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A Three-Way View Of the Center Of the Galaxy

By Clay Dillow Posted on 11.11.2009 7 Comments
Celebrating the four centuries of astronomical advancement since Galileo took his first telescopic view of the heavens, NASA today unveiled this unique view of the heart of our galaxy as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The 6-foot-by-3-foot prints were unveiled at more than 150 planetariums, museums, libraries, and centers of learning across the land, and man, is it ever a view.

11.11.2009 at 12:26pm - Comment by hyflyer06

Seems pretty dumb to have a key on the picture... considering that its a 2-d image of space? Or maybe its just me....
Technology

A Three-Way View Of the Center Of the Galaxy

By Clay Dillow Posted on 11.11.2009 7 Comments
Celebrating the four centuries of astronomical advancement since Galileo took his first telescopic view of the heavens, NASA today unveiled this unique view of the heart of our galaxy as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The 6-foot-by-3-foot prints were unveiled at more than 150 planetariums, museums, libraries, and centers of learning across the land, and man, is it ever a view.

11.11.2009 at 12:26pm - Comment by hyflyer06

Seems pretty dumb to have a key on the picture... considering that its a 2-d image of space? Or maybe its just me....
Technology

Resilient Space Internet Comes Down to Earth Gadgets with Android

By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 11.6.2009 10 Comments
Google's Android does a lot more these days than just smart phones and nifty mobile gadgets. An Internet pioneer is using the platform to launch a interplanetary Internet protocol on Earth that could harden wireless networks against delays in data transmission.

11.7.2009 at 08:54am - Comment by hyflyer06

Honestly, what does it matter what PopSci is advertising. If it takes a few tobacco ads to keep this website up and running, who cares? I for one check this website daily as I work in an enviornment that blesses its employees with 8 hours of contact with the internet. This website is the one thing keeping me sane amoung all other experiences in my day. So get a life NeonRobot, and take some time to think about things before you complain about them. Im sure of all things you find on the internet, tobacco ads are the worst of them right?
The Environment

The Explosive Nuclear Question

By Posted on 2.16.2008 15 Comments
It's going to be at least another two decades before any commercial models are built, but researchers are at work designing the Generation IV nuclear reactors. Unlike the generation II and III models now in use that use water to cool and control the fission (preventing runaway reactions, subsequent meltdowns and the environmental apocalypse that would result), the leading contender for cooling material for the Gen IV reactors is molten sodium. Not sodium chloride (plain, unreactive table salt), but sodium metal.

2.19.2008 at 10:15am - Comment by hyflyer06

"JGrimaldi" The only problem I pose with magnetic pumps is the fluid force of molten sodium is so high that it would take an extremely large generator to power the magnetics. Also molten sodium is magnetic, so the propellers would have to be grounded from the internals of the pump, so to decrease chances of "gumming up" the inlet/outlet stocks.
Technology

Hello Columbus

By Posted on 2.13.2008 5 Comments
Finally. NASA astronauts installed the $2-billion science laboratory known as Columbus as a new wing of International Space Station on Monday. Yesterday morning, European astronauts officially opened the hatches, and began the process of bringing the computer, cooling and ventilation systems online.

2.15.2008 at 01:29pm - Comment by hyflyer06

whzych Wrote "If re-entry is the problem then how about maybe send it up and leave it there?" whzych, most people do not realize, even outside the atmoshere, objects fall subject to earths gravity. The only reason astronauts are not forced into the floors of their space shuttles is because both them and their shuttles are falling into earth at the same rate (some value below 9.81m/s^2). So sattelites can only stay in orbit for a period of time. And if there was no effect of gravity on these satellites there would be no orbit!!!!! So like edcarter wrote.....Leave it to the Ph.D's because obviously you are not qualified.....
Cars

GM Vice Chairman Calls Global Warming A "Total Crock of S**t"

By Posted on 2.13.2008 46 Comments
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.

2.15.2008 at 12:17pm - Comment by hyflyer06

The only Crock of shit is the critisism this man must deal with. And for those of you that that despise GM for the loss in deficit, Go fuck yourselfs. Because There the ones that have been putting money in yours and parents pockets for years. Undfortunately these "American Made" foriegn companies ahem** Toyota, claim they produce american made hardcore vehicles...Theres the load of crap. There parts are mined and pressed in japan and installed in the states. And when you have to buy the parts to fix them, look at the build location MADE IN JAPAN!!! The 37 billion gm forked over was to supply the money for pensions they dish out for their workers. Their workers make more then anyother factories in the world. Rather then despising A corperation for doing the one civilized duty no other company could possibly fathem doing, why dont we take a moment and think why our economy is going to hell...Hmmm yes thats right, because all the profit of american made vehicles gets sent over seas... And an interesting fact for all you muscle buffs, Toyotas new line of nascar engines had the GM castings scraped off the sides of the blocks. Yes thats right, exact blueprints. But on the bright side, atleast there made in america....
Gadgets

The Grouse: The Inkjet Refill Racket

By Posted on 3.4.2008 54 Comments

2.13.2008 at 11:05am - Comment by hyflyer06

My commercial printer was printing fine the other week and suddenly "ran out of ink". So rather then replacing the cartridge, i Swaped the stock that had the "chip" counter from the new to used cartridge, and it was back to printing fine again. Hmmm suddenly seems like we are only suppose to be able to print a select quantity of pages now. Quite silly in the consumer world to pay for something that runs out, before the tank empties.
Technology

The Music of Black Holes

By Posted on 2.8.2008 2 Comments
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.

2.13.2008 at 09:48am - Comment by hyflyer06

Hmmm. How do you measure the Frequencies of a gravity waves if they travel through "space time". In other words, how do you measure a wave coming through a function of a fourth demension when the observer is in a third demension?? Especially when these ripples are light years away!! For all we know "given that time is a constant", these ripples we inact with are really just super-sonic effects of gravity traveling faster then the speeds of light....Almost like refractions of light bursting in all directions due to the time dilation you encounter in space. Maybe we only see the effects of time being only another kind of space. And these "gravity waves/ripples in time" are like sonic booms of sound yet a function of space "time" and how when gravity breaks the speed of light, it is for that breif instant (lost in space) and alls we inact is the left overs of the leak into another deminsion.