Reverse engineering is a well-defined process for determining the
beginning of a technological system by analyzing its structure,
purpose and complete the transaction or process. There are several
stages in the process of RE. This includes the exploration,
processing, the surface followed by the creation of the audit. This
helps the final product similar to the original. Some of the benefits
of the process of reverse engineering include the development of new
products improvised. This makes the reverse engineering very popular.

Software reverse engineering is used to create different models with
computer-assisted directly from digital data. See the growing needs of
end users, in these days of reverse engineering software are
available. A number of software specially designed to deal
successfully with the requirements of reverse engineering. They help
generate easily within the walls of parametric models available date
scanned without any difficulty. Therefore, under this model is
finished completely redesigned within the requirements defined by the
user. They are designed to respond effectively to international
quality standards.

Reverse engineering is used in various industries such as aerospace,
marine, power generation, software, crafts, etc. The physical reverse
engineering is used in FAO 3D CAD and CAE . Very good measures of the
object and successfully reconstructed as a 3D model. Therefore, if you
use applications like Geomagic, PolyWorks, ImageWare, RapidForm, or
3-maticthen not afraid to lose them all. They are indeed used for the
treatment of clouds of points in the format used in other applications
such as CAD and CAM.

Also can be used in existing businesses so that the physical geometry
in the development of digital products. Therefore, one can easily
evaluate their own products or competitors. Some features that can
reverse engineering and analyzer to determine the costs of patent, and
more. See so many characteristics of reverse engineering, May you
think that the inspection process would be slow. Well, not so. It is
fast and can be easily executed. What do you expect ... will use the
technology of reverse engineering and create a niche for himself in
his field of specialization.

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Robot calibration is the process of identifying the real geometrical
parameters in the kinematic structure of an industrial robot, ie the
relative position and orientation of links and joints in the robot.

A robot calibration has a greater positioning accuracy without
absolute calibration is the actual position of the robot perform
better corresponds to the position calculated by the mathematical
model of the robot.

Absolute positioning accuracy is particularly relevant as regards the
robot ex mutability online and offline application programming precision.

In addition, the robot calibration, the calibration of their tools and
parts that construction can occur to minimize errors and improve
safety processes

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Obama transition team seeks public comment on solar power from space

http://tinyurl.com/5kwtaf

NASA Sets Target Launch Date For Hubble Mission

According to New Scientist, the US National Research Council (NRC) report, titled "Launching Science: Science Opportunities Provided by NASA's Constellation System", was written by a committee chaired by George Paulikas, a retired executive for the Aerospace Corporation, a think tank based in El Segundo, California.

The report has high praise for a proposal to send astronauts to a nearby asteroid, or near-Earth object (NEO).

"The most compelling rationale for a human NEO mission is for its value as an intermediate step between lunar exploration and interplanetary travel, to prove new hardware and to maintain the momentum of the human exploration programme by showing sustained progress," the report said.

The panel judged the science return from such a mission to be less interesting than from other proposals it considered, so did not put it in the highest-priority category for further study on that basis.

But, it urged NASA's Exploration division, which is responsible for human space missions, to give the idea further thought.

"It was very compelling in the sense of exploration, but that wasn't part of the criteria we were given," panel co-chair and former shuttle astronaut Kathryn Thornton told New Scientist.

I wouldn't go mining Mars or the moon with a shuttle.  A near asteroid would be my first choice.   I'd live longer.

Beaming power to earth from orbiting satellites is do-able and a near asteroid would help with the heavy stuff, not having to launch it from the earth.

With Star Wars, Galactica, Star Trek, and such, you really have to look at the story and maybe for any entertainment value because the science sucks.

--- In SpaceCities@yahoogroups.com, "happymusicplayon" <happymusicplayon@...> wrote:
>
> Hello I am new to this sight and thought I would start with a bunch of
> questions. Hopefully there will be answers. I must warn you, my
> spelling SUCKS. So feel free to laugh cause I do:}
>
> YEARS and YEARS there was a sci-fi book written about the earth being
> attacked by travling space canniables. There were a cuple of things
> that the book talked about that I have always wondered about, and I am
> hoping that someone can help me with.
> Frist, NASA sold one of the shuttles to a guy who used it to travle to
> the astroid belt and mine. How much would a shuttle cost and is that
> even possiable? Mind you he was the only one living on the shuttle. (I
> forget the name of the book so I can not send you to read it.)
> Seconed, the earth got LOTS of power from a orbital microwave
> generator that beamed down power real cheep. Is this possiable? This
> book was poblished late 70's early 80's, and I can not find my copy,
> but as I recall the book explained how it worked. At least better than
> I just did.
>
> Next set of questions on a different topic.
> The new Battle Star Glatica has the fighters and BSG firing michinguns
> in space, my question is would they not over heat? I thought I read
> that space is a VARY poor cool-ant, is'nt that why the shuttle has to
> open its doors?
>
> So there, any help or answers would be great and most welcome.
>
> Thank you for your time and have a nice day:)
>

"Optware" Has launched Holographic disk new technology which provides
the ability to store 1 terabytes of information.

