sirlowkey: Heroes don’t punch trees. via Reddit.
18th Dec 2011✧12:1036 notes
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8bitfuture: New laser will tear the fabric of space. Plans are underway in Europe to build a new laser which would be the most powerful in the world. The laser will be 200 times more powerful than the current top lasers, and would be equivalent to the power received by the Earth from the sun focused onto a speck smaller than a tip of a pin. Contrary to popular belief, a vacuum is not devoid of material but in fact fizzles with tiny mysterious particles that pop in and out of existence, but at speeds so fast that no one has been able to prove they exist. The Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility would produce a laser so intense that scientists say it would allow them to reveal these particles for the first time by pulling this vacuum “fabric” apart. They also believe it could even allow them to prove whether extra-dimensions exist. The £1 billion project is due to be completed by the end of this decade.
17th Dec 2011✧02:111,431 notes
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8bitfuture: Moon mining company to establish lunar base. Naveen Jain, and his company Moon Express, Inc., have announced plans to start mining the moon for precious metals. The mining base could start being established within two years. The moon is estimated to contain “20 times more titanium and platinum than anywhere on Earth,” says Tibi Pulu of ZME Science. Plus, it has something Earth doesn’t: helium 3, a rare isotope that’s “nonexistent on our planet, that many feel could be the future of energy on Earth and in space.” “The moon has never been explored from an entrepreneurial perspective,” says Jain. Getting to the moon would be the hardest part. After that, it would be easy to get mined materials back to Earth using a mirror-like “solar sail,” which would be pushed through space by the energy in sunlight bouncing off of it. It’s so feasible that Jain believes Moon Express could start mining operations as soon as 2013. ”It’s rocket science,” he says, “but it’s well understood rocket science.”
1st Dec 2011✧08:21277 notes
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emergentfutures: Augmented Audio Game Spurs Fitness By Immersing Runners In Zombie Infested World Zombies, Run!, is a soon to debut augmented audio running game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android that challenges users to rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse by completing location-specific tasks while running in the real world. Users cue the app and don headphones to collect medicine, ammo, batteries, and spare parts which can be used to build up and expand their base — all while getting orders, clues, and a story through their headphones. Missions last around 20-30 minutes and can be played in any city. The platform additionally records the distance, time, pace, and calories burned during all runs, and may soon include RunKeeper integration. PSFK spoke to founder Adrian Hon about his work. Full Story:PSFK
29th Nov 2011✧16:461,325 notes
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14-billion-years-later: We All Know That Plastics Can’t Conduct…Wrong. The 2000 Nobel prize in Chemistry was given for the discovery of conductive, organic polymers known as Intrinsically Conducting Polymers (ICPs) capable of conducting an electrical current. These rely on the fact that when oxidized the polymeric chains have regions where there is an absence of otherwise delocalized electrons. This means that when supplied with a small amount of energy electrons can jump in out of these pockets and therefore move along the polymer chain. One of the greater applications for ICPs is in the invention of flexible electronics, specifically through creation of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) as seen above. While these are in the earlier stages of development it is thought that in the future this will allow for incredibly thin, light-weight and flexible displays on electronics.
28th Nov 2011✧08:15637 notes
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