Archive for the ‘Science Fiction’ Category

Supercomputer Performs Laser Cancer Surgery

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Lonestar, a supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) recently performed a laser cancer surgery on a dog without the intervention of a surgeon. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was ...

US Navy Shoots Down The Crippled Spy Satellite Using Missile

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

The U.S. Navy successfully blasted a wayward satellite with a heat-seeking missile over the Pacific Ocean Wednesday evening, defense officials announced in a press release. A missile launched from a Navy ship struck a dying U.S. spy satellite passing 130 miles over the Pacific on Wednesday. The satellite USA-193, also known ...

Time Travel And Time Machine

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

The ideas of time travel and time machine have fascinated mankind for centuries. There were many ideas scientific fiction stories and movies emerged over time. But when Albert Einstein released his theory of special relativity, he laid the foundation for the theoretical possibility of time travel. As we all know, no ...