NASA preparing to launch 3D printer into orbit…and now the life-nauts can create their own offspring!!!!
Made in space: NASA preparing to launch 3D printer into orbit
- NASA plans to launch a 3-D printer to the International Space Station
- The tool will let astronauts replace lost or broken items
- Launching spares takes up space and adds weight to launches
- Printer will be ready in June for a SpaceX mission to the station
- The printer will be used to make tools and parts
- Inventor: 3-D printing in space is ‘like Christmas’
NASA is preparing to launch a 3-D printer into space next year, a toaster-sized game changer that greatly reduces the need for astronauts to load up with every tool, spare part or supply they might ever need.
The printers would serve as a flying factory of infinite designs, creating objects by extruding layer upon layer of plastic from long strands coiled around large spools. Doctors use them to make replacement joints and artists use them to build exquisite jewelry.
In NASA labs, engineers are 3-D printing small satellites that could shoot out of the Space Station and transmit data to earth, as well as replacement parts and rocket pieces that can survive extreme temperatures.
‘Any time we realize we can 3-D print something in space, it’s like Christmas,’ said inventor Andrew Filo, who is consulting with NASA on the project. ‘You can get rid of concepts like rationing, scarce or irreplaceable.’
The spools of plastic could eventually replace racks of extra instruments and hardware, although the upcoming mission is just a demonstration printing job.
‘If you want to be adaptable, you have to be able to design and manufacture on the fly, and that’s where 3-D printing in space comes in,’ said Dave Korsmeyer, director of engineering at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, about 35 miles south of San Francisco.
For the first 3-D printer in space test slated for fall 2014, NASA had more than a dozen machines to choose from, ranging from $300 desktop models to $500,000 warehouse builders.
All of them, however, were built for use on Earth, and space travel presented challenges, from the loads and vibrations of launch to the stresses of working in orbit, including microgravity, differing air pressures, limited power and variable temperatures.
As a result, NASA hired Silicon Valley startup Made In Space to build something entirely new.
‘Imagine an astronaut needing to make a life-or-death repair on the International Space Station,’ said Aaron Kemmer, CEO of Made in Space. ‘Rather than hoping that the necessary parts and tools are on the station already, what if the parts could be 3-D printed when they needed them?’
When staffing his start up in 2010, Kemmer and his partners warned engineers there would be ups and downs – nauseating ones. In more than a dozen flights in NASA’s ‘vomit comet’ reduced-gravity aircraft, Made In Space scientists tested printer after printer.
Once I asked a Rothschild family member…
Once I asked a Rothschild family member about the Mayan calendar and she laughed…then I said that I believe that this calendar is one of 13 then she went quiet.
I think that silence said more then 1000 words don’t you think?
[Top]911…something else was going on, something that can kill you that doesn't leave witnesses even if you are in a crowded place!
Acoustic levitation? …this is technique that is more than 50.000 years old!
Scientists use sound waves to levitate, manipulate matter (+video)
A team of scientists in Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a method of acoustic levitation that allows them to float objects next to each other and bring them into contact.
Using ultrasonic waves – that is, sound waves whose frequency is too high for humans to hear – scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have made water droplets, instant coffee crystals, styrofoam flakes, and a toothpick, among other objects, hang in midair, move along a plane, and interact with each other. It is the first time that scientists have been able to use sound to simultaneously levitate several objects next to each other and move them around. Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes how objects placed between two horizontal surfaces, the bottom one emitting high-pitched sound waves and the top one reflecting the waves back, can be levitated and manipulated. As anyone with a subwoofer and a teenager knows, sound waves exert pressure. When those waves are bounced between carefully aligned surfaces, they can create what is known as a standing wave, in which the total pressure from the original wave and its reflection cancel each other out. Objects placed at spots along the wave with the lowest amplitude, known as node points, tend to stay put. In the past, scientists have been able to acoustically levitate bits of styrofoam and even small insects and fish. But until now, nobody has figured out how to get acoustically levitated objects to do anything other than just hang there, even though moving them has long been known to be theoretically possible. “Theoretically there’s no difference between theory and practice,” says engineer Daniele Foresti, the study’s lead author, in a phone interview. “But in practice there is.”
Scientists Achieve Levitation with Acoustics
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The Vindskip, the incredible cargo vessel or an ARK from the movie 2012?!
The incredible cargo vessel with a hull so huge it acts as a SAIL: Innovative design could reduce fuel needed by half
- A Norwegian firm designed the vessel, which could achieve fuel savings of 60 per cent while reducing emissions by 80 per cent
- The Vindskip by Lade AS, uses a hull designed to act as a giant airfoil, which helps harness a force akin to lift to pull the ship along
- The firm says the design could eventually be used for giant cruise ships
It is a return to the days of wind-powered cargo ships – but with a very modern twist.
