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Comment Really cold fusion (Score 1) 114

by jamesc on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @06:44AM (#36731418) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: An Open Handheld Terminal For Retail Stores?

"Many recent experiments by other scientists in the field have shown that cold fusion can be controlled and predicted quite effectively"

If you have any links to such I would be very interested in seeing them.

As would I, so long as the are links to reproducible experiments, not just irreproducible anecdotes and oddities.

However, don't forget the real cold fusion: muon-catalyzed fusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion It works best when truly cold -- like the temperature of liquid hydrogen. ;-)

Too bad that the energy cost to make the muons is much greater than that from the fusion....

Submission + - Unusual physics engine game ported to Linux (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

christian.einfeldt

on Thursday July 16, 2009 @11:37PM

christian.einfeldt writes: "Halloween has come early for Linux-loving gamers in the form of the scary Penumbra game trilogy, which has just recently been ported natively to GNU-Linux by the manufacturer, Frictional Games. The Penumbra games, named Overture, Black Plague, and Requiem, respectively, are first person survival horror and physics puzzle games which challenge the player to survive in a mine in Greenland which has been taken over by a monstrous infection/demon/cthulhu-esque thing. The graphics, sounds, and plot are all admirable in a scary sort of way. The protagonist is an ordinary human with no particular powers at all, who fumbles around in the dark mine fighting zombified dogs or fleeing from infected humans. But the game is remarkable for its physics engine — rather than just bump and acquire, the player must use the mouse to physically turn knobs and open doors; and the player can grab and throw pretty much anything in the environment. The physics engine drives objects to fly and fall exactly as one would expect. The porting of a game with such a deft physics engine natively to Linux might be one of the most noteworthy events for GNU-Linux gamers since the 'World of Goo' Linux port."

Comment Re:How does the ice exist this close to the surfac (Score 0) 364

by jamesc on Monday June 23, 2008 @01:34AM (#23900199) Attached to: Water Ice On Mars

.-.

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