• Carnival of Nuclear Energy 137

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    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 31, 2012 Carnival of Nuclear Energy 137 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 137 is up at Hiroshima . Syndrome If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by brian wang at 12 31 2012 Labels : carnival of nuclear energy energy nuclear Carnival of Nuclear Energy 137 The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 137 is up at Hiroshima . Syndrome If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by . Disqus blog comments powered by Disqus Older Post Home Subscription Options Get Updates by RSS Get Free Updates by Email Read latest headlines in your

  • Carnival of Space 281/282

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    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 31, 2012 Carnival of Space 281 282 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet The Carnival of Space 281 282 is up at . Aartscope If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by brian wang at 12 31 2012 Labels : astronomy carnival of space space Carnival of Space 281 282 The Carnival of Space 281 282 is up at . Aartscope If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by . Disqus blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscription Options Get Updates by RSS Get Free Updates by Email Read latest headlines in your favorite news reader Disqus comments

  • Carnival of Space 281/282

    Updated: 2012-12-31 15:12:26
    Home Become a Member Carnival of Space Contact Us Forum Guide to Space Privacy Policy Telescope Guide Subscribe Universe Today Remove this ad Carnival of Space 281 282 by Carnival of Space on December 31, 2012 Want to stay on top of all the space news Follow universetoday on Twitter Remove this ad This week’s Carnival of Space is a holiday mash-up of two weeks-worth of spacey goodness , and is hosted by Peter Lake at his AARTScope blog . Click here to read Carnival of Space 281 282. And if you’re interested in looking back , here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space If you’ve got a space-related blog , you should really join the carnival . Just email an entry to carnivalofspace gmail.com and the next host will link to it . It will help get awareness out there about your writing

  • How Are Places On The Moon Named?

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    Smithsonian Instiution Smithsonian Journeys Smithsonian Store Smithsonian Channel goSmithsonian Visitors Guide Smithsonian magazine AirSpaceMag.com Subscribe Home History of Flight Flight Today Military Aviation Space Exploration Need to Know How Things Work Photos Videos Blogs The Daily Planet Letters To Earth The Once and Future Moon The View from 30,000 Feet On Air December 31, 2012 How Are Places On The Moon Named Reddit Digg Stumble Email More Map of the Moon by Grimaldi and Riccioli , 1651. Most of the names on this map are still in use . today The Moon is remarkable for the variety and unusual nature of the names of its surface features The dark , smooth maria are named for weather or states of mind Sea of Rains , Sea of Tranquility while many of the abundant craters of the Moon are

  • Distribution center robots

    Updated: 2012-12-31 14:44:07
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 31, 2012 Distribution center robots Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Everything Robotics covered the improvements in the speed of distribution centers through the use of robotics and the Kiva goods to man . process Kiva Goods to man process achieves 600 units per hour versus 160 picks per hour for Man to Goods Amazon has and continues to lead e-commerce-driven distribution with their pick-to-cart method otherwise known as man-to-goods and their promise of speedy economical delivery . Workers run around and fill carts and deliver them to conveyors where they are transported to packing stations where individual shipments are processed and staged for pickup by FedEx , UPS , etc . The metrics for this are 160 picks

  • January Skywatching: Ancient Constellation, Quadrantid Meteors and More | Video

    Updated: 2012-12-31 14:21:26
    SPACE.com: The first month of 2013 features the Auriga constellation, double star Capella, up to 40 Quadrantids per hour during the showers peak, Jupiter and Saturn.

