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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[I find it disturbing just how many things in my daily life remind me of the movie Twister...  it just wasn't that good of a movie, but once again it comes back]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaktastic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 11:05AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[$h!t, this is Michael Crichton's Prey waiting to happen! We're doomed.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Luis Zapata]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 11:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA["this is Michael Crichton's Prey waiting to happen! We're doomed."<br><br>Sucky book, but exactly what it sounds like. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NHAnimator]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 12:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[Me after looking at the pic: <br><br>Mmmmm... Donut... *Slobber*...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rohit Kapur]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 11:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Yaktastic<br><br>I hate Bill Paxton.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[surfwax95]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 11:40AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[... so we've been told all this time by environmentalists that we need to save our planet by picking up our trash and recycling everything that we can, and here we go, our first contact with another planet means we're gonna spread trash all over it before we even set foot on it!!!<br><br>Ouch!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Schmitt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 11:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[Mmmm,giant doughnut with pool in the middle! Heaven!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 11:58AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Surfwax95<br><br>me too... i really hate that movie (and pretty much any bit of detritus that paxton headlines)<br><br>mmmm, donuts]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yaktastic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 12:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think this is what that black cloud is on "Lost"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[BDizzleFizzle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 12:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's not Prey. Prey is Frankenstein, adds nothing to that story, Crichton hasn't done anything but screw up his technology for years. It's this: <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/fast-cheap.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/fast-cheap.pdf</a>, part 5, plus mesh networks.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[john commenter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 19th 2007 1:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA["pint-sized particles"?  We serve beer by the pint here in New Zealand.  These guys really have an odd definition of "dust".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gold]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 1:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[interesting...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yubal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 1:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[lol]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yubal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 1:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[Must have read this book 20 years ago:<br><br>Trillions<br>Nicholas Fisk (Author)<br><br>Nicholas Fisk (Author)<br><br>Synopsis<br>A layer of hard, shiny dust covers the village of Harbourtown. The Trillions have landed. But what are they? Where have they come from? In the race to find the answers, the experts are baffled. Only one boy has the power to discover the truth, and to stop a deadly invasion.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bushthevillageidiot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2007 3:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists tout "smart dust" for planetary exploration]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/scientists-tout-smart-dust-for-planetary-exploration/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is a completely unscientific method.  It wouldn't be simply modifying the thing you're trying to study, it would be literally blanketing it in changes.  They'd better have a method for cleaning these up afterwards.  Imagine if life were possible on Mars... and we happen to leave some bacteria or other genetic material on these and then litter them across the planet...  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[grjohnston]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 19th 2007 1:01PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>