Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Dutch Uboat Worx is making the C-Explorer 2 which can accommodate a trained pilot and one passenger. The submersible was designed for a maximum depth of 1,000 metres and comes equipped with modern lithium-ion batteries which allow it to remain submerged for up to 12 hours …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Newsweek coverage of how China is not displacing the USA The coverage of China’s global inroads has been profoundly short on context, particularly when it comes to how China is—and is not—surpassing the U.S. as a global power. China’s trade with regions like Africa and Latin …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Update for a missed submission: Cheap Astronomy presents the second of its epic two part podcast series on stellar archaeology. 1. Centauri Dreams sends “The Solar Sail in Context”: This is one of four pieces I wrote this past week covering one aspect or another of …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Princeton University scientists and others in the Borexino Collaboration have detected geoneutrinos at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics. The discovery could explain how reactions taking place in the planet’s deep interior affect events on the surface. This stainless …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Hi, this is your occasional correspondent, Joseph Friedlander writing for Next Big Future on Professor Bolonkin’s ideas (and some of my own) on patent reform. Key insight: the massive lion’s share of the benefits of invention—if any (most inventions are unsuccessful)—should go to encourage inventors, not …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Tests in early June have confirmed that FF-1 (Focus Fusion 1 experimental Device) is producing higher fusion yields than have been achieved with any other DPF (Dense Plasma Fusion) at the same peak current. The FF-1 results are as much as a factor of ten above …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 155 is up at backseat driving and it is in Haiku format This site provided two articles Details on a SSTO magnetohydrodynamic and inertial electrostatic space plane. This design was covered at STAIF 2005 but there is continuing research into both MHD …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software NASA WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore) space telescope has discovered at least two cool, substellar objects known as brown dwarfs. One of the brown dwarfs, dubbed WISE 2, appears to be as cold as any that are known. It may even be colder, Wright said, than …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Robert Freitas and the nanofactory collaboration published a nanotechnology paper in February, 2010 Denis Tarasov, Natalia Akberova, Ekaterina Izotova, Diana Alisheva, Maksim Astafiev, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Optimal Tooltip Trajectories in a Hydrogen Abstraction Tool Recharge Reaction Sequence for Positionally Controlled Diamond Mechanosynthesis,” J. Comput. Theor. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Why am I going to revisit the Six Million dollar man ? The Seven Horizons Project has a Youtube video of the six Million dollar man intro on its prewiki page. The Seven Horizons project involves over 20 PHds and some doctors and seems to have …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The UK is working on a new type of armour that will use pulses of electrical energy to repel rockets, shrapnel and other ammunition that might damage a vehicle. Researchers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), which is the research and development arm of the …