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- Entertainment & Gaming
Spore to go on Sale in September
Spore, the highly-anticipated new game from Sims creator Will Wright, is set to go on sale this September. The game, which we described in detail in this article on Wright, was supposed to come out last year. But the delays arent a huge surprise considering that Wright has invented a game that essentially lets players manage the evolution of creatures from single-cell organisms into complex, space-conquering life forms.
2.14.2008 at 10:08am - Comment by sweet-vincei think it will come out this time, has had enough time to put everything together.
- Cars
GM Vice Chairman Calls Global Warming A "Total Crock of S**t"
Heres an odd PR move making the blog rounds today: Bob Lutz, the General Motors Vice Chairman whos driving the charge to build the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, was recently quoted in D Magazine calling global warming a crock of s**t.
2.14.2008 at 10:04am - Comment by sweet-vincewell he had the balls to say it, because he has nothing to worry about but im 18 and i do care. it would be cool if he acually went through with the volt, but global warming is real and we cant just ignore it.
- Science
Where Undersea Cables Go
Undersea cables have made big news in the last few days, ever since several cables were cut last week near Dubai and Alexandria, disrupting Internet service all over the Middle East. (The latest news: It looks like a ships anchor sliced one of the cables. Oops!) The accident draws attention to how much our modern lives depend on unseen cables—just three inches thick and buried under sand—that most of us have never even thought about. There are hundreds of thousands of miles of these things snaking under our seas, with even more on the way.
2.12.2008 at 10:09am - Comment by sweet-vincei didnt even know we had cables in the sea until i read this article, but when i read it i thought of problems with it. i think it would be easier for us to just use sat's.
- Cars
A Full-Service Fillup, Via Robot
It will cost more than your car, but the convenience! Pull up to a pump, and the Dutch robot fueling system from Intion Development does the rest. A robotic arm pops open the access door with one manipulator, unscrews the fuel cap with another, and then handles the fuel nozzle with a gripper-like device and fills up your car.
2.12.2008 at 10:06am - Comment by sweet-vincecome on people its just pumping gas how hard can it be, and the last time i checked electricity and gas dont mix, so what are the safety precautions? either way you have to get out and pay or even open the cap. how does it know were the cap is?
- The Environment
Is Petroleum the Greenest Fuel We Have?
Though the existence of global warming is indisputable at this point, the debate over the best plan of attack to solve the problem and reduce our dependency on petroleum fuels is far from settled. The latest example: Two new studies released this week indicate that that biofuels such as ethanol may accelerate rather than alleviate global warming.
2.12.2008 at 09:48am - Comment by sweet-vinceWhat has everyone forgotten about electicity, if the gov. would put more time and money we could improve on emissions free cars. hydro cars are still an option to. i was thinking of magnatism like the trains in europe...but one day were going to run out of oil and other natural gases and we are growing dependent of them...what would happen if say something like the dust bowl ever happened because of over producing crops just so we could drive our cars? if that happened again we would be screwed.
- Technology
Deep Impact to Search for Alien Worlds
Deep Impact, the NASA spacecraft that watched a sister craft smash into the Comet Tempel-1, is now roaming the universe in search of extrasolar planets. Deep Impact still has another date with a comet, Hartley 2, but those observations wont start until 2010. During its downtime, scientists will use one of the probes telescopes to examine some of the more than 200 planets that astronomers have discovered in orbit around nearby stars in recent years.
2.12.2008 at 09:39am - Comment by sweet-vincehas anyone ever thought of attaching something to an astroid to study the patterns or what goes on during a crash? it would save on fuel and money, and could go further
- Technology
The Music of Black Holes
Syracuse University physicists hope that a new supercomputer will help them pick out the sound of a black hole from the cosmic symphony. The computer will process data gathered by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, which is designed to listen for the ripples in space-time known as gravity waves.
2.12.2008 at 09:35am - Comment by sweet-vinceIt would be cool to here what a blackhole sounds like, but how could this info. help us understand them?
- Gadgets
Still No Link Between Cellphones and Cancer
Sure, there have been a few studies backing this idea before, but its one of those conclusions that you can never really hear enough: cell phones do not increase your risk of brain cancer.
2.12.2008 at 08:54am - Comment by sweet-vincewe can never tell if there is an effect caused by cell phones, because there are way to many. evryon has a cellphone now days, so how can we tell if it causes cancer?
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