Interstellar Travel Destinations

Nowadays new exoplanets are found every week. Exoplanet blog systemic has an article from February about possible Earth-like planets around Alpha Centauri B.
What’s remarkable is the easiness with which they could be detected if some resources are spent. And if a planet like that exist, it’s one of the top destinations for future interstellar probes [...]

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Freefall

I’m a long time reader of this excellent web comic, freefall. It’s actually the only one I read. It’s quite clever and funny, although often quite cheesy and finger-pointing too. I keep coming back to it. It’s clear the writer has good technical and scientific knowledge and weaves that in with the comical happenings. And there’s a bigger [...]

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The Last Five Kilometers

I was recently reading Mark Wade’s Pausanias, Encyclopedia Astronautica’s blog. He called quits from blogging in November 2007, after being utterly disappointed in the short-sightedness and selfishness behind NASA’s exploration architecture decisions, and I quote:
What can be more sobering than NASA returning to water landings and expendable capsules descending under parachutes — technology selected as [...]

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Sigh

EDIT: Thought I lost a post I wrote but found it in an unexpected place instead! So I’m cancelling this rant about autosave not working and will finish that post instead.
[rant was here but is not worth reading]

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Japanese Invisibility

There’s been some press about the “invisibility cloak” that would become possible with the new metamaterials that can exhibit negative refractive index. There’s an article about a specific “lens” design here at the Japanese Tech On site. The basic idea is just to bend the light rays coming from behind the object and make them [...]

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The Memristor

EDIT: Wikipedia had a good page already about it which clarified a lot, I have made corrections to my post that has been up for only a few minutes.
If this article about the memristor, a new fundamental electric circruit component is any good, then some radical new things are coming up in electronics. It’s a [...]

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