U.S.-Russian crew blasts to space station

By Peter Leonard, PressBAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — two Us Astronauts and a Russian Wigura issue, successfully Wednesday with the mission to the international space station, which will see the last ever swing visits with the orbiting Mir space laboratory.Astronauts U.S. Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker and Russian Fyodor Yurchikhin drawn in the Russian Soyuz rocket, its Pobudzacze incendiary Starry sky over Central Asia making steppe. Their Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft is set to reach stations Friday The trio will be on board the space station to see the final Shuttle — Endeavour — to depart from its last planned mission to the laboratory in November before the fleet is finally withdrew.Wheelock said he was saddened to see shuttle Go, but described his mission as an exciting new beginning. "Of course, is the change in our program ... but not always bad, is to change the "Wheelock, who takes over as Commander of the 25 Expedition as only the current crew returns to Earth in approximately three months, said the draft Conference news.From the airport szczekowych Venerable Soyuz will take over as the only means through which astronauts will be able to travel to the space station, which has raised some concerns about over-reliance on craft designed Soviet. Crowd astronauts relatives, space officials and others gasped in awe as they watched the rocket slowly dissapearing on distanceleaving ghostly white cloud. Broke into applause at the announcement of successful entry into orbit craft nine minutes after launch. "This was probably one of the more beautiful runs ever seen, "said NASA Spokesman Josh Byerly. shortly after the people at home Saw glittering dot space station quickly moving overhead in a rare coincidence.On Wednesday the rocket marked a landmark landmark, is the hundredth flight in the station.Wheelock said their mission will be the first to take full advantage of the capacity of the station as the orbiting Mir space lab. He said he was especially enthralled by your contribution to the engineering of new materials and its role in ensuring that the achievements in the field of medicine. "We are finally getting to the point when we use the international space station for its original purpose and that is that science and research, "Byerly said after the run.Wheelock, Colonel United States Army, returns to the space station for the first time since his club two weeks on the discovery at the end of 2007, when he and his colleagues, earned accolades for their work repairing facility energy generation.Walker is making her first trip to the space station, and thus the in the footsteps of her husband, Andrew Thomas, one of a handful of U.S. astronauts to live on board the Russian Mir station, the old in the 1990s.Like the other starts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome leased Russian in southern Kazakhstan, their mission had verified the routine.After installation of Poland for their pressure suits just passed to the North, the crew received the final message of encouragement from officials, including the head of the Russian space agency.In the final salute before mounting the bus to the console is to launching a group of well-wishers were welcomed by Walker with the letters spelling out "Go Shannon!"Before the bus engines, Yurchikhin by young daughter, Yelena, were held aloft and kissed her father through the glass.In the console the astronauts satellite, closely linked to their seats in the rocket some two hours before the start, when their families and colleagues waited anxiously on the platform to display a little more than one kilometre from the hotel.Against the background of the steppe, starkly dim light on the gantry up rocket Soyuz shimmered on the «known as Gagarin's Pad. Is the site from which the SOVIET UNION sent Yuri Gagarin in 1961, in addition to become the first man in space.Within one hour prior to the launch of regular updates on the final preparations crackled with speakers platform view.When it came time, rocket roared to life and not touching the ground before gradually lifted off to heaven wywracania, dramatically moving shadow sky white phosphorous.Three person crew include the Russian commander Alexander Skvortskov, a NASA flight engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian Mikhail Kornienko, who on the orbiting Mir space laboratory since April. Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY Community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally and keep your language decent. Use the "report abuse" button to make the difference. Learn more.

