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This just in, Soviet Style Central Planning still doesn’t work!

By johnboy, on October 12th, 2010%

It only took 13 ‘five year’ plans to destroy the Soviet Union.

Remember this as we look forward to the next ‘stimulus’ package

Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Every black hole may hold a hidden universe

By admin, on July 28th, 2010%

To come to this conclusion, you’ll need a PhD in Physics, or be smoking weed, or both…

WE COULD be living inside a black hole. This head-spinning idea is one cosmologist’s conclusion based on a modification of Einstein’s equations of general relativity that changes our picture of what happens at the core of a black hole.

via Every black hole may hold a hidden universe – space – 23 July 2010 – New Scientist.

‘room-temperature ice’

By admin, on July 28th, 2010%

Using Frankdicksonite to make room temperature ice. I’m pretty sure I missed that day in school…

Verdaguer and his colleagues figured out why this occurs. “Under ambient conditions — room temperature and different humidities — we observed that water condensation is mainly induced by the formation of two-dimensional ice-like patches at surface defects,” Verdaguer says. “Based on our results and previous research, we’re preparing artificial materials to improve water condensation in a controllable way.”

The next step? The researchers’ goal now is to produce environmentally-friendly synthetic materials for efficiently inducing snow. “If water condenses in an ordered way, such as a hexagonal structure, on such surfaces at ambient conditions, the term ‘room temperature ice’ would be fully justified,”

via Artificially controlling water condensation leads to ‘room-temperature ice’.