A group of scientists working at the mission of the Kepler space telescope announced that they discovered a new planetary system orbiting the star Kepler-37. So far nothing new considering that this kind of news is coming on a daily basis but this time they discovered a very small planet because Kepler-37b is slightly larger than the Moon.
On February 22, 1993 in the U.S.A. “The Gathering” was broadcast, the TV movie pilot that introduced the saga of “Babylon 5”, created by J. Michael Straczynski.
In 2257, “Babylon 5” is a space station built in a neutral space to be a place for diplomatic and commercial meetings between a multitude of sentient species.
In April 2012, Google introduced Google Glass, augmented reality glasses. Now the time arrived to open the pre-orders for the first commercial version called Explorer Edition, at the cost already planned of $1,500. For common users it will take a long time before they can buy them, howver there’s the possibility to become an Explorer, meaning being part of a group of “pioneers” who will participate in the Google Glass launch events in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In recent days, the European Council approved a budget of 3,786 million Euros over seven years for the program originally called Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and now known as Copernicus. It’s an initiative of ESA and the European Commission to create an autonomous system for the control of the territory.
The novel “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” by Douglas Adams was published for the first time in 1984. It’s the fourth novel of the so-called trilogy of five books and follows “Life, the Universe and Everything”.
Arthur Dent has traveled across the galaxy hitchhiking until he finds himself on a planet that really looks like Earth. The matter is very mysterious because he saw his planet destroyed by the Vogons. In addition, he traveled for several years but it seems that on the Earth only a few months have passed after his departure.
