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Sunday, May 09, 2004 |
UFO Identified
Just because you don't, at first, know what something is, that doesn't
mean it's a spaceship. The "U" in "UFO" means "unidentified." In this
case, some NASA folks have <a
href="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/travelinginspace/no_ufo.html">identified</a>
a "U" from Apollo 16.
4:55:47 PM Permalink
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Go Nancy! Former
First Lady Nancy Reagan made an impassioned call for taking
controversial stem cell research out of the political arena, saying it
could help cure illnesses like Alzheimer's which so sorely afflicts her
husband. "We have lost so much time already. I just really can't bear to lose any more." [John Robb's Weblog]
As John Robb says, the adminstration has in effect declared war on
sufferers from diabetes and a host of other illnesses, mostly for
religious reasons. And, too, it means the U.S. is going to fall behind
other countries who aren't so religiously correct.
10:16:26 AM Permalink
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Future of Computation Is Finite. According to PhysicsWeb, two cosmologists from Case Western Reserve University have shown that the acceleration of the expansion of our universe leads to physical limits on the total amount of information that can be stored and processed in the future. They also determined a time limit for Moore's law which will still be valid for the next 600 years. Finally, they calculated that the total number of computer bits that could be processed in the future will not exceed the 10120 range. In a previous story, "Universe is a computer," another physicist estimated that the number of calculations the Universe would have performed since the Big Bang -- if it was a computer -- and also came with a10120 number. I'm not sure if both studies are speaking about the same exact things. But if they are, does this mean that we are exactly at the midlife point of our Universe? [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]
10:09:49 AM Permalink
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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