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A 2008 Astronet road map called for the Extremely Large Telescope. Some astronomers are upset by the group’s latest effort. ESO
‘Something went wrong.’ Some astronomers feel left out of European road map
May. 11, 2021 , 2:40 PM
For more than 1 year, Astronet, a group of more than 50 astronomers, has labored to draw up priorities for the next 2 decades of European astronomy. A partial draft plan, released in February, lists the field’s most pressing scientific questions, such as how primordial gases coalesced into the first stars and galaxies and whether the atmospheres of exoplanets betray signs of life. To answer them, the plan calls for new facilities including the Einstein Telescope, a gravitational wave detector to be built in a network of underground tunnels; antennas installed on the radio-quiet far side of the Moon; and a fleet of orbiting telescopes to probe exoplanet atmospheres.
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With NASA aiming to get humans to Mars by 2030, the idea of a long-term settlement on the Red Planet is getting closer to reality and scientists are working on innovated ways to power these habitats.
Researchers in the Netherlands propose using massive kites to harness high Martian winds that would transformed into energy for colonists.
The kite is attached by cable to a spindle. As the kite sails higher, the cable unspools, rotating the spindle around and around and generating energy.
Similar kites are being developed to harness wind power on Earth, but these would be much larger, with a surface area of 530 square feet.
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BTT-USD) is the utility token for the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software of the same name. In 2019, the Singapore-based BitTorrent Foundation launched BTT on Tron blockchain, an operating system for creating decentralized applications and sharing media content.
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As a file-sharing platform, BitTorrent was founded in 2004. File sharing is the primary service to download movies, music or games using torrent. There is no limit to file capacity. BitTorrent offers a torrent client software for various operating systems. It has recently surpassed 2 billion installations and currently has around 100 million active users. According to data provided by Similarweb, between January and March 2021, around 30% of total visits to its w