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by DeltaV
Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Skynet is coming.
Replies: 802
Views: 398100

Re: Skynet is coming.

by DeltaV
Sat Apr 02, 2016 3:00 am
Forum: Design
Topic: Corbino Discs for current limiting
Replies: 0
Views: 19677

Corbino Discs for current limiting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect#The_Corbino_effect https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Corbino_disc_by_Zureks.svg/320px-Corbino_disc_by_Zureks.svg.png https://www.google.com/patents/US6469490 https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US6469490B1/US06469490-20021022...
by DeltaV
Fri Apr 01, 2016 3:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Sell The Whitehouse to Trump
Replies: 993
Views: 546750

Re: Sell The Whitehouse to Trump

Laser cloaking device could help us hide from aliens
http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/28 ... rom-aliens

Fellow Mammals, it is too late for laser-cloaking our planet...

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by DeltaV
Fri Apr 01, 2016 1:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: Magnet Fun or future?
Replies: 3
Views: 3824

Re: Magnet Fun or future?

From the same inventor, expanding the Dynabee/Powerball wrist exerciser concept to harness planetary spin energy: http://www.google.com/patents/US20100109341?dq=inassignee:"Cedar+Ridge+Research,+Llc Knock. Knock. "Good afternoon, sir. We've received a report that you have an unregistered spin energy...
by DeltaV
Thu Mar 31, 2016 12:16 am
Forum: News
Topic: Compact Fusion - view from Finland
Replies: 0
Views: 14574

Compact Fusion - view from Finland

A nice, year-old, Compact Fusion write-up from Finland. Video of a related talk by author Linden was posted by someone here a year ago.

https://indico.cern.ch/event/382453/att ... n_CERN.pdf
by DeltaV
Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: SpaceX News
Replies: 2324
Views: 1184052

Re: SpaceX News

Atlas was originally an ICBM (based in Turkey during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis), adapted into a manned booster, hence the high g.
by DeltaV
Thu Mar 24, 2016 4:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Sell The Whitehouse to Trump
Replies: 993
Views: 546750

Re: Sell The Whitehouse to Trump

http://nypost.com/2016/03/20/will-hillary-get-charged-or-what/ FBI chief James Comey and his investigators are increasingly certain that presidential nominee Hillary Clinton violated laws in handling classified government information through her private email server, career agents say. Some expect ...
by DeltaV
Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:59 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Weird space stuff
Replies: 42
Views: 38859

Re: Weird space stuff

Now that Dawn has been in a Low Altitude Mapping Orbit (LAMO) for weeks, it's hard to understand why this has not been made a high-priority imaging target. They've probably moved the "loader" on the curved ramp back into its bunker by now... :( DANG! Too late... http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
by DeltaV
Tue Mar 22, 2016 7:49 pm
Forum: News
Topic: No news is good news????
Replies: 16
Views: 13523

Re: No news is good news????

nferguso wrote:I would bet on General Fusion. They are building their full-scale prototype now, I think. Besides, they are funkier.
Don't you mean steam-punkier?
by DeltaV
Thu Mar 17, 2016 4:47 pm
Forum: News
Topic: SpaceX News
Replies: 2324
Views: 1184052

Re: SpaceX News

Beancounters rule. Engineers are serfs. Crunch your numbers and be quiet.

ULA exec resigns after saying firm shied away from price war with SpaceX
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space ... SKCN0WJ05H
by DeltaV
Sun Mar 13, 2016 12:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: Skynet is coming.
Replies: 802
Views: 398100

Re: Skynet is coming.

Game over! Computer wins series against Go champion http://phys.org/news/2016-03-game-series-champion.html AlphaGo's creators had described Go as the "Mt Everest" of AI, citing the complexity of the game, which requires a degree of creativity and intuition to prevail over an opponent. "I'm very exc...
by DeltaV
Thu Mar 10, 2016 3:12 am
Forum: News
Topic: Weird space stuff
Replies: 42
Views: 38859

Re: Weird space stuff

Opportunity_Panoramic Camera_Sol 4073_crop_enhance.jpg
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by DeltaV
Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:52 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Room-temperature superconductivity?
Replies: 1893
Views: 673110

Re: Room-temperature superconductivity?

373 K Superconductors
http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01482
by DeltaV
Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:12 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Weird space stuff
Replies: 42
Views: 38859

Re: Weird space stuff

Now that Dawn has been in a Low Altitude Mapping Orbit (LAMO) for weeks, it's hard to understand why this has not been made a high-priority imaging target. They've probably moved the "loader" on the curved ramp back into its bunker by now... :(

http://i.imgur.com/HGvKJOt.gifv