Saturday, June 14, 2014

Water, water, everywhere!

Hidden Ocean Discovered on Saturnian Moon. I think it's pretty cool that inference of the ocean was derived at by gravitational anomalies in the Saturnian moon's gravitational fields. This is why curious persons everywhere should support at least unmanned spacecraft and flights. If not for the Cassini spacecraft's close fly-by, this unexpected result would have gone unnoticed. Basic science doesn't always yield unexpected results, but compared to all other human activities, science yields more unexpected results than all others combined.

More water news via scientific inquiry..

"Oceans" of water found locked within earth. No, this isn't the biblical "waters of the deep," but it's almost a certainty that religious types will try to spin it as such. Go read the article. I am literate enough in these areas simplify things further with accuracy, but for any reader of this blog, it's a easy read.

More water...

Namib Beetle Inspires C nanotube device to remove H2O from driest places on earth Carbon nanotubes are a highly interesting substance. In the water collection iteration, C nanotubes are set up as a hydrophilic, and hydrophobic array. Call me a geek--you won't be the first--but "water-loving" and "water-repelling" are clunky terms. In one of my personal favorite uses of C nanotubes, they are used to Instantaneously boot computers by enabling system RAM to enter the non-volatile state, and to replace all manner of flash memory. A very disruptive technology. Sorry about the digression into other nanotube technologies.

With that, I, am. outta. Here.

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