A German-built drill nicknamed “The Mole” will pound 16 feet into the Martian crust to take the temperature of the planet, while a sensitive French-built seismometer will detect any Marsquakes.
Warp Drive More Possible Than Thought, Scientists Say | Space.com - 1 views
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Sante, Andreas, Luzi, Pacome ... we need you: "But recently White calculated what would happen if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring. He found in that case, the warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of a spacecraft like the Voyager 1 probe NASA launched in 1977.
Furthermore, if the intensity of the space warps can be oscillated over time, the energy required is reduced even more, White found.
"The findings I presented today change it from impractical to plausible and worth further investigation," White told SPACE.com. "The additional energy reduction realized by oscillating the bubble intensity is an interesting conjecture that we will enjoy looking at in the lab."" -
To me, this looks a little bit like the claim "infinity minus one is a little bit less than infinity"...
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Luzi I miss you ...
Nasa validates 'impossible' space drive (Wired UK) - 3 views
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NASA validates the EmDrive (http://emdrive.com/) technology for converting electrical energy into thrust. (from the website: "Thrust is produced by the amplification of the radiation pressure of an electromagnetic wave propagated through a resonant waveguide assembly.")
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I have to join the skeptics on this one ...
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[1202.5708] The Alcubierre Warp Drive: On the Matter of Matter - 1 views
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News about the warp drive based on the original Alcubierre metric but with modified shape function. Focus of the reserach was on the interaction between warp bubble and cosmic particles. Result: People on board need shielding. People at the journey's destination might get roasted (by Gamma rays if you want to know).
The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage - 4 views
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Read this this morning in the train, what a story! Awesome guy, I wish him all the luck kicking against the established companies... Seems he has a bet with Elon Musk to outperform the current autonomous driving algoritms using his AI techniques. He is actually driving a lot with his car via Uber, to gain material to train his NN on :)
Concept | Superbus - 3 views
NASA will send robot drill to Mars in 2016 - The Washington Post - 0 views
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slashdot describes the drill as "a self-driving mole developed by the German space agency (DLR)". This seems to be the drill: GEMS - a mole to explore the interior of Mars, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2009.5278132. Interesting news for all the roots people :)
Four-wheel nanocar takes to the road - physicsworld.com - 1 views
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A "four-wheel drive car" less than one billionth the length of an average SUV has been built and operated by researchers in the Netherlands and Switzerland.
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"Molecular machines are common in nature. Motor proteins, for example, can move along a surface to transport molecular-sized cargo and are often used to build structures within living cells. " reminds me of the fantastic movie on what happens inside a cell ...
NASA Reveals Latest Warp-Drive Ship Designs | IFLScience - 2 views
Norwegian army driving tank using Oculus Rift - 1 views
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I guess it might also make sense to put a camera on an extension to look around corners without having to advance the vehicle to where it can be shot at... ?: Could the Oculus be used to let humans control humanoid robots? I guess so. Could humans perform experiments using such robots? Probably. Could Oculus be used to control these robots on the ISS? I guess so. --> Finally we eliminated the last need for humans in space!!! :-D (Maybe we could replace humans on Earth with robots that control one another through Oculus Rift...)
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Even cooler would be to have like a swarm of drones around the tank to act as a sensor array and look around corners for you.
Send To Dropbox - Email files to your Dropbox! - 2 views
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for the dropbox users.. in case you e.g. would like to add things behind restrictive firewalls to your dropbox shared drives
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are they going to see the content of all my dropbox after the authorisation process this requires?
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I dunno but it would be nice if you could give permission to specific folders ... dunno how the API handles it...
Chernobyl fallout could drive evolution of 'space plants' - environment - 15 May 2009 -... - 0 views
Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain - life - 29 June 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views
Dark Matter or Black Hole Propulsion? - 1 views
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Anyone out there still doing propulsion stuff? Two more papers just waiting to get busted... http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1429v1 http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803
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One reply to Pacome, though the discussion exceeds by far the relevance of the topic already. Baryonic DM is strictly limited by cosomology, if one believes in these models, of course. Anyway, even though most DM is cold, we are constantly bombarded by some DM particles that come together with cosmic radiation, solar wind etc. etc. If DM easily interacted with normal matter, we would have found it long ago. In the paper they consider DM as neutralinos, which are neither baryonic nor strongly or electromagnetically interacting.
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well then I agree, how the fu.. they want to collect them !!!
Nuclear isomer - 2 views
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We had a short discussion yesterday about using nuclear isomers as batteries for spacecraft. The principle is that energy is stored as an excitation of the nucleus which can then release the energy as a gamma-photon. However angular momentum has to be conserved an this suppresses the decay strongly - making these states stable up to 10^35 longer than a typical decay.
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The key is the triggering of the dacay wheras the triggering comsumes less energy than the decay provides. The x-ray based triggering of the gamma photon decay turned out to be quite controversial and needs significantly more scientific attention.
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I think that there should be some references and traces of the discussions we had on this on the shared drive or wiki ... One other aspect: converting the omnidirectional gamma bursts into useful energy ....
The man was unmoved. And so one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred - with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.
Whitehall was satisfied, but it felt like a peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism that understood nothing about the digital age. We will continue to do patient, painstaking reporting on the Snowden documents, we just won't do it in London. The seizure of Miranda's laptop, phones, hard drives and camera will similarly have no effect on Greenwald's work.
The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it. Most journalists can see that. But I wonder how many have truly understood