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How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt
2013-11-01 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year's conference had some big-name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa's Voyager project, explaining a new milestone on the path to interstellar space, to the film-maker James Cameron, discussing his adventures in deep-sea submersibles. But it was Werner's own...
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Construction Science Fiction: Presidential Infrastructure Address, 2038
2013-10-30 19:13:27| ENR.com: Headline News
Exceprts from the fictional address delivered by a future president on the urban infrastructure policy changes. Infrastructure decay that began in the last quarter of the 20th century continued, reaching crisis proportions, until engineers and wisdom prevailed.
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Construction Science Fiction: Meeting of the Minds
2013-10-30 16:56:30| ENR.com: Headline News
The editor-in-chief of Engineering News-Record in 2070 goes on the press tour of a lifetimeto earth orbit to observe construction of a habitat that will carry explorers light-years into space.
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Construction Science Fiction: Contingency
2013-10-30 13:00:52| ENR.com: Headline News
When the dust settled from the chaos of the fall of the United States, the four Contingents were born: Western, Eastern, Mountain, and Great Lakes, shaped by agreements on water use. Contractors build pipelines through the wild and dangerous zones in between: the Deadlands.
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Construction Science Fiction: The Judges
2013-10-30 13:00:52| ENR.com: Headline News
ENR's Construction Science Fiction Contest judges
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