Jimmy Buffett Gulf rescue mission: rescuing marine life

Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and two friends are hoping their new rescue boats may save birds and marine life under threat from the worst of the nation. Boats specially designed to navigate shallow marshlands, coming from a wide range of wildlife, coast of the Gulf ".In principle, we can set something on a cocktail napkin and provided the idea, "says Mark Castlow, a boat builder in Vero Beach, Fla. That was the second day of the disaster, he says, as he watched television images of the spill and saw the need for a boat that could achieve the shallow waters of the Gulf Coast estuaries.Castlow shared the idea with his friend Buffett, who agreed to operate the boat cost $ 43,000, "he says. "Called and Jimmy and says:" Let's go for it. Let's do it, "" Castlow says. "It is so like all of us. He's got in suicide. "Shortage of equipment to help contain oil — and rescuing wildlife — have been a recurring problem since the April 20 deepwater Horizon on oil rigs, the outbreak of the Carys Mitchelmore, says he is a professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. "If you can get in these areas, shallow and rescue everything can be oiled, this is great," says Mitchelmore, who has testified before Congress on oil spill pollution. "If anyone can help, I think it is an excellent idea, especially if you do not want to be costing anything."Buffett, who graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1969, met with school President Martha Saunders this month brainstorming ways it can help, "says Beth Taylor, University news and Media Relations Manager.Miss decided to grant the first boat at the Gulf Coast Research Lab in Ocean Springs, the composer then. He was expected to arrive late this week or next week, and Castlow says there are plans to build three other boats of the same type of boat is needed, "says Taylor, because boats lab will not be able to navigate in shallow waters, such as the 10 cm depth, such as new, donated. "Our boats are larger, and they cannot be find around in the shallow water, "he says. "This will be used by our scientists and our graduate schools to go out in the estuaries and wetlands."Castlow and Jimbo Meador, friend and colleague at Castlow's Dragonfly Boatworks, designed for boats s.w.a.t. — an acronym for shallow water account terminal — running misting to cool the injured wildlife, after he is taken on board in the Gulf of summer heat. "Crown wraps around the boat, and that there is a great case, because now you can work in the shade and misting," says Castlow that "sounds like a great idea, because you might want to do meaningful right there," says Ed Verge, an instructor, a boat building lead Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, North Carolina, N.C.Madilyn Fletcher, Director of the school of the University of South Carolina for the reduction of stress on the injured party srodowiskamówi nature is the key to the animals recover and idea is sensible. "Everything you can do to save these bird damaged is all the better, and the more you can do to reduce the load on them when you are trying to do this is all for the better, as well as" Fletcher says.Monday 724 birds apparently array had been rescued off the coast of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, in accordance with the consolidated fish and report collection of wild animals, which tracks the number of reported by government agencies and rescue Centers to the Unified area command in the zone of the spill. 247 other birds of the five Member States have been found dead. "When you see something is thinning what to do for life — what you love — it simply tore everyone, "says Castlow."Simply we thought, "we have the opportunity to make a difference here." "Sharing in the Community Guidelines: USA TODAY so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally and keep your language decent. Use the "report abuse" button to make the difference. Learn more.

Obama Plan to land on the asteroid may be unrealistic to 2025

By Traci Watson, Special for USA TODAYMillions of miles from Earth, two astronauts hover weightlessly next to a giant space rock, selecting pebbles for scientific research. The spaceship where they'll sleep floats just overhead. Beyond it, barely visible in the sky, is a glittering speck. It's Earth.It sounds like a science-fiction movie, but this surreal scene could, if President Obama has his way, become a reality. However, unlike Hollywood depictions in such movies as Armageddon, it's going to be a lot harder to pull off.

Almost 50 years after President Kennedy proposed sending a man to the moon "before this decade is out," Obama has set an equally improbable goal. He has proposed a 2025 date for NASA to land humans on an asteroid, a ball of rock hurtling around the sun.

The moon is 240,000 miles away. A trip to an asteroid would be 5 million miles — at a minimum.

Why go?

If the mission ever gets launched, it would mark a milestone just as significant as Neil Armstrong's "small step" on the moon, experts say. To go to an asteroid, humans would have to venture for the first time into "deep space," where the sun, not the Earth, is the main player.

An asteroid trip "would really be our first step as a species outside the Earth-moon system," says planetary scientist Andy Rivkin of the Applied Physics Laboratory. "This would be taking off the training wheels."

Asteroids have always been passed over as a destination for human explorers. Then-president George H.W. Bush wanted NASA to go to Mars, while his son, George W. Bush, chose the moon. During the past six years, NASA spent $9 billion building a spaceship, rocket and other gear to help reach the second Bush's goal of returning humans to the lunar surface by 2020.

In February, Obama took steps toward killing Bush's moon program, which was beset by technical troubles and money woes. Two months later, in a speech at Cape Canaveral, Obama announced that the astronauts' next stop is an asteroid.

So far, the Obama administration has been quiet on the need for a major sum of money to accomplish his goal. And unlike Kennedy, who used Sputnik to promote the moon mission, Obama doesn't have a geopolitical imperative to justify the goal. Congress is resisting Obama's change of direction, which could delay investment in the program.

