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Time Travel: Einstein’s big idea in video

April 24, 2007 By: Ilias Category: People, video, voyager, youtube

Here is a little clip of how time travel can occur. In this case traveling to the future. Traveling back in time is another issue all together since you may need a black hole (hard to get there or get away alive if fallen into it) or a time machine. A time machine that can only work from the day and time is turned ON and left ON. This time machine, would have to use many laser cannons on a spiral to simulate a black hole and warp time. Therefore, you can’t go back before the machine is turned on. Still, this is just a theory and has not been proven yet. (more…)

Top 10 Student Inventions

April 09, 2007 By: Ilias Category: Links, People, video, world

You don’t have to be a famous researcher or engineer to come up with the next big invention. These ten student projects prove just that. Which one is your favorite?

Nuclear Fusion Reactor

The Floating City of the Year 2000 (from 1979)

March 30, 2007 By: Ilias Category: blog, Links, photos, voyager, world

The Sea City 2000 shows some great paleo-future technology such as the dish-shaped antenna that “beams microwave energy, generated by solar cells, to a receiver on the nearby coast.” The bottom right corner shows a Buckminster Fuller design for a floating community. His design includes shops, schools and homes for 5,000 people.

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Hacking Your Five Senses

March 30, 2007 By: Ilias Category: internet, Links, news, People, voyager

See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses — and build a few new ones.

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MiG-29 “Fulcrum”

March 19, 2007 By: Ilias Category: video, voyager, world, youtube

The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Russian: МиГ-29) (NATO reporting name “Fulcrum”) is a fighter aircraft designed for the air superiority role in the Soviet Union. Developed in the 1970s by the Mikoyan design bureau, it entered service in 1983 and remains in use by the Russian Air Force as well as in many other nations. (more…)

13 things that scientists can’t explain

March 07, 2007 By: Ilias Category: blog, Links, news, People, voyager, world

13 things that do not make sense. Includes the placebo effect, dark matter, the wow signal and other mysteries that scientists have yet to explain.

World’s only ship with ability to flip to a vertical position

February 28, 2007 By: Ilias Category: Links, news, photos, video, voyager, world, youtube

The FLIP research vessel (Floating Instrument Platform) is the only ship of its kind in the world, having the ability to flip from a horizontal position to a vertical position while at sea. Must see pictures! |via|