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contents
this months guide to innovation and discovery
may 09
VOLUME 274 #5
FEATURES
THE FUTURE OF TRAVEL p. 36
P Part 1: GETTING THERE
ON THE COVER: NICK KALOTERAKIS; THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: NICK KALOTERAKIS; JONATHAN ARVIZU/TRAPDOOR STUDIO; JOHN B. CARNETT; BRENT HUMPHREYS;
COURTESY BLUE SKY STUDIOS/20TH CENTURY FOX; BLAND DESIGNS
36 PLANES, TRAINS AND

SUPERSONIC SPACESHIPS:
A VISION FOR MAKING THE
FUTURE OF TRAVEL FASTER,
GREENER AND MORE FUN
36
Everyone wants to get away, but without

the flight delays, gridlock and stratospheric
gas prices. Welcome aboard the future of
travel, from a 50-passenger spaceliner
that makes the New YorkSydney run in
less than 90 minutes to a bullet train that
picks up passengers without stopping.
By Cliff Kuang
P Part 2: Top Destinations
44 GEEK GETAWAYS
Most tourists wouldnt visit a 6,000-ton,
neutrino-catching particle accelerator
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.
By Joe Kita
44
48
P Part 3: COMFORT
48 WHY AIRPLANE SEATS ARE

SO MISERABLE
Nothing represents the worst of airline
travel like the infinite discomfort of the
seat itself. Our 6'4" reporter searches for
a design that will cushionand possibly
savehis behind. By Eric Hagerman
The Future of the Military
50 WAR GAMES
58
The Armys new weapons system will feature

mouse-controlled missiles, helicopter
drones and text-message intelif it can just
get the network online. By James Vlahos
60
PopSci Preview
58 POPSCIS GUIDE TO SUMMER

SCI-TECH MOVIES
Has Hollywood botched the science in this
summers blockbusters? By Gregory Mone
50
fieldwork
60 THE CHINA SYNDROME

The greatest threat to American cybersecurity is hundreds of thousands of patriotic
Chinese nerds, hacking for their country.
By Mara Hvistendahl
POPSCI.COM
MAY 09 POPULAR SCIENCE 03
CONTENTS
30
67
REGULARS
MEGAPIXELS
10 Guiding cranes; rock-paper-scissorsplaying robot.
WHATS NEW
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.
NEW SLIDESHOWS AND FEATURES
Fast-evolving birds, more-aromatic roses, and edible bugs.
Under the Knife
34 ENVIRONMENT
See what out-of-date procedures are still being performed,

and get the inside scoop on the most significant advances
in medical technology over the past 20 years. Check out
these real-life shockers at popsci.com/surgery.
The White House gets a green-tech makeover.
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.
Paperless Office
Chuck Cage, editor of Toolmonger.com, has gone paperless, and so
can you. Get green at popsci.com/paperless.
70 GRAY MATTER
Cut steel with bacon. Bacon at 5,000 degrees, that is.
72 ASK A GEEK
Smart sites find music youll like.
FYI
76 Is another Earth hiding behind the sun?
OTHER STUFF
06 FROM THE EDITOR
08 THE INBOX
96 PPX: THE POPSCI PREDICTIONS EXCHANGE
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picks of this seasons new cellphones. Check it
out at popsci.com/gadgetgirl.
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FROM THE EDITOR

THE
FUTURE
NOW
Editor-in-Chief Mark Jannot

Deputy Editor Jacob Ward
Creative Director Sam Syed
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.
IN AN ERA
WHEN FLIGHT IS
ROUTINE, WHAT DO
WE HAVE TO LOOK
FORWARD TO?
MARK JANNOT
mark.jannot@bonniercorp.com
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frustration when overweight people go on a diet and exercise

while failing to see the fruits of their labor.
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Comment on popsci.com
Our first-ever Future of Obesity feature package

[March] hit the spot for readers. Many wrote in with
anecdotal support of the obesity rates and subsequent
health risks presented in the illustrated Just How Fat
Are We? And we found that a good deal of readers
have cultivated their own alternative theories about
obesity, like those detailed in The Unusual Suspects.
As a practicing physician in the obesity epicenter of the country,
I was extraordinarily impressed by The Unusual Suspects. Ive
been fussing at my patients for years about sleep and artificial
sweeteners; it will be nice to reinforce it with some print.
Jennifer Grace
Daphne, Ala.
Im glad to share that Mississippi is pushing for healthier
children. Our schools have revamped their menus to include lessfattening items, and our governor has initiated a health program
called Lets Go Walkin Mississippi. Our state may be at the
bottom when it comes to health, but we are making a conscious
effort to rectify this growing problem.
R. Grisham
Florence, Miss.
You provided an interesting take on the fringe cases that
exist among the obese. Im sure this can explain some of the
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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FAT CHANCES
You were able to combine two very serious problems facing

this nationthe energy crisis and obesityand tie them
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OPERATION MIGRATION
the must-see photos of the month
See more amazing photos at popsci.com/gallery.
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR

HUMANS HELP ENDANGERED CRANES FIND THEIR HOMES
Photographed from an ultra-light plane last December, these
whooping cranes are being taught to fly south for the winter.
Almost completely wiped out by 1940, there are now 536
known captive and wild whooping cranes in North America.
But those raised in captivity will not migrate to warmer
climes automaticallythey have to learn the skill. Lightweight aircraft lead the cranes south. These trikes are outfitted with GPS navigation and an MP3 player to broadcast
the whooping cranes distinctive call. The 1,285-mile migration, from Wisconsin to Florida, lasts from 48 to 97 days,
depending on the weather. Four pilots fly with the cranes at
all times, ready to pick up tired birds. When I stop and think
about it, its a pretty amazing thing, says Joseph Duff, cofounder of the nonprofit Operation Migration, who has flown
with the birds since 1993. Its an honor to do this.
BY CATHERINE SCHWANKE PHOTOGRAPH BY HEATHER RAY
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MEGAPIXELS
ROBOTIC ROSHAMBO
Bristol Elumotion Robotic Torso 1, or BERTI, takes time to play rockpaper-scissors at Londons Science Museum in February, while on a
three-day vacation from the lab. A collaboration between Elumotion
Ltd., a British robotics firm, and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, BERTI
was built to help researchers study how robots could communicate
using motion. With freedom to move its arms, shoulders, elbows,
wrists and fingers, the robot has a range of motion similar to our
own upper body, making BERTI the first human-size robot to emulate
human gestures. BERTI is far from human, but because of its humanlike mobility, it may one day be useful in areas ranging from health
care to communication. Future versions of BERTI could be used to
carry out jobs in space or high-radiation environments, says Graham Whiteley, the co-director of Elumotion. Whiteley also envisions
BERTIs technology aiding Parkinsons or multiple-sclerosis patients in
maintaining mobility through exoskeleton-like orthotics.
BY CATHERINE SCHWANKE PHOTOGRAPHS BY IAN NICHOLSON
AP PHOTO
SCIENTISTS STUDY HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION THROUGH CHILDS PLAY
See more amazing photos at popsci.com/gallery.
SIT, AIBO, SIT

The robot BERTI
hangs out with an
AIBO robot dog. In
its next iteration,
BERTI will have
an animated face
instead of a blank
screen.
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whats neW
tech that puts the future in the palm of your hand
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A Mercedes hybrid that

runs on laptop batteries
20
The most powerful

GPS cellphone
24
Hit the links with

high-tech golf gear
NINTENDO DSI
SATOSHI; SCREEN INSETS: COURTESY NINTENDO
SCREEN: Two 3.25-in. LCDs

CAMERA: 640x480-pixel resolution
AUDIO: Stereo speakers
INPUTS: Game card and SD card
slots, Wi-Fi
SIZE: 5.4 x 2.9 x 0.74 in., 7.5 oz.
GET IT: $170; nintendo.com
ITS ALL
A GAME
NINTENDOS POCKET CONSOLE
MORPHS THE WORLD AROUND YOU
Sure, the new DSi plays videogames, but it also lets you play
with whatever you can see or hear. Sporting a doubly powerful
processor and four times the RAM of its predecessor, the DSi
POPSCI.COM
can manipulate images from its two cameras (one facing you
and one facing out). Use the stylus to stretch, squeeze, color
and otherwise manipulate a friends face in the live onscreen
preview, for example, then snap a digital caricature.
You can treat both audio recordings and song downloads
like virtual Silly Putty, as your touchscreen strokes speed
them up, slow them down, and change pitch permutations.
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
WHATS NEW
News Radio
Get news and reminders from

bed. This clock radio has its
own e-mail address, so pals
can send it messagesLets
do breakfast!that appear
onscreen. Notes and data
feeds, such as weather, are
transmitted over a nationwide wireless network. Ambient
Mist $200; ambientdevices.com
Even-Handed
Staple 25 sheets of paper

without bruising your hand.
OXOs model has two hinges,
one at the back and one in the
middle, to transfer force across
a larger areaso a palm works
as well as a fist. OXO Good
Grips Desktop Stapler
$20; staples.com
GOODS
Safe House
This Internet router runs security

software to protect all the
computers in your home. It
blocks malicious Web pages
and lets parents specify which
sites kids can view.
Linksys WRT310N $130 plus
$60/year; linksysbycisco.com
THE
12 MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS
By Amanda Schupak
Pan-o-Rama
Automatically create billboard-size panoramic photos. The

