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3D Printing and the Governmental Idea Silencer

The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer [...]

Engineer: Star Trek’s Enterprise Ship Could Be Built

Whether you’re a Trekkie or not, you have to admit that there’s some sense of wonder to exploring the stars and trying to find life on distant planets. Of course, the U.S.S. Enterprise is a fictional ship, but have you ever put in the thought as to what it would take to actually build it, [...]

Arsenal Seized In Guasave, Sinaloa

In Bamoa station, Guasave, where the Army gunned down 10 suspected criminals, seized 25 firearms, including two 50-caliber Barrett, 1,600 rounds of ammunition, 95 magazines, a grenade launcher and eight grenades of various types.

They also seized four vehicles, two of them armored, whose records are checked to establish the identity of their owners.

According [...]

Astronomers: Billions Of ‘Super-Earths’ In Milky Way

A team of astronomers believe there could be billions of “super-Earths” in the Milky Way galaxy.

The astronomers, using the European Southern Observatory’s HARPS planet finder, estimate there are tens of billions of rocky planets not much larger than Earth around faint red stars. They estimate these red dwarf stars, fainter than the Sun but [...]

NASA Set To Launch Five Rockets In Five Minutes

Assuming the weather is clear, a NASA experiment that will see five rockets launched in as many minutes will take place in Wednesday’s wee hours from a coastal site in Virginia.

The countdown for the mission will begin at 7:00pm ET Tuesday, the space agency said, and the suborbital sounding rockets are set to take [...]

Air Force’s X-37B Space Plane Survives 1st Year In Orbit

The U.S. Air Force’s robotic X-37B space plane has celebrated a silent anniversary, surpassing an entire year in Earth orbit on a mystery mission for American military. Meanwhile, a third X-37B space plane mission is being readied, and could even launch later this year, SPACE.com has learned.

The X-37B space plane currently orbiting Earth is [...]

ship-mounted railgun closer to reality

When can we expect to see kinetic weapons on the high seas? The goal is 2025 BOOOO! [...]

DARPA funding IBM for chip that mimic human brain

IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, search acts and even thinks.

It terms the machines built with these chips “cognitive computers”, claiming that they are able to learn through experience, find patterns, generate ideas and understand the outcomes.

In building this new [...]

NASA: Cure ‘Kessler Syndrome’ by shooting lasers into space

Nasa is considering using lasers to deflect space junk around Earth and stop it colliding with satellites.

Lasers similar to those used for welding in car factories would be fired through telescopes to ‘nudge’ piles of rubbish left in orbit. The gentle movement would stop them from taking out communications satellites or hitting the International [...]

You’ll shoot your eye out with a 1MW laser pulse pistol

G.I. Joe used them to battle Cobra’s evil forces. Han solo shot his first in the Mos Eisley Cantina. For years, site hand-held pulse laser guns have been something that existed only in the realm of cartoons and movies…until now.

German hacker [Patrick Priebe] recently constructed a laser pulse gun that looks so good, it [...]

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