inignoct wrote:
] check out the "A New Kind of Science Poster".
]
] Yeah. IT"S THE WHOLE BOOK IN FRICKING MICROPRINT! Overlaid
] on a CA. It is claimed that with a good magnifying glass,
] it's actually readable, though probably not the ideal
] format...
]
] Sick.

Wolfram is ... what's the word I'm looking for here ... completely fucking INSANE!

RE: Merchandise: Posters

] In the month and a half since a case of mad cow disease
] was discovered in Washington State, Americans have been
] learning more than they wanted to know about what cattle
] in this country have been eating.
]
] Though consumers may imagine bucolic scenes of nursing
] calves and cows munching on grass or hay, much of
] American agriculture no longer works that way. For years,
] calves have been fed cow's blood instead of milk, and
] cattle feed has been allowed to contain composted wastes
] from chicken coops, including feathers, spilled feed and
] even feces.

Everybody now, "Grass-feed beef GOOD, animal-byproduct-fed beef BAD!"

Mad Cow Quandary: Making Animal Feed

] A team of Russian and American scientists are reporting
] today that they have created two new chemical elements,
] called superheavies because of their enormous atomic
] mass. The discoveries fill a gap at the furthest edge of
] the periodic table and hint strongly at a weird landscape
] of undiscovered elements beyond.

Uut and Uup Add Their Atomic Mass to Periodic Table

] WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — Humanity's vision of the universe became
] clearer on Thursday when NASA declared the last of its Great
] Observatories operational and released extraordinary images of cool,
] distant objects.

NASA Releases Rare Pictures From a Fourth Space Observatory

] The first piloted and rocket-powered craft to have been
] developed by a private company made its maiden flight on
] Wednesday, over the Mojave desert in California.

First private rocket ship goes supersonic

] Leaders from the boldest nuclear initiative since the
] Manhattan Project gather this weekend to decide on a
] beauty contest with a 10-billion-dollar prize: which
] country will host the world's first large-scale nuclear
] fusion reactor.

Moment of truth for nuclear fusion scheme

] Concerned that pregnant women, nursing mothers and young
] children could be exposed to unsafe levels of mercury,
] the federal government took steps yesterday to caution
] people in these groups that they should limit the amount
] of tuna they eat.

A little frightening that industrial pollution is bad enough that sea fish (tuna) can contain enough mercury to be dangerous...

Draft Federal Advisory Warns Some Groups to Limit Tuna

] And while the consequences would be nowhere near as
] catastrophic as those in the movie, geophysicists
] increasingly wonder whether the magnetic field has begun
] one of its occasional reversals that in the next few
] thousand years might lead to compasses pointing south
] instead of north.

Magnetic Field Is Fading, but No Dire Effects Are Foreseen

] The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) will be the first
] spacecraft to be powered by a uranium nuclear reactor.
] NASA plans to launch the vessel after 2011 to sniff out
] life or its potential toeholds on Jupiter and three of
] its moons.

Its big...

Nuclear probe to journey to Jupiter's moons

] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The sight of three massive
] rockets lying side by side -- all, in fact, built
] together as the new Delta 4 Heavy -- prompts visions of a
] new kind of space shuttle.

Now if we just had a vehicle to bolt onto the top of a Delta IV Heavy or Atlas V...

First Delta 4 Heavy Moved to Cape Launch Pad