GigaPan Epic holds your camera, tilts from one end of a scene
to another, and uses a robotic finger to press the shutter button
from 20 to 2,000 times. Included computer software stitches the
pics into one image of up to 11,000
megapixels in which you can zoom in to
see detailed close-ups. GigaPan Epic
$380; gigapansystems.com
Power Move
Campers can charge their

gadgets up to 50 percent faster
with the first portable solar panel
that follows the sun. Throughout
the day, four light sensors signal
a motor to rotate the panel
toward the brightest spot in
the sky. Solar ChumAlong
$400; scientificsonline.com
Waste Not
Save water by giving any toilet two

flushes, one full version and
one that uses half the water.
PerfectFlushs electronic
valve drains the tank for
specified amounts of time.
Brondell PerfectFlush
$120; brondell.com
POPSCI PICK OF THE MONTH
Type Case
When you need to crank out text messages or e-mails, add a
keyboard to this touchscreen phone. Remove the rear cover to
snap on an included clamshell case with a full Qwerty keypad.
LG Versa $250 with two-year contract; verizonwireless.com
Double Take
Four the Record
Own the same sound equipment used on some Hollywood
sets. The H4n is the only handheld recorder that can capture
four audio channels at once, two from built-in microphones
and two from mics (or instruments) that you plug in. This lets
you snag dialogue from two people while grabbing ambient
sounds, too. Twist the onboard mics to get audio from a
wider area. Samson Zoom H4n $350; samsontech.com
This point-and-shoot has

two chips insidethe
usual one for turning
sensor data into a picture
and an extra one for
applying Photoshopstyle special effects. For
instance, it can crop people
out of one shot and place
them into another. Casio
EX-S12 $250; exilim.com
Flashy Laptop
Rubiks Redux
This sleek computer hides

a 512-gigabyte solid-state
drivethe highest capacity
yet. To fit so much storage
in a small space, Asus used
two 1.8-inch-long drives that
each pack several flashmemory chips tightly on top
of one another. Asus S121
$1,650; asus.com
The classic puzzle goes

electronic. Instead of
twisting, you swipe touchsensitive squares to change
the colors of LED lights
inside. An accelerometer
senses which side faces up,
so touching the other sides
wont scramble your game.
Rubiks TouchCube $150
(in fall); rubikstouchcube.com
Pump Up Your Workout

The SelectRide inflates to add support,
switching from a low-to-the-ground crosstrainer to a cushy running shoe. To make
the change, push a button on the side to
open a valve. Your footsteps activate a
pump that draws air through a vent and
into sacs in the sole. Reebok SmoothFit
SelectRide $150; reebok.com
The battery
drives a diskshaped motor.
WHATS NEW AUTO TECH
MORE
POWER
WORKS
FOR HYBRIDS
HOW IT
MERCEDES ADDS KICK WITH LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES

High-tech batteries arent just for early
adopters driving Teslas all-electric
roadster. The first cells for a hybrid will
soon be fitted in the classic MercedesBenz S-Class sedan. With a higher
energy density, lithium-ion batteries
provide the same wattage at a smaller
size than the nickel-metal-hydride packs
in other hybrids. That allowed Mercedes
to fit an electric motor in the new S400
BlueHybrid without reducing trunk space
or legroom.Michael Spinelli
Power
Packaging
Cooling
Start/Stop
A 20-horsepower
electric motor
gives the 3.5-liter
V6 engine a boost
during acceleration,
approximating the
performance of a V8
and helping the car
achieve a combined
fuel economy of 30
miles per gallon.
The lithium-ion
pack fits inside
the S400s engine
compartment,
like a regular
battery, instead
of compromising
cargo space, as in
the competing
LS 600-h hybrid
from Lexus.
Mercedes engineers
surrounded the
battery with a gel
that absorbs heat
and cushions jolts.
They also routed
chilled air from
the climate-control
system around the
power pack to keep
it cool.
The hybrid control

module switches
the engine off when
the S400 slows to
less than nine mph
while coasting to
a stop. When its
time to take off,
the electric motor
silently restarts
the gas engine.
FROM TOP: COURTESY MERCEDES-BENZ (2); COURTESY MAZDA
GET IT: Mercedes-Benz S400

Price not set (available late
summer); mbusa.com
IN RELATED NEWS: GAS ENGINES MIMIC HYBRIDS

Hybrids save fuel by shutting down
the gas engine when they come
to a stop. Now standard cars are
doing the same. In 2007, BMW
introduced a system that combines
a higher-capacity battery with a
more-powerful starter motor that
can crank the engine after every
stop. Mazda and Porsche recently
announced 2010 models with
stop-start functions. The Asian and
European versions of the Mazda3

will actually stall the engine, then
restart by injecting fuel directly
into one combustion
chamber and igniting it.
Porsche hasnt
said how its four-door
Panamera sedan
will work, but it will
probably use an electric
starter motor like the BMW.
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THIN
AND
RICH
SOON
COMING
A NEW SET OF CHIPS GIVES

SUPER-SLIM CELLPHONES
THE POWER OF LAPTOPS
SHORT CIRCUIT Most of

the TG01s chips fit in a
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THE FDA FINDS DANGEROUS

LEVELS OF MEDICATIONS IN
WEIGHT-LOSS SUPPLEMENTS
The YouTube promo for Zhen de Shou
weight-loss capsules is farcical: The camera
slowly pans across photos of depressed
overweight girls becoming euphorically thin
and warns, Beware of cheap imitations.
But the ad hides a real danger. According to recent tests by the Food and Drug
Administration, Zhen de Shou and 68 other
weight-loss supplements manufactured
in the U.S. and abroad contain undeclared
pharmaceuticals. That means millions of
Americans popping over-the-counter diet
pills might also be unwittingly ingesting
medication at potentially deadly doses.
Nearly all the supplements that tested
positive contain the appetite suppressant
sibutramine, the generic name for Meridia,
one of two prescription drugs approved for
long-term obesity treatment. Never mind
that administering it without a prescription is
illegal; sibutramine elevates blood pressure
and heart rate and can cause stroke and
heart attack. In some supplements, the FDA
detected sibutramine levels of four times the
highest doctors can safely prescribe.
Worse yet, says Pieter Cohen, a physician at Cambridge Health Alliance in
Massachusetts, because the products
dont list the drugs, when they do cause
problems, people might not make the connection. Cohen discovered this firsthand
after some of his patients complained of
heart palpitations. It turned out they had
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been taking Brazilian Diet Pills, which

tested positive for a drug that the body
turns into amphetamine.
In its investigation, the FDA also found
in diet pills such drugs as rimonabant, an
appetite suppressant that was pulled from
European shelves and never approved
in the U.S. because of a potential link to
suicide, and phenolphthalein, a laxative
linked to cancer and discontinued in 1999.
Despite the FDAs warning to consumers
last December, as of press time, manufacturers had recalled only three of the
supplements. The agency is following up
on all the products, says Mike Levy, who
oversees new drugs and labeling compli-
DEATH BY DIET Medications recently

found in 69 diet supplements could
cause heart attacks or worse.
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CAR TALK
MAKING THE STREETS SAFER WITH A SYSTEM THAT LETS CARS COMMUNICATE
Car accidents kill 115 people a day in
the U.S. and cost an annual $230 billion. Cautious drivers can avoid only
so much danger, especially when its a
car running a red light, or a truck that
pops out of a blind spot. But commuting could get safer with new in-car
technology that warns you of that
vehicle just around the corner
and even hits the brakes for you.
Most car communication networks
in development use the same Wi-Fi
chips found in your laptop. But those
units were made to pick up a signal
from the router on your bookshelf, not
dozens of signals zipping by at 50 mph
and creating digital echoes as they
reflect off buildings. So the Australian
company Cohda Wireless designed a
Wi-Fi chip with a receiver that better
tracks a moving signal and algorithms
that filter out interference. The radio
broadcasts a cars location and speed to

every similarly equipped vehicle within at
least 500 feet. Thinking about passing an
18-wheeler? The chip detects an oncoming cars signal and sounds a warning.
In 700 two-car trials, the companys
radio warned drivers of oncoming danger
21 seconds in advance18 seconds faster
than similar systems. If a large-scale test
later this year in Australia goes well, the
tech could reach consumers by 2012. In
the future, says Paul Alexander, Cohdas
chief technical officer, it could integrate
with automatic steering and braking to
respond to immediate hazards.
Auto-safety experts estimate that the
system could reduce car-accident deaths
by up to 50 percent. Its a bold claim,
Alexander says, but peoples inattention
is a big factor in road accidents. Technology is always onits always thinking and
always aware.COREY BINNS
NETWORKING THE STREETS

COLLISION AVOIDANCE
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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travels and uploads the data to lightpole-mounted units [D], which relay real
time conditions to traffic-control centers
and suggest detours [E] to drivers.
ance at the FDA, and can seize the goods if

companies dont voluntarily pull them.
How do prescription drugs make
their way into supposedly natural
supplements? It probably goes back to
the source. Some 60 to 80 percent of the
active ingredients for pharmaceuticals
are manufactured in China and India,
where manufacturing regulations are
more lax, estimates Darrell Abernethy,
the chief science officer for U.S. Pharmacopeia, the organization that sets
scientific standards for pharmaceuticals for the FDA. If someone snuck

sibutramine to scientists in one of Chinas
[illegal] cottage laboratories, they could
reverse-engineer it in a week, he says.
Levy suspects that manufacturers
overseas spike diet supplements with synthesized drugs and ship them to the U.S.
in orders too small to police. American
distributors of two products on the FDAs
listApplied Lifescience Research Industries Venom Hyperdrive 3.0 (sibutramine)
and Nikki Haskells StarCaps (bumetanide,

a diuretic)blame tainted ingredients
from abroad. But, Levy says, I think much
of it is willful blindness.
Making matters murkier, the FDA
doesnt screen supplements for safety
pre-marketlet alone effectiveness
so products guaranteeing weight loss
of 50 pounds in two weeks go unpoliced
until they hurt someone. That could soon
change, though, after a March report
from the federal Government Account-
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give the FDA more authority to regulate
supplements and require makers to disclose full ingredient lists and all reported
side effects.
For now, determining exactly whos
spiking the pills is near impossible. And
whoever the culprits, demand for the
supplements wont stop. If someone loses
weight because he is unknowingly taking
a drug, he will keep buying the product.
If he quits, hell gain it all backthe hard
truth of even prescription medication.

There is, sadly, a business model,
says Marc Ullman, a food-and-drug
lawyer in New York who is handling StarCaps recall (and insists that his client
was duped by suppliers). A company will
make insane claims, put a pharm ingredient in their product, and shut down and
start another business if they get caught.
Whats the worst thing that will happen?
he asks rhetorically. A warning letter
from the FDA?ERIC HAGERMAN
GRAHAM MURDOCH
SPEEDY SPECIATOR White-eyes

diversify at four times the rate
of other birds. A change to the
white ring around its eye is a common indicator of a new species.
30-SECOND SCIENCE
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BIRD TRICKS, SWEETER ROSES AND CONTROVERSIAL BUGS
EVOLUTION IN THE FAST LANE
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
diversification, which includes changing plumage and songs.BROOKE BOREL
DYE FACTORY Cochineal bugs infect cacti

and produce cottony wax for protection.
FLOWER POWER Genetic tweaks

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EAT YOUR INSECTS
ROSES ON STEROIDS
Strawberry yogurt, maraschino cherries

and fake crabmeat all share an odd
ingredient. Their red dye comes from
crushed female cochineal beetles, an
insect native to the subtropical and
tropical Americas. Consumer advocates
argue that companies should include the
ingredient on food labels because of rare,
yet potentially fatal, allergic reactions.
The FDA currently classifies the bug
extract as artificial color on food labels,
but its new ruling requires companies to
list the insect by name beginning in 2011.
A rose by any other name may smell

as sweet, but a genetically modified
rose could smell sweeter. Last fall,
scientists at Hebrew University in
Israel identified and boosted a gene
that produces petunias scent. Now
they aim to overhaul roses, because
farmers breeding for looks and disease resistance have inadvertently
cut the aroma of most roses. After
making fragrant roses, the group will
insert the gene into yeast for cheaper
biologically based perfumes.
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thing together.SUSANNAH F. LOCKE
ILLUSTRATIONS: PAUL WOOTTON; PHOTOGRAPH: COURTESY BRETT WATSON/MONASH UNIVERSITY
Every year, 800,000 Americans elect to have

a tiny metal-mesh tube inserted into their
coronary artery to prop it open and improve
blood flow to cardiac muscle tissue. Its an
easy choicethe alternative entails cracking
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the vessel hardens over it within months.
After that, it becomes a nuisance. The metal
blocks x-rays and MRI scans, and it can catch
blood cells and form a dangerous clot. Now
medical-equipment manufacturer Abbot Laboratories has developed a stent that opens
the artery and then simply disintegrates.
The innovation was to make the stent
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ters last November when asked if he would make the White
House more environmentally friendly. Of course, he wouldnt
be the first. Jimmy Carter introduced a solar water heater
in 1979. Bill Clinton upgraded HVAC systems and installed
more-efficient windows and water-conserving devices.
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new technology to help mitigate climate change. We know the new
president has been busy, so heres a stimulus package for making
the peoples house a model for sustainability.ARNIE COOPER
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THE FUTURE OF TRAVEL PART 1: GETTING THERE
BY CLIFF KUANG
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.
2012: seed fuel
Engines
Passenger cabin
Controls
Gains in fuel efficiency and

noise reduction could also
come from embedding the
engines into the topside of
the fuselage. This produces
less drag, and the airplane
itself shields ground noise.
The big challenge is figuring
out how to design the air
intakes to maximize airflow
over the fuselage.
The blended wings widened

fuselage will make for
amphitheater-like seating,
with long, wide rows. Of
course, there will be fewer
window seats, but the interior
design could compensate
through spaciousness or
swanky amenities such as inflight lounges, viewing areas
or seat-back virtual windows.
Blended wings have

been tried for years, says
NASAs Tony Strazisar,
but theyve always
faltered because the lack
of a tail creates instability.
Boeings solution: nearly
24 control flaps on the
wing, with computerized
control systems to
coordinate them.
Montanas Sustainable Oils is

breeding camelina seedsa
canola derivativethat can easily
be refined into jet fuel. Camelinas
main draw is that it can be grown
quickly on fallow wheat fields,
so it can slot into the existing
agricultural infrastructure.
2020: Algal fuel

In January, Continental performed
the first algae-fueled flight in the
U.S., flying an unmodified 737
for 90 minutes on a blend of half
algae-derived fuel, half jet fuel.
The next major step is to reduce
the cost of squeezing a gallon of
oil from algae from $100 to $2.
HYPERSONIC COMMERCIAL FLIGHT:
airline industry fool you: Supersonic

flight will rise again. By 2015,
12 years after the last Concorde
flew, Lockheed Martin expects to
complete the Quiet Supersonic
Transport, a business jet that can zip
a dozen hotshots from Chicago to
Paris in as little as four hours. But
far more fun will be the Spaceliner
under development by the German
space agency DLR. Funded by the
European Commission, the plane
will be capable of flying 14,000
mph and delivering 50 passengers
from New York to Sydney in less
than 90 minutesthrough space.
Think of the ship as a modified
version of the space shuttle: a twostage vehicle that takes off from
a launchpad. Were not talking
about exotic technology, says
Martin Sippel, the Spaceliners
chief investigator. Were taking
existing ideas and applying them in
a way that makes economic sense
for commercial travel. The idea
is that by reducing the technical
demands inherent in the space
shuttles designsuch as how high
and how fast the rig would flythe
Spaceliner could be safer than the
shuttle, for a ticket price somewhat
higher than a first-class ticket today.
Heres how your hypersonic flight
would work.
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.
Within seven minutes,

the airplane would
reach the lower
boundary of space,
62 miles up. At
maximum altitude,
it would be traveling
faster than 14,000
mphnearly as fast
as the space shuttle.
Instead of continuing
up, it would dip into
the atmosphere to
generate lift and travel
farther on less fuel.
The extreme altitude
means the sonic boom
wont disturb people
on the ground.
The space shuttle

is a hodgepodge of
engine technologies:
three hydrogen/
oxygen engines on
the craft, plus the
solid-fuel boosters.
Solid fuel, though
more energy-dense,
is roughly 10 times
the cost of liquid
hydrogen and oxygen.
The Spaceliner doesnt
need quite so much
thrust, and it has to
run cheaper, so it will
have just two engines,
compared with the
shuttles three.
Passing through the

dense lower reaches
of the atmosphere
at many times the
speed of sound can
heat up the aircraft
to 5,400F. To keep it
cool, DLR engineers
have invented porous
ceramic tiles that
would sweat water.
A major component
of DLRs upcoming
research will be
refining the ceramics
and doing largerscale tests at faster
wind-tunnel speeds.
KEVIN HAND
Dont let todays anemic
SPACE TOURISM: 2010

Thinking about booking a ticket to space? check out our guide to the leading carriers
Virgin Galactic
XCor
FAST 20XX
Space Adventures
TECH
The Virgin rig comprises two

aircraft: WhiteKnightTwo lofts
SpaceShipTwo to 50,000 feet;
then SpaceShipTwo accelerates to
Mach 3 to reach the edge of space.
Virgin test-flew WhiteKnightTwo
last December and unveiled designs
for SpaceShipTwo in January.
Expect test flights later this year.
XCORs Lynx rocketplane has four

liquid-oxygen/kerosenefueled
engines that propel it straight
up at 1,500 mph. The company
successfully tested the engines last
December. It plans test flights by the
middle of next year, with commercial
rides by 2011. At least 20 people
have already booked seats.
French aeronautics firm EADS Astrium

suspended work on the ballyhooed
Spaceplane in January, but Europe isnt
dropping out of space tourism. The
European Commission just inaugurated
its FAST 20XX program to develop a
SpaceShipTwo competitor. The craft
will probably piggyback on an Airbus
A380 up to 50,000 feet, and then a
small hybrid rocket would power it to
the end of space, 62 miles up.
Virginia-based Space Adventures

books passengers on Russias
Soyuz-TMA capsule, but the
company has now bought its own
Soyuz mission for late 2011. Both
passenger seats were open at press
timeeven though Google cofounder Sergey Brin has a $5-million
deposit on a future flight, he hasnt
yet decided when hell travel.
PASSENGER EXPERIENCE
From liftoff to landing, it will

take 2.5 hours, including about
six minutes of weightlessness.
With an apogee of 68 miles,
the plane will push slightly past
the defined boundary of space.
The six passengers will sit in
forward-facing, racecar-like seats
behind the two pilots.
Lynx will reach 38 miles in 30

minutes. During the four-minute
apogee, youll be weightless. But
the real perk is that unlike on
SpaceShipTwo, youll get a oneon-one experience with the pilot.
The craft has only two seats, and
you sit shotgun next to him.
Very similar to Virgins, reaching a

similar altitude, inside a cabin that
seats six to eight passengers
Whereas the other options give

you just minutes in zero G, the twopassenger, one-pilot Soyuz is the
true astronaut experience, complete
with training, a bone-crunching
takeoff and an orbital flight in the
tiny, cramped Soyuz capsule, 200
miles above Earth.
COST
But a handful of outfits are making steady

progress, with $200,000 tickets booked
solid. We size up the competition.
$200,000 for the first 100

passengers
$95,000a comparative
bargainper flight
$200,000 (est.)
$20 million+
SITE
Rocketplane Limited sputtered, while

efforts by Armadillo Aerospace, SpaceDev
and Blue Origin have quieted to a whisper.
Initially Mojave Spaceport, then

new spaceports in New Mexico
and Sweden
Mojave Spaceport, in California
Sweden
Kazakhstan
VERDICT
FROM LEFT: COURTESY VIRGIN GALACTIC; COURTESY XCOR; COURTESY EADS ASTRIUM; COURTESY NASA
Last year saw a big shakeout among

would-be space-tourism operators.
Hyped ventures by EADS Astrium and
More expensive than XCOR, but

more likely to last long enough
to drop prices. Already Virgin
has $30 million in pre-bookings
from over 200 people. Obviously,
the companys track record
leads the other start-ups: The
two-passenger SpaceShipOne,
which used the same basic
technology as its successor,
won the X Prize in 2004.
The basic technology appears

reliable. The question is, will the
half-price discount over Virgin win
out for penny-pinching pioneers?
Eventually there will be a price
war, says Doug Graham, XCORs
spokesman. The market is going to
decide if floating around demands a
premium over a front-row seat.
With a launch date set for 2015, the

