Warp Drive? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part Deux

New calculations show warp drive possible with much smaller energy expense

(500 KG vs the mass of a planet)
http://news.discovery.com/space/warp-drive-possible-nasa-tests-100yss-120917.html


The slide show is pretty good too  - here's a quote: "To initiate the warp drive, however, vast amounts of energy would be required. Also, there will be some practical issues to overcome, such as preventing the creation of artificial black holes, as well as catastrophic warp bubble collapse when the power is switched off."

The best part - They're trying it in their lab!

WCPGW?!

Update 11-18-2012:  The warp bubble will likely pick up a high energy particles which will accumulate in the bubble, which have to go somewhere, and will be released on arrival -  "A long trip could vaporize entire planets upon your arrival" 

We now have a great new weapon!  Hallelujah!  A reason to fund space travel!  (Don't tell anyone, but my money is on using those particles to power this whole thing as an interstellar ramjet)

Synthetic Life. Awesome.

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Hacking DNA Jun 9, 2012  -  Limited

Synthetic Life.  Awesome.  What could possibly go wrong?
http://www.wesolveforx.com/#t=t&n=2d02ffdb

It made it to Slashdot - Feb 2013 

Proxy for the Onion Network

This is not The Onion

You can now get from the real internet to the Darknet - if you're not sure what I mean - Don't do it!

http://www.onion.to/enter.php

Which part is more objectionable?

In case you don't know what the slogan means

Affordable Personal Satellite Messaging

This is so cool!

Delorme has released a 2-way Satellite-enabled GPS called InReach.  It's Iridium-based, costs $250 and $9.99 per month gets safety services and 10 messages, with $1.50/text after that.

Here's a good review

There's another technology called SPOT which apparently doesn't gave global reach (WTH?)

EMS does sell it not sure about Rental - but how cool would that be?

New Google Nexus 7 Tablet is pretty cool

It has a *LOT* going for it - Price $200, Performance - tons of processors, Jelly Bean, Kick-ass screen, Android is open and tinkerable.

Not going for it is no sd card, and no video out.

Are these showstoppers?  I don't know...

Big Engadget Review of Fancy Phones

Upgrading your Sprint Epic?  Maybe...

Well Sprint has 2 cool phones, the Samsung Galaxy S III and the HTC One X, I think, they're noth LTE, blah blah

Engadget tells all