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- Entertainment & Gaming
The Truth About Table Tennis
Every four years, we watch. We marvel at badminton, wonder about the modern decathlon and proudly pause for synchronized swimming. With more than 300 gold medals awarded across 37 disciplines, the next two weeks of our lives should be impressively unproductive. To aid in your immersion, we introduce the first installment of “know your Olympic sport.” It’s part reminder that people actually get medals for this stuff (see: trampoline gymnastics) and part introduction to the science behind the sports. As a tribute to the recently lit flame in Beijing, our first installment focuses on the pride of China: Table Tennis (a.k.a. Ping Pong). Inside you’ll find a 30-year old performance enhancer in its final days, a training method built for Forrest Gump and all (perhaps even more than) you'll ever need to know about Ping Pong balls.
8.9.2008 at 07:39am - Comment by AmberFoxFourI dunno man, I dont see all the glamour in a kids game. JT www.FireMe.To/udi
- Science
Nuking Stowaways
Transoceanic freighters haul 80 percent of the world’s commercial goods. But those boats inadvertently carry destructive cargo as well. An empty ship can suck up more than 10 million gallons of water to stay balanced as it crosses the open ocean. Upon its arrival into another port, the crew pumps the ballast water and any small animals or plants living in that water—sometimes thousands of organisms per gallon—into foreign harbors, where they invade and damage local ecosystems.
7.11.2008 at 10:40pm - Comment by AmberFoxFourFascinating indeed. Seems this should have been thought up a long time ago. JT www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com
- Technology
The Return of the Blimp
Mammoth-sized blimps may work well as advertising tools, but soon they could be doing a lot more work than that. Aerospace and defense corporation Boeing and Canadian company SkyHook International are working together to create a 302-foot-long airship with rotors that can haul heavy loads—double the capacity of the biggest helicopter—across remote regions at a lower fuel and environmental cost.
7.11.2008 at 10:37pm - Comment by AmberFoxFourDude I would love to see blimps come back and actually be used for something other than billboards at sporting events! Bravo! JJ www.FireME.to/udi
- Cars
Kinetic Energy for Formula One
Is Formula One racing out of step with an auto industry whose greatest innovations have been in the area of fuel economy?
7.4.2008 at 07:37pm - Comment by AmberFoxFourThat is so totally cool! Should be pretty interesting. JT www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com
- Technology
Taking Out the Space Trash
Along with satellites and space stations, Earth is surrounded by tens of millions of pieces of floating space debris. Like any landfill, the trash is diverse, ranging from dead satellites to castaway rocket parts to flecks of paint. On average, over the past 40 years, one piece of space junk has fallen to Earth every day.
6.29.2008 at 09:50am - Comment by AmberFoxFourYou must admit, that is some pretty cool stuff! JT www.FireMe.To/udi
- Technology
The Search For Extraterrestrial Life: A Brief History
For as long as humans have looked to the night sky to divine meaning and a place in the universe, we have let our minds wander to thoughts of distant worlds populated by beings unlike ourselves. The ancient Greeks were the first Western thinkers to consider formally the possibility of an infinite universe housing an infinite number of civilizations.
6.17.2008 at 06:57pm - Comment by AmberFoxFourWell, if you think about it, there has to be SOMETHING out there. I mean it is space right? It just goes on and on and on. Be crazy to think we are it. JT http://www.ULtimate-Anonymity.com
- Science
Evolution’s Most Effective Killer: Snake Venom
As predators, snakes are missing a few key attributes. They have no legs to chase down their prey, no paws to knock down quarry, and no claws to hold their victims. But none of these deficiencies matters much, because evolution has handed snakes the ultimate weapon: venom. With it, the several hundred types of venomous snakes can kill or debilitate before their victims escape.
6.17.2008 at 06:55pm - Comment by AmberFoxFourVenomous snakes are totally SCARY! I cringe at the thought alone! JT http://www.FireMe.to/udi
- Technology
Space Adventures Charters Entire Russian Spacecraft
Space Adventures, the broker of the first tourist flights to space celebrated its ten-year anniversary today here at the Explorer's Club in New York with the announcement that it had scored a deal with the Russian Federal Space Agency, or RKA, to buy an entire flight to the International Space Station.
6.12.2008 at 08:45am - Comment by AmberFoxFourTo the Moon Alice, To the moon! JT http://www.Fireme.To/udi
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