FAST 20XX can catch up to Virgin
quickly if the political will remains. The
passenger craft is based on an older
shuttle prototype, Phoenix, which
EADS Astrium successfully tested in
2004, and the engines will be similar
to those on SpaceShipTwo.
The Soyuz is still the only craft to have

ferried tourists into space, and it will
continue doing so for the few moguls
that can afford the price. But for the
masses, Space Adventures is also very
quietly seeking partners to develop
a suborbital craft. The [field] is so
competitive that were not talking
about partners or timelines, says
Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson.
SUPER TRAINS:
In a push to reduce carbon emissions and relieve crowded airports,
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.
The AGV has

articulated bogies.
Usually every car in
a train has two sets
under it, just like your
car does. But the AGVs
bogies are placed
between cars. Thus, a
656-foot train carrying
500 passengers
requires 13 bogies
rather than 16, with
a weight savings of
one ton each. So the
entire train would
weigh 17 percent
less than a similarly
sized conventional rig,
while creating 10 to 15
percent less drag.
The AGV will be the

first train powered
by motors that use
permanent magnets,
rather than electrified
copper coils, to produce
a magnetic field. The
design radically cuts
energy use, and the
smaller motors can sit
under each car, rather
than in engines at the
ends of the train. That
means a 14-car AGV can
carry 20 percent more
people than the TGV,
with 30 percent lower
energy costs. The rotors
also generate electricity
during braking, so the
train returns 8 to 12
percent of the power it
uses back to the grid.
Traditional: Wheels beneath cars

AGV: Wheels in between cars
a better bogie
Primary suspension
Permanentmagnet motor
Secondary
suspension
Wheel
RAIL REINVENTED In Frances new

AGV train, each car is powered by
its own magnetic motor, freeing up
the front and back cars to carry passengers instead of engines.
ILLUSTRATIONS: PAUL WOOTTON; PHOTOGRAPH: COURTESY FOSTER + PARTNERS; FACING PAGE: COURTESY ALSTOM (2)
HOW GREEN IS YOUR TRAVEL?

Buses are more eco-friendly than planes, and both are more eco-friendly than cars. Right?
Not necessarily. Fuel consumption and tailpipe emissions are only part of the picture.
The correct answer factors in passenger occupancy, manufacturing processes and other
indirect sources of carbon emissions. Environmental thinking is getting away from just
direct energy use and into the full repercussions, says Mikhail Chester, a postdoctoral
researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. He and civil-engineering professor
Arpad Horvath have created the most comprehensive life-cycle analysis of the
transportation industry to dateseriously, its thorough. For cars, it goes all the way down
to the carbon required to build a road, emissions from gas tankers, and the computers
that power the attendant insurance industry. Here are the results.
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.
GRAMS OF CO2 PER PASSENGER MILE

Bus
(empty)
SUV
Family
car
Small jet
Boeing
737
Caltrain
Bus
(full)
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200
400
600
800
PLUG-IN ROAD TRIPPING

Prefer driving to flying? What to expect from the newest
fleet of electric cars and plug-ins on those long hauls
The idea of electric-car travel invariably
spawns jokes about extension cords the length of
Texas. Meager ranges, multi-hour charging and a
lack of highway electrical outlets mean that most
consumers still consider pure-electric vehicles a fantasy. But when it comes to plug-in hybrids, theres
no fooling: Todays technology can handle treks to
Disney World, not just runs to the store. When the
juice runs low on the Chevrolet Volt and the Fisker
Karma, two plug-ins due out by next year, their
small gasoline engines fire up to generate more
electricity and dramatically extend driving range.

The result is family-friendly cars that can double the
range of all-electric cars and can cruise from sea
to shining sea and refuel in minutes. If youre determined to ditch gasoline completely or just need
an urban runabout, the Tesla Roadster may be the
ticket. But if your summer plans include suitcases
and scenic overlooks, only the hybrids will eliminate
the range anxiety that makes Americans leery of
buying and banking on purely electric cars.
Lawrence Ulrich
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.
ILLUSTRATION: NICK KALOTERAKIS; PHOTOGRAPH: TESLA MOTORS
PERSONAL PLANES:
cars and commercial jets arent the getaway

craft they once were. Every year, Americans spend $78 billion dealing
with traffic alone. Meanwhile, the friendly skies dont seem so nice
anymore. Commercial aviation is so crowded that NASA is already
researching ways to restructure air traffic on a point-to-point model
using small regional airports. Compare that with the current state of
the private airplane. Gas efficiency is already on the order of carsthe
new Icon A5, a light-sport aircraft on sale next year, will get 25 miles per
gallon. And learning to fly has never been easier. A typical pilots license
costs about $10,000 and requires 40 hours of training. But in 2004 the
FAA created a new designation for light-sport planes: those with one
engine, a flight ceiling below 10,000 feet and a top speed of less than 138
mph. Light-sport certification takes half as long as usual. In response,
entrepreneurs are rushing forward with intriguing ideas and options.
sarus
FROM LEFT: COURTESY GM; COURTESY FISKER AUTOMOTIVE
WHEEL FUN The spinning ring around

the two-seat Sarus provides downward thrust for stable, helicopter-like
takeoffs and then shifts vertically to
propel the craft forward.
Few cities or suburbs can

fit the long runways that
even light aircraft require.
So, the thinking goes, you
need either a flying car or a
hovercraft to make personal
flight truly convenient. One
of the most novel ideas
out there is the Sarus [left].
Designed by Boston-based
firm AeroCopter, the plane
is ringed by a 21-foot rotor,
which lifts it off the ground.
In flight, the rotor tilts 87
degrees and then switches
power to the rear rotors to
propel it forward. Inventor
Siamak Yassini has built
a scale model and is now
seeking funding for a fullscale prototype.
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
THE RIDE A plug-in hybrid that seats four; runs on an

electric motor powered by lithium-ion batteries, plus a
1.4-liter, four-cylinder gasoline engine. Cost: $40,000.
RANGE 40 miles; gas engine extends range to 300
miles. Charges in eight hours on household current,
less than three hours on 220-volt outlets.
PERFORMANCE 060 mph in nine seconds;
ROAD-TRIP-WORTHY? Drive your Chevy to the
levee and all points beyond.
THE RIDE This year, former Aston Martin designer

Henrik Fisker delivers an $88,000 plug-in hybrid,
four-person sedan that runs on dual electric motors
powered by lithium-ion batteries, plus a 2.0-liter
turbocharged four-cylinder engine.
RANGE 50 miles on electricity alone; gas engine
extends its range to 300 miles. Charges in 5.5
hours on 220-volt current.
If you cant afford one of

the fancier planes, you can
always buy a kit and build
a single-engine puddle
jumper for about $60,000.
But an extra $50,000
gets you a big upgrade:
MySkys new MS-1, a sleek
two-seater with a single
120-horsepower motor set
to debut in August. Like
the light-sport Icon A5, its
easy to fly, with two sticks
for steering and throttle,
and a top speed of 138
mph. Its about $30,000
cheaper, though, and
boasts better viewsan
enormous bubble canopy
lets pilots see straight
down and all around.
PERFORMANCE 060 mph in 5.8 seconds;

ROAD-TRIP-WORTHY? The Fisker is ready to
dazzle valets, and its speed ensures that you wont be
late for check-in. The downside is electric motors that
hog trunk space.
THE FUTURE OF TRAVEL PART 2: TOP DESTINATIONS
GEEK
GETAWAYS
BY JOE KITA
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
JONATHAN ARVIZU/TRAPDOOR STUDIO
The Eiffel Tower? Predictable. Space Mountain? Kid stuff.

This summer, wow the family with reality instead. Visit atom
smashers, corpse farms and other wild scientific hotspots
For the truly curious traveler,
weve collected eight one-of-a-kind research facilities guaranteed
to impress and entertain like no ordinary tourist attraction can.
On this list youll find labs where you can ride a miners cage
half a mile underground to see a 6,000-ton neutrino detector,
watch artificial earthquakes topple bridges, and converse with
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!
Weekend with the Bear Essentials

Destination: WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Ely, Minn.
If youve survived a few family reunions, then lounging with a bunch of black
bears in the woods will be a cinch. Thats just one of the items on the agenda
during the four-day Black Bear Field Study Course offered 10 times from
May through August. For $1,500, youll become part of the longest and most
in-depth bear study ever conducted, tallying up data on social organization,
communication and other facets of the clan. Although there are more than
50 bears in the area, about a dozen are collared for intensive study. This year,
seven mothers will also have cubs. A class size of eight guarantees proximity
not only to the bears but to the institutes principal biologist and tour leader,
Lynn Rogers, widely known as the Jane Goodall of black bears and star of the
documentary The Man Who Walks with Bears.
Info: bearstudy.org for course infomation; bear.org for general information,
videos, live webcams and slideshows
Geek HIGHLIGHT: Meet Honey, the prettiest bear in Minnesota.
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!
SEE TSUNAMIS CRUSH MINIATURE VILLAGES

Destination: TSUNAMI RESEARCH FACILITY, Oregon State University Corvallis, Ore.
yielding data that will enable engineers to build stronger,
more stable rigs. The facility offers tours, open houses,
workshops and viewings of actual experiments.
INFo: wave.oregonstate.edu
Geek highlight: Watch 350,000 gallons of water
convulse into a humongous wave.
Watch a Parking
Garage Buckle
Tour the Nations

Only Frozen Cemetery
Destination: EARTHQUAKE
SIMULATors buffalo, reno
and san diego
Destination: ALCOR LIFE EXTENSION

FOUNDATION Scottsdale, Ariz.
Never seen a shake table shake?

