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	<title>FOR REAL: Floating Cities</title>
	<link>http://robertoortiz.cgsociety.org/blog/4297</link>
	<description><![CDATA[But now a visionary architect has found a solution which will see people in the affected cities making a new home for themselves on the futuristic-looking Lilypad.<br />
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The Lilypad has been designed by award-winning Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut who says the 'ecopolis' offers a long term solution to the looming problem of rising sea levels.<br />
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As land-based cities flood, the Lilypad will be able to float around the world like a giant ship.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1031438/Pictured-The-floating-cities-day-house-climate-change-refugees.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...e-refugees.html</a>]]>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>SPACE: Japan firm offers weddings in space</title>
	<link>http://robertoortiz.cgsociety.org/blog/4293</link>
	<description><![CDATA[A Japanese firm on Tuesday began accepting reservations for couples who really want to make the big leap -- by blasting into space to exchange their wedding vows. <br />
Each happy couple will spend 240 million yen (2.3 million dollars) for the ceremony in a small space vessel, which will shoot up 100 kilometres (60 miles) into the sky. <br />
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<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080701070444.2kv8ptei&amp;show_article=1" target="_blank">http://www.breitbart.com/article.ph...&amp;show_article=1</a>]]>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>FOR REAL: Update on the UNO</title>
	<link>http://robertoortiz.cgsociety.org/blog/4288</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Start with a motorcycle, add 'Star Wars' and give the Segway a run for its futuristic money.<br />
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<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-mxa0629unojun29,0,111563.story" target="_blank">http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...,0,111563.story</a>]]>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>SPACE: Alkaline Soil Sample From Mars Reveals Presence of Nutrients for Plants to Grow </title>
	<link>http://robertoortiz.cgsociety.org/blog/4278</link>
	<description><![CDATA[An experiment on the Phoenix Mars lander showed the dirt on the planet’s northern arctic plains to be alkaline, though not strongly alkaline, and full of the mineral nutrients that a plant would need.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/science/space/27MARS.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/s...r=1&amp;oref=slogin</a>]]>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>SPACE: Bits of Ancient Earth Hidden on the Moon </title>
	<link>http://robertoortiz.cgsociety.org/blog/4272</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Some scientists believe that at least one meteorite found in Antarctica preserves evidence of ancient life on Mars. Now, work by a team of English scientists reinforces an earlier suggestion that evidence of life on the early Earth might be found in meteorites on the moon.<br />
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080626/sc_space/bitsofancientearthhiddenonthemoon;_ylt=AnvOZFjwz2lN25_ZhIrvdFCs0NUE" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080...5_ZhIrvdFCs0NUE</a>]]>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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