Skip to main content

Home/ Advanced Concepts Team/ Group items tagged act

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Luís F. Simões

Doctor... we have this pet physicist and... - 2 views

www.smbc-comics.com/index.php

PHY fun

shared by Luís F. Simões on 21 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 21 Mar 12
     
    :D  so that's why the ACT recycles physicists every 2 years !!
santecarloni

the Tricorder project - Science Tricorder Mark 2 - 1 views

www.tricorderproject.org/tricorder-mark2.html

science

shared by santecarloni on 29 Mar 12 - No Cached
Ma Ru liked it
  • santecarloni on 29 Mar 12
     
    ... each act member should have one, together with the mug... :) Se also http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y3sHTKrGdKI
  • Ma Ru on 29 Mar 12
     
    I want one too! On a side note, his story about transformers is a nice illustration that being able to express something in a mathematical equation is not equivalent to understanding something.
LeopoldS

Out of the Present (1999) - IMDb - 4 views

www.imdb.com/tt0123211

movie

shared by LeopoldS on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 27 Aug 12
     
    proposal for one of the next ACT movie nights? anybody seen it?
  • Marcus Maertens on 27 Aug 12
     
    oh, haven't seen that one, but it looks cool! We need to get our hands on it...
santecarloni

Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete - 1 views

www.toothycat.net/...index.html

magic gathering science FUN

shared by santecarloni on 13 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 16 Sep 12
     
    so happy that the times of ACT magic are over ... or are they?
  • Luís F. Simões on 16 Sep 12
     
    of course not !!!! :) The ACT Magic nights are alive and well, and getting crazier all the time. And I'm happy to say, no blood has been spilled yet... though at times we've come close :).
Luís F. Simões

NASA Turns to 3D Printing for Self-Building Spacecraft | Space.com - 4 views

www.space.com/sa-spacecraft-3d-printing.html

cubesat 3D printing NIAC

shared by Luís F. Simões on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
LeopoldS liked it
  • SpiderFab Concept CREDIT: Unlimited Tethers
  • Luís F. Simões on 17 Sep 12
     
    CubeSats + 3D printing... for space. I'm surprised this isn't an ACT project :) more info: SpiderFab: Process for On-Orbit Construction of Kilometer-Scale Apertures
  • Dario Izzo on 18 Sep 12
     
    $100,000 from NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program to hammer out a design and figure out whether spacecraft self-construction makes business sense .... I can answer for 0$ ..... NO Infact the question is just stupid: a) spacecraft self-construction exist: then it is a no brainer to decide wether it makes business sense b) it does not: then there is no business
Dario Izzo

Why Most Research Findings are False - 4 views

www.yale.edu/...IoannidisArticle.pdf

shared by Dario Izzo on 28 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 28 Nov 11
     
    Excluding all mine, which ACT paper contains False claims?
LeopoldS

self archiving open access - 4 views

www.self-archiving.me/?ch=reg&cp=re125_x_p6

science

shared by LeopoldS on 26 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 26 Nov 11
     
    interesting information - was not that clear to me instead of doing this via mendeley, we should go over our act publication page and upload all those pdf that fall into this category ...
Tobias Seidl

Frontiers | Alternatives to Peer Review: Novel Approaches for Research Evaluation | Fro... - 6 views

www.frontiersin.org/...full

peer review research Science

shared by Tobias Seidl on 19 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Tobias Seidl on 19 Jan 12
     
    Some new field of game for the ACT?
  • LeopoldS on 20 Jan 12
     
    Very interesting paper!
Juxi Leitner

Restoring Voluntary Control of Locomotion after Paralyzing Spinal Cord Injury - 1 views

www.sciencemag.org/...1182.short

neuroscience locomotion stroke technology BIO science control spinal cord injury

shared by Juxi Leitner on 14 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 14 Jun 12
     
    Edu!!!
  • ...1 more comment...
  • Dario Izzo on 14 Jun 12
     
    evviva, ACT neurosciences score again :)
  • LeopoldS on 15 Jun 12
     
    Wow, a science paper! Fantastic! Congratulations!
  • Ma Ru on 17 Jun 12
     
    Respect. Would that be the first "scienture" paper from ACT member?
Luís F. Simões

SuitSat-1: the spacesuit repurposed as a satellite - 2 views

medium.com/...7d398ac2ebe7

satellite

shared by Luís F. Simões on 18 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • In 2006, a figure was hurled out of the ISS and sent tumbling off into space. Here’s the story of SuitSat-1, the spacesuit repurposed as a satellite
  • Luís F. Simões on 18 Feb 14
     
    throwing empty spacesuits out of the ISS, converted into improvised satellites... now there's something I'd expect to see coming out of an ACT brainstorming session :)
  • Luís F. Simões on 18 Feb 14
     
    Here's the video of the satellite's "launch": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPx-KNTHGCA
Thijs Versloot

Black metals - 3 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...130730132620.htm

technology nano energy

shared by Thijs Versloot on 31 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 31 Jul 13
     
    Using random nanostructuring highly absorptive materials were made which are of interest for photovoltaic or thermovoltaic applications
  • ...1 more comment...
  • Marcus Maertens on 31 Jul 13
     
    Yes, Black Metal is very good - pure hate! \m/
  • Luís F. Simões on 31 Jul 13
     
    Yes! Black Metal... definitely something the ACT should look into
  • dejanpetkow on 02 Aug 13
     
    Black Metal...sounds like something for the ACT Magic Cards. But apart from that - is it possible to shift the PV type of absorption into gamma ray spectrum?
Dario Izzo

ACT / ESA - News - Biologists find bees land like spacecraft - 2 views

www.esa.int/...68_nov_2013_ttc.html

bees spacecraft land esa

shared by Dario Izzo on 18 Nov 13 - No Cached
Paul N liked it
  • Dario Izzo on 18 Nov 13
     
