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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
WAY COOL
"The Ministry of Defence has awarded £100,000 to a small company that has developed a special substance that hardens immediately on impact.
It is hoped that the shock-absorbing substance will soon be fitted onto the inside of soldiers' helmets reducing in half the kinetic energy of a bullet or piece of shrapnel and hopefully making them impenetrable.
The gel, called d3O locks instantly into a solidified form when it is hit at high impact.
"When moved slowly, the molecules will slip past each other, but in a high-energy impact they will snag and lock together, becoming solid," said Richard Palmer, who invented the gel. "In doing so they absorb energy."
The d3O gel has already expanded into a range of sporting goods and is found in ski gloves, shin guards, ballet shoe pointes and horse-riding equipment. The substance relies on "intelligent molecules" that "shock lock" together to absorb energy and create a solid pad. Once the pressure has gone they return to their normal flexible state.
The gel is stitched into clothing or equipment that is supple until it stiffens into a protective barrier on impact.
If the product is taken on by defence contractors it could be used to reduce the current bulky and restrictive armour used by troops in on the frontline with gel pads inserted into key protective areas.
Mr Palmer said it was the equivalent to comparing "cumbersome" RoboCop to Spiderman with the latter's protection "nimble covert and flexible"."
It is hoped that the shock-absorbing substance will soon be fitted onto the inside of soldiers' helmets reducing in half the kinetic energy of a bullet or piece of shrapnel and hopefully making them impenetrable.
The gel, called d3O locks instantly into a solidified form when it is hit at high impact.
"When moved slowly, the molecules will slip past each other, but in a high-energy impact they will snag and lock together, becoming solid," said Richard Palmer, who invented the gel. "In doing so they absorb energy."
The d3O gel has already expanded into a range of sporting goods and is found in ski gloves, shin guards, ballet shoe pointes and horse-riding equipment. The substance relies on "intelligent molecules" that "shock lock" together to absorb energy and create a solid pad. Once the pressure has gone they return to their normal flexible state.
The gel is stitched into clothing or equipment that is supple until it stiffens into a protective barrier on impact.
If the product is taken on by defence contractors it could be used to reduce the current bulky and restrictive armour used by troops in on the frontline with gel pads inserted into key protective areas.
Mr Palmer said it was the equivalent to comparing "cumbersome" RoboCop to Spiderman with the latter's protection "nimble covert and flexible"."
COOL VW
Ron Patrick - "The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine and when you want to have some fun, you spin up the jet and get on the burner (you can start the jet while driving along on the gasoline engine). The car was built because I wanted the wildest street-legal ride possible. With this project, I was able to use some stuff I learned while getting my fancy engineering degree (I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University) to design a street-legal jet car without the distraction of how other people have done it in the past - because no one has. I don't know how fast the car will go and probably never will. The car was built to thrill me, not kill me. That doesn't stop me from the occasional blast on the highway though." His four year $250,000 dream was to put a rocket into his Beetle. I really like this because its not cool in the normal sense of "cool", he did not put it in a some super car. But thats what turns me on about it, he put it in a car with a flower holder on the dashboard. Its just great and i would really like to go for a ride.
Saudi Arabia and Iraq do not equal the USA #1 Oil Importer
"The top sources of US crude oil imports for December were Canada (2.033 million barrels per day), Saudi Arabia (1.394 million barrels per day), Mexico (1.126 million barrels per day), Venezuela (1.028 million barrels per day), and Nigeria (0.869 million barrels per day). The rest of the top ten sources, in order, were Angola (0.553 million barrels per day), Iraq (0.519 million barrels per day), Ecuador (0.252 million barrels per day), Algeria (0.235 million barrels per day), and Brazil (0.208 million barrels per day). Total crude oil imports averaged 9.419 million barrels per day in December, which is a decrease of (.504) million barrels per day from November 2008."
This is yet another article that i found really interesting and shocking. Every time i think of oil, i am like "o" the war in Iraq, but Iraq is #7 on this list with 519 Thousand Barrels per Day. Also out of the top three two are Mexico and Canada, where we take in 6x the amount per day compared to Iraq. So i am not saying i am supportive of a seeming standstill of a war in the Middle East, but why is it always compared to oil? I guess politics really is something you can't just take at face value without doing your research. Also on another note how is the growing unrest in Mexico going to affect Americans at the pump, i guess will just have to see.
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I Love Cafe Bustelo
I discovered Mr. Bustelo during my evacuation for hurricane Katrina, one of the few good things that came out of it. Its not just a normal coffee it what they call expresso and i am in love with it. I have been having no less then two shots a day for five years i sure i am addicted! But truly its so much bolder and less bitter than normal coffee or expresso. I really have trouble going to get coffee from Starbucks when i am out, like this morning, its just not the same.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
FoxNews article - "Passengers are angry about being forced to fly on a new Southwest Airlines plane featuring a bikini-clad model, saying it is "soft porn" and is offensive to families.
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, currently dating actor Leonardo DiCaprio, is pictured lying seductively in a revealing white bikini along the length of the Boeing 737 as part of a promotional deal with Sports Illustrated.
The latest addition to the US-based airline was unveiled this month and is deployed like other aircraft in the fleet, servicing all its routes."
Come on fox and MIddle America don't we have better things to complain about and report on than a SI ad on the side of a plain. One of the passengers ON the plane announced “I would not want to have to watch this plane pull up to the gate traveling with my young child, or mother, grandmother, etc.,” customer Jim Dawson. Well Jim last time i checked there worse images on the cover of magazines at your local convenient store, that are also at eye level of your child. Also the image was on the outside of the plain not on the back of your tray table. Also i cant name the last time i watched or was able to see my plane pull up to the gate. Ok so jim dose have the right to complain but i just do not understand why, i really hope a lawsuit does not come out of this.
DID YOU KNOW! Probably not
This Video is so mind-blowing that i think it explains itself. But truly the only thing i want to say about this video is that i am glad i am in advertising during a time of change because hopefully there will be more of a need for young, fresh technologically advanced people than ever before.
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