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Space Elevator
Space elevator concepts have been around for a long time in various forms. In 1895 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed building a tower that was tall enough to reach into space. In 1959 Yuri Artsutanov pondered using a satellite with a counter-weighted cable to lift objects into orbit. In the 1960s and 70s several more versions were [...]
-0330 – Theophrastus – bio
Theophrastus was a Greek biologist and botanist, who also made contributions to the fields of philosophy, logic, physics, ethics and language. He has been called “the father of taxonomy” because of his work on systematically classifying plants. He applied the same kind of methodology to a book that described moral outlines of characters in a [...]
-0460 – Hippocrates – bio
Hippocrates was a greek physician born around -0460. He is considered to be “the father of medicine” because of his contributions to the systematic study of illness and medicine. The Hippocratic oath that physicians take, swearing to the ethical practice of medicine, is named after him. Before Hippocrates, superstition ruled medical beliefs and popular thinking [...]
Glitter
As micro-fabrication units become more practical and available, the need to identify and trace individual products for a variety of reasons (security, business, legal) will promote the placement of nano-sized trace elements into each product as it is manufactured. Over time, this will evolve into the practice of using random identifiers for each trace element, [...]
Nmap to Nessus
This blog entry at Tenable by Paul Asadoorian describes how to most efficiently use both nmap and nessus together without duplicating effort. Using Nmap Results With Nessus Batch Scanning – [tenablesecurity.com] Conclusion If you have previously scanned your network with Nmap and saved the results in grepable Nmap output, you can save the step of [...]
Titanium Silk
Titanium and other metal oxides can be infused into the protein structure of spider silk fiber to create a new hybrid class of material with greatly increased strength. Spider silk in natural form is both stronger and lighter than steel. The new hybrid is both stronger and more elastic. By adapting a technique known as [...]
