ITER - the way to new energy. Welcome to the Cassiopeia Project. Science 2.0 - ® The world's best scientists, the Internet's smartest readers. An Interview with Jacques Piccard, 1922-2008. [Photo via AP] I'm saddened to read that Jacques Piccard died today.
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanic engineer famous for making the deepest ever ocean dive, which he accomplished on January 23, 1960 along with Lt. Don Walsh. The two entered a bathyscaph called Trieste and descended 10,916 meters (35,810 feet) into the Challenger Deep, an area in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, touching down on the deepest part of the ocean anywhere on earth. That's quite an accomplishment, and one that hasn't yet been repeated. I had the good fortune to interview Mr. Piccard by telephone back in 2005 and ask him what it was like to descend to the deepest part of the ocean. Please read and enjoy it. Interview with Jacques Piccard Okay, yeah, sure Okay, please you will excuse me but my English is relatively poor. Our base was in . But the blue of the light was absolutely beautiful, clear and limpid and absolutely beautiful water. So it was interesting to see but nothing special.
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Internet and communications. 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive. Programmable Matter: Claytronics or Gershenfeld. We still tell our children “you can be anything when you grow up.” It’s time to start telling them “you’re going to be able to make anything…right now.” Similar work at MIT and Carnegie Mellon is pointing towards the next revolution in computers and manufacturing: programmable matter. In the future you won’t use computers to design a car, the car will form from billions of tiny computers that arrange themselves into anything you want. The physical and computational world will merge. Claytronics is developing tiny computers that can work together to form shapes. How can a material be intelligent? Carnegie Mellon isn’t the only university pursuing intelligent materials. It All Looks Good on Paper It would be amazing if these technologies were available today, but they are still a long way off. In hardware, Claytronics has already made centimeter sized cylindrical catoms that have basic features.
To test Catom forces without gravity, helium filled prototypes are used. TED.
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