kaptain80 - Slashdot User

Comment That's no moon (Score 1) 550

by kaptain80 on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @02:10PM (#29276201) Attached to: Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant

"The project recently received support from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and IHI Corp, who are now teaming up in the race to develop an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet."

Fixed that for you.

Comment Re:Golly (Score 1) 922

by kaptain80 on Monday March 09, 2009 @01:55PM (#27123977) Attached to: US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles

Perhaps you thought their intended use was to blow up?

Hmmm. In that case, they could just make the missiles out of PowerPoint slides and nobody would be any the wiser.

Fixed that for you.

Comment It was out two weeks ago (Score 1) 181

by kaptain80 on Monday February 02, 2009 @10:28AM (#26693837) Attached to: Google Earth To Show Ocean Floor

Frank mentioned it on 2009-01-17 on Google Earth Blog.

Comment Robust, except for stage sep (Score 1) 166

by kaptain80 on Saturday January 17, 2009 @07:44PM (#26501397) Attached to: Soyuz 4/5 Made History 40 Years Ago Today

The Soyuz space capsule was an incredible engineering accomplishment.

On the other hand, their stage separation design isn't so good...

Comment Re:The 1992 torch lighting by flaming arrow was fa (Score 1) 488

by kaptain80 on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @01:47PM (#24571431) Attached to: Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked

Or it might indicate that many people thought that he hit it when, in fact, he hadn't.

The State of R&D At HP, IBM, and Microsoft 107

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 11, 2008 @12:36PM from the no-monopoly-on-good-ideas dept.

jcatcw writes "Computerworld surveys the R&D efforts at HP, IBM and Microsoft ($17 billion annually) and raises the question: Are these companies supporting more long-term basic research, or just the usual short-term, product-oriented work? HP is consolidating its focus on a few 'big bet' projects in five major research areas — information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure, and sustainability. IBM has four 'high-risk' basic research areas — nanotechnology, cloud computing, integrated systems and chip architecture, and managing business integrity through advanced math and computer science. Many of the 272 research projects named at Microsoft Research's Web site are structured with major product lines like Windows, Office, or Xbox in mind, but many also seem to have no likely application to anything the company sells today."

New Particle Found, the Bottom-Most Bottomonium 119

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 11, 2008 @12:22PM from the how-low-can-you-go dept.

PhysicsDavid writes "Collaborators on the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center have detected and measured, for the first time after a 30-year search, the lowest energy particle of the 'bottomonium' family, called the eta-sub-b. Bottomonium consists of a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark bound together by the strong force. The discovery fills in a missing piece of quark physics that will help reveal the nature and behavior of the quarks and the strong force."

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