Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I think that someone is getting tired of all the croaking at 2 AM and have decided to take care of the problem. Looks as if they have gone on holiday in Denmark now…
Thousands of toads are exploding in central Denmark and northern Germany. Environmental factors or an unknown disease may cause the phenomenon
Bursting toads baffle scientists
Mummm… What could be better than a golden brown pontif with your morning coffee?
In order to have more controversy in your breakfast try using wheat bread. 🙂
Pope Toast
Texas A&M rocks! Where else can you tour a nuclear reactor? Sounds like just about the only things you don’t get to do it juggle fuel rods and swim in the reactor pool! Texas is looking like a better vacation spot every day…
When operating, the reactor gives off a blue glow known as Cherenkov Radiation.
When an intense radioactive source ejects high-energy charged particles into a transparent material such as water, plastic, or glass, a ghostly bluish glow extending some distance into the medium can be seen. This phenomenon is easily observed when a room containing a swimming pool reactor or a gamma facility is darkened. [Ours is intense enough that our facility does not need darkening to be able to view this phenomenon.]
Nuclear Science Center at Texas A&M University
Simply amazing… All these need are a tiny powersupply that has like a 50KW/1Kg power ratio and your off to the races! Army of power enhanced troops marching into combat in what would amount to a personal tank that can walk up (re-enforced no doubt) stairs and still be humanoid. Starship Troopers meets every power suited anime show.
…The most fully developed prototype, HAL 3, is a motor-driven metal “exoskeleton” that you strap onto your legs to power-assist leg movements. A backpack holds a computer with a wireless network connection, and the batteries are on a belt.
Two control systems interact to help the wearer stand, walk and climb stairs. A “bio-cybernic” system uses bioelectric sensors attached to the skin on the legs to monitor signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles.
Bionic suit offers wearers super-strength
(Thank you special agent Greg, there will be somthing extra in this weeks disbursement for this)
It may still be teathered to a power supply but hopefuly a micro fuel cell or a mega capacitor could solve that.
Maybe we could use headless, zombie flies to harass terrorists.
Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly.
-Greg