Monday February 25, 2002

When they say Photoshop 7 has a "healing" brush, they really mean it...no more unsightly wrinkles.



Dog self-walking

Advantages to having one dog walk another dog:

  • If one dog is trained then both dogs seem trained
  • Dogs don't tug leash if other end is a dog
  • Compliments best behavior of each dog

Dis-advantage to dog self-walk...

Doggone it!

Talk about strange work! This job looks like a cross between hang glider pilot and surgeon. It's part of the construction and testing of the Rosetta spacecraft, designed to chase comets. Another comet chase vehicle, Stardust, completed a critical maneuver over the weekend on it's long journey to catch meteorite dust about two years from now. How do you catch dust particles travelling six times the speed of a bullet? Make a "catcher's mitt" out of the new wonder nothing, aerogel. Aerogel is cool stuff: 99.8% air, provides 39 times more insulation than the best fiberglass insulation, and is 1,000 times less dense than glass.



Wilted shrubbery? How about Viagra for plants.

In the world of robotics electroactive polymers may soon be used as artificial muscles. Last week's lecture can be seen here