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Everyone is adding electric power to cars including +Ferrari

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Ferrari files patent for new hybrid system « Sam's Thoughts
Electrification of cars is happening all over. From basic auto start-stop systems like the one on the 2013 Ford Fusion to the plug-in hybrids and battery electrics, electric motors taking up the workl…

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Kirk Cameron's former colleagues tell him to get his head out of his backside….

Kirk Cameron's former colleagues tell him to get his head out of his backside. If you're not sure what this is all about, just try googling "kirk cameron gay"
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CCOKC – Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron
Some other famous kids of the '80s and '90s want you to know that gays rule and Kirk Cameron drools.

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At just 7.6 feet long and 4 feet wide, the minimalist Renault Twizy is a vehicle…

At just 7.6 feet long and 4 feet wide, the minimalist Renault Twizy is a vehicle you probably won't see on American roads anytime soon.

However, we will probably start to vehicles with a similarly small footprint by the end of the decade. The +General Motors EN-V http://www.youtube.com/user/generalmotorsenv?ob=0 is likely to evolve from the two-wheeled Segway-based balancing vehicles first shown two years ago in Shanghai to something more like this. These tiny electric commuters obviously can't meet everyone's needs, but they could certainly do the trick in crowded urban centers especially when combined with autonomous capabilities that allow them to park themselves and be summoned by smartphone when needed.

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Until now the cost of carbon fiber composites has restricted them to high dollar… 3

Until now the cost of carbon fiber composites has restricted them to high dollar performance cars like the McLaren F1 or Porsche Carrera GTS. In recent years they have become available in some slightly more affordable machines like the Corvette ZR1 and Tesla Roadster but even those are in $100K+ territory. BMW and other automakers have been working on more affordable applications of carbon fiber for vehicles like the BMW i3 but even those aren't really mainstream.

+Ford Motor Company and Dow Automotive Systems announced that they would collaborate on efforts to bring carbon fiber to the masses. You probably won't find any structural carbon composites in a Focus or Fusion until at least the latter half of this decade, but weight reductions are coming and these advanced materials may well be a big part of how we get there.

http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=36330

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Ford and Dow Team Up to Bring Low-Cost, High-Volume Carbon Fiber Composites to Next-Generation Vehicles | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
Ford and Dow Team Up to Bring Low-Cost, High-Volume Carbon Fiber Composites to Next-Generation Vehicles. Weight reductions of up to 750 pounds on future Ford vehicles are key to meeting fuel economy a…

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Wow! combine this with an LTE MiFi in your pocket and you're ready to rock!

Wow! combine this with an LTE MiFi in your pocket and you're ready to rock!

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To make a long story short: this idea rocks!

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LiveStream Broadcaster: portable real-time video encoding for LiveStream
LiveStream has just released the LiveStream Broadcaster, a small box that is a self-contained, autonomous, H.264 real-time video encoder and uploader. The incoming video from a camera enters the box v…

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Wish I was going to be in DC, would love to see this 1

Wish I was going to be in DC, would love to see this

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Space Shuttle Discovery to fly over Washington, DC
NASA: NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop will fly approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the…

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Who needs words

Who needs words

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Hubble Captures View of 'Mystic Mountain' | HH 901 and HH 902 in the Carina Nebula

This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" or a Dr. Seuss book, depending on your imagination. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks.

This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth.

Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from super-hot newborn stars in the nebula are shaping and compressing the pillar, causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of hot ionized gas can be seen flowing off the ridges of the structure, and wispy veils of gas and dust, illuminated by starlight, float around its towering peaks. The denser parts of the pillar are resisting being eroded by radiation much like a towering butte in Utah's Monument Valley withstands erosion by water and wind.

Nestled inside this dense mountain are fledgling stars. Long streamers of gas can be seen shooting in opposite directions off the pedestal at the top of the image. Another pair of jets is visible at another peak near the center of the image. These jets (known as HH 901 and HH 902, respectively) are the signpost for new star birth. The jets are launched by swirling disks around the young stars, which allow material to slowly accrete onto the stars' surfaces.

Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on Feb. 1-2, 2010. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulfur (red).

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
Explanation of the image from: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/13/image/a/

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