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02 July 2004 Wanderings Ralph J. Coppola Come join us on the Wanderings Chat Room. --- (See info and instructions) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ===== New hope for Hubble? NASA calls upon a Canadian Robotics company to assist in saving the Hubble Space telescope. Eric Weisstein's on line encyclopedia, World of Science, has been assembled over more than a decade. Michael Fowler's physics Applets and Flashlets are a collection of animations that make learning physics easier! Other Applets can be found on Walter Fendt's site. We just finished our federal election, up here in Canada. Now the country is littered with obsolete campaign signs. Fortunately, these discards can be recycled for various amateur science projects. Most of these signs are made from light weight corrugated plastic called Cor-x. Perhaps you could use this stuff to make an instrument package for a high altitude balloon or an electrophorus , as shown, last week, in the Electric Blue Sparks! link. Our US readers will have to wait until their November elections, but when you get a chance, collect some and let your imagination run wild! NOAA's South Pole Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) maintains a live web cam. Unfortunately, from mid-April until mid-August the moon and the aurora australis provide the only natural lighting. Presently there's not too much to see. Another web cam can be found at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The Tesla Engine Builders Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to Nikola Tesla and his motors. Further Tesla resources can be found on Bill Beaty's Nikola Tesla Page. Bill Beaty's TESLA'S BIG MISTAKE? is an article about an interesting device called the Goubau transmission line, or "G-line" or "G-String" surface wave transmission line. The Voyager Telescope is in a binocular configuration with 2 eight-inch f8 mirrors for objectives. 29 June 2004, 1452 UTC. The first contact was made with AMSAT's amateur Echo satellite. Have you ever wished that you could be involved in launching an amateur satellite? The Hobby Space web site has a page dedicated to Satellite Building - Hobby Moons. A stack of razor blades can be used as a black body beam dump for laser work. The Kids Room Women CAN do science! See 4000 Years Of Women In Scienceand The Women in Science Homepage. The use of Case Studiesor stories with an educational message is a recent innovation in teaching science. The MadSci Network is a collection of scientists providing answers to your science questions. The NASA Student Involvement Program is a national program of investigations and design challenges for K-12 students. NASA is assisting three students, Philip Brooks, Carole House and Mary House, with their experiments to determine if it will be possible to use vinegar eels, a type of nematode, to dispose of waste during space flights. Have a look at The Bug Farm and Waynesthisandthat for some other vinegar eel info. Here is another Bubble page. From The Far Side Eric Krieg's History of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines is a chronological list of some of mankind's attempts at finding free energy. Scientists at the Omaha Zoo are using genetics to determine if a new ape has been discovered. Did Leedskalnin use Stone Levitation in the construction of his Coral Castle? Viktor S. Grebennikov is said to have constructed a flying anti-gravitational platform that is powered by wasp egg shells. See his paper, Natural Phenomena Of Biological Antigravitation Associated With Invisibility In Insects & Grebennikov's Cavity Structural Effect. |
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