  • Winterbergs micro-chemical fusion bomblets

    Updated: 2012-12-31 14:12:41
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 30, 2012 Winterbergs micro-chemical fusion bomblets Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Winterberg's work in nuclear rocket propulsion earned him the 1979 Hermann Oberth Gold Medal of the Wernher von Braun International Space Flight Foundation . Winterberg is well respected for his work in the fields of nuclear fusion and plasma physics , and Edward Teller has been quoted as saying that he had perhaps not received the attention he deserves for his work on . fusion Nextbigfuture has recently written briefly about a recent Winterberg paper Hybrid Chemical-Nuclear Convergent Shock Wave High Gain Magnetized Target Fusion Winterberg describes how to use a chemical explosive to boost the a nuclear fusion reaction that

  • Controlled clockwise and anticlockwise rotational switching of a molecular motor

    Updated: 2012-12-31 14:12:21
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 31, 2012 Controlled clockwise and anticlockwise rotational switching of a molecular motor Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Researchers have made a reversible rotor that sits on a ruthenium atomic cal . bearing Nature Nanotechnology Controlled clockwise and anticlockwise rotational switching of a molecular motor The design of artificial molecular machines often takes inspiration from macroscopic machines . However , the parallels between the two systems are often only superficial , because most molecular machines are governed by quantum processes . Previously , rotary molecular motors powered by light and chemical energy have been developed . In electrically driven motors , tunnelling electrons from the tip of a

  • Happy Baktun 13:00:00:00:11

    Updated: 2012-12-31 13:23:54
    Astroblog: New Year with light sabers and glow in the dark bubble mixture.

  • Russia to Spend $70 Billion on Space Program in 2013-2020

    Updated: 2012-12-31 11:00:44
    AmericaSpace: Russia’s involvement with the International Space Station—as evidenced by this remarkable shot of Soyuz TMA-07M, flying high above the Sahara during rendezvous operations on 21 December—is expected to continue throughout the next decade. Photo Credit: NASA Russia is expected to spend 2.1 trillion rubles—about $70 billion—on the development of its national space industry in [...]

  • Death of German-American space pioneer Jesco von Puttkamer

    Updated: 2012-12-31 08:59:00
    Popular Astronomy: ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration: Statement by Thomas Reiter, ESA Director for Human Spaceflight and Operations: We mourn the sudden death of Jesco von Puttkamer. He was an outstanding space pioneer and took part in humankinds’ most important space exploration endeavours such as the Apollo, Shuttle and International Space Station programmes.

  • Last Full moon of 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-31 06:51:10
    The Sky Above: Before I say goodbye to 2012, I observed the last full moon of the year on Dec. 29, 2012. The full moon was also inside the Winter Hexagon, an asterism which consists of the brightest stars of the winter constellations (Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Auriga, and Gemini). Moonset Full moon inside the Winter Hexagon Before I say goodbye to 2012, I observed the last full moon of the year on Dec. 29, 2012. The full moon was also inside the Winter Hexagon, an asterism which consists of the brightest stars of the winter constellations (Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Auriga, and Gemini).

  • A Different Kind of Star

    Updated: 2012-12-31 06:27:21
    Astroblog: Australian native daisies at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Genus Asteracea, aster = star.

  • Reasons to go beyond biological life extension

    Updated: 2012-12-31 04:13:06
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 30, 2012 Reasons to go beyond biological life extension Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet A talk by Randal Koene covers the motivation for human technological augmentation and reasons to go beyond biological life extension Life-extension in biology may increase the fragility of our species civilization More people Resources . Less births Fewer novel perspectives . Expansion Environmental . limitation Biological life-extension within the same evolutionary niche further specialization to the same performance over-training” in conflict with generalization Significant biological life-extension incredibly difficult and beset by threats . Life-extension and Substrate-Independence are two different objectives Developing

  • Moon and Jupiter Shine Over Hungarian Lake Lake (Photo)

    Updated: 2012-12-31 00:38:42
    SPACE.com: Night sky photographer Tamas Ladanyi shoots stunning image of the moon and Jupiter over a lake in Hévíz.

  • Is NASA Lost in Space or Aimed at Asteroid?

    Updated: 2012-12-31 00:34:35
    SPACE.com: Experts weigh in on NASA's direction and its ultimate goals of sending astronauts into deep space.

