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Electric Rockets and Satelite Proplsion

Electrospray Propulsion is a new invention in which research began in the 20th century and eventually two types emerged: "Hall thrusters," and "gridded ion engines."   They are now using liquids to create a third type of propulsion and that was the Electrospray Propulsion which was weak at first although in research and didn't make it past the 1960s and 1970s but finally became the most inadvertent "Propulsion in a bottle," in which electric fields are used to create energy in conductive liquids.  "The propellant is stored within a porous material, which brings the liquid into the thruster's electric field through an array of sharp microstructures on its surface. The porous material which acts as a wick, drawing the propellant out of a reservoir and into the thruster.  The microstructures pre-deform the liquid so the electric field only has to perform at the tips pulling the liquid out further and extracting it a few ions or molecules at a tim

Photons

Photons have no mass but a momentum.  Unbelievably, Scientists can now use light to make matter move.  Because of this property NIST the (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have taken this property and used it to develop devices that can create and measure minute forces such as in metrology.  In this community the official SI force unit is measured as 1 newton.  One newton is about the weight of an average sized apple.  The experiments that this community are doing is doing studies on how tiny forces that are a fraction of a newton.  These forces ca  be used by the PML team to do such things as atomic interactions.  For example, just like a star is being born or lightning they can use a chip-sized sensor that can use micro- to milliwatt-power light.  They can also use tabletop devices worth about 1 watt but can produce 10 kilowatts of power.  ([Measuring Tiny Forces with Light)]: NASA Tech Briefs, February 2017)

General and Special Relativity

General Relativity equations can include abbreviations for such things as Time, Distance, and C which can be a rotation of Centrivical Force  of however many times per second.  For Example:  ds^2 = dx^2+dy^2+dz^2-c^2d^2t^2=cdt The carrot means ds squared. Old school! I know.  So it is ds squared equals dx squared plus dy squared plus dz squared minus c squared times d times t squared equals cdt. Examples of C, D, & T C=7.5times/sec D=500mph T=4 hours Special Relativity = The Cosmos

Nanotubte Technology: News for Filtering Contaminated Water Supplies

Lydon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texa has developed Nanotube technology that can be used as a filtration device to eliminate contaminants from water supplies.       Innovators have originally developed this to purify waste-water for reuse aboard the International Space Station.  It is considered to be applicable to many numerous situations on Earth where there is  need for potable, medical-grade water from a contaminated water supply. (Filtering Molecules with Nanotube Technology: Lydon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas) "First, the water enters a device and contacts  the filter matrix, which can be made of polymer, ceramic, or metallic compounds.  Carbon nanotubes within the matrix allows only water molecules to pass through, leaving behind any larger molecules and contaminants.  Ah oscillator circuit attached to the filter matrix propagates acoustic vibration, further causing water molecules to de-bond and move through the filter  This use of acoustics el

Health News: Biotechnology

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The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center has developed an HDSS technique that can potentially grow tissue patching wounds and have recently found a regenerative medicine that can regrow tissue! -Guys & Girls I couldn't be more excited about this!!! According to Nasa it started out as a repair of resins in the field of the cosmos but recently they have developed research showing that it is possible for us to have a superior-quality gene in which growth factors in a simple reproducible process now shows its possible.  The method consists of spot seeding cells in a Petri dish but without the need of extracellular matrix components. (Health, Medicine & Biotechnology [High-Quality Tissue Formation Method]: Lydon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas)  Cells incubated to allow attachment and afterwards the culture is rinsed in a medium to remove unattached cells and a growth medium is then added for periphery of the spot to proliferate and differentiate outward fro