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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[*nerdgasim*]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[IrishGandalf]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[How do they take care of the chance that really bright light will damage the specimens further?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[artifex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[yep, artifex, that's what I'm sayin'<br><br>"Yeah boss we read the missing scrolls, but they got kind of... uh... light-bleached... so we hope we got the code right."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mischa Lockton]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:35PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm sure that's something they didn't consider. Good thing your there to remind them of the obvious. They'll be sure to consult you on every method they develop from this point forward.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Calviin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 14th 2007 11:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the temperature alone from something 10 billion times the sun be ridiculously high? I'm talking Apocalyptic/Doom's-Day fires here.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[waiownsyou]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Totally my thought too. Unless they're using something along the lines of a cluster of LED based devices.... well, I dunno. But should that get hot too? I mean, "ten-billion times brighter than the sun". My skin burns just thinking about that.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[eromlige]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[The temperature would be high, but not apocalyptic. Keep in mind that the machine isn't producing 10^9 times the total light of the Sun. Instead, it is producing 10^9 times the lux (lumens/m^2) of the Sun - a significantly smaller amount of light. Taken with the fact that the beam produced seems to be 2.74 nm x 0.0274 nm (<a href="http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Technology/MachineParameters" rel="nofollow">http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Technology/MachineParameters</a> - 23.59 fm^2 if I'm not mistaken), the light itself is really not too bright. I'm still somewhat confused how they manage to keep the paper from igniting under those extreme conditions... (<a href="http://www.solardeathray.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.solardeathray.com/</a>)<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Jones]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 4:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Damn they found out how I hide my porn!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Sipes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[i used this same method to find out what rare card magic: the gathering booster packs contained back in the early 90's]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Boynamedsue]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[From what I heard, they lost 451 texts during the prototype testing due to spontaneous combustion. ;)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ oshean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[fahrenheit 451?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dafreshman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Man, I'd love to have that stuff to help me decipher Microsoft's EULAs.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean-Michel Decombe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[me 2 I cant read it fuh shit<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[baalpeteor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 7:20PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[So you can't use flash photography around the declaration of independence, but you can shine 10 billion suns at it?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[I seriously dig the use of heretofore. It's a word that just does not slip into normal day conversation.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mfalme]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[If you stood in front of 10 billion suns worth of xrays - it'd seriously ruin your day]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieX]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Either that or turn you into a superhero...  Or supervillain >:)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fruition]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 4:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[where can i buy one of those!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[One unfortunate scientist who walked into the Diamond Synchrotron beam describes his experience. "I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, when I reached the end I saw the face of God." Since the tragic event, the scientist has been fitted with a visor similar to the one worn by Data from TNG.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ oshean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[oshean Dude, you just lost your nerd-card.  Data wears no visor.  Geordi does.  ...and I wasn't even that big a fan of the show.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[HektikLyfe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Geordie La Forge, surely?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[chay]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Do not be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed... the power of 10 billion suns is insignificant next to...<br><br>well, that's actually pretty good.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[That thing is some kinda dangerous! Like others have already pointed out, wouldn't that thing cause sporadic combustion? I think we need someone to enlighten us a little... (no pun intended)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[J-2]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:35PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA["But leading scientists still agree that it's not strong enough to penetrate the volumes of the U.S. Tax Code on file at the IRS."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NHAnimator]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:35PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[What gives? Scientists can project beams of light ten-billion times brighter than the sun into fragile parchment and I can't take a photograph of a painting in a museum!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ oshean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' beams of light ten-billion times brighter than the sun attached to their heads! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ oshean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sorry to put a damper on the fun, but sychrotrons generate monochromatic X-rays... not visible light. The flux is higher than regular X-ray sources, but still in the same energy range that is used for medical imaging.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just because the human eye can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there.  Heat is still generated, radiation is still emanated and using physical photons, previously mentioned scrolls are still penetrated.  Sorry, I was on a roll.<br><br>Point is just because we can’t observe it within the visible spectrum of the human eye doesn’t mean it isn’t there and won’t start a fire.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[HektikLyfe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[ Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there and won't start a fire.  HA!  funny shit]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieX]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 4:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ugh... why do I even bother. Fine... 10 billion times the heat of the sun... 50 billion calories of energy... whatever. Just be sure to tell the doctor you're afraid you're going to spontaneously combust the next time you go in for an X-ray.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 8:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[The Vatican will never allow this to happen.  Once people realize that the Dead Sea Scrolls include the long lost first verse to all the Earth’s Bible’s “Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away…” chaos would ensue.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[HektikLyfe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Damn, first I reply too late, then I spell his name like he's from Newcastle.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[chay]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 3:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[I noticed that but I wasn't going to say anything.  I figured I had done enough nitpicking for the day. :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[HektikLyfe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 4:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[Weird, my post didn't ...err post.<br><br>I had said that I noticed the typo but I wasn't going to bring it up because I figured I had done enough nitpicking for the day.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[HektikLyfe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 4:20PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[my guess is that they pulse the light, avoiding pesky fires, just like how quickly waving a paper over a flame really fast won't set it ablaze. don't know how they avoid photobleaching sensitive documents though. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ScotteusMaximus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 4:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/powerful-light-scope-used-to-unearth-ancient-texts/</guid><description><![CDATA[According to ABC, the BBC and all British are a bunch of fruits.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E71]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 5:14PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>