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Fri, Jun 26 | from strawville (WordPress) | More High-speed rail
A recent New York Times Magazine article described the difficulty of piecing together the ballot-initiated California High Speed Rail, which will connect Los Angeles to San Francisco in 2 hours and 40 minutes (with eventual spurs to Sacramento, north, and San Diego, south) at top spee...
Power Solutions of Crane Aerospace and Electronics, provided power supplies, including the SMRT Series of DC/DC converters to help NASA astronauts repair the Hubble Space Telescope. A major component and key to repairing the Hubble's power supplies was ...
Thu, Jul 2 | from mae.pennnet.com | More Hubble Telescope
The HST team investigating the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) anomaly presented findings and recommendations to the HST project on June 30 that included a plan to bring the instrument out of suspend mode later this week.
Thu, Jul 2 | from RedOrbit | More Hubble Telescope
Mechanical engineer and defense entrepreneur Regina Dugan has been named the new director of Darpa, the Pentagon’s premiere research arm. Dugan will now be in charge of more than $3.2 billion’s worth of high-risk science and technology projects — everything from thinking computers to s...
Thu, Jul 2 | from Wired | More DARPA Challenge
Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for twenty seconds at a time. But that short flight w...
Thu, Jul 2 | from Wired | More DARPA Challenge
At this time, the vehicle exists only in rendered form (pay close attention to the wheels and tires in the above image), but T3 plans to enter a special CT-S version of the machine in the Auto X Prize that will reportedly be capable of 80 miles per hour and an equivalent mpg rating of over 100 mi...
Wed, Jul 1 | from AutoblogGreen | More X Prize
So, what did we learn from the ol’ NYT. The author does a less than convincing job getting us to buy that California is ever going to get this thing going (most of the article is a list of challenges and barriers to success), but it does do a decent job of reminding us of the “good old days of infras...
Wed, Jul 1 | from prosperityblog (WordPress) | More High-speed rail
Precise graphene ribbons can be made by chemically unzipping carbon nanotubes. This adds one more large molecule to the nanoscale construction toolbox. The ribbons may be useful in electronics, since a film of them should be even more conductive than... Precise graphene ribbons can be made...
Wed, Jul 1 | from crnano.typepad.com | More Nanotechnology
They are hedging their bets," agreed Keith Cowing, a former NASA engineer who runs the Nasawatch.com web site, which acts as a watchdog on the space agency. "It clearly reflects some doubts among senior agency folks in the overall veracity of their current approach." NASA spokesman Michae...
Tue, Jun 30 | from NASA Watch | More NASA
An in-depth look at astronomer Bill Borucki, principal investigator of NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission.
Wed, Jun 24 | from Space.com | More Kepler Mission
Germany Most recently, Goodrich provided the fine guidance sensor during the Space Shuttle Atlantis' historic final launch to the Hubble space telescope on May 11, 2009; the sensor will add years of productive research life to the venerable space telescope. ...
Sun, Jun 14 | from WELT ONLINE | More Space Shuttle
The crew will visit the International Space Station to finish construction and assembly of the Japanese Kibo Laboratory Complex. The shuttle will carry components for the Kibo Japanese laboratory's experiment and logistics modules. ...
Fri, Jun 12 | from InformationWeek | More Space station
Ireland By Donal Buckley Garrett Kelleher's latest French development is completely different from the high density, urban developments with which we usually associate his name. Unlike his proposed Chicago Spire in the heart of one of America's famous urban ...
Sat, Jun 6 | from Irish Independent | More Chicago Spire
Italy El 20 de junio Noah Fulmor se casará con Erin Finnegan a bordo de un Boeing 727 especial que despegará del Centro Espacial Kennedy, la estación espacial de la NASA en Cabo Cañaveral, Florida. Zero Gravity Corporation, compañía privada que permite ...
Wed, Jun 3 | from ANSA | More ZERO-G
Author: thomas02341 Keywords: antigravity water magic trick tutorial how to anti gravity tricks revealed The Anti-Gravity Water Magic Trick Revealed How To Do Floating Added: May 11, 2009
Mon, May 11 | from YouTube | More Anti-gravity
CA Lanza and other CSULB senior electronics engineering technology majors are looking to avenge the 2005 death of Stingray in this week's BattleBots Collegiate Championship — a fight-to-the-death tournament for robots — with a retooled fighter named ...
Mon, Apr 20 | from Daily 49er | More BattleBots
What is "cold fusion?" Is it real? What promises for humanity does it hold? What would happen if a free, non-polluting energy source was released into the world? How would our lives be different? What would be the reaction of the oil and nuclear industry infrastructure? Would it meekly st...
Sun, Sep 28 | from YouTube | More Cold fusion
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