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Who's going to clean up Space?

Which nations have the most satellites orbiting the Earth?

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Russia has the most followed by the US. Before you get all Cold War freaky, most of Russia's are inactive. Basically just orbiting junk. With Obama cutting NASA's budget, who's going to clean up this mess? For more cool visualization, check out Michael Paukner.
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Filed under  //   Barack Obama   Cold War   Earth   NASA   Science Stuff   Space   Technology  
Posted February 1, 2010 by Tac Anderson 
 

Are We Cyborgs or Symbionts?

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Here's a story my favorite Cyborg Anthropologist @caseorganic Amber Case, would love. Although Katherine argues we are Symbionts vs Amber's Cyborgs, either way we've developed what some would say is an (arguably) unhealthy relationship with technology.
[W]e have become symbionts, says Katherine Hayles, author of “How We Became Posthuman.” Just as a lichen is the marriage of a fungus and an algae, we now live in full partnership with digital technology, which we rely on for the infrastructure of our lives. “If every computer were to crash tomorrow, it would be catastrophic,” she says. “Millions or billions of people would die. That’s the condition of being a symbiont.”
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Smart mobbing and enjoying the garden We can't see the forest for the T-Mobiles - washingtonpost.com Maybe we're Symbiotic Cyborgs? Cyborg Symbionts? Symborgs? Either way we have become our own scifi story. Now I just need a cool soundtrack for my iPod to go with that.
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Posted December 16, 2009 by Tac Anderson