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	Project Prometheus
		The technology was studied in the 1950s and 1960s in initiatives such as NERVA and Project Orion, but was subsequently dropped, partly for political (1963 nuclear test-ban treaty) and partly for financial reasons.
		One of the first practical applications of the Prometheus Project is likely to be the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) – a mission to study Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa.
		The themes are: evaluate the degree subsurface oceans are present on these moons; study the chemical composition of the moons, including organic materials, and the surface processes that affect them; and scrutinize the entire Jupiter system, particularly the interactions between Jupiter, the moons' atmospheres and interiors.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/P/PrometheusProj.html (1048 words)

	Prometheus - StargateWiki
		Prometheus (literally, "forethought") was one of the Titans from Greek mythology, son of Iapetus and Clymene.
		Maiden Voyage: The Prometheus was stolen by a rogue cell of the NID under the command of Col. Frank Simmons.
		Rescue: The Prometheus was on stand-by in case SG-1 and SG-5 needed to be rescued from the planet P3X-584 which had a "call forwarding" device attached to its DHD which might have prevented the team from dialing home.
	www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com /wiki/index.php/Prometheus (2496 words)

	Profile: Prometheus Radio Project -- In These Times
		Prometheus spearheaded the legal opposition to the ruling, which would relax media ownership rules by permitting one company to reach 45 percent of the nation’s television viewers and own broadcast outlets and newspapers in the same market.
		Prometheus is well suited to lead this battle, as the group promotes localism and diversity in its advocacy work for legal low-power FM, or microradio, broadcasters.
		Prometheus helped build several of these licensed stations by organizing radio barn-raising workshops, in which volunteers assemble a station from the ground to the antenna.
	www.inthesetimes.com /theittlist/site/main/article/644 (772 words)

	Prometheus Group : Why the Prometheus Project? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humankind, bringing the power of warmth and light to the dark and miserable earth.
		Prometheus acted against the express wishes of the Olympian Gods, who wanted to keep the power of fire - enlightenment - for their exclusive use.
		Prometheus was known as the protector and benefactor of mankind.
	www.jegsworks.com /project/promproj.htm (289 words)

	RBGE: Prometheus Project
		The first phase of the Prometheus project was therefore to develop a system in which the differences in the circumscription of taxa could be explicitly and objectively represented.
		This phase of the project began in 1999 and continued for two-years funded as part of the BBSRC bio-informatics initiative.
		The first phase of the project concentrated simply on the simultaneous and objective representation of multiple classifications, and no consideration was given to how the various classifications could be compared and how translations between the classifications could be supported.
	www.rbge.org.uk /rbge/web/science/research/biodiversity/prometh.jsp (907 words)

	Prometheus-1.x Introduction
		Prometheus is a highly parallel multigrid solver for the set of linear algebraic equations Ax=b that arise from three dimensional finite element discretizations of PDEs.
		Prometheus has been used extensively for our research on Cray T3Es and IBM PowerPC clusters to solve large deformation elasticity and plasticity problems on unstructured first order hexahedral and tetrahedral grids with over 39 million degrees of freedom, large jumps in material coefficients, and nearly incompressible materials.
		Prometheus is implemented in C++ and callable from C, C++ and FORTRAN, and is built on PETSc and ParMetis.
	www.columbia.edu /~ma2325/prom_intro.html (619 words)

	Q&A: Pete Tridish of the Prometheus Radio Project
		He is now the technical director of the Prometheus Radio Project, a nonprofit organization providing legal, technical, and organizational support to low-power FM stations (see "Low Power, High Intensity" in the September/October 2003 issue).
		Prometheus has played a significant role in the struggle by community groups to establish low-power radio stations — a struggle that has involved the FCC, the National Association of Broadcasters, and National Public Radio.
		Prometheus is a very small organization that took on both the FCC and the American corporate media.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2003/5/qa-kelliher.asp (2218 words)

	Global Network - NASA'S Nuclear Prometheus Project Viewed as Major Paradigm Shift - 7/3/03
		Project Prometheus faces a number of technical challenges, not the least of which is to produce a space reactor system that is safe to launch and function for years on end as it cruises toward deep space targets.
		As a NASA new initiative, requested funds for Project Prometheus includes $279 million, with $3 billion to be spent on the effort over five years.
		In the months ahead, as NASA moves forward on the Prometheus effort, openness and transparency must be the watchwords, said Steven Aftergood of the Project on Government Secrecy within the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C. There are those in the broad general public, Aftergood said, who aren't concerned about safety.
	www.space4peace.org /articles/prometheus.htm (1463 words)

