Tag: Science

Bladeless Turbine

Tesla Turbine

Oh so cool and nifty! The idea is real simple, just a (or many) flat disk(s) with a gas or a liquid shooting across at a tangent.

A Tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. It was invented and patented by Nikola Tesla on the 21st October 1909 at the Untied States Patent Office from experiments done in England. The patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th May 1913. Although, it is thought that a Tesla first showed a 200 hp 16,000 RPM version on the 10th of July 1906 (on Tesla’s 50th birthday).

Tesla Turbine
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FREE!

Free at last

Opportunity is once again free of the sand dune and can continue on its extended mission.

The Mars rover Opportunity has successfully escaped from a sand trap. JPL engineers cheered when images returned from Mars showed the rover’s wheels were free. Engineers worked for nearly five weeks to carefully maneuver the rover out of the sand dune

The Latest News from Mars

Mars, Opportunity, NASA, space

Birds May Be Behind Exploding German Toads

Ribbit

Smart birds with a taste for frog livers may be behind the whole exploding toad epidemic? If this is true then it just goes to show you that sometimes the simpler explanations are the better ones. I can beleive that crows could learn this trick, I’ve seen them unwrap food in plastic wrappers in Japan. Clever buggers.

Birds May Be Behind Exploding German Toads
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Voyager 1 Enters the Heliosheath

Voyager

Way to go! Now hopefuly the funding will stay with the program so scientists will be able to use the new data received.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled so far in our Solar System that it’s reached the heliosheath. This is an area just past the termination shock region, where the solar wind crashes into the thin interstellar gas of the galaxy. It was difficult to detect exactly when Voyager 1 passed through the termination shock and into the heliosheath, because we have no data about interstellar space yet, just calculations.

Voyager 1 Enters the Heliosheath