Tag Archive for: ‘Imagine’

Can you imagine Mars with Saturn-like rings?

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It’s hard to fathom and may be even harder for it to happen but a couple NASA-funded scientists say Mars might have had Saturn-like rings around it in the past and may have them again sometime in the distant future.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab said Purdue University scientists David Minton and Andrew Hesselbrock developed a model that suggests debris that was pushed into space from an asteroid or other body slamming into Mars around 4.3 billion years ago alternates between becoming a planetary ring and clumping together to form a moon.

More on Network World: Elon Musk’s next great adventure: Colonizing Mars+

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Imagine having AT&T at your mercy

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Have you ever fantasized about giving a major carrier a taste of its own medicine? A group of professionals gathered on Reddit’s section devoted to networking did so over the weekend and their resulting handiwork is a hoot.

Background: Verizon Wireless is already on this one fellow’s campus in a big way and AT&T wants to up its game there, hopefully with help from the customer. From the initial Reddit user’s telling of the tale:

DigitalDeity: “They’re asking us if we have switch ports available for them to plug into, that we can VLAN back to one of their routers that they’ll put in one of our closets. LOL NO? I’m not really prepared to become a service provider for AT&T’s cellular network.”

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Imagine traveling in an airliner without access to any of your personal electronic devices

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The reason you’re being asked to imagine the horror of air travel with no electronics is that counterterrorism officials here and abroad are reportedly considering just such a restriction in response to heightened concerns about bombs in carry-on luggage.

That’s on top of considering a ban on carry-on luggage.

From an NPR story:

Another possible remedy: banning electronic devices from the passenger cabin. Officials are discussing whether to require that electronics such as cellphones, iPads and computers be placed in the cargo hold with checked baggage, which goes through a much more rigorous screening process. Detecting a bomb, if there is one, would be more likely.

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