This week we straddle the past and the future of exploration technology to illustrate this point wonderfully.
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Today, three years after Deepwater Horizon, offshore drilling is booming in the Gulf of Mexico, driven by the continued high price of oil, a series of massive new fields discovered with the help of improved exploration technology, and the growing difficulty of finding major new oil fields abroad.
This is precisely the skill set that has led to some of our most dynamic innovations in consumer technology, Internet capabilities, space exploration, medical technology, green technology and bioengineering, to name just a few.
The company has established itself as a leader in deepwater exploration and production technology with among the highest safety and efficiency standards in the business.
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The first issues started to appear in 2011, namely: Applied Water Science, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, Applied Petrochemical Research, Applied Nanoscience, and 3Biotech.
But most of the country's reserves remain untapped because Pemex lacks the technology for exploration.
"The frustration is that we are very close to getting what we want, but we have to resolve this budget situation and soon, " said Dr David Parker, director of science, technology and exploration at the UK Space Agency.
"I think it lowers the barriers to entry for satellite launch, and for the exploration and exploitation of space technology, for smaller companies, university centers, " he said.
He will be speaking about space flight, space exploration, space science and technology, environmental stewardship and educational awareness as it relates to seeing the Earth from Space.
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The Breakthrough Awards recognize ten individuals and teams, including one winner of the Breakthrough Leadership Award, who are helping to improve lives and expand possibilities in the realms of science, technology, and exploration.
In the future, we hope that a global army of open-source code developers, students and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest.
Current applications for Superbot are being developed with space exploration in mind, but Shen said the technology could be usefully applied in any environment dangerous to humans such as for search and rescue tasks in mines or underwater -- although the laboratory is still working on a morphing robot capable of swimming.
Every landing we've had on Mars since Viking 30 years ago - Mars Pathfinder, even the Mars-exploration rovers Spirit and Opportunity - were based on Viking technology.
Still, beneath the pop-provocateur veneer, Sachs has always maintained a childlike awe of the golden age of industrial might and technology, most recently in his fascination with space exploration.
By combining PlayStation Network with Gaikai Inc's cloud technology, it is SCE's goal to make free exploration possible for various games.
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Perhaps no other industry or commodity embodies the best of what modern technology has to offer better than the processes deployed during the exploration for and production of oil.
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The expedition also used "telepresence" technology that allowed scientists and citizens on shore to partake in the exploration via the Internet as it happened.
Despite the early financial support from wealthy investors and the backing of well-known space-exploration researchers, Planetary Resources faces many technical questions and uncertainties about costs and the technology required to extract materials from asteroids.
"Robotics is playing a key role aboard the International Space Station and will be critical in our future human exploration of deep space, " said Michael Gazarik, director of NASA's Space Technology Program.
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After starting small two decades ago, he's built a fast-growing exploration and production company by buying up castoff fields from supermajors, then reinvigorating them with new technology.
Indeed, Andy Petro of NASA's technology office in Washington, DC, says power beaming might change the economics of space exploration completely.
Recognizing this intersection of online tools with the old-fashioned world of ancestry exploration, MacEntee sensed that he could profit from this changing dynamic by becoming a professional genealogist specializing in technology and social media.
The exploration of space has led to advances in weather forecasting, in communications, in computing, search and rescue technology, robotics and electronics.
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