Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The Chunnel






The Channel Tunnel (French: Le tunnel sous la Manche), also known by the portmanteau Chunnel[1], is a 50.5 km (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent in England with Coquelles near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. At its lowest point it is 75 m (250 ft) deep.[2] It has the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, although Japan's Seikan Tunnel is longer overall at 53.85 km (33.5 mi) and reaches a depth of 240 m (790 ft).
The tunnel carries high-speed
Eurostar passenger trains, Eurotunnel ro-ro vehicle transport and international rail freight trains. In 1996 the American Society of Civil Engineers identified the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Space Shuttle News


Space shuttles Endeavor has landed in California on the last day of November after some bad weather at the main Florida landing site. Also...wait...what? They have something that can convert urine into into water? Uhh....Cool? Also, they repaired their solar-wing joint. In their mission they remodeled the space station and doubled its crew capacity to six.


Thursday, November 13, 2008

Jules the Robot

Jules the Robot! He's one of a kind! He can imitate face expressions! SUPER-DOOPER AWESOME!! Y'all are jealous of Jules.

Monday, November 3, 2008

The Gibraltar Bridge is a conceptual structure spanning the Strait of Gibraltar that would connect Europe to Africa.

WHOO-HOO! STRAIGHT FROM WIKIPEDIA!! Basically it's an uber-long bridge that will connect Europe to Africa, home of Far Cry 2's protagonists! KILL THE JACKAL!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Flying Cars Part 2


OMG! Another flying car!? NO WAI!!!!! YES WAI!! It's called a Terafugia? Next time, call it Susan or something. Anyway, it's a car that can turn into a plane. TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT DAWGS!! It comes with a parachute and automotive crash safety standards.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Fog Screen


A fog screen is a fog of water droplets that you can project images onto. You can also walk through it without getting wet because the microscopic water droplets feel dry like air. By the way, I saw a fog screen on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. A Davy Jones image was projected onto it.


Monday, October 6, 2008

Robots

Hmm? What do you think when you hear the word Robot? The androids from DBZ? That robot from Ratchet and Clank? Well...WRONG! I wanted you to think about real robots! You get an F. I wanted to hear about robots like ASIMO. He can walk up STAIRS! AWESOME!!

A robot will usually have these properties.

It is artificially created.
It can sense its environment, and manipulate or interact with things in it.
It has some ability to make choices based on the environment, often using automatic control or a preprogrammed sequence.
It is programmable.
It moves with one or more axes of rotation or translation.
It makes dexterous coordinated movements.
It moves without direct human intervention.
It appears to have intent or agency.


An example of a robot would be ASIMO: