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this months guide to innovation and discovery
may 09
VOLUME 274 #5
FEATURES
THE FUTURE OF TRAVEL p. 36
ON THE COVER: NICK KALOTERAKIS; THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: NICK KALOTERAKIS; JONATHAN ARVIZU/TRAPDOOR STUDIO; JOHN B. CARNETT; BRENT HUMPHREYS;
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44 GEEK GETAWAYS
Most tourists wouldnt visit a 6,000-ton,
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on vacation. But youre not most tourists,
are you? Trek to cryogenic facilities,
earthquake simulators and ape camps
with our authoritative guide to fascinating
secret destinations across the U.S.
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15 GADGETS
Distort images and audio with a new game console.
16 THE GOODS
Inflatable sneakers; a digital camera that edits your pics.
18 AUTO TECH
A Mercedes-Benz hybrid sports cutting-edge batteries.
24 RECREATION
Lower your score with a new round of golf gear.
HEADLINES
27 HEALTH
Dangerous prescription drugs in natural diet pills.
28 AUTOMOTIVE TECH
Car Wi-Fi warns you of danger long before you see it.
30 30-SECOND SCIENCE
ENVIROBAMA
This administration takes science seriously, with moves such as
allowing federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell research. Go to
popsci.com/envirobama to discover how else the president is bolstering
science and meet the key players on his team.
34 ENVIRONMENT
HOW 2.0
67 YOU BUILT WHAT ?!
Meet Bar2D2, the drink-mixing robot.
68 5 THINGS
Clever ways to make quick cash on the Web.
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WHEN I WAS A KID, flying was a budget-busting luxury for our family of five,
impractical even for the occasional epic pilgrimages wed make from Detroit to
Ft. Lauderdale to visit the grandparents. We drove. And so I became a familyroad-trip virtuoso, a battler with my two brothers for rights to the way back
seat in the station wagon, a
keen-eyed sentry on the lookout
for VW Beetles on the highway
(which entitled me to punch my
siblings), a connoisseur of car
sicknessall the while with my
nose pressed to the window, following the contrails crisscrossing
the sky above us.
Today when we drive, the
kids faces generally point not out the window but (blessedly for intrafamilial
peace, I must say) toward a DVD screen. Mostly, though, we flyand even
there, ironically enough, the lure of cloud views and Earth-from-the-sky vistas
tends to get trumped by the attraction of the screens in front of their eyes.
While Im jonesing for a little legroom and fantasizing about human teleportation, Im not entirely sure what aspirational travel visions, if any, are filling my
sons heads. In an era when flight is routine and Airbus is an all too apt name
for an airplane manufacturer, what do we have to look forward to?
Glad you asked. Would a supersonic spacelinerNew York to Sydney in 90
minutesexcite you? How about that nifty 250mph rotor-propelled sportster
on the cover? For those seeking terrestrial travel options, we offer a return to
the romance of the rails, albeit at a bit more of a pell-mell pace aboard a sleek
224mph bullet train. As with everything we feature in the magazine, these
machines and the others we spotlight in our Future of Travel package [page
36] are all in active development, most of them headed to surprisingly near-term
deployment. That said, they are the stuff of the future, and the problem with the
future is that it isnt here yet. So weve also compiled a Baedeker of geektastic
destination suggestions for right now. This
summer, instead of Knotts Berry Farm,
take the kids to talk with intelligent apes,
or to get run over by a miniature Mars
rover. That should help pull their eyes
away from the screens.
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WHEN FLIGHT IS
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WE HAVE TO LOOK
FORWARD TO?
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Features Editor Nicole Dyer
Editorial Production Manager Felicia Pardo
Copy and Research Director Rina Bander
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Senior Associate Editors Doug Cantor, Bjorn Carey,
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Contributing Futurist Andrew Zolli
Editorial Intern Catherine Schwanke
Corrections
On the map in Just How Fat Are We? the labels for
Alabama and Mississippi were switched. The data listed
under the name of each state is correct.
In Can a gun fire in space? [FYI], we examined the
combustible properties of black powder, used in 19thcentury rifles, rather than smokeless powder, typically
a mix of mostly nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin, used in
modern ammunition. Both would provide all the oxygen
necessary to function in the vacuum of space, however.
