How NASA might build its very first warp drive I want to see this work as much as anyone else on io9, but every time I read an article on warp drive, I expend so much mental energy trying to wrap my head around the concept that my entire left hand side goes numb. Somewhere along the line my understanding of concepts such as the nature of Spacetime is deficient. Here's the problem. If someone could point me towards some legible books that I could buy that would help me understand where my understanding has gone wrong, I would be grateful. Thanks.
'Frozen waves' of blue ice photographed by Tony Travouillon Dramatic images appear to show a frozen wave but the phenomenon is actually caused by compressed iceThe ice appears blue because it absorbs light from the 'red end' of the spectrum and throws out the blue light By Rik Sharma Published: 13:18 GMT, 26 November 2012 | Updated: 19:07 GMT, 26 November 2012 At first glance these beautiful images from the Antarctic appear to show 50-ft tall waves that have been instantly frozen as they break. Some people have posted the pictures online, taken by scientist Tony Travouillon at Dumont D'Urville, with a description claiming they are a tsunami wave which was frozen. But although email chains and internet forums back this claim up, what is really pictured is the natural phenomenon of blue ice. Imposing: Although this is not, as widely rumoured, a wave frozen while breaking, it is still an incredible phenomenon Frozen towers: This blue ice is created because ice bubbles are compressed and light at the red end of the spectrum is absorbed
gov News Transcript: DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen Cohen's keynote address at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy at the Georgia Center, Mahler Auditorium, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. The event is part of the Sam Nunn Policy Forum being hosted by the University of Georgia. Secretary Cohen is joined by Sen. Sam Nunn and Sen. Secretary Cohen: Senator Nunn, thank you very much. I'll comment on that later during the course of the morning, but I've had occasion to meet with a number of Russian counterparts, and as we go through various translations of the communications that we're having, the two words they are able to articulate very clearly, they say 'Nunn/Lugar, Nunn/Lugar. It was Nunn/Lugar I that dealt with the reduction of nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of trying to come to grips with how we helped the Russians dismantle hundreds of their nuclear weapons, and also helped them with their destruction of chemical weapons. Q: How prepared is the U.S.
Drinking Water out of Air NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment May 4, 2011: Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein’s theory of gravity. Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today at NASA headquarters where they announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B (GP-B). “The space-time around Earth appears to be distorted just as general relativity predicts,” says Stanford University physicist Francis Everitt, principal investigator of the Gravity Probe B mission. “This is an epic result,” adds Clifford Will of Washington University in St. Louis. Time and space, according to Einstein’s theories of relativity, are woven together, forming a four-dimensional fabric called “space-time.” If Earth were stationary, that would be the end of the story. The idea behind the experiment is simple: Put a spinning gyroscope into orbit around the Earth, with the spin axis pointed toward some distant star as a fixed reference point. Author: Dr.
Android Launches New Way to Locate Lost or Stolen Smartphones Details Category: Science & Tech Published on 08 03 2013 05:33 Hits: 7 ( Canada By Patrick O'Rourke) -- Google wants to help you find your misplaced smartphone Do you lose your smartphone between your couch’s cushions all the time? Well, Google will soon have your back. In a recent blog post, Google has announced that the new Android Device Manager will help users locate their misplaced smartphone with ease. Also, if you accidentally leave your phone at a restaurant or you think it’s been stolen, device manager will show you were it’s located on real time map. This new feature will be available later this month on all Android devices running Android 2.2 or above. Android’s device manager is actually very similar to Apple’s phone finding iCloud-based system.
Marine Environmental Buoy Database ANNOUNCEMENT 15 August 2011: ATTENTION Matlab users! If you encounter problems opening netCDF files, please see click link below which will take you to a script written by John Evans, MathWorks. Running this script on files should permit Matlab to correctly open these files. NetCDF creation order fix ANNOUNCEMENT 26 May 2011: NDBC is now submitting netCDF formatted files to NODC, instead of the previous F291 format. As part of a data modernization effort, the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) has updated the archival data file format of their Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations and moored (weather) buoys to netCDF. Please address any questions or comments to NODC.buoy@noaa.gov. This database holds wind, wave, and other marine data collected by the NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). The above interactive map and related files provide users with detailed information about the positions, period of record and other characteristics of the data in this NODC database.
Dr Sam Parnia claims corpses could soon be revived 24 hours after death Dr Sam Parnia said his research is on the cusp of major breakthroughsAt the moment medics can bring people back to life within two hours but he believes this window is about to be significantly widenedAverage resuscitation rate for cardiac arrest patients in UK is 16% but at Dr Parnia's Stony Brook University School of Medicine it is 33%He added: 'My basic message: The death we commonly perceive today in 2013 is a death that can be reversed' By Allan Hall and Jenny Hope Published: 16:08 GMT, 30 July 2013 | Updated: 02:51 GMT, 31 July 2013 Medical advances mean it will soon be possible to bring the dead back to life, a doctor claims. Modern techniques will enable a patient to be revived up to 24 hours after they stop breathing, Dr Sam Parnia says. The American critical care physician, who trained in London, said: ‘We may soon be rescuing people from death’s clutches hours, or even longer, after they have actually died.’ ‘I believe if he died here, he could still be alive.
GPS Flaw Could Let Terrorists Hijack Ships, Planes The world's GPS system is vulnerable to hackers or terrorists who could use it to hijack ships -- even commercial airliners, according to a frightening new study that exposes a huge potential hole in national security. Using a laptop, a small antenna and an electronic GPS "spoofer" built for $3,000, GPS expert Todd Humphreys and his team at the University of Texas took control of the sophisticated navigation system aboard an $80 million, 210-foot super-yacht in the Mediterranean Sea. "We injected our spoofing signals into its GPS antennas and we're basically able to control its navigation system with our spoofing signals," Humphreys told Fox News. By feeding counterfeit radio signals to the yacht, the UT team was able to drive the ship far off course, steer it left and right, potentially take it into treacherous waters, even put it on a collision course with another ship. Capt. The possible consequences, according to Humphreys, are both ominous and far-reaching.
GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOSQUITOES MAY Soon Be RELEASED In U.S. (NaturalNews) In an effort to help eradicate dengue fever and the mosquitos that spread it, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) is seeking federal and state approval to release hundreds of thousands of genetically-modified (GM) mosquitos designed to kill off the natural Aedes aegypti variety of the fly throughout Key West, Florida. The agency, which already routinely performs aerial sprayings of the area with anti-mosquito chemicals, believes it will save money in the long run by releasing the GM mosquitos. Rather than spend $400,000 or more a year to conduct the aerial sprayings, FKMCD says it would instead only have to spend $200,000 to $300,000 a year on the GM mosquitos. Created by U.K.-based insect eradication company Oxitec, the GM mosquitos have been created with an added gene that, unless they are given the antibiotic tetracycline, will automatically kill them. Comments comments
Mind Openerz The world is full of mysteries, and not everything can be explained by science. Here are 5 Mind Blowing Things Science Still Can’t Explain. You may have heard of it before, The Placebo Effect is a phenomenon where patients are given a fake sugar pill and are told it will help them in some way or form. This study has been done many different times for various situations from colds to cancers. Doctors take two groups of people to study, one are given real pills for an ailment, while the others are given sugar pills. Both groups are told that the pills will help with their ailments. These studies seem to suggest that the power our mind has to heal ourselves is greater than we have ever thought. In some deserts across the world there are stones that seem to move along the surface. In rural China, in an area considered uninhabitable by humans, there are three triangular openings at the top of a mountain. Beating out the current theory of intelligent life by oh, a few billion years!