Posts Tagged “water”
Did a hacker or group of hackers, possibly in Russia, manage to physically destroy a water pump in Springfield, Illinois? That was the word last week, when reports spread that hackers had managed to take control of the water plant’s Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (or SCADA), which gave them the ability to repeatedly [...]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2011) ? Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans. The findings may help explain how Earth’s surface ended up covered in water. New measurements from the Herschel Space Observatory show that comet Hartley 2, [...]
ATKINSON, Neb.?? The old adage that oil and water don’t mix is proving true in Nebraska, where hundreds of people filled a small town gymnasium to protest a proposed oil pipeline they fear could pollute a major U.S. drinking water source. They came in tour and school buses, vans and a few even [...]