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The DSi also generates animations set to the beat of music,
including a game in which Mario collects coins arranged to
mimic the notes in your favorite song.
For old-school play, you can load in nearly all of the
existing 850 DS games, plus inexpensive downloads from a
new online store.Steve Morgenstern
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Car accidents kill 115 people a day in
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tracks a moving signal and algorithms
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TRAFFIC UPDATES
Vehicles transmit their speed and position to cars within at least 500 feet, 10
times per second [A]. Onboard computers analyze the data and warn the
driver of, for example, imminent collision with a car running a red light [B].
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time conditions to traffic-control centers
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Members of the Zosteropidae family are not birds of a feather. White-eyes,
sparrow-like songbirds, are the fastest-evolving bird on record. According to a
recent genetic analysis of several dozen subspecies by Chris Filardi, a biologist at
the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 80 species have emerged
in the past two million years. Among vertebrates, only the cichlid fish evolves
faster, probably due to abrupt changes in its geographically confined habitat, a
common catalyst for speciation. But white-eyes populate three continents, so
Filardi suspects that sexual selection and social behavior drives the birds speedy
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Doctors have miniaturized almost
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box to prevent them from spinning
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motor, called Proteus, using reverse
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motionwhich lets it maintain power
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size. An electrified ceramic element
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ILLUSTRATION BY KEVIN HAND
COMMERCIAL FLIGHT:
the long, skinny tube has to go. Tasked with improving the nations air
transportation, NASA wants airplanes to burn 40 percent less fuel than a 777 by 2020 and
70 percent less by 2030. Not only that, it wants those same planes to be whisper-quiet.
The bestand perhaps the onlyway to reach these ambitious benchmarks is to design
commercial planes more like stealth bombers and less like pencils.
This past winter, the agency awarded $12.3 million to Boeing, Lockheed Martin and
other companies to develop the so-called N+3-generation airplanethat is, a design three
generations ahead of todays. The leading contender is the fabled blended-wing body, which
replaces the conventional tube with a triangular shape. Its the only design that we think
can meet our fuel and noise goals, says Tony Strazisar, a senior technologist with NASAs
Fundamental Aeronautics Program. With high-speed wind tests of scale models under way,
the blended wing could take flight before 2020. Heres how it would work.
Body shape
The blended wings fuselage
relies on a triangular shape
to reduce its surface area and
generate 20 percent of its lift.
Less surface area means less
drag, and less drag means
more fuel efficiency.
OTHER IDEAS
TAKING OFF
three paths to
greener skies
2010: REcycling
The airline industry expects to
retire more than 4,000 planes
by 2023. Rather than junk their
airplanes in the desert, Boeing
and Airbus are developing plans
to reuse and recycle as much as
85 percent of the materials in
aircraft that are flying now, from
tires and batteries to carbon fiber
and hydraulic fluids.
Engines
Passenger cabin
Controls
Rockets
takeoff
Engines
Cooling
The Spaceliner
would lift off on
the back of a rocket
powered by liquid
hydrogen/oxygen
thrusters capable
of 25 launches.
After separation,
the rocket engines
would glide to a
recovery site, making
rapid reuse and
refurbishment much
less complicated.
Spaceliners Martin
Sippel thinks the
turnaround for the
entire rig will be one
to three days.
Virgin Galactic
XCor
FAST 20XX
Space Adventures
TECH
PASSENGER EXPERIENCE
COST
$95,000a comparative
bargainper flight
$200,000 (est.)
$20 million+
SITE
Sweden
Kazakhstan
VERDICT
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SUPER TRAINS:
trains are quickly replacing airplanes. Europe, with its long tradition of train
travel, has been particularly aggressive. In 2007 the European Commission
initiated a plan that will triple its high-speed-rail networks by 2020. The
train-maker to watch? French firm Alstom, the name behind 70 percent of
the trains that surpass 186 mphnearly 650 of them. Its next-generation
train, the AGV, just entered full-speed tests last December and in 2011 will be
whizzing around Italy. If youre disappointed at the prospect of having to fly
to Europe to ride the AGV, dont be. Alstom is in discussions to provide trains
for the high-speed-rail system planned in California.
