Monthly Archives: June 2007

Police Sirens, and introducing the Rumbler

There are a wide variety of sirens at the disposal of police. However, there is now a new type of siren being added to their repertoire: Christened with a tantalizing name, the Rumbler, it sends out low, bone-rattling vibrations, so it is not only heard, but also felt. One has been tested on the streets [...]

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Floating Cities

There are two types of floating cities: cities that float in water (see ocean colonization) and cities that float in the sky (such as Cloud City). Both are still theoretical; the latter is really theoretical. Geoffrey Landis provides an interesting point though about building floating cities on Venus, whose surface is generally considered to be [...]

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