Visit these labs to witness the
massive platforms, equipped with
hydraulic actuators, simulate the
force of the worlds most devastating
earthquakes. Structural engineers
test everything from bridges to
million-pound parking garages,
sometimes shaking structures for
two months at a time.
INFO: nees.ucsd.edu,
nees.buffalo.edu, nees.unr.edu
Geek highlight: See
platforms at the Reno site quake the
daylights out of a three-span bridge.
Cryonics is the controversial science of using

ultra-cold temperatures to preserve your body,
or just your head, until technology advances
enough to restore it to good health. Although no
cryonics patients have ever been revived (hence the
controversy), Alcor has preserved 84 customers,
including Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, and
nearly 900 others have committed to the process.
Once a member is declared legally dead, the
vitrification begins. Chemicals replace 60 percent
of the water in cells and are rapidly cooled. On your
free tour, youll see the operating room and cooldown baybut no bodies, sorry. Preregistration
(for the tour, silly) is required.
INFO: alcor.org
Geek highlight: Frozen people.
COURTESY ALCOR LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION
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,
SPEND THE DAY

CONVERSING WITH
THE WORLDS
SMARTEST APES
Destination: GREAT APE TRUST
Des Moines, Iowa
Apes in Iowa? There are actually
13 of them (seven bonobos and six
orangutans, with plans to add a clan
of gorillas) that live in this 230-acre
preserve, and you can get to know
them by name. Its the largest greatape research facility in North America
devoted to studying ape intelligence.
Visit and see for yourself how
bonobos can recognize nearly 400
abstract symbols, called lexigrams,
on a touchscreen. Some apes can
even comprehend spoken words.
To tour the reserve and meet the
apes, you must be a Great Ape Trust
member ($50 for individuals, $100
for families). This also entitles you to
special lectures.
INFO: greatapetrust.org
Geek highlight: Meet resident
whiz kid Kanzi, widely regarded as the
worlds smartest known ape.
LEARN REAL CRIME-SLEUTHING

SKILLS ON A CORPSE FARM
Destination: BODY FARMS Tennessee, Texas, North carolina
Ever wonder what happens to your body after you die? Forensic-anthropology
labs at the University of Tennessee, Texas State University and Western Carolina
University are the places to find out. These facilities feature graveyards ranging
from a garage-size plot in North Carolina to an eventual 26-acre site in Texas,
where scientists study donated bodies as they decay. You cant tour the actual decomp yards, but you can learn about the recovery of remains at crime scenes and
disasters such as 9/11. INFO: web.utk.edu, txstate.edu, wcu.edu/3403.asp
Geek highlight: Learn how to carbon-date a skeleton.
Three Words: Subterranean Atom Smasher

Destination: SOUDAN UNDERGROUND LABORATORY, Mine State Park northeastern Minn.
Ride a miners cage nearly 2,400 feet underground to tour
the nations foremost particle-physics lab. See the 6,000-ton
tracking device that collects elusive subatomic particles
broadcast from Fermilab, 457 miles away (the trip takes
2.5 thousandths of a second), and smashes them against
atoms. Scientists study the collisions for rare atomic
transformations. Its all located in a former iron mine,

where few cosmic rays can penetrate, thus creating an ideal
environment in which to search for dark matter. Daily tours
cost $10. INFO: soudan.umn.edu Geek highlight: Join
the search for WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles),
which, if found, could unlock the secrets of the universe.
THE FUTURE OF TRAVEL PART 3: COMFORT
Why Are Airplane Seats

So Miserable, and What
Can Be Done about It?
Beleaguered, outsize traveler Eric Hagerman investigates

ILLUSTRATION BY BLAND DESIGNS
I am not normal. Not even close, I am told.

Apparently, my height, which at 6'4" has always
seemed to me to be just this side of freakish, puts me
in the 99th percentile of American adults. That is,
statistically too tall to fly comfortably in coach.
Or at least thats the explanation I was given by Klaus
Brauer, Boeings immaculately articulate guru of airline
interior design, whose conflicted job title is Director,
Passenger Satisfaction & Revenue. There are many good
things about being 6'4", Brauer told me over speakerphone,
from what I imagined to be a cushy office chair in Seattle.
Flying economy class is not one of them.
Pithy. But my towering frame doesnt explain why
most people I knowwho reside in that bulge of the
anthropometric bell curve known as averagefind seating
in coach class to be nearly as miserable as I do. Is it such
a monumental challenge to make a comfy airplane seat?
The typical cushion is so hard that I no longer travel in
my favorite jeans because the compressed pocket stitching
leaves me with painful welts. As for legroom, flying on
certain planes makes me wish I could gate-check my
femurs. Would comfort somehow compromise my safety?
(I might better tolerate the leg edema knowing that my
constricted posture was for a greater causelike surviving
a crash.) Or does it boil down to cold, hard economics: The
leaner and meaner the seat, the easier it is to cram more
customers onto a plane?
While weve watched from behind the curtain as first
class got flat-lying beds, coach-class seating has barely
evolved in 30 years. Boeing now makes entire planes out
of carbon fiber, yet advances in engineering dont seem
to have trickled down to where it countsbeneath my
behind. Are they even trying?
Armed with such urgent questions, I pressed Brauer.
To be fair, our discomfort is not exactly

his fault. Boeing, like Airbus and other
manufacturers, doesnt even make the
seats that go on its aircraft; airlines
buy them from specialty suppliers. But
Brauer, a former Air Force officer and
mechanical engineer, still has a lot to
do with our in-flight comfort. Hes been
researching it almost since he started at Boeing in 1979 and
consults with airlines on how seat configurations balance
comfort against the bottom line. His calculations largely
led to the 777s shift to three rows of three, from the 2-5-2
configuration, which allows everyone to have a free seat next
to them when the plane is 67 percent full (versus 44 percent).
Optimizing coach comfort, he says, relies heavily on two
probabilities: one, that not everyone in a row will be the same
size, and two, that not every seat will be full. In business class,
one of the things you pay for is the near-zero probability that
the passenger next to you will extend into your space, Brauer
says. And the free drink.
His antidote to my pain: Fly business class. I cant
afford his advice, nor can I accept it when a few clicks on the
Internet turn up a far more satisfying answer: tantalizing
images of an economy-class seat called the Cozy Suite. The
answer to my dreams is a clever arrangement of staggered
seats designed by Thompson Solutions of Northern Ireland
that leaves each passenger with a padded side panel to
cuddle up against. Ahhh. The seat cushion slides forward and
down while the back remains fixed, so that reclining wont
put you in the nostril contrail of the guy behind you.
It seemed too good to be trueand it probably is. As I
later discovered, it will be at least a year and a half before the
seats show up, if at all, in the economy cabins of long-haul
Delta planes. Thompson recently conducted focus groups for
the airline, but Delta wont confirm that its placed an order.
The Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees seat
safety, hasnt even heard about the Cozy Suite yet.
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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THE FUTURE OF THE MILITARY
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
Wall-E went to Iraq.
The small robot rolled out of the desert

scrub into a village, paused between two
houses, and then approached the closer
one. His square head swiveled around,
unblinking camera eyes surveying the
structure. The sound of shuffling boots
filled the air as six U.S. Army soldiers
rushed in behind him, assault rifles
1
2
defense-industry contractors, a couple

of reporters, and a cameraman from
Al Jazeera. For some reason, we were
all wearing helmets, even though this
wasnt a live-fire exercise. The shootout had been staged at Adobe Village,
an Army training facility at Fort Bliss,
Texas, and the robot was a prototype
of a reconnaissance bot known as the
Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle, or
SUGV (pronounced sug-vee). Transmitting live imagery back to a helmetmounted display worn by one of the soldiers, the robot had conveyed that the
first building was safely empty, while
the second contained insurgents who
were rigging a bomb. Tipped off, the
soldiers were able to execute a successful raid and kill the bad guys.
The waist-high SUGV is at the forefront of more than just pretend infantry
assaults. Its one of the first technologies
to emerge from a program called Future
Combat Systems, the most ambitious
Army modernization effort since World
War II. The Army traditionally develops
weapons in isolationa new tank here,
a helicopter there. But FCS, scheduled
for full deployment by 2015, was conceived from the ground up as a unified
family: eight armored vehicles, three
robotic transports, a suite of battlefield
sensors, unmanned aerial and terrestrial
EYE, EYE CAPN A soldier in the

1,000-member FCS test brigade
steers the SUGV robot using an
eyepiece to see what it sees.
surveillance crafts, and a guided missile launcher. Each component boasts

better-than-before features (the SUGV,
for instance, weighs less than 30 pounds,
half as much as the robotic scouts currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan), but stacked spec sheets arent the
main point. The key innovation is that
the pieces will work as a coordinated
team linked by a wireless network
interconnection that the Army says will
revolutionize the way war is fought.
The FCS vision combines the best
of laser-guided munitions, robotics,
and Facebook. Mouse clicks steer missiles and drones, computers display the
locations of combatants like restaurant
icons on a GPS unit, picture messages
show insurgent hideouts, and Twitterlike posts provide intelligence updates.
Imagine a platoon of 50 soldiers spread
out over a few miles, some on foot and
some in Humvees, some out in the
open and some inside buildings. Each
soldier is linked to the other fighters
in the area. He or she can receive pictures from a SUGV, intelligence from
the command post, and information
such as vibrations from tank treads
and traces of biological weapons from
unattended sensors. The objective is to
make soldiers more precise about identifying targets and more lethal once
they do; to harness Web-style connectivity to reduce the fog of war.
The goal is unimpeachable. Its the
execution thats under fire. The cost of
FCS has risen at least 45 percent since
its inception in 2003, with the Army
putting the final tally at $161 billion
and an independent review by the Department of Defense estimating up to
$234 billion. Either way, FCS, a dogs
breakfast of 896 contractors in 45
states, is the most expensive weapons
program in Army history. In March
2008, the Government Accountability
Office reported that progress so far
is well short of a program halfway
through its development schedule and
its budget and that only two of FCSs
44 critical technologies have reached a
level of maturity that . . . should have
been demonstrated at program start.
The most critical unproven technology
is the network itself, which is relying

on a system of high-bandwidth radios
that is still being developed. Without
it, FCS collapses like a house of cards.
With FCS in the crosshairs,
the Army has scurried to publicize
progresshence my invitation for a
daylong show-and-tell at Ft. Blissand
accelerate the schedule. The deployments of the SUGV, the missile launcher,
an unmanned aerial vehicle and the first
phase of the network have been moved
up to 2011. Whether this is enough to

save the program remains to be seen.
This summer, the Defense Acquisition Board will complete a critical review, deciding whether FCS will move
forward in its entirety, in a scaled-down
version, or at all.
Intent on success, the military has
assigned a 1,000-member brigade, the
Army Evaluation Task Force, to test
prototypes, provide feedback, and
develop new strategies for network-
A CYNICAL TAKE ON FCS IS THAT

