Welcome back!I suppose it had to happen sooner or later. Now that cell phones are practically everywhere somebody has come up with the idea of using a network of cell phones with radiation detectors to spot radiation. Since the things are practically everywhere it’d be possible to cover a huge amount of real [...]
There’s a new scare headline up… “Disabled Spy Satellite Threatens Earth”. Just by reading that you’d think that somebody expected it to land in Times Square or downtown LA and honestly, it’s ridiculous because 75% of the Earth’s surface is water. Most of that is ocean. All by itself that one fact [...]
NASA’s Near Earth Object Program has a bit of interesting news. It seems that there is an asteroid called “2007 WD5″ that has a chance of hitting the red planet. Far as I can find out, this was discovered on Nov. 20, 2007 by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey. On Dec 21, [...]
….used to just mean removing an old one that had burned out and replacing it with a new one. Now the concept is taking on a new meaning. Now it’s referring more and more to the idea of converting from the incandescent bulbs that we’ve known in one form or another since Edison [...]
There’s something on Pysorg.com that lead me to an un-nerving thought. It seems that some mathematicians have solved the ‘mystery’ of traffic jams… (Odd, I didn’t think traffic jams were that much of a mystery, they happen when there’s too many people on the road trying to go in too many different directions at the [...]
I’m not even going to try guessing how many people still know that the Tunguska disaster in Siberia around a hundred years ago was this really huge blast that caused enough destruction that in the 60’s and 70’s there were some that tried tossing around the idea that space aliens dropped an h-bomb or detonated [...]
A company called “Holosonics” has come up with a form of advertising that’s probably going to go down as the single most obnoxious idea that anybody has ever come up with. Their technology allows them to beam a focused sound channel directly into the heads of passers-by.
This means that they can put an audio [...]
Yeah, I know. I had the same reaction when I saw that headline in the slashdot newsletter last night. Yet apparently that’s exactly what they’ve done.
Specifically they’ve re-created the process that emerald cockroach wasps use to feed their larvae. First stinging the cockroach into submission and then giving it a second sting [...]
The folks on the space shuttle had a busy week. They’ve been doing a bunch of work on one of the solar panels, including doing some extra spacewalks to do some repairs. This kind of work would be problem enough here on Earth but when you add the zero-g environment, having to work [...]
Personally, I don’t think so. At least not in the way that has apparently been suggested by Professor James Lovelock. Some may remember him as the guy who invented the “Gaia theory”, which is a really newage-ish kinda theory that treats the planet like it was a living organism (I remember reading that this [...]
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