Can the Human Lifespan Reach 1,000 Years -Some Experts Say “Yes”: Daily Galaxy

Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.”

Perhaps de Gray is way too optimistic, but plenty of others have joined the search for a virtual fountain of youth. In fact, a growing number of scientists, doctors, geneticists and nanotech experts—many with impeccable academic credentials—are insisting that there is no hard reason why ageing can’t be dramatically slowed or prevented altogether. Not only is it theoretically possible, they argue, but a scientifically achievable goal that can and should be reached in time to benefit those alive today.

World’s largest laser completed: Nuclear fusion, Death Star battle stations next?: Scientific American Blog

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has announced that the world’s biggest laser is ready to start blasting away after 12 years in the making. The $3.5-billion stadium-size National Ignition Facility (NIF), housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, Calif., consists of 192 separate beams, each of which stands as the most energetic ever built, says LLNL spokesperson Bob Hirschfeld.

Very much like the Death Star, the gigantic space station in the movie series Star Wars (“That’s no moon,” speaketh Obi Wan Kenobi), the beams will focus on a single point to unleash their full, joint potential. The target: a BB-size pellet of frozen hydrogen in the center of a 33-foot- (10-meter-) diameter chamber. The ultraviolet lasers should heat the pellet to hundreds of millions of degrees, forcing nuclear fusion to occur—the same superhigh heat and pressure atomic reaction that fuels the stars.

TechEBlog » Gamer Builds Incredible Gran Turismo 5 Racing Cockpit

Amazing gaming system.  God am I jealous!!!

Created by Chilicoke, this incredible Gran Turismo 5 racing cockpit was modeled after the S2000’s and features a Logitech G25 racing wheel, mated to a 6-speed shift as well as a custom handbrake. According to its creator, “the button below the shifter enables clutch.” Continue reading for a video and more pictures, which can be viewed in gallery format here.

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Turning Bacteria into Plastic Factories

Amazing possibility here. Creating plastic in this way could be a great advantage and possibly create a more environmental produce.

Escherichia coli (E. coli) can give you a severe case of food poisoning or, with a little genetic engineering, a useful plastic. Scientists at San Diego–based Genomatica, Inc., have announced success in manipulating the bacteria to directly produce butanediol (BDO), a chemical compound used to make everything from spandex to car bumpers, thereby providing a more energy-efficient way of making it without oil or natural gas.

Magenta IS a color!

I recently received an email stating that magenta isn’t a I was interested so did some digging and found this article showing otherwise on arstechnica.com:

There is a nasty rumor making its way around the interconnected series of tubes we call the Internet. The rumor was sparked by an article on The Neurostimulation Technology Portal by Liz Elliott entitled “Magenta Ain’t A Colour,” which has since had people exclaiming, “Fact: Magenta isn’t a color,” or, “Magenta is a lie.” The truth is a little more complicated than that, but I assure you that magenta is not a lie—or at least not any more a lie than any other color.

Building Your House in SketchUp

Welcome to the ‘Building your House in Sketchup’ tutorial. This is unlike most other Sketchup tutorials in that it takes you through building any standard house rather than one particular one.

This tutorial only uses features available in the free version of Sketchup which can be downloaded from the Google website HERE .

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Studio Octavio

Cool site with an amazing load of art. I personally prefer his PhotoShop stuff, like above, but he also has a fair bit of photography and stuff.

I actually know the guy who runs this site, Geoff Wiggins, he’s amazing on PhotoShop!!! Check out the site!

Quantum Teleportation

This is a great article I found on the possibilities of Quantum Teleportation:

Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else. How this is accomplished is usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the original object is scanned in such a way as to extract all the information from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and used to construct the replica, not necessarily from the actual material of the original, but perhaps from atoms of the same kinds, arranged in exactly the same pattern as the original. A teleportation machine would be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of scanning it. A few science fiction writers consider teleporters that preserve the original, and the plot gets complicated when the original and teleported versions of the same person meet; but the more common kind of teleporter destroys the original, functioning as a super transportation device, not as a perfect replicator of souls and bodies.

Would you Upgrade to a less Secure Windows 7? « imma

The beta of the next release of Windows has been making rounds and has garnered mostly positive reviews as a beta with most people having good things to say about performance. Windows 7 essentially addresses the short comings of Windows Vista and top on the list of Vista’s transgressions is the User Account Control (UAC) feature which was intended to make Windows more secure but it proved to be too zealous in its prompts for permissions. Changes in Windows 7 aim to reduce the number of prompts that UAC asks for but so far this may have led to a less secure configuration on the next release of Windows…

View the whole article on this great blog by Imma Here.

The Best browser Based Games

This is a great video showing some of the best Browser Based games on the web!

You can view a huge alphabetical list of the best BB Games on this great blog!