Space Elevator
December 30, 2006
The folks at ISR or Institute for Scientific Research explain the concept behind the Space Elevator in this Video.
The space elevator in the simplest terms is a Ribbon with one of its ends attached to the Earth and the other end attached to a counterweight in Space. The rotation of the Earth throws the counterweight on the Ribbon outwords, keeping the Ribbon taut.
This Ribbon is to be made of a carbon composite which is supposedly almost 30 times stronger than steel. The Ribbon would be 3 feet wide, thinner than a sheet of paper but almost 62000 feet long and able to take upto 20 tons of objects to space.
Using this concept, Mankind can persue a dream by climbing a Ribbon to the Stars
Watch the full video below
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MSNBC: Year 2006 in Pictures
December 30, 2006
Click on the images to enjoy the slideshow by MSNBC with audio/text commentaries. Including 3 main categories: News, Sports and Space pictures.
The Complete work of Charles Darwin including Publications, Manuscrips and Biography
December 30, 2006
The largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever published appears on the website The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (http://darwin-online.org.uk/) from 19 October 2006. Never before has so much Darwin material, and so many rare and widely dispersed items, been brought together in one place and made available free of charge. This site currently offers more than 50,000 pages of searchable text and 45,000 images of both publications and transcribed manuscripts. Most of the materials are available both as fully formatted electronic text and colour images of the originals. Darwin’s works are also available as free machine-read audio mp3 files. The project, designed and directed by Dr John van Wyhe of Christ’s College, Cambridge, is hosted by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. The launch marks the end of the first year of the three-year’s funding awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
The website also includes the largest Darwin bibliography ever produced, based on the work of R. B. Freeman, and the largest catalogue of manuscripts (with over 30,000 entries) ever published. More than 150 supplementary documents are also provided, from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin’s Beagle specimens and important related works for studying and understanding Darwin and his work. Each work containing illustrations or maps is provided with an overview page of thumbnail images allowing readers to see in seconds all the illustrations which are scattered throughout hundreds of pages. The thumbnails take readers directly to the larger version of the image in its context within the original work.
Visit the Complete Works of Charles Darwin here
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Build your own Death Star of Star Wars
December 30, 2006
Every geek worth his salt remebers the torpedo which Luke Skywalker used to destroy the Death Star of the Evil Empire. Now, here is your chance to build your own Death Star of the Star Wars movies.
You are now a weapons engineer and the responsibility for the completion of the Empire’s ultimate weapon has fallen on you. Some of you might ask, what is the full form of Death Star or why the name Death Star. Well, the project is officially known as the Expeditionary Battle Planetoid Development Initiative but the Ministry of Propaganda like to call it “Death Star”.
The 5 attributes needed for your Death Star are
* Power Output – The energy output of the station’s reactors
* Firepower – The destructive potential of the station
* Defense – The station’s protection against capital and fighter craft assault
* Personnel Capacity – The station’s habitability and crew capacity
* Naval Capacity – The extent of the station’s harbors and docking bays
Click on the picture below to build your own Ultimate weapon, the Empire’s Death Star
Why you should have Sex before marriage
December 29, 2006
Now, here is why you should have sex before marriage…
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Co-ed housing now becoming common place at Colleges and Universities
December 29, 2006
Ben Arnoldy at CSMonitor reports on something which is becomming more commonplace now at Colleges and Universities, coed housing or Male and Female room mates. Some 20 colleges allow coed rooms allowing undergrads of opposite sext to room in together and apparantly, Friendships and not sexual intimacy tend to motivate students to sign up.
A sample case study shown in their article is of two Sophomores at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Janet Dewar(left) and Matt Danzig who became friends as Freshmen, then hit it of very well and then decided to room together coming into their Sophomore years. They share a two-room dorm room and Matt must walk through Janet’s room to reach the door to the hallway.
Although many universities have co-ed dormitories, it is still the rarity to find programs that permit members of the opposite sex to cohabitate. Schools that do permit these options besides Wesleyan University are Haverford College, Brown University and Swarthmore College.
While sharing a room comes unnervingly close in the minds of many parents to sharing a bed, advocates for the new arrangements say sexual intimacy rarely plays a role with those who sign up. Instead, for a younger generation it is increasingly common for men and women to just be friends. And some gay and transgendered students welcome the chance to avoid same-sex roommates whom they may not be comfortable around, or who may not accept them.
“Men and women are becoming just as good friends as if they were with their same-sex friends. The dynamics have changed. I think the opposite sex is no longer really such a mystery as it was before,” says Jeffrey Chang, a sophomore at Clark University.
Check out the full article at CSMonitor
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December 29, 2006
Ever wished to send anonymous text messages to someone? Ever wished you can send free text messages to your girl friend or someone else … ? How about the time you wanted to send holiday greetings or anonymous tips? Okay, if you don’t care about privacy or anonymous text messages, how about the fact that you hate paying 10c for each outgoing and incoming text message. Yes we feel ya.
In this article, we will show you how you can achieve this objective of sending FREE anonymous text messages to any cell phone in the United States
Option # 1: Send SMS messages via Google
Google has a service where you can send a text message to any cell phone based in the United States. You can achieve this by using the Google Send to Phone service. All you need to do is enter the phone number, select your phone’s cellular carrier, an optional subject and send your message.
Link: Visit Google Send to Phone
Option # 2: Send SMS messages via AnonTxt.
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