<rss version="0.91"><channel><title> IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title> IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/57766/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In less time than it would take a beam of light to travel from your knuckle to your fingertip, the new IBM chip would complete one task and start looking for the next]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan Captures HDTV of Full Earth &quot;Rise&quot; from Lunar Orbit]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59372/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beetles shared Earth with dinosaurs]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44955/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hothouse Earth would halt plate tectonics]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59050/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flat Earth Society]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/11341/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surfing faster than the speed of light]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/70551/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Future generations could be travelling across the universe faster than the speed of light, without breaking any astronomical road rules, by manipulating extra dimensions of space and time, according to two US physicists.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flat earth society]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36345/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The Flat Earth Society considers the notion of a round earth to be a conspiracy.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Binary 'deathstar' has Earth in its sights]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53011/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A spectacular, rotating binary star system is a ticking time bomb, ready to throw out a searing beam of high-energy gamma rays &#8211; and Earth may be right in the line of fire.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth: A Borderline Planet for Life?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47015/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Our planet is changing before our eyes, and as a result, many species are living on the edge. Yet Earth has been on the edge of habitability from the beginning. New work shows that if Earth had been slightly smaller and less massive, it would not have plate tectonics-the forces that move continents and build mountains. And without plate tectonics, life might never have gained a foothold on our world.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret Places of the Earth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12801/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Huge Stockpile of Oxygen Found Deep Inside Earth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/37195/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A mineral that acts like a sponge beneath Earth's surface stores more oxygen than expected, keeping our planet from becoming dry and inhospitable like Mars. The key to the abundant oxygen storage is the mineral majorite, which exists deep below Earth's surface in the mantle. Without the oxygen stockpile, Earth would probably be a barren planet hostile to life.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Most amazing facts about the Earth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25892/1/</link><description><![CDATA[1. Gravity is not the same over the surface of the Earth, 2. Atmosphere 'escapes', 3. The Earth is slowing down...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's ingredients may have 'sprinkled' on Earth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/35406/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Some crucial ingredients for life on Earth may have formed in interstellar space, rather than on the planet's surface. A new computer model indicates clouds of adenine molecules, a basic component of DNA, can form and survive the harsh conditions of space, and possibly sprinkle onto planets as the stars they orbit travel through a galaxy.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Earth had no Moon]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40746/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In this essay, the father of the SMART-1 lunar mission, Bernard Foing of the European Space Agency, looks at the effect the Moon has had on the Earth, and explores how different our world would be if we had no planetary companion. Would life have evolved differently, or at all without our Luna?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electrified Deep Earth Changing Length of Day]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57040/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Tiny changes to the length of days on Earth may be due to a mineral in the deep Earth that conducts electricity at high rates, a new study says.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time travel for beginners]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14694/1/</link><description><![CDATA[(lots of reading)<br/><br/>alternately theres <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://science.howstuffworks.com/time-travel.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HowStuffWorks</a> on time travel]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40902/1/</link><description><![CDATA[As spacecraft began to launch on journeys to more distant planets, never to return, their mission controllers often commanded them to take departing views of Earth and the Moon. Mariner 10 and Voyager 1 both took such snapshots, as did Mars Odyssey, Venus Express, and many others.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Ancient diamonds unlock secrets of early Earth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32763/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds more than 4 billion years old -- nearly as old as the Earth itself -- have been discovered in Western Australia, giving scientists vital clues about the early history of our planet.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists break speed of light]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/12299/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The clever boffins have finally managed to break the speed of light. A light pulse was so fast that it &quot;exited a specially-prepared chamber before it even finished entering it.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Risk to Earth Found in Supernova Explosions ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/46371/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An explosive star within our galaxy is showing signs of an impending eruption, at least in a cosmic time frame, and has for quite some time. From 1838 to 1858, the star called Eta Carinae brightened to rival the light of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, and then faded to a dim star. Since 1940 it has been brightening again, and scientists think Eta Carinae will detonate in 10,000 to 20,000 years.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[BBC Horizon - Time Trip (Time Travel Documentary)]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/5465/1/</link><description><![CDATA[According to Professor Paul Davies &quot;Scientists have no doubt whatever that it is possible to build a time machine to visit the future&quot;. Since the publication of Einstein&#8217;s Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, few, if any, scientists would dispute that time travel to the future is perfectly possible.]]></description></item></channel></rss>