XCOR aims to launch suborbital spacecraft within two years
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By Wolfgang Gruener
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 13:52
Los Angeles (CA) – XCOR, a small aerospace company based in Mojave, Calif., today unveiled plans to launch itself into the era of space tourism with a two-seat suborbital spacecraft. “Lynx” could be operable within two years and give [...]
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TG Daily – XCOR aims to launch suborbital spacecraft within two years
Posted in My Thoughts on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
India sets world record, launches 10 satellites at one go-India-The Times of India
Posted in My Thoughts on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SRIHARIKOTA: Setting a world record, India’s Polar rocket on Monday successfully placed ten satellites, including the country’s remote sensing satellite, into orbit in a single mission. (Watch) The ten pack launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) saw the 230-tonne Polar Satellite launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9) carry the heaviest luggage–824 kgs–and put into orbit an [...]
Build a 14.5 watt data center in a shoebox [printer-friendly] | The Register
Posted in My Thoughts on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Build a 14.5 watt data center in a shoebox
By Ashlee Vance in Mountain View (ashlee.vance@theregister.co.uk)
Published Sunday 27th April 2008 08:44 GMT
Those supercomputing guys love to build their massive data centers full of hardware and high-end cooling systems. They make you feel like a real man or at least a real geek, which is important.
Folks with [...]
Technology Review: Computerized Combat Glove
Posted in My Thoughts on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some U.S. soldiers in Iraq are already equipped with wearable computer systems. But the lack of efficient input devices restricts their use to safer environments, such as the interior of a Humvee or a base station, where the soldier can set down his weapon and use the keyboard or mouse tethered to his body. Now [...]
World Mysteries – Strange Artifacts – Antikythera Mechanism
Posted in My Thoughts on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Ancient Greek Computer? – Part 1
In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets by Derek J. de Solla PriceFrom June 1959 Scientific American p.60-7
Among the treasures [...]
NASA dips into bargain basement with new satellite | NetworkWorld.com Community
Posted in My Thoughts on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NASA dips into bargain basement with new satellite
Submitted by Layer 8 on Wed, 11/21/2007 – 12:13pm.
NASA today said it has built a tiny, low-cost satellite it says will be ideal for adventure seekers or companies with high-tech space applications who need to get into space quickly and relatively inexpensively.
The Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology SATellite [...]
Physicists draw up plans for real ‘cloaking device’ – tech – 25 May 2006 – New Scientist Tech
Posted in My Thoughts on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Physicists have drawn up blueprints for a cloaking device that could, in theory, render objects invisible.
Light normally bounces off an object’s surface making it visible to the human eye. But John Pendry and colleagues at Imperial College London, UK, have calculated that materials engineered to have abnormal optical properties, known as metamaterials, could make light [...]
Simple ’superlens’ sharpens focusing power – tech – 24 April 2008 – New Scientist Tech
Posted in My Thoughts on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A simple-to-make “superlens” can focus 10 times more sharply than a conventional lens. It could shrink the size of features on computer chips, or help power gadgets without wires.
No matter how powerful a conventional lens, it cannot focus light down to more than about half its wavelength, the “diffraction limit“. This limits the amount of [...]
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
Posted in My Thoughts on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
By Gary Wolf 04.21.08 | 6:00 PM
Illustration: Steven Wilson
Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower
1: Distract Yourself
2: Caffeinate With Care
3: Choose Impressive Information
4: Think Positive
5: Do the Right Drugs
6: Juice Your IQ Score
7: Know Your Brain
8: Don’t Panic
9: Embrace Chaos
10: [...]
Bush Letter Raises Mideast Peace Debate – washingtonpost.com
Posted in My Thoughts on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A letter that President Bush personally delivered to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon four years ago has emerged as a significant obstacle to the president’s efforts to forge a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians during his last year in office.
Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli prime minister, said this week that Bush’s letter gave [...]
