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These images have been chosen for their uniqueness. Subject matter ranges from
historic events, to really cool phenomena in science and engineering, to relevant
place, to ingenious contraptions, to interesting products (which now has its own
dedicated Featured Product
category).
 Extreme
Sports: When does a model rocket become a weapon?
 A view of the blast door at the entrance of NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain,
in Colorado Springs, CO.
 The
Army's Tactical High Energy Laser Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator (THEL/ACTD)
has successfully demonstrated its ability to detect, track, engage and destroy a
Katyusha rocket armed with a live warhead. The rocket in flight was successfully
intercepted and destroyed in field testing at the Army's High Energy Laser Systems
Test Facility, White Sands Missile Range, N.M.
 This
picture shows the world's first transistor on the workbench of John Bardeen and
Walter Brattain at Bell Laboratories.
 The
first monolithic integrated circuit, about the size of a finger tip, was documented
and developed at Texas Instruments by Jack Kilby in 1958. The IC was a chip of a
single Ge crystal containing one transistor, one capacitor, and one resistor.
 0.8
seconds to live at Mountain Home AFB Thunderbirds air show, September 2003. Links
to videos from the cockpit and on the ground are on the page. Amazing!
 Congrats
to the Chinese space program for their successful manned orbiting mission. Maybe
some day they'll follow us here, too (Apollo 11, July, 1969).
 USS
Enterprise nuclear-powered carrier with crew arranged to mark its 40th anniversary
- cool!
 August
14, 2003 North American blackout - viewed from space
 The
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team has made the first detailed full-sky
map of the oldest light in the universe. It is a "baby picture" of the universe.
Colors indicate "warmer" (red) and "cooler" (blue) spots. The oval shape is a projection
to display the whole sky; similar to the way the globe of the earth can be projected
as an oval. This image has 45 times more resolution than the previous map (COBE).
 Well, this isn't really cool, but it illustrates how costly and tragic
STUPID mistakes can be.
 Before and after shot of "The Old Man of the Mountain" in New Hampshire.
Click here for the story.
 Huge
discharges of lightning that flash from the tops of thunderclouds for distances
of 40 miles or more, have been observed for the first time on Earth.
 Robo-receptionist
clocks on - Android aide brings artificial intelligence to front desk at King's
College in London.
 Scaled Composite's contender for the X-Prize race to space contest
- the White Knight carries SpaceShipOne (the actual space vehicle) over windmills
west of Mojave, with Beech Starship flying chase.
 Lightning striking the Sears Tower in Chicago, 8/1/2003
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