This is a strange situation. The logistics alone are mind-boggling.
Entries Tagged as 'Sciency Stuff'
bedazzler
March 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Sciency Stuff · The Oregon Trail
saltwater burning
September 11th, 2007 · Comments Off
This is pretty fascinating if it works, if it’s real, if it is applicable.
Applying radio waves (I don’t yet know the specifics around them) to saltwater allows it to burn, as the hydrogen is somehow offered up to the fire gods.
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The Moon via Google
July 20th, 2005 · Comments Off
thx anners for sending me this sweet link from google–it’s the moon!. The first manned lunar landing (remember that game) was 36 years ago today - Apollo 11. Make sure to zoom all the way in, the surface detail is remarkable!
Tags: Happy Fun! · Sciency Stuff
water on mars
August 22nd, 2004 · 1 Comment
A cool update on the Mars rovers’s status, they are finding pretty solid evidence of liquids. Water that is. And as we all know, where there’s water there’s beer.
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ancient brewery
July 30th, 2004 · Comments Off
Hidden in the Andes, researchers excavated an ancient brewery.
Tags: Sciency Stuff · The Nectar
Space ship
July 16th, 2004 · Comments Off
This is cool, sent by my grandad, pics of Space Ship One and its posse. The crowd pic at the start is pretty darn great too.
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Autonomous Vehicles
March 9th, 2004 · 3 Comments
okay, this is way cool. I hear that it’s featured in Scientific American, but I haven’t cracked mine yet. Twenty-some teams or more have assembled vehicles to race from SoCal to Vegas. Big whoop…right…there’s no driver, and no remote control. These things are given routes and waypoints, and it’s up to [...]
Tags: Happy Fun! · Sciency Stuff
Mars or Bust
January 26th, 2004 · 2 Comments
This stuff is so cool. We’ve put A couple of really nifty toy cars on another planet. While we’re still in the stone age of interstellar travel, this is pretty huge, even though we did it before some 6 years ago. Each time, we overcome new obstacles, learn new information, and feel [...]
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MarsDonald’s
January 20th, 2004 · 1 Comment
thanks grandad!
Tags: Happy Fun! · Sciency Stuff
freeze-dried blood
October 23rd, 2003 · Comments Off
Check out this post over at zeros and ones. Pretty freaky implications about cross-species blood transfusions. Someday, you may receive a blood supplement that was derived from an anteater.
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space aliens
October 9th, 2003 · 1 Comment
There just aren’t enough hours in a day. I actually have experimental evidence (that applies to myself) to support this. At one point I realized that my awake hours always push up against the latest possible time that I could go to bed and still get a functional amount of sleep for the [...]
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Science Fair
September 23rd, 2003 · Comments Off
Portland is finding itself on the map for science fairs. Youth Exploring Science is hosting Intel’s big-ole international jr. geekfest. This is way cool news for Portland. props N.
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letter scramble
September 16th, 2003 · 1 Comment
via Slashdot via DJ Alden Aslett (and probably 100000 others), letters in words can be scrambled and still read. Just keep the first and last intact. friggin amazing, check out a link. I’m going to have to give some thought as to what this means.
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Mars Attacks
August 27th, 2003 · Comments Off
well, maybe not, but it is a great pinball machine, and Mars will be as close as you’ll ever know tonight. Here’s the JPL’s site on viewing Mars. Cheers, and happy gazing.
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conservative characteristics
July 24th, 2003 · 4 Comments
via TBOGG, an article which describes research into the underlying psychological characteristics of conservatives. Funny, the points apply pretty directly to our current prez. They also explain a lot about the national (local is generally owned nationally too) media, if you care to note that so much of its reporting is designed to [...]
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ova mega
July 9th, 2003 · Comments Off
reproductive twist
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SETI and the Distributed Pickup
March 11th, 2003 · 1 Comment
SETI@Home has announced a milestone in their distributed computing experiment: they are going to use the data that they’ve gathered together. They are going to look at the spots in the sky that people have helped to identify as likely alien hotbeds.
Very cool, and something of a breakthrough. Distributed computing is a piece [...]
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Planck Scale
March 5th, 2003 · Comments Off
A fascinating article recounts strategies to examine space and time at what is believed to be its most fundamental level, the Planck scale. It is at this level that we believe the universe is granular, ‘we’ being those who interpret quantum physics in that manner. Not all physicists believe that the [...]
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