind of intent by people in power.Human race itself will ultimately determine its fate. We will destroy ourselves.
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A group of officers of Assam police is going to United States to receive training in operating GIS and GPS . Acting on the recommendations of the Enquiry Committee headed by the former Director-General of Police, D.N. Dutt, CCTVs and mobile cameras will be installed in 91 locations as part of the Video Surveillance project for Guwahati. The key locations will be traffic intersections, markets, malls, cinema halls, hotels and designated parking lots.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is ready to outsource high-end work to private companies – from building more complicated systems to assembling it. Proposals are being readied wherein private participation will be invited to build and run competing systems. The commercial-aerospace industry is now eager to play a larger role in the space missions and tap the outsourcing work offered by ISRO which has an annual budget of $1.01 billion for 2009-2010. It has a spending blueprint of Rs 12,400 crore ($3 billion) for its manned space exploration and around Rs 425 crore will be spent for the second unmanned lunar mission — Chandrayaan-2. It also has huge spending plans for missions to Mars and various domestic and international satellite launches.
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Artist's impression of an AM-CVn star system. (Credit: Tony Piro)
An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.In a paper first published online Nov. 5 in the journal Science Express, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) astronomer Dovi Poznanski and his colleagues In a paper first published online Nov. 5 in the journal Science Express, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) astronomer Dovi Poznanski and his colleagues and why they believe SN 2002bj is a new type of explosion.
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