Author: Toby

Nano Technology Now – Photonic Muscle

Using polarisation direction as a mechanism for switching molecules and macro materials between stable shapes.

Here to control the fine tuning of a huge gossamer mirror.

Multiplexing lasers avoids the need for wiring.


Makes me think of implementing cellular automaton rules on a two dimensional membrane.

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts

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Trantor


Oil is still spilling in the Gulf of Mexico. It numbs me to think about that horror. It seems that all the environmentalist shouting for 30 years has averted nothing. We have destroyed our planet. The leaking oil was the final straw, now it’s done: Borg-Earth or if we are lucky Trantor or Coruscant.