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Google Earth to monitor deforestation

December 12th, 2009 | Posted in Science, Softwares | No Comments »

Services and tools of Google become more powerful each day. The company introduced this week in Copenhagen a tool that could prove decisive in the fight against deforestation. The new systems ultra-fast processing of satellite imagery provided by Google can instantly detect and analyze deforestation and provide information to governments or groups to fight against deforestation. Normally, it takes several days to process and provide this information, Google is now able to offer it much faster. South America, Africa and Australia are areas particularly affected by deforestation (including illegal deforestation).

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The dating sites will use DNA to find your soul mate?

November 19th, 2009 | Posted in Science, Web | No Comments »

dna_500Dating sites such as ScientificMatch and sense2love want to take into account the chemical attraction in their criteria. These sites appear to be based on the theory that people are attracted to partners who have immune systems different from theirs. So if you feel like it, it will cost $2,000 for life membership, and send them your DNA. Someone has an idea on this?

Mission to Mars, 50 years of failure

October 14th, 2009 | Posted in Science | 1 Comment »

Everything is almost in the title! Indeed Mars planet for a very long time since man knows going into space, tries to go to Mars or at least have a little more information on this mysterious planet … Here is a graphic that presents a retrospective of space missions to the red planet, we see immediately that we will ever closer to Mars and it’s the Americans who are on the subject while the Russians were well interested in the 60s and 70s. Click on the image to enlarge.

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