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What Would YOU Do...

...if you had $200K to spend on a vacation?

Richard Branson has partially moved on from inner space travel to the final frontier. The founder of Virgin Airlines and Galactic calls 2008 the “Year of the Spaceship.” His White Knight mothership and spacecrafts were unveiled in Mojave, Ca. The project took about 4 years to complete and will house rich tourists. Designed by Burt Rutan, the project already has involved more than 250 budding astronauts that paid $200,000.00 or gave deposits to be the first to blast off for only 5 minutes about 62 miles above the planet.

Back In The Saddle

Just in case anybody is wondering.... my hard drive was restored on Monday, but it did take ALL day.  I'm finally getting back to the task at hand now.  It feels like I've lost a whole week.  Wait a second... Thursday to Wednesday.. yup, pretty much a week.  So where were we....

Oh yes, looking for a hole in "conventional electrical theory" big enough to drive a time machine through.

More Evidence....

...that the future will be a from-the-ground-up affair:  the Makers Faire, sponsored by the publishers of "Make" magazine:  

As important as tinkering has been to the nation’s past, it could become a much bigger deal before long, said David Pescovitz, a research director at the Institute for the Future, a consultancy in Silicon Valley. A new report from the institute argues that the makers could force enormous changes in the ways that goods and services are designed and manufactured. The renewed urge to tinker, along with flexible manufacturing technologies, could shift production from big companies and stores to communities of makers and consumers, Mr. Pescovitz said.

Townsend Brown Technology Finding New Uses

OK, so it's not exactly intergalactic space travel or communications, but apparently the technology based on Townsend Brown's "electrokinetics" is finding new markets all the time:

Whether you're cruising through a drug store or surfing TV channels, you can't help but notice claims about ions. There are ionic hair dryers. Ionic air purifiers. Ionic foot pads.

Another ionic-based product line consists of the ionic foot baths or foot pads that claim to remove heavy metals and other toxins from the body by sucking them out of your feet.

You Probably Don't Want To Try This At Home

But it does make you wonder what the Beatles would "look" like...