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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

China Shows First Image From Lunar Probe

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/071126-ap-china-lunar.html

I'm not commenting on this because of the fact that they took pictures. Yes, it's great that they took pictures. But for one line in this story:

"Beijing wanted to use its program to work with other countries and hoped to join in building the International Space Station."

First of all, I'm not a China sympathiser. China has a hell of a lot wrong with it. But so does every other country around the world. The US isn't exactly a role model anymore. But I'm not getting into politics here. My blog today is about space development.

Why isn't China part of the Freedom Station?

They want in SO bad! So why is the US dragging it's feet? Is our military so paranoid that it insists on keeping China out? China can add much science to the global presence in space.

To the Pentagon, I say, stop dragging your feet. You know what they're up to. Let science do it's thing. Let China in!

Monday, November 5, 2007

Cellular phone robot

http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/2007/01/cellular-phone-robot-cpr.html

The link is to a little item in development in Korea called a cellular phone robot. It looks impressive to me so far. The thing has several features that most simple robots have now. The video explains it all. When it goes to market, I'll be looking to buy one!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Third-World Wind Power: First Look

This is a pretty amazing concept. It will never happen in first world countries, simply because of the good ol' boys network of power companies and fuel providers. At least not until all hell breaks loose and destroys the infrastructure.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

China offers surprise hope in climate change fight

Well, every once in a while, I have to eat my words. This looks like it might be one of those times. A couple of months back, I blogged about how the global warming camp needed to go bother China about it's pollution. The one thing about China: They care a LOT about global appearance. Wanting to be seen as a true world power, they have been taking lots of heat from the activists. And the Chinese certainly don't sit around in endless commitees debating about what and how to do things.

I think I'll do some searching and see what else they're up to on climate change. If there is going to be true affordability for things like solar power, China will probably be the ones pushing it through.

Who'd a thunk it???