In 2002, China and Russia proposed a treaty banning the deployment of weapons in space or attacks against space-based objects.

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It blasted a disused weather satellite into tiny fragments that threaten the safety of other man-made objects in space.

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The most beautiful, subdued and quiet section is the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall, a low-lit space with blackened vitrines in which objects are brilliantly lighted, as in an art museum: case after case of minerals you have heard of (gold, quartz and tourmaline), and others, even more dazzling, that you probably have not (rhodochrosite).

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Einstein's general theory of relativity states that objects with mass cause a curvature in space-time, which we perceive as gravity.

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Producers of atoms still can't beam the physical objects through space, but they can use bitspeed--digital coordination of all kinds--to bring reaction time down dramatically.

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His plan included architectural interventions on every floor, subtle manipulations of material and details consistent with the artist's career-long fascination with how we experience objects in space.

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"Today's event is a strong reminder of why we need continuous efforts to survey and identify near-Earth objects, " said Thomas Reiter, European Space Agency's Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations.

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Atop the 10-meter cubed space sits a motion capture system (made up of eight cameras) which locate objects in the FMA at rates of more than 200 frames per second.

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