NUGGET Tricorder Alien Fossil Sniffer
July 28, 2005 | In: Artificial Intelligence, Scanning Equipment, Space Travel
Every alien fossil sniffing gadget obsessed space geek needs one of these in their bag of tricks. According to ScienceDaily.com:
Astrobiologists, who search for evidence of life on other planets, may find a proposed Neutron/Gamma ray Geologic Tomography (NUGGET) instrument to be one of the most useful tools in their toolbelt. As conceived by scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md., NUGGET would be able to generate three-dimensional images of fossils embedded in an outcrop of rock or beneath the soil of Mars or another planet. Tomography uses radiation or sound waves to look inside objects. NUGGET could help determine if primitive forms of life took root on Mars when the planet was awash in water eons ago.
This pisses me off to no end. I thought of something similar back in 2001 but never did apply for a patent.
[via The Raw Feed]
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