Heres a look at some of the big innovations that will let the AGV hit a
top speed of 224 mph while offering a roomy, comfortable ride.
shape
wheels
Motors
The aerodynamics
of the AGV not only
increase speed but
also cut noise. At its
top speed, the train
makes as much clatter
as its predecessor,
the TGV, does at 200
mphno mean feat,
since noise increases
exponentially with
speed. It required
smoothing every
surface on the train,
from the hoses
between cars to the
farings on the front
bogies (also known
as wheels and axles),
as well reshaping the
nose cone.
a better bogie
Primary suspension
Permanentmagnet motor
Secondary
suspension
Wheel
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BRITS GET A
CLEANER COMMUTE
two new takes on greening
the classic london ride
London is revamping itself for the 2012
Olympic Games, and part of that will entail
bringing back its iconic double-decker buses.
Last winter, two co-winners were announced
in a competition to redesign the Routemaster:
Foster and Partners, an architecture firm,
collaborating with Aston Martin; and Capoco,
a leading bus designer. Their entries mix oldtime design elements and new technology.
Both propose aluminum, monocoque
frames to cut weight and minimize bulk, and
easy-to-repair hybrid engines, with flywheels
that would regenerate battery power during
braking. Inside, the Capoco design hews
closer to the old layout. But the Foster version
[below] is more of a departure. Its basically
a mobile building, says Alistair Lenczner, a
partner at the company. We wanted to create
a living room. The seats are recycled leather
and the floor recycled wood. The layout riffs
on the living-room feel: Downstairs are the
typical forward-facing, flip-down seats, but
upstairs the benches face each other.
Contractors are now bidding to build the
buses, with production set to begin by 2011.
They can use all or some of the elements in
the winning designs, but looks will matter.
We have architecture competitions all the
time, says Alan Ponsford, Capocos design
director. But Londons 8,000 buses affect
more peoples lives than any building would.
The outcome should reflect that.
200
400
600
800
TESLA ROADSTER
THE RIDE An all-electric two-seater powered by
lithium-ion batteries. Cost: $109,000.
RANGE 244 miles in combined city/highway
driving. Fully charges in less than 3.5 hours on
220-volt outlets.
PERFORMANCE 060 mph in 3.9 seconds;
185 kilowatts, 248 horsepower
ROAD-TRIP-WORTHY? If your vacation takes
place on a racetrack, sure. Otherwise, most Teslas
will stray as far from home as a pedigreed cat.
PERSONAL PLANES:
ms-1
hy-bird
Solar
LISA, a French manufacturer
of sport planes, has paired
with solar-cell maker Trina
Solar to create an electric
airplane, dubbed the HyBird, whose 65-foot wings
will be covered in flexible
solar panels. Stocked with
the suns energy, batteries
will power the plane during
takeoffs and charge all the
instruments. Once aloft, the
planes electric motor will
run on a hydrogen fuel cell
stored behind the pilots
seat. The company has built
a scale model of the plane
and hopes to have a fullscale model ready for flight
by the end of the year.
CHEVrolet VOLT
Fisker Karma
GEEK
GETAWAYS
BY JOE KITA
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
JONATHAN ARVIZU/TRAPDOOR STUDIO
the worlds smartest apes. Its a good idea to call ahead and ask
permission for a tour at many of these facilities, but some are
just plain open to the public. Even better, all eight destinations
are in the U.S., making it convenient and affordable to visit the
one nearest you for a day or pack up the Prius and road-trip to a
few. Skip the tourist traps, and start exploring!
VACATION WITH
MARTIAN EXPERTS
Destination: NASA JET
PROPULSION LABORATORY
Pasadena, Calif.
If you cant go to Mars (and you probably
cant), JPL may be the next best thing.
This historic lab is the hub for the
nations latest Red Planet research.
Youll see the Space Flight Operations
Facility, where scientists monitor current
missions, a Space Simulator for virtual
testing, and a Marscape, where prototype
rovers practice maneuvers. JPL offers a
free, two-day open house every May, but
private tours (also free) can be arranged
year-round if booked in advance.
Info: jpl.nasa.gov/pso/pt.cfm
GeeK highlight: Lie down and get
run over by a mini Martian buggy!
