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warp drive?

http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/warp.htm
Warp Drive When? is the catchy title of a Web site that explains NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program to the general public. Managed by Marc Millis of NASA’s Glenn Research Center (who also created the Web site), the program seeks the ultimate breakthroughs in space transportation. The use of “ultimate” reflects the fact that, according to Millis, convenient interstellar travel will require such feats as achieving superluminal velocities and controlling gravity.

orca logo

http://www.whalelink.org/orcafm.html
Thanks to the Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Science Centre, you can use your Web browser to listen to the live sounds made by killer whales off the coast of British Columbia. As described by the facility’s ORCA FM Web site, researchers use a network of underwater microphones to identify and study individual whales and their kin group

fusion logo

http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/on-line/fusion
Fusion is an on-line exhibition offered by the UK’s Science Museum. Aimed at a general audience, it describes the principles, and history of fusion physics, as well as the hopes for fusion-generated electric power.

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