This is a pretty fascinating article (and video) mostly for you guys. I have one question which doesn't seem to be brought up in this story and one comment.
What does this cost overall? How much was paid for the "just in time" delivered battery pack?
I remember in the early 90's asking a long time friend of mine who had become a successful artist what he had paid for his futuristic flatbed computerized image scanner. I was taken aback when he told me it cost him 10K! Last year, I purchased a far more advanced and compact model (in fact it was designed for "briefcase travel"), on sale for $19.95!!
That gives me hope that the costs for new Lithium battery packs will allow me to consider drag racing as a choice of new hobbies in my future.
Enjoy!
Thanks to my buddy DSG for this entertainment.
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Why reading this blog improves your brain function...
Research has shown that mental stimulation similar to the stimulation that occurs in individuals who frequently use the Internet may affect the efficiency of cognitive processing and alter the way the brain encodes new information.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
New Element Added to Periodic Table
It’s official. The heaviest, and admittedly most inexplicable element yet known to science, Gv has been added to the Periodic Table.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 sub-neutrons (estimate), 88 nano-neutrons, and 198 idio-neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of +/- 312.
These +/- 312 particles are held together by an also newly discovered force tagged as “moronTic” and are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles referred to as aPathetic indiv-entities.
Governmentium has no electrons and is therefore inert; yet can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. Even trace amounts of Governmentium can delay reactions that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to ‘forever’ to complete. Contact with Governmentium has been determined to be unavoidable, thus the initial alarm was sounded in the scientific community (these people are so smart) with the connection to the formula; time = money.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years x infinity. Remarkably, it does not decay, but instead undergoes an oxymoronic process in which it decays and then replicates itself into a complex and ”chaotic” rotating cluster of nano and idio-neutrons.
Many scientists are deeply concerned. While concentrating on the integer in the equation, “chaotic,” they discovered the basic building block of Governmentium is in fact idio-neutrons or what is now commonly referred to in the scientific community as idiotrons.
Further distillation of idiotrons reveals an even more basic element, IDiot.
The fear is that the force of moronTic coupled with the element IDiot will infect humanity with an irreversible and perhaps fatal state of IDiotocrasy.
Should such an event happen, it would take you about 6 months to read this post.
- Larry
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 sub-neutrons (estimate), 88 nano-neutrons, and 198 idio-neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of +/- 312.
These +/- 312 particles are held together by an also newly discovered force tagged as “moronTic” and are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles referred to as aPathetic indiv-entities.
Governmentium has no electrons and is therefore inert; yet can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. Even trace amounts of Governmentium can delay reactions that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to ‘forever’ to complete. Contact with Governmentium has been determined to be unavoidable, thus the initial alarm was sounded in the scientific community (these people are so smart) with the connection to the formula; time = money.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years x infinity. Remarkably, it does not decay, but instead undergoes an oxymoronic process in which it decays and then replicates itself into a complex and ”chaotic” rotating cluster of nano and idio-neutrons.
Many scientists are deeply concerned. While concentrating on the integer in the equation, “chaotic,” they discovered the basic building block of Governmentium is in fact idio-neutrons or what is now commonly referred to in the scientific community as idiotrons.
Further distillation of idiotrons reveals an even more basic element, IDiot.
The fear is that the force of moronTic coupled with the element IDiot will infect humanity with an irreversible and perhaps fatal state of IDiotocrasy.
Should such an event happen, it would take you about 6 months to read this post.
- from the musings of my Uncle Lee and the scientific portion of the left side of my very small brain.
- Larry
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Three Layers of Pure Stupidy
1. Lead study author, William Ruddman
2. The University of Virginia & the University of Maryland
3. CNN, for even posting the story.
I'm not even going to provide a link to the published study because it's premise is so ridiculous. I will however, share with you the first paragraph:
"Ancient man may have started global warming through massive deforestation and burning that could have permanently altered the Earth's climate, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County."
- Larry
2. The University of Virginia & the University of Maryland
3. CNN, for even posting the story.
I'm not even going to provide a link to the published study because it's premise is so ridiculous. I will however, share with you the first paragraph:
"Ancient man may have started global warming through massive deforestation and burning that could have permanently altered the Earth's climate, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County."
- Larry
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Science vs. Religion...
Here's my thought:
When scientists have finally completed their work they will be shocked to discover they dedicated their entire life to the reverse engineering of God.
Here's proof they are on the right track.
- Larry
When scientists have finally completed their work they will be shocked to discover they dedicated their entire life to the reverse engineering of God.
Here's proof they are on the right track.
- Larry
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
This is just cool...
The International Space Station. After it loads, click on the component list to the right and spin the parts around.
- From USA Today
- From USA Today
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