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      • Extras: The Laser That’s Changing the World
        • Lidar History Timeline
        • Photos and video: The Laser That’s Changing the World
          • “Ancient” History
          • Alamosa and NASA’s Airborne Snow Observatory
          • Automotive
          • Carnegie Mellon
          • Cyra Technologies and CyArk
          • Direct Dimensions
          • Firepond
          • ILMF 2018
          • Mcity
          • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the GGAO
          • Near Earth Autonomy
          • Point Clouds
          • Wallops, Optech, Chu and NCAR
      • Reviews: The Laser That’s Changing the World
    • From Jars to the Stars
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The happiest doomsday clock

Climate, Energy, Environment, PoliticsJanuary 5, 201436Views0Likes1Comment
I'm on the Asahi Glass Foundation mailing list. Despite being made of glass, this is a serious foundation, most famous for its annual bestowing of the Blue Planet Prize. When I say mailing  list, I mean this literally -- you get paper-based mail. The interesting thing that, despite being based in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, my mail from…

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