If Obama wants to bolster his cause, there's a rationale he could cite: An asteroid could wipe out as many human lives as a nuclear bomb. The dominant scientific theory posits that dinosaurs went extinct because of a direct hit from an asteroid as wide as San Francisco. A space rock big enough to kill thousands slams into Earth every 30,000 years, according to a January report from the National Research Council.

That scenario provided the rationale for asteroid missions in various Hollywood movies, including Armageddon. The 1998 film, which starred Bruce Willis, grossed more than $200 million at box office in the U.S. and more than $500 million worldwide. It went on to be a staple on cable television.

But if Americans think they have an understanding of the challenge of going to an asteroid, they're wrong. "I loved the movie," says Laurie Leshin, a top NASA official who is involved in the early planning stages of an asteroid mission, although "it was completely inaccurate."

Obama's plans for NASA have drawn many opponents, including Armstrong, but their criticism centers on the administration's reliance on private space companies to ferry astronauts to orbit. The goal of an asteroid hasn't been questioned as much.

That doesn't mean it would be easy. Although experts agree it could be done, here are four asteroid-size reasons why life won't imitate art.

•Astronauts can't hop on a space shuttle to get there.

In Armageddon, Willis' character and his crew blast off in two modified space shuttles to reach the killer asteroid. But NASA has long planned to retire the shuttles within the next year. And even if they weren't all headed to museums, they're useless as asteroid transporters.

The shuttles were built only to circle Earth, says Dan Adamo, a former mission control engineer who has studied human missions to asteroids. They don't carry the fuel to jump into deep space, and their heat shields aren't designed to withstand the extra-high temperatures of returning from a destination other than the Earth's orbit.

What's needed instead is a giant rocket on the scale of the monstrous Saturn V — taller than Big Ben — that propelled man to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. Such a project is "a difficult challenge" that will cost in the multiple billions of dollars, says Ray Colladay, a member of NASA's advisory council.

NASA spent more than $52 billion in 2010 dollars to develop and build the Saturn V. Building a 21st-century version can be done but will require a sharp increase in the NASA budget later this decade, some space experts say.

"That's the issue everybody wants to duck right now, because it's uncomfortable to face that," Colladay says.

NASA would also need to build a spaceship where the astronauts can live and store all the oxygen, food and water needed for a long voyage. One option is to launch a small space pod carrying the crew, then, once safely in space, unleash an inflatable habitat, Leshin says.

NASA has little practice with such a blow-up spacecraft.

•The trip takes a long, long time.

Willis and company arrive at their target asteroid in a few days, if not a few hours. Admittedly, it's streaking toward Earth at the time. NASA would prefer to go to one before it gets to that stage.

Studies by Adamo, former astronaut Thomas Jones and others show that a round trip to a target asteroid would typically take five to six months. That assumes NASA shoots for one of the 40 or so asteroids that come closest to the Earth's path in the 2020s and 2030s and relies on spacecraft similar to those NASA had designed for Bush's moon mission.

Another problem during the journey — the crew would spend months "cooking" in space radiation, says NASA's Dave Korsmeyer, who has compiled a list of the most accessible asteroids. Shuttle passengers are somewhat screened from such radiation by Earth's magnetic field. Astronauts who leave Earth's orbit have no such protection.

Space radiation raises the risk of cancer and in extreme cases causes nausea and vomiting, says Walter Schimmerling, former program scientist of NASA's space radiation program. The astronauts might need to take drugs to prevent the ill effects of radiation.

Then there's the "prolonged isolation and confinement" that the crew will have to endure, says Jason Kring of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "This crew will be more on their own than any other crew in history."

If there's an emergency halfway into the trip, the astronauts would not be able to get home in a few days, as the Apollo 13 crew did. Instead it would take weeks, if not months.

•Humans can't walk or drive on an asteroid.

Once they land on the asteroid "the size of Texas," the heroes of Armageddon run over the spiky terrain, except when they're steering two tank-like vehicles. In reality, even the biggest asteroids have practically no gravity. So anything in contact with the surface could easily drift away.

"You don't land on an asteroid," says former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, a longtime advocate of asteroid studies. "You pull up to one and dock with it. ... And getting away from it, all you have to do is sneeze and you're gone." He envisions a spaceship hovering next to the asteroid and occasionally firing its thrusters to stay in place.