Watch a Parking
Garage Buckle
Destination: EARTHQUAKE
SIMULATors buffalo, reno
and san diego
Here, youll get to see the countrys largest wave basin (160
by 87 by 5 feet), along with a 342-foot-long wave flume (sorry,
no surfing) and a piston wave generator. All are designed to
simulate the effects of tsunamis striking harbors, land and
man-made structures. A scaled model of an offshore oil-rig
platform was recently built inside the lab and hit with waves,
On the upside,
Thompsons work suggests that its not
up
impossiblee to build a better airplane seat. So why dont
we have them
them? First, it helps to understand the design
objectives in play. Federal law and physics require that
seats be safe and lightweight. Comfort? Thats a bonus.
The prevailing
prevailin approach isnt to make seats comfortable
but to eliminate
elimin discomfort. The difference is more than
semantic. Des
Designing a seat to be not uncomfortable for the
numb of people reduces the ergonomic contours
largest number
to the lowest common denominator. As a result, nobrainers like an adjustable lumbar support turn out to be a
genuine pain for some because of the wide range not just
in height but in lower-back curvature.
That said
said, airlines have had the chance to upgrade
cattle class in the ongoing changeover to sturdier structures
mandated by the FAA 20 years ago, but most of them
seem to have blown the redesign opportunity. A 1988 rule
increased the strength requirements of airline seats from
th force of gravity to 16, and instituted crash
nine times the
th automotive industry uses to guard against
testing like the
in
debilitating injuries.
Its a bend-dont-break directive meant
to protect the head, legs and spine so that if you survive
9 percent do, according to the National
a crash (and 95
Transportatio Safety Board), youll be able to escape.
Transportation
Attached with swivels, the 16g seats wont snap off if the
floor moves, oor crumple and block a row. Early versions of
tend to be overbuilt and bulky, often eating into
the seats tended
kne room with reinforced spars, but that isnt
shin and knee
bla for our discomfort either. There is no
entirely to blame
th says Rick DeWeese, who heads one of the
catch-22 to this,
cra
FAAs two crash-test
centers, in Oklahoma City. Theres no
reason a safe seat cant be a comfortable one.
Joh
Glenn Johnson,
the design director at B/E Aerospace,
which makes seats for Southwest Airlines, Continental
Airlines and British
B
Airways, among others, argues that his
companys ch
chairs are comfortable. Lift the cushion on a B/E
seat and you see a stretched fabric diaphragm, not unlike an
Aeron chair, a comfort feature B/E patented a decade ago.
It has also patented
pa
armrests with a forward hinge point,
creating knee room for the passenger behind. If you put
an economy-c
economy-class seat in a nice place and compared it to an
Aeron chair, I would argue that the Aeron chair is no more
comfortable, Johnson says. The issue, he contends, is one
of environme
environment, thus the reason why we dont mind sitting
on hard wood
wooden stools in a bar. Like Brauer, Johnson insists
that its not the
th seats; its how the airlines pack them in.
The calculus
calcu of comfort is straightforward: Measure
from one mo
mounting bolt to the same point at the row
behinda di
distance known as seat pitchand subtract
the thickness of the back cushion to determine leg room.
Most carriers fix their seats somewhere between a 31- and
34-inch pitch
pitch. Assuming a seat thickness of two inches,
even the tigh
tightest spacing actually allows for 99th-percentile
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RECON ROBOT
The remote-control
Small Unmanned
Ground Vehicle feeds
images to soldiers in
real time.
WAR
GAMES
The most ambitious weapons program in
Army history calls for a whole new arsenal
of connected gear, from helicopter drones to
GPS-guided missiles. But what happens if the
network that links it all isnt ready?
By James Vlahos
photographs by brent humphreys
drawn. Reaching the building hed
scoped, they took cover inside. The robot, meanwhile, whirred on tank treads
to investigate the second house. The
building had no door, and he rolled inside easily. The soldiers followed. Bang,
bang! Gunfire erupted, and moments
later the Americans emerged unscathed.
The two insurgents inside the house
werent as lucky.
three facts about fcs
My view of
the Showdown
The Future Combat Systems program is a family of new
military equipment thats designed to give everyone from
at the Baghdad
grunt to general more intel through an advanced network.
Corral came
from atop the
FCS has been scaled back and may go as much as $100
roof of the first
billion over budget, in part because the Army started
building, where
building the equipment before perfecting the network.
