Renewable energy is being harvested by a British supermarket chain, Sainsbury’s. They installed “kinetic road plates” that look similar to speed bumps, but generate enough energy to power the cash registers. “If the plates prove effective, we absolutely will look to roll it out more widely,” a company spokeswoman told Reuters.
On Friday, the Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, and others will break ground and start constructing the world’s first commercial spaceport. The project will cost roughly $200 million dollars in taxpayer money to construct. The idea behind the spaceport is to launch private citizens into space for profit.
Opera Software has recently revealed their new service, Opera Unite. The service acts as a web server in your browser, and allows you to chat and share data with people online, and even host your own website. Web servers have already existed on operating systems; however, this now gives users the simplicity of setting up a server with a click of a button. Opera Unite is currently in beta, and will be released with the upcoming Opera 10 browser.
In an interview with discovery.com, Dr. Richard Obousy shared his concept design of his scientifically accurate warpship. The physics behind the warpship is theoretical because dark energy is still not fully understood. In the future this may propel us through the universe.
Need help making an important decision in your life? Then head over to hunch.com for an answer tailored by your response to questions. Caterina Fake, co-founder of flickr, made the website because she believes the internet does not contain smart answers to your questions.
Overall, I believe this will be a very useful website because when I surf the web for an answer to a question, I often find someone asking a similar question. I then have to use their information to formulate my own.
Scientists from Pennsylvania State University have reported finding a 120,000 year old microbe 2 miles under Greenland. They named it Herminiimonas glaciei, and believe it may shed some light on extraterrestrial life on other planets. The microbe has the ability to survive in extreme conditions, which makes it possible to live on harsh environments on the other planets.
A Japanese moon probe, which was launched in 2007, just recently made a crash landing on the moon. A crash landing was performed because the probe completed all of its planned observations and was already in a low lunar orbit. It was reported it made the landing at approximately 2:25 eastern time.
Using the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma, a team of astronomers have discovered a new technique which will make our search for exterrestrial life a whole lot easier. The technique involves catching the light that has passed through a planet’s atmosphere from it’s parent star. The light gathered by the telescope contains data about the planet’s atmosphere possible indications of life.
Ron Moore’s upcoming movie Virtuality, being aired June 26 on Fox, reintroduces the concept of a sense of augmented reality or virtuality for space travel. The plot involves a crew of earthlings traveling through space for 10 years on the world’s first starship, using virtuality chambers to endure the journey. The virtuality devices used by the characters are able to simulate environments on earth, making the journey bearable. Sadly, the journey may not be so bearable because there is a twist. The crew is constantly watched and monitored via cameras, and then shown on a reality show back on earth.
Superheavy chemical element 112, discovered by a team of German researchers in 1993, will soon be included on the periodic table of elements. The element is said to be 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element on the periodic table.
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