Watching The World Change
Say you want an awesome house for 20,000 dollars or so. A strong house, with say…hmm..12,000 square feet? Keep in mind the average home in the USA is 2100 square feet. All you would need is some land, and what I’m describing below. You could make this house as cheap as 2,000 dollars (just one…
Read More “Build A Huge Cheap Home with Shipping Containers” »
Throughout my time as a human being I have noticed several things about the other human beings with which I am forced to live with and on the odd occasion converse and communicate with. I am having great difficulty in reaching a common ground with many of my fellow human beings due to the fact…
Enjoy Life Everyday there is much change all around. The weather changes, the time changes, and the mood changes. Every thing is constantly moving. Cars are always moving forward, stop lights are always blinking a different color then the ones behind them, and the wind lets the trees and the grass dance for a while…
Be Whoever You Need to Be Some people might say that this is being dishonest. It’s not. This is something that people do naturally. Some people just do it better than others. And once you understand what to do, you will notice that you have done much of these things all your life. Also, it’ll…
Image above: Scramjet burns fuel in a stream of supersonic air compressed by the forward speed of the aircraft. Conventional jet engines draw in air and burn it with fuel so it expands in a combustion chamber. The hot air is then forced out the exhaust nozzle to produce thrust. . Credit: NASA’s Dryden…
How do you extend the life of an orbiting space telescope without sending astronauts to fix it? This is the very question that NASA’s most creative engineers are pondering these days. The tragic loss of the Shuttle Columbia last year, and the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB), led NASA Administrator O’Keefe to…
Hurricane Ivan made landfall early Thursday near the Alabama-Florida border, doing significant damage to coastal communities in its path. NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans were west of the worst of the storm, and initial reports indicate there is little or no damage to those facilities. NASA’s…
Like galactic fireworks in the night, gamma-ray bursts briefly light up the stellar sky as only the most powerful explosions in the universe can. Yet as magnificent as gamma-ray bursts are, their fleeting nature makes them elusive and difficult to study. Image to right: Dying stars like the one inside this planetary nebula are a…
Read More “What is harder to catch: A Gamma Ray or Lightning?” »
If we were able to see Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with the naked eye, they would look as though the universe were taking daily flash photos of us from different parts of the sky. Never occurring in the same spot twice, GRBs are totally unpredictable. We never know where or when the next one will happen,…
What motivated a pretty young girl from Providence, R. I. to grow up to specialize in artificial intelligence? The “Bionic Woman,” her all-time favorite TV series. “I love what I do, I love the work and I love the hands-on experience,” said award-winning Dr. Ayanna Howard of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Image Left:…
Read More “Robots May Soon Be As Intelligent As Humans Soon” »