Odds and ends

[Mark]

"Pulsating Combustion", "Jam Jars for Dummies", whatever book you may want. ha
"I do think this is going to change the book business," said Phill Jamieson, Blackwell head of marketing. "It has the potential to be the biggest change since Gutenberg and we certainly hope it will be. And it's not just for us – it gives the ability to small independent bookshops to compete with anybody."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/ap ... e-launches

[Mark]

Storing A Lightning Bolt In Glass For Portable Power
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 204039.htm

[Mark]

"Powered by an electric motor, the microcopter has 4in rotor blades, carries a tiny digital camera and flies at speeds of up to 20mph."
http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.com/200 ... pired.html

[Mark]

Raindrops and a curious quote by Thomas Cardinal Wolsey. ha
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadRain.html
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadSymbol.html

[Mark]

"A radio wave signal is coupling the shot time of the movie camera with the rotation of the rotor to synchronize them."
http://www.ufo-science.com/uk/downloads ... opter.html

[Mark]

"Xiaoyong Wang, another postdoctoral fellow in Krauss laboratory, inspected one of these new nanocrystals and saw no evidence of the expected blinking phenomenon. Remarkably, even after four hours of monitoring, the new nanocrystal showed no sign of a single blink—unheard of when blinks usually happen on a scale of miliseconds to minutes."
http://www.sciencecodex.com/new_nanocry ... w_lighting

[Mark]

There's room for a jam jar or pulsejet card. Be the first on your block. ha
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05 ... ess-cards/

[Mark]

Thought I should post this here too. ha
http://cloudsecurity.org/2009/04/08/mis ... t-for-you/

[Mark]

Being the first on your block. ha

"I thought it would be possible for a paper aircraft to do the same thing, but back then no-one would listen seriously to my ideas," he said.
http://stranger-worlds.blogspot.com/200 ... d-for.html

[Mark]

Maybe soon we can alter space and time. ha
http://www.speedupcomputer.com/faster-c ... -on-earth/

[Mark]

"The silicon is ground to a fine powder and reacted with gaseous hydrogen chloride in a fluidised bed reactor at 300°C to give a liquid compound of silicon called trichlorosilane. Impurities such as iron, aluminium, boron and phosphorous also react to give their chlorides, which are then removed by fractional distillation. The purified trichlorosilane is vaporised and reacted with hydrogen gas at 1,100°C so that the elemental silicon is retrieved."
"During the reaction, silicon is deposited on the surface of an electrically heated ultra-pure silicon rod to produce a silicon ingot. The end result is referred to as electronic-grade silicon, and has a purity of 99.999999 per cent."
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/node/3059/

[Mark]

"A new study says that within three years jumbo jet makers could be testing out a new type of wing that reduces mid-air drag and cuts fuel costs by an estimated 20 percent. The wing would do this using small, built in jets that redirect air around the wing during flight."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... 2009-05-22

[Mark]

I have an 8 inch magnifying lens with light around it on an extention arm and if you lift up the top cover there is a caution not to leave the lens in direct sunlight uncovered. I had bought it to use with my lathe but then I bought another so this one is in my room. This article reminded me of how quickly 186,000 miles per second can come into focus. ha
As an aside, I have a 4 inch handheld magnifying lens and used in conjuction with the 8 inch diameter lens you can really see fine details such as the edge on a cutting tool or whatever.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... wl23m.html

[Mark]

Cavitation in Microgravity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR0YBAhY2PQ#t=1m03s

[Mike Everman]

Cavitation in Microgravity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR0YBAhY2PQ#t=1m03s

Nice find. Faaaaascinating.