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    http://www.neave.com/planetarium/

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    The Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot. Built entirely from lego elements with a lego web camera to scan the faces of the cube, The solve engine (algorithm) running on the computer is provided by the incredible "Cube Explorer "software which also provides the colour recognition required to determine the exact location of each coloured square.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaRcWB3jwMo

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    i cant see any vids right now, but...YESSSSSS to this thread
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    Festo Co

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8B4_fGopzw

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liicZ_pvGiQ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxPzodKQays

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    The shuttle Endeavour made a rare nighttime landing at Kennedy Space Center Feb. 22, touching down at 10:20 pm EST. The vehicle’s six-member crew had successfully completed a two-week mission to install the last major component of the International Space Station, undocking from that orbital facility Feb. 19.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWFASMII-dU

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    I can't get the video to play for me right now, but I am sure it's good. The first person I think of when it comes to science and technology is Dr. Clifford Pickover. He is a prolific writer, and a very down to earth guy.
    Every time I have a question, he has no problem taking time out of his busy day to reply to me.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tesG2sh9PlY

    http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/home.htm


    This section has TONS of things to look at and read-
    http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/picko...ycarnival.html

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    "50 best science blogging posts of the year"

    http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/2...n_lab_2009.php

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    Sonic Boom Meets Sun Dog 720p
    Solar Dynamics Observatory Launch, Feb 11, 2010 HD VERSION A sun dog is a prismatic bright spot in the sky caused by sun shining through ice crystals. The Atlas V rocket exceeded the speed of sound in this layer of ice crystals, making the shock wave visible from the ground. The announcer can be heard in the video saying, "The vehicle is now supersonic."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsDEfu8s1Lw

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    Deepest Part of the Ocean-The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the earth’s oceans, and the deepest location of the earth itself.  It was created by ocean-to-ocean subduction, a phenomena in which a plate topped by oceanic crust is subducted beneath another plate topped by oceanic crust.



    he Mariana Trench is 11,033 meters (36,201 feet), (6033.5) fathoms deep. The Pressure at the deepest part of the Mariana Trench is over 8 tons per square inch. The Mariana Trench is 2, 542 km (1,580 miles) long and 69 km (43 miles) wide.













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    Some snapshots I took off of some web cams I was viewing to see the Hawaiian Islands tsunami.  A bummer of a big event but I am pleased for those that are there, even though they too seemed bummed.  :lol:

    North Shore, Maui







    the color change from the deep bottom sediment from the higher energy waves created






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    Camp One Maui didn't show much except a larger wave set and that guy








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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd36WJ79z4

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    World's air traffic in a 24 hour time period

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    On a clear day.... Nasa reveals mesmerising 'blue marble' images of Earth
    These spectacular 'blue marble' images are the most detailed views of Earth to date.

    Using a collection of satellite images, scientists painstakingly stitched together months of observations to create these montages which show the surface of the continents and oceans in stunning detail.
    Much of the imagery came from a space camera onboard the Nasa satellite Terra, which is orbiting 435miles above the Earth's surface.

    A spokesman from the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, which released the pictures, said: 'These are spectacular "blue marble" images, which show the beauty of our small planet.'
    The two pictures show opposite sides of Earth. One reveals the entire North American continent, Central America, the northern half of South America, Greenland and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, in one perfect shot.

    The other highlights most of Europe, Africa and Asia. However, both northern Europe and Australia are just out of the picture.

    Our planet's surface covers 197 million square miles with 57 million square miles of land and the rest as water.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1254834/Nasa-reveals-detailed-images-Earth.html#ixzz0h6eRr9TL

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    The land and coastal ocean portions of the images are based on surface observations collected from June through September 2001 and combined every eight days to compensate for clouds that might block the sensor’s view of the surface on any single day.

    Nasa has been photographing the Earth from space since the first camera equipped satellites were launched into space in the early 1960's.

    Since then the space agency has been compiling images of our home planet year on year, with the most iconic image being the famous 'Blue Marble' photograph taken by the astronauts of Apollo 17 in 1972.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1254834/Nasa-reveals-detailed-images-Earth.html#ixzz0h6f6FGvy

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    10 Companies Reinventing Our Energy Infrastructure


    Agrivida

    Agrivida is working on plants that release enzymes to degrade the cellulose in their own cell walls — on command. They throw a molecular switch, and the plants start turning themselves into sugar, saving fuel processors a key and energy-intensive step.


    Phononic Devices

    Most industrial processes generate heat as a byproduct. Not only does that heat do no useful work, it also damages machinery. But there are materials that can directly convert heat into electricity without running some working fluid through a traditional generator. Phononic Devices is out to make these thermoelectric materials, which have been around for a good while, much more efficient and cheaper through nanotechnology.

    If scavenging heat to make electricity gets a lot cheaper, it could increase the overall efficiency of many processes. But to do that, you need much better materials.

