As somebody who has been in on the Space Station debacle from the beginning, let me just say that there's NO WAY that NASA could get to Mars by 2014, and trying to do it with the Russians only ADDS to the problem, not makes it easier. The most important thing the US can do to get to Mars is make it an American-only mission. The waste in effort to include other countries is phenomenal and unnecessary. The US space program has got to believe in itself instead of being a branch of the State Department if we are going to go anywhere.
The "guest of honor" at Robodex 2003 was Astroboy, 1960s Japanese anime icon, who according to the storyline was "born" TODAY on April 7, 2003. Check out lots of fun links on this sidebar story here.
We ran this story (with the correct link and lots of great secondary ones!) yesterday over on Sci-Fi Today. Check us out and get our headlines on your Slashdot home page here.
We ran this story yesterday over on Sci-Fi Today with lots of extra info links. You can get SciFi Today headlines added to your Slashdot homepage here.
We try to be interesting in our ongoing science coverage over on Sci-Fi Today. See for yourself how we're doing...put our SFT headlines on your Slashdot homepage here...
Maybe he should switch over to a candle-wax-fueled rocket, which we covered here last week on SciFiToday. You can get our headlines on your Slashdot home page by clicking here and checking the SciFiToday box. Check us out!!!
Check out this story we ran over on Sci-Fi Today which included some relevant links. You can get Sci-Fi Today daily headlines on your Slashdot home page by clicking here and putting a checkmark in the Sci-Fi Today box. Or heck, just join us as a member and help us build a science-oriented discussion community!
We ran a story on this topic yesterday over on SciFi Today with quite a few additional information links. A list of ALL of our recent stories is here. You can put SciFi Today Headlines on your Slashdot frontpage by clicking here and putting a checkmark in the SciFi Today box. Check us out!!!
We ran a story on this topic yesterday over on SciFi Today with some additional information links. A list of ALL of our recent stories (including the one about the deadly black hole in Minnesota where no spaceship has been found, really!) is here. You can put SciFi Today Headlines on your Slashdot frontpage by clicking here and putting a checkmark in the SciFi Today box. Check us out!!!
Physics Web has announced the Top 12 physics stories of 2002, a number stretched beyond the usual Top 10 to include human-interest stories like the shortage of women in physics and fabrication-of-data misconduct. Advances in optics were lumped together as one achievement for work as diverse as sub-diffraction limit microscopy and quantum photon cloning. Neutrons were big news, providing insight on quantum gravity and atomic nuclei with neutrons but no protons. Some research was COOL, like Bose-Einstein condensates made from cesium and superconductors made from plutonium. One discovery was HOT, namely nanoscale magnetic logic gates that operate at room temperature. The top discoveries were totally sublime: solar neutrinos change identities on their trip from Sun to Earth, the Second Law of Thermodynamics may be broken (can perpetual motion be far behind?) and microwave radiation from the Big Bang is polarized just like a pair of Neo's sunglasses. The number one physics story, however, was straight out of Star Trek: creation of "cold" anti-hydrogen gas that could be stored indefinitely as long as it didn't touch anything while being held in a magnetic field. Maybe the top physics story for 2003 will be the development of a dilithium chamber to put the anti-hydrogen gas into...
I very much believe there were/are still guys left over there from the Vietnam War era. If we're gonna wire Laos, then I want to make sure they finally get an email address and a chance to use it!!!
You mean they expect more nominations, and didn't just go ahead and award them the prize?
The International Space Station Already Has This
on
Web Enabled Spacecraft
·
· Score: 5, Interesting
The Ground Systems Department at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center has a "new" system called Telescience Resource Kit (TReK) that allows experimenters to hook personal computers in their home labs up to experiments they are running aboard the International Space Station. The main entrance page is here, but most of the links are password protected...
Just A Matter of Time
on
DOD vs. 802.11b
·
· Score: 1, Redundant
...before somebody hacks up a mobile 802.11 net to put in their car that will act to protect them from speeding tickets!
Slashdot Mirror
As somebody who has been in on the Space Station debacle from the beginning, let me just say that there's NO WAY that NASA could get to Mars by 2014, and trying to do it with the Russians only ADDS to the problem, not makes it easier. The most important thing the US can do to get to Mars is make it an American-only mission. The waste in effort to include other countries is phenomenal and unnecessary. The US space program has got to believe in itself instead of being a branch of the State Department if we are going to go anywhere.