  • "Advanced ET Technology May Exist on a 'Third Level' Beyond Matter" (2012 Most Popular)

    Updated: 2012-12-30 23:03:14
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy DNA Nucleotides Were Present Before Origin of Life Holiday Feature Main December 30, 2012 Advanced ET Technology May Exist on a Third Level' Beyond Matter 2012 Most Popular World renowned experts from physicist  Sir Martin Rees of  Cambridge University to astrobiologist Paul Davis of  Arizona State have asked that if we were to encounter alien technology far superior to our own , would we even realize what it was . A technology a million or more years in advance of ours would appear . miraculous In fact , Davies writes in his book , 0160 Eerie , Silence that advanced technology might not even be made of matter . That it might have no fixed size or shape have no well-defined boundaries . Is dynamical on

  • China generates power at the Ningde 1 reactor and starts work on the 30th under construction nuclear reactor

    Updated: 2012-12-30 05:57:05
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 29, 2012 China generates power at the Ningde 1 reactor and starts work on the 30th under construction nuclear reactor Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet 1. Construction of a new reactor was started this week in China . The Russian-designed model is the fourth to be inaugurated since China resumed approvals for new plants at the end of October The new build is at the Tianwan site in Jiangsu province . An AES-91 VVER-1000 unit designed by Gidropress and supplied by Russian state firm Rosatom . Tianwan 3 is slated to begin power generation in 2018, with unit 4 expected to follow one year later , operated by China National Nuclear Corporation . Tianwan 3 is now the 30th large power reactor under construction in China

  • Roadmap to Photon Propulsion for Interstellar Flight

    Updated: 2012-12-30 05:32:00
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 29, 2012 Roadmap to Photon Propulsion for Interstellar Flight Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Here are steps to Photon Propulsion for Interstellar . Flight First we have to develop photonic laser thrusters amplifying laser propulsion by bouncing between mirrors to recycle photons Photonic laser thrusters are described in a previous nextbigfuture . article There has been experimental work that indicates that it is . feasible The systems described here are an improvements by several orders of magnitude over regular power beaming . Recycling photons between mirrors reduces the energy requirements as does lightening the spacecraft and shortening the wavelength of the laser . There are other technological solutions to

  • Direct Energy Momentum Beaming (DEMB) for Innovative Spacecraft Maneuvering and Basic Photonic Laser Thrusting

    Updated: 2012-12-30 04:51:49
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 29, 2012 Direct Energy Momentum Beaming DEMB for Innovative Spacecraft Maneuvering and Basic Photonic Laser Thrusting Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Traditionally , Direct Energy DE especially High Energy Laser HEL has mainly been considered for beaming energy or , power however , it can be exploited for beaming momentum as well . Dr . Y . K Bae presents an innovative spacecraft maneuvering architecture , DE Momentum Beaming DEMB in which momentum is beamed between two spacecraft platforms via the pressure of circulating photons between them with the use of recently developed Photonic Laser Thruster PLT Many advanced DoD in-space missions need a wider range of dynamic spacecraft maneuvers than formation flying .

  • Efficient Energy Conversion of the 14MeV Neutrons in DT Inertial Confinement Fusion

    Updated: 2012-12-29 19:11:51
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 29, 2012 Efficient Energy Conversion of the 14MeV Neutrons in DT Inertial Confinement Fusion Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet 1. Vixra Efficient Energy Conversion of the 14MeV Neutrons in DT Inertial Confinement Fusion by Friedwardt Winterberg In DT fusion 80 of the energy released goes into 14MeV neutrons , and only the remaining 20 into charged particles . Unlike the charged particles , the uncharged neutrons cannot be confined by a magnetic field , and for this reason cannot be used for a direct conversion into electric energy . Instead , the neutrons have to be slowed down in some medium , heating this medium to a temperature of less than 10^3K , with the heat removed fom this medium to drive a turbo-generator

  • "No Jupiter, No Advanced Life? " ('2012 Most Popular')

