Now someone just needs to invent a way to build a one molecule thick sphere that can stand 14 psi of outside pressure.
Vacuum Buoyancy
Tag: Science
Fermilab Experiment Prepares To Send Its First Neutrinos To Minnesota
This is pretty cool. I wonder if anyone will figure out a method of transmitting data using a neutrino stream. You could beam your it right through anything (including the receiver come to think of it. I guess that could be why it might not happen for a while).
Fermilab Experiment Prepares To Send Its First Neutrinos To Minnesota
(Thank you agent Greg for this cool news.)
Natural Nuclear Reactors
This is pretty neat, two billion years ago in Oklo Africa there was a particulary rich vein of uranium ore that started to fission. It produced enough heat to leave quartz which crystalized out of the (hot) underground waters that circulated around during and after the reactor’s operating lifetime
Astronomy Picture of the Day – Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors
Science Toys
This is a gold mine of DIY science demos and toys that you can make with just easy to find stuff. Anything that you can’t find can be bought from the site (handy, ain’t it?)
I think I’ll build the three penny radio, the Curie effect heat engine, and the film can cannon.
Science Toys
‘Make’ Premier Issue
The premier issue of Make magazine is out and it is pretty much everything it said it would be. I’ll review the articles as I read them but for now I’ll leave you with a link to Slashdot so you can see what hundreds of other people have to say.
Slashdot – ‘Make’ Premier Issue
Space Elevator
I hope that one of these gets built before I die. Anything that will get mass out of the gravity well is a good thing. Something like this could make space travel a reality for just about anybody.
The Space Elevator Reference brought to you by SpaceRef
Space.com – The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality
Wired – To the moon in a space elevator?
NASA – Audacious & Outrageous: Space Elevators
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