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Submission + - Free Spirit: Stuck Between a Rock and a Soft Place (wired.com) 1

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Dave Bullock

on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @02:58PM

Dave Bullock writes: "NASA's Spirit rover is stuck in a pile of silty sand and high-centerd on a rock millions of miles away on the surface of Mars. Here on Earth, JPL is working on getting the rover unstuck. They've built a giant sandbox, filled it with simulated Martian soil and driven in a near duplicate rover which is also now stuck. I took a few trips to JPL and photographed NASA's attempts to free Spirit for Wired.com."

Submission + - NIF Photo Tour (wired.com)

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Dave Bullock

on Saturday June 06, 2009 @03:09PM

Dave Bullock writes: "The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has been discussed several times over the years on Slashdot and just recently fired all of its 192 lasers. LLNL scientists predict NIF will attain ignition (controlled nuclear explosion) in 2010. For now, take a look at the photos I shot of NIF for Wired.com when I toured it earlier this year.."

Submission + - Space 2.X: The Private Rocket Race Takes Off (wired.com)

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Dave Bullock

on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @09:51PM

Dave Bullock writes: "The folks at SpaceX are working hard in their Hawthorn lab/cubicles/factory building rockets that will hopefully bring future astronauts to the International Space Station. I toured the former 747 factory which is now a rocket assembly line for Wired. Take a look inside the SpaceX rocket factory."

Submission + - Energy of the Future: Igniting a Star With Lasers (wired.com) 1

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Dave Bullock (eecue)

on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @01:50PM

Dave Bullock (eecue) writes: "Possibly the most awesome thing I have ever photographed, Lawrence Livermore Lab's National Ignition Facility will use its lasers to create fusion: 'Using 192 separate lasers and a 400-foot-long series of amplifiers and filters, scientists at Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) hope to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction like the ones in the sun or the explosion of a nuclear bomb — only on a much smaller scale.'"

Submission + - Scientists Hack Cellphone to Detect Diseases (wired.com)

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Dave Bullock (eecue)

on Saturday December 20, 2008 @01:17PM

Dave Bullock (eecue) writes: "A new MacGyver-esque cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet. Using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria and other illnesses.

Blood tests today require either refrigerator-sized machines that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or a trained technician who manually identifies and counts cells under a microscope. These systems are slow, expensive and require dedicated labs to function. And soon they could be a thing of the past."

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