I stood with two
A handful of technologies, including a robot, a missile
Army colonels
launcher and a UAV are slated for deployment by 2011.
and a brigadier
The rest of the program wont be ready until at least 2015.
general, a cadre of
1
2
FCS network integration. But the infrastructure that allows you to wirelessly
call and Web-surf while sipping a Frappuccino at Starbucks has been built up
over the course of decades at a cost of
hundreds of billions of dollars, he says.
In war zones, modern communications
are often limited or nonexistent. Even
when robust commercial Internet and
cellular technologies are in place, for
security reasons the military cant rely
on them. Communicating over widely
known standards would enable an enemy
to easily intercept information, like the
coordinates for an upcoming missile
strike. Worse yet, even encrypted transmissions could allow foes to pinpoint
soldiers locations and to launch counterattacks. When the Army shows up to
SMART
STICKS
Various
Tactical
Unattended
Ground Sensors can tell
if shots are
being fired
or if toxins
are in the air;
others have
cameras.
FCS consists of a family of networked gear in which each piece acts as both cellphone and
cell tower, bouncing data around a battlefield. Soldiers can send data such as target coordinates
directly to a missile launcher on the other side of town. Intel from sensors can beam straight to
soldiers as well as back to a command post, where it connects to a tactical version of the Internet.
UAVs scout
from the sky
and send
images to
soldiers on
the ground.
JAMIE SNEDDON
intel-gathering gear
STICK EM UP Soldiers
will set sensors [here and
right] inside buildings that
can detect motion and
capture images.
TERMINATOR SALVATION
In theaters: May 1
This prequel reveals how Wolverine (Hugh
Jackman) acquired his steel-gouging
claws and indestructible skeleton.
GEEK CANDY: The surgery scene, in
which the fast-healing mutant is lowered
into liquid to fuse his bones with the
fictional metal adamantium, incorporates
present-day robotic surgery techniques to
make it look and feel more real.
EGQ: Low. The characters dont theorize
about their magic-power-granting genetic
mutations; they just try to kill each other.
In theaters: May 15
When Robert Langdon, the puzzle-solving
hero of The Da Vinci Code, is summoned to
the European physics lab CERN to investigate the death of a physicist, he uncovers
a secret plot against the Catholic Church.
GEEK CANDY: The Large Hadron Collider
is the backdropnuff said.
EGQ: Medium. The books plot hinges on
a bomb made from a gram of antimatter,
but CERNs real antimatter expert, Rolf
Landua, says, Were not even making a
billionth of a billionth of a gram.
In theaters: May 21
The machines have prevailed, humans are
fighting for survival, and the Governator
has hung up his shotgun, leaving rebel
leader John Connor (Christian Bale) to
secure the future of mankind on his own.
ering
GEEK CANDY: A full-on rendering
of the machine-run, dystopian
future, complete with freakishly
ly cool
autonomous motorcycles.
EGQ: Medium. The film unveilss
new details about the origins of
ors.
the humanity-hating Terminators.
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Will antimatter destroy the Catholic Church? Will Kirk beat up aliens? Will any of it sound even
slightly plausible? Heres a look at the Hollywoodified science hitting the big screen this summer,
complete with our highly scientific Expected Gibberish Quotient (EGQ) BY GREGORY MONE
POPSCI PREVIEW
STAR TREK
In theaters: May 8
We start in the future. An alien timetravels from that futures future and
alters key events. In the resulting
past, we watch Kirk and crew come
together as younger, better-looking
space adventurers. In the future.
GEEK CANDY: Artificial gravity, a new
spin on teleportation, phasers and a
black-hole bomb. Oh, and Kirk gets
into a bar fightpossibly with aliens.
EGQ: Off the charts. This franchise
practically invented tech gibberish, or
Treknobabble, and the writers have
promised plenty more.
TRANSFORMERS:
REVENGE OF THE FALLEN
In theaters: June 24
The protective Autobots and evil
Decepticons . . . blah blah . . . robots!
GEEK CANDY: More hot transforming
vehicles, including an SR-71 Blackbird
and a Chevy Volt. And the bridge-crushing
behemoth in the trailer is most likely
Devastator, a Decepticon made of several
Constructicon bots combined.
EGQ: High. The filmmakers didnt consult
robotics experts, so any technical talk
about the bots is probably blather.
