• Technology

    U.S. Deploys Reaper Drones Off Somalia Just in Time for Pirate Season

    By Clay Dillow Posted on 11.11.2009 21 Comments

    As this summer's Navy SEAL beatdown briefly brought to the world's attention, there's a festering piracy problem in the waters off the Horn of Africa. The pirates, in large part unchallenged, are growing bolder, striking in waters as far out as 1,000 nautical miles from Somali shores. Patrolling such large part swath of the Indian Ocean might be impossible if not for the tech the U.S. has recently rolled out to protect her maritime interests: unmanned Reaper drones armed with infrared eyes.

    11.10.2009 at 07:12pm - Comment by rangax

    damn i wanna see a pirate ship getting blown up into peices soo badly..... they are gonna be prepared for snipers but not helfire

  • Large Hadron Collider

    By Posted on 11.11.2008 Comments

    The Large Hadron Collider is the most ambitious engineering problem ever solved. Construction on the $10-billion behemoth—housed 300 feet underground in a 17-mile circular tube—spanned 14 years and required the efforts of 10,000 engineers and physicists. But its real engineering feat comes from the 1,200 magnets—each 35 tons in weight, 50 feet long, and powerful enough to crush a bus between them—that steer a stream of protons traveling at nearly the speed of light.

    12.30.2008 at 10:11pm - Comment by rangax

    isnt this thing suppose to create anti-protons??

  • Science

    The Most Powerful Computer on Earth

    By Posted on 6.12.2008 15 Comments

    IBM has broken its own record of computer processing speed by pushing its newest supercomputer past the petaflop barrier. The Roadrunner, a massive machine occupying 6,000 square feet of space, this week achieved a peak of 1.026 petaflops, or just over one million billion calculations per second. Just ten years ago, the fastest supercomputer in the world would have taken 20 years to finish a problem the Roadrunner is capable of finishing in a week.

    6.13.2008 at 01:55pm - Comment by rangax

    FYI this comp would be able 2 play every single game on the earth

  • Science

    The Most Powerful Computer on Earth

    By Posted on 6.12.2008 15 Comments

    IBM has broken its own record of computer processing speed by pushing its newest supercomputer past the petaflop barrier. The Roadrunner, a massive machine occupying 6,000 square feet of space, this week achieved a peak of 1.026 petaflops, or just over one million billion calculations per second. Just ten years ago, the fastest supercomputer in the world would have taken 20 years to finish a problem the Roadrunner is capable of finishing in a week.

    6.13.2008 at 01:53pm - Comment by rangax

    it would be something like skynet since its used 4 military i think they would probly use it for FCS .

  • Technology

    The Top-Secret Warplanes of Area 51

    By Posted on 1.22.2008 23 Comments

    For a closer look at the exotic aircraft the Air Force might be cooking up at Area 51, launch the photo gallery.

    5.10.2008 at 02:44pm - Comment by rangax

    i agree with that we need to spend our resources on space travel, not fighting each other at this rate i dont think earth will last more that couple more decades and for sure some 1 is gonna drop a n-bomb any day now

  • Technology

    The State of the Universe

    By Posted on 4.30.2008 6 Comments

    Not much in science is more of a mind-bender than thinking about the size and fate of the known universe (except for quantum mechanics and string theory, which also has a lot to do with the size and fate of the universe, albeit on the opposite end of the size spectrum). When we first developed theories about the universe, the model which resulted depicted all of space as static and unchanging, infinite in depth in any direction. Then Einstein posited general relativity and suddenly a whole host of universes were theoretically possible: static, dynamic, infinite, and finite.

    5.10.2008 at 02:36pm - Comment by rangax

    i hope some genius will discover these secrets and allow colonization on planets that are millions of light years away before i die.



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