• Entertainment & Gaming

    Build a Bridge

    By Adam Weiner Posted on 4.2.2009 7 Comments

    Here we have a fun and frustrating little game that exploits our engineering skills. How to build a stable bridge is what this game is all about. At each level of the game you're given a limited amount of imaginary cash with which to purchase your beams and supports. It's usually just enough to get the job done, if you do it right. Which isn't so easy.

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    2.25.2009 at 08:41pm - Comment by Waffles

    haha suspension bridge FTW!! post if you get one to work!

  • Science

    Large Hadron Collider Probably Won't Destroy Earth

    By Posted on 6.23.2008 10 Comments

    The Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator that's scheduled to begin colliding protons in August, has the potential to produce the long-sought Higgs boson. That elusive particle is a missing link in the commonly accepted model of physics. Observing it would be an important milestone in our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.

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    11.11.2008 at 04:47pm - Comment by Waffles

    So if the LHC is successful in colliding protons would it produce any harness-able energy at all? or if so any waste? plus this reminds me of the Manhattan project when the scientists' said this will either be successful or kill the whole world in a chain reaction. so they did it any way because if it did end up killing the world, no one would complain. they had a good point.

  • Technology

    If The Sun Went Out, How Long Would Life On Earth Survive?

    By Holly Otterbein Posted on 10.20.2008 18 Comments

    If you put a steamy cup of coffee in the refrigerator, it wouldn’t immediately turn cold. Likewise, if the sun simply “turned off” (which is actually physically impossible), the Earth would stay warm—at least compared with the space surrounding it—for a few million years. But we surface dwellers would feel the chill much sooner than that.

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    11.4.2008 at 06:45pm - Comment by Waffles

    anyone else hear that if the sun stopped it's fusion process right now it would take 1,000,000 years for the light to surface because of the suns denisity and mass? because thats what i heard and NASA space camp. so really we would have 1,000,000 years and 8 minutes to live untill that starts to happen



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