cybrpnk2 - Slashdot User

Comment Blue Brain Actually Modeled A Neocortical Column (Score 1) 521

by cybrpnk2 on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @12:31PM (#27331067) Attached to: Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons

Read the great SEED article closely. The IBM Blue Brain project was trying to map the physical layout of the neocortical column, a standardized blob of nerve cells about a millimeter long and a fraction of a millimeter in diameter. If the brain is a machine made of modular parts, then the neocortical column is the starndard Lego used, over and over and over.

Comment Hagelstein Is A Heavyweight (Score 2, Informative) 373

by cybrpnk2 on Monday March 23, 2009 @03:36PM (#27302521) Attached to: 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success

Peter Hagelstein has an interesting background in hi-visibility technology. In the 1980s he was at the heart of trying to create an X-ray laser pumped by nukes that was to be a key component of the original Reagan Star Wars missile shield. See the writeup in the book Star Warriors.

Submission + - NASA Faces International Space Station Crisis

Submitted by cybrpnk2 on Thursday November 01, 2007 @11:28AM

cybrpnk2 writes: NASA is currently (if you'll pardon the pun) faced with a major crisis on the STS-120 flight to the International Space Station. At ISS, one new solar array has metal shavings from an unknown source jamming up the 10-foot diameter rotary gear that enables solar tracking. Meanwhile, a seperate older solar array that was partially re-extended in a new location has ripped and lacks the structural integrity for solar tracking either. An upcoming emergency spacewalk will have an astronaut at the end of a shaky boom applying a metal brace to the fully charged ripped array which he dares not touch directly at risk of electrocution to him or destruction to it. Failure threatens a scheduling trainwreck on upcoming flights to deliver power-hungry European and Japanese laboratory modules before President Bush's mandated 2010 Shuttle retirement.

Submission + - NASA Contractors Censoring Saturn V Info 1

Submitted by cybrpnk2 on Sunday July 29, 2007 @06:02PM

cybrpnk2 writes: Get ready to surrender your data sheets, study reports and blueprints of the Saturn V to stay in compliance with ITAR. Armed guards are reportedly enforcing a takedown and shredding of old Saturn V posters from KSC office walls that show rough internal layouts of the vehicle, and a website that is a source for various digitized blueprints has been put on notice it may well be next. No word yet if the assignment of a Karl Rove protege to oversee NASA has any connection...

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