Tag: Science

Miniature jet engines could power cellphone
I think that something like this would be handy for camping or something. Its a pity, a device like this on a laptop would be killer on a long flight.
(Thank you, agent Greg for this link)

Antimatter weapons?
Woah…
“…1 gram of antimatter, about 1/25th of an ounce, would equal “23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy.” Thus “positron energy conversion,” as he called it, would be a “revolutionary energy source” of interest to those who wage war”
Quite a sobering thought.
(Thank you, agent Greg for this link)

ResearchChannel
For the hard science lover in us all.

SpaceShipOne wins the X-Prize!
(This link may be real slow due to media attention)
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Yesterday after a few days of build up in seismic events, Mount St. Helens started to vent gases. Nothing at all like the eruption back in ’80 (I remember collecting ash from my backyard in Fargo ND after that one!) but it was enough to make the news (now days what isn’t!)
I have a good friend that lives 75 miles SW of St. Helens so hearing of its possible eruption was some cause for concern.
St. Helens Volcano Cam
It will probably quite down for a while now that the pressure has been reduced.