News Briefs 12-11-2009
Posted by red pill junkie at 05:40, 12 Nov 2009See anything you like?
- Behold! the colorful center of our home galaxy, in all its funkadelic glory.
- Good news for planet hunters is bad news for battery makers.
- In a interview for Wired, science journalist Alan Boyle (of Cosmic Log fame) explains why we have such an infatuation with Pluto, the underdog of the Solar system —'The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference' [Amazon US & UK].
- First the original Apollo landing tapes, now the Kecksburg UFO files: is there anything NASA can store *without* losing it??
- Butterflies In Spaaaace! not a pre-school show, but NASA's latest project.
- Video: Phil "Naughty" Plait's talk at Gnomedex, where he discussed his favorite subject: skepticism.
- Here comes the sun *tu du du du* & I say: Godspeed! Spacecraft that sails on sunshine aims for lift-off in 2010.
- The oceans: our planet's first extraterrestrial visitors.
- The termites of the abyss —something not even James Cameron could have imagined.
- In 1924, the US Navy was looking to have contact with Martians. Don't believe me? here's the proof, direct from the National Archives (H/T Earthfiles).
- UFO hacker Gary McKinnon on medication to quell his suicidal tendencies, says Gary's mum.
- The aliens visiting Maine seem to think we should start celebrating Xmas —maybe they're partners of Zemeckis.
- Make it so —one layer at a time: The Star Trek replicator is now closer at hand.
- Fire up your stove with this —literal— green invention: a log made of leaves.
- Australia receives a very cool visitor this year: Australia">an iceberg —I bet it's Cody visiting his surfer buddies.
- Warm blood vs Cold blood: the great debate in paleontology —finally solved?
- Sauropods caught in the act... of evolving —thanks to a new fossil discovered in S. Africa.
- Guess who want to give you a free copy of "On the Origin of Species": the Creationists —did they get the idea from Umberto Eco? @_@
- Annoyed by the exorbitant phone bills in your household? blame the FOXP2 gene in your teenager child.
- Gattaca here we come! Complete Genomics, a company in California, intends to offer DNA sequencing services for US$5,000 next year.
- King Tut's tomb to get a makeover — part of Zahi's retirement arrangements? :-P
- Here's hoping that in the next 20 years, the world will have another former wall of shame as a tourist magnet.
Tip of my sombrero to Kat.
Quote of the Day:
"Freedom does not make men happy. It makes them, simply, men."
Manuel Azaña, Spanish poet
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22 November 2004
1 min 39 sec
You can already have your own fabricator, albeit for different materials. They are called "fabbers", for example
Fab@Home promote this sort of thing.
The problem for most people is that you have to assemble the machine yourself, it doesn't create itself by voice command.
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No amount of cursing at the round earth will make it flat.
3 August 2005
11 weeks 4 days
"...is there anything NASA can store *without* losing it??"
Sure. Space suits for two astronauts from a classified military program from the 60's. The program was lost, but the suits remained. http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-06...
One of the suits was marked with a known MOL program astronaut's name, Lawyer (Richard Earl, Col USAF, deceased). Another wasn't labeled with a name but was marked with the number 007 (Lawyer's was 008). Despite the implication of secrecy due to a classified program, all members of MOL group are known, one very well so. Dick Truly landed the shuttle in the landing tests STS-2 and STS-4. If NASA can't find the records of the other suit's owner, they can probably find Truly and ask him.
No, I am not the brain specialist.....
YES. Yes I AM the brain specialist.
23 December 2008
10 weeks 5 days
I know conspiracy theorist will have a field day . But as one who lived in DC for over 20 years, I can tell you the files were probably given to some GS 3 or 4 who saw it as easier to lose the documents than to actually file them.
We give the folks in DC much more credit than they deserve. Most of them are schlubs just like the rest of us, taking hte path of least resistance.