The new disk storage to provide information to the high capacities of
up to 1 terabytes and speed of transfer of information up to 1 GB per
second.

The most important characteristics of HVD new CD, it is reading or
writing 10 Kb at the same time, unlike the CD-ROM is now located and
which must be read or written to each byte alone, because the
information is not supposed to read the salary of the new disk does
not need to turn Such as the regular CD.

This technique are still under testing, the company has succeeded
"Optware" did not copy the first video on one disk and presented
without any significant problems either in sound or in the picture.

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Hello I am new to this sight and thought I would start with a bunch of
questions. Hopefully there will be answers. I must warn you, my
spelling SUCKS. So feel free to laugh cause I do:}

YEARS and YEARS there was a sci-fi book written about the earth being
attacked by travling space canniables. There were a cuple of things
that the book talked about that I have always wondered about, and I am
hoping that someone can help me with.
Frist, NASA sold one of the shuttles to a guy who used it to travle to
the astroid belt and mine. How much would a shuttle cost and is that
even possiable? Mind you he was the only one living on the shuttle. (I
forget the name of the book so I can not send you to read it.)
Seconed, the earth got LOTS of power from a orbital microwave
generator that beamed down power real cheep. Is this possiable? This
book was poblished late 70's early 80's, and I can not find my copy,
but as I recall the book explained how it worked. At least better than
I just did.

Next set of questions on a different topic.
The new Battle Star Glatica has the fighters and BSG firing michinguns
in space, my question is would they not over heat? I thought I read
that space is a VARY poor cool-ant, is'nt that why the shuttle has to
open its doors?

So there, any help or answers would be great and most welcome.

Thank you for your time and have a nice day:)

http://engineering-sciences.blogspot.com

Know the new about engineering.. Engineering article, engineering
books, engineering news and engineering Software all about Civil
engineering, Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering and
Computer engineering

http://engineering-sciences.blogspot.com

Germany conducted a successful test of intelligent communication
project between the cars that are being developed which allows the
exchange of information between the cars through the Internet radio.

The news agency Deutsche, the German this new technology supported by
the European Union and would solve the problem of traffic congestion
and contributing to the increase in the level of safety on the roads.

She noted that many of the major automobile companies have recently
tested this technique in the driving conditions and realistic testing
at a square in Germany.

The experiment allowed watching several cars and motorcycles and a
truck, which relate to each other in the courtyard of the test Opel in
Germany, using the wireless Internet technology.

The technology to send information to a car another car about finding
obstacle on the road, allowing the car's second choice of an
alternative route or slow pace.

The IA EA has confirmed that the European Commission had earlier this
year had contributed to the large space of frequencies the European Union.

Joined about 30 companies from the major auto companies next to other
partners to the Federation of communications between the cars in order
to develop a technical standard for communication between cars and
road infrastructure.

The Commissioner Vivian Reading telecommunications European Union that
receive important messages very quickly and accurately is imperative
to ensure road safety, pointing out that while the Europeans spend
hours in traffic jams could cost about 80 billion euros by 2010 in the
form of lost working hours.

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Transplant of windpipe grown from stem cells heralds new era in medicine

The transplant of a human windpipe grown from stem cells is a surgical breakthrough of almost limitless potential

Pioneering patient: 30-year-old Claudia Castillo Photo: JULIAN SIMMONDS

The science of healing is developing so quickly that it has become almost a cliché to describe a particular operation as a "breakthrough". Yet there is no doubt that the first successful transplant of a human windpipe, constructed partly from stem cells, is an astonishing milestone – one that could indeed mark the start of a new era in medicine.

At long last, the glint in a researcher's eye has been turned into a significant advance in the clinic. Forget all the fuss about embryos and angst about playing God: this is unadulterated good news. We have proved that scientists can now fashion organs using a patient's own cells, eliminating the problems with rejection that have always plagued transplants. Today it is a trachea – tomorrow it could be a colon, even a heart.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3486000/
Transplant-of-windpipe-grown-from-stem-cells-heralds-new-era-in-medicine.html

Warming world: Our threatened oceans

Both the beauty and the fragility of the planet were on spectacular display Monday as TODAY reported on climate change live from four very diverse regions around the globe.

Shuttle Mission Proceeds After Docking

A large group of former NASA managers and planetary scientists is proposing sweeping changes to the Bush Administration's Vision for Space Exploration that would replace a human return to the Moon with manned missions to asteroids and other locations much farther from Earth.

