Solar Impulse plane completes first solar-powered night flight
by Bruce Tyson
Created on: July 13, 2010
  
Pushing the envelope of technology, the Solar Impulse plane completed an all-night flight as the aircraft paves the way for the first around the world solar powered flight. Still in its infancy, solar powered transportation represents one of the most revolutionary concepts in the world today. As demonstrated by the Solar Impulse project, the replacement of combustion engines with clean electric motors powered by solar energy has the potential to eliminate one of the largest sources of manmade pollution. Billed as more of a political achievement than technological by the Solar Impulse team, the nighttime solar powered flight gives credibility to scientists who argue that renewable energy has a potent role in the future global landscape. Bertrand Piccard, a member of the team, talked about how failure in the nighttime flight could have setback the cause of alternative energy in the political sector One of the most high profile exercises in solar development, the Solar Impulse project aims to promote the development of solar technology and the political issues it addresses. Aiming to fly non-stop around the world, Solar Impulse hopes to change the course of humanity as it sets new historical records. With the first nighttime solar powered flight under its belt, a trans-Atlantic flight comes one step closer. Solar Impulse expects completion of the development of a long distance plane ready in time for a 2011 crossing. Upon completion of that milestone, the group hopes to have a new version of its aircraft available which it will use to circle the globe in the year 2013. Fifty specialists from six countries work on the Solar Impulse project from its bases in Dübendorf and Lausanne, Switzerland. | ||||
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[2]What will happen when the sun burns out in 5 million years ...
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15 answers - 11 Apr 2008
What will happen when the sun burns out in 5 million years! ... After more time, it will blow off it's outer layers, and shrink into white dwarf status.Male's Y chromosome may vanish in 5million years
MELBOURNE: The poorly designed Y chromosome,
which makes men, is degrading rapidly and will disappear, even if
humans are still around, an evolutionary geneticist has claimed. Jenny
Graves from Canberra University's institute for applied ecology, said
that the process is likely to happen within the next five million years
but could have begun in isolated groups, the Herald Sun reported.
Graves has been studying sex-determining genes in Australian animals so as to shed light on human genetics.
Y is always in the male and is active mostly in the testicles to make sperm. Graves asserted that is a "very dangerous" place as there is a lot of cell division going and with every split there is a chance for a mutation or gene loss. She said that the X chromosome is all alone in the male, but in the female it has a friend so it can swap bits and repair itself but if the Y gets a hit it's a downward spiral. Graves said that the X has about 1000 genes left, too many relating to sex and intelligence and the smaller Y started with about 1700 genes but only has 45 left, and that's mostly "junk".
She added that if humans don't become extinct, new sex-determining genes and chromosomes will evolve, maybe leading to the evolution of new hominid species.
Graves has been studying sex-determining genes in Australian animals so as to shed light on human genetics.
Y is always in the male and is active mostly in the testicles to make sperm. Graves asserted that is a "very dangerous" place as there is a lot of cell division going and with every split there is a chance for a mutation or gene loss. She said that the X chromosome is all alone in the male, but in the female it has a friend so it can swap bits and repair itself but if the Y gets a hit it's a downward spiral. Graves said that the X has about 1000 genes left, too many relating to sex and intelligence and the smaller Y started with about 1700 genes but only has 45 left, and that's mostly "junk".
She added that if humans don't become extinct, new sex-determining genes and chromosomes will evolve, maybe leading to the evolution of new hominid species.
Now, you can smell objects on TV-as predicted by KURZVEIL -the first step to virtual sex 2020
LONDON:
Now, smell the coffee on your television! Japanese scientists have
developed a 'smelling screen' that allows you to see as well as smell
the coffee or food displayed on it.
The "smelling screen", invented by Haruka Matsukura at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan and colleagues, makes smells appear to come from the exact spot on any LCD screen that is displaying the image of a cup of coffee, for example.
It works by continuously feeding odours from vaporizing gel pellets into four air streams, one in each corner of the screen.
These air streams are blown out parallel to the screen's surface by fans, and varying the strength and direction of them manoeuvres the scent to any given spot on the screen. The airflow is gentle enough to create the illusion that the smell is actually wafting from a digital object on-screen, New Scientist reported.
The current system only pumps out one scent at a time, but Matsukura said the next stage is to incorporate a cartridge, like those for printers, which allows smells to be changed easily. Matsukura suggested it could also be used to enhance advertising screens and museum exhibits. The screen was shown at the IEEE Virtual Reality conference in Orlando, Florida, last month.
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The "smelling screen", invented by Haruka Matsukura at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan and colleagues, makes smells appear to come from the exact spot on any LCD screen that is displaying the image of a cup of coffee, for example.
It works by continuously feeding odours from vaporizing gel pellets into four air streams, one in each corner of the screen.
These air streams are blown out parallel to the screen's surface by fans, and varying the strength and direction of them manoeuvres the scent to any given spot on the screen. The airflow is gentle enough to create the illusion that the smell is actually wafting from a digital object on-screen, New Scientist reported.
The current system only pumps out one scent at a time, but Matsukura said the next stage is to incorporate a cartridge, like those for printers, which allows smells to be changed easily. Matsukura suggested it could also be used to enhance advertising screens and museum exhibits. The screen was shown at the IEEE Virtual Reality conference in Orlando, Florida, last month.
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Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kurzweil predicts that, in 2005, supercomputers with the computational capacities to .... "Virtual sex"—in which two people are able to have sex with each other ..Women can smell a wimp - Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk › Science › Science NewsNov 6, 2012 – Women can sniff out a wimp because they can smell emotions like fear and disgust on a man's skin, according to a study.Discovery Health "What do men find attractive about a woman's ...
health.howstuffworks.com › ... › Men's Health › Sweating and OdorWhat do men find attractive about a woman's smell? Visit Discovery Health to learn what men find attractive about a woman's smell.Discovery Health "What do women find attractive about a man's ...
health.howstuffworks.com › ... › Men's Health › Sweating and OdorWhat do women find attractive about a man's smell? Visit Discovery Health to learn what women find attractive about a man's smell.The Smell Report - Sexual Attraction.
www.sirc.org/publik/smell_attract.htmlA number of women's magazines have recently carried good-news reports claiming that the smell of cinnamon buns has been proven to 'boost male erections' ...
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