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SpaceX Seeks to Defy Odds With Ocean-Platform Rocket Landing
2015-01-02 15:00:00| TechNewsWorld
SpaceX next week will try for the first time to land the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket on a custom-built ocean platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The experiment originally was scheduled to take place in mid-December but was postponed to Jan. 6.The Falcon 9 first stage is some 14 stories tall and will be traveling at a speed of nearly a mile per second.
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Celebrity odds and ends
2014-12-29 11:31:38| Electronics - Topix.net
No, not the original Alamo, but the replica that John Wayne built in Southwest Texas for his Oscar-nominated 1960 epic. For decades, the 400-acre Alamo Village was a tourist mecca and film production site.
Countries, environ groups at odds over green fund role in $100b pledge
2014-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: More than 190 nations at international climate talks in Lima, Peru, continued Dec. 10 to work on overcoming a serious rift over the aid richer nations are to give to developing nations under a 2015 global climate deal. Delegates hadn't even agreed on a basic definition of what is or isn't climate finance. But the major issues were much broader, centering on what assurances the U.S. and other rich nations can give to demonstrate they are ramping up climate aid to the $100 billion-a-year amount...
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EU & US at odds over legally binding emissions targets
2014-12-02 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The European Union (EU)s delegation at the climate change conference in Lima has argued that legally binding cuts applying to all countries are necessary and should be adopted by 2015 and entered into force by 2020. The EU is of the mind that legally binding mitigation targets are the only way to provide the necessary long-term signal, the necessary confidence to the investors ... and provide credibility in the low carbon transition worldwide, said Elina Bardram, head of the EU delegation at...
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Omaha Mayor at Odds with Union Over Board Picks
2014-12-01 20:35:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
Unions are upset with Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert over her choices for the city's electrical board, and air conditioning and air distribution board. Content Classification: Curated read more
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