The space shuttle had thousands of tiles that were close to the ultimate insulators. Has anyone gotten to the point where they're not $1000s a pound yet? I was wondering if anyone has created a thermos bottle that you could put in a microwave for a reasonable price. Why can't they spin off...
Engine intake geometry
In the attached picture, you can see how the F-4 Phantom is able to change the intake geometry. The verticle flaps along side the nose of the aircraft can move in and out, thus changing the amount of air entering the engine. On the SR-71, the cones in front of the engine...
Bucky balls and Bucky tubes
They are looking into bucky balls as a lubricant. Bucky tubes have many more uses than superstrong strands. This company produces bucky tubes for further research. http://www.cnanotech.com/ IBM and others are doing research on using bucky tubes for computer chips...
Mars? Nah
But the moon, on the other hand, makes sense. Look back to history, how many cities started off as a lonely fort in a hostile environment? This could start a new land rush, gold boom, etc. But I seriously doubt that hookers or moon shiners will be the first civies there
On a...
Probably not
The first light that we see will be the light reflected off the dust towards us. A better experiment would be to send a laser down a smoke filled tube surrounded by an area in a vacuum.
big crunch expanded
Wouldn't angular momentum force objects into decaying orbits? Thus objects not neccesary directly in line with the black hole would also appear to be heading away from the observing location.
I have to grant that some objects would have to be moving towards us, but most...
Big crunch
1st off, I have no math or physics backround, and most of my education comes from the Discovery Science channel, so please forgive my ignorance.
If the universe was collapsing, how could we tell?
If there was a large black hole in the center of the universe left over from the big...