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My book “I Love America So Why Don’t You” explains in considerable detail why the Muslim World is in a total state of bewilderment and bent on marching on the path that leads to destruction and mayhem. On top of … Continue reading
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NASA administrator Charles Bolden s counts himself among the people who “are probably convinced that it’s highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the universe that we humans stand alone.” According to Dave Gallagher, Director Astronomy & Physics at NASA’s … Continue reading
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The retired United States Army staff sergeant Travis Mills of 82nd Airborne has no arms or legs. He served three tours in Afghanistan and lost all his limbs when an IDE (improvised explosive device) exploded under him. He spent months … Continue reading
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Terrific news. After eight years of research and testing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the DEKA arm, a prosthetic controlled by signals from the brain. The DEKA can perform such delicate tasks as zipping up a coat, … Continue reading
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While rest of the world continues to enjoy and use the Western World’s inventions of the last 500 years, the Western World continues to push the envelope. This time two Swiss pioneer, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg are taking up … Continue reading
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First of all, our heartfelt sympathies to the fallen, injured and the families impacted by this horrible tragedy. No words can sufficiently convey the loss and pain currently being felt by so many. It was shocking and sad to … Continue reading
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The Driverless Cars are coming soon to a showroom near you. It might take few years or a decade but the science fantasy of the past will become a reality. Google, BMW, GM, Toyota, Ford, IBM and others have been … Continue reading
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NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) last week announced the discovery of 715 new planets, by far the biggest batch of planets ever disclosed. In comparison, a total of about 1,000 planets had been identified in our galaxy prior to this … Continue reading
The photo above shows inside the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s $5 billion National Ignition Facility (NIF), where scientists are getting closer to their goal of creating a controlled fusion reaction by mimicking the interior of the sun inside the hardware of a laboratory.
In the latest incremental advance, reported recently online in the journal Nature, scientists in California used 192 lasers to compress a pellet of fuel and generate a reaction in which more energy came out of the fuel core than went into it.
There’s still a long way to go before anyone has a functioning fusion reactor, something physicists have dreamed of since Albert Einstein was alive. A fusion reactor would run on a common form of hydrogen found in seawater, would emit minimal nuclear waste and couldn’t have the kind of meltdown that can occur in a traditional nuclear-fission reactor.
NIF is funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration and does fusion research only part of the time. Usually it is engaged in tests that help scientists understand the processes involved in nuclear weapons explosions.
From article by Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, February 12, 2014
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The F-35 is a single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation fighter plane being developed to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. The plane can fly at an astounding speed of 1,199 mph or 1,930 km/h. There will be … Continue reading