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December 1, 2013

April 25, 2013

"Custom" Roller Coaster?

looks fun/terrifying...



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April 2, 2013

Colin Ellard



Going to see him speak on Friday in Toronto at the Goethe Institute, 5-6pm.  http://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/tor/ver/en10376198v.htm

Thanks to Nicky for this!

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February 2, 2013

Fertilization

Honourable mention in the 2012 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge:



Tons more great animaions from Nucleus Medical Media can be found at their youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/nucleusanimation?feature=watch or here: http://catalog.nucleusmedicalmedia.com/nucleusindex.php?

via: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/science-visualization-winners/?pid=6148&viewall=true

Also check out the Cell in HD: http://blog.geoffchristou.com/2012/10/the-cell-hd1.html

November 11, 2012

Vacuum Maglev Train

"The National Power Traction Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University is developing a vactrain, or a maglev train that runs through in an airless tunnel, allowing it to run at speeds of 600 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers per hour, Beijing Times reported."

From: http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-08/02/content_20624621.htm

Also see:

Trans-Atlantic Maglev Train: 

Norway has studied neutrally buoyant tunnels (concluding that they’re feasible, though expensive), and Shanghai is running maglev trains to its airport. But supersonic speeds require another critical step: eliminating the air—and therefore air friction—from the train’s path. A vacuum would also save the tunnel from the destructive effects of a sonic boom, which, unchecked, could potentially rip the tunnel apart

...Then air would be pumped out, creating a vacuum, and alternating magnetic pulses would propel a magnetically levitated train capable of speeds up to 4,000 mph across the pond in an hour...

From: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-04/trans-atlantic-maglev