The Cheytac M200 was rated the top sniper gun Wikipedia on the Cheytac Intervention The CheyTac Intervention is an American bolt action sniper rifle manufactured by CheyTac for long range soft target interdiction. It is fed by a detachable single stack magazine, which holds 7 rounds. It fires .408 CheyTac or .375 CheyTac ammunition. CheyTac …
There is a new website yottawatts from Thorium, which prompted this post to answer how in general to get yottawatts from fission, fusion or solar Here are the units prefix definitions from wikipedia. 10^3 W kW kilowatt 10^6 W MW megawatt 10^9 W GW gigawatt (current large hydro have 1 to 20 gigwatts. Nuclear and …
1. Redbox video kiosks and Netflix are putting the double hammer to Blockbuster and other video rental stores. This and reduction in checkout jobs with more self-check out services at Supermarkets, hardware stores are examples of how “robotics” [actually process changes] are impacting the job market, which was discussed by Marshall Brain. Struggling Blockbuster was …
BBC News is among many places reporting the opening of the new Tallest building in the world – the Burj Dubai USA Today reports that the tower was renamed the Burj Khalifa in a nod to the leader of neighboring Abu Dhabi— the oil-rich sheikdom which came to its rescue during the financial meltdown. Abu …
1. Scientists working on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), in a disused iron ore mine in Minnesota, have announced that they had detected two weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs), that are thought to make up dark matter. If they are confirmed by further observations that will begin next year, they would rank as one of …
Parajet Skycar The Parajet skycar costs $80,000 and can be ordered now and is scheduling deliveries for late 2010 Parajet flew and drove its prototype from London to Timbuktu in January 2009. The Parajet SkyCar in “fly mode” is suspended by the latest ram-air wing and capable of take-off from a field or airstrip in …
According to Yonatan Dubi and Massimiliano Di Ventra of the University of California, San Diego. They have calculated that provided some points along the wire’s length stay below the threshold temperature, the material will superconduct. For this to work, the wire’s surface must be extremely clean, allowing electrons to move freely and spread along the …
1. MIt Technology Review reports that tiny implants that connect to nerve cells could make it easier to control prosthetic limbs A novel implant seeded with muscle cells could better integrate prosthetic limbs with the body, allowing amputees greater control over robotic appendages. The construct, developed at the University of Michigan, consists of tiny cups, …
A 114 page masters thesis from 2005 on the operation of a 3 Megavolt Marx Generator at the University of Missouri Columbia The UMC Marx and all its subsystems are housed in the Pulsed Power Research Laboratory on campus. This lab enables students to design, build, and test large-scale pulsed power projects. One of the …
This site has covered the EMdrive before. EMDrive presentation at Space 08 conference, Barbican, London View more presentations from A. Rocketeer. The EmDrive is highly controversial research in propulsion which would be reactionless and uses superconducting cavities. Rocketeer comments: Here’s my take on it. It “works” after a fashion (actually generates thrust), but not in …
Phil Bowermaster who blogs at the Speculist has a good comment at Michael Anissimov’s Accelerating Future. The article is in response some posts from John Hughes and Mike Treder. John Hughes Peter Thiel, the 99% funder of SIAI, is a raving right-wing anarcho-capitalist, who supports Republicans for public office and sits on the Hoover institution …