Lovely Jaegers, the Manned Robots

Manned robot project by "Korea Future Technology

Jaegers made in Korea

I am a fan of Pacific Rim, the way Jaegers would destroy huge alien beings. I was amazed to see these videos. I would love to own one some day. Till then Enjoy these.

A laser mediated by water waves

Ripplon laser through stimulated emission mediated by water waves

Among other materials in different forms necessary to sustain life on the pale blue dot in our solar system, water takes the highest accolades. 

Recently, scientists at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 32000 Haifa, Israel reported, their findings in Nature Physics Nov 2016 fabricating a laser that uses water instead of crystals or others to sustain population inversion. The reported coherent excitation of capillary resonances were at kilohertz rates and therefore audible.

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Sources:

1. Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
2. Nature Physics Nov 2016

Calling all moms and dads and the POOP specialists

Well it is no joke at all, NASA has issued a call literally for poop specialists with a handsome price whooping 30,000 $.
If you can come up with a way to handle the astro-crap for six days and make something useful with it. The catch is the astronaut would not be changing their gears (pants or diapers) for at least six days. AND survive without the astro-crap aroma.

IF you are the one

Please come out and present your idea at
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-poop-challenge/
https://herox.com/SpacePoop
before Dec 20, 2016.
Good luck, and HAPPY POOPsavING

Head transplant

Terrified, petrified, horrified, frightened, scared
Weird as it sounds. 
It is all over the internet sweeping like a mist around.  
This week, 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant ever

Head transplant

Although sounds quite mind boggling, I found a video on brain transplant.

 First brain transplant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FV5pOO5Mt64
There is already an outcry on the issue of ethics and religion on this matter. I believe it is not too long before these would become reality, but i seriously doubt if it would be so soon within this decade. 
Successful desirable head transplants will be an inevitable frontier in next decade.

 http://www.sciencealert.com/world-s-first-head-transplant-volunteer-could-experience-something-worse-than-death

US residents draining Gold, Silver and Precious Metals in poop.

US residents draining Gold, Silver and Precious Metals in poop.

In a recent study US citizens have been convicted of precious poop, by a team at School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, United States, lead by Paul Westerhoff "Characterization, Recovery Opportunities, and Valuation of Metals in Municipal Sludges from U.S. Wastewater Treatment Plants Nationwide"

Abstract
U.S. sewage sludges were analyzed for 58 regulated and nonregulated elements by ICP-MS and electron microscopy to explore opportunities for removal and recovery. Sludge/water distribution coefficients (K_D, L/kg dry weight) spanned 5 orders of magnitude, indicating significant metal accumulation in biosolids. Rare-earth elements and minor metals (Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu) detected in sludges showed enrichment factors (EFs) near unity, suggesting dust or soils as likely dominant sources. In contrast, most platinum group elements (i.e., Ru, Rh, Pd, Pt) showed high EF and K_D values, indicating anthropogenic sources. Numerous metallic and metal oxide colloids (<100–500 nm diameter) were detected; the morphology of abundant aggregates of primary particles measuring <100 nm provided clues to their origin. For a community of 1 million people, metals in biosolids were valued at up to US$13 million annually. A model incorporating a parameter (K_D × EF × $Value) to capture the relative potential for economic value from biosolids revealed the identity of the 13 most lucrative elements (Ag, Cu, Au, P, Fe, Pd, Mn, Zn, Ir, Al, Cd, Ti, Ga, and Cr) with a combined value of US $280/ton of sludge.

Terminator 2 inspires invention of the latest 3D printer

"3D printing has struggled to deliver on its promise to transform manufacturing. Prints take forever, parts are mechanically weak, and material choices are far too limited. That’s because current 3D printing technology is really just 2D printing, over and over again." The message written on the webpage of  Carbon3D 

The revolutionary 3D printing team further comment "CLIP — Continuous Liquid Interface Production — is a breakthrough technology that grows parts instead of printing them layer by layer. CLIP allows businesses to produce commercial quality parts at game-changing speeds, creating a clear path to 3D manufacturing."

 

The technique was inspired by the film Terminator 2, in which the T-1000 robot rises from a pool of metallic liquid.

 

Limits of humanity

LIMITS OF LIFE

Humans normally live in fairly comfortable environments, above sea level in fresh air. But thanks to a mutation of a gene that protects against hypoxia, or lack of oxygen, Tibetans can survive on the Tibetan plateau, which at 4500m is one of the highest altitudes still inhabited by humans. However,

humans are outdone by bacteria in black smokers (a type of underwater volcano), which need no oxygen at all. They live on hydrogen sulphide, an acid that turns our brain into juice in minutes. The existence Of life so far removed from earth's atmosphere has led scientists to speculate that life may have started in such deep sea vaults.

 Source: i__science_-_issue_30_spring_2015