THE ARMY IS SPENDING $200
BILLION ON A CELLPHONE.
ROCKET BOX Soldiers can
remotely deliver target
coordinates to the Non-Lineof-Sight Launch System, and
it fires GPS-guided missiles
that can turn 90 degrees and
squeeze down tight alleys.
COURTESY PROGRAM MANAGER/FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEMS
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: COURTESY PROGRAM MANAGER/FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEMS (2)

BRENT HUMPHREYS
enabled combat. Stationed at Ft. Bliss,

more than 90 percent of the task-force
members previously served in Afghanistan, Iraq or both. After the SUGV
mock assault, I went down to the street
and approached the robots driver,
Tony Salinero. In Iraq, how often do
you get a house with no door that you
could drive a robot right through? I
asked. Salinero laughed, and then there
was an awkward pause. Occasionally,
he finally said. Inside the building I
met the soldiers who had been cast
as insurgents in the SUGV drill. They
seemed to lack the moxie that one
would expect from dangerous rebels.
One said, Were two guys, and they
had like six of them coming in. What
you gonna do? Die in place.
reinventing the radio
To achieve the kind of interconnectedness on which FCS relies, the Army

needs a portable computer that allows
soldiers to wirelessly share intelligence
through voice, text, pictures or video; initiate commands in remote computers;
access informational servers; and use
satellites to determine their location and
the locations of others. A cynical take on
FCS is that the Army is spending $200
billion and waiting until 2015 to invent
a cellphone no more sophisticated than
that carried by the average American
teenager today.
Every other day, somebody jabs me
about cellularyou know: Its so prevalent and available, says Col. Michael
Williamson, the project manager for
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.
SPY BOT Unlike unmanned

planes, the FCS Class 1
Block 0 UAV is a helicopter
that can hover in place,
allowing its rotating camera
to peer in windows or track
moving insurgents.
LOOK FAMILIAR? The controls for FCS

unmanned vehicles are modeled after those
used for videogame consoles.
INSIDE THE FCS NETWORK
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.
Soldiers can exchange

data with the command
post and each other.
built into sensors, surveillance drones
and vehicles to allow those FCS components to communicate too.
Consider how the JTRS system differs from that of your cellphone or laptop.
There are more than 200,000 cellphone
towers in the U.S., which route communications through an elaborate network of
cables and computers. Wireless Internet
is only wireless in the limited distance
between your laptop and the base station.
Even the satellite-Internet services used
by people in remote areas eventually
tie back to a hardwired network. Since
a battlefield environment typically has
none of this infrastructure, JTRS radios
must pick up all of the slack for moving

data around. Its as if each device were
both cellphone and tower.
Current Army radios are used primarily in the conventional, walkie-talkie way,
and only minimally for data, because they
transmit just 2.4 kilobits of information
per second. The JTRS units are being
designed to manage up to two megabits
per second. Thats still far slower than a
basic home cable-Internet connection. But
it will allow the units to handle voice, text
and photos. Chris Brady, a vice president
at General Dynamics C4 Systems, which
is developing the most compact and
portable versions of the new radios, calls
JAMIE SNEDDON
fight, it must therefore build a network

from scratch, says Paul Geery, the director of network development at Boeing,
the lead systems integrator for FCS.
Our constraint is to be able to take
a fighting force, roll off a C-17 [cargo
plane] or boat with nothing in place,
and within a short period of time start
operating in a network fashion.
The military has made considerable
progress in the past decade at linking commanders at the battalion level
and above. Leaders at war-zone bases
have hardwired or satellite-enabled
connections to a protected version of
the Web. They can share intelligence
data, reconnaissance imagery, logistics
reports and battle plans. Rank-and-file
warriors, however, are mostly cut off.
The soldiers networks that do exist
are isolated, small and slow, with datatransmission rates measured in kilobits,
not megabits, per second.
A central goal of FCS is to extend
connectivity to these lower-echelon
fighters. But because the military cant
rely on preexisting networks of cell
towers and cables, it must find alternative methods to move information
around the battlefield. Communicating
via satellite is part of the answer, but
this method fails when soldiers dont
have a clear view of the sky, such as
inside buildings, on narrow streets, in
caves and narrow mountain valleys
in other words, in the very kinds of
environments in which the American
military increasingly operates.
To solve this final mile problem
of linking soldiers and vehicles that
are away from command posts and
reliable satellite access, FCS hopes to
use a device still under development
called the Joint Tactical Radio System,
or JTRS. Software-controlled JTRS radios link to one another to create localarea networks and form chains all the
way back to the nearest command post
or vehicle with satellite connectivity to
the militarys Internet. They function
like typical radiosthat is, a soldier
can hold one in his hand and use it
to talk to another soldierand can
also transmit data and imagery like
cellphones do. Versions of them can be
Missile launchers and

tanks can receive target
coordinates remotely.
Remote-control robots can enter

buildings and beam back intel.
JTRS the glue that holds the whole lower
tier of FCS together.
intel-gathering gear
When you talk to people about FCS, few

bits of military jargon get more airplay
than situational awarenesssoldierspeak for knowing what the hell is going
on. Knowing the battlefield locations
of friends and enemies. That a resupply
vehicle is a mile behind you. That insurgents are launching attacks from an abandoned apartment, or that the location is
in fact a mosque occupied by civilians. If
the JTRS radios are the primary means
by which this information will be moved
around the battlefield, the purpose of

many of the other FCS components is to
collect more and better information to
feed into the network.
Col. Emmett Schaill is the former
leader of the Army Evaluation Task
Force, and he makes a very personal
case for boosting situational awareness.
In 2005, while stationed in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, he went to a
castle that was being used as a police
station. During his meeting with the
police chief, a car bomb exploded outside the southeast wall. Schaill rushed
to investigate. Only once bullets started
whizzing past did he realize that insur-
gents were attacking. He peered from

a parapet to get a good shot but didnt
see the insurgent taking aim nearby.
The bullet ripped through his forearm
and bicep. If I had a UAV [unmanned
aerial vehicle] to see what was going on
out there, I personally would not have
been shot, he says.
The FCS robot he covets is the Class
1, Block 0 UAV. Later the morning of
the infantry exercise, it scoped Adobe
Village from the sky. With a soldier
controlling its movement by way of a
Panasonic Toughbook, the craft captured
high-resolution video of the assembled
soldiers, a pair of porta-potties and me. It
FCS CALLS FOR LIGHT VEHICLES TO STRIKE

QUICKLY AND ACCURATELYESSENTIALLY,
THE BEST DEFENSE IS A GOOD OFFENSE.
looked like a beer keg and sounded like

a leaf blower. But the Task Force soldiers
are excited about its potential. Unlike
the Raven UAV, the small unmanned
plane currently used by the Army for
low-altitude recon, the Class 1, Block 0 is
a helicopter and can hover in place from
10 to 200 feet off the groundin a narrow alley between buildings, outside a
window looking in.
Drones have become common battlefield tools in the past decade but are
typically controlled at the company or
battalion level, which respectively have
about 135 and 650 soldiers apiece. FCS
wants tools like the UAV at the platoon
(approximately 40 soldiers) and even
squad (10 members) level. The vision is
also to expand the range of applications.
The Massachusetts-based company
iRobot manufactures a PackBot currently
deployed overseas, which the military
uses primarily to scout for improvised
explosive devices, while the SUGV, also
made by iRobot, may one day lead infantry assaults like the one I witnessed.
A single soldier can comfortably tote an

