September 18, 2008 – 10:49 am
How will the economic crisis affect the environment? I don’t know. But we have several speculations:
On the “positive” side:
1. Falling oil prices will decrease the need for drilling in Alaska.
2. A global slowdown will decrease consumption rates for all products, including paper and wood, and therefore may lead to a slightly slower rate of deforestation.
But [...]
September 16, 2008 – 9:16 am
China has already managed to successfully launch 2 manned spacecrafts into Earth orbit. By the end of this month, they’re planning to launch their third manned mission, and this time, one of the main objectives is to perform a space walk.
Chinese astronauts are sometimes referred to as taikonauts, and currently they comprise an extremely exclusive [...]
September 14, 2008 – 8:26 am
Last week, the National Space Society issued a dazzling — and slightly suspicious — press release, claiming that they’re going to demonstrate on Friday a long-range wireless transfer of electrical energy! Well, Friday had passed by now, and I couldn’t find any reference on the net to this supposedly-spectacular experiment.
In any case, that sort of [...]
September 11, 2008 – 9:40 am
Sarah Palin stunned the nation when chosen to be McCain’s running mate. Since then, many people have become passionate about her, whether in supporting her or in verbally attacking her.
Caroline Howe reveals this in her fantastic article “Is Sarah Palin Making John McCain Look Like Al Gore?”:
When asked in a Newsmax interview, what was her [...]
September 8, 2008 – 9:35 am
The people who brought you the World Wide Web, CERN, are about to begin experimenting with a new shiny toy. It’s called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and it’s the world’s biggest particle accelerator, located underneath Switzerland.
According to the official time table:
As of August 2008 the majority of the LHC ring is now cooled to [...]
August 24, 2008 – 7:58 am
As the world’s population is ever expanding, and conflict over land resources might intensify over the years, humanity is need of new habitable terrain. One of these options is the premise of underwater cities.
Imagine a city full of people lying on the seabed. Our first association is Atlantis, but future underwater projects don’t have to [...]
August 21, 2008 – 9:03 am
The robots they’re making at Boston are so freaky. Will this be the ultimate soldier of the future?
No more horse riding in the forest, camel hopping in the desert, or mule handling in the snow — simply buy a BigDog and you’re set to go.
August 18, 2008 – 9:40 am
A bold idea is suggesting to increase the spread of ocean-dwelling algae in order to fight global warming. The premise is simple: algae produce their nutrients through the process of photosynthesis (like most plants do), and CO2 is a vital component in this process, thus more algae will result in less CO2 in the atmosphere.
One [...]
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