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...NASA to unveil new space suits. Adult diapers do not come standard...
...building both a battery-powered and a plug-in hybrid lightweight commuter car. The moment of inspiration came in June 2004: the launch of SpaceShipOne. The SpaceShipOne team had access to high-tech tools that enabled the building and design of a rocket for only $25 million--cheap by NASA standards. Could the same tools be applied to the auto industry? "The way cars are designed, half the energy they need is just to push the air out of the way," Fambro explains. "What if you changed the styling to make the drag of a car nearly equal to zero...
...third of an average car's and less than half of the Prius', which now has the lowest drag in the industry. Cheap technology allowed Fambro to create such an aerodynamic design on a limited budget. For $50,000 Fambro found some off-the-shelf software--the same kind NASA uses to test the drag of its space vehicles. To keep drag as low as possible, for example, the three-wheeled car has no side-view mirrors--the driver has 180° rear visibility with the help of rear-mounted cameras. He estimates that today's computing power is so fast...
Suitcase SETI—or, as Horowitz referred to it in a speech before the NASA Sunnyvale Symposium, “Steamertrunk SETI”—is a portable spectrum analyzer designed specifically to search for SETI transmissions. It featured autocorrelation receivers that enabled it to monitor 131,000 channels for extraterrestrial signals—far more than had previously been possible with any one device...
...speech before the NASA Sunnyvale Symposium, Horowitz noted that Project Sentinal had its drawbacks: it required the use of “a directed and precompensated beacon” and operated based on what have been termed “magic frequencies”—frequencies that humans calculate would likely be used by aliens trying to contact us. Such narrow search mechanisms limit the ability to search the sky, forcing Horowitz to ask: “How hard are these guys up there really going to work...