You lazy fucker, you didn't click the link did you?!? It's a completely different way of flying. Basically it's a bunch of fins in a cylinder that spins really fast. It's awesome and unexpected.
A really fascinating material that can absorb significant amounts of oxygen and release it on demand. Some tomfoolery in the article from the journalist, like saying a spoonful could pull all of the oxygen out of a room, but baring that, it's some interesting stuff.
I don't know if it'd work that way, but I'm more interested in it's applications in space than I am as a weapon.
I don't know if it'd work that way either XD, though, come to think of it, that'd make one hell of a way to fight a fire, too. Except that apparently, heating the substance causes it to release oxygen... >.> Huh, apparently we'll be getting our Jedi rebreathers sooner than I thought.
You still need pressurized air for underwater stuff, as it gets hard to breath in or out when you have that sort of pressure pushing on your chest. Plus, at high pressures, oxygen is poisonous.
for deep water, sure, for shallow stuff though, presuming it works as advertised, I doubt you'd need a whole lot more than that.
So evidently there's nine planets again. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...f-a-hidden-distant-planet-in-our-solar-system
I'm just gonna assume it's there so that when they come up with some b.s. reason it doesn't count as a planet like "it doesn't actually exist" I can get all emotional about it.
The most shocking thing I'm taking away from this is how much information planetary scientists miss simply because they don't feel like sitting down and doing some math for a few weeks.
that thing you said.. right there.. at the end.. the doing math for weeks... who the hell wants to do math for weeks on end..