Astronauts wouldn't walk on an asteroid. They would drift next to it, moving themselves along with their gloved hands.

To keep from floating into space, crewmembers could anchor a network of safety ropes to the asteroid's surface, but "that has its own risks, because we don't understand how strong the surfaces of asteroids are and whether (they) would hold an astronaut in place," says Daniel Scheeres, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado.

The minimal gravity also means that any dust the astronauts stir up will hang in a suspended cloud for a long time. Because there's no weather on an asteroid, there's no erosion to smooth the dust particles.

"It's all going to stay pretty razor-sharp. ... It's not the most friendly stuff in the universe," Korsmeyer says. Keeping humans safe as they explore an asteroid "is going to be really tricky."

•Humanity doesn't hang in the balance.

In Armageddon, NASA must send a crew to an asteroid or life on Earth will be wiped out. "Even the bacteria," says the NASA chief, played by Billy Bob Thornton.

In the real world, that irrefutable motivation is absent. By 2025, Obama's target date, there will have been four presidential elections. Any could result in the mission's cancellation, just as Obama canceled Bush's moon plan. "The politics of this is far more challenging than the engineering," Colladay says.

The Obama administration has promised to increase NASA's budget by $6 billion over the next five years, but priorities may change. The Bush administration, for example, in 2007 cut long-term funding for its own moon program by $1.2 billion.

As the deficit looms larger, "especially as the November elections come along ... I would just not be surprised if enthusiasm for some big human spaceflight mission ends," says Marcia Smith, founder of spacepolicyonline.com.

As it is, the extra $6 billion Obama has promised NASA is inadequate for all the tasks the agency is supposed to tackle, Jones says. "The declaration that we're going to deep space is not matched by budget reality," he says.

Leshin, the NASA official, responds that the agency is embarking on a research program that will lead to new, less costly technologies. The agency will build new spacecraft over a period of many years, so the costs don't pile up all at once, she says.

"If we're making progress toward goals that are exciting and important to the American people, then it should be a sustainable program," Leshin says.

She is optimistic that relatively soon, NASA astronauts will speed toward a rendezvous with an asteroid, and that it will be better than in the movies.

"The first time we send humans beyond the cradle of the Earth-moon system, it's going to be extraordinary," Leshin says. "We will have gone further with humans in space than ever before. It will be an incredible first."

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The Group seeks to list endangered for Franklin's Bumblebee

Jeff Barnard, associated PressGRANTS PASS, Oregon — protection lodged a petition Wednesday add Bumblebee from Southern Oregon and Northern California to the list of threatened species.Society for invertebrate conservation and Robbin Thorp, entomologist at the University of California at Davis, formally petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the insect — called Bombus Franklin — under the endangered species Act. Scott Hoffman Black, Executive Director of the Xerces society in Portland, Oregonsaid petition is part of efforts to reverse this decline in bumblebees and other native bees in the world due to Habitat loss, pesticides and diseases of the transition from commercial greenhouses.The group is preparing a petition to protect other species of Bumblebee. Bee Franklin was elected to This petition because the documentation of its decline is more detailed than for other species. THORP found 94 Franklin bumblebees in 1994, but he has not found any since 2006. Farmers often hire Honeybee pollinate crops, farmers, but uli was decimated by the killer of mysterious Honeybee known as colony collapse disorder.Some farmers are turning to bumblebees to pollinate, particularly for hothouse crops such as tomatoes, peppers and strawberries and crops such as berries, cranberries, raspberries, squash or melon. Bumblebees pollinate approximately 15% of all crops grown in the nation, it is worth 3 billion dollars. "Decrease in Franklin's Bumblebee should serve as an alarm clock that we can begin to lose important pollinators, "Black said. "We hope that will remind us to Franklin's Bumblebee pollinators in the u.s. towards extinction."While many native pollinators have seen decreases related to loss of Habitat, and pesticides, Franklin's Bumblebee and some related species have suffered deep and sudden that Thorp has theorized the theory may be associated with fungi, which has been accidentally transported from bumblebees imported from Europe for commercial use.The work of researchers at the University of Illinois to See if mushrooms known as nosema bombus due to decrease in a number of related bumblebees, Bombus Western once common, Bumblebee and banded patch rusty yellow Bumblebee in the Northeast. Earlier this year, the Xerces society and other conservation groups urged Federal authorities and scientists begin governing shipments of agricultural commercially domesticated bumblebees to protect wild bumblebees from disease threatening their survival.Report of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 blamed the decline of pollinators around the world on a combination of Habitat loss, pesticides, pollution and diseases passing from greenhouses using commercial bumblebees.Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY Community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally and keep your language decent. Use the "report abuse" button to make the difference. Learn more.