Building on a February workshop at Stanford University, the group is urging the incoming presidential team to adopt the alternative goals as a new Obama Vision for Space Exploration. Some potential candidates to be Obama's NASA administrator helped lead the definition of the alternative goals.

"Unfortunately, NASA's implementation of the [Bush] Vision has been focused no farther than the Moon, a destination the United States first reached nearly 40 years ago," says the new proposal, compiled by the Planetary Society and a group of participants in the Stanford workshop. "Though not precluding a return to the Moon in concert with international partners, the incoming administration should consider an alternative plan that makes demonstrable progress toward new destinations and new achievements in a flexible, affordable manner," the group stated in a report released in Washington Nov. 13.

The revised vision would include more international participation up front, as well as much greater emphasis on Earth environmental monitoring coupled with deep space exploration.

The primary objective of the new proposal is to use the new Ares-booster/Orion-spacecraft infrastructure to begin missions venturing further from Earth earlier, with the goal of achieving manned Mars missions sooner than the 2030s as envisioned by the Bush plan.

"Although the Bush Vision for Space Exploration articulated important new directions, their implementation has been flawed and inadequately funded," says the new proposal. "There is risk that the mistakes that have hindered space exploration since the time of Apollo could be repeated."

More:

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/NEWPLAN11138.xml

Ion Shield for Interplanetary Spaceships Now a Reality

Bubble chamber image of charged particles being deflected by a magnetic field (CERN)

Space travel during a solar storm just became a little less risky. UK scientists working at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford and the universities of York and Strathclyde have tested a "mini-magnetosphere" enveloping a model spacecraft in the lab. It turns out that their prototype offers almost total protection against high energy solar particles. By mimicking the natural protective environment of the Earth, the researchers have scaled the protective magnetic bubble down into an energy efficient, yet powerful deflector shield.

This astounding achievement is a big step toward protecting sensitive electronics and the delicate human body against the radioactive effects of manned missions between the planets. It may sound like science fiction, but future astronauts may well shout the order to "RAISE SHIELDS!" if the Sun flares up during a 36 million mile journey to Mars…
(...)
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Forget the LHC, the Aging Tevatron May Have Uncovered Some New Physics

The Collider Detector at Fermilab may have found some unexpected particles (Fermilab)

…something.

Scientists at the Tevatron are reluctant to hail new results from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) as a "new discovery" as they simply do not know what their results suggest. During collisions between protons and anti-protons, the CDF was monitoring the decay of bottom quarks and bottom anti-quarks into muons. However, CDF scientists uncovered something strange. Too many muons were being generated by the collisions, and muons were popping into existence outside the beam pipe…
(...)
Read the rest of Forget the LHC, the Aging Tevatron May Have Uncovered Some New Physics (582 words)

NASA, South Korea Sign Statement On Future Cooperation

Agencies Will Explore Cooperative Efforts In Space

During a meeting Thursday at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) in Seoul, South Korea, NASA's Assistant Administrator for External Relations, Michael F. O'Brien, and MEST's Director-General for Big Science, Munki Lee, signed a joint statement of intent identifying potential interest in cooperation in civil space and aeronautics activities.

According to the statement, the two agencies agree to conduct discussions to identify new cooperative activities related to space exploration, Earth science, planetary science, human space flight and aeronautics research. The fundamental goal of these discussions will be to advance the interests of both nations through cooperation in space and aeronautics programs. A joint report is expected eight months from today's signing.

The discussions are intended to explore a wide range of potential cooperative efforts, including exchange of research data and analysis, potential contributions of scientific instruments and hardware to support future missions, and collaborative exploration architecture planning.

The discussions may also include the International Lunar Network, an ongoing multilateral initiative to establish a robotic network on the surface of the moon; the Global Exploration Strategy, a dialogue involving fourteen international space agencies for enhanced international cooperation in space exploration; and the International Space Exploration Coordination Group, a multilateral effort to coordinate space exploration activities among government space agencies.

FMI: www.nasa.gov, www.kari.re.kr/

The Spitzer space telescope showed the existence of two asteroid belts around Epsilon Eridani, a star a little smaller than the Sun, only 850 million years old, and 10.5 light years from earth.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/081027_eridani.htm

Please digg these two interesting links about space solar

Power Beaming Satellite: "One Lightbulb" Experiment

Full link needed for Myspace:

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Shortened link good for yahoo etc:

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Solar Satellites Could Beam Gigawatts of Energy from Space

Full link needed for Myspace:

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nergy_from_Space

Shortened link good for yahoo etc:

http://snurl.com/4kamf

Great Article


Now is the time to spread the word about SSP!

