http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/ Engadget Comments for Canadian mini-satellite promises to detect Earth-destroying asteroids http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/
CANADIAN PRIDE.]]>Jun 27th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/
]]>Jun 27th 2008 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 28th 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/]]>Jun 27th 2008 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/It's nice to see how these guys create new tech up there. Really useful to study the space. But I will not feel any safer after 2010 launch of a telescope-packed suitcase.
]]>Jun 27th 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/In the year 2020 I think (maybe earlier? I can't recall) an asteroid is set to pass between the Earth and the Moon. That's pretty damn close. We need more monitoring like this in my opinion. What the hell do you think happened to the dinosaurs? (One theory, anyway)]]>Jun 27th 2008 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/
1. Ice hockey
2. Robot space arms
3. Flavoursome beer
4. Saving the world from Texas sized space pebbles

And in return, you get humiliated in South Park, The Movie

...oh cruel world! Does it even deserve saving...? ;-)]]>Jun 27th 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/
In closing: please don't call it ice hockey. It's just hockey. Normally people abbreviate words instead of making them bigger, but apparently people felt the need to expand the term hockey into a phrase. Go figure.]]>Jun 27th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Incidentally, did they decide on if it detects an asteroid on a collision course if they'll tell the americans or not? I'd say there might be a lot of good arguments to not tell them.
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what's the point of all this in the first place?]]>Jun 27th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/]]>Jun 28th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 28th 2008 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/
It says it will detect "90 percent of the 95,000 near-Earth "space rocks" that are at least 140 meters" when it detects an asteroid in a trajectory to Rogers, it'll just put it in the other 10% of the 95,000 near-Earth "space rocks".]]>Jun 28th 2008 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 28th 2008 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/
YEAH CANADA!]]>Jun 27th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/FUCK YEAH!
FREEDOM IS THE ONLY WAY, YEAH!]]>Jun 28th 2008 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/]]>Jun 27th 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/ using no more power than a 60-watt light bulb

Is that like saying "using no more than 60 watts" ?
]]>Jun 27th 2008 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/n.

1. Acute sensitivity to what is proper and appropriate in dealing with others, including the ability to speak or act without offending.
2. Archaic. The sense of touch.

The word you're looking for is "tack":

tack (tăk)
v.intr.

1. Nautical.
1. To change the direction or course of a vessel: Stand by to tack.
2. To change tack: The ship tacked to starboard.
2. To change one's course of action.]]>Jun 27th 2008 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/canadian-mini-satellite-promises-to-detect-earth-destroying-aste/Jun 27th 2008 6:45PM