    “Thermoelectrics is a pure materials field,” said Gerbrand Ceder, an MIT materials scientist who is not associated with Phononic Devices. “Thermoelectrics is going to leapfrog forward if you have better materials.”


    Makani Windpower

    Wind power is already cost-competitive with fossil fuels (.pdf) in many places — and cheaper in really windy places. But it’s not perfect. The wind close to the ground is streakier than the stuff higher up, and it doesn’t blow as hard. Because the power available in the wind varies with the cube of its speed, a bit more speed gets you a lot more power. The best ground-based sites have a wind-power density of about a kilometer per square meter of area swept. The wind-power density near the jet stream above New York is more than 15 times better than that.

    Makani Power wants to use large kites tethered at high altitudes to take advantage of the better wind resource that exists up there. It sounds crazy, but Google has already invested $15 million in the company.



    Graphene Energy

    Diamonds might be a girl’s best friend, but graphene, the one-atom thick configuration of carbon atoms, is every nerd’s favorite form of C. Researchers can already imagine all kinds of wonderful applications for the stuff — like bendy electronics — but it might come in handy for energy storage, too.

    Graphene Energy is developing ultracapacitors based on the material. Ultracaps are considered a very attractive technology because — unlike your laptop battery — they can be cycled many times over and they can also provide big bursts of power. The problem is that they don’t have anywhere near the energy density. Graphene Energy’s technology is based on the work of the University of Texas’ Rod Ruoff. Ruoff has claimed that graphene could double the capacity of existing ultracapacitors by increasing the amount of carbon surface area that’s actively storing energy.


    Superconductor Technologies

    The existing power grid has received a lot of attention because it loses some of the electricity that’s pumped into it. New, long transmission lines would also be required to get power from windy and sunny places to where people live if those renewable technologies are going to provide large amounts of power in the future.

    While many people are focusing on new meters or other “smart grid” ideas, Superconductor Technologies is trying to reinvent the actual power line. Not the idea of it, but the wire itself. They claim that by replacing the copper and aluminum wires in the grid with a ceramic, high-temperature superconductor, the lines could have five times the capacity and waste less electricity.

















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    Velkess

    An energy system that can accommodate the intermittency of renewable power will probably need large-scale storage. Companies are trying to commercialize all kinds of storage technologies, from pumping compressed air into caverns to using new kinds of ultracapacitors.

    Flywheels are another promising technology. They store the energy mechanically by rotating mass around an axis. Energy placed into the system by a motor gets the flywheels spinning, and the same motor can be run the opposite way to pull energy out of the system. They are commonly used in industry, but are considered too expensive and immature for deployment.

    Velkess has a promising flywheel system that the company claims could reduce storage costs by a factor of 10.



    Velocys

    Biofuels have come under attack as a solution to climate change, but if world oil production has peaked, coming up with a cheap way to make liquid fuels out of something else would still be very important technology. The Fischer-Tropsch process is a well-known way of making synthetic fuels from other types of carbon. In the past, that’s largely been coal, such as when the Germans used the process (see the plant above) to manufacture fuel during World War II. But it could also be used with biomass to make biofuel.

    The downside to Fischer-Tropsch is that it’s an energy-intensive and therefore expensive chemical process. Velocys says it has a better way of mixing the ingredients in the process to bring down the cost of making hydrocarbons out of regular old carbon.


    Wildcat Discovery Technologies

    New materials have driven the power industry for decades, as better heat- and pressure-resistant materials allowed electrical plants to grow larger and larger. Now, there are all kinds of new materials that would be nice to have. Better batteries, carbon capture and photovoltaics all depend on the material science, yet it’s still a very trial-and-error science. Wildcat Discovery Technologies is trying to bring high-throughput automation to the discovery and synthesis of new materials. Their technology is one way to bring the accelerating advances in robotics and computing to bear on the energy problem.


    Xtreme Energetics

    Photovoltaic panels have to do two jobs, which often come into conflict. First, because sunlight is a diffuse energy source, they need to spread out over a large area as cheaply as possible. Second, they need to convert those photons into electrons as efficiently as possible. Those two tasks call for different kinds of materials. Collecting photons isn’t difficult and can be done with cheap materials, but converting them into electrons is really tough. But what if you could separate those tasks? That’s the idea behind concentrating photovoltaics technologies like Xtreme Energetics. You use a cheap material to focus the sun’s rays on a very efficient, very expensive small piece of photovoltatic material.

    Xtreme Energetics says its technology could make electricity at a cost of $1.50 per watt with 43 percent efficiency and a smaller footprint than traditional solar panels.


    Potter Drilling

    Tapping the heat of the Earth has proven a cost-effective way of making electricity in most of the places around the globe where earthquakes are likely. Geothermal reservoirs are like capped geysers: When humans drill a hole, hot stuff comes up, which can be used to run a turbine.

