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Duct Tape Cosmic Ray Detector
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Duct Tape Cosmic Ray Detector
by SciFiFisher » Sat Oct 11, 2014 3:42 pm
You know you are a both a redneck and a geek when you see a story like this and think HOW COOL IS THAT! I can use duct tape to help explain how the universe works! AKA How to use your cellphone, duct tape, and an app to detect cosmic rays. Next I want to turn my smart phone into a proton pistol to deal with those pesky freeway frustrations.
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Re: Duct Tape Cosmic Ray Detector
by Sigma_Orionis » Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:44 pm
Duct Tape is like the Force, it has a light side and a dark side and holds the Universe together......
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Re: Duct Tape Cosmic Ray Detector
by Swift » Tue Oct 14, 2014 3:36 pm
Cool idea, but I'm more than a little hesitant to put duct tape over the camera lens; I'm not sure you'll ever get all the sticky off.
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Re: Duct Tape Cosmic Ray Detector
by Rommie » Tue Oct 14, 2014 5:05 pm
There's actually a paper on the ArXiv today (ie the internet digest on physics/astro papers daily) that is all about using smartphones around the world as a network to detect the most rare cosmic rays that only happen once a square kilometer a century. Might become an interesting direction for citizen science!
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