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THEMIS Satellites Discover Northern Lights Are Powered By Magnetic Fields Snapping Like Rubber Bands [Nasa]

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2008-07-24 17:49:11 by John Mahoney in Gizmodo
...southern magnetic poles, causing a burst of light and movement in the Northern and Southern Lights Substorms often accompany intense space storms that can disrupt radio communications and global positioning system signals and cause power outages. Solving the mystery of where, when, and how substorms occur will allow scientists to construct...
 
Tags: satellites, themis satellites, northern lights, northern, capture, satellites capture data, themis, nasa, identical satellites line
 
 
 
 
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Pacific Gas and Electric to build world's biggest solar power plants in California

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2008-08-17 11:07:52 by dhiram in Fareastgizmos.com
...southern part of the state is generally served by Southern California Edison for power and natural gas from Southern California Gas. PG&E was founded in 1905 and is currently headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building in San Francisco
 
Tags: california, solar power, southern california gas, power, pacific gas, electric, solar power generation, southern, northern california
 
 
 
 
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BehindTheMedspeak: 'You're better off having your [cardiac] arrest at Nordstrom'

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2008-01-03 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Southern California and author of an editorial accompanying the study), speaking on her cellphone, told New York Times reporter Denise Grady, "You're better off having your arrest at Nordstrom, where I'm standing right now, because there are 15 people around me You could look it up or just read the Times front page story , which follows,...
 
Tags: hospital characteristics, hospital, in-hospital cardiac arrests, cardiac, cardiac arrests, shock, shock patients, patients, cardiac patients
 
 
 
 
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View NYC Long Island Expressway Traffic On Your Cell Phone

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2008-01-17 21:51:26 by Patrick Birmingham in Cell Phone Digest
...Southern corridors, consisting of the island's major east-west highways and their busiest north-south connecting routes, including the Long Island Expressway (LIE/I-495), Northern State Parkway (NSP) and Southern State Parkway (SSP INFORM system is one of the Nations first and is one of the largest and most advanced transportation management...
 
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Bionic Eye With Blind in Mind

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2008-01-24 17:30:45 by Michael in Medgadget
...Southern California have been working on a design, and filed for a patent, for a video camera to be implanted directly into the eye as a prosthesis to help with vision problems such as ... The eye's lens normally projects an image onto a curved surface called the retina at the back of the eye. This creates problems for light-sensitive chips...
 
Tags: eye, video camera, camera, camera directly, southern california, directly, light, patent application, device transmits images
 
 
 
 
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Japan sends Internet satellite to space

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2008-02-24 23:50:09 by Edwin in Coolest Gadgets
...southern tip of Kyushu Island in southern Japan This communications satellite has been tipped to be in use for five years, and it has the potential to allow extremely high speed data communications that will be able to touch a whopping 1.2Gbps - something I would like to enjoy whenever I hit the Internet. Imagine downloading videos and other...
 
Tags: satellite, internet, kizuna satellite, kizuna satellite costs, internet access, experimental satellite, speed, internet connection, theoretical speed
 
 
 
 
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Pickle Sickle

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2008-03-12 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Southern California is trying to sell the product to assisted-living communities. "We have a weird demographic," Howard says. "It's either kids or people 50 and above And pregnant women, naturally. (Pickles and ice cream. Think about it There are now two flavors: original and jalapeño. The original tastes just like a pickle. The jalapeño...
 
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Taleban threat hits Afghan phones

2008-03-13 12:28:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...southern provinces, Zabul and Ghazni, the phone networks have stopped working between five in the evening and seven in the morning The deputy police chief in Ghazni, Mohammad Zaman, said this was the result of the Taleban's warning We will persuade the companies to turn the signals back on again," he said Similar reports have come in from...
 
Tags: companies, taleban, mobile phone companies, phone companies, taleban demand, taleban strongholds, taleban pressure, night, tuesday night
 
 
 
 
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EcoModo: The Best of T-Hugger [Roundups]

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2008-04-01 20:20:00 by posted by Pantha in
...Southern California Edison (SCE) wants to build a 250-megawatt solar farm with a twist : It will be distributed among many commercial rooftops, starting with southern California's Inland Empire, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. They are planning to install 1 megawatt per week starting in August. Once the project is finished, it will...
 
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