I agree with the last part of your post. Worrying about waste 10,000 years in the future is incredibly naive. It will likely be removed in less than 50 years for recycling. By which time recycling technology will hopefully have been allowed to develop further. It was always intended to be a part...
ROFLMAO! No kidding. What do you think we've been trying to do the last 50 odd years? Make custard? We still only get a fraction of the energy out that we put in. We would need a LOT more energy out than we put into make it a viable energy source. Several times what we put in. IT WILL NEVER...
Nuclear isn't evil.
How can a chemical reaction be evil? Stop talking nonsense. Fusion is a pipe dream. It is never going to become economically viable. Anyone who says it is just around the corner is dreaming. Your great grandparents thought the same thing. Its too complex and yields far too...
I heard about a technique where mercury or some other liquid is spun in a dish until it assumes a parabolic shape. Would this work in space? Could a flat membrane of liquid metal do just as well? It could be liquified by an electric current and start out flat like soapy water in a bubble wand...
Recycle it. Problem solved. Oh yeah, I forgot, we can't. Because a bunch of peacenics caused it to become illegal. Now these same rednecks complain about the waste THEY caused to happen. Nice one GreenPeace.
21 new satellites of Jupiter have been found this year. Many are thought to be due to an ancient collision of a larger moon with a comet.
Jupiter has four large moons and dozens of smaller ones (there are 60 satellites known so far). Galileo first discovered the four largest moons of...
Darmstadt gets credit for new elements 110 and 111.
The discovery of element 111 has been officially credited to the GSI laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany, by a joint working party set up by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the sister union for physics...
New Glass.
There's a new glass in town. The glass, developed with the help of a unique NASA levitator facility, is available for numerous commercial applications including lasers and optical communications.
"We have patented a family of new glasses and have established processes for making...
Quantum confinement.
Size matters, but so does shape, at least in the world of semiconducting nanocrystals, report chemists at Washington University in St. Louis.
Their findings, published in the August 2003 issue of Nature Materials, demonstrate experimentally that the shape of a...
An experiment by Italian scientists using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft , currently en route to Saturn, confirms Einstein's theory of general relativity with a precision that is 50 times greater than previous measurements.
Link.
'One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.'
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Success.
Didn't that go well. I just stumbled onto this thread in a search engine just now and seeing that a Taikonaut has circled the Earth 14 times it seemed an opportune moment to comment on it. I love watching history happen. September 11 wasn't very joyous though. Creation is far more...
You are probably right. The last time a communist regime threatened to dominate space exploration the United States sent men to the moon. Ofcourse, we haven't been back there in over 30 years but it sure was a pretty flag ceremony. We have some nice moon rocks too. No more Saturn V's or Lunar...
Yeah, totalitarian regimes do have a knack for cutting through red tape no matter what else we might say about them. Cheap access to space is what all its all about.