World's nine largest science projects


	World's nine largest science projects
hitchhiker08
6-25-2008 12:40 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21391cd1-37d5-4527-b7ef-d7bc7f1589dc/F0FF6749-5B42-4693-B115-0EFC1A540ED2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx" href="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.discoverychannel.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx">The world's nine largest science projects</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><B>1. Large Hadron collider at CERN</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoverychannel.ca/img/45BA9B69-8252-4BFA-A9AA-123752AA3DFC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx">world's largest science project</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx">was unveiled to unearth the so-called "God particle"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><B>2. Next-stop, cold fusion?: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoverychannel.ca/img/289C6BE3-D986-4BAA-BE0F-568CCD2B3173" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx">built in southern France and promises to deliver the world's first sustained fusion reactions;</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><DIV><B>3. The finished International Space Station, circa 2011</B></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoverychannel.ca/img/20B141F4-BFB3-4226-9AC3-752E8E080BC8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx">the International Space Station will be the largest multinational engineering project of all time.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><B>4. A 3,000-foot-tall "Solar tower" in the Australian outback </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><DIV><IMG width="179" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="135" border="0" align="left" src="http://images.ctvdigital.com/images/pub2upload/2/2008_6_19/biggest_science_solar_tower.jpg" />Dubbed the "Solar Mission Project", this scientific feat takes solar energy to new heights. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><DIV><B>5. The largest-scale climate-change simulator on Earth </B></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoverychannel.ca/img/735F78CC-69BC-4BF0-8DF8-E9707C3C7EEA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx">using the idle computer time of thousands of volunteers to crunch climate-change data.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><DIV><B>6. James Webb Space Telescope </B></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx">will launch into an ultra-high orbit 1.5 million km from Earth (compare that to the 500 km Hubble </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><DIV><B>7. The Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault</B></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoverychannel.ca/img/0EEA1628-3220-4897-B82C-0C67447FC060" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><DIV><B>8. Space elevator</B></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoverychannel.ca/img/C938AAF7-28E2-4698-A3D7-14E8EB205302" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx">ANTARES </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoverychannel.ca/img/620F6E47-C51C-47EF-8688-E1D5020FA309" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx">Honorable mention</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoverychannel.ca/img/AD5E2038-DCBA-48A5-AD67-4DA37A2B7097" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/9414/Colossal-construction-The-worlds-nine-largest-science-projects.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoverychannel.ca/img/C63DB7B8-54F1-45B3-8877-59B60AB99612" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F0FF6749-5B42-4693-B115-0EFC1A540ED2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>