SpaceX has pursued a simple, redundant, scalable design for their rockets. Falcon 9, for example, uses the same Merlin engines as the Falcon 1. As its name suggests, Falcon 9′s first stage uses nine Merlins. The second stage also uses a Merlin engine, with modifications for re-ignition and operation in a vacuum. This reduces the final cost of the launch vehicle.
July 13th, 2010 | Patrick Cox | 1 comment | ContinuedArchive for Patrick Cox
Patrick Cox has lived deep inside the world of transformative technologies for over 25 years. In the 1980s, he worked in computer software development and manufacturing. By the mid-1990s, he worked as a consultant for Netscape - the company that handled 90% of all Internet browsing traffic at the time. InfoWorld and USA Today have featured Patrick's research many times.
Huge RNAi Breakthroughs!
Anti-virus software periodically updates by downloading new additions to its database of evil code. In a sense, RNAi offers scientists a way to hack those evil code updates and inject their own code sequences.
April 6th, 2010 | Patrick Cox | 0 comments | Continued
The Second Huge Stem Cell Breakthrough in a Week
I’ll explain the ISCO developments in some detail. A reader, by the way, recently suggested that I write the Stem Cells for Dummies book for those who are confused by this complex field.
March 25th, 2010 | Patrick Cox | 2 comments | Continued
Van Jones the Communist
I assume that you know by now that the president’s “green czar,” Van Jones, has resigned. Jones had come to prominence by merging environmentalism with grievance politics.
September 24th, 2009 | Patrick Cox | 2 comments | Continued
When Computers Meet Cell Biology
The sequencing of the human genome has resulted in the emergence of an enormously important new branch in the biotechnological sciences. The most common terms for this field are bioinformatics or computational biology.
September 18th, 2009 | Patrick Cox | 0 comments | Continued
The Impact of the Genome
This is rapidly changing. Just a few short years ago, the human genome was first mapped. The genome, as you know, is the entire collection of genetic code that defines us at a biological level. Now scientists are studying single genes and their individual expressions.
August 19th, 2009 | Patrick Cox | 1 comment | Continued
American Banking System is a Branch of the Federal Government
You probably know the old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” I heard it first 30 years ago from an economics professor – my mentor, in fact. He was lecturing about the problems Austrian economic models predict when banking is controlled by government.
July 8th, 2009 | Patrick Cox | 1 comment | Continued
