Space Tourism by Techies!

This is weird. What's with these 3 space programs sponsored by 3 very rich tech guys?

1. Paul Allen's (Microsoft) SpaceshipOne - Link

2. Jeff Bezo's (Amazon) Blue Origin - Link

*Picture is a speculation of what it would look like. Sources said the principle of flight is similar to NASA's Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X) spacecraft.

3. John Carmack's (id Software) Armadillo Aerospace - Link

Is space tourism the next big thing? Will we be seeing a space boom soon pretty much like the tech boom or the biotech boom now?

From an unqualified aeronautical engineer's view (still - 6 more months to go!), space is too expensive, what we think would work are massive airships replacing sea-going freighters/cruise-ships! With control systems already worked out such that an airship can take off and land by itself, no airports needed, loiter time of months and speeds faster than a boat this seem to be a more logical step to be taken!

Xmas Spoiler: Physics of Santa Claus?

Wondering if Santa ever existed? Read this about the physics of Santa Claus and have a good laugh. =)

3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west(which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second — a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

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Burqini - bikini?

Very out of topic here but have a look at this:

We might actually see them soon in our swimming pools!

Link - Newspaper article
Link - Where to get them

Legal Free Mp3s for download!

As some of you would know, Amazon sometimes give out songs for free. Currently there's quite a few music genres out there to satisfy anyone's taste.

So what are you waiting for? Here's the link:

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Introducing KOREKK!

Presenting the Malaysian Digg - KOREKK. See it here - Link

Like Digg, the site depends on user participation and so the more articles that you contribute the more interesting it becomes! And the cool thing is you get to vote on articles you like kinda like recommending to other users!

For more on how to use KOREKK, go here - Link