    Updated: 2012-12-29 17:39:03
    , , The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Colossal Black Hole Equal to 17 Billion Suns Discovered 2012 Most Popular' Main December 29, 2012 No Jupiter , No Advanced Life 2012 Most Popular' What are the implications of a star systems missing a massive gas giant such as our  Solar Systems Jupiter it could imply conditions of massive bombardment from comets and asteeoids that would prevent the development of advanced . life The artist's impression below of the  debris disc and planets around the star known as Gliese 581, superimposed on Herschel PACS images at 70, 100 and 160 micrometre wavelengths . The line drawing superimposed on the Herschel image gives a schematic representation of the location and orientation of the star , planets and

  • Guided Impact Fusion

    Updated: 2012-12-29 16:47:17
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 29, 2012 Guided Impact Fusion Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Colin Bruce is a physicist and science writer living in . Oxford He is an expert in mathematical paradoxes and a lover of . mysteries He has written books like the Einstein Paradox And Other Science Mysteries Solved By Sherlock . Holmes He has a 30 page proposal for Guided Impact Fusion ABSTRACT There is a cheap , practicable way to generate energy from fusion . An input pulse of at least 20 MJ X-rays to the capsule is possible two orders of magnitude greater than the National Ignition Facility achieved this is known from both theory and experiment to be ample for fusion ignition . The method is similar to the NIF : a fuel capsule implodes within a

  • US crude oil production at 6.984 million barrels per day

    Updated: 2012-12-29 16:24:38
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 28, 2012 US crude oil production at 6.984 million barrels per day Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet The second last week of USA oil production was reported . Crude oil production was at 6.984 million barrels per . day This was 121 thousand barrels per day more than the prioer . week October , 2012 crude oil production for Texas was 2.1 million bpd 65.1 million barrels in the month This was a 50,000 bpd increase from September , 2012. If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by brian wang at 12 28 2012 Labels : economic impact oil texas united states US crude oil production at 6.984 million barrels per day The second last week of USA oil production was

  • Better Infrared Imaging with nanomembranes

    Updated: 2012-12-29 16:14:19
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 29, 2012 Better Infrared Imaging with nanomembranes Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet A researcher has developed curved night-vision goggles using germanium . nanomembranes It has a curved surface that allows a wider field of view for pilots . They solved a background noise problem . Another DOD project for the same researcher is development of imagers for military surveillance that span multiple spectra , combining infrared and visible light into a single image . They will use a heterogeneous semiconductor nanomembrane , stacking the two incompatible materials in each pixel of the new imager to layer IR and visible images on top of one another in a single . image If you liked this article , please give it a quick

  • Autodesk will help upgrade the software for 3d tissue printing machines

    Updated: 2012-12-29 06:38:13
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 28, 2012 Autodesk will help upgrade the software for 3d tissue printing machines Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Autodesk , the industry leader in CAD software , has announced it is partnering with biological printer manufacturer Organovo to create 3-D design software for designing and printing living . tissue This will be a dramatic development for Organovo . Their bioprinters allow scientists to deposit cells and grow functional human tissues for use in medical . research They’re amazingly powerful 21st-century tools , but run on software left over from the Apollo era . Every time a scientist wants to print something , they have to write a script from scratch and run it from the command line . Instead of

  • Crowlspace looks at Kardashev 2 and Kardashev 3 Intergalactic Worldships

    Updated: 2012-12-29 06:27:21
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 28, 2012 Crowlspace looks at Kardashev 2 and Kardashev 3 Intergalactic Worldships Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Kardashev 2 Worldship A worldship that would require the power level of a Kardashev 2 . civilication In 1987 Burruss Colwell proposed such an advanced worldship . concept 1,000 kilometer wide World-Ship 50 billion passengers cruise speed of 0.4c 40 of lightspeed The antimatter fuel required would be the equivalent of several days worth of the Sun’s total luminosity , so it would require at least a Kardashev Type II Civilization dedicated to the task to achieve . it Kardashev 3 sending planets via blackhole gravity slightshot A Type III Civilization , with control over the Galaxy’s resources , could

  • Accelerator driven sub-critical reactor could burn nuclear waste and create diesel at less than $2 per gallon

