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The fantasy of IRONMAN is in theaters this weekend. We've seen characters in other movies wearing exoskeleton suits to battle nefarious characters (Sigourney Weaver in Aliens II). Most modern, real-life exoskeleton suits are bulky and ponderous. Now a company from Japan has developed a robotic suit to help workers lift heavy loads and to provide mobility for those with missing or ailing limbs.
Meet the UNO. The brainchild of an 18 year old from Canada. Electrically powered, it can run for about 2.5 hours on a single charge. The proto-type has a top speed of 25 mph, which can be increased with a larger electric motor. It actually has two wheels, side-by-side and remains upright by the use of a gyroscope. To go faster, you lean forward. Do the opposite to slow down.
While not exactly a rocket pack from the Jetsons, a company out of Mexico, Technologia Aeroespacial Mexicana, has redifined the idea of a strap-on helicopter backpack. Their Libelula uses carbon fiber technology and does not require a tail rotor for stability control, opting instead for the use of rocket motors on the blade tips.
Remember your grade school science? In the geology section we learned a cut-away view of the Earth showed our planet as nested balls. An inner core, outer core and mantle, all wrapped in the crust. Very neat, precise and cleancut. Well, with the growing number of seismic research stations, equipment of greater sensitivity and the ability to apply computer analysis to the raw data received, it now appears the truth about our planet's guts isn't quite that strainght forward.
With global warming, our deserts are growing. And not just the ones on land. The oceans also have areas where the free oxygen content of the water is so low that it cannot support even the simplist lifeforms. Destroying the entire aquatic food chain in those regions.
When you're hot, you're HOT.Kid #1: They be profiling us, though! Did you see the way the cops came directly up to us?
Kid #2: Calm down, peoples is lookin' at us.
Kid #1: That shit pisses me off though! They think we all just smoke weed and sell drugs!
Kid #2: But that's all we ever do, smoke weed and sell drugs!
[Kids laugh, onlookers try not to].
Lindsay Lohan isn't exactly jumping for joy that a mug shot from one of her DUI arrests last year is now being used in a new ad campaign by the American Beverage Institute. The full page black&white ad appeared in yesterday's USA TODAY. Was it an ad to promote sensible drinking and being responsible? Of course not. The ABI instead is campaigning against a law that would require breathe analyzer/ignition interlocks to be installed on the vehicles of persons convicted of DUI.
Barring unexpected problems, the space shuttle Discovery will launch to the ISS at the end of this month. On board will be a Japanese contribution to the ISS. A lab module named Kibo (Hope). About the size of 4 buses, it has been in production and then awaiting its turn for installation almost 20 years.
Also at the end of May, the Phoenix lander space craft should touchdown near the north pole of Mars. It will be looking for evidence (past or present) of microbial life on the planet.
Those who fail to learn history correctly--
Why they are simply doomed.
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