1. Here's a neat video (with some computer imagery) that shows how we landed the Mars rover. And while we're at it, here's a video of Felix Baumgartner's jump from 24 miles above earth. Or how about something closer to earth, like this mountain bike video, also these insane bikers?
2. Anybody have a house cat like this?
3. If you've been following the Edward Snowden saga, you might find this interesting. Hopefully we won't be unfortunate enough to see a headline like "Nobel Prize winner imprisoned in U.S."
Incidentally, would you like to compete with the NSA? Better yet, get the NSA to pay you for spying on "persons of interest" (that's your neighbors, of course!) This little helicopter drone is just the ticket. Stalin would be proud.
4. In a much earlier post, I mentioned once that I suspected that our current understanding of gravity would eventually give way to a better, more elegant theory. Some new hypotheses that are potential candidates for a new theory of gravity are here, here, here and here. Soon we may even be able to test whether Einstein's theory of gravity "falls apart" under extreme conditions and whether a new theory fits better--hopefully a theory that does away with singularities and eliminates the need for the "dark energy" and "dark matter." Those "things" (in my opinion) ought to be looked upon as huge, inexplicable errors associated with our current theory rather than as some sort of mysterious but real phenomena. Perhaps it would be too much to hope for a theory that seamlessly integrates with quantum theory as well?
2. Anybody have a house cat like this?
3. If you've been following the Edward Snowden saga, you might find this interesting. Hopefully we won't be unfortunate enough to see a headline like "Nobel Prize winner imprisoned in U.S."
Incidentally, would you like to compete with the NSA? Better yet, get the NSA to pay you for spying on "persons of interest" (that's your neighbors, of course!) This little helicopter drone is just the ticket. Stalin would be proud.
4. In a much earlier post, I mentioned once that I suspected that our current understanding of gravity would eventually give way to a better, more elegant theory. Some new hypotheses that are potential candidates for a new theory of gravity are here, here, here and here. Soon we may even be able to test whether Einstein's theory of gravity "falls apart" under extreme conditions and whether a new theory fits better--hopefully a theory that does away with singularities and eliminates the need for the "dark energy" and "dark matter." Those "things" (in my opinion) ought to be looked upon as huge, inexplicable errors associated with our current theory rather than as some sort of mysterious but real phenomena. Perhaps it would be too much to hope for a theory that seamlessly integrates with quantum theory as well?
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