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Submission + - Pioneer One Debuts (vodo.net)

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on Sunday June 20, 2010 @04:03AM

QuantumG writes: "The first episode of the new science fiction drama Pioneer One has debuted and it looks like a hit. The pilot was shot for just $6000, raised through the micro-funding platform Kickstarter and the production is being supported through donations on the show's website. Donations can be made on a sliding scale with "bonus" rewards for each level such as an mp3 of the opening theme and deleted scenes. The distribution is through filesharing systems such as Bittorrent and Limewire. Is this the future of television?"

Submission + - Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine" (news-medical.net)

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on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @08:25PM

QuantumG writes: "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to the University of Queensland, Australia to develop a vaccine against dengue fever, a disease spread by mosquitoes. Unlike other vaccines, the "altruistic vaccine" doesn't specifically protect the individual being bitten but instead protects the community by stopping the transmission of the pathogen from one susceptible individual to another. The hope is to do this by effectively making their blood poisonous to mosquitoes, either killing them or at least preventing them from feeding on other individuals. Professor Paul Young explained how his work fell outside current scientific traditions and might lead to significant advances in global health — he said he could envision the vaccine being used around the world within 10 years, and would be designed to be cheap and easy to implement."

Submission + - Greg Zsidisin: "Where Are The Space Advocates? (thespaceshow.com)

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on Monday May 12, 2008 @01:05AM

QuantumG writes: "Greg Zsidisin appeared on The Space Show today to ask Where Are The Space Advocates?. For the first time in decades Space is once again a political issue with all four major presidential candidates having something to say about space policy and yet nothing is being heard from space advocates. As we enter a new "Space Nexus" like we did after Apollo, now is a critical time to let your representatives know how you feel about space exploration, and yet no-one has anything to say."

Submission + - Obama would redirect NASA funding to education (thespacereview.com)

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on Saturday April 12, 2008 @12:09AM

QuantumG writes: "In a recent article on The Space Review, Greg Zsidisin reveals that Barack Obama plans to delay Project Constellation for at least five years, using the redirected funds to nationalize early-education for children under five years old to prepare them for the rigors of kindergarten and beyond, if he is elected president. It is feared that if this happens the Vision for Space Exploration will flounder and that may be the end of human spaceflight altogether."

Submission + - People Believe NASA Funded As Well As Defense (thespacereview.com)

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on Saturday November 17, 2007 @01:10AM

QuantumG writes: "An essay on the Space Review is reporting that in a just-completed study, on average, respondents estimated NASA's allocation of the national budget to be approximately 24% (it's actually closer to 0.58%) and the Department of Defense budget to be approximately 33% (it's actually closer to 21%). In other words, respondents believed NASA's budget approaches that of the Department of Defense, which receives almost 38 times more money. Once informed of the actual allocations, they were almost uniformly surprised. One of the more vocal participants exclaimed, "No wonder we haven't gone anywhere!""

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