NASA tests 'inflatable heat shield' which unfurls in space and helps space ships float gently down to a planet's surface
Taking inspiration from the Hollywood text-book, scientists at NASA are testing daredevil technology which will see space ships slowed down when they hit a planet’s atmosphere.
Their latest technology is a large inflatable heat shield, which was tested this week with a plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to 7,600 mph.
The ideas is that as ship enter the atmosphere, the outer shell fills with nitrogen, which helps slow down the ship as it streaks towards the surface.
Film fans might remember Indiana Jones coming up with a similar strategy in the Temple of Doom, when he leaps out of a plane with nothing more than an inflatable raft to slow his descent.
The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3) was launched by sounding rocket at 7am on Monday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Vancouver.
The test was carried out to show that a space capsule can use an inflatable outer shell to slow and protect itself as it enters an atmosphere at hypersonic speed, for instance during planetary entry and descent, or as it returns to Earth with cargo from the International Space Station.
Lifenauts… A MINDCLONE!!! You'll die but your Avatar will walk the earth!
‘You, Robot’: Personal Robots For The Masses
Along a winding dirt road, just west of the Lincoln Gap in Bristol, Vt., sit two big yellow houses on a sprawling property featuring ten solar panels, a dock overlooking a sunlit, trout-filled pond, and porches adorned with rocking chairs. In the smaller of the two houses lives Bina-48, one of the most renowned and highly sought after humanoid robots in America.
She (or “it,” depending on your preference) is truly a sight to behold. She wasn’t given a body; rather, she’s a bust with an exceedingly human-like head, neck and shoulders, all modeled after a real woman named Bina Rothblatt. Her face looks quite real for a moment, until you get closer, and you discover it’s not at all.
Her house also serves as the headquarters of the Terasem Movement Foundation, an organization dedicated to the idea that in the very near future we will be able to transfer the details of our minds — our memories, our beliefs, our thoughts and feelings, making up what Terasem calls a “mindfile” — into another “biological or nanotechnological body,” like a computer, or a robot.
[Top]Faith as we know it…is a LIE and created with the astrological knowledge of the ancient Egyptians!!!
The spear of Longinus (spear of destiny)…fact or fiction?
Don’t you find it stranges that only the people who are belong to the elite, do all the inventions?
What is the faith of the church … money, power, and knowledge of scriptures that we should not see?!
Illuminati, the Bilderberg group, the night of Malta…are they based on ancient writings?
Aquarius – The Age Of Evil (Full Movie)
Strange roads at area 51 leading to nowhere!
Georgia Guidestones, a guidance to depopulate humanity by the NWO!
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The silent spy drone that could stay in the sky forever
- Laser used to beam power to drone
- Recharging system kept craft in air for 48 hours
A silent spy drone has been kept in the air for 48 hours using a radical new laser power system.
Military scientists from Lockheed Martin were able to wirelessly beam power to the drone to increase its flight time by 2,400 per cent.
They say the system could eventually keep military spy drones in the sky forever.
The Stalker Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flight time to more than 48 hours. This increase in flight duration represents an improvement of 2,400 percent.
The small, silent UAS is already used by Special Operations Forces since 2006 to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
[Top]mirror mirror on the wall, who is the lifenaut of us all?
Rise of the Machines: Meet Bina48, the robot who can tell jokes, recite poetry and mimic humans with startling ease
Almost every house in America has a microwave, toaster, refrigerator, TV and maybe a car, but someday, everyone may have their own personal robot.
It may sound too Jetsons to be true, but the Terasem Movement Foundation in Bristol, Vermont, is betting that personal robots will be a huge part of the lives of future generations.
The robots, they say, will be able to download people’s personalities, serving as avatars and assistants to busy professionals and in some cases, replacing those who have been lost.
The foundation’s prized possession is Bina48, one of the most sophisticated humanoid robots ever built, capable of independent thought, emotion, and even being interviewed by the MailOnline.
[Top]okay, he is not worlds best storyteller and we are also not living in the Arctic…but you'll never know what the weather is going to bring in the future.
Inuit Survival Skills that will Save your Life in the Arctic
YES…lets build a town right on top of Area 51, that way we have fresh cattle on the moment we need new victims for creating hybrids!!!
After 65 years if we can’t produce aliens let’s produce money at Area 51
An article at Fox News on July 9, 2012
states that there are still questions surroundingArea 51, even though it’s now been 65 years since the Roswell Daily Record reported “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.” That same article also quoted a retired CIA veteran who said he’s seen definitive proof that an alien spacecraft with extraterrestrials aboard actually landed at Roswell, New Mexico on July 8, 1947.
Websites and newspapers have been quotingChase Brandon for more than a week now, since his June 23, 2012 appearance on Coast to Coast AM. And why not? Anytime someone puts the words “Roswell” and “proof” together in the same sentence, everybody on the planet’s going to sit up and take notice.
But step back and get a wide angle shot of the action. It’s been 65 years and we still have no definitive, heart-stopping proof that what actually crashed down in the dessert was an alien spacecraft, complete with little green men. I’m not saying the proof doesn’t exist, or that it never existed.
[Top]Civilian Drones: Small, Cheap, and Easy to Hack
There are some factions of America that revel in the notion we have around 7,000 military drones deployed overseas, patrolling foreign grounds.
But is anyone excited about the fact that by 2015, we’ll be seeing drones patrolling U.S. soil?
In February, Obama passed a controversial bill–H.R. 658, the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012—allowing the commercial use of drones in 2015. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates that 30,000 civilian drones will swarm the country within a decade. Officially these drones will be used by law enforcement agencies, colleges, and other groups, to keep an eye on the country.
These far-flung plans really hit home for us when, earlier this month, the U.S. Army began testing former military drones for domestic use. The FAA is responsible for regulating this initiative, but according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), there’s been very little progress on this front.
Over the weekend at the HOPE 9 conference in New York City, a miniature version of Def Con, the EFF’s Trevor Timms and Parker Higgins discussed how easy it is to hack into civilian drones.
The implications are pretty serious. Civilian drones can be outfitted with software that collects video footage, recognizes faces, intercepts cell towers, scans entire cities, and much, much more. Leaving aside privacy concerns, no one wants that much information falling into the wrong hands either.
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