Simulations

Fear Mongers Predict Hurricane Irene Will Cause Tens of Billions of Dollars Worth of Damage in NYC

FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver ran no fewer than, I’m sure, 3.48 million simulations predicting what would happen if Hurricane Irene directly hit Manhattan at full strength. If it did, know what the end result would be? ECONOMIC RECKONING. Using historical data from 20 hurricanes to hit the Northeast in the past, and adjusting the economic damage…

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 26

Pentagon Quake Nightmare: Fukushima on the Mississippi

In May, the federal government simulated an earthquake so massive, it killed 100,000 Midwesterners instantly, and forced more than 7 million people out of their homes. At the time, National Level Exercise 11 went largely unnoticed; the scenario seemed too far-fetched – states like Illinois and Missouri are in the middle of a tectonic plate,…

Tech News Noah Shachtman - Wired Aug 24

Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box

Sitting on a bench at the University of Maryland is the first-ever desktop model of the Big Bang. Don’t worry, the 20-micrometer-wide device simulates how light behaved and time flowed at the universe’s spark, not the explosion itself. It could someday help explain why time marches in only one direction. “What we have done, with…

Tech News Lisa Grossman - Wired Apr 13

Gory, Ultra-Realistic Special Effects Knock the Fear Out of Military Medics

It’s normal to see a dismembered, screaming, blood-soaked individual and be, to say the least, completely shocked. But if you’re a military medic, that costs lives. The solution? A training program that forces action in the face of (artificial) carnage. Click to view To this end, the US military hires Strategic Operations, a Hollywood-grade production…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 25

Test Drive a Driverless Mitsubishi From Your Computer

Click to viewSure, there’s a lot more to test driving the car than the view from the driver’s seat. But it’s still pretty amazing that Mitsubishi will let you control a 2011 Outlander Sport, on a closed course, from your home. You’ll be able to steer the car—and, presumably, crash it, although I’m sure you’d…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 14

Wanna Know What Spaceflight Feels Like? Strap On This Patch

There are plenty of elements of spaceflight astronauts can prepare for, but the disorienting return back into our atmosphere has long been hard to replicate. This patch, which sends an electrical current to nerves behind the ears, gets it right. The galvanic vestibular stimulation system—if it sounds scary, that’s because it kinda is—was developed by…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 25

Watch a Giant Robot Arm Simulate a Ferrari Test Drive

Driving simulators can give you pedals to mash and wheels to steer, but there’s something essential about that gut feeling of actually moving. This Ferrari simulator replicates it with a gigantic robotic arm. Watch it realistically jostle one test driver: https://gizmodo.com/ferraris-new-driving-simulator-generates-more-horsepowe-5434978 The CyberMotion Simulator, built by Paolo Robuffo Giordano at the Max Planck Institute for…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 7

Robot Makes Laughable Attempt At Simulating Dentist Chair Discomfort

Hanako, a robot designed in Japan, has a mouthful of sensors that let her realistically react to the pokings and proddings of dentists in training. Let me be clear, dentists in training: no robot can loathe you like I do. While I will begrudgingly admit that the “polish” phase of the dentist check-up is not…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 25

Fake Mars Mission Befallen By Real Drama

The Mars Society is a group that prepares for man’s eventual exploration of Mars with simulations in the Utahan desert. But their mission logs, posted regularly on the group’s website, reveal a tension that is very real—and very funny. The two-week simulations, including various experiments and equipment tests, take place at the Mars Desert Research…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert Feb 20

Flight Simulation of the Hudson River Waterlanding

The BBC commissioned a flight-sim reproduction of the last week’s near-miraculous US Airways incident. So, in case you were wondering, this is what it looks like to pilot a commercial jet onto a river. This digitl reenactment drives home just how quickly the events transpired, and how quickly the crew managed to respond. Another point…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 19

Fear Mongers Predict Hurricane Irene Will Cause Tens of Billions of Dollars Worth of Damage in NYC

Pentagon Quake Nightmare: Fukushima on the Mississippi

Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box

Gory, Ultra-Realistic Special Effects Knock the Fear Out of Military Medics

Test Drive a Driverless Mitsubishi From Your Computer

Wanna Know What Spaceflight Feels Like? Strap On This Patch

Watch a Giant Robot Arm Simulate a Ferrari Test Drive

Robot Makes Laughable Attempt At Simulating Dentist Chair Discomfort

Fake Mars Mission Befallen By Real Drama

Flight Simulation of the Hudson River Waterlanding

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