How to Eliminate Future Catastrophic Oil-Spills. (at Kurzweil.net) Space Solar Power (or Space-Based Solar Power) is undergoing a revival of interest. An excellent introduction can be found at the National Space Society’s SSP page. The presentation is biased slightly against nuclear power. But one thing which I can’t disagree with is advantage of no radioactive
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Where we’re at and where we’re going. Alpha Centauri, resolved into A & B, as seen by “Cassini” from orbit around Saturn. After we send the probes, like “Icarus”, the next step is going ourselves to live in those new planetary systems we’ve explored remotely. To get there IMO we’ll need to go en masse
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Talk-Polywell.org :: View topic – Mach Effect progress. The Mach Effect is a propellantless propulsion concept developed from the physics of gravity by Prof. James Woodward, now being investigated experimentally by him and Paul March, an experimental physicist. Paul is very open and very active about the difficulties and challenges of getting a clear, unambiguous
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Heinrich Hora is a fusion researcher at UNSW here in Oz who works with George Miley, Leif Holmlid and other alternative fusion researchers. He has several very interesting papers on using lasers to induce “fast ignition” of solid boron-hydride. Fast ignition is when a sufficiently sharp energy pulse is used to set off a self-powering
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Back in Ye Olde Days of the Space Age, the 1960s, various NASA & Aerospace Industry researchers studied Interstellar Travel in terms of idealised rockets. Fusion rockets were studied and their maximum performance computed based on known reactions – the best single-reaction fusion energy release comes from the D+3He reaction, which can produce an ideal
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Dr. Michael Persinger is a researcher in neuroscience at the Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada. He has made a wide-range of often controversial claims for the origins of “spiritual” experiences – for example, that magnetic stimulation of the brain can cause out-of-body and “Sensed Presence” experiences, or that natural geomagnetic disturbances, from “earth-lights” and similar
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ScienceShot: Summer on Triton – ScienceNOW. Triton’s troposphere is a COLD mix of nitrogen and methane, currently at a pressure of roughly 40-65 microbars (4-6.5 Pa @ 38 K, near surface.) Interestingly JP Aerospace claims an ultra-high altitude airship can get to ~200 kilo-feet. At that height the pressure is a mere 17.76 Pa and
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Physics Letters B, Volume 687, Issues 2-3, 12 April 2010, Pages 110-113 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.029 Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Radial motion into an Einstein–Rosen bridge Nikodem J. Pop?awski (a), E-mail The Corresponding Author (a) Department of Physics, Indiana University, Swain Hall West, 727 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Received 12 May
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Mass of the Common Quark Finally Nailed Down – ScienceNOW. Matter is made up of mostly protons and neutrons – as important as electrons are, they’re only a tiny fraction of the mass of most elements. Oxygen-16, for example, has just 8 electrons, massing just 4.88 MeV, but has 8 protons and 8 neutrons that
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