LaserMotive’s laser-beaming powered robot climber ascends the 3,000-foot cable suspended from a helicopter at the Space Elevator Games. The real thing, big enough to carry passengers in their own cabins, might take a day or two to get into space. But with no gravity stresses to speak of.
UPDATE: The games are over and LaserMotive won $900K. The big prize, however, is still out there.
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Tagged Lasermotive, space elevator, Space Elevator Games, wireless power beaming
That’s the trouble with the global warm-mongers. You can shoot down their arguments time and again and they just keep recycling them. Comes now an Ohio State researcher riding Al Gore’s favorite pony in claiming that global warming is doing in the glaciers on the famous African mountain. Only problem is there’s been no global warming for more than a decade.
That’s why the warm-mongers have taken to calling it "climate change." Get it? Anthony Watts shot this one down just last year, with data from a Harvard researcher, among others. Can you say: evapotranspiration impeded by deforestation from intensive farming? Sure you can. Fortunately, Watts is game to explain it once again, and with two new contradicting studies.
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Tagged Al Gore, Anthony Watts, climate change, deforestration, evapotranspiration, global warming, melting glaciers, Mount Kilimanjaro
Now if our president and congress critters had time for ordinary people, this lawsuit wouldn’t be necessary. But it’s cool that there’s going to be one if congress doesn’t act. With luck, it might even succeed. It certainly makes sense.
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Tagged bone marrow donors compensation, bone marrow lawsuit, Institute for Justice
This development could be bigger news than the latest killer strain, H1N1 or whatever. Course it has a ways to go yet before anyone outside the trials could take it, and FDA approval might slow it down a while longer. But it’s nice to see Israeli research in the vanguard again.
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Tagged biondvax, Israel, Israeli bioscience, Simply Jews, universal flu vaccine
And, not incidentally, the people who use its many varieties. Pictures by Rick Lee of Charleston, WVA.
Via Instapundit.
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Tagged digital camera, Rick Lee
I’d heard of this classic essay by Vannevar Bush (who was apparently unrelated to the later presidents) a few times but never read it until recently. Written in 1945, it summarizes some of the ways in which science helped win World War II (without getting specific about radar or much else, however) and what it will do in the future.
VB seems to predict the desktop computer, a Windows-like operating system (graphical user interface) and Google-type search engines: "Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified." Even digital photography gets a hint or two. It’s long, at twenty-two pages, and the sexism of the day is jarring, but it’s still worth the effort.
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Tagged " desktop computer, "As We May Think, digital photography, graphical user interface, search engines, Vannevar Bush, World War II
No surprise, really. You knew it all along, right? Well, now there’s proof. Brain scans tell the tale.
Via Instapundit.
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Tagged boosting brain function, brain scans, Internet surfing
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