    The opposite of biomimetic :)
dejanpetkow

3D Holographic Power Point Presentation at ASE 2013 - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

technology

shared by dejanpetkow on 29 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • dejanpetkow on 29 Nov 13
     
    THIS is how the ACT should give its science coffees, and I am not referring to the fat stage or the guy's dress. Next time I'm attending this traditional ACT exercise I expect such a show!
  • Thijs Versloot on 30 Nov 13
     
    Thats pretty cool indeed! I am for it in the next budget run! :) However, its technically not holographic though as this looks like a projection on Mylar film at 45 degrees from a bottom projector. It looks 3D and holographic as the background is transparent.
Nicholas Lan

Kerbal Space Program | Media - 2 views

kerbalspaceprogram.com/media.php

fun space education

shared by Nicholas Lan on 24 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 24 Apr 14
     
    what seems to be an impressively detailed space game
  • ...4 more comments...
  • Ma Ru on 27 Apr 14
     
    Yeah... 2011 called with the greetings. However, there was quite an interesting news about KSP recently... Perhaps it's been ACT's small failure to spot this opportunity? Considering we wrote space missions games ourselves...
  • johannessimon81 on 27 Apr 14
     
    This guy actually makes very detailed video tutorials about how to master the orbital dynamics in Kerbal. I think the level of detail (and sometimes realism) is quite impressive: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A
  • Thijs Versloot on 28 Apr 14
     
    I will have to try this definitely, looks like a lot of fun.. I also saw some crazy 'Insane Rocket Division' videos.. :)
  • Dario Izzo on 02 May 14
     
    @Marek: true, old news. But "opportunity"? For what? The games we write are always games with a scientific purpose (not training not educational) Kerbal Space programme is cool, but it is a game just like Microsoft Flight Simulator (but less accurate). Having ESA mission simulated in it is also cool but is it what we should or could do? Even more is it want we want to do? My personal opinion: No-No-No
  • Ma Ru on 07 May 14
     
    > The games we write are always games with a scientific purpose (not training not educational) I'd say investigating how to get the crowd may be an important part of "science of crowdsourcing". So, an obvious example would be comparing how many participants the original ACT space mission game attracted versus a variant implemented in Kerbal and why. Easily made and easily publishable I think. But that's just an obvious example I can give on the spot. I think there is more potential than that, so would not dismiss the idea so definitively. But then, correct me if I'm wrong, social sciences are still not represented in the ACT... Perhaps an idea to revive during the upcoming retreat? ;-)
  • Nicholas Lan on 08 May 14
     
    it's on sale on steam til tomorrow by the way if anyone's interested
Dario Izzo

The Noah's Ark Principle (1984) Torrents | Torrent Butler - 3 views

torrentbutler.eu/10880-the-noah-s-ark-principle

shared by Dario Izzo on 05 May 14 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 05 May 14
     
    Next ACT movie Pleaseeeeee
Ma Ru

The Highlight of the Scientific Calendar, 2014 - 7 views

www.improbable.com/...winners

science BIO PHY FUN

shared by Ma Ru on 20 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 20 Sep 14
     
    It's out there for TWO days and no one has posted it here yet? What's happening to the ACT... In any case, yet-another-year-ACT-didn't-make-it... Better luck next time.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Sep 14
     
    read them when they came out - as probably 90% of ACTers but did not see any of them worth posting ...
  • Ma Ru on 22 Sep 14
     
    I think e.g. de Tommaso et al. results have application in almost any business, ESA notwithstanding, in terms of implications for optimal office decor...
Isabelle DB

Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups - 2 views

www.sciencemag.org/...686

intelligence team talking women

shared by Isabelle DB on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Isabelle DB on 05 Nov 10
     
    What do you think of this one ?
  • ...2 more comments...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 05 Nov 10
     
    Great! Women perhaps are not more intelligent as individuals, but now at least they have more collective intelligence... Interesting research topic, though, but I doubt that any of these results can be generalized to real live situations.
  • Isabelle DB on 05 Nov 10
     
    Maybe by passing the message to ensure some men understand it would be their interest to have (more) women in their teams ? No problem at the ACT, this maybe why it works so well ? :-))
  • Luzi Bergamin on 05 Nov 10
     
    Well, that's perhaps the reason, why meetings were always so f... boring while I was at ACT :D
  • sreejanag on 08 Nov 10
     
    Lots more resources on collective intelligence: http://cci.mit.edu/
pacome delva

[1012.1194] Does an atom interferometer test the gravitational redshift at the Compton ... - 0 views

fr.arxiv.org/1012.1194

phy atom_interferometry general_relativity

shared by pacome delva on 07 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • pacome delva on 07 Dec 10
     
    Here is a probably definite answer to the strong polemics around the test of gravitational redshift with atom interferometers, which would be far better than the one done by ACES/PHARAO. Read the abstract it's very ACT like, Luzi should like it :) The original Nature paper is the one of Muller, Peters and Chu (the nobel and secretary of energy in the US): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7283/full/nature08776.html
nikolas smyrlakis

James Cameron's New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever | Magazine - 0 views

www.wired.com/...ff_avatar_cameron

avatar 3d james cameron

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 14 Dec 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 14 Dec 09
     
    ACT cinema? a bit long article but interesting
LeopoldS

element14: Home | Electronic Engineering Solutions for the Design Engineer Community - 0 views

www.element-14.com/...index.jspa

electronics INF

shared by LeopoldS on 04 Jan 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 04 Jan 10
     
    interesting portal ... though of limited use for ACT at first view ....
‹ Previous 21 - 40 of 200 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page