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ZonkerWilliam writes:
A fast cluster of stars has been seen speeding from the galaxies central core, http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12974-star-clusters-extreme-speed-puzzles-astronomers.html Whats fascinating is the speed in which they are traveling, a brisk 200 km/sec, which in a region of space governed by the gravitational field of the massive black hole that lies at the core, is truly puzzling.
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
See it here first, http://www.news.com/Creating-power-out-of-thin-air/2100-11392_3-6215555.html?tag=nefd.top Seems they've, at least theoretically, come up with away to draw power from ambient heat.
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
An excellent use of FPGA's, I always thought. The article states ambiguously "Maxwell ran at between two and 300 times faster than an equivalent system using standard processors." Which means??
http://news.com.com/Scots+build+green+supercompute r/2100-1010_3-6169254.html?tag=nefd.top
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
Drug can clear away one fearful memory while leaving another intact.
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070305/full/070305 -17.html
I don't know about you, but I'm scared...
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
Plasma wake particle accelerators are making suprisingly quick advances. It was a just a little while ago we had Gev acceleration in 3cm; http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/0 4/0057225. Here they are capable of doubling the speed of electrons, in one meter.
See the article for more information; http://www.physorg.com/news90682193.html
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
Seems, at least theoretically, that there may be water planets, and that we may be close to detecting them.
http://www.physorg.com/news89627725.html
Excerpt from the article;
"Imagine a world with no land at all, merely the impenetrable depths of a seething ocean. Models of planet formation predict the existence of such worlds, even though our own solar system has none. Indeed, their formation should actually be rather common — and new satellites may soon detect them around other stars."
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
Doesn't this just tick you off,
http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/01/news/companies/exx on/index.htm?eref=rss_topstories,
Excerpt from the story;
"Exxon Mobil Corp. Thursday reported the biggest annual profit on record for a U.S. corporation — earning more than $75,000 every minute of 2006 on the back of record oil prices."
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
Finally Scientists may have the ability to test String Theory using the newly opened LHC.
See here for more;
http://www.physorg.com/news88786651.html
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
I do believe this is the wisest thing that I've heard from a government head,
quoted from article,
"The bigger picture, however, is significantly more grand. As Griffin and others (including renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking) describe it, it is all about whether humans will incorporate the solar system "into mankind's sphere of influence.""
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/Content Server?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Ar ticle&cid=1165531812150&call_pageid=1020420665036& col=1112101662670
I do believe this is the wisest thing that I've heard from a government head,
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
At long last the Axion seems to have been discovered...
http://www.physorg.com/news84633896.html
All though with a lifetime of only 10-13 seconds, how do they have time to interact with anything?
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
Seems that NASA is seriously looking at sending people to a Near Earth Asteroid. Not sure if they will, but at least they are looking beyond just going to the moon.
http://www.space.com/news/061116_asteroid_nasa.htm l
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ZonkerWilliam writes:
Working in IT for the past 20 some odd years, I've started to wonder what has happened to creativity. True technological toys have gotten smaller, cheaper, faster, etc. but very few new things have come out in the past twenty years.
Speaking with Colleagues they believe that only true creativity occurs when there a paradigm shift in thinking. If so are we past due for a shift in thinking?
Then theirs this article from ACM Queue, http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&p a=showpage&pid=384, that makes a point that true innovation is hampered by risk and loss.
I am hoping for the paradigm shift myself, it would be a sad world to know that people are to afraid of taking chances.
