<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Sports in zero gravity : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/sports/</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>59696</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/59696/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sports in zero gravity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronauts, by necessity, work hard in space. But during their precious time off aboard the International Space Station (ISS), some spaceflyers are picking their brains to come up with the future of space sports.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>126</score><crdate>4/25/2008 11:28:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T23:28:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19006</id><url>http://www.plime.com/history/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>36315</id><url>http://www.plime.com/astronomy/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>55288</id><url>http://www.plime.com/astronomy/l/55288/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Astronauts prepare for fifth space walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronauts Robert Behnken and Michael Foreman plan to attach the 50-foot inspection boom to the outside of the space station on Saturday during the fifth and final spacewalk of Endeavour's mission. Discovery will carry the boom back to Earth after its mission ends. <br/><br/>Meh, probably faked :D]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>55</score><crdate>3/22/2008 3:31:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-22T15:31:38+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>44294</id><url>http://www.plime.com/astronomy/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>34029</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34029/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How do Astronauts Use the Toilet in Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[We all know that in space there is no gravity, thus things don&#8217;t fall down as they do on earth, they just float. Ok but what do you do when you need to go to the toilet, you don&#8217;t want your &#8220;things&#8221; to float all over the place do you?]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>54</score><crdate>9/1/2007 9:39:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-01T09:39:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46817</id><url>http://www.plime.com/astronomy/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>5354</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/5354/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Water Sphere Experiments from the International Space Station]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a QuickTime video record of 3 experiments with water in zero gravity.  The most exciting of which is AlkaSeltzer tablets introduced to a floating glob of water.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>11</score><crdate>11/7/2006 5:08:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-07T17:08:48+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>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>34446</id><url>http://www.plime.com/geology/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>50284</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/50284/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Russia, China propose new treaty to ban arms in space]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new treaty would prohibit the deployment of weapons of any kind in space, and the use or threat of force against space objects, he added.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>123</score><crdate>2/12/2008 2:45:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-12T14:45:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54785</id><url>http://www.plime.com/astronomy/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>42365</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/42365/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving from Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Orbiting more than 200 miles above the Earth, the crew of the International Space Station has sent home a special Thanksgiving message that is now airing on NASA Television and the agency's Web site.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>140</score><crdate>11/23/2007 7:25:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-23T07:25:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60870</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60870/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space boomerang video released]]></title><description><![CDATA[Remember the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/48218/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">astronaut who recently tested</a> whether boomerangs return to their throwers in the absence of gravity? Well, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has released video of astronaut Takao Doi showing that <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/55203/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the objects do, in fact, come back</a> - even in the microgravity environment of the space station.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>352</score><crdate>5/6/2008 11:39:43 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-06T23:39:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48218</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48218/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese astronaut to throw boomerang in space]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Japanese astronaut plans to throw a boomerang inside a space station to test whether it can fly in zero gravity.]]></description><comments>16</comments><score>361</score><crdate>1/24/2008 8:08:07 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-24T08:08:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36618</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/36618/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Germs taken to space come back deadlier]]></title><description><![CDATA[It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever. Except, it really happened.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>280</score><crdate>9/24/2007 10:16:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-24T22:16:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27224</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/27224/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cat in Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zero gravity flight with a cat on board.  <br/><br/>Poor little sod!  I wish this little cat had flushed out it's kidneys all over the crew while it's spinning around like that.  &quot;Tests are conclusive Sir!  Cats really hate being in zero gravity.&quot;  Idiots!]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>150</score><crdate>7/12/2007 11:06:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-12T23:06:55+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>