July 2013

Doctor Who - The Caves of Androzani

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“The Caves of Androzani” is an adventure of the twentyfirst season of “Doctor Who” classic series, which aired in 1984 featuring the Fifth Doctor and Peri. It follows “Planet of Fire” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Robert Holmes and directed by Graeme Harper.

Legacy by Greg Bear (Italian edition)

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The novel “Legacy” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 1996. It’s a prequel to “Eon” and the third novel of the series of the Way.

The Way opens to infinite worlds but the Hexamon decided that some of them are not to be colonized, at least for the moment. A group of radical Naderites, however, has taken advantage of the chaos caused by the fierce war against the aliens Jart to emigrate to Lamarckia. On this planet a unique ecosystem developed, extraordinary from a scientific point of view but potentially lethal to the settlers.

Cisco SEO John T. Chambers

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Cisco, a world leader in the field of information technology and in particular the provision of networking products, announced it has reached an agreement for the acquisition of Sourcefire, Inc., a company specializing in network security solutions. Cisco will pay $76 for each Sourcefire share, about 30% more than the value they had at the closing of the American Stock Exchange on Monday. The total value of the acquisition is $2.7 billion.

Earth and Moon seen as a single dot from Saturn in a picture taken by the Cassini space probe (Photo NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

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A few days ago, NASA announced that on July 19 the Cassini spacecraft was taking a picture of the Earth and the Moon from Saturn’s orbit. On that occasion the agency also launched an initiative inviting people to wave at Cassini and it’s estimated that more than 20,000 people participated. Obviously, from a distance of nearly a 1,5 billion kilometers (about 900 million miles) the Earth is just a dot but it was a symbolic gesture. Almost simultaneously, the MESSENGER spacecraft took a similar picture but from Mercury’s orbit.

Existence by David Brin

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The novel “Existence” by David Brin was published for the first time in 2012.

An object found in space appears to be a very sophisticated alien communication device. In fact it contains an alien intelligence that offers human beings to become part of a kind of federation of several species. The alien messenger promises many technological benefits but the many questions he’s asked cast more shadows than lights on its offer.