If the word wrap is a problem, try this URL instead:

http://is.gd/3Zjb


--- In SpaceCities@yahoogroups.com, "Charles F. Radley" <cfrjlr@...>
wrote:
>
>
> Please digg this link:
>
>
http://digg.com/space/Washington_Post_An_Energy_Fix_Written_in_the_Stars
> _by_Bova
>

Charles,

thanks for the info, but that link didn't work for me.  Try this one.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002450.\
html

ad astra

Please digg this link:

http://digg.com/space/Washington_Post_An_Energy_Fix_Written_in_the_Stars
_by_Bova

Washington Post: An Energy Fix Written in the Stars (by Ben Bova)

washingtonpost.com — DEAR MR. (FUTURE) PRESIDENT

An Energy Fix Written in the Stars We have a frontier that begins a
scant hundred miles overhead and contains more riches of energy and raw
materials than the entire Earth can provide.

Ben Bova is president emeritus of the National Space Society and the
author of nearly 120 nonfiction books and futuristic novels.

Congratulations to Elon Musk and everyone who made this possible.  Cheers!

Oh, I Googled Orbital Sciences and got this quote

"the Pegasus rocket, the world's first privately-developed space launch vehicle"

So the Falcon 1 isn't the first privately developed rocket to reach space. 
Still, it's a great achievement and I wish them the best of luck.  I hope that
they are successful in everything they hope to accomplish.

Also, I don't see why space.com and spacedaily.com didn't write up news stories
on this.

Jason

If we accept that only governments are able to build space stations then it
would indeed be
a problem. Considering how well they have done with the economy and world peace
it seems
that a civilian space program would be better.

--- In SpaceCities@yahoogroups.com, "Charles F. Radley" <cfrjlr@...> wrote:
>
> The NASA exemption to the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation
> Act was marginal before, now it is DOA. Without Soyuz, will the world
> have to abandon the International Space Station when Shuttle stops
> flying?
>
> http://digg.com/space/Russian_invasion_threatens_the_Space_Station
>

All Maverick McCain has done is show the worl that he is willing to
do anything to win the election.  He may have been a maverick in the
past, but I see no real difference b/w him and the neo-cons in
office.  Choosing a stone age conservative as his running mate
reeeeeally helps his image too.  God only knows how he would gut NASA.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity - Seneca
http://potentiatenebrasrepellendi.blogspot.com/
Nec Aspera Terrent!

--- In SpaceCities@yahoogroups.com, cygonaut <space.action@...> wrote:
>
> His choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate and new support for
offshore oil
> drilling could undercut any standing on the issue he earned with his
> bipartisan proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
>
> The television ad shows John McCain, the Republican presidential
nominee, in
> scenic desert landscapes as he talks about the dangers of global
warming.
> "We have an obligation to future generations to take action and fix
it," he
> says.
>
> Striving to appeal to moderate voters, McCain has frequently
highlighted his
> bipartisan proposal to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions.
>
>   But by naming Sarah Palin as his running mate, McCain has aligned
himself
> with a Republican whose record as governor of Alaska has drawn
scorn from
> environmentalists, most notably for her denial that humans are
causing
> climate change.
>
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-
mccainenviro10-2008sep10,0,2629682.story
>

Discovery Channel sponsors power beaming demo in Hawaii

Video of press conference here:

http://www.nss.org/news/releases/pc20080912.html

Mankins has performed 2 watt demo over a
distance of 148 kilometres between two islands in Hawaii.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/visionary-beams.html

http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/09/12/solarsat-power-beaming-
demo-revealed/

Looks like it is included for sale in a DVD here:

http://shopping.discovery.com/product-74197.html?jzid=40588004-66-0

Project Earth DVD Set
#537692 $39.95
Estimated ship date is Nov-07-2008

Product Detail:
Watch as some of the world's leading scientists put the most
ambitious
geo-engineering ideas to the test in order to tackle global climate
change. From covering acres of Greenland's glaciers in protective
blankets to constructing space rockets to sending tiny reflective
lenses into orbit, these experiments push the boundaries of science
and technology by exploring eight creative ideas that just might
reduce global warming.

Experiments include:

Wrapping Greenland
Raining Forests
Infinite Winds
Brighter Earth
Fixing Carbon
Hungry Oceans
Space Sunshield
Orbital Power Plant
See what happens when 'what if' meets 'why not' as Discovery Project
Earth re-engineers the planet's possibilities.

Orbital Power Plant
Premieres Friday, Sept. 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

We could have a source of never-ending power and, at the same time,
reduce our carbon emissions to virtually zero. This is the
astonishing
vision of former NASA physicist John Mankins. He has a plan to send
thousands of satellites into space, which will gather energy from the
sun and then beam the solar energy down to Earth as microwave energy.
The microwave energy will be collected by antennas on the ground.
These then convert the energy to electricity. Can Mankins make it all
work?

It is or will be online here until October 10:
http://video.discovery.com/
I don't know if this episode is up yet. It's called Project Earth:
Orbital Power Plant. You have to jump some hoops (like downloading
their player) to find out.