Category Archives: Technology

Comet Hartley 2

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Liberty

Eric The Sci Guy alerts us to the the flyby pof the EPOXI mission. Earlier today NASA’s EPOXI mission made its closest approach to a small comet Hartley 2, about 430 miles, and the imagery team has already released some excellent photos … Continue reading →

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Rasmussen Moves On

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Liberty

Lars Rasmussen has left the building.  Lars is one of Googles leading project engineers, and is the father of both Google Maps and the ill fated  Wave. He has been living in Australia for the past few years. He founded … Continue reading →

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Chinese Unveil the Fastest Super Computer

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Liberty

The Chinese unveiled their new Super Computer that is 40% faster than the best we have to offer. But Nvidia says the new system in Tianjin—which is being formally announced Thursday at an event in China—was able to reach 2.5 … Continue reading →

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Bees, Out Calculate Computers.

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Liberty

Using a brain smaller than a Grass seed bees can solve a math problem on the fly, that would take a power computer days to solve. Bees can solve complex mathematical problems which keep computers busy for days, research has shown. … Continue reading →

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Something Happening Here

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Liberty

Four years ago during our Presidential Midterm elections there was a lot of excitement there was a 3 way race for governor and on the first day of early voting  Harris county had about 8,000 voters show up and Galveston … Continue reading →

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A Resignation

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Liberty

Some people have integrity, Hal Lewis had enough and decided to leave the American Physical Society, a one time respectable organization of physicist. He had enough of the phony science the group was signing off on and sent a scorching letter of resignation. … Continue reading →

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Stuxnet Virus Takes a Human Toll

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Liberty

The Stuxnet Virus now has human victims. There is emerging, however, real human damage caused by Stuxnet.  The Iranian regime has turned on its own scientific community, announcing an unspecified number of arrests in an attempt to find those responsible for introducing … Continue reading →

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Cyber War at the MidEastern Front

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Liberty

I remarked last month on James Barber’s post on Eye Current about a Seimens virus. The virus or more properly known as the Stuxnet worm affected the computers that are the Man Machine Interface (MMI) and the supervisory control and data … Continue reading →

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Discovery Moves Down to the Launchpad.

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Liberty

Discovery gets rolled out to the Launch pad for its final launch in December. The space program has given us so many wonderous images. Thanks George for forwarding this to me.

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Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Liberty

A Beta for Internet Explorer 9 came out yesterday. Touted as the best ever. Its faster,  simpler, and more ergonomic.  While it runs almost as fast as Chrome, looks a bit like Chrome its not Chrome. Internet Explorer 9 won’t … Continue reading →

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