October 7, 2008 – 3:56 pm
How could Coca Cola help our environment? The answer is simple: Cola is black. Oil is black. Can you imagine the possibilities? Environmental terrorists could silently pollute oil reserves with coca cola, therefore making people suspicious of oil, and more likely to switch to alternative sources of energy. Cola is a very acidic liquid. We [...]
September 25, 2008 – 11:55 am
Google launched the Googol competition. Googol is the number 10 raised to the power of 100, or alternatively, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google offers $10 million to the 10 finalists of the Googol competition. How do you win? Suggest an idea that could help the largest number of people on the planet, [...]
September 23, 2008 – 9:18 am
Image by Stuck in Customs via Flickr Queen Elizabeth of Britain is acquiring the world’s largest wind turbine. When construction is completed in 2012, it will light up 7,500 British homes. Just for comparison, the world’s smallest wind turbine can power exactly 2 LED lights. I can already imagine the Queen standing at the window, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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