In theaters: July 1
The misfit band led by Manny the woolly
mammoth follows Sid the sloth into an
underground world of dinosaurs.
GEEK CANDY: The animators met with
paleontologists for lessons on dinosaur
mechanics. But given the kid-flick factor,
they also had to humanize the beasts, so
dont expect textbook physiology.
EGQ: Low, but the implausibility factor
is astronomical. No, children, woolly
mammoths did not butt heads with T. rex.
FACES IN THE
CROWD Scott
Henderson, a
private intelligence contractor
[facing page],
believes that civilian hackers in
China pose a real
threat to American
cybersecurity.
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The Chinese attacks were poorly coordinated, and its
tempting to dismiss them as harmless online vandalism. But
subsequent attacks have become more serious. In the past
two years, Chinese hackers have intercepted critical NASA
files, breached the computer system in a sensitive Commerce
Department bureau, and launched assaults on the Save Darfur
Coalition, pro-Tibet groups and CNN. And those are just the
attacks that have been publicly acknowledged. Were these
initiated by the Chinese government? Who is doing this?
Early clues came through the boasts of a single Chinese
hacker. On May 20, 2003, a man named Peng Yinan, then
known only by the moniker coolswallow, logged into a public
Shanghai Jiaotong University student forum and described
how he formed a group at the universitys Information Security
Engineering School that coordinated with other hackers to
bring down whitehouse.gov in 2001. Javaphile was established
by coolswallow (thats me) and a partner, he wrote in Chinese.
At first we werent a hacker organization. After the 2001 ChinaU.S. plane collision incident, Chinese hackers declared an anti-
into a networked age, the risk that our digital systems could
be crippled by outside attackersor worse, pillaged for
sensitive informationis very real. The commission report
cited vulnerable American targets such as the electric grid and
the municipal-waste, air-traffic-control, banking and Social
Security systems. Before leaving office in January, President
Bush authorized the creation of a National Cyber Security
Center under the Department of Homeland Security, and in
February, President Obamas budget proposal called for giving
the department $355 million to secure private- and public-sector
cyber-infrastructure.
But theres reason to believe that a damaging attack wont
originate in some dedicated Chinese government bureau. In
previous testimony before the commission, James C. Mulvenon,
director of the defense think tank the Center for Intelligence
Research and Analysis, said he was more immediately
concerned with independent, civilian-led patriotic hacking.
James Andrew Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which helped
One third
of Chinese
elementaryschool students
claim they aspire
to be hackers.
hundreds, maybe thousands. He quickly realized that each was
the online headquarters of a Chinese hacker organization, with
detailed logs of hacks, contact information for hackers, and
forums where users discussed targets. Chinese hackers, it turns
out, take credit on their own sites for attacks, leaving a long trail
of documentation. They are so attention-driven that when they
post images of their successes to online trophy rooms, they tag
them with e-mail addresses, URLs, even cellphone numbers.
Within three minutes, Henderson had more information than
he knew what to do with.
He spent the next few months trying to make sense of
the data. To map connections among hacker sites, he laid a
large sheet of paper out on the floor of his office and started
sketching the network by hand. The diagram quickly extended
off the page. Then it extended off several taped-together pages.
After a co-worker suggested the computer program i2 Analysts
Notebook, an investigative tool that allowed him to craft a more
sophisticated model, Henderson, following links from site to
site, connected 250 hacker pages. Monitoring a cross-section of
In 2002, Peng and two other hackers broke into the Web site
of Lite-On and replaced the Taiwanese firms home page with
an image of a white face with hollowed-out eyes, along with
the message [F-ck] Taiwans pro-independence!!! In December
2003, the ghost face reemerged on the U.S. Navy Chartroom
site, an internal Navy page. [F-ck] usa.gov, read the defacement,
which was signed by coolswallow and four others.
Soon after, Javaphile disintegrated. But Peng continued to
take online casualties, defining his role as electronic patriot more
and more broadly. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Peng,
objecting to American imperialism, plastered the Washington,
D.C.area Fox News site with Allah Bless Iraq!!! Dont throw
bombs, throw Bush.
CHASING PENG
GOODWELL
WITHERED ROSE
Founder of the
Green Army, with
a membership of
as many as 3,000,
Goodwell is perhaps Chinas
most famous
hacker, directly
or indirectly
responsible for
hacking countless
foreign Web sites.
