It’s a science and tech filled day over at ADB!

O3b Networks today announced it will begin deployment of a new global communications infrastructure to provide high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

Backed by Google Inc., Liberty Global, Inc. and HSBC Principal Investments, the new system will reduce bandwidth costs for telecommunications operators (telcos) and Internet service providers (ISPs) - enabling cost-effective voice and broadband services at speeds equivalent to those enjoyed in the developed world. Love it, invest in the leap forward and bring the bottom up through development!

Meanwhile, in the developed world, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will either mean those fiber cables will be laid in vain or will help change the world. Slated to rev up tomorrow, the LHC brings protons and ions into head-on collisions at higher energies than ever achieved before, giving insight into the structure of matter and recreate the conditions prevailing in the early universe, just after the “Big Bang”. The digitally collected data will be streamed by CERN to laboratories around the world for distributed processing through a new form of distributed computing called the Grid.

A “’super and virtual computer’, it’s composed of a cluster of networked, loosely-coupled computers, acting in concert to perform very large tasks.” Think cloud computing times 100, heterogeneous, and geographically dispersed. The grill will be able to work out computationally-intensive scientific, mathematical, and academic problems through volunteer computing, and commercial enterprises for such diverse applications as drug discovery, economic forecasting, seismic analysis, and back-office data processing in support of e-commerce and web services.

1000 times faster than broadband, the grid huge potential for producing medicines, transferring information…It’s like a super internet. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that the people behind CERN were the ones who started that whole intertweb thing: History lesson here.

Only problem, smashing two particle together it MIGHT create tiny black holes that would engulf the earth… or they could dissipate… Ok, the chances are pretty much zero. But what if all of our do-gooding is for nothing?

Maybe not thanks to these little buggers that made history after surviving the deep vacuum of space. How they did it “remains a mystery,” according to researchers. The next task for the Institute of Aerospace Medicine is to identify the responsible genes — a basic step, perhaps, in better understanding and improving human DNA repair. Teach us little ones! The end of the world as we know it is coming!