    Updated: 2012-12-29 06:17:09
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 28, 2012 Accelerator driven sub-critical reactor could burn nuclear waste and create diesel at less than 2 per gallon Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Muons Inc is partnering with ADNA Corp to develop a game-changing application of accelerator technology designing and building a new form of intrinsically safe nuclear power called GEM STAR Green Energy Multiplier Subcritical Technology for Alternative Reactors Muons’ first commercial application of GEM STAR Power can be to use the process heat generated from the accelerator-driven GEM STAR reactor to convert natural gas and renewable carbon into feedstock for the Fischer-Tropsch generation of ultra-clean , high quality diesel fuel . The initial plant will produce

  • Recipe book for the creation of materials with new properties

    Updated: 2012-12-29 06:00:33
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 28, 2012 Recipe book for the creation of materials with new properties Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in . nature The findings show that researchers can create a recipe book to build new materials of sorts using topology , a major mathematical field that describes the properties that do not change when an object is stretched , bent or otherwise continuously deformed . 8221 Published online Dec . 23 in the journal Nature , the study also is the first to experimentally show that some of the most important topological theorems hold up in the real material world , said

  • Is China Over-Investing and Does it Matter?

    Updated: 2012-12-29 05:36:07
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 28, 2012 Is China Over-Investing and Does it Matter Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet There is an IMF paper Is China Over-Investing and Does it Matter China over investing by about 10 of GDP China’s capital-to-output ratio is within the range of other emerging markets , but its economic growth rates stand out , partly due to a surge in investment over the last decade . Moreover , its investment is significantly higher than suggested by cross-country panel estimation . This deviation has been accumulating over the last decade , and at nearly 10 percent of GDP is now larger and more persistent than experienced by other Asian economies leading up to the Asian . crisis Investment financed by domestic savings and a 4 of

  • US EPA highest mileage car rankings

    Updated: 2012-12-28 17:02:59
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 28, 2012 US EPA highest mileage car rankings Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Here is the US EPA list of best mileage cars for 2013 by class of . car If the electric cars are excluded then the Toyota Prius models are the best with about 50 mpg combined . The best truck is the Lexus 450h with 30 mpg combined . The best minivan is the Mazda 5 with 24 mpg . combined If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by brian wang at 12 28 2012 Labels : cars electric cars future oil united states US EPA highest mileage car rankings Here is the US EPA list of best mileage cars for 2013 by class of . car If the electric cars are excluded then the Toyota Prius models are

  • Car pollution killing millions in China and India

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:54:54
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 28, 2012 Car pollution killing millions in China and India Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet An explosion of car use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicentre of global air pollution and become , along with obesity , the world's fastest growing cause of death according to a major study of global . diseases In 2010, more than 2.1m people in Asia died prematurely from air pollution , mostly from the minute particles of diesel soot and gasses emitted from cars and lorries . Other causes of air pollution include construction and industry . Of these deaths , says the study published in The Lancet , 1.2 million were in east Asia and China , and 712,000 in south Asia , including . India Worldwide , a record 3.2m

  • "The Antimatter Supernova" --One of the Largest Cosmic Explosions Ever Recorded

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:30:49
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy December 27, 2004 The Day Planet Earth Survived Its Greatest Space-Ray Attack Main The Primordial Star at the Edge of the Milky Way that Shouldn't Exist Challenges Theories of Star Formation December 28, 2012 The Antimatter Supernova One of the Largest Cosmic Explosions Ever Recorded In 2007, a supergiant star two hundred times bigger than the sun was utterly obliterated by runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray driven antimatter production . The resulting blast was visible for months because it unleashed a cloud of radioactive material over fifty times the size of our own star , giving off a nuclear fission glow visible from galaxies away . SN 2007bi was discovered by the international

  • Image: Saturn's Moon Dione As Seen on 23 December 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:22:23
    This image was taken on December 23, 2012 and received on Earth December 24, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Dione at approximately 153,903 miles (247,683 kilometers) away, and the image was taken using the IR4 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2013. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Full-Res: N00199630.jpg read more

