Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
A trifle gory, but good news never the less. Researchers are now looking at freezing cancer cells within a lung and simply letting it be absorbed into the body. The surgery is less destructive than chemo or other techniques. Sounds good.
Direct Freezing Technique Brings Hope to Lung Cancer Patients
No winners yet. If you think you can build a device that will run up a teather at more than 1 m/s you might be able to win $50,000. Oh yeah, no batteries allowed and don’t even think about using gasoline ’cause it needs to run in space.
[via engadget]
NASA’s First Annual Space Elevator Competition ends with no winners
Ok, not quite ‘live’ but it offers the latest in Mars observations from the Odyssey spacescraft.
From the position of them in the illustration and in the article I’m going to call them ‘slats‘. Flaps are at the trailing edge of a wing surface.
Scientists have discovered that the flying dinos might have used a thumb like bone on their wings as a slat to provide more control over their flying. Some birds do this today and as more and more research shows that their ancestors share a commonality I’m sure that more of these parallels will be found.
After a little extra burn to correct their orbit, The two Chinese astronauts (‘taikonauts’) are adapting well to their five day mission. During a televised conference, one of the astronauts was shown clapping after his daughter had sang ‘happy birthday’ to him. This is quite a mission for China, so far Russia and the US have been the only countries to successfully launch a manned space mission. With China building on space hardware technology from Russia and ambition to make a name for itself as a modern country, they might make it to the moon before we get a chance to return ourselves.
A good day in space for China’s taikonauts
Chinese astronauts celebrate birthday, record
STANFORD HAS WON the 132-mile, $2 million 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle robot race — unofficially. The Stanford Racing Team’s “Stanley,” a modified Volkswagen Touareg R5, finished with a time of six hours and 53 minutes.