""Seven point rig" control room where
the Panasonic Toyota Racing’s TF108 is put through its simulation paces. Image
Credit: Toyota MotorsportF1's Panasonic Toyota Racing Montreal Reality CheckIn the most...
As the US military seeks to up its intelligence game, it has turned to, well, games in order to better train its operatives. Splinter Cell is not among the titles, however, as these are custom games, focusing not on...
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"The software was developed by Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Research in the port city Bremerhaven.
Buoys which measure seabed movements and pulses in the water have already been placed along the Sumatran coast and the Jakarta lab has already issued...
Sort of like Second Past Life... A cross-disciplinary team from around the globe has recreated a navigable virtual model of ancient Rome... now THAT'S nation-building!"Not only was Rome not built in a day, but a...
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No, not The Simpsons. The Sims. When I think "video game-based movie", I think Resident Evil, or maybe even Doom. Or the still-in-preproduction Splinter Cell. I do not think of The Sims, in which the player controls...
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Here's the scenario: you're a Washington state bureaucrat, and you want to warn folks that an important bridge needs upgrading to prevent an earthquake catastrophe.The Traditional Approach: make a boring PowerPoint...
A French architect said on Friday he had cracked a 4,500-year-old
mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, saying it was built from the
inside out.Previous theories have suggested Pharaoh Khufu's tomb,
the last surviving example of the seven great wonders of antiquity,...
"On Tuesday, March 6, French theorist Jean Baudrillard passed away. Trained as a sociologist, Baudrillard put his knack for observing society and its engagement with mass media to work as a philosopher. His writings on television, video, and electronic mediation placed him...
A site put up by a lover of football on the 14th of
February against blatant cheating in sport going unpunished got a lot more
attention than expected. Without any publicity as such the site almost
immediately started getting contributions to it's pages and signatories on...
"The CIA this month conducted a simulation of how the Iraq war affects the global jihadist movement, and one conclusion was that a U.S. loss would embolden al Qaeda to expand its ranks of terrorists as well as pick new strategic targets, according to sources familiar with the...
John Fulton - Intelligence Networking & Analysis - On the morning of September 11th 2001, Mr. Fulton and his
team at the CIA were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency
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"Astronomers have speculated for decades about the possibilities of searching for life in other star systems. Now they're preparing to do it. To help them know what to look for, two astrobiologists have made a...
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"More than 70 people have volunteered to be confined in a mock mission to Mars – for 520 days. It would be the longest simulation of its kind.
The Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IMBP) in Russia is...
" Monday's EVA Med Evac Simulation was a success, having met all of the intended objectives. In summary, the 2006 HMP Lunar Medical Contingency Simulation demonstrated that an injured suited crewmember could be safely extracted from difficult terrain, similar to what might be...