  • Image: City Lights Illuminate the Nile As Seen From Space

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:21:47
    The Nile River Valley and Delta comprise less than 5 percent of Egypt's land area, but provide a home to roughly 97 percent of the country's population. Nothing makes the location of human population clearer than the lights illuminating the valley and delta at night. read more

  • Terra/MODIS Image: Dust storms over the Red Sea

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:20:57
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  • A Collection of Predictions for 2013

    Updated: 2012-12-28 15:36:20
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 28, 2012 A Collection of Predictions for 2013 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet 1. Technology Review Five Technologies to Watch in 2013 Wireless charging Around five million devices using wireless charging were sold in 2012, but we might see numbers closer to 100 million in the coming two to three years 3-D printing 3d printing grew in a few unexpected ways in 2012. In New York , Shapeways presented a 25,000-square-foot facility that it intends to stock with 50 industrial-scale printers capable of cranking out five million products a year Killer Stylus Tablets need a killer stylus and it has not been developed yet , but one company should get it right soon Leap 3D Leap 3d is 200 times as accurate than the XBox

  • Amazing Video of a Lunar Occultation

    Updated: 2012-12-28 15:17:54
    Captured on camera by astrophotographer Rafael Defavari from his location in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, this video shows the Moon passing in front of Jupiter during an occultation event on December 25, 2012. Nice work! The video plays at 5x actual speed. Although Jupiter appeared to be “right next to” the Moon on Christmas [...]

  • Quantum techniques to improve broadband and encryption are closer to market

    Updated: 2012-12-28 06:38:46
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 27, 2012 Quantum techniques to improve broadband and encryption are closer to market Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet The Quantum Wave Fund has raised over 30 million to invest and aims to collect 100 . million Quantum physics does indeed offer some intriguing ideas about how fiber optic data links , the Internet’s backbone , could be made more capacious and secure . New ways to handle individual or small groups of photons could allow existing fiber optics to carry more data , for example see A Quantum Communications Switch” Prototype systems that use quantum properties of light to create unbreakably secure communications links see Quantum Cryptography for the Masses” might be made more practical , allowing them

  • Image: The Clouds of Saturn

    Updated: 2012-12-27 17:59:01
    This image was taken on December 24, 2012 and received on Earth December 26, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 441,028 miles (709,766 kilometers) away, and the image was taken using the CB2 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2013. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Full-Res: W00078573.jpg read more

  • Image: Mars Curiosity Rover Self-Portrait, Wide View

    Updated: 2012-12-27 17:50:47
    On the 84th and 85th Martian days of the NASA Mars rover Curiosity's mission on Mars (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2012), NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture dozens of high-resolution images to be combined into self-portrait images of the rover. The mosaic shows the rover at "Rocknest," the spot in Gale Crater where the mission's first scoop sampling took place. Four scoop scars can be seen in the regolith in front of the rover. A fifth scoop was collected later. read more

  • Laser Motion Control of Maglev Graphite

    Updated: 2012-12-27 15:51:37
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 27, 2012 Laser Motion Control of Maglev Graphite Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Graphite has been known as a typical diamagnetic material and can be levitated in the strong magnetic . field Researchers have shown that the magnetically levitating pyrolytic graphite can be moved in the arbitrary place by simple photoirradiation . It is notable that the optical motion control system described in this paper requires only NdFeB permanent magnets and light source . The optical movement is driven by photothermally induced changes in the magnetic susceptibility of the graphite . Moreover , we demonstrate that light energy can be converted into rotational kinetic energy by means of the photothermal property . We find

  • Ford Fiesta ECOnetic Van can get 85.6 mpg

    Updated: 2012-12-27 15:42:42
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home December 27, 2012 Ford Fiesta ECOnetic Van can get 85.6 mpg Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet A new Ford Fiesta Van offers businesses an agile and good looking vehicle with class-leading fuel-efficiency all diesel engines achieve sub-100 g km CO2 emissions and 3.7 l 100 km 76.4 mpg or . better The Fiesta Van offers new 75 PS 1.5-litre Duratorq TDCi diesel for the first time Fiesta ECOnetic Van variant features enhanced fuel-saving technologies to deliver best-in-class 87 g km and 3.3 l 100 km 85.6 mpg Fiesta Van offers key segment-first technologies including in-car connectivity system SYNC with Emergency Assistance , Active City Stop , and MyKey system to encourage safer driving , plus practical features like Easy Fuel and

