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Berkenstock describes his work at EmTech 2011: Cheaper satellite pictures. Skybox Imaging Dan Berkenstock, cofounder and chief product officer of Skybox Imaging, wants to let "anyone know what's happening anywhere in the world at any time." Next year the company plans to launch the first of what it hopes will be a constellation of 12 to 24 satellites taking high-­resolution pictures of Earth. Each satellite should cost about a tenth as much as the $250 million to $500 million imaging satellites operated by companies like DigitalGlobe and GeoEye.

So, this page was released in September 2009, right before the third season of TBBT was being aired. It was started as a fan project - and still is - providing a list of naming the images shown in the intro of the TV series TBBT while the Barenaked Ladies sing "History Of Everything". A lot of people have helped to make the list almost complete. See all the thank you notes (as well as the previous update messages) at the bottom of the page.

A l'occasion de la mise hors-service du Minitel, GQ revient sur 50 inventions qui ont révolutionné ces 30 dernières années.

As we begin a new year, BBC Future has compiled 40 intriguing predictions made by scientists, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other assorted pundits in recent years about the shape of the world from 2013 to 2150.