• Technology

    A New Foldable Flyer

    By Posted on 6.13.2008 4 Comments

    It's not quite a flying car, but after landing, you can tow the Icon A5 home and park it in a garage. It’s one of the first civilian flyers to feature automated folding wings, which slim down the mini seaplane so it can fit on a custom trailer. (An amphibious version offsets the extra weight of landing gear by trading the motorized wings for a manually folding set.)

    6.14.2008 at 09:06am - Comment by zcar.300

    I would get my pilots license if I could afford one.

  • Science

    Steam Under the Hood

    By Posted on 5.13.2008 14 Comments

    The Cyclone Cost to Develop: $2 million Time: 8 yearsPrototype | | | | | Product As long as the internal combustion engine has been around, garage tinkerers have been trying—in vain—to best it. But Florida boat engineer Harry Schoell, a lifelong inventor with a portfolio of patents, thinks hes got the answer, in the form of a reinvented steam engine.

    5.19.2008 at 12:25am - Comment by zcar.300

    You really had to pay attention due to the poor quality video. The deionized water acts as a lubricant. The unit they were looking at was a 300HP truck engine. It looked like it was a bit bigger then the average big block. Or maybe the size of a eighteen wheeler engine but I don't think so. But in any case, Popsci should think about sending the camera guy back to high school. That video was terrible.

  • Technology

    Jumping into Action

    By Posted on 4.16.2008 8 Comments

    Last April, we dissected the worlds most advanced fighter jet, the F-35B Lightning II, in the pages of our annual How It Works issue. Now military contractor Lockheed Martin is firing up the jets 40,000-pound-thrust engine (the most powerful ever built for a fighter jet) in preparation for flight tests. The jet can soar at supersonic speeds (1,000 mph) and deflect radar signals, but by the end of the month, pilots are expected to show off its most highly anticipated feature: the ability to stop mid-flight and touch down virtually anywhere.

    4.19.2008 at 05:56pm - Comment by zcar.300

    Is it possible for the jet to use the roll nozzle during flight? I would think that could help with certain maneuvers. Also I don't see humanity ever ensuing peace among our selves, so why should we expect an alien race to? Unless their hive minded or something.

  • The Environment

    Massive Ice Shelf Collapse

    By Posted on 3.25.2008 8 Comments

    At 5,282 square miles the Wilkins Ice Shelf is one of the largest on the Antarctic Peninsula. It is also the latest casualty of global warming. Satellite images released today by the British Antarctic Survey and the National Snow and Ice Data Center reveal a massive collapse over the past month—disintegration resulting in, most recently, a breakaway iceberg seven times the size of Manhattan.

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    3.26.2008 at 11:05pm - Comment by zcar.300

    It's going to happen eventually? If you want to talk about what will happen eventually, the sun will burn out eventually. If we were discussing the harmful effects of doing meth would you say, I don't see how the drug is to blame for their bad health, they are going to die eventually? Why don't you go back to saving the carrots. Hey those carrots are going to die eventually too, why shouldn't we eat them and put them to good use. By the way carrots grow in the dirt. You wouldn't say we are drowning the wails by putting them back it the ocean when the beach themselves.

  • Technology

    Whatever Happened to the Blended Wing?

    By Posted on 2.5.2008 15 Comments

    3.4.2008 at 09:26pm - Comment by zcar.300

    Cameras on the hull shouldn't be a problem. As far as getting out in a hurry, Why couldn't they put inflatable slides into the floors? They will have to go through the cargo area but they should be able to position them in such a way that interfere with too much.



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