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The United States military's attempts
Popular Mechanics — Regional analysis of city islands within a 20-km radius of bin Laden's last known location (red dot). A couple of biological models came in handy in the pursuit of bin Laden. The first is called distance-decay theory, which simply means that ...More…
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Is Lost's Wormhole Linking the Island to Tunisia Possible?
Popular Mechanics — From what we know, it's safe to say that when Locke unstuck the donkey wheel, he stopped the lurches through time. He also ended up in the same Tunisian desert where Ben appeared after his original spin of the wheel. As we've discussed before, ...More…
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Lost Fact vs Fiction: Is the Sonic Fence on Lost Possible?
Popular Mechanics — We talked to Robert Putnam, spokesman for the American Technology Corporation, the company that makes the LRAD-the Long Range Acoustic Device, a gadget designed to deliver a very loud and unmistakable, audible sound in a specific direction, ...More…
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Ancient Clovis Toolbox: Were Prehistoric Nomads DIYers?
Popular Mechanics — Patrick Mahaffy was digging in his yard in Boulder, Colo., his shovel struck archaeological gold-a cache of 83 shaped stones that turned out to be prehistoric tools. The tools dates back 13,000 years to the prehistoric Clovis people, according to ...More…
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In an effort
Popular Mechanics — A hazardous material worker sprays his colleagues after searching for anthrax at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Images) The risk posed by an "inside man" with access to deadly diseases has been ...More…
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Thanks to General Tools
Popular Mechanics — Building robots from the ground up requires the students to have a well-stocked toolkit. "I don't think I could even count how many tools and materials we use," Jonathan Meed, 17, says. Meed is a member of Stuypulse, New York City's ...More…
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Rumble on the Hudson: FIRST Robotics 2009 NYC Regionals
Popular Mechanics — Drivers from the regional-winning Stuypulse robotics team look on as their bot competes, en route to securing a berth in the FIRST finals at the Georgia Dome. (Photograph by Derek Berg) FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and ...More…
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Lost's Emergency Plane Landing Goes off the Runway
Popular Mechanics — In Twardowski's opinion, this scenario is one case where the show took a little artistic liberty, as Hollywood often does. While the flashing lights, audible warnings and terminology coming from the cockpit are definitely realistic, some of those ...More…
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Lost's Take on Free Will Makes Sense to Physicists
Popular Mechanics — A few weeks ago, we addressed the issue of paradox in time travel. (A quick refresher: A time traveler goes back into the past and kills his grandfather before his mother is conceived, which negates his own birth. In that case, he would never ...More…
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The big question
Popular Mechanics — As Ben explored the chamber beneath the Others' temple that seems to be Smokey's lair, he comes across a variety of hieroglyphics etched into the walls. But one in particular caught his eye: A strange creature kneeling in front of a snake-like ...More…
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Lost's Death-by-Filling Not Possible, According to Experts
Popular Mechanics — Like any good scientist, physicist Michael B. Weissman first attempted to clearly define exactly what we're dealing with under the Swan, the two possibilities being electromagnetic radiation (like a microwave) or a big, static magnet. "If ...More…
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The more than 10,500
Popular Mechanics — After the theme was announced in January, the teams had six weeks to design and build their appliance-sized, 120-pound-max robots using a kit of parts and other bought and salvaged materials. There are more than 500 teams competing and just as ...More…