Posted in Neat Stuff, Science, Web/Tech, tagged space disaster on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
“When we got it, it was two hunks of metal stuck together. We couldn’t even tell it was a hard drive. It was burned and the edges were melted,” said Edwards, an engineer at Kroll Ontrack Inc., outside Minneapolis. “It looked pretty bad at first glance, but we always give it a shot.”
Data from Columbia [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, History, Science on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I missed this yesterday, but it’s worth reading to prepare for next year’s festivities:
Classical Values :: The Songs Of Distant Earth Days
To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds, environmentalists have predicted 8 of the last 0 planet-ending disasters. Between the man-made industrial ice age, crushing overpopulation, acid rain, lethal oceans, and Venus-like clouds of toxic smog cloaking the [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Politics, Science on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
That’s the policy of African leaders:
Reason Magazine - Demon Seed
Posted in History, Science, tagged science sound history technology on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Using modern technology to play back a visual representation of sound that was recorded in 1860. Very clever.
Phonautogram - Thomas Edison - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - New York Times
Posted in History, Photography, Science, Uncategorized, tagged history NYC photography on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
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Originally uploaded by CitySkip
From CitySkip. Click the photo to view the whole set of images from New York City Blackout of 1977.
The landline phone system continues working even when the household power is out, of course. Most phones at the time were completely powered by big batteries or generators at the central office. [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, Science, tagged space tech NASA on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Looks like a bullseye for the missile takedown of that dead spy satellite:
[Marine Gen. James Cartwright] estimated there was an 80-90 percent chance that the missile struck the most important target on the satellite — its fuel tank, containing 1,000 pounds of hydrazine, which Pentagon officials say could have posed a health hazard to humans [...]
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