Feb 06, 2012, post by Artur Nowak
TECHNOLOGY is often described as a way to reduce war’s costs, passions, and thus its crimes. The poet John Donne predicted in 1621 that the invention of better cannons would mean that wars would “come to a quicker ends than heretofore, and the great expence of bloud is avoyed.’’ Alfred Nobel thought the same of dynamite, as did the inventors of everything from the machine gun to the atomic bomb.
Full story: http://bostonglobe.com
Feb 06, 2012, post by Artur Nowak
Computer scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking for industry’s help in an effort to develop military embedded systems technology that boosts performance dramatically without increasing size, weight, and waste heat.
Source: www.militaryaerospace.com
Feb 06, 2012, post by Artur Nowak
After a couple lackluster years, when a single launch was good news, new ways of using existing technology could revive the nation’s only high latitude, full-service spaceport.
Source: juneauempire.com
