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DailyTech – Clubbing Goes Green

The new club employs a variety of measures to cut energy use and carbon emissions by 30 percent and water use by 50 percent compared to similar clubs.  In order to accomplish the savings and stick to its green theme, the club employs a broad variety of measures.

Among the most attractive elements is the dance floor which generates power when danced upon.  Typically a club uses a lot of electricity in lighting the dance floor.  WATT’s dancers power the club’s disco lights with their dance moves, and the more power they generate the wilder the light show gets.  A prominent power meter helps to whip patrons into a dancing frenzy.

BBC NEWS | UK | ‘We will be able to live to 1,000’

Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why.

Ageing is a physical phenomenon happening to our bodies, so at some point in the future, as medicine becomes more and more powerful, we will inevitably be able to address ageing just as effectively as we address many diseases today.

Don’t miss this video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html

many people worldwide have protested the construction of the particle accelerator, believing it could end the world. Many are fearful that the collider could spawn black holes, which they worry could devour the Earth

DailyTech – Large Hadron Collider to Go Online This Week Despite Death Threats

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=17

Anandtech has made a very detailed review of this new SSD from Intel, as well as some research into very serious problems with the OCZ Core series SSDs; don’t buy those.

Click the source for the entire article.

Ananova – Dolphin speedboat makes a splash

The Seabreacher can glide on top or below water at high speed – and it has enough power to soar out of the water and fly through the air and perform stunts.

The two-man £30,000 craft has been designed to mimic the shape of a dolphin and self-rights whenever it splashes down.

The mini-submarine has a top speed of 45mph over the surface of the water and half that when it dives under.

DailyTech – Analyst: 3G iPhone Headed Towards Failure in Japan

The lack of features found in most Japanese cell phones appear to be holding back the iPhone from succeeding in Japan.

Dude in pleated skirt… @ DannyChoo.com

One of the things you can do in Japan..

Black Holes and Space Travel.

Interesting article

Rocket Scientists Say We’ll Never Reach the Stars

At a recent conference, rocket scientists from NASA, the U.S. Air Force and academia doused humanity’s interstellar dreams in cold reality. The scientists, presenting at the Joint Propulsion Conference in Hartford, Connecticut, analyzed many of the designs for advanced propulsion that others have proposed for interstellar travel. The calculations show that, even using the most theoretical of technologies, reaching the nearest star in a human lifetime is nearly impossible.

DailyTech – Northrop Will Have 100kW Lasers by End of 2008

Laser weapons may be a battlefield reality by the end of 2008

AnandTech: Google Chrome: Performance and First Impressions.

Click the link for the article

DailyTech – New Climate Study Indicates Hottest Decade in 1,300 Years

More research supporting a warming climate continues to pile on

Despite record lows in solar magnetic activity, thought to influence the climate, trends continue to point to a clear rise in temperatures worldwide.  This is reflected by increased melting and other significant changes.

DailyTech – Nanosensor Detects Immune Cell Signals; Could Fight AIDS, Cancer

A new sensor allows an unprecedented look at cell signaling and may save lives one day

DailyTech – New Sahara Forest Project Aims to Bring Food, Water, Energy to Desert

Project combines cutting edge agriculture, using greenhouses, with solar power to produce a variety of essentials

Fermilab physicists discover ‘doubly strange’ particle

Batavia, Ill. – Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (?b). The particle contains two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and weighs about six times the proton mass.