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Science

Viagra gets a competitor

Not that geeks need Viagra but the popular little blue pill has a competitor on the market and it appears from clinical test that the new product named Levitra has a higher success rate. Editors Note: Notice the name of the new product Levitra someone did there homework and I am sure some of you will smile when they name

Space Station is in Trouble Russians are Broke

It appears the Russians may be playing a trump card. They say they are broke and unable to build the Soyuz transport vehicles which are used to ferry crewmembers back and forth and act as a rescue craft. See the full story [MSNBC]

Car runs on compressed Air

From the files of I wish I would have thought of that. A French company has come up with a car that travels at 65mph for 140 miles on compressed air. Talk about a virtually free commodity and non-polluting. [BBC]

Something to Think About

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, theyquickly discovered that ball-point pens would notwork in 0 gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surfaceincluding glass and at temperatures ranging from belowfreezing to over 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.

Team Computing

The Seti project uses it and they have been very successful. Weird things happen from time to time. Today I was trying to figure out how to load share a couple of our servers that get hard every night doing some mundane task that helps keep the PC's running at top performance. The issue is the mundane task take about

Global Security Site

Now you to can analyze and make your own decision on the war on terror. The Global Security Site is a great public site that has some commercial satellite pictures worth looking at.

Honey Lets go weed the Garden

While I was growing up I worked on my Grand Fathers farm. One of the most mundane task that needed to be done was spray for weeds. As he hated to use spray we did a lot of cultivating which was worse than spraying as it promoted land erosion. There have been great advances in the science of growing crops