Category: Engineering & Technology

  • Technology Creates The Future

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    How to change the world To make a significant difference in our world, you either have to do something outstanding or have a lot of influence. Or both. And it will need many people to contribute over the course of the project.   So I keep an eye on some of the forums that help…

  • Higgs Boson Confirmed

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    Large Hadron Collider Succeeds CERN Scientists working through the data gathers from experiments using the LHC Large Hadron Collider have finished the exhaustive data analysis and can now confirm that the experiments have confirmed that the Higgs Boson does exist.   This has a a few ramifications that are all good:   It confirms the…

  • NASA: Congratulations on Curiosity Landing

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    Curiosity Landing We were an excited bunch of Engineers as we watched the live feed from NASA of the landing of Curiosity on the surface of Mars. Given the telemetry delay of 15 minutes, the real landing had already happened. Here we were looking back in time as we were watching history being made. The…

  • Visualisation: Part 1

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    Positioning As an Engineer, I have been educated to think in Engineering Concepts. One of the old jokes about education is that it narrows the number of people you can have an intelligent conversation with.   Today’s blog post image was provided courtesy of Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist who is always on…

  • Space Goes Private

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    SpaceX Dragon Docks with ISS It has been a while in the making, but the the SpaceX Dragon capsule has docked with the International Space Station and the beginning of a new era is upon us. Private enterprise is now making deliveries into space.   At 6:56AM on 25 May 2012 the International Space Station…