Well the Department of Mysteries at St. Andrews College has done it again. Last September they described a way to make objects invisible. Now they have found a way to make objects levitate. It doesn’t seem like we’ll be seeing levitating cars any time soon, but it does look like this may be the sort [...]
Archive for 6 August 2007
Boffins Discover Levitation
Posted: 6 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: discoveries, futurism, physics, real sci-fi
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Well, I have registered mendicantbug.com for this blog. This is in part an effort to ensure I will actually stick to blogging this time. I was slightly surprised the domain wasn’t taken, though I probably would have been more surprised if it were. The advantage of crackheaded naming.
Einstein: the Internet is a Giant Cat
Posted: 6 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, einstein, internet, quotes
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no [...]
Microsoft Photosynth
Posted: 6 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: firefox, microsoft, nasa, photos, spaceflight
While I’m not usually into endorsing anything related to Microsoft, they do appear to have a rather cool offering with Photosynth. It uses multiple images to compile a three-dimensional representation of the subject. I’ve used the firefox extension to look at the Shuttle Endeavor from many different angles and many of the pictures are high-res [...]