	ISDS/AAE Hybrid Rocket Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Project Prometheus is a joint project between the Illini Space Development Society and the University of Illinois Aerospace Engineering Department to build an operate a lab scale hybrid rocket motor.
		The project is currently in the construction phase with a planned first firing later this year.
		The first is to build a test motor capable of being used to test and verify current theories on the nature of hybrid rocket combustion processes, and the second is to provide a combustion lab where the students at the U of I can gain experience in the techniques used in testing rocket engines.
	stimpy.cen.uiuc.edu /soc/isds/hybrid/hybrid.htm (191 words)

	83.02.03: Prometheus, the Firebringer
		Prometheus was viewed by the ancient Greeks from many angles, sometimes as a hero and sometimes as a thief.
		Prometheus could foresee his fate,to be chained to a rock with an eagle tearing at his liver for an eternity, yet this did not hinder him in his course of action.
		Whether Prometheus was a thief only out to anger Zeus or whether his motives were nobler can be the fuel for a stimulating project as students trace Prometheus through the ages and through his varied myths.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/2/83.02.03.x.html (5508 words)

	Global Network - Prometheus looks to nuke future - 8/3/03
		Among them was project Orion, a plan to launch and propel spacecraft weighing thousands of tonnes and carrying dozens of passengers by detonating nuclear bombs behind a pusher plate.
		Orion was cancelled when a nuclear test ban treaty came into force but another project, Nerva, to use a nuclear reactor to produce a rocket jet was the front runner for a possible human mission to Mars after the Apollo moon landings.
		Project Prometheus proposes using a nuclear reactor not much bigger than a dustbin, linked to a turbine or other generator to provide perhaps 250 kW of power.
	www.space4peace.org /articles/prometheus3.htm (1769 words)

	White House Go-Ahead On NASA Nuclear Prometheus Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A source familiar with the NASA budget request for 2004 told Space News that the amount of money the White House is requesting strongly suggests an expansion of the program.
		Not only would the project make human travel to Mars feasible, the story suggests, work on the nuclear space rocket would be a boon to California aerospace firms.
		Prometheus represents a significant expansion of the Nuclear Systems Initiative.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/nuclear_power_030117.html (1302 words)

	NuclearSpace: Project Prometheus
		This project, named Prometheus, could herald the human exploration of Mars next decade.
		Project Prometheus is a nuclear-powered propulsion system tripling the speed of current space travel.
		Some speculate, the President may even officially launch this historic initiative as part of his State of the Union address on January 28.
	www.nuclearspace.com /a_project_prometheus.htm (678 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Nasa to go nuclear
		He is expected to back the US space agency's recent nuclear propulsion initiative, Project Prometheus, either in his State of the Union speech, due on 28 January, or later this year when he submits his 2004 budget to Congress.
		The technology was studied in the 1950s and 1960s in initiatives such as Project Orion, but it was subsequently neglected, partly for political (1963 nuclear test-ban treaty) and financial reasons.
		Project Prometheus - named after the Greek god who stole fire and gave it to man - could cut this travel time to two months.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/2684329.stm (765 words)

	Bush signs off on Project Prometheus? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Los Angeles Times interview (reg req'd) with NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe says "Project Prometheus" would pump $1 billion over the next five years into design and development of a new nuclear rocket.
		NASA officials are upset with the LA Times story's allusion that Bush may announce Project Prometheus in his Jan. 28th State of the Union address, but they did not deny the existence of the project.
		Project Prometheus would only be a small first step for man to reach Mars, and with the current state of NASA, numerous problems with the shuttle program and ISS would need to be fixed before a manned Mars mission could be even considered.
	arstechnica.com /news/posts/1042928958.html (690 words)

	SPACE.com -- Prometheus: Lighting NASA's Nuclear Fire
		The name Prometheus means 'forethought', and true to its name, NASA's space nuclear power initiative was born out of past research with an eye on future innovations.
		NASAs Project Prometheus is targeted at developing two types of nuclear-powered technologies: Radioisotope-based generators and nuclear fission-based systems.
		Prometheus calls for fission power reactor research, advanced heat-to-power conversion hardware, as well as power management and distribution equipment.
	space.com /businesstechnology/technology/prometheus_tech_030423.html (1622 words)

	Prometheus Radio Project!
		Prometheus has played a significant role in the struggle by community groups to establish low-power radio stations - a struggle that has involved the FCC, the National Association of Broadcasters, and National Public Radio.
		On March 9th, Prometheus along with the United Church of Christ, Media Access Project, REC Neworks, and other groups filed a petition before the FCC requesting a freeze on the granting of all translator licenses.
		Prometheus and Media Access Project present oral arguments in the stay of FCC's media deregulation package, in Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in Philadelphia, PA. Read an AP article about it here.
	oldsite.prometheusradio.org /presscenter.shtml (2688 words)

