21 August 2010
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Published on August 21st, 2010 @ 03:32:13 am, using 89 words, 20 views
From AOL News:
Simply stated, the moon is shrinking.
According to a recent scientific study, including images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or the LRO, the lunar surface has revealed a series of geologic faults that weren’t seen before.
These small faults, which are caused by internal cooling of the moon, have been discovered all over the moon, said Thomas Watters, a planetary geologist at the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Until next time
Joe
18 July 2010
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STONY BROOK, N.Y., July 13, 2010 – Stony Brook University received a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant to build what its creator described as the closest thing in the world to Star Trek’s “holodeck.”
Known as the “Reality Deck,” the Immersive Giga-pixel Display will be a 40′ x 30′ x 11′ high room in Stony Brook University’s Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) containing 308 LCD display screens driven by an 85-node graphics computing cluster that rivals the performance of modern supercomputers. And while it will not be quite the simulated reality environment found on the starship Enterprise, it will fully immerse visitors in 1.25 billion pixels of information, approaching the visual acuity of the human eye, according to the project director, Arie E. Kaufman, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department and Chief Scientist at CEWIT.
The best part is they want to use it for “virtual colonoscopies.” Read the rest here.
Until next time,
Joe
30 December 2009
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Published on December 30th, 2009 @ 12:20:07 am, using 15 words, 34 views
The first thing I would replicate is…
…dinner!
Until next time
Joe
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