This week at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, the 5th International GOCE User Workshop is being held. It aims to present and discuss the findings made by ESA’s GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) satellite. In particular, there was a presentation of a new ocean currents model, the most accurate ever produced.
Part of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), considered for decades the first electronic computer, has been put on public display at the Fort Sill Field Artillery Museum in Oklahoma, in the USA, after a restoration. The project began during World War II to solve computational ballistic problems related to the launch of artillery shells but was activated only in 1946.
The novel “Guardians of the Phoenix” by Eric Brown was published for the first time in 2010.
Paul is one of the last survivors of the failed colony of Paris. Every day he looks for food for himself and for the elderly woman who raised him but now the ruins of the old city are giving more and more in to the desert. Even lizards are becoming rarer and rarer, making survival very difficult.
One day, Paul discovers a group of men who are chasing a girl. He realizes that he should move away immediately but he’s too curious and follows them, albeit with caution. When he finds them while they’re eating, he realizes that the remains of the girl make up their meal. The situation becomes very dangerous when he gets discovered.
A few hours ago the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and after almost exactly six hours reached the International Space Station carrying the new crew members Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti. The Soyuz traveled on the fast path normally used.
