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Juxi Leitner

Technology Review: Blogs: Guest Blog: Microrobotics Competition Shows Impressive Feats - 1 views

  • the world's best robotics engineers gathered to attempt some of the most impressive feats of micro-manipulation.
LeopoldS

Defeating the merchants of doubt : Nature : Nature Publishing Group - 5 views

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    nice article .... interesting connections!
Ma Ru

Test your knowledge of biomimicry - 5 views

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    How much remained in your head? Don't tell Tobias, but I scored only 5/10 :-(
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    There's one question missing: how many of these designs are claimed to be baised on biomimicry just because this sells?? Tobi, please!
Juxi Leitner

Asteroid Response System in Place (Complete With U.S. Military Eye Patch) - 1 views

  • However, the US air force, which funded the development of the telescope, requires that software automatically black out a swathe of pixels to hide the trajectories of passing satellites.
Juxi Leitner

'Doomsday Ark' to be Housed on the Moon -A Remote Access Toolkit to Rebuild the Human Race - 5 views

  • our future may reside on the Moon if plans.being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the moon by the European Space Agency are carried through.
  • whether living organisms could survive, European Space Agency scientists are hoping to experiment with growing tulips on the moon within the next decade.
  • would initially be run by robots
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    did not know ESA was doing that!
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    too late, the world will in end in 2012 ......... I fail to see in which scenario this would be better than a couple of vaults on Earth (since there would be no humans on the moon). But if tulips on the moon can convince politicians, I'm all for it.
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    "The first flowers - tulips or arabidopsis, a plant widely used in research - could be grown in 2012 or 2015 according to Bernard Foing, chief scientist at the agency's research department." - Bernhard strikes again :-)
Joris _

Astrium To Manage Atomic Clock Demo on Station | SpaceNews.com - 1 views

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    cool! i will be working on the link and the data!
pacome delva

A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere - 1 views

  • NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
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    Wow, this is a bit frigthening. Another proof that we understand very little about our atmosphere !!!
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    very interesting indeed!
LeopoldS

Strong Web Design - The Daily WTF - 5 views

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    any hidden message
Nina Nadine Ridder

New carbon dioxide emissions model - 1 views

  • In order to achieve the long-term stabilisation of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, the emissions will then have to be reduced by 56 percent by the year 2050 and approach zero towards the end of this century
Francesco Biscani

Slashdot Science Story | 5 Trillion Digits of Pi - a New World Record - 1 views

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    Another Pi digits calculation record.
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    wow - apparently the project started as a high-school project! http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/
LeopoldS

God's Number is 20 - 1 views

shared by LeopoldS on 11 Aug 10 - Cached
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    maybe Rubik's number is 20 .... but gods ????
duncan barker

YouTube - Mosquito killed by a Laser - 5 views

shared by duncan barker on 17 Aug 10 - Cached
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    can we get one of these for the office?
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    hihihi
Juxi Leitner

Space Debris Removal - 1 views

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    ElectroDynamic Debris Eliminator ... seems similar to the Ariadna proposal if I remember correctly
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    It was presented during the second day of the SpaceTech workshop. As far as I understood (which I am not sure!) the double tether is spinning ... isn't a bit crazy!
LeopoldS

ACE Acronym CrEator - generate your own acronym! - 1 views

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    this is how they do it :-)
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    Some highlights: ACuTE: Advanced Concepts TEam ADDiCT: ADvanceD Concepts Team AbDiCaTE: ADvanced Concepts TEam wASTEd: Advanced conceptS TEam
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    But seriously, my PhD project title from now on becomes: Robotic mOdels maThematIcal Cognition (eROTIC)
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    your thesis title fits perfectly then ...
Juxi Leitner

robots.net - Neuron Interface Chips Advancing - 1 views

  • this advancement could ultimately lead to the use of biological neurons in the central or sub-processing units of computers and automated machinery.
duncan barker

BBC NEWS | Technology | Tiny 'nuclear batteries' unveiled - 1 views

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    found this reference from the guy: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5285410 should we update our betavoltaics report?
duncan barker

World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts, Baghdad Battery - 1 views

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    read this
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    " However, Dr. Konig also found copper vases plated with silver in the Baghdad Museum, excavated from !!!Sumerian!!! sites in southern Iraq, dating back to at least 2500 BCE. When the vases were lightly tapped, a blue patina or film separated from the surface, which is characteristic of silver electroplated onto copper base. It would appear then that the Parthians inherited their batteries from one of the earliest known civilizations." ... they just mistyped the name ...
Joris _

The seeds of disruptive innovation within the European Space Agency - 24 August 2010 > ... - 5 views

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    :p
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    haha :) well.. don't shoot me Dario. I wasn't involved in this disclosure. But now that the link is public, you might all want to consider subscribing to their feed: http://ewds.strath.ac.uk/space/Podcasts.aspx They have some nice talks there. One of them is by Ken McLeod, the science fiction writer. Is anyone else with me on the idea that we should also invite science fiction writers for science coffees? :)
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    So nice to hear Dario again! :-) But apparently UoS needs someone a bit more skilled to handle these videos...
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    Only one self-comment alla Barney ..... suit-up
nikolas smyrlakis

GE: Ecomagination Challenge: Home - 1 views

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    always ideas to power the (smart) grid effectively are needed.
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