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article written a bit as if they had invented rectennas ... they are used since the 60s (Brown powered a small helicopter via 2.45 GHz ... and Kaya-san has showed wireless power transmission via advanced rectenna's at almost every SPS conference since 20 years ...

Maybe you can use some blue light during the wednesday meeting to keep people awake and alert :p

highly needed indeed ...

Sounds quite ACT-ish...

Crowsourcing Awareness: "To augment the use of these space technologies, virtual communities of group intelligence - called "Crowdsourcing" - can aide in emergency planning and post-disaster coordination."

Make sure you have a look at the gallery: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15293922 Some are pretty interesting...

your Ron Paul from yesterday ...

not surprising, just a google search on 'ron paul evolution' and boom first result: Ron Paul: I don't accept the theory of evolution http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/29/scitech/main20098876.shtml

Cynthia, Marion - have a look at this: I assume that this also affects our model, correct?

And I suppose they will (or already have) modify their GCM to take this in account...

The integration makes it pretty innovative.

FEM modelling of bone structures in woodpeckers combined with high speed video of pecking motion etc headgear? shock absorbing structures? low mass hammering penetrators? Lizhen Wang1,2, Jason Tak-Man Cheung3, Fang Pu1, Deyu Li1, Ming Zhang2*, Yubo Fan1* 1 Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 2 Department of Health Technology and Informatics, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 3 Li Ning Sports Science Research Center, Beijing, People's Republic of China Head injury is a leading cause of morbidity and death in both industrialized and developing countries.

You'll like it...

Short GRBS are formed when neutron stars (in a binary system) slam into one another. On the other hand, long GRBs are a result of massive stars going supernova. Stars end their lives in violent explosions, typically leaving behind remnants like neutron stars.

Article mainly on anti-satellite testing by the Chinese and on US and Russian tests (2nd page) - quite extensive and technical but interesting

It turns out that falling along any straight line through the Earth takes 42 minutes (Gravity train). I think this has not been opted as an explanation of Douglas Adams' 42 but this fact is definitely quite beautiful.

next step ... almost as predicted ....

loads of nice passwords - should we have a closer look at it? anybody volunteering? e.g. Anna and Daniel?

Just to add to this possible discussion, two important breakthroughs in Quantum Computing using Silicon were published last week (October 12th). Check it here: http://phys.org/news/2014-10-physicists-silicon-quantum.html

anybody wanna try? surprising to me

How fast is your personal digital universe expanding?