SUGV, and the controller, copied almost
directly from that of an Xbox game console, was designed to be intuitively easy
for a young recruit to use.
One of the soldiers handed me the
controller; I donned the head-up display
and started driving. The robot crashed
into a wall. After practicing for a few
minutes, I was able to steer into one of
the buildings and scan for insurgents.
There was something excitingand
faintly disturbingabout the notion
that I could help battle insurgents with
technology that felt only slightly elevated
from the R/C cars of my childhood.
But I wasnt totally sold. Removing the
display, I asked what would prevent an
enemy from shooting the SUGV as soon
as he spotted it. Nothing, replied one
of the soldiers nearby, Lt.-Col. Ed House.
But if he does, we know hes there, so
the SUGV has accomplished its mission.
Better to shoot a robot than a soldier.
A soldier drove up in a Humvee and
parked in the middle of Adobe Village.
Inside the truck was a suite of computer

and communications gear that collects
information from the SUGV, the drones
and the rest of the battlefield nodes, displays it on a computer screen, and feeds
it into the broader network. The point,
after all, is not just for someone like
Schaill to know that there are barbarians
at the castle gate, but to share that information with everyone. FCS cant handle
too much streaming videothe system
wont have enough bandwidthbut still
images can be captured and distributed,
which soldiers say is a major step forward. The operator of a hovering drone
who takes a picture of an insurgent
entering a hideout can share it so that
soldiers conducting the subsequent raid
know exactly who theyre looking for. A
sensor that detects a biological threat can
instantly alert everyone on the network.
A catchphrase of Army modernization is every soldier a sensor. If soldiers
observe a roadside bomb, they can post
the coordinates to the network. Their locations, movements, text messages sent,
FAST FIRE The Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon

can fire six shells a minutethree times as
fast as current mortarsthat strike simultaneously, depriving the enemy of the chance
to take cover after the first one hits.
STICK EM UP Soldiers
will set sensors [here and
right] inside buildings that
can detect motion and
capture images.
and shots fired can be automatically

recorded. In aggregate, the information
streaming onto the network from hundreds of soldiers will give commanders
an exceptionally accurate and up-to-thesecond portrait of battlefield conditions.
Schaill describes the creation of a cognitive network across a 4,000-man brigade. So its not that FCS will somehow
turn the grunts of the past into autonomous killing machinesrather, they will
become the grunts of the future, fighters
with the pluck of American GIs and the
hive mind of the Borg.
But what about

the network?
With such noble goals, why does FCS
have so many doubters in Washington? Paul Francis, who authored the
GAOs March 2008 report to Congress,
describes the fundamental problem as
one of putting the cart before the horse.
The network is the key to FCS, and
yet the Army dove into building every
piece of equipment before proving the
core network technologies that would

connect them. If some of these dont
pan out, major aspects of FCS may have
to be scrapped and rethought.
The fate of the network and, therefore, of FCS, hangs principally on those
JTRS radios, which will serve as the primary means of connection. But the JTRS
program, launched in 1997, has been so
plagued by delays and cost overruns that
some components were nearly canceled
before the program was reorganized
and transferred from Army to Department of Defense oversight in 2005. To
be sure, the technological challenges are
significant. Features like the ability for
the radios to assemble themselves into
ad-hoc networks have little precedent,
even in the civilian world. The JTRS
radios must be compatible with all preexisting military radio systems, adding
to the complexity of the software needed
to run them. Because they cant rely on
cell towers to pick up and relay signals,
they must radiate 10 to 20 times the
energy of a cellphone and have bigger
antennas. All these attributes must be

crammed into packages small and light
enough so that overburdened soldiers
can carry them or fit them into cramped
vehicles and robots. Yet the cost per unit
must be relatively low because they will
be widely deployed.
Since JTRS management was reorganized, the program has met its deadlines
and the radios have passed limited field
tests, says Ralph Moslener, the JTRS
program manager for Boeing, which is
manufacturing one version of the radios.
The open question is whether they will
function adequately once scaled up to a
much larger system.
FCSs manned vehicles are a case
study of the promise and peril of relying
on as-yet-unproven technologiesthe
JTRS radios, as well as new, lightweight
armor and a missile-detection system.
The Army has long been confounded by
the fact that its heavy brigades have battlewinning weaponry but take too long to
deploy, while light brigades are fleet but
firepower-light. FCS offers a solution in
the form of vehicles that pack heavybrigade punch with light-brigade speed,
deployable to anywhere in the world in
96 hours or less. This is possible in part
because each vehicle weighs as little as
half that of similar previous vehicles.
I got to check out one of the FCS
vehicles, the Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon
(NLOS-C). The interior wasnt so different from that of the family minivan.
After I lowered
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE
ANGELS & DEMONS
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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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
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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
ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE

DINOSAURS
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.
G.I. JOE: RISE OF COBRA

In theaters: August 7
An elite high-tech fighting force made up
of soldiers with silly names is called upon
to stop a shady international arms dealer.
GEEK CANDY: The studio is as secretive
about the film as the U.S. government is
about the existence of the real G.I. Joe
team, but early reports suggest plenty of
futuristic tech and surveillance equipment.
EGQ: Unknown. But the mysterious
green mist we saw topple the Eiffel Tower
hints that some of the weapons will be
pure fantasy.
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.
HACKER
HACKER
HACKER
HACKER
HACKER
HACKER
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THE
For years, the U.S. intelligence

community worried that Chinas
government was attacking our
cyber-infrastructure. Now one
man has discovered its worse: Its
hundreds of thousands of everyday
civilians. And theyve only just begun
BY MARA HVISTENDAHL
At 8 a.m. on May 4, 2001, anyone trying to

access the White House Web site got an error message. By
noon, whitehouse.gov was down entirely, the victim of a socalled distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Somewhere
in the world, hackers were pinging White House servers with
thousands of page requests per second, clogging the site.
Also attacked were sites for the U.S. Navy and various other
federal departments.
A series of defacements left little doubt about where the
attack originated. Beat down Imperialism of American [sic]!
Attack anti-Chinese arrogance! read the Interior Departments
National Business Center site. CHINA HACK! proclaimed the
Department of Labor home page. I AM CHINESE, declared a
U.S. Navy page. By then, hackers from Saudi Arabia, Argentina
and India had joined in. The military escalated its Infocon
threat level from normal to alpha, indicating risk of crippling
cyber-attack. Over the next few weeks, the White House site
went down twice more. By the time the offensive was over,
Chinese hackers had felled 1,000 American sites.
The cyber-conflict grew out of real-world tensions. A

month earlier, a U.S. EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft flying off the
southern coast of China had collided with a Chinese F-8 fighter
jet. The American pilot landed safely, but the Chinese pilot was
killed. Chinas hackers lashed out. It wasnt the first foreign
attack on American sites, but it was the biggestthe First
World Hacker War, as the New York Times dubbed it.
three key facts
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Chinese hackers have attacked the cyber-infrastructure

of U.S. companies and government agencies since 1999.
U.S. agencies have long assumed that hacking was the
work of a central government office in China.
Now experts suspect that hacking may be the work of
deeply patriotic civiliansand that if their ambitions
grow, they could be dangerous to the American public
and the government alike.
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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
American Battle . . . and coolswallow joined in the DDoS White

House attacks. Later, he bragged, his group defaced other sites
it considered anti-Chinese, including that of the Taiwanese
Internet company Lite-On.
Peng left two e-mail addresses, his chat information and
the screen names of four other hackers. He soon expanded his
online profile with a blog, photos, and papers describing his
hacking openly. But his boasts went unnoticed until 2005, when
a linguist in Kansas typed the right words into Google, found
Peng, and pulled back the curtain on a growing danger.
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE
In its report to Congress last year, the U.S.-China Economic and

Security Review Commission called Chinese cyber-espionage
a major threat to U.S. technology. China is aggressively
pursuing cyber warfare capabilities that may provide it with
an asymmetric advantage against the United States, the
commission warned. As everything from health-care services
to credit-card records to classified military information moves
develop cybersecurity policy recommendations for the Obama

administration, shares that concern. The U.S. government had
a number of serious computer incidents in 2007, most of which
were attributed to China, he says. The focus in Washington is
on what appear to be state-sponsored activities. That, of course,
is only a part of whats going on in China.
From China, where Ive lived for four years, this assessment
looks spot-on. Hackers are pervasive, their imprint inescapable.
There are hacker magazines, hacker clubs and hacker online
serials. A 2005 Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences survey
equates hackers and rock stars, with nearly 43 percent of
elementary-school students saying they adore Chinas hackers.
One third say they want to be one. This culture thrives on
a viral, Internet-driven nationalism. The post-Tiananmen
generation has known little hardship, so rather than pushing
for democracy, many young people define themselves in
opposition to the West. Chinas Internet patriots, who call
themselves red hackers, may not be acting on direct behalf of
their government, but the effect is much the same.
COURTESY SCOTT HENDERSON; PRECEDING PAGES, LEFT: JASPER JAMES/GETTY IMAGES;

RIGHT: JOHN B. CARNETT; SCOTT HENDERSON PHOTOGRAPHED AT HIGH NOON SALOON
THE NETWORK Scott Henderson

mapped out relationships among
more than 250 hacker sites [far
left], which led him to a hacker
named Peng Yinan. Peng hacked
sites he considered anti-Chinese,
including that of a Taiwanese
Internet company [near left].
So far, Chinese attacks, like the
message posted on a Taiwanese
manufacturers site by the Novice
Hacker Alliance [facing page] have
been mostly patriotic mischief.
STUMBLING ONTO THE DANGER
In 2004, Scott Henderson, a trim 46-year-old with sandy

brown hair, had just retired from decades as a language expert
for the U.S. Army to work for a private intelligence contractor
in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. With a command of Mandarin,
not to mention a Taiwanese wife, Hendersons knowledge of
China makes him valuable in the intelligence community. His
mandate at the new job was open-source intelligence, which
meant using only information from publicly available sources,
mimicking the capabilities of the average civilian. Although
he had little experience in the subject, he was assigned a
report on Chinese hackers.
Sitting down at a desk overlooking the Fort Leavenworth
military base, Henderson started, like any novice, with Google.
Using Mandarin characters, he typed heikeliterally, black
guestpulling up the characters for hacker. Probably, he
thought, hed find articles rehashing weak Western reports. But
when he hit return, his browser displayed a slew of unfamiliar
sites: hackbase.com, hacker123.com, hack8.cn. There were
sites over several days to estimate the number of people logged

in at any given time, he came up with 380,000 hackers.
There were localized clubs, whose members saw one
another regularly. There were fleeting groups, whose sites
appeared and disappeared in a matter of weeks. There were kid
hackers, femme-fatale hackers and hacker wannabes (although
most hackers are simply computer-savvy 20-somethingswhat
Henderson calls normal guys). One group penned a theme
song. Henderson recognized early on that such publicity
ploys were not the work of the state. If this was some secret
government-run organization, he says, it was the most
horribly run secret government organization in the universe.
Instead, Chinese hackers work in small, competing
crews, he found. During moments of crisis, like the 2001
EP-3 collision, the groups band together into coalitions called
Chinese emergency conference centers. The Red Hacker
Alliance, often described in the Western press as a monolithic
group, is in fact a loose association allowing disparate cells to
coordinate their efforts.
COURTESY SCOTT HENDERSON
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
But the largest unifying characteristic is nationalism. In a

