Oxygen problem could force Mir crew to abandon ship
NASA acknowledges Mir's main oxygen system is broken and backup supplies are stretched raising concern among experts. Crew including Jerry Linenger remains safe, with an unmanned Russian rocket delivering more parts by April. If needed, the crew would evacuate via Soyuz capsule and reentry procedures would follow, ending with a hard landing.
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Pirates of the Golden Age Reconsidered Through Whydah Finds
Archaeologists and scholars reassess late 17th to early 18th century piracy using the Whydah wreck and Blackbeard lore. Finds include African jewelry, gold bars, and 27 cannons, suggesting crews lived in a floating egalitarian system with careful weaponry and selective mercy.
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Deep Blue Jr. debuts at San Jose Center powered by IBM
San Francisco report describes Deep Blue Jr. plugged into an outlet by IBM scientist C J Tan. The 32 macroprocessors run parallel processing to solve chess puzzles as Deep Blue prepares for a May rematch with Garry Kasparov in New York. Tan insists the machine does not think, though it can capture expert knowledge for computation. Hale-Bopp comet seen over West Virginia on March 19 with visibility into April despite a bright moon.
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Sky Watch Details Opposition Mars Tonight
An astronomy note explains Earth will be opposite Mars tomorrow night at about 614 million miles. Mars will be the only visible planet as Sun sets, with Pluto, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune nearby, while space probes Pathfinder and Global Surveyor launch to study the event.
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