10 Jan 2010
Using a Toy Train To Calibrate a Reactor

Hilarious. We've used a similar setup at work to test video cameras - for long runs with continuous movement, a model railroad can't be beat.

Physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built tracks inside a fusion reactor and ran a toy train for three days to help them with their calibrations.

(link) [Slashdot]

22:09 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link

Palin believed candidacy 'God's plan'

This is exactly why I bothered with voting last year - and voted for Obama. Truly the less of two evils.

AP - Sarah Palin believed that Sen. John McCain chose her to be his running mate in 2008 because of "God's plan," according to a top political strategist in the Arizona Republican's campaign.


(link) [Yahoo! News]

22:05 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link