<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Space cockroach now a granny : 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>61998</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61998/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space cockroach now a granny]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russian space scientists have announced a new breakthrough in a long pedigree of firsts: the birth of 30 grandchildren of a &quot;space cockroach&quot; who spent 12 days in orbit.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>219</score><crdate>5/15/2008 9:32:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-15T21:32:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19006</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19006/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The 60's - The beginning of mankind's journeys into space]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 12, 1961, the Soviets launched a 27-year-old fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin on the world's first piloted space mission.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>28</score><crdate>5/4/2007 9:51:07 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-04T09:51:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>2324</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/2324/1/</url><title><![CDATA[NASA finds tiny hole in Atlantis caused by space debris]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA discovered that space shuttle Atlantis has been holed by a tiny piece of space debris. The  1/10-inch hole represents the second largest debris damage event ever identified. Fortunately, it missed everything that was important to the mission. Space debris is an increasingly challenging problem.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/6/2006 12:54:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-06T12:54:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67973</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/67973/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sex In Space Inevitable, Say Scientists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner.<br/><br/>The Japanese firm First Advantage and the U.S.-based private spaceflight firm Rocketplane Global, Inc., announced last week they will host weddings in space for about $2.3 million (240 million yen) apiece.<br/><br/>For all we know, sex in space has already taken place. But NASA officials aren't talking about that much.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>153</score><crdate>7/7/2008 9:11:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-07T21:11:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>34446</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34446/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Geomorphology From Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Geomorphology from Space is an out of print 1986 NASA publication edited by Nicholas M. Short, Sr. and Robert W. Blair, Jr. designed for use by the remote sensing science and educational communities to study landforms and landscapes. It has a gallery of space images consisting of 237 plates, each showing a different geographic region where a particular landform theme is exemplified.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>116</score><crdate>9/4/2007 10:59:56 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-04T10:59:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43851</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/43851/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bugs in Space: Can They Survive? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Catching a free ride to Mars takes more than sticking out a thumb, but some hardy Earth bacteria could survive as hitchhikers clinging to the outside of spacecraft, studies have shown. Now a set of experiments going up with space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station will test how exposure to the harshness of space might change bacteria during a simulated Mars mission.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>217</score><crdate>12/11/2007 8:06:12 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-11T08:06:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36315</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36315/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Future of Space Exploration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oct 4th will be <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sputnik's</a>  50th  anniversary. Although it had its scary connotations, the dawn of the Space Age was also a hopeful event. Visionaries celebrated humanity&#8217;s long-awaited climb out of its cradle, and pragmatists soon savored the benefits of communications and weather satellites.<br/>   The evolution of the space program continues to be dramatic. In a decade or so, it will be hardly recognizable.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>134</score><crdate>9/21/2007 12:25:38 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-21T00:25:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46817</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/46817/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Big Space Thing Looks Like a Moth]]></title><description><![CDATA[A moth-like structure with a 22-billion-mile wingspan is hovering out in space. This giant is actually a massive cloud of dust surrounding a nearby, young star imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope that has shown astronomers that these dust disks can take on unexpectedly unusual shapes.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>191</score><crdate>1/11/2008 12:34:46 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-11T00:34:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3670</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/3670/1/</url><title><![CDATA[US adopts tough new space policy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US has adopted a tough new policy aimed at protecting its interests in space and denying &quot;adversaries&quot; access there for hostile purposes.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/19/2006 2:11:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-19T02:11:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54785</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/54785/1/</url><title><![CDATA[First unchanging 'soliton' wave found in space]]></title><description><![CDATA[An unusual electrical disturbance has been spotted in space, travelling unchanged through the ionised gas surrounding Earth. A European space mission called Cluster detected a &quot;soliton&quot; wave, a phenomenon similar to the self-contained solitons that can travel along optical fibres and channels of water on Earth. This is the first known soliton in space.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>277</score><crdate>3/18/2008 8:07:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-18T20:07:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44294</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44294/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies. The recently exposed cosmic giant is apparently just as bright as the first group, but is six times further away. The astronomers made the discovery as part of an international team using the space telescope XMM-Newton.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>174</score><crdate>12/15/2007 7:49:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-15T07:49:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65113</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/65113/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space Elevator and the Controversial &#8216;Wobble&#8217; Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[The idea behind a space elevator is simple. Deploy a cable stretching from the ground near Earth&#8217;s equator far enough into space, and centrifugal forces due to Earth&#8217;s spin will keep the cable taut.<br/><br/>*fixed]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>387</score><crdate>6/11/2008 6:22:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-11T18:22:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49582</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49582/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space Magnetism May Hold Secret to Fusion Power]]></title><description><![CDATA[New discoveries about magnetic field lines and the first-ever direct observation of their reconnection in space are offering hope that scientists will learn how to unlock fusion power as an energy source in the future.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>236</score><crdate>2/6/2008 7:14:13 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-06T07:14:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67067</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/67067/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How long could you survive in the vacuum of space?]]></title><description><![CDATA[No spaceship. No space suit. Just you versus the cold, empty vacuum of space. Find out about how long you could survive.]]></description><comments>22</comments><score>432</score><crdate>6/28/2008 8:58:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-28T20:58:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18805</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/18805/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space telescope makes startling discovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hubble Space Telescope has provided evidence representing a major upset for conventional theories that propose a single period for star birth.  The European Space Agency said the telescope, observing globular cluster NGC 2808, has shown three separate generations of stars formed early in the cluster's life.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>40</score><crdate>5/2/2007 8:42:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-02T20:42:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22204</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22204/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space Ghost]]></title><description><![CDATA[Man how I miss this show.  Anyone want to start a petition to bring it back?  It worked for Family Guy.  ;)]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>77</score><crdate>5/31/2007 5:08:13 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-31T05:08:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17240</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17240/1/</url><title><![CDATA[&quot;Houston, We Have A Problem&quot; Again - Gunman and Hostage Dead at Johnson Space Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gunman kills one male hostage and then himself. Police say the gunman had a hand gun. <br/><br/>5:25pm EST<br/><br/>Isn't NASA a secured facility? Apparently not.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>21</score><crdate>4/20/2007 6:08:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-20T18:08:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>5241</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/5241/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Museum in Space?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A blog post suggests that Hubble could be kept in a high-orbit 'museum' rather than being made to crash into the Earth's atmosphere.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>11</score><crdate>11/6/2006 8:33:00 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-06T08:33:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>29330</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29330/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Killer Electrons In Space Are Now Less Mysterious]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rare, timely conjunction of ground-based instrumentation and a dozen satellites has helped scientists better understand how electrons in space can turn into &#8216;killers&#8217;. ESA&#8217;s Cluster constellation has contributed crucially to the finding.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>118</score><crdate>7/28/2007 11:41:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-28T11:41:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36545</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36545/1/</url><title><![CDATA[10 Things You Didn't Know About Space Exploration]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik I in 1957 is credited with launching the U.S. space program. In the past 20 years, the space shuttle has launched 3 million pounds of cargo, transported more than 600 passengers and pilots, cumulatively spent more than three years in flight, and logged more than 366 million miles. Here are some other interesting facts about the U.S. space program.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>151</score><crdate>9/24/2007 9:41:45 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-24T09:41:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41422</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41422/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found, Team Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost a century after a mysterious explosion in Russia flattened a huge swath of Siberian forest, scientists have found what they believe is a crater made by the cosmic object that made the blast.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>200</score><crdate>11/12/2007 8:15:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-12T08:15:32+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>