	NASA - Exploration Systems - Prometheus Nuclear Systems and Technology - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus, whose name means "forethought," provided humans with principles such numbers, an alphabet, fire and a desire to know about the heavens.
		Prometheus Nuclear Systems and Technology along with Department of Energy's Office of Naval Reactors are evaluating the possibility of developing a space nuclear reactor to supply future exploration spacecraft with a significant increase in on-board power and spacecraft propulsion capability.
		Such an increase in power would enable missions to the outer reaches of the solar system and beyond as well as substantially increasing the amount of science per mission.
	exploration.nasa.gov /programs/prometheus/overview.html (389 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - MAN ON MARS BY 2011 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Now America's Project Prometheus - named after the Greek god who stole fire from his father Zeus and gave it to man - could cut travel time to Mars from six months to two months.
		A similar project called Project Orion was considered in the late 50s.
		Prometheus gave fire to man, giving us the power needed to create civilisation on Earth.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12557264&method=full&siteid=50143 (828 words)

	The Prometheus Project
		The President explains to his successor about the Project – a secret American effort to convince extraterrestrials that Earth is advanced enough to be left alone.
		Inconnu had arrived in a damaged but highly advanced craft in the 1940s with the information that he had escaped from a group of humans whom aliens had been studying.
		In short, The Prometheus Project had promise, but failed to live up to it.
	www.changingthetimes.net /bookreviews/prometheus_project.htm (320 words)

	The Four Hundred--Project Prometheus: Playing with Fire
		Prometheus was a Greek Titans who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man, his own creation.
		The other thing that the Project Prometheus community has to do is enable members of the OS/400 community to defend the platform and help promote its use in businesses the world over.
		My fear is that whatever community arises out of Project Prometheus will ask the members of the OS/400 community to make very large personal commitments, in terms of time and money, to help sell a machine that IBM ought to be smart enough to try to sell as a weapon against less capable platforms.
	www.itjungle.com /tfh/tfh061206-story01.html (2034 words)

	Prometheus Radio Project - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We are a not-for-profit association dedicated to the democratization of the airwaves through the proliferation of non-commercial, community based, micropower radio stations.
		Prometheus may also take paid building and training projects from agencies that can afford to pay for our services." Prometheus will "apply for foundation funding to sustain the administration of the volunteer matching, and for us to train international radio volunteers."
		Pete Tridish, "Prometheus versus the FCC in federal court Philadelphia," IMC-Philly, September 2, 2003.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Prometheus_Radio_Project (524 words)

	Project Prometheus - The Spreading of the Ideas of the Scientific Revolution from the Countries Where they Originated ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Project Prometheus - The Spreading of the Ideas of the Scientific Revolution from the Countries Where they Originated to the Countries in the Periphery of Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Balkans, Scandinavian) during 17th, 18th and 19th centuries
		For the realisation of this project the co-operation between European countries of the centre and the periphery is necessary because the aim of the whole project is a large-scale synthesis of the partial studies which have been elaborated by the participating teams on a national level.
		This is the first time that a co-operation between such a large number of national research teams on history of science will cooperate on a global study, of such an extended historical period, of a large geographical area that covers almost all of Europe and by the simultaneous use of different language sources.
	www.space.noa.gr /hellinomnimon/prometheus.htm (737 words)

	Prometheus Radio Project
		Prometheus organizers April Glaser and Hannah Sassaman were happy to be there to support the work of this station and the other major community leaders that spoke in favor of local, accountable, community media.
		In collaboration with Free Press, Prometheus Radio Project is helping to organize a Town Meeting on the Future of Media.
		KAMP (Katrina Aftermath Media Project) was on the air for a week, using an experimental low power license issued immediately by the FCC, when they were asked by local activists.
	www.prometheusradio.org (1387 words)

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		The Prometheus is the culmination of several separate research projects which have been combined into one prototype testbed.
		Project Prometheus’s existence for public announcements initially were muted due to an unfortunate Columbia shuttle mishap.
		The project will compete for funds with other space missions, such as returning the space shuttle to flight and tidying up the International Space Station program.
	www.lycos.com /info/prometheus--project-prometheus.html (602 words)

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		Zeus was extremely upset at Prometheus for stealing the fire and as a punishment had him chained to a rock.
		That's when a lawyer from the Media Access Project, a public interest law firm in Washington, D.C., successfully persuaded a federal appeals court in Philadelphia to issue a stay of new FCC rules that make it easier for media companies to buy other media outlets.
		The play depicts the legend of Prometheus, the prophetic god who stole fire from Zeus to help humanity and was shackled to a rock for his pains.
	www.lycos.com /info/prometheus--fires.html?page=3 (500 words)

	BBC R&D - Prometheus - home page
		Prometheus: production of multimedia content for three-dimensional environments distributed over networks.
		In Greek Mythology, Prometheus was a Titan who made human beings out of clay, and taught them the arts of civilisation.
		A LINK project under the Broadcast Technology Programme funded by the UK DTI and EPSRC.
	www.bbc.co.uk /rd/projects/prometheus (55 words)

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