David Criswell, professor of physics at the University of Houston, has written scores of studies detailing the possibility of using special power bases on the moon for harnessing solar energy.

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And it made it all the way to the moon on solar power.

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Okay, so technology was pretty much crap compared to what we take for granted today, especially when it came to the computational power required to get to the moon and back.

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Lasers beamed from landing craft could, he says, power rovers in sunless areas of the moon or Mars, such as craters where water might be found.

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These phones, such as those running the Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems, offer "more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon, " Nancy Gibbs writes for Time.

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We need you to summon the same spirit of unbridled optimism, that bold willingness to tackle tough problems that led previous generations to meet the challenges of their time -- to power a nation from coast to coast, to touch the moon, to connect an entire world with our own science and imagination.

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He fixes the drones that protect earth's only remaining industry, a vast extractive operation that's supposedly providing power for an ongoing human migration to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

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The children of the moon landings have grown up: they now hold the positions of power to make their dreams come alive.

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November also saw Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, write to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to complain about what he said were repeated US violations of Iranian airspace near the Bushehr power station, describing them as "illegal and provocative acts".

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