• Entertainment & Gaming

    The Day The Earth Stood Science

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 4.2.2009 6 Comments

    With the holiday season fast approaching, multiplexes have begun filling up with the Nazi-themed award magnets that always seem to flood the market at the end of the year. However, amidst the plethora of films filled with series English actors in sharp Teutonic uniforms a single high budget, special effects crammed movie squeezed into theaters on December 12th. The Day The Earth Stood Still, a remake of the canonical 1951 science-fiction film, switches out a widowed secretary for an astrobiologist played by Jennifer Connelly, and attempts to earn the science in science-fiction. So, does the science hold up?

    12.16.2008 at 03:45pm - Comment by ptdoyle

    All i heard was that this movie was bad and not very faithful to the origanal, also the trailers show gort wreking havoc on millitary forces but in the origanal gort had no weapons, but simply vaporized other's weapons, and he was only around 7 or 8 ft tall

  • DIY

    Pocket Rocket Komet

    By Dave Prochnow Posted on 10.1.2008 6 Comments

    Want to add some extreme zip into your next model airplane project?

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    10.2.2008 at 02:41pm - Comment by ptdoyle

    one word cool also painkiller the komet is not lame it was THE Fastest operational fighter in ww2 with a top speed exceeding 1000mph in level flight or around mach 0.8 far faster then any other aircraft of the war

  • Technology

    Steve Fossett's Plane Discovered

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 10.2.2008 4 Comments

    Almost 13 months after adventurer Steve Fossett disappeared in a single-engine plane over Nevada, and a year to the day since the search was suspended, the wreckage of his Bellanca 8KCAB (N240R) has been discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Fossett's body is still missing.

    10.2.2008 at 02:34pm - Comment by ptdoyle

    Why is it The good always die young?

  • The Environment

    10 Audacious Ideas to Save the Planet

    By Posted on 8.1.2008 27 Comments

    Making a dent in the climate crisis is going to take more than solar panels and recycled toilet paper. Scientists are finding ever more creative ways (pig pee! DIY tornadoes! mini nuclear reactors!) to clean up the Earth

    6.10.2008 at 01:36pm - Comment by ptdoyle

    two reasons 1 They have been talking about those solar power stations in orbit fro over a quarter century the reason we dont have them is it is always been to expensive to build until recently 2 sending it to mars would both add to the cost and complicate the transmissions of the microwave beams

  • Technology

    The Tech Behind the Phoenix Mars Lander's Onboard Cameras

    By Posted on 6.5.2008 2 Comments

    For the past two weeks, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has been broadcasting a wealth of incredible images from its landing site in the Martian arctic. I've been refreshing the mission's raw photo stream obsessively—no little green men yet, just gorgeous panoramas and detailed closeups of the most foreign of all foreign lands. Being a bit of a camera geek, I was quite curious as to what kind of hardware was behind the action, and naturally, Phoenix has some pretty sweet gear on board to make it all possible.

    6.10.2008 at 01:27pm - Comment by ptdoyle

    DarkFx you now stupid that sounds 1The cameras on mars 2 those cameras cost at least half a million probably more to devolop and build you think that they'ed rent the back up flight hardware out to someone

  • Technology

    A New Earth?

    By Posted on 6.6.2008 16 Comments

    The search for a planet analogous to our own has taken one step closer with the discovery of the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a star which could support life. It is about three and one-third times the size of Earth, much more in line with our home than the gas giants on the scale of Jupiter or Saturn we had been finding up to this point. (An even smaller planet has so far been found, but it is orbiting a pulsar. Pulsars spew highly powerful radiation, so it's highly unlikely that anything within their vicinity could survive).

    6.10.2008 at 01:19pm - Comment by ptdoyle

    several things 1 drummtewa commenting twice makes you look realy stupid 2 there is no way of satisfactorily knowing theres life there there is just the possibility of waterwater 3 Darkfx MOA2007 BLG 192Lb is a catolog number if you think that there are enough names for planets outside our solar system when there are more extra solar objects then people and we don't even have a unique name for every human on the planet then you aren't thinking straight

  • The Environment

    Robot Drones Aren't Just For the Military

    By Posted on 5.22.2008 1 Comments

    A team of scientists led by V. Ramanathan of the University of California, San Diego have begun using autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles, or AUAVs, to study the link between air pollution and climate change. While some of today's top robot drones are operated via remote control, this new fleet of eight-foot-long, sub-50-pound Manta AUAVs fly all on their own.

    5.22.2008 at 02:07pm - Comment by ptdoyle

    yet another reason UAVS KICK A**

  • Science

    Building the Real Iron Man

    By Posted on 5.7.2008 47 Comments

    Afghanistan. A hidden bunker. Four men with rifles guard a thick, rusted steel door. Bam! A huge fist pounds against it—from inside. Bam! More blows dent the steel. The hinges strain. The guards cower, inching backward. Whatever's trying to break out is big. And angry.

    4.15.2008 at 01:14pm - Comment by ptdoyle

    Heinlein did not invent the concept but he was the first to truly popularize it and relaize its potential. Thus making it unacceptable to leave him out of any article on the subject

  • Science

    A Brief History of Exoskeletons

    By Posted on 4.11.2008 8 Comments

    4.14.2008 at 11:40am - Comment by ptdoyle

    You forgot Robert A. Hienliens novel starship troopers which centers around powerd exoskeleton combat

  • 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.

    3.27.2008 at 12:50pm - Comment by ptdoyle

    I agree icebergs break off of Ice shelfs don't break off into the ocean. It shouldn't break off all at once it should graduly break down.



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