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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

Cars That Think

The Kremlin, trying to avoid famine at home, sent representatives to the United States to purchase American wheat, corn, oats, rye, and soybeans. As part of its War on Drugs, the CIA used Landsat imagery to reveal an increase of acreage committed to poppy in Afghanistan in 1985 and the resulting expanded opium trade.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Paul Taylor, Chief Economist for the National Automotive Dealers Association, had the following observations: At $4/gallon gas people looked at more economical versions of the same vehicle rather than going down in vehicle size—they continue to buy cars that meet their needs. How much does it cost to save weight?

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Plus I had purchased bananas, oranges and musk melon outside the railway station. Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. Everyday we saw at least two cars, whose occupants dumped beer bottles out of the window. A stork is most magnificent to watch in flight.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft,” wrote Norman Augustine, formerly Undersecretary of the Army, back in 1984. Behold the modern-day fighter plane: the hypertrophied product of the longest arms race since the days of the dreadnaught. “In

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