<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Private space station has completed 10.000 trips around Earth : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>61377</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61377/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Private space station has completed 10.000 trips around Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Genesis 1 spaceship was launched on July 12, 2006 with the purpose of being tested and has completed a few days ago its 10.000th trip around Earth. Genesis 1 was built by the Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, a firm that has already sent a second spaceship on June 2007: Genesis 2, which is also functioning properly so far.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>-33</score><crdate>5/11/2008 7:40:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-11T07:40:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37261</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37261/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Astronomers See 'Second Earth' in the Making]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have spotted evidence of a second Earth being built around a distant star 424 light-years away. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a huge belt of warm dust swirling around a young star called HD 113766 that is just slightly larger than our sun.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>168</score><crdate>10/3/2007 9:27:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-03T21:27:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26153</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26153/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Second inflatable spacecraft launched]]></title><description><![CDATA[The firm Bigelow Aerospace has launched its second inflatable space module, Genesis 2, taking another step towards its goal of building crewed, inflatable space stations that could be leased to paying customers.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>26</score><crdate>7/4/2007 5:16:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-04T05:16:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26170</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26170/1/</url><title><![CDATA[1 in 5 Americans believe Sun revolves around the Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[with my amazing 60% on our US citizenship score, i think i am the new leader of the pack unti those extra smart guys get back.  in which case, we're all screwed anyway.  <br/><br/>here's my fix.  walk up the one in 5 of your friends who really truly believes that the sun revolves around the earth.  then punch them.  i think if you punch them often enough, they will come to their senses.]]></description><comments>15</comments><score>99</score><crdate>7/4/2007 7:59:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-04T07:59:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4326</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/4326/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Amazing Shots of the Earth from the International Space Station]]></title><description><![CDATA[Very easy to navigate, offering low and high resolutions makes for a wonderful site even for dial-up users.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>15</score><crdate>10/24/2006 9:27:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-24T21:27:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>28489</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28489/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory have found a lopsided debris disk around a young star known as HD 15115. As seen from Earth, the edge-on disk resembles a needle sticking out from the star.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>116</score><crdate>7/23/2007 12:05:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-23T00:05:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>9327</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9327/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Amazing View of Earth from Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[A picture taken of Earth from space, showing half the Earth at night and half illuminated.<br/><br/>&lt;&lt;&lt;Image not related.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>19</score><crdate>1/20/2007 10:29:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-20T22:29:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>11341</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/11341/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Flat Earth Society]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether or not you believe in a flat earth or a spherical one, this should still give you a chance to read about flat earth theory and post your views.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>82</score><crdate>2/22/2007 2:51:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-22T14:51:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81683</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81683/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Earth at night: Stunning images of the cities that light up the globe]]></title><description><![CDATA[It may look like an intriguing star constellation far away in space, but these lights are actually far closer to home. These images shows cities at night as viewed by the International Space Station.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>143</score><crdate>11/12/2008 8:43:59 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-12T08:43:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26876</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26876/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Desktop Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment.<br/><br/>This has been my wallpaper for about a year now. (Inspired to post it based on <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/26845/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a> post.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>123</score><crdate>7/10/2007 3:56:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-10T15:56:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>78869</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/78869/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space Rock Found on Collision Course With Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, astronomers have found an object on a certain collision course with Earth. Fortunately, it is so small it is not expected to cause any damage, burning up in the atmosphere somewhere above northern Sudan in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. It may, however, produce a brilliant 'shooting star'.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>327</score><crdate>10/7/2008 9:41:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-07T09:41:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41507</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/41507/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Alien Life Can Survive Trip to Earth, Space Test Shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[We could have alien origins, say scientists who sent fossilized microscopic life-forms into space and back inside an artificial meteorite. The researchers attached the baseball-size rock to the outside of the European Space Agency's Foton M3 spacecraft to test whether biological material could survive the round-trip journey.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>291</score><crdate>11/13/2007 8:57:11 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-13T08:57:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3800</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/3800/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Private Lunar Lander prototype passes flight test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Armadillo Aerospace's privately funded lander had to fly successfully to convince the FAA to issue it the permit it needs for more ambitious flights in front of thousands of spectators required to win a $2M X-prize challenge tomorrow and Saturday.<br/><br/>Armadillo Aerospace is run by John Carmack, who has made rather a lot of money in computer gaming.<br/><br/>Links to Armadillo and X-prize webcast in comments.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/20/2006 2:41:14 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-20T02:41:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59050</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59050/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hothouse Earth would halt plate tectonics]]></title><description><![CDATA[What would it take to jam a planet's tectonics? It seems that a huge rise in atmospheric temperatures would do the trick, causing continents to grind to a halt, mountains to stop growing and earthquakes to cease. On Earth, the motion of magma in the mantle pushes continental plates around on the surface, but if the magma became too hot and runny it would lose the grip needed to do this.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>343</score><crdate>4/20/2008 10:19:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-20T22:19:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61938</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61938/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space Rocks Could Reseed Life on Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth can cause catastrophic extinction events. They can also bring life back, new research shows.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>299</score><crdate>5/15/2008 10:05:46 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-15T10:05:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59372</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59372/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japan Captures HDTV of Full Earth &quot;Rise&quot; from Lunar Orbit]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Japanese lunar orbiter &quot;Kaguya&quot; saw earth, moon and sun line up on April 6, 2008 and captured another &quot;Earth-rise&quot; and &quot;Earth-set&quot; HDTV <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/15/kaguya_earthrise_20080405.gif" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">video</a> - this time when the Earth was full.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>314</score><crdate>4/23/2008 12:32:28 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-23T00:32:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36345</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36345/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The flat earth society]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Flat Earth Society considers the notion of a round earth to be a conspiracy.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>79</score><crdate>9/21/2007 10:29:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-21T10:29:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44955</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44955/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Beetles shared Earth with dinosaurs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beetles first appeared on Earth at the same time as the earliest dinosaurs but turned out to be much better survivors, a new evolutionary study has shown. Today, there are an estimated 350,000 known species of beetle on Earth, and probably several million more yet to be discovered, say scientists. The insects account for about a quarter of all life forms on the planet.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>182</score><crdate>12/21/2007 7:19:52 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-21T07:19:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>55885</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55885/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Plans unveiled for passenger spaceship]]></title><description><![CDATA[GOLDEN, Colo. &#8212; XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif. unveiled plans today for a new entry in the suborbital spaceship business &#8212; a rocket-powered space plane to be known as the Lynx.<br/><br/>The Lynx is being designed to carry a pilot and a passenger or payload on flights into suborbital space. Company officials are eyeing 2010 as the date for the inaugural launch of the vehicle.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>55</score><crdate>3/26/2008 10:38:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-26T22:38:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25892</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25892/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Most amazing facts about the Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[1. Gravity is not the same over the surface of the Earth, 2. Atmosphere 'escapes', 3. The Earth is slowing down...]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>104</score><crdate>7/2/2007 4:23:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-02T04:23:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12801</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12801/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Secret Places of the Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Earth has some amazing and interesting images to be found.  Here are a few, shown in video form (if you can ignore the cheesy music).]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>98</score><crdate>3/11/2007 1:19:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-11T01:19:10+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>