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- Scientists envision inflatable alternative to tethered space elevator
- Scientists envision inflatable alternative to tethered space elevatorDoesn't sound very sturdyI wouldn't trust my life to 15km long inflatable tubesalthough I do love The Fountains of Paradise
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship
- Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceshipBeautifulThey are much better looking than the first ones. I hope that they accelerate space exploration and lunar landings. Unfortunately, the current goal is mostly space tourism, which is impractical. Maybe they'll raise enough money from it to fund the bigger picture, though.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
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- Laser-powered 'space elevator' wins $900,000 NASA prize
- Congratulations Team LaserMotive...Very impressive, especially for a first run. The team should really try for the 5M/sec top prize.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Laser-powered 'space elevator' wins $900,000 NASA prize
- LaserMotive, a Seattle area company specializing in laser power beaming, has claimed a $900,000 prize with their photovoltaic-powered machine that has climbed nearly 3,000 feet (1 km) at an average speed greater than 2 meters per second, or just over four minutes. by Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- Skyscraper 2.0a5 (Mac)
- Skyscraper aims to be a fully-featured, modular, 3D realtime building simulator, powered by the Scalable Building Simulator SBS engine. The main feature SBS provides is a very robust elevator simulator, but also simulates general building features such as walls, floors, stairs, shaftwork and more. Many more things are planned, including...
- Software downloads 2009-11-08
- The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda
- Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Skyscraper 2.0a5 (Windows)
- Skyscraper aims to be a fully-featured, modular, 3D realtime building simulator, powered by the Scalable Building Simulator SBS engine. The mbain feature SBS provides is a very robust elevator simulator, but also simulates general building features such as walls, floors, stairs, shaftwork and more. Many more things are planned, including...
- Software downloads 2009-10-24
- Yahoo: Giving users a mobile experience, not a mobile OS
- Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, who was scheduled to speak at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this morning, has been bitten by a flu bug and didn't make it to center stage today. But that's OK - her team was on-hand for a media breakfast and shared her vision...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Uncle Sam: less wasteful?
- At first thought, the idea of ......disconnecting elevators to the first six floors sounds like a great idea, but what about the handicapped - there would have to be a way to let them use the elevator ... universal access to all places and all that jazz ...LudoThis blog is...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Scientists envision inflatable alternative to tethered space elevator
- An inflatable free standing tower could one day carry equipment and tourists 20 kilometers above Earth, and it could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, say researchers at York University in Toronto, Canada. They envision a giant tower assembled with a series of modules made up...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technologyBut why?I'm all for alternative energy but I still don't understand why solar is becoming popular. Solar energy seems to be the least efficient. And it seems poised for quantum jumps in efficiency in the near future. So why...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- The Disaster Recovery Items Few Consider
- How Too Much of a Disaster Screws Up the Best Plans I spent a lot of time one night this week with the CFO of a coastal Texas organization that’s based between Houston and Galveston. That phone interview yielded some surprising observations about disaster recovery and how...
- Blog posts 2008-09-21
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physics
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physicsHmmm, the brain drain is more thanlosing our people to Europe... it's our poor education system. It's amazing how low on the scale we are for developed nations when it comes to education. Especially in the lower grades where it...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Photos: Where the building is the network
- The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...
- Image galleries 2008-05-14
- Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours
- For every person, there are personalities who’s influence and life’s work that can shape one’s imagination and destiny. For some people, they are world leaders, musicians, poets, and philosophers. For me, the Grand Masters of Science Fiction float to the very top of that august group â€" and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Flight profile (Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwo)
- Flight profile Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwoSpaceship TwoI think this is great. I am a big fan of Burt Rutan and all of his projects. I cannot wait until SpaceShip Two is complete. I am the academic coordinator for the Aircraft Manufacturing Technology program at a technical school...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- The top 10 IT disasters of all time
- The top 10 IT disasters of all timeWhy omitions?(Note: We have purposely omitted incidents that resulted in loss of life.) Why omit these incidents??? THESE are the ones that count!If some flacky software kills hundreds or thousands I would want to know.Purposely omitted errors that cost lives?Errors like the Therac-25...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- News to know: Apple shines; Adobe flaw; Enterprise 2.0; The innovation game
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Developers in dark about Leopard GM bug fixes. Larry Dignan: Apple handily tops expectations. Apple: Back to the Mac and the future. Techmeme. Jason O'Grady: AppTapp updated to v.3; works with iPhone 1.1.1. Ryan Naraine: Adobe...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- What will we find in the next 50 years of space exploration?
- What will we find in the next 50 years of space exploration?the matter on Earth comprises only 4 percent of... the universeIsn't that just a tiny bit much? Maybe 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004% or a little less?Myself, i hopethey run into the Orion women. ;-)RE: What will we find in...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Teams to take another crack at space elevator
- Teams to take another crack at space elevatorNASA.....Sheeet! I wish my organization had $500K to blow just for clowning around. What a deplorable govt agency! Please lord, find us a true savior for a President and get rid of all this garbage! Screw the Moon and...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
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