Science and Tech

A few things you may have missed…

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September 15, 2010 12:19 PM
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Here is your Official MySciFi Summer Recap: Movies: Inception:  I call it high cinema, a movie tied for the title of best movie of the year.  It was made flawlessly, acted wonderfully, scripted brilliantly and pretty much just blew everyones pants off.  Not much else can be said for Christopher [...]
 

Space: Not the Sole Realm of Governments

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June 8, 2010 6:31 AM
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On June 4th I got to witness something special.  Unfortunately many people no longer find this thing interesting.  It was the launch of a space rocket.  Not just any space rocket though, the Falcon 9, a two stage, 55 meter tall rocket capable of producing over 1 million pound-foot of thrust.  The [...]
 

Homo Gameus: The Future of Man

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May 21, 2010 3:12 PM
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Might I propose that your man playing his silly little games is simply working towards evolving into the next step in human evolution?

Waves of the Cosmos

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May 11, 2010 8:54 PM
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Albert Einstein, via his theories of relativity, predicted a number of very astonishing things.  The bending of light due to large gravitational bodies such as stars was quite easily proven in 1919 by Sir Arthur Eddignton.  It predicted/explained certain characteristics of Mercury’s orbit that had [...]
 

One Small Step for a Man, One Really Long Fall for Mankind

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May 4, 2010 10:36 AM
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Jumping from high altitudes usually isn’t anything to talk about.  Sky divers jump out of airplanes on a daily basis, base jumpers dive from cliff sides regularly.  Extremists occasionally even hurdle themselves from the worlds tallest buildings.  Felix Baumgartner has done all three, setting [...]
 

The Sun As You’ve Never Seen It

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April 27, 2010 6:00 AM
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After My Sci-Fi moved to its new host, the e-mail client had never been set up.  If anyone tried sending anything, sorry for the bounce back.  E-mailing me at jonulf@myscifi.org will now work.  Sorry for any inconvenience. Over three months ago NASAs Solar Dynamic Observatory was launched into [...]
 

The Automotive Revolution Has Begun

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April 16, 2010 6:01 AM
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The time is soon arriving that the oil barons have been dreading and conspiring against for years.  That is,  when electric vehicles (EVs) are no longer a pipe dream of burnt out hippies, but rather a fully viable consumer product.  A while back we talked about Better Place, a company helping to [...]
 

Snippet: Blu-Ray keeps getting “better”.

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April 6, 2010 6:27 AM
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Well, it seems you just can’t stop the format.  It enjoys coming out with new and shiny improvements every few months.  This time it’s increasing capacity.  In a short time blu-rays will be rewritable with 100gb and a one-write 120gb capacity, this type of disc will be aptly named BDXL.  Then [...]
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