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Comment: Re:3d printers civilian forfeiture as drug lab (Score 2) 33

by Cinnamon Whirl (#39701049) Attached to: Print Your Own Labware, Catalysts Included
Keck clip they are.
While these are almost certainly patented, maybe by changing the material clips could be printed without legal trouble. Keck clips can fall apart if exposed to (eg) HCl gas, so printing PTFE versions would be useful.
I like the adaptor idea - and it could be extended to any labware if someone figures out how to print glass. No more searching for that B24 condensor!

Comment: "Click" chemistry (Score 2) 54

by Cinnamon Whirl (#38879085) Attached to: UCSD Researchers Create Artificial Cell Membrane
Althought the paper manages not to mention it, the chemistry they are doing here is (the alkyne azide cyclisation) is part of "click" chemistry, which is quite well known.

What the paper doesn't really say is whether they hope to accomplish anything further with this. As with all biomimetic reaction, it seems (to me) that synthesising a single step in the process may be intersting, without doing all the previous steps, is there any practical point?
Wireless Networking

Wireless Proximity Detection 1

Submitted by Cinnamon Whirl
Cinnamon Whirl writes "As a chemist, I work in a both lab and office enviroments, and need access to data in both, without causing undue clutter in either. My company has recently purchased two Win7 tablets for trial usage with electronic lab notebooks, propietry software, SAP, email etc. These are also useful for sharing in meetings, etc.

As part of this project, I have been wondering whether we can use these tablets to detect other devices by proximity. Examples could include finding the nearest printer or monitor or, perhaps trickier, could two roaming devices find each other? Although lab technology is rarely cutting edge, I can see a day when all our sensors and probes will broadcast data (wireless thermocouples are already available), and positioning information will become much more important.

What technologies exist to do this? How accurate can the detection be?"
Space

New Mars photos are straight-up gorgeous->

Submitted by derekmead
derekmead writes "These photos from NASA’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera prove that space photos don’t have to just be evaluated on their technical and scientific value. They can also be beautiful.

The HiRISE camera is mounted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which took the lead snap inside an impact crater in the Noachis Terra region of southern Mars. As lovely as they are, the erosion patterns evidenced by the dunes help NASA scientists develop the sedimentary history of the region. The enhanced-color lead image clearly shows the wind-caused (sorry tin-hat folks) dunes with insane clarity: It covers an area about an entire kilometer across."

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Comment: Re:Burning air? (Score 1) 91

by Cinnamon Whirl (#37465766) Attached to: NASA Looking To Power Spacecraft With Lasers
That was what I assumed it was too, and TFA didn't give any details ("Ride the Light" sounds like a new rollercoaster).
I would imagine, with the amount of use this technology would get (i.e., number of launches) that any ozone created would be tiny as compared with the amount in the upper atmosphere.*

But I dont see how this will get us into space. The higher the craft, the less efficient the push per beam of light.

* This argument may have been made about CFCs, exhaust emission, etc so I may have to eat my words...

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