Last August the Bomarr group, at a lab in Dallas, Texas, managed to accelerate a marble made of heavily compressed composite glass and steel fibers from zero to just over eight thousand miles an hour in four and one eights of a second.
The acceleration occured on a track while developing a new magnetic propulsion system that uses electromagnetics to spin an intricately spun sphere with a series of directional pulses. The compressed nature of the marble allowed it to be *very* lightweight and still strong enough to handle the force exerted upon it.
The technology is still being developed as a military defense mechanism to intercept things like unmanned spy planes without damaging them so much that useful data about the origin of the craft cannot be collected from the crash site.
It's true, Windows CE is VERY stable. I've developed software for MMTC units (mobile missle trajectory calculators) that would cause HELL if the pocket pc running it were to crash.
Our government would kill the women and camels in my family if a missle with a biological payload were go off track due to a crash.
I use Windows CE for its performance and stability. I would not trust my camels with any other OS.
I recall kate fenton (katedown@hotmail.com) from SGI coming up with an app called xrainbow last summer that did exactly this, however I cannot find the url to the project's homepage. You might try contacting her about it..I contributed a bit of source to this, but I cannot for the life of me find the source nor binary..I'll continue to look and post a url to the source when I find it..it's gotta be on one of 300 or so cd-rs laying around here:)
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Last August the Bomarr group, at a lab in Dallas, Texas, managed to accelerate a marble made of heavily compressed composite glass and steel fibers from zero to just over eight thousand miles an hour in four and one eights of a second.
The acceleration occured on a track while developing a new magnetic propulsion system that uses electromagnetics to spin an intricately spun sphere with a series of directional pulses. The compressed nature of the marble allowed it to be *very* lightweight and still strong enough to handle the force exerted upon it.
The technology is still being developed as a military defense mechanism to intercept things like unmanned spy planes without damaging them so much that useful data about the origin of the craft cannot be collected from the crash site.
It's true, Windows CE is VERY stable. I've developed software for MMTC units (mobile missle trajectory calculators) that would cause HELL if the pocket pc running it were to crash.
Our government would kill the women and camels in my family if a missle with a biological payload were go off track due to a crash.
I use Windows CE for its performance and stability. I would not trust my camels with any other OS.
I recall kate fenton (katedown@hotmail.com) from SGI coming up with an app called xrainbow last summer that did exactly this, however I cannot find the url to the project's homepage. You might try contacting her about it..I contributed a bit of source to this, but I cannot for the life of me find the source nor binary..I'll continue to look and post a url to the source when I find it..it's gotta be on one of 300 or so cd-rs laying around here :)