October 2008
16 posts
What a doozy...
I just had an idea about using a predetermined, multilaminar CAD/CAM manufactured substrate to allow the ventallation of a super-cavitating envelope that could be designed (cheaply) based of a set of predetermined hull variables. This might acutally allow me to design bolt-on panels that reduce the surface friction of just about anything that sits in the water (or maybe even the leading edges of...
Here is an idea...
In stead of a quarter mile on land, why not race a full mile under the sea?
Whale detectors...
Instead of reactivley searching for whales using fancy sensors, why not apply a latent sonal cue that whales can learn to recognize and steer clear from? Something in their rang of hearing, that isn’t (or maybe is) irritatingto them, but cintextually close to the same frequencies they are used to using to determine the range of an object…
The $200 laptop...
I just realized, that if had ever been interested in the idea of an OLPC ( the infamous $200.00 laptop) than there is almost no difference if I were to buy an $800.00 laptop and selling it to a student for $600.00.
“Deus sive Natura.”
– Baruch Spinoza
“To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess...”
– Robert A. Heinlein
I had an interesting thought about Bologna...
I’m one of those people who looks around and wonders ‘where the hell are our flying cars and jetpacks?”. I grew up at the tail end of the muthafuckin’ space age, and we don’t even have any good robots yet! Space food in pill form, ya know?
Then I thought that, actually, we kinda do have space food. Most of the modern western diet is so foreign from what I come to...