OK, you know what the problem with this is? (I sound like Andy Rooney….) But, there is a problem! It perpetuates the illusion that we can just go and settle somewhere else when we finish trashing the planet we are on. I believe that people are numb to warnings about environmental destruction not because they…
Category: Technology
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Zanzibar islands ban plastic bags
Awesome!! Plastic bags and plastic water bottles are the blight of all the remote and beautiful places that I have visited. Hell, there’s a collection of this crap the size of Texas in the ocean north of Hawaii – the North Pacific Gyre. Zanzibar’s ban on the import and production of plastic bags has come…
Get paid for lying around all day
NASA is seeking applicants for an experiment in counteracting the affects of zero gravity. 20 seats or should I say beds are still available. NY TIMES ARTICLE HOUSTON, Oct. 23 — What does it say about this country that it’s hard to find people willing to be paid to lie around all day and take…
Scientists create cloak of invisibility
Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a Cloak of Invisibility. It isn’t quite ready to hide a Romulan space ship from Capt. James T. Kirk or to disguise Harry Potter, but it is a significant start and could show the way to more sophisticated designs.In this first successful…
Time capsule to be beamed from Mexican pyramid
If you want to add something to the Time capsule you can go to http://timecapsule.yahoo.com. cd MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, is set to become the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life. Starting on Tuesday, enthusiasts from around the world will have…
UK government funds robot to help treat baldness
This is a way of taking national pride to a new level. cd LONDON (Reuters) – The British government is providing 1.85 million pounds ($3.5 million) of funding to a Cambridge-based company that is building a robot to help treat baldness. Biosciences firm Intercytex aims to perfect a treatment that involves taking hair follicles from…
USB Hamster Wheel
The only problem with this gadget is that my typing skills make me backspace as often as I go forward…maybe he would do somersaults? When I first saw this, I thought maybe it was a way to make your hamster power you laptop. Either way, it has me laughing. (Thanks Luke!) USB Hamster Wheel –…
One Small Step for A Man…..perception is everything…
This story goes to show how the way you want to see, hear, or think about things changes the world. I remember being in gradeschool and being taught about the moon landings. My teacher’s taught us about how Incredible the U.S. was and how humility has always played a part in our dealings with the…
First Female Space Tourist Returns to Earth
ARKALYK, Kazakhstan – The capsule carrying the world’s first female space tourist touched down Friday on the Kazakh steppe after a bone-jarring journey from the international space station. Anousheh Ansari, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams had left the station aboard a cramped Russian Soyuz capsule about three hours earlier. After the…
Branson unveils Virgin spaceship
Sir Richard Branson has unveiled a mock-up of the rocket-powered vehicle that will carry clients into space through his Virgin Galactic business. The Virgin “spaceships” are designed to carry six passengers and two pilots to an altitude of about 140km on a sub-orbital space flight. Tickets on a Virgin Galactic flight are expected to cost…