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...really incredible things we can only do now because the number of great people we have. One of the things we?re doing is taking all the photographs of the world from satellites, planes, cell phones and people driving around and stitching those all together to create what we call Virtual Earth so that you can see what it's like if you want to drive some place, see what a place looks like. That's a huge project. With all sorts of scales and costing a lot and representing a huge bet that we can only do because...
While the Corps insisted that most of the bones remain in the museum, it allowed the researchers to send the skull fragments and the right hip, along with its embedded spear point, to a lab in Lincolnshire, Ill., for ultrahigh-resolution CT scanning. The process produced virtual slices just 0.39 mm (about 0.02 in.) thick - "much more detailed than the ones made of King Tut's mummy," says Owsley. The slices were then digitally recombined into 3-D computer images that were used to make exact copies out of plastic. The replica of the skull has already enabled scientists...
...right, I was sleep deprived. So what? Still confident that there was nothing wrong with my ability to function at full capacity, I flew to San Francisco, where NASA's Ames Research Center keeps a full-size virtual-motion simulator of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. It's the next best thing to really flying. After a few hours of training and several takeoffs and landings, I had mastered the 747--or so I thought...
...Islamabad, which has already been under virtual lockdown for the past week in anticipation of the President's visit, the bombing in Karachi only reinforced the precariousness of the country's security situation. While there has been no formal link as of yet between the bombing and the President's visit, Syed Marwat Ali Shah, the deputy inspector general of the Rawalpindi Police in charge of security admits that President Bush is clearly a target, and every precaution will be undertaken. ?You are taking every possible eventuality into account and making preparations,? he says. ?Then something happens where...
...through Tuesday. The event aspires to be more than video games. The final rounds will be played March 18 on the big screen in Science Center C, preceded by a banquet at which musical groups are expected to perform “Smash Brothers”-themed pieces. A VIRTUAL ICEBREAKERLarge-scale gaming isn’t limited to freshmen, either. Last Thursday, another classic Nintendo game was at the center of a Harvard social event. Currier House’s “Mario Kart” study break featured pizza, drinks, and a whole lot of virtual kart...