9.03.2006
NASA offers $400,000 prize for Space Elevator...
The space elevator was popularized by Arthur C. Clarke in the Fountains of Paradise...but is now getting play as a low-budget launch alternative.
If it is ever developed, it eliminates the need for expensive stage 1 rockets and could make moving up to the edge of space as easy as riding in a tall elevator.
The main issue in successful development is creating a material strong and lightweight enough to extend the 29,000 miles to geosynchronous orbit, a spot that would remain stationary above the earth...
Opening Week of Football Wrap Up
In the diversionary entertainment category....
That tune wraps the opening weekend of college football. Apparently Lee Corso picked Cal to win the national championship. I didn't watch the game but people tell me it wasn't as close as the score indicated. Instead, they got an old-fashioned lickin' by the Vols in Knoxville.
Maybe its back to a more traditional state of affairs.."Well, we were competitive for three quarters and it was only 10-0 at halftime and we didn't fumble" something like that. Stanford opened with a thrashing by the Oregon Ducks. Quack. I don't know if there were too many other surprises....the 4Horsemen of Notre Dame test is just about ready.
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
greenest state in the land of the Free
Killed himself a Bar when he was only 3
Davy, Davy Crockett
King of the wild frontier
That tune wraps the opening weekend of college football. Apparently Lee Corso picked Cal to win the national championship. I didn't watch the game but people tell me it wasn't as close as the score indicated. Instead, they got an old-fashioned lickin' by the Vols in Knoxville.
Maybe its back to a more traditional state of affairs.."Well, we were competitive for three quarters and it was only 10-0 at halftime and we didn't fumble" something like that. Stanford opened with a thrashing by the Oregon Ducks. Quack. I don't know if there were too many other surprises....the 4Horsemen of Notre Dame test is just about ready.
Participate in Leading Brain and Memory Research
Now you can enroll for brain research in the Bay Area directly through our site. We have been working with the Stanford/VA Alzheimer's Center in this capacity and now, we will also be working with the Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF, which recently opened a new facility with a 10,000 sq-foot MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) center located at the SF Veterans Medical Center.
Pick the option you are closest to and after you register will be contacted directly by the researchers. Quite a few people have already been enrolled through our site, from the Gold Country, North Bay, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, Palo Alto, the Peninsula, South Bay down to Atascadero.
BrainAging Challenge
Here's an incentive to take our new brain aging test.
If you sign up now, starting on 9/3 you will get an analysis of where you fit in the continuum of people who have taken the test. We're drawing the line at 10,000 people since August 20th, so time is running out. After we reach the first 10,000...that's when the notices will go out by email. On one axis we have 'speed' on another we have 'age' a third axis is accuracy; not unfamiliar if you know 3-dimensional geometry.
So you will be able to know whether you above or below the line, relative to your date of birth.
In the future, MRI will come into play as part of the evaluative paradigm earlier than it is currently, in fact, the scientific groundwork is being laid for this.
Of course, what we're offering is science-based and of sufficient rigor, but still a game, in the way that Nintendo's BrainAge is. But developed with the input of more scientists....
If you sign up now, starting on 9/3 you will get an analysis of where you fit in the continuum of people who have taken the test. We're drawing the line at 10,000 people since August 20th, so time is running out. After we reach the first 10,000...that's when the notices will go out by email. On one axis we have 'speed' on another we have 'age' a third axis is accuracy; not unfamiliar if you know 3-dimensional geometry.
So you will be able to know whether you above or below the line, relative to your date of birth.
In the future, MRI will come into play as part of the evaluative paradigm earlier than it is currently, in fact, the scientific groundwork is being laid for this.
Of course, what we're offering is science-based and of sufficient rigor, but still a game, in the way that Nintendo's BrainAge is. But developed with the input of more scientists....
