Boeing develops Anti-gravity propulsion
June 30, 2008
Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer, has admitted it is working on experimental anti-gravity projects that could overturn a century of conventional aerospace propulsion technology if the science underpinning them can be engineered into hardware.
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
June 25, 2008
Naomi Klein and Keith Olberman discuss her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”
700,000-year-old settlement discovered
June 23, 2008
A prehistoric settlement in what is now Qatar may confirm alternative theories on how early humans emigrated from the African continent, a report in a Danish newspaper said. » Read more
Prehistoric Bison discovered in N.W.T Canada
June 20, 2008
Scientists have confirmed the remains of a prehistoric bison found near Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T., in September are nearly 12,000 years old.
Local resident Shane Van Loon discovered the huge skull, hide and bones jutting out of the permafrost from an eroding cliff near the Gwich’in community, about 230 kilometres south of Tuktoyaktuk. » Read more
Russian spa opens monument to the enema
June 19, 2008
MOSCOW — A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk. » Read more
100,000-year-old tools found in South Africa
June 19, 2008
A piece of ancient history revealed itself to modern society when prehistoric tools were unearthed during the excavation of a swimming pool at a Pretoria school last week.
The discovery was made while workers were preparing the ground for a swimming pool at Waterkloof House Preparatory School in Muckleneuk. » Read more
37,000-year-old tools found in South Carolina
June 19, 2008
A local man has unearthed two ancient stone tools in an archaeological dig in Allendale County, S.C., a rare find that could provide more information about how early Americans lived.
And if more evidence proves the artifact is a new type of tool and one archaeologists haven’t found before, it could be named after Matthew Carey of Hilton Head Island. » Read more
Towards a 3D internet - Community challenge
June 18, 2008
Seeing all the commercial ventures aimed at 3D environments for social and business purposes (2nd Life, etc), the free and open source projects are found to be lacking in ease of use and development.
To remedy this situation, I propose the following to the community in the hopes that working together we can achieve a free 3D environment for the masses.
In a nutshell, we take an existing 3D gaming engine ( Quake III or other) and implement the ability to load BSP’s (level files) via the web and integrate mozilla web engine. Website owners could create the BSP’s via any of the free community tools to edit such files, upload the file to the server and voila people can now access the level and interact with others within that level environment.
Users download the 3D engine. Load it up and it acts like a regular browser until it encounters a BSP file, then it goes into 3D mode.
The engine would ship with generic tiles, models etc for building content. Customized tiles, models etc could be loaded off a server as indicated in the BSP file that is being loaded.
Flags could be added to indicate the level of interaction allowed between visitors (ie. games, pvp, exploring, chat, etc).
BSP files can be daisy chained allowing cross-site experiences and content pooling. BSP’s can be made/flagged private/members only/closed.
Solar cells price cut in half, cheaper than the grid
June 18, 2008
While solar power is clean and green, the great drawback for it has always been cost: it is more expensive than coal or gas-generated electricity. But could that finally be about to change? Researchers at ANU certainly think so. They’ve invented a new kind of solar cell that will slash the cost of solar panels. People will chose to put solar on their rooves, they say, because the panels will provide cheaper electricity than power from the grid.
The new kind of solar cells are called sliver cells, and the reason they are so cheap to manufacture is because they use 90% less silicon than standard solar panels. One of Australia’s largest utility companies is so convinced of the technology’s potential they have bought the rights to it and have already built a pilot factory to produce the new solar panels. » Read more
New Fuel Cell System ‘Generates Electricity with Only Water, Air’
June 16, 2008
Genepax Co Ltd explained the technologies used in its new fuel cell system “Water Energy System (WES),” which uses water as a fuel and does not emit CO2.
The system can generate power just by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes, respectively, the company said at the press conference, which took place June 12, 2008, at the Osaka Assembly Hall. » Read more
