Official SMP News Articles Thread - Page 3

furyshade · 08-28-2010, 01:38 PM

Flies driving Lego cars, may our future insect overlords have mercy on us.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/28/c...-avatar-style/

rage4dorder · 09-11-2010, 05:31 PM

not an article, but this is really cool:
http://share.seadragon.com/demos/Chr...eneration.html (requires microsoft silverlight

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also, it reminded me of this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347 , which I know i've seen posted in SMP recently, but not sure where.

Ryanb9 · 10-06-2010, 06:37 AM

... New species found around Mekong River

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wil...ong-River.html

Quote:

Other [discoveries] last year included a fangless snake, a frog that chirps like a cricket, and a tall insect-trapping pitcher plant that grows to over 23 feet.

(oxford comma added by yours truly)

zoltan · 10-06-2010, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by rage4dorder

also, it reminded me of this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347 , which I know i've seen posted in SMP recently, but not sure where.

yoctometers ftw!

Although I'm a big fan of the femtometer.

**Zeno** · 10-19-2010, 09:58 AM

A friend at work told me about this, it will be or may already be installed on some vehicles:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1013083307.htm

Portion of the above linked article is below:

Science News Eyetracker Warns Against Momentary Driver Drowsiness

ScienceDaily (Oct. 19, 2010) — Car drivers must be able to react quickly to hazards on the road at all times. Dashboard-mounted cameras help keep drivers alert. At the VISION trade fair in Stuttgart, researchers are presenting this system from November 9-11, 2010.

Those who do a lot of driving know how tiring long car trips and night driving can be. And a simple fraction of a second can decide the difference between life and death. According to the German Road Safety Council e.V. (DVR), one in four highway traffic fatalities is the result of momentary driver drowsiness. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau, Germany, have developed an assistant system that tracks a driver's eye movements and issues a warning before the driver has an opportunity to nod off to sleep.

The special feature of the Eyetracker is that it can be installed in any model of car. There is no need for a complicated calibration of the cameras........

If the camera modules detect that the eye is closed for longer than a user-defined interval, it sounds an alarm. When used as a driver-assistance system, there can be four or even six cameras keeping watch over the driver's eyes. The cameras evaluate up to 200 images per second to identify the line of vision, even when a driver's head moves to the left or right. Yet the Eyetracker is only roughly half the size of a matchbox and practically undetected when mounted behind the sun visor and in the dashboard. The tiny lenses are just three to four millimeters in diameter.

There are a host of applications for the Eyetracker. In medicine, the camera system can assist with eye operations by registering a patient's every eye movement. With this technology, players of computer games can also look around themselves, without requiring a joystick to change their viewing direction. It is also a valuable tool for marketing and advertising researchers with an interest in determining which parts of a poster or advertising spot receive longer attention from their viewers.
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Ryanb9 · 11-10-2010, 08:12 PM

Giant gamma-ray emitting bubbles discovered in center of Milky Way

http://www.examiner.com/science-in-p...r-of-milky-way

chasern1 · 11-17-2010, 05:48 PM

CERN:Antimatter Atoms Stored for the First Time

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1117141523.htm

Ryanb9 · 11-17-2010, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by chasern1

CERN:Antimatter Atoms Stored for the First Time

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1117141523.htm

Very cool. Nice to see americans can still do science.

furyshade · 11-17-2010, 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chasern1

CERN:Antimatter Atoms Stored for the First Time

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1117141523.htm

over/under on these guys winning Nobel Prize?

plaaynde · 11-23-2010, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by furyshade

over/under on these guys winning Nobel Prize?

Spoiler:

I presume not.

- Party spoiler

chasern1 · 11-30-2010, 10:12 AM

NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. PST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/new...0/M10-110.html

anyone knows what this could be about?

ctyri · 11-30-2010, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Ryanb9

Very cool. Nice to see americans can still do science.

Was there a doubt?

chasern1 · 01-10-2011, 01:33 PM

NASA'S Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet

NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/...ky_planet.html

river_tilt · 01-12-2011, 06:51 AM

The Fermi telescope has detected anitimatter (positrons), which were produced by a gamma ray flash, which in turn was caused by a thunder storm.

Link here.

Monkey_Tilt · 01-13-2011, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by river_tilt

The Fermi telescope has detected anitimatter (positrons), which were produced by a gamma ray flash, which in turn was caused by a thunder storm.

Link here.

Came here to post this. Would like to hear others thoughts on if this is anything significant or it is being blown out of proportion?