SciFi Today ran this story a couple of days ago with LOTS of interesting extra links here.
The "guest of honor" at Robodex 2003 was Astroboy, 1960s Japanese anime icon, who according to the storyline was "born" TODAY on April 7, 2003. Check out lots of fun links on this sidebar story here.
Not only did it happen 2 billion years ago, SciFi Today wrote a story on it yesterday with lots of great links here! Check it out!
Check out this article about the half-ounce robots we ran over on SciFiToday. Hey, add our headlines to your Slashdot home page with a strategic click here!
We ran this story with lots of extra URLs earlier this morning here. Get Sci-Fi Today headlines on your Slashdot page by clicking here .
We ran this story (with the correct link and lots of great secondary ones!) yesterday over on Sci-Fi Today. Check us out and get our headlines on your Slashdot home page here.
We ran this story yesterday over on Sci-Fi Today with lots of extra info links. You can get SciFi Today headlines added to your Slashdot homepage here.
We try to be interesting in our ongoing science coverage over on Sci-Fi Today. See for yourself how we're doing...put our SFT headlines on your Slashdot homepage here...
...because that's what we're trying to do over on Sci-Fi Today. See if we are succeeding...put our headline box on your Slashdot home page here...
Maybe he should switch over to a candle-wax-fueled rocket, which we covered here last week on SciFiToday. You can get our headlines on your Slashdot home page by clicking here and checking the SciFiToday box. Check us out!!!
Check out this story we ran over on Sci-Fi Today which included some relevant links. You can get Sci-Fi Today daily headlines on your Slashdot home page by clicking here and putting a checkmark in the Sci-Fi Today box. Or heck, just join us as a member and help us build a science-oriented discussion community!
We ran a story on this topic yesterday over on SciFi Today with quite a few additional information links. A list of ALL of our recent stories is here. You can put SciFi Today Headlines on your Slashdot frontpage by clicking here and putting a checkmark in the SciFi Today box. Check us out!!!
We ran a story on this topic yesterday over on SciFi Today with some additional information links. A list of ALL of our recent stories (including the one about the deadly black hole in Minnesota where no spaceship has been found, really!) is here. You can put SciFi Today Headlines on your Slashdot frontpage by clicking here and putting a checkmark in the SciFi Today box. Check us out!!!
Physics Web has announced the Top 12 physics stories of 2002, a number stretched beyond the usual Top 10 to include human-interest stories like the shortage of women in physics and fabrication-of-data misconduct. Advances in optics were lumped together as one achievement for work as diverse as sub-diffraction limit microscopy and quantum photon cloning. Neutrons were big news, providing insight on quantum gravity and atomic nuclei with neutrons but no protons. Some research was COOL, like Bose-Einstein condensates made from cesium and superconductors made from plutonium. One discovery was HOT, namely nanoscale magnetic logic gates that operate at room temperature. The top discoveries were totally sublime: solar neutrinos change identities on their trip from Sun to Earth, the Second Law of Thermodynamics may be broken (can perpetual motion be far behind?) and microwave radiation from the Big Bang is polarized just like a pair of Neo's sunglasses. The number one physics story, however, was straight out of Star Trek: creation of "cold" anti-hydrogen gas that could be stored indefinitely as long as it didn't touch anything while being held in a magnetic field. Maybe the top physics story for 2003 will be the development of a dilithium chamber to put the anti-hydrogen gas into...
Sci-Fi Todayran something I wrote on this story a week ago. FYI, you can get daily Sci-Fi Today news headlines on your Slashdot Home Page...
At least remember their names, what they did and what is known about their fates.
I very much believe there were/are still guys left over there from the Vietnam War era. If we're gonna wire Laos, then I want to make sure they finally get an email address and a chance to use it!!!
You mean they expect more nominations, and didn't just go ahead and award them the prize?
The Ground Systems Department at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center has a "new" system called Telescience Resource Kit (TReK) that allows experimenters to hook personal computers in their home labs up to experiments they are running aboard the International Space Station. The main entrance page is here, but most of the links are password protected...
...before somebody hacks up a mobile 802.11 net to put in their car that will act to protect them from speeding tickets!
As outlined here, they've spent $42 billion and just brought back 42 soybena seed pods. YOu do the math.
rickyjames
Thanks! Check out more of my stuff at SciFiToday.
Here is the correct link for the cited movie Them!