A Norwegian firm has unveiled plans for a radical new cargo ship with a hull so large it acts as a sail.
The Vindskip, designed by Lade AS, uses a hull designed to act as a giant airfoil.
The makers of the wind-powered hybrid merchant ship say that while engines are still needed, their design could achieve fuel savings of 60 per cent while reducing emissions by 80 per cent.
Special software will monitor the wind conditions and calculate the best route for the ship.
The design has a large opening for cargo, and lifeboats that drop from a ‘lip’ around the top of the boat if needed.
The firm also says the design, which draws inspiration from the Aerospace industry to create the ‘symmetrical airfoil’ hull, could eventually be used for giant cruise ships.
The company claims the airfoil helps harnesses a force akin to aerodynamic lift, pulling the ship along.
It would use a liquefied natural gas-powered electrical generator for the remainder of its energy requirements and to get going from a standstill.
Lade says it hopes to license the design to ship builders around the world.
Last month, the world’s largest solar boat – the MS Tûranor PlanetSolar – docked in London as part of its epic scientific discovery along the Gulf stream.
The eco-friendly boat’s crew of nine was collecting data on the sea and atmosphere between the United States and Norway as part of an investigation into climate change.
The impressive vessel crossed the Atlantic in a record breaking 22 days earlier this year when it travelled from Las Palmas, Canary Islands to Saint Martin in the Caribbean.
The catamaran, which is a scientific research platform for the University of Geneva (UNIGE), has a top speed of 14 knots and has 809 solar panels that can generate up to 480 kWh on a sunny day.
[Top]"911 Proof Of Plane Fakery"…learn to understand that those chem-trail are a part of how they create holograms in the sky!
If you still believe that 911 was hit by real plains, beware for the upcoming event…it will blow your brain right out of your skull!
For those who do understand that those plains were a hologram projected by Blue-beam…educate yourself on the subject of Free Energy and DARPA!
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE 911 Proof Of Plane Fakery
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ACT….advanced cell technology; (“regenerative medicine” or “cell therapy”) the producing of new cells by replacing damaged cells to treat injury's. Is this the Super soldier?! A human being transformed into a technical lizard that grows back limbs?!
Regenerative Medicine
The emerging field of treatment called “regenerative medicine” or “cell therapy” refers to treatments that are founded on the concept of producing new cells to replace malfunctioning or damaged cells as a vehicle to treat disease and injury. Our focus is the development of effective methods to generate replacement cells from stem cells. Many significant and currently untreatable human diseases arise from the loss or malfunction of specific cell types in the body. This is especially true of diseases associated with aging such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, type IIdiabetes, heart failure, osteoarthritis, and aging of the immune system, known as immunosencence. This is also true for medical conditions resulting from damage to cells due to acute disease, such as trauma, infarction and burns. We believe that replacing damaged or malfunctioning cells with fully functional ones may be a useful therapeutic strategy in treating many of these diseases and conditions.
A stem cell is a cell that has the ability to branch out and change, or differentiate, into two or more different cell types. Stem cells are self-renewing primitive cells that have the ability to develop into functional, differentiated cells. In general, there are two broad categories of stem cells: adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells. Adult stem cells are derived from various tissues in the human body. Because they can branch out into many different cell types, they are referred to as “multipotent.” Multipotent means these cells develop into multiple, but not all, types of cells in the body. Embryonic stem cells, referred to as ES cells, which are derived from pre-implantation embryos, are unique because they are “pluripotent,” which means that they can develop into all cells and tissues in the body, and they self-renew indefinitely in their undifferentiated state. The ability of ES cells to divide indefinitely in the undifferentiated state without losing pluripotency is a unique characteristic that distinguishes them from all other stem cells discovered to date in humans. Because of the potential of ES cells, one of our primary efforts is the development and commercialization of ES cell based technologies.
Since the discovery of the human ES cell, medical researchers worldwide have generally recognized the significance of this new technology and have begun to focus research on the translation of this discovery into important new therapies. Specifically, researchers have focused on several key challenges including:
- isolating and purifying cell lines;
- growing stable cell lines in culture for long periods without mutations;
- manufacturing cell lines in numbers sufficient for therapy;
- differentiating ES cells into all of the cell types desired for therapies; and
- solving the potential rejection of ES cells used in therapies due to immuno-incompatibility with the patient.
We believe that solving the potential rejection of ES cells in patients is the greatest scientific obstacle to developing successful therapeutics. Our research and technologies are focused on solving this obstacle by creating stem cell therapeutics with compatible tissues. Compatible tissues are referred to as being histocompatible.
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