Nations cannot agree on curbing Japan whale hunt

By Arthur Max, associated PressAGADIR, Morocco — Japanese officials and environmentalists traded blame Wednesday as Nations failed to reach a deal to control whale hunts by Japan, Norway and Iceland — countries that kill hundreds of whales every year 88 Nations International Whaling Commission was held two days of intense closed-door talks on the basis of a proposal in order to facilitate the 25-year-old ban on commercial whaling Exchange for smaller kills by the three countries which qualify for exemption to a moratorium on hunting for profit.Around 1500 animals are killed each year in Japan, Norway and Iceland. Japan, which kills most of the whales, insists on his hunt for research — but more whale meat and products of the whale's Japanese restaurant than in laboratories.The key sticking point was that the Agency declared the shrine of whaling in 1994 in the Southern Ocean south of Australia, but Japanese ships hunt freely there because the Agency does not have any enforcement powers.Australia began already complaints against Japanese Wielorybnicza in the International Court of Justice in the Hague, the Supreme Court of the UNITED NATIONS.Acting IWC Chairman Anthony Liverpool, said the meeting opened Wednesday that "the basic position remained far apart." "After nearly three years of discussions, it seems our discussions are at a stalemate," said the Chief delegate of the U.S. Monica Medina. Japanese Wielorybnicza Yasue Funayama Commissioner told her country had offered major concessions to reach a compromise and accused anti-whaling countries which refused to accept the killing of a single animal. "We must rise above politics and engage in a wider perspective, "said Funayama. Anti-Whaling countries seek to end Japan's forays in the Southern Ocean Hunting Wielorybnicza shrine, a ban on international trade in whale meat and set firm quotas for Peoples whaling for next years 10. proposed transaction will let Japan kill 400 whales in the South of the shrine for the next five yearsthat many countries, that was too high and that Japan Saw with as main concessions. Set in Japan 2009 quota for each kill more than 900 whales, but have not reached this figure due to the harassment of the anti-whaling groupsAustralia and groups of countries in Latin America held firm on zero of whaling in the Antarctic ocean, said a delegate from a country of whaling. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak in the media.Iceland refused to consider any transaction limit for the international sale of whale products, he added.Be blamed for the breakdown of Japan. "If Japan had agreed to phase out in the Southern Ocean, would be a good opportunity "for the transaction," said Wendy Elliott WWF.Other defenders expressed relief that the 25-year-old ban on whaling has not been lifted. "This has been done here, this contract would be lived in infamy, "said Patrick Ramage, the International Fund for Animal Welfare .it was unclear if the private discussions will continue until the meeting is scheduled to Close on Friday. Many delegations called break of one year in the efforts.The formal talks will Center on issues such as preventing collisions between whales and ships, the effects of climate change and to the discussion on the research of the planned Russian crude oil in seasonal feeding grounds of endangered Gray Whale.Some derive have accused Japan of purchase of the vote, using development aid money and personal przyslugi Jitter small, poorer Nations to its side in the debate of whaling.But a delegate from Saint Kitts and Nevis, Daven Joseph said the media and environmental groups to stop the allegations. "We have been accused of being surrogates. This is not the case, "he said.Liverpool, a diplomat from Antigua and Barbuda and the Ambassador of Japan, is quoted by the British paper as unless Japanese interests paid hotel bills for him and says he does not see anything "odd about that."Whaling Commission was created after World War II, to the conservation and management of whale stocks. Tens of thousands of animals killed each year until 1986, when the IWC adopted a moratorium.Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY Community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally and keep your language decent. Use the "report abuse" button to make the difference. Learn more.

