Wind power not enough to affect global climate

post from Top stories on 10 September 2012 02:14:54 PM. © Top stories

Though there is enough power in the earth's winds to be a primary source of near-zero emission electric power for the world, large-scale high altitude wind power generation is unlikely to substantially affect climate.

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A HUGE solar filament erupts into space

post from Bad Astronomy on 10 September 2012 01:45:53 PM. © Bad Astronomy

On August 31, the Sun threw a major tantrum. It started with a vast arc of material towering over its surface, a stream of plasma flowing between two sunspots. Sometimes these collapse back down to the Sun’s surface, but this one exploded, blasting[...]

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Elliot Coues

post from Dead Scientist of the Week on 10 September 2012 01:16:58 PM. © Dead Scientist of the Week

Elliot Coues was born on Septermber 9, 1842 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father Samuel Elliot Coues was a merchant and worked in the United States Patent Office, which caused him to be away from his family in New Hampshire starting when Coues was[...]

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German Crosswalk Lets Opposing Pedestrians Play
Pong

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 10 September 2012 01:01:11 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Autoblog: Instead of simply waiting among the zoned-out hordes for the light to change, two lucky walkers could compete against one another in a game of pong on the crosswalk controller. Read the whole article and watch the video

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NASA Upgrading Crawler-Transporter to Handle New
Launch System

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 10 September 2012 12:54:23 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From DVICE: To move spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building out to the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center, NASA has a pair of huge Crawler-Transporters. These 5.5 million pound tracked hauled 12 million pounds worth of space shuttle and launch pad around, but to handle the new Spa

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Stopping cloud computer problems before they
start

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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new software tool to prevent performance disruptions in cloud computing systems by automatically identifying and responding to potential anomalies before they can develop into problems.

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Landmark papers on the Higgs Boson published

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Physics Letters B, Elsevier's flagship journal in high energy physics, announced today that the observations of the long-sought Higgs particle, hailed as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, have been published.

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Cheetah Robot runs 28.3 mph

Cheetah Robot is a fast-running quadruped developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA. It just blazed past its previous speed record, getting up to 28.3 mph, about 0.5 mph faster than Usain Bolt's fastest 20 meter split.

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Oldest Existing Ford Motor Company Vehicle to
Cross the Block

By July 1903, the Ford Motor Company was less than a month old, but already facing a serious crisis. The company's cash reserves were dwindling in inverse proportion to the clamoring of creditors, and not one order had come in for Henry Ford's new light automobile, the Model A. With just $22

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Debunking vaccine myths

My friend Dr. Rachael Dunlop is a tireless promoter of science and fighter of antivaccination propaganda. I somehow missed this when she wrote it last November, but she put together a fantastic article tearing apart a whole passel of antivax lies:[...]

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