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Open Houses Begin March 13 for 20s Bikeway Project; Major Addition to Bike Network Would Add 9 Miles, Connect 12 Neighborhoods
2014-03-07 00:10:12| PortlandOnline
Portlanders will have three opportunities to attend open houses in mid-March to help the Portland Bureau of Transportation design the next major expansion of the citys bicycle network.
60,000 miles up: Space elevator could be built by 2035, says new study
2014-03-06 18:15:20| Extremetech
A new international report lays out the challenges to building Earth's next great mega-project -- and they're more surmountable than you think.
Top 10: Which vehicles will last 200,000 miles?
2014-02-23 17:24:53| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
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Curiosity captures rare photo of Earth from the surface of Mars, 100 million miles away
2014-02-07 14:14:54| Extremetech
Mars rover Curiosity, which is now roughly half way to its final destination, has taken a brief pause to look up at the sunsetting sky and take a photo of Earth. In the photo above, Earth is roughly 99 million miles away -- and if you squint, you can also see the Moon. According to NASA, if you were walking on the surface of Mars, the Earth and Moon would be visible to the naked eye and would appear as "bright evening stars." This is only one of a handful of times that Earth has been imaged from more than a few thousand miles away. It's always rather humbling to see Earth -- that mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam -- just sitting there, tiny and insignificant, dwarfed by the grandest of black expanses.
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Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier is Moving 10 Miles Per Year, Recording-Breaking Speed
2014-02-03 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The massive Arctic glacier believed to be responsible for calving the iceberg that sunk the Titanic is moving from the Greenland ice sheet and into the ocean at record speeds, according to a study in the journal The Cryosphere. Jakobshavn Glacier is moving at a speed that appears the be the fastest ever recorded, researchers from the University of Washington and the German Space Agency (DLR) report. "We are now seeing summer speeds more than four times what they were in the 1990s on a glacier...
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