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Argentine warship hits Brazil ship From correspondents in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil December 1, 2004 AN Argentine warship inadvertently fired on a Brazilian frigate during joint naval exercises in the Atlantic Ocean, injuring five people, officials said. Four Brazilian sailors and an Argentine officer were hurt during live-fire training late on Monday night off the coast of Brazil near Cabo Frio, 125km north-east of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Navy said. The accident happened when an Argentine warship fired a shot from one its canons, hitting the Brazilian frigate Rademaker. The five men were taken to a naval hospital in...

Building Tomorrow's Space Battleships with Today's Tech By Robert Peterson special to space.com posted: 06:02 pm ET 21 January 2000 In the movies, X-wings and TIE fighters dart and weave in dogfights out of a WWII epic. But what if we had to build a maneuverable spaceship that could potentially take evasive actions -- and we had to do it today? In fact, let's say aliens decided to invade Earth tomorrow. While their gigantic command ship camps in high orbit, their attack fighters cruise above the maximum altitude of our jets, dropping bombs on us. What do we do? Earth-shattering...