Combating lice may be assisted by a new genome

By Randolph e. Schmid, associated PressWASHINGTON — research sometimes may be lousy job. Literally in 1957 their quest to understand how life works, researchers reported Monday they have Sequenced the genome of the human body Packet.This law, those annoying little root, that live on human blood and place their eggs in the clothes.From a practical point of view of the findings may lead to better ways of eliminating this parasite, which can transmit disease to humans, according to the researchers, who were led by Ewen f. Kirkness j. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md and Barry r. Pittendrigh from University of IllinoisUrbana For its digestionhumans Wesz is based on specific types of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. So find a way to get drugs to the bacteria can kill lice too. For more information about lice knowing can also lead to new kinds of repellents.Genome lonowa is small and contains relatively few genes associated with light reception or reacting to smell and taste, the research found.The researchers said, it seems that humans evolved from humans Wesz lonowa head of the people, time to start wearing clothes, offering lice another place to hide.In addition, they noted that lonowa people and lonowa chimpanzee evolved from a common ancestor between 5 million and 7 million years ago.It was more than annoyance, ever since then, potentially carrying typhus, Relapsing fever and Trench fever. "In addition to its importance in the context of the health of the human genome louse is essential for understanding the evolution of the insects, "said may, Berenbaum, head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois, in a statement.Genome Sequencing effort involved researchers at institutions in the u.s., Europe, 28, Australia and South Korea Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY Community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally and keep your language decent. Use the "report abuse" button to make the difference. Learn more.

Show Imago utopian, green cities in the year 2030

Karen Matthews, associated PressNEW YORK — imagine no cars — or less, though.In New York City Pas two mile parkway FDR Drive is torn to open lower Manhattan for parks and streets and bicyclists are given their own lane on the Brooklyn Bridge, An elevated highway. Guangzhou, China, is transformed in pedestrian promenade and roofs are connected with raised walkways and bikeways.In Jakarta, Indonesia traditional bicycle taxis called becaks are re-engineered to be lighter and easier to drive.These three towns and seven other featured in exhibition on transport, environment-friendly future opening Thursday in New York City. The exhibition, entitled "Our city Ourselves," will be at the Centre for architecture in Greenwich Village by Sept 11 before travelling to other cities, said organizers. "We hired 10 architects from cities around the world help us imagine what their cities may be look in 2030 if we made the city more human scale, more friendly, "says Walter Hook, Executive Director of the Institute of transport and the exhibition of the rozwojuorganizowane policy of financing of the ClimateWorks Foundation. Hook based on San Francisco cradled his Bicycle Helmet in one arm, he provided for in tour of the exposition. "Essentially we are trying to send the message that if the city does not move in this direction we're going to face in the urzeczywistniona climate, because in developing countries the use of private cars is Escalating two-digit," Hook, "he said.The city has been selected as the hook and based on the New York ITDP have relationships with them, helped design the bus systems in Jakarta, Indonesia; Mexico (City); Ahmedabad, India, and other locales.The exhibit includes images and 3D models of urban neighborhoods as they are provided in 2030 next to current pictures from the same neighborhoods.In the township Soweto in Johannesburg, the current picture shows low-rise housing and not much more. But Soweto 2030 is the bustling markets and public spaces. "Not allowed to open shops, traditionally, on apartheid, "Hook," he said. "What we have done is, therefore, we have already sort of reimagined as a kind of new city ... where people may actually work and shop in downtown Soweto."Model of Guangzhou, also known as Canton, shows the network path of the roof evoking Theodor Seuss Geisel. "In China, nothing is possible, "Hook," he said.Utopia lower Manhattan shows vision pedestrians, bicycles, and very few cars. Michael Sorkin, architect who designed the piece New York exhibition, said he thought that it is "feasible." "The streets are laid down by the Dutch in the pattern of medieval fundamentally," he said. "You have not edited for cars."In New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg won he has accolades from advocates alternative transport for the introduction of pedestrian streets in the middle of Times Square, near the theatres of Broadway and Herald Square, where Macy flagship department store.Sorkin said his own ideas such as the tearing down of the lower part of the FDR Drive, which runs along the East side of Manhattan, are equally plausible. "A year ago nobody thought you can shut down Broadway, "he said. "But suddenly is shut down, and everyone loves." "Our cities, Ourselves" travels to Guangzhou after New York City. Other cities in the exposition are Ahmedabad, India; Budapest, Hungary; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Jakarta, Indonesia; Johannesburg, South Africa, Mexico, Mexico, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY Community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally and keep your language decent. Use the "report abuse" button to make the difference. Learn more.