    But the big play in geothermal energy has always been to simply use the hot rocks down there and create your own reservoir. To do that, you have to drill into rocks much harder than those you normally encounter in oil fields. Potter Drilling is trying to commercialize a new drilling technique that replaces drill bits with … hot water. The company thinks it can halve the costs associated with drilling enhanced geothermal fields.

    Of course, right now, geothermal may have bigger problems than drilling. The bad press over small earthquakes caused by an enhanced geothermal project in Switzerland has taken some of the shine off a technology that had been anointed by a big MIT study as a big piece of out energy future. It’s worth noting, though, that the vast majority of human-caused quakes are caused by traditional mining and by hydroelectric-dam reservoirs.

    Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/energycogallery/10/#ixzz0h71tlm4D

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    Clinical study proved Olay Pro-x as good as prescription for wrinkles

    In the current study, 99 women volunteers were given a regimen of three Olay Pro-x products, and 97 were prescribed tretinoin. The depth of their wrinkles was assessed before and after the treatments, and those assessing them were not told which product the women were using.

    After eight weeks, the women using Pro-x showed a significant improvement in the appearance of their wrinkles compared with those using tretinoin. The women also tolerated Pro-x better than tretinoin, which caused irritation in some of the women.

    Some of the volunteers were followed for a further 16 weeks, after which both treatments were judged to have improved the appearance of wrinkles to about the same extent.

    "This is the first time that a cosmetic product has been tested head-to-head against a drug product over a long period of time and they've shown parity," says Mandy. "This is pretty landmark stuff."

    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122541851/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

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    Aurora is a watch that doesn’t have an apparent dial. There’s more of a transparent face with no signs of the hour or minutes hand. It’s not as if the designer forgot to put them there, he just got innovative and decided to perk up this analog piece by including funky laser light beams for the hands. The red beam indicates the minutes and the blue depicts the hour. They appear only when you tap the bevel edge around the watch ring; until then it’s just a hip jewelry around your wrist.




    http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/02/26/a-watch-with-no-face/

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    February was the anniversary of the famous photo " Pale Blue Dot"

     

    Two decades ago, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck became the first person to ever see that speck, sitting in front of a computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California. "I was all alone, actually, that afternoon, in my office," she recalls.

    Her office was dark. The window shades were drawn. She was searching through a database of images sent home by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which at the time was nearly 4 billion miles away. "I knew the data was coming back," she says, "and I wanted to see how it had turned out."

    Finally, she found it.

    "It was just a little dot, about two pixels big, three pixels big," she says. "So not very large."

    But this was the Earth — seen as no human had ever seen it before.

    What's more, an accidental reflection off the spacecraft made it look as though the tiny speck was being lit up by a glowing beam of light. "You know, I still get chills down my back," says Hansen-Koharcheck. "Because here was our planet, bathed in this ray of light, and it just looked incredibly special."


    The late astronomer Carl Sagan eloquently tried to express how he felt about this photo in his book Pale Blue Dot:

        Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123614938&sc=fb&cc=fp

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swImwoMJibs

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    [quote author=the color nine link=topic=24292.msg1552759#msg1552759 date=1267616706]
    Clinical study proved Olay Pro-x as good as prescription for wrinkles

    In the current study, 99 women volunteers were given a regimen of three Olay Pro-x products, and 97 were prescribed tretinoin. The depth of their wrinkles was assessed before and after the treatments, and those assessing them were not told which product the women were using.

    After eight weeks, the women using Pro-x showed a significant improvement in the appearance of their wrinkles compared with those using tretinoin. The women also tolerated Pro-x better than tretinoin, which caused irritation in some of the women.

    Some of the volunteers were followed for a further 16 weeks, after which both treatments were judged to have improved the appearance of wrinkles to about the same extent.

    "This is the first time that a cosmetic product has been tested head-to-head against a drug product over a long period of time and they've shown parity," says Mandy. "This is pretty landmark stuff."

    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122541851/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
    [/quote]


    So yesterday I showed this article to husband telling him I wanted some ProV.  He being a good husband tells me I don't need that.  I tell him that I feel I do and it will make me feel good about myself and I will feel sexy and when I feel sexy....

    He just came home with the ProV kit.  :lol:

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    Martin Aircraft Company is going to start selling commercial jetpacks for about $75,000. The company says that these packs would be perfect for emergency services, as well private users and the military.

    http://www.martinjetpack.com/



    The Martin Aircraft Company jetpacks have about 200 HP coming out of their dual propellers. They can go up to 1.5 miles [high] in the air and reach speeds of 60 mph. They will aim to make about 500 packs a year.


    These jetpacks were invented by Glenn Martin, who unveiled his prototype last year in July. This whole contraption weighs less than 254 lbs, so in the UK, you won't need a pilot's license to travel in it. It is capable of traveling 30 miles with a full tank of fuel.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBndcBjQFM

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