• Gadgets

    Palm Takes on Apple and Microsoft

    By Posted on 1.8.2009 2 Comments

    Ever since the Palm Pilot was introduced a decade ago, its maker has had some devoted fans. Today it looks set to gain some more. Palm just announced the Pre, a smartphone that has an iPhone-like touchscreen and a full keyboard, plus a new interface that looks easier to navigate on a small screen than desktop-style windows.

    1.9.2009 at 12:06am - Comment by yourdaddy30

    It looks sexy.

  • Technology

    Going Up?

    By Paul Adams Posted on 9.24.2008 68 Comments

    One of the most promising technologies for the aspiring outer-space commuter is the space elevator. The concept, like quite a few others, was pressed into the public imagination by Arthur C. Clarke, who in his 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise described a incredibly thin, incredibly strong carbon filament with one end anchored on Earth and the other extending up to a satellite in geostationary orbit. Now, a group of Japanese scientists are convinced that they can build a space elevator more quickly and cheaply than has been believed possible. Such a cable could convey cargo into space very cheaply and easily. Carriages would travel up and down the cable under modest power, not the vast expenditures of energy that are currently needed to send anything into orbit.

    9.29.2008 at 09:21pm - Comment by yourdaddy30

    if you have read on it at all you will find out the plan on useing lasers as shown on the picture to send soloar energy up to the lift in the spectrum that solorpanles operate best at. sorry about the spelling to lazzy to spell check =p

  • Technology

    Going Up?

    By Paul Adams Posted on 9.24.2008 68 Comments

    One of the most promising technologies for the aspiring outer-space commuter is the space elevator. The concept, like quite a few others, was pressed into the public imagination by Arthur C. Clarke, who in his 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise described a incredibly thin, incredibly strong carbon filament with one end anchored on Earth and the other extending up to a satellite in geostationary orbit. Now, a group of Japanese scientists are convinced that they can build a space elevator more quickly and cheaply than has been believed possible. Such a cable could convey cargo into space very cheaply and easily. Carriages would travel up and down the cable under modest power, not the vast expenditures of energy that are currently needed to send anything into orbit.

    9.29.2008 at 09:21pm - Comment by yourdaddy30

    if you have read on it at all you will find out the plan on useing lasers as shown on the picture to send soloar energy up to the lift in the spectrum that solorpanles operate best at. sorry about the spelling to lazzy to spell check =p

  • Technology

    The Green Side of the Moon

    By Posted on 1.28.2008 5 Comments

    For a look inside the luxe lunar base equipped with everything from gardens to studio apartments, launch our interactive animation here.

    2.11.2008 at 07:18pm - Comment by yourdaddy30

    One of the things I think the base is missing is robot’s to collect helium-3. For those that do not know what helium-3 is the perfect fuel source for fusion: extremely potent, nonpolluting, with virtually no radioactive by-product. For further info please check out on of the many web sites here is just one of them http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html =]

  • Science

    Inside a CAVE

    By Posted on 2.11.2008 4 Comments

    Hovering above the floor in a darkened room called the CAVE (for cave automated virtual environment) is the larger-than-life-size virtual patient CAVEman, the worlds most sophisticated digital model of the human body. To create it, scientists at the University of Calgary and graphic artists used anatomy texts and specimens to render every organ, bone, nerve and biological system into detailed 3-D images.

    2.11.2008 at 07:03pm - Comment by yourdaddy30

    thats just Amazing just think about what this could do for you next time your in the hospital. =]



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