Garret points out that today is the birthday of Robert Burn. birthday. Haggis, anyone?
Malkovich, Malkovich!!!!
Bomb Obsession Yesterday's hints about another Glowing Man trip prompted me to look at the White Sands Missile Range's web site for Trinity Site. Last October's Trinity Site open house was cancelled due to security. News about April will be forthcoming hopefully by March.
Yesterday I learned that the Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, which is located on Kirtland Air Force Base, is temporarily closed.. the web site says that the museum's moving to a new location this spring.
Not the Castle Anthrax (From Monty Python and the Holy Grail "Oh, it's not a very good name is it? Oh, but we are nice and we will attend to your every, every need.")
Scientists Say Discovery Will Help Treat Anthrax
Antibiotics can kill the anthrax bacterium but they cannot
destroy the toxins it releases. New treatments based on the
molecular structure would block the action of the toxins and
would be used in combination, similar to the drug treatments
Just like the Seti project, only Anthrax: Anthrax Research using Distributed Computing
Individuals can participate in the project by downloading a screen saver at www.intel.com/cure and donating their personal computer's spare resources to build a virtual supercomputer capable of analyzing billions of molecules in a fraction of the time it would take in a laboratory, the group said. If it's co-sponsored by Intel, I guess I, as a Mac user, can't participate.
Ooooh! Speaking of Supercomputing.... Black Hole Mystery Mimicked by Supercomputer
"We can't travel to a black hole, and we can't make one in the lab, so we used supercomputers," [JPL's astrophysicist Dr. David] Meier said. This simulation process is similar to weather-prediction techniques, which create animation of how clouds are expected to move, based on current satellite views and knowledge about Earth's atmosphere and gravity effects. In much the same way, the scientists combined data about plasma swirling into a black hole with knowledge about how gravity and magnetic fields would affect it.
������ "We have modeled a rotating black hole with magnetized plasma falling into it," said [Japan's Toyama University's Dr. Shinjji] Koide. "We simulated the way that the magnetic field harnesses energy from the rotation of the black hole."
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