  • Test Validity Question

    Updated: 2012-12-27 13:01:16
    I had a (nother) strange thought this morning. It is my opinion that I have figured out how to do inexpensive compensating nozzles. I don’t have an engine to test the idea. Has anyone ever seen any nozzle testing that used a blank pistol cartridge? My thought is that I could turn a nozzle and [...]

  • Image of the Day: Inside the Shadow of Saturn

    Updated: 2012-12-27 11:00:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Alien Edens Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins : Life Exists Elsewhere in the Universe' Main Some Regions of the Universe are Not Favorable for Life December 27, 2012 Image of the Day : Inside the Shadow of Saturn Of all the many glorious images we have received from Saturn , none are more strikingly unusual than those taken from Saturn's shadow , quot said Carolyn Porco Cassini's imaging team lead based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder , . Colo NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now , has delivered a glorious , backlit view of the planet Saturn and its rings . On Oct . 17, 2012, during its 174th orbit around the gas giant Cassini was deliberately

  • Solid Fuel Possibilities for the New Year

    Updated: 2012-12-26 00:25:14
    A constant attention to the struggles of the start up companies in the space business will constantly remind you that the critical element of progress is the availability of enough solid fuel to keep things moving. This critical solid fuel requirement is the pacing element of almost all the progress of the last decade, with [...]

  • SpaceX Grasshopper Successfully Flies 40 Meters

    Updated: 2012-12-24 18:39:59
    Single Camera: Grasshopper 40-Meter Test Flight 12/17/12 SpaceX reports: Grasshopper takes a 12-story leap towards full and rapid rocket reusability in a test flight conducted December 17, 2012 at SpaceX’s rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas. Grasshopper, a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (VTVL), rose 131 feet (40 meters), hovered and landed safely on the pad [...]

  • Mars Rover Opportunity Update - December 12-18, 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-22 21:09:43
    Shoulder Work At 'Copper Cliff' - sols 3159-3165, Dec. 12, 2012-Dec. 18, 2012: Opportunity is working at "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. There, the rover has been conducting in-situ (contact) science measurements at a location called "Copper Cliff." read more

  • Video: Weightless Teachers and Ping Pong Balls

    Updated: 2012-12-22 19:11:38
    "Science Bob and 30 other teachers launched 2,000 ping pong balls in zero gravity as part of Northrup Grumman Foundation's Weightless Flights of Discovery program. Also joining us was Kerry Sanders of the Today Show. Weightless flight is accomplished by flying in parabolas in reserved airspace aboard a modified 727 aircraft. Each weightless experience lasts about 30 seconds. Learn more about Science Bob at http://www.sciencebob.com" read more

  • Dragon Resupply Mission #1

    Updated: 2012-12-20 18:22:00
    : Freeluna Lunar Colonization Blog Space colonization offers the best possible future for mankind , and the colonization of the moon is our best first . step Thursday , December 20, 2012 Dragon Resupply Mission 1 This news is once again quite late in coming . After a successful COTS demonstration in May of 2012, Space-X returned to the space station in October for its first official station resupply mission . This is great news as Dragon has made two incident-free flights to ISS within the last year , given the fact that there have been a total of four Falcon 9 flights all-together . I'm not saying Space-X should be having problems , but they have been remarkably problem free since their inception . They obviously have a great technical staff . One thing though , every time I see the

