Recent content by jselin

Last month my sister and I were driving down a Maine highway to visit relatives up North. As we were chatting, I saw a perfectly straight, narrow, luminous line appear momentarily in front of the tree line (on the order of 100 meters away). It lasted just long enough to see and then it was...

A recent article on Physorg about a newly discovered planet brought this discussion to mind! http://www.physorg.com/news204999128.html Tidally locked Earth like planet! This place would have all of these extreme conditions. The article even describes the potential habitable zone in the...

Jon, As I started to read your post I was already writing you off but I continued and I must say I'm impressed. As crazy as the idea sounds I admire you for thinking outside the box and thinking through so much of the detail. As far as mega projects go its not just about coming together but...

The way to tackle this depends on much money you have to work with and what your performance requirements are. What you envision isn't likely to work for a number of reasons. If you can tolerate a thin film internally I recommend a washcoat or CVD. If the ceramic needs to be thick you could...

I thought this conclusion was common knowledge. We are in effect, "burning" our food as fuel. Whatever we don't excrete out the back or build fat and proteins with we breathe out as "exhaust".