A HACKER IS BORN
Rogues gallery
FIELDWORK
One PowerPoint slide from the lecture underlines the
importance of simple, openly available techniques, noting that
in 2006 the Chicago Tribune obtained contact information
for 2,600 CIA agents using a commercial online service and
suggesting that hackers use illegal methods in weak sites to
obtain information on personnel from safe sites. Chinese
coverage of the event showed Peng lecturing easily from
behind an open laptop. Henderson now had definitive evidence
connecting coolswallow and ericool to Pengs name, allowing
him to reconstruct the hackers biography. What most intrigued
him, however, was a phrase in small type at the bottom of the
Pneuma flyer describing Peng as a consultant for the Shanghai
Municipal Bureau of Public Security.
Henderson promptly posted his findings on his blog,
with a copy of the presentation, an introduction to Pneuma,
and Peng Yinans photo. It was impossible to deduce the
exact nature of Pengs new job. Based on the flyer, he was
working for the Shanghai government, not for the national
intelligence service. But such an arrangement supported
what happens
when these
hackers start
gunning for
classified
information?
Hendersons assessment of Chinas informal governmenthacker relationship, providing evidence that after hackers cut
their teeth on nationalist campaigns, the government might
hire them to take on freelance work.
Five hours after the post went up, a user calling himself
Pneuma Collegium posted a comment: Your use of the logo
and the photo of Pneuma Collegium is . . . an infringement of
Pneuma Collegiums copyright. When Henderson saw that the
posters IP address belonged to pneuma.cn, his blood boiled.
Henderson removed the logo and the PowerPoint presentation
but kept the photo up, citing U.S. law on fair use of images. His
aim, he told me later, was to keep the image of Peng publicly
available. When the FBI gets their hands on you, he said, as if
still in conversation with the hacker, I want them to match this
picture to your faceand take you to jail.
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One of the major difficulties of the project
was finding a way to move bottles up from
the enclosed beer rack on the robots second level to the section above, which has
an open panel that allows Bar2s patrons
P FUNK FACTOR
To increase Bar2D2s party appeal, Price
equipped it with an off-the-shelf, soundactivated neon lighting display so the robot
can flash in rhythm with music. He wanted to
add a speaker system but decided that would
make it too tall and potentially unstable.
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YOU KNOW BACON IS DELICIOUS, BUT DID YOU
KNOW IT HAS ENOUGH ENERGY TO MELT METAL?
I recently committed myself to
the goal, before the weekend was
out, of creating a device entirely
from bacon and using it to cut a
steel pan in half. My initial attempts
were failures, but I knew success
was within reach when I was able
to ignite and melt the pan using
seven beef sticks and a cucumber.
No, seriously. The device I built
was a form of thermal lance. A thermal lance, typically made of iron
instead of bacon, is used to cut up
scrap metal and rescue people from
collapsed buildings. It works by blowing pure oxygen gas through a pipe
packed with iron and magnesium
ACHTUNG!
Theodore Gray is trained in lab safety. Dont try this at home. See more of Grays work at periodictable.com.
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I used prosciutto (Italian for expensive bacon) because it is a superior
engineering grade of meat. I wrapped
slices of it into thin tubes and baked
them overnight in a warm oven to drive
off all the water. Then I bundled seven
of those together, wrapped them in
additional slices, and baked the bundle
again until it was hard and dry.
To make an airtight, less-flammable
outer casing, I wrapped this fuel core
with uncooked prosciutto before attaching one end of it to an oxygen hose. You
cant imagine the feeling of triumph when
I first saw the telltale signs of burning
iron: sparks bursting from the metal,
and then a rush of flame out of the other
side as I witnessed perhaps the first-ever
example of bacon-cut steel. And the lance
kept on burning for about a minute.
It turns out there are much easier ways
to do this. For example, while researching
how to build a vegetarian lance, I hit on
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Now that everyones gotten digital versions of their old favorites, music sites
are feverishly building tools to point you
to new music. If youre an iTunes user,
get version 8 for the new Genius feature,
which looks at whatever youre playing
and makes suggestions based on iTunes
Store shopping trends. Another starting point is Pandora.com, which catalogs
song characteristics to make personalized Web radio stations based on any
artist or song you type in.
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