  • Getting Closer: Habitable Planet May Be 12 Light Years Away Orbiting Tau Ceti

    Updated: 2012-12-19 16:45:55
    : : The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Getting Closer : Habitable Planet May be 12 Light Years Away Orbiting Tau Ceti Main December 19, 2012 Getting Closer : Habitable Planet May Be 12 Light Years Away Orbiting Tau Ceti We're getting closer An international team of astronomers has discovered that Tau Ceti one of the closest and most Sun-like stars image above may host five planets , including one in the star's habitable zone Goldilocks Zone At a distance of twelve light years from Earth and visible to the naked eye in the evening sky , Tau Ceti is the closest single star that has the same spectral classification as our Sun . Its five planets are estimated to have masses between two and six times the mass of the Earth , making it the

  • "Humans May be the First Generation of Advanced Life in the Milky Way" (Today's Most Popular)

    Updated: 2012-12-19 12:00:00
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy CERN's Research Confirms Existence of Higgs Boson Will It Lead to a New Physics Main Getting Closer : Habitable Planet May be 12 Light Years Away Orbiting Tau Ceti December 19, 2012 Humans May be the First Generation of Advanced Life in the Milky Way Today's Most Popular Columbus forced everyone to rethink , redesign and rebuild their world view.That’s what we’re doing here , quot says  Dimitar Sasselov professor of astrophysics and director of Harvard University s Origins of Life Initiative . 0160 To put it in 15th-century terms , we’ve reached the Canary Islands . Getting to where we ultimately want to go is a slow process that involves astronomers , aeronautical engineers , biochemists ,

  • National Space Society Announces the 2013 Legislative Blitz

    Updated: 2012-12-18 00:36:40
    From Sunday, February 24 through Tuesday, February 26, 2013, the National Space Society and the Space Exploration Alliance will be holding the annual grassroots visit to Congress known as the “Legislative Blitz”. With unprecedented budgetary pressures facing the legislative and executive branches of government, the debate continues about the future direction and funding of our nation’s [...]

  • Life in outer space? 37-year-old NASA project depicts how leading minds of the time dreamed about colonizing space

    Updated: 2012-12-15 02:21:08
    The New York Daily News published this story on December 13, 2012. The story quotes two National Space Society Directors: Mark Hopkins and Al Globus. “Amazing artwork from the 1970s shows scientists’ vision of creating settlements in space. They got most of it right, say experts. But funding for the massive endeavor remains a large hurdle.” Read the [...]

  • Epicurean meals in space…

    Updated: 2012-12-12 05:24:33
    Reader Christophe Charron sent me this short animation a few days ago.  While not directly targeted towards a Space Elevator, it’s funny and, I think, relevant nonetheless. Christophe sends me this explanation: Here is “Un petit plat pour l’homme”, one of the funniest short film, I think,about cooking in space (a french and epicurean vision of). This is Corentin Charron (aka [...]

  • NASA Awards Commercial Crew Certification Contracts

    Updated: 2012-12-11 01:05:47
    NASA announced December 10th the next step in its plan to launch American astronauts from U.S. soil, selecting three companies to conduct activities under contracts that will enable future certification of commercial spacecraft as safe to carry humans to the International Space Station. The Certification Products Contracts (CPC) are the Commercial Crew Program’s first major, fixed-price [...]

  • That’s no moon…

    Updated: 2012-12-11 00:36:22
    While somewhat facetious, this petition on whitehouse.gov makes an excellent point. With investment in space-related technology, science, and development, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more. Ever dollar the federal government … Continue reading →

  • Zoomable Image of the Whole Earth at Night

    Updated: 2012-12-10 23:02:39
    This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s [...]

  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 240,000!

    Updated: 2012-12-05 03:45:21
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Colossal Black Hole Equal to 17 Billion Suns Discovered May Overturn Existing Models Main EcoAlert : Forty-Seven ESA NASA Experts Warn of Increasing Ice Melt Rising Sea Levels December 03, 2012 The Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 235,000 Join the 235,000  Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page . Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists , astronauts , space observatories , news organizations , universities and governmental space organizations such as NASA , JPL , ESO , SETI , 0160 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA and Royal Astronomy Society members . Follow us daily at  twitter.com dailygalaxy Posted at 01:00 AM

  • Life found thriving in harsh environment of ice-sealed lake

    Updated: 2012-12-04 21:50:35
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