The Cardinal » Science http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com Arlington Heights News, Sports, Weather, Health & Fitness Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:31:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Today: 9:09 on 09/09/09 and More Stuff About the Number Nine http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2009/09/09/today-909-on-090909/ http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2009/09/09/today-909-on-090909/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:09:14 +0000 Cardinal News http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/?p=14036 Today around the world it has been or will be 9:09 on 09/09/09 — twice A.M and P.M.

Spooky? September 9, 2009 also happens to be the 252nd day of the year (2 + 5 +2 = 9).

Attention Numerologists:
09:09 09/09/09 — the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that we’ll see for almost a century (until January 1, 2101), or a millennium, January 1, 3001.

Apple iTunes version 9.0 was announced on 09/09/09.

Other cool number dates:

COMING UP …
10/10/10
11/11/11
12/12/12

IN DAYS PAST …
08/08/08 — Day One, 2008 Summer Olympics in China, ringing in at 8 p.m. on 08/08/08.

07/07/07

06/06/06

05/05/05

04/04/04

03/03/03

02/02/02

01/01/01 — JAN 01 2001 – A black monolith measuring approximately 9 feet tall appears in Seattle, Washington’s Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

01/23/45
02/04/06
04/06/08

More nine stuff …
9 x 3 = 27, and 2 + 7 = 9

Multiply nine by any two, three or four-digit number and the sums of those digits will also break down to nine. For example: 9×62 = 558; 5+5+8=18; 1+8=9.

9 x 2 = 18 (1 + 8 = 9)
9 x 3 = 27 (2 + 7 = 9)
9 x 4 = 36 (3 + 6 = 9)
9 x 5 = 45 (4 + 5 = 9)
9 x 6 = 54 (5 + 4 = 9)
…

Multiply nine by any two, three or four-digit number and the sums of those digits will also break down to nine.

9 x 62 = 558; 5 + 5 + 8 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9
9 x 25 = 225; 2 + 2 + 5 = 9
9 x 555 = 4995; 4 + 9 + 5 + 9 = 27; 2 + 7 = 9

Don’t forget for time resources, check Arlingtoncards.com/time …

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]]> http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2008/02/22/nevada-solar-one-power-station-64-megawatt-concentrating-solar-power-plant/feed/ 0 The 14 Challenges Facing Humanity http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2008/02/16/the-14-challenges-facing-humanity/ http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2008/02/16/the-14-challenges-facing-humanity/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:53:05 +0000 admin http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2008/02/16/the-14-challenges-facing-humanity/ Fourteen challenges were announced at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston last week.

Make solar energy affordable
Provide energy from fusion
Develop carbon sequestration
Manage the nitrogen cycle
Provide access to clean water
Reverse engineer the brain
Prevent nuclear terror
Secure cyberspace
Enhance virtual reality
Improve urban infrastructure
Advance health informatics
Engineer better medicines
Advance personalized learning
Explore natural frontiers

Panel experts included Google founder Larry Page; genome pioneer Dr. Craig Venter; and inventor of optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis and speech recognition technology — Ray Kurzweil.

Kurzweil predicted “that we will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029.”

Humans and machines would eventually merge, by means of devices embedded in people’s bodies to keep them healthy and improve their intelligence, predicted Mr Kurzweil.

Kurzweil also predicted …
“We’ll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons.” Nanobots will “make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system.”

More …
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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