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Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Inside SpaceX: We Visit the Company's California Headquarters
Soon, if all goes according to plan, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, will become the first private company to dock with the International Space Station. The mission was originally scheduled to launch on February 7, and though the company just announced a delay to work out some final launch details, its mission should be the first real test to show that spacecraft built, owned, and operated by private American companies can accomplish what space shuttles did in orbit for so many years.
After launching from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the unmanned, solar-powered Dragon, carrying provisions for the station's six astronauts, will perform a flyby of the space station to test precision maneuvering abilities. If these tests go without a hitch, the capsule will draw near enough to be captured by the station's robotic arm. After its mission, the Dragon will splash down off the California coast for recovery. SpaceX stands to gain $1.6 billion for a total of 12 cargo flights to the station, in addition to the upcoming test flight. SpaceX is already working with NASA seed money to prepare the Dragon for manned flights by the end of 2014.
Company founder and CEO Elon Musk is already looking far beyond the ISS flight. SpaceX is also working to make its rockets and its spacecraft reusable; he says that's the key to making space flight affordable enough to allow, say, human colonization of Mars. Musk's plans include incorporating landing gear into future Falcon 9s and Dragon capsules. Each of the two rocket stages would fly a controlled trajectory back to Earth after accomplishing its mission of pushing a Dragon capsule into orbit, and touch down gently on land for refurbishment. Rather than parachuting to a water landing, the Dragon capsule would fire its own onboard rocket motors to make a precision landing on land as well.
When PM paid a visit to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., last week, the normally cool-under-fire CEO admitted he and his company have their hands full at the moment. "We are just extremely stressed right now preparing for the docking next month," he said, "plus developing the new version of Falcon 9 with upgraded performance and reusability." SpaceX engineers are also working to modify the basic Falcon 9 design for high-altitude launch from what is to be the world's largest airplane?part of the Stratolaunch project announced by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen last month.
Here's a look at what we saw during our stop at Musk's home base.
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Ewan McGregor And Eva Green Fall In Love In New 'Perfect Sense' Featurette
Ewan McGregor and Eva Green charmed audiences in their apocalyptic love story "Perfect Sense" at Sundance a year ago, and IFC Films ended up picking up the rights to the movie soon after. The film is currently available on SundanceNOW and Cable VOD, and it's finally headed into theaters on February 3. Ahead of that, [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/01/19/ewan-mcgregor-eva-green-perfect-sense/
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Brian Williams rips Lana Del Rey in email to Gawker (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Brian Williams won't be buying Lana Del Rey's next album.
In an email to Gawker chief Nick Denton, the NBC Nightly News anchor slammed Del Rey's "Saturday Night Live" performance last weekend as "..one of worst outings in SNL history."
Denton promptly plastered Williams' email on his site -- ruining NBC PR's Martin Luther King Day and sending them scrambling to scrub the internet for traces of the newsman's blunt remarks.
A flak for the network pressed the gossip hub to take down the missive, writing, "That was sent in confidence as friends and absolutely never intended to be public. A speedy removal would go a long way in maintaining the trust and respect we have for your site."
So far, Gawker appears to have ignored the request -- beyond posting it alongside Williams' message for the world to see and enjoy.
It was impolitic, but Williams was only repeating the critical consensus when he skewered the internet sensation's off-key belting.
Perez Hilton, for one, tweeted "Just watched SNL. Not only was @LanaDelRey vocally WAY off, but watching her utter lack of stage presence was cringe-worthy. #DontBuyTheHype."
However, in ripping Del Ray, Williams was also criticizing his own network and his profane communique was informal in a way that is wildly at odds with his well-coiffed, stentorian voiced persona.
Williams doesn't exactly drip with gravitas when he writes, "In my humble opinion as a loyal customer (you know I love you but the Blog View button will be the eventual cause of my death) and while I know you're in the midst of an editor change, weekends have been allowed to go awfully fallow - and it was a fallow holiday period for those of us who check your shit 10 times a day by iphone."
Time for Denton to post some Bob Schieffer texts.
(Editing by Chris Michaud)
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Friday, January 20, 2012
PSU board meets for 1st time since firing Paterno (AP)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. ? Penn State's trustees fired coach Joe Paterno as outrage boiled up over the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Now the trustees are the ones being criticized.
The embattled 32-member board meets Friday, its first gathering since November and the frantic first week after child sex abuse charges were filed against Sandusky, Penn State's retired defensive coordinator.
Paterno was dismissed Nov. 9, the same day school President Graham Spanier also departed under pressure. The trustees met two days later, pledging to search for the truth.
Now some alumni and former players are wondering whether the trustees have been up front with them, and are questioning why Paterno was ousted with a full airing of the facts.
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For many, job loss would mean missing bills
Mark Lennihan / AP
People wait to talk with potential employers at a job fair in New York last December.
By Allison Linn
The sudden loss of a job has become, if not commonplace over the last years, at least not very surprising.
And yet, many Americans remain unprepared for not having an income. A new survey from Country Financial finds that one-third of Americans would immediately fall behind on their bills if they lost a job and were left with no income.
That?s virtually the same result that Country Financial got the last time they asked the same question, in July of 2009.
The good news: About one-quarter of Americans are well-prepared for a job loss. The January survey found that 24 percent of respondents could weather five months without an income. That?s also virtually the same percentage as in July of 2009.
Country Financial conducts the survey of 3,000 people bi-monthly.
Although the economy is consistently adding more jobs than it is shedding, some workers continue to be let go. For example, Kraft Foods said this week that it would cut 1,600 jobs as it prepares to split its business in two.
If you do lose a job, the market remains tough. The median time it takes to find a new job is 21 weeks, or about five months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
There are currently about 13 million unemployed Americans who are looking for work, and the unemployment rate is at 8.5 percent.
Related:
Role reversal: Employers say they can't find workers
Few part-timers but more working multiple jobs
How long could you pay your bills if you lost your job?
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Engadget Show returns Friday, January 20th!
Sleep? Ha! We may have spent the past 10 days or so rocking the Las Vegas Convention Center, but that doesn't mean it's time to rest on our over overtired laurels. Nope, we're back this Friday with the first Engadget Show of 2012, and it's going to be a fun one -- we'll be taking a look at the biggest gadgets, interviews and stories to come out of this year's CES and offering up all sorts of surprises.
Best of all, if you're in New York City, you can be a part of the live show -- just fire off an email to engadgetshow [at] engadget.com.
Here are the deets:
o. The event is all ages.
o. We'll open doors and begin seating at 5:15pm on January 20th, and the taping begins at 6:00PM. We'll be closing the doors at 5:50PM.
o. Winners must confirm and print tickets 24 hours before taping begins or risk forfeiting their seat.
o. Please bring a photo ID with you to the taping.
o. The show length is around an hour.
If you're a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we'll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com.
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Best of all, if you're in New York City, you can be a part of the live show -- just fire off an email to engadgetshow [at] engadget.com.
Here are the deets:
o. The event is all ages.
o. We'll open doors and begin seating at 5:15pm on January 20th, and the taping begins at 6:00PM. We'll be closing the doors at 5:50PM.
o. Winners must confirm and print tickets 24 hours before taping begins or risk forfeiting their seat.
o. Please bring a photo ID with you to the taping.
o. The show length is around an hour.
If you're a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we'll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com.
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