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Thursday, November 10, 2005
5:38:00 AM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Woke up early again and did a little Web browsing on the science side of the street. Here's what I came up with you to think about for today:
1. Bionic muscles: They're coming! Man, Steve Austin is going to be so jealous:
Currently, robotic muscles move 100 times slower than ours. But engineers using the Yip lab's new theory could boost those speeds - making robotic muscles 1,000 times faster than human muscles - with virtually no extra energy demands and the added bonus of a simpler design. This study appears in the Nov. 4 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
2. Worried about asteroids smacking into the Earth? Now there's a better way to get rid of these threats than calling Bruce Willis: Gravity!
Two NASA astronauts, gently mocking the solution offered in the Hollywood blockbuster "Armageddon," have come up with a deceptively simple plan to pull asteroids off course. Edward Lu and Stanley Love have proposed that a rocket be launched into space, effectively to act as a giant magnet... the gravity tractor would travel alongside the asteroid and gradually pull it off course, using nothing more than the gravitational pull between the two bodies.
Yeah, but that takes all the fun out of it.
3. What has the Cassini space probe been up to recently? Snapping pictures of Saturn's moon Dione:
Yes, those are Saturn's rings in the picture as well.
4. Another cool bit of photography, this from the Earth Sciences Picture of the Day, "showing the plumes (condensation trails) of a Minotaur 4-stage missile was taken on September 22, 2005 from near Vandenberg Air Force Base, California." You'll want to click through to see this.
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5:38:00 AM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Fun With Science
Woke up early again and did a little Web browsing on the science side of the street. Here's what I came up with you to think about for today:
1. Bionic muscles: They're coming! Man, Steve Austin is going to be so jealous:
Currently, robotic muscles move 100 times slower than ours. But engineers using the Yip lab's new theory could boost those speeds - making robotic muscles 1,000 times faster than human muscles - with virtually no extra energy demands and the added bonus of a simpler design. This study appears in the Nov. 4 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
2. Worried about asteroids smacking into the Earth? Now there's a better way to get rid of these threats than calling Bruce Willis: Gravity!
Two NASA astronauts, gently mocking the solution offered in the Hollywood blockbuster "Armageddon," have come up with a deceptively simple plan to pull asteroids off course. Edward Lu and Stanley Love have proposed that a rocket be launched into space, effectively to act as a giant magnet... the gravity tractor would travel alongside the asteroid and gradually pull it off course, using nothing more than the gravitational pull between the two bodies.
Yeah, but that takes all the fun out of it.
3. What has the Cassini space probe been up to recently? Snapping pictures of Saturn's moon Dione:
Yes, those are Saturn's rings in the picture as well.
4. Another cool bit of photography, this from the Earth Sciences Picture of the Day, "showing the plumes (condensation trails) of a Minotaur 4-stage missile was taken on September 22, 2005 from near Vandenberg Air Force Base, California." You'll want to click through to see this.
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11/11/05 12:49 AM
The bionic muscles are cool, the gravity tractor is sick, and the rings around Saturn are so beautiful! thank you so much!
natalie