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Technology

Gearing Up for Manned Mission To An Asteroid

By Clay Dillow Posted on 11.24.2009 8 Comments
Cue the Aerosmith soundtrack; a plan to send a manned space mission to land on an asteroid is gaining traction within both NASA and the aerospace industry as experts look to bridge the feasibility gap between lunar missions and an eventual rendezvous with Mars. Of course, no party is ruling out the possibility of an Armageddon-esque trip to a Near Earth Object (NEO) on a harmful trajectory, should the need arise in the future.

11.25.2009 at 01:25pm - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41 Can we say rocket pack? A jet pack use surrounding air to work, space as no useable air hence rockets. it's ironic we can keep 100 men alive for 6 months under the ocean, and yet the best we can do is 2 men in a capsuel to go in neo; not even the moon.
Technology

Versatile IED Simulations Change As Quickly As Insurgent Tactics

By Clay Dillow Posted on 11.24.2009 2 Comments
Roadside bombings are, unfortunately, a part of daily life for troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and almost every day the military captures surveillance footage of improvised explosive devices being set and detonated. Rather than letting the footage languish, a joint team of counter-IED experts is quickly flipping the footage into video game-like simulations that make training drills as versatile and flexible as the troops themselves.

11.25.2009 at 01:13pm - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41 Its good we are training for future possible ambushes. My big question is with all the new tech advertised on tv to get people to enlist, why can't we use it to prescan routes that we will be using to check for ied's?
Technology

Carbon Nanotube Sponge Could Suck Up Oil Spills

By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 11.11.2009 8 Comments
Spongebob may want to look into a nanotech upgrade that could permit him to walk on water. Chinese scientists have created carbon nanotube sponges that don't absorb water, leaving them plenty of room for absorbing oil or other icky organic goo. The new sponges rely upon interconnected carbon nanotubes that naturally repel water, and can absorb 180 times their weight in organic matter. Current sponges used for oil spill cleanups and industrial applications can only absorb up to 20 times their own weight.

11.12.2009 at 07:26pm - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41Would be nice if its economical to make. Also how easy would it be to remove the oil from the sponge and reuse over.
Science

Kissing Evolved To Spread Germs, Not Feelings

By Clay Dillow Posted on 11.2.2009 13 Comments
It looks like your kindergarten gut reaction to kissing might have been correct after all: it really is sick. Or, more specifically, the practice is designed to spread sickness. British scientists say the human habit of kissing evolved for less-than-romantic reasons, but one that is nonetheless important to a healthy reproductive relationship: to spread germs.

11.4.2009 at 01:04pm - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41 Okay, nice to know but the big question is how much goverment money went into this study about why humans kiss? do we really need to know in the first place?
Technology

Rumor Mill: Apple Pitching $30 TV Subscription Service Via iTunes to Networks

By Clay Dillow Posted on 11.2.2009 5 Comments
The death of television and the advent of online-only programming has been upon us every week going back at least as far as the first Hulu stream, and perhaps much further depending on which rumor-monger blogs you subscribe to.

11.4.2009 at 12:51pm - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41 How do you get your internet? mine is via a cable company. if you have an I phone you go through a cell phone company for x amount of dollars then pay another $30.00 for internet TV. how much will it cost to download from iphone? since you can download a song for just 99 ents but then you pay the phone company for the bandwidth to get the song.also once they have you set up they'll up the price just like cable did.
Technology

Dutch Hacker Holds Jail-Broken iPhones Hostage, Demands Ransom Or The Gadget Gets It

By Stuart Fox Posted on 11.3.2009 13 Comments
The media generally portrays hacker as criminals going after law-abiding computer users, but one Dutch hacker has turned his sights on more fertile prey: other less-skilled, or even aspirational hackers. Like a digital stickup boy, he has remotely kidnapped illegally (according to Apple) jailbroken iPhones in the Netherlands, holding them hostage for five Euros.

11.4.2009 at 12:32pm - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41 This is funny because all I have ever heard is that apple is free of hackers. also the hacker is just dealing with people that screwed with their own phone so they wouldn't have to pay apple. karma is a bitch.
Entertainment & Gaming

First Ever Video Game Census Finds Minority Characters Underrepresented

By Stuart Fox Posted on 9.22.2009 15 Comments
Name: Mario. Age: 28. Profession: Plumber. Ethnicity: White. Anyone who has played a lot of video games knows that the vast majority of characters are white males. However, a team of scientists have conducted the first ever virtual census, putting a number on the ethnicity and sex composition of video game characters, and raising questions about the psychological effects these games might have on members of the underrepresented groups.

9.23.2009 at 12:52pm - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41 Actually if Mario was a scicillian he would have african blood from all the times the moors ivaded the island back in the 800's. I guess all the sports games don't count as part of the demographics.
Technology

Ten Things You Didn't Know About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

By Posted on 7.13.2009 30 Comments
This month marks the 40th anniversary of humankind's first steps on the moon. Auspiciously timed is Craig Nelson's new book, Rocket Men--one of the most detailed accounts of the period leading up to the first manned moon mission. Here, we have ten little-known Apollo 11 facts unearthed by Nelson during his research.

7.18.2009 at 04:42am - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41 Some stuff I knew other stuff didn't. For the doubters out there, at the time we went to the moon, we had submarines that held a crew of 100 underwater for over six months at a time how hard to keep 3 men alive for a week?
Gadgets

One Kindle Per Child?

By John Mahoney Posted on 7.16.2009 6 Comments
A new report by the Democratic Leadership Council probably made Jeff Bezos choke on his bagel this morning--the group of leading Democrats is proposing a Kindle for every public school student in America, with hopes of eventually saving an estimated $700 million per year on traditional textbook distribution.

7.18.2009 at 04:27am - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41 Why only a kindle?, there are at least 3 other e-readers out there right now. As for price, aside from uploading all the info; which is already in the system. You just cut out the cost of paper,inks,labor, power, transportation. So reduce the average price by half and they still would make a huge profit. A downside would be some hacker setting up a virus that alters the information in a text book.(and there would be one). AS for who would allow it? Have feds give extra funds to the schools that offer the E-readers.
DIY

Home-Brewing Biochar in Brooklyn

By Brooke Borel Posted on 7.21.2009 5 Comments
Among the hot new ideas afloat in the world of geoengineering is biochar, a form of charcoal that some say could significantly help in carbon sequestration in the future. Re:char, a fledgling company working out of a corner of a cluttered warehouse in a shared artist loft in Brooklyn, New York, is experimenting with biochar production on a very small scale.

7.2.2009 at 04:38pm - Comment by lnwolf41

lnwolf41 This is a good idea, and would be effective if you can convince The rebels; revolutionaries, dictators,and basic depots to let their people use this system, but that won't happen because they are all narrow minded warmongers. As for us farming, most is big corporations, convince them they'll increase profit and yield more food they might invest in it.