Nifty things.
Dec. 10th, 2000 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobear
Eh, you've probably got a better shot with one of your kissing cousins at the illuminated Monkey Hot or Not?
Here's the latest SF concept to move toward reality: smart dust. Flakes of silicon with sensors and an onboard computer, so small they float like motes of dust, linked by lasers to communicate their findings to each other or a base. Use them for security . . . for research . . . for recon in wartime . . . for spying on businesses or individuals in peacetime. Neil Stephenson wrote about them in "The Diamond Age." Now they're coming. Here's the San Francisco Chronicle story.
Bigger than "smart dust," but self-powered . . . the postage-stamp-sized "mesicopter" is about to make its first trial flight. (Hmm. Imagine a dozen of these as command and control units for a half-million flecks of smart dust.) Here's the New Scientist story.
You can use this great graphic tracking tool, called J-Track , to locate exactly where all those Mind Control Lasers are at any given time . . . if you can just figure out which ones they are.
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Date: 2000-12-09 10:38 pm (UTC)thanks.
Date: 2000-12-09 10:38 pm (UTC)*hug*
Re: thanks.
Date: 2000-12-09 10:46 pm (UTC)Re: thanks.
Date: 2000-12-09 10:51 pm (UTC)Re: thanks.
Date: 2000-12-09 10:57 pm (UTC)i think i better start cruising the web again late night and learn how to write the links on this toy.
Re: thanks.
Date: 2000-12-09 11:33 pm (UTC)a 'less than sign'
then
a href="http://www.livejournal.com/">description</a then a 'greater-than' sign. :) replace what's between the quotes with whatver link you like, and your discripion where it says description
Re: thanks.
Date: 2000-12-10 12:23 am (UTC)Re: thanks.
Date: 2000-12-10 09:57 am (UTC)Re: thanks.
Date: 2000-12-10 11:21 am (UTC)Re: thanks.
Date: 2000-12-10 05:04 pm (UTC)Mid-Terms???
that last Link to J-Track gots some extra stuff on it so it ain't werkin real well...it's lookin like this http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/%20%20 BR>
i'm a guess ifn ya leaves tht last bit off after Jtrack Folks can get the Link a little easier...
i'm goin back now an see that Link on account of so much Gov't.Folks always bein around here...
makes a Fella wonder sometimes..
*cough*
Re: Mid-Terms???
Date: 2000-12-09 10:52 pm (UTC)Re: Mid-Terms???
an that shure is a real neat page...i was jus watchin them Satey-Lites floatin around the dang Planet
*giggle*
that was Cool!
*cough*
Re: Mid-Terms???
Date: 2000-12-09 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2000-12-10 12:21 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2000-12-10 09:53 am (UTC)do you use the gps for anything in particular, or is it just a fun toy?
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Date: 2000-12-10 06:37 pm (UTC)