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Luís F. Simões

Crowdfund a Moon Monolith Mission? - Slashdot - 1 views

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2001 monolith moon crowdsourcing private-spaceflight sci-fi fun

shared by Luís F. Simões on 07 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Jamie found a somewhat amusing little essay on putting together a crowd-sourced mission to put a monolith on the moon. The author estimates it would cost half a billion dollars, which is a sum he thinks could be raised.
  • Let's raise the stakes. I propose raising half a trillion dollars to develop a time machine and put a monolith in Olduvai Gorge three million years in the past to influence Astralopithecus Afarensis evolution. Our very existence might depend on it.
Guido de Croon

Robotic insects make first controlled flight - 3 views

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science AI BIO

shared by Guido de Croon on 03 May 13 - No Cached
  • Guido de Croon on 03 May 13
     
    The Robobee takes off without guide wires! It is still powered via a wire, and the control is done with the help of a VICON system and on an external computer, but this still is an amazing feat!
  • johannessimon81 on 03 May 13
     
    The way they make this thing is just as impressive. The manufacturing technique is "pop-up book" folding, a method that has been developed by the same group and that allows a two dimensional monolithic MEMS structures to be easily assembled into a 3D structure. I actually put this as an item of the "Technology List 2020" on the wiki this morning.
  • Dario Izzo on 05 May 13
     
    I agree, manufacturing is the amazing thing here ..... as soon as the power-consumption/density problem is solved these things will really take off :)
LeopoldS

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 153605 (2012): Monolithic Source of Photon Pairs - 0 views

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physics quantum Entanglement

shared by LeopoldS on 18 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 18 Apr 12
     
    This is the first time that significant pair production has been demonstrated in a structure that can be electrically self-pumped and which can form the basis for passive optical circuitry, bringing us markedly closer to complete integration of quantum optical technologies.
pacome delva

Do Titan's Lakes Migrate South for the Winter? -- Berardelli 2009 (1130): 2 -- ScienceNOW - 1 views

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phy astrophysics titan

shared by pacome delva on 03 Dec 09 - Cached
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  • But "to really get a handle" on Titan's methane cycle, they'll need to monitor the exchange of methane between the lakes and the atmosphere. And that, she says, will require "a future lake-lander mission."
  • pacome delva on 03 Dec 09
     
    Let's go to Titan !!!
  • Ma Ru on 03 Dec 09
     
    I bet we'll find there a black monolith which will take us to the stars... No, wait, was it that moon?
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