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Continuing the miniaturization of earlier designs, researchers at the Technical University of Delft have created a very
tiny ornithopter which carries a one half gram video camera. The
DelFly micro.
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 2:37 PM on July 22, 2008
(17 comments)
"The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries." Very pretty, eerie, animated interpretations of the fields inhabit
Semiconductor's "
Magnetic Movie."
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 9:29 PM on July 10, 2008
(25 comments)
"What we've invented is a way to induce charges on the wall using a power supply located on the robot....The robot carries with it positive and negative charges, and when the walls sees these charges it automatically generates the opposite charge. The robot can then clamp onto those charges." Scientists have
robots climbing the walls.
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at 4:43 AM on July 8, 2008
(29 comments)
Is 'Trend Micro Antivirus plus AntiSpyware' and Spysweeper (along with the firewall) enough to keep a PC clean?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 8:05 PM on July 4, 2008
(10 comments)
Snail mail isn't that slow,
unless you use real snails.... As part of a "
slow art"
project, Vicki Isley and Paul Smith of Bournemouth University have attached radio frequency identification chips (RFID's) to three gastropods, Austin, Cecil and Muriel. The RFID's will pick up your mail as the carriers amble past an electronic reader and deliver it when (in just a few days! ...or weeks ...or months....) they slip past a second reader....
RealSnailMail!
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 10:37 AM on June 21, 2008
(15 comments)
"In the early 1970s, the artist Chris Burden pioneered a kind of sculpture that explored boundaries few people would care even to approach."
The artist has had himself (in two of many examples...) nearly electrocuted and
shot; some of his later and lighter work includes
building complex model bridges and reconstructing a "Speed of Light Machine". He created a
ghost ship, uninhabited and self navigated, and
continues to surprise with his latest work....
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 7:45 PM on June 8, 2008
(23 comments)
Five years and 800,000 images went into producing a 4 gigapixel
mosaic image of the galactic plane, which when printed out is 180 feet long. But it has been made browser-sized by
GLIMPSE, the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire, the research group which, along with
MIPSGAL, created the image:
A Glimpse of the Milky Way.
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 8:42 PM on June 5, 2008
(14 comments)
Later this year, geophysicist Dan Lathrop's
DIY Planet Earth will be filled with liquid sodium, weigh in at 26 tons, and will be spun-up to 80mph at its equator in an effort to discover how the earth's magnetic field is generated. Currently undergoing tests, even those can be
pretty impressive.
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 4:42 PM on June 4, 2008
(34 comments)
Leave the planet to travel into the largest structures of the universe, then plunge into the tiniest. Forty two orders of magnitude in thirty six minutes....
Cosmic Voyage. (single link Google video
via)
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 7:07 PM on May 30, 2008
(11 comments)
The highest recorded skydive was performed in 1960 by Joe Kittinger from
102,800 feet. That record may not stand any longer. After twenty years of planning and attempts, almost twenty million dollars, and a two hour ascent on May 26th, Michel Fournier, wearing only space suit and parachute, will step out of the gondola of a 650 foot helium balloon at
130,000 feet....
The Great Leap.
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 12:47 PM on May 24, 2008
(29 comments)
Tens of millions of
brittlestars have been
discovered inhabiting the peak of a sea mount in the Macquarie Ridge south of New Zealand. Strong currents are believed to be responsible for sweeping their predators away, more or less recreating their
home 300 million years
gone....
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 5:58 AM on May 19, 2008
(21 comments)
Can simply connecting an infected jump drive release bugs onto a computer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 11:26 PM on May 1, 2008
(8 comments)
Well, that's one less Carolina flying squirrel, but having it for dinner might actually help keep them around. A list of endangered American species once common on the dinner table has become a
book, its author, Gary Paul Nabham, encouraging the reader to keep
disappearing local culinary traditions
alive.
Endangered Dinners.
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 9:45 AM on April 30, 2008
(26 comments)
" It looks as if our Milky Way will be subsumed into its giant neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy...." A (not so) little trove of images of galactic collisions has been released to mark the 18th anniversary of the Hubble telescope's launch.
Gravitic Mayhem. (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 6:04 PM on April 24, 2008
(21 comments)
Photoshop Elements 3 is acting strange: The diffuse glow filter is darkening the areas it used to lighten to produce the glow effect. What happened?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 11:23 PM on April 2, 2008
(2 comments)
Paul Lehr is my favorite SF cover artist. I found some files to use as wallpaper ( I
think this is fair use...) but have had little luck. Are there any good (online) sources for his work?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 7:42 AM on March 19, 2008
(3 comments)
Gee. I think I'll uninstall my firewall and ditch the anti-virus.
Malwares is pretty. via
bbc.
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 8:29 AM on March 5, 2008
(15 comments)
I have a mysterious service listed.... It has the name ZPIXLKJXJ; the path to the executable is C:\DOCUME~1\User\LOCALS~1\Temp\ZPIXLKJXJ.exe . The description in the column in the Services window is blank, the status is stopped, it's manual, and "log on as" is local system. A Google search turns up "no matching documents"; Norton AV says it doesn't find anything untoward, as does Spysweeper, Ad-Aware, and Spybot. What in the world?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 6:55 PM on February 17, 2008
(22 comments)
I'm looking for the title of a science fiction B movie which I saw very long ago for which I have only a fragmentary memory: a lab worker is covering a bell-jar like contrivance which is encaging two small, glowing and bobbing spheres of some un-nameable plasma (creatures...?!). She leaves the darkened room, and the guys working the baby spot - I mean, they escape, wending their eerie way around the eerily lit lab....and the memory ends. What film is it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 11:05 PM on February 8, 2008
(4 comments)
My computer- a Toshiba Satellite A65, running Windows XP SP2- will sometimes collapse on starting, displaying only a mottled white screen. The only way past it is to shut the machine off and restart (hoping it doesn't happen again). What component or process is failing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 7:20 PM on January 30, 2008
(6 comments)
