NY Times reports Discovery, Imax and Sony confirmed on Tuesday that they are forming a joint venture for a 3-D television channel. Broadcasting Cable has some more info: The partnership aims to launch in the U.S. in 2011 with a mix of 3D-friendly content, including natural history, space, exploration, adventure, engineering, science and technology, motion …
The Nakheel Tower had started construction, but was cancelled in Dec 2009 due to the financial crisis in Dubai. The Nakheel was to be 1000 meters tall. Proposed and the projects are Still Active The Burj Al Meel project is still active and is proceeding to award a design contract. If it is built it …
Attainability of high velocities for impact ignition (page pdf) by Winterberg To reach the flyer plate velocities in excess of 1000km/sec required for impact ignition, it is proposed to combine the ablation acceleration of a dense hydrogen jet by its isentropic compression in a convergent Prandtl-Meyer flow, magnetically insulated by the Nernst effect against the …
Sky and Telescope reports: Kepler has already logged more than 100 transiting-planet candidates, but he said most of these will probably prove to be false alarms once followups are done by other methods Kepler is watching, nearly continuously, a selection of about 156,000 stars from 9th to 15th magnitude (out of 4.6 million in its …
Avatar has only been released for 17 days and it is already the 4th highest grossing movie worldwide (not inflation adjusted The movie has had very little dropoff in attendence Avatar will likely have a long run in the theaters and must make about 80% of the box office it has already made in 17 …
EWeek reports that Intel will launch a 32nm chip Intel is prepping for the official release of its 32-nm “Westmere” Core processors for desktops and laptops Jan. 7 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Intel is readying the release of almost 20 32-nanometer Westmere processors for both desktops and laptops. Intel reportedly will …
China’s Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in approved August, 2009 to two strains of (genetically modified) GM rice and one of GM maize for small-scale field trials — the first time that China has granted safety certificates to staple food crops. A document published on the website of the MoA’s Biosafety Management Office in October said …
On shear flow stabilization concepts for the dense z – pinch by Winterberg (17 page pdf) Different ways to achieve the stabilization of a linear z-pinch by a superimposed shear flow are analyzed. They are: 1) Axial shear flow proposed by Arber and Howell with the pinch discharge in its center, and experimentally tested by …
Ultradense Deuterium (21 page pdf) by Winterberg An attempt is made to explain the recently reported occurrence of ultradense deuterium as an isothermal transition of Rydberg matter into a high density phase by quantum mechanical exchange forces. It is conjectured that the transition is made possible by the formation of vortices in a Cooper pair …
For the second time in just over a year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper temporarily shut down Parliament on Wednesday The anticipation is that Harper will call an election shortly after parliament returns in March. While recent polls have not put the Conservatives decisively ahead, they have shown that the Liberals, the main opposition party, are …
Carnival of Space 135 is up at Steve’s Astrocorner This site provided articles on the possible discovery of dark matter particles and an overview of electron cyclotron resonance thrusters Planetaria covers the proposed Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) mission. It has an estimated launch in January 2015 and landing in June 2022. The lander would float …