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Weightless Science Attracts Students
   A team consisting of four UC Davis students studying the formation of new materials got the chance to test their theories in NASA's "Weightless Wonder" (popularly known as the "Vomit Comet").
Water Taxi Himiko and the Nautilus: Separated at Birth?
   Anime artist Leiji Matsumoto designed a 114-ton Japanese water taxi to "appeal to the younger generation."
Functional Replica Captain Nemo Diving Suit
   Pat Regan has created a fully functional replica of Captain Nemo's diving suit from the Disney movie version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - the Nemosuit.
Spaceflight Club For Space Enthusiasts
   The Spaceflight Club has been organized by Space Adventures, a private space experiences company. The club will make sure members get the tools, experience and training they need to be ready for commercial space travel.
Sky Billboards In Fact And Fiction
   The Federal Aviation Administration intends to amend its regulations; the FAA wants to make sure it can enforce a law that prohibits "obtrusive" advertising in zero gravity.
Inertial Capacitive Incapacitor: HomeSec Does Verne
   With Homeland Security, Physical Optics Corporation is taking a page from nineteenth century science fiction writer Jules Verne.
Piezer - Homeland Security Orders Verne's 1875 'Leyden Ball'
   DARPA is looking for an untethered electro-muscular disruption non-lethal stun weapon.
Lynntech Non-Lethal Weapon - Jules Verne Right Again
   Under DARPA's auspices, Lynntech of College Station, Texas, is developing a non-lethal projectile with a longer range than a Taser.
Tanaka Auto Door
   You may be wondering what is so great about a door that opens only just enough to let a person come in or out... besides being cool.
Vast Ocean Glow Confirms Jules Verne Novel
   A luminescent area the size of the state of Connecticut was seen by satellite this past week - just like in 20K Leagues Under the Sea.
CustomFlix News Clips On Custom-Made DVD
   Custom media choices arrive even earlier than Jules Verne predicted.
Saddam's Supergun And Verne's Columbiad
   It appears that Impey Barbicane of the Baltimore Gun Club and Saddam Hussein had more in common that I would have thought possible.
Long Range Stunners - Again
   Another long range stun weapon - actually, Jules Verne had this one first.
Earth Barcoded For Alien Convenience
   A seemingly innocent art project meant to get you thinking about our real and virtual worlds is so much more, if you know how to look at it.
TASER XREP Neuro-Muscular Incapacitation
   This little device comes just 132 years after it was first conceptualized by Jules Verne.
Jelly-Fish 45 Habitat: Captain Nemo Wants One
   This would be a great vacation home; maybe you could rent?
Volitan Solar 'Sail' Yacht
   The Volitan looks good in this conceptual video; I like the idea of a boat powered by sun and sail only.
Electric Warship - Navy's Nautilus
   This interesting concept under development does have an interesting sf predecessor.
Nanopaper - Paper Tough As Steel
   This material sounds like it has a lot of potential; light as paper, with the tensile strength of steel.
Shock Absorbers For Orion: NASA Turns To Verne
   NASA scientists are worried about excessive vibration after the launch of the Orion replacement rocket; it's an old concern.
Google Earth Typography
   What do aliens see when they look at Earth from afar? Maybe letters.
Sushi In Space!
   And I still remember Tang fondly. But now, I can go to a nice restaurant and have a meal like the astronauts.
Quicklauncher Space Cannon
   Nifty idea requires $500 million funding, a drop in the bucket compared to current cost to orbit. With excellent presentation video by John Hunter.
Undersea Mining With Nautilus Minerals Seafloor Production System
   Nautilus Minerals is developing the first seafloor gold and copper exploration and mining operation.
Graphene Paper 10x Stronger Than Steel
   This new material is paper-thin and super-strong.
Together Anywhere, Together Anytime
   The telephote! Here is another great triumph of modern science.
Syrians Ask For Help From Mars
   '...enormous figures, drawn in characters of reflecting luminosity...'
Arctic Resource Jackpot An Old Wish
   By inducing climate change, new resources are revealed.
Private Space Flight At 'Inflection Point'
   'The travelers could therefore quit their prison at pleasure, as soon as they should reach the moon.'- Jules Verne, 1867.
Haute Cuisine On International Space Station
   'The gas gave sufficient heat for the culinary apparatus…'-Jules Verne, 1867.
Is There A Subterranean Ocean?
   'A vast, limitless expanse of water, the end of a lake if not of an ocean, spread before us, until it was lost in the distance.'- Jules Verne, 1864.
ESA Plans Akon Projectile To Europa ala Jules Verne
   '... might [it] not be possible to project a shot up to the moon?' Jules Verne, 1867.
Humanity Star LEO Advertisement?
   'Everyone has noticed those enormous advertisements...' Jules Verne, 1889.
Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) Workshop
   SF writers have thought about this since the 19th century.
CAV-X Supercavitating Ammo Deadly Underwater
   '...in the midst of this fluid, which is very dense compared with the atmosphere, shots could not go far.' - Jules Verne, 1875.
SPECTER Electroshock Round Fireable From Shotgun
   '...the balls sent by this gun are not ordinary balls, but little cases of glass.' - Jules Verne, 1875.
Apollo 8 Astronauts Pass The Equigravisphere
   '... divers other objects, firearms and bottles, abandoned to themselves, held themselves up as by enchantment.' - Jules Verne, 1867.
'A Sign in Space' Gives Practice In Decoding ET Messages
   '... it will be easy to form an alphabet which shall enable us to converse with the inhabitants of the moon.' - Jules Verne, 1867.

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