2005 Hong Kong Sunday Morning Post article, a man identified
as the Godfather of hackers explains, Unlike our Western
[hacker] counterparts, most of whom are individualists or
anarchists, Chinese hackers tend to get more involved with
politics because most of them are young, passionate, and
patriotic. Nationalism is hip, and hackerswho spearhead
nationalist campaigns with just a laptop and an Internet
connectionare figures to revere.
Henderson says hes found nothing to show a direct
connection between the central government and civilian hacker
groups. But he emphasizes that the relationship between citizen
and state is fluid in China, and that the Chinese government
tends not to prosecute hackers unless they attack within China.
To Henderson, that lack of supervision is tacit approval, and it
constitutes a de facto partnership between civilian hackers and
the Chinese government.
Jack Linchuan Qiu, a communications professor at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong who spent the 2001 hacker
war logged into mainland forums, agrees. Chinese hackerism

is not the American hacktivism that wants social change,
he says. Its actually very close to the state. The Chinese
distinction between the private and public domains is very
small. Chinese entrepreneurs returning from working in
Silicon Valley, Qiu says, sometimes comply with government
requests to provide filtering technology to Chinas Internet
police. Homegrown hackers might just as easily be recruited to
write viruses or software for the Peoples Liberation Army.
Ultimately, hackers with loose government connections
may be more frightening than state-sponsored cyberwarfare.
According to Lewis, The government at a minimum tolerates
them. Sometimes it encourages them. And sometimes it tasks
them and controls them. In the end, he says, its easy for the
government to turn on and hard to turn off.
These rogue groups are missing oversight, Henderson
says. When a situation is approaching critical massif, for
instance, these hackers decide to abandon simple vandalism
and start gunning for Social Security numbers or classified
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
In 2006 Henderson published a book about his search for

Chinese hackers, The Dark Visitor, and in November 2007 he
posted a profile of Javaphile to his blog, thedarkvisitor.com. He
didnt yet know coolswallows real name, so he used the hackers
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.
His group, NCPH,

built viruses that
may have stolen
classified U.S.
documents.
Withered Rose
represented the
Sichuan Military
Command in a
hacker competition
against other provincesand won.
informationwhos the guy who pulls back and says, No, we

dont go any further?
screen handle, which was easy to deduce from Javaphile forum

posts. Hackers regularly read Hendersons blog; once, one
e-mailed to complain that government censors had blocked the
site. So when traffic spiked a few weeks after the Javaphile post,
Henderson checked to see where it was coming from.
He traced the traffic to a Jiaotong University forum, where
a user named ericool had linked to Hendersons site. Theres
a passage about Javaphile and coolswallow, ericool wrote. He
uses my blog. Henderson soon pulled up posts connecting
ericool to a Jiaotong University group called Pneuma, along
with a post from 2002 that ericool had signed CoolSwallow of
Javaphile. They were the same person.
Clicking through the discussion schedule on Pneumas Web
site, pneuma.cn (devoted to cherishing the motherland when
gazing at the world), Henderson learned that a senior hacker
named Peng Yinan had delivered Pneumas second-anniversary
lecture, Hacker in a Nutshell. The poster for the event was
appended with a quote from Hamlet: I could be bounded in a
nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space.
A HACKER IS BORN
Shanghai Jiaotong University, one of the best in China, sits

on the southern edge of Shanghai, surrounded by the R&D
labs of multinational corporations. On the day I visit, students
are sprawled on a verdant lawn, chatting and studying. Just
behind them is the Information Security Engineering School, a
futuristic mlange of maroon and gray.
Peng Yinan formed Javaphile here in September 2000.
Peng originally saw the group as a way to explore physics
and programming. But the following spring, patriotic fury at
the EP-3 collision turned the group to hacking. A scholarship
student, Peng was dark and intense, with long bangs hanging
over his eyes and a fondness for horror films, Buddhist texts,
and blogging about food. A former roommate of Pengs tells me
his anti-American sentiments were common. Everybody was
very nationalistic, he says. Its not like he was exceptional.
Rogues gallery
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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.
international legal framework doesnt exist, says the CSISs

Lewis. And extraditing a hacker to the U.S. simply doesnt
happen, given our current relationship with China. Learning to
defend ourselves seems to be the only option.
In the meantime, Chinese hackers are becoming harder
to monitor. Increasingly, they coordinate through private
text-messaging rather than on blogs or Web sites, leaving no
public record of their activities. In late 2007, after finding the
Javaphile profile on Hendersons blog, Peng logged into the
Jiaotong University forum and typed, Looks like I should quit
the historical stage. A few weeks later, he stopped posting on
public forums altogether. He graduated the next month.
Last summer, I e-mailed Peng at nine e-mail addresses
collected from his blog, academic papers, hacks and the
Pneuma site. Eventually I received a reply from a Pneuma
member called janeadios. Peng Yinan is no longer
involved with Internet security, it read. But traces of
him remained. Earlier that year, in March, he was one of
three graduates invited back by the Information Security
XIAO TIAN In the

male-dominated
world of hacking,
Xiao Tian, leader
of a female hacker
group called the
China Girl Security
Team, is a rarity.
Her 2,200-plusmember group
is responsible
for several
defacements.
Engineering School to deliver a career talk to students.

Rather than quit hacking, Henderson speculates, Peng
retreated from view. In the months leading up to the Beijing
Olympics, the Chinese government tightened its control on
information. Peng may have been contracted to monitor the
Web. In any case, his disappearance from the virtual realm
means the loss of valuable indicators of future attacks.
In February, President Obama launched a 60-day
investigation into cybersecurity, pledging to improve U.S.
Internet defense. Acting on the review commissions findings,
however, will require a coordinated, interdepartmental effort.
First on the list should be reading Hendersons painstakingly
detailed reports. And Pengs disappearance suggests that time
is running out. If we cant handle the information Chinese
hackers are leaving now, scarier still is what could happen
when it disappears.
WHEN WILL WE CATCH ON?

The problem, of course, is that its practically impossible for
the FBI to catch or prosecute hackers operating abroad. The
Mara Hvistendahl also writes for the New Republic, Harpers

and Science. She lives in Shanghai.

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make it too tall and potentially unstable.
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Everythingthe motorized ice tray, the beer
elevator and turntable, the robots wheels
is controlled by a remote normally used for
R/C airplanes and helicopters. Price had it
left over from one of his Battlebots machines
called The Little Engine That Killed. I took
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loving robot, he jokes.
POURING Pressurized air forces booze

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YOU KNOW BACON IS DELICIOUS, BUT DID YOU
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I recently committed myself to
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instead of bacon, is used to cut up
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packed with iron and magnesium
ACHTUNG!
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Bacon is fattening because it contains a lot of chemical energy tied up
in its proteins, and especially in its fat.
You can release that energy either by
digesting it or by burning it with a healthy
supply of oxygen. The challenge isnt creating the heat; its engineering a bacon
structure strong enough to withstand the
GREASE FIRE Pure oxygen

flows from a metal pipe
through a core of baked
prosciutto, generating a
grease fire hot enough to
ignite steel and burn a hole
clear through this pan. A
wrapping of less-flammable
uncooked prosciutto focuses
the flame into an intense
bacon-plasma torch.
FROM TABLE TO TORCH
MEAT STICKS The author wrapped

slices of prosciutto around fiberglass
rods, baked them dry, and bundled
seven tubes into a bacon fuel core.
Theodore Gray is trained in lab safety. Dont try this at home. See more of Grays work at periodictable.com.
See a video of this demonstration at popsci.com/bacon.
MIKE WALKER
MATTER
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HOW 2.0
stress of a 5,000F bacon plasma flame.
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
the perfect pipe materialhollowed-out

cucumbers. The pressure-containment
capacity of a standard cucumber is
remarkable, and the smooth skin makes it
easy to create an airtight seal with the pipe
delivering oxygen to the device. A cucumber packed with beef sticks will burn for
almost two minutes, and a completely
vegetarian version stuffed with breadsticks, though not quite as long-lasting,
still produces a very impressive flame.
The lesson here is that food is a
source of serious amounts of energy.
Pure oxygen helps release it in a much
shorter time than usual, but its really
the chemical energy in the bacon that
makes the steel pan burn. Whether its
worth building a bacon lance to demonstrate thiswell, only you can be
the judge of that.Theodore Gray
GREEN LANTERN A cucumber makes an
even better edible thermal-lance housing,
since its outer rind contains the pressure
of the very hot fl ame without burning up.
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No need to don a hard hat just yet. The

odds that one of the millions of pieces
of trash orbiting Earth will fall and hit
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Ailor, director of the Center for Orbital
and Reentry Debris Studies.
The risk that someone will get hit
can run far higher, though, says Nicholas Johnson, NASAs chief scientist for
orbital debris. NASA and other space
agencies aim to keep the risk of injury
from falling objects lower than one in
10,000. The risks typically run higher
with large objects. For example, theres
a one-in-1,000 shot that the Hubble
Space Telescope could hit someone if
it falls from orbit once its decommissioned, so NASA will preemptively
steer it into the ocean.
Theres only one recorded instance
of debris hitting a person. In 1997
Lottie Williams was exercising in a park

in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when a DVD-size
piece of metal mesh from a spent Delta
II rocket hit her shoulder. It fell at what
NASA classifies as a very low speed, and
she walked away unscathed.
Debris includes spent rocket stages,
pieces of broken-down satellites and random objects, like the tools that drifted off
during a spacewalk last year. According
to NASA, there are some 18,000 objects
in orbit larger than a softball; 300,000
that are larger than a nickel; and millions
that are even smaller (among them, the
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when the Chinese military shot down one
of its defunct satellites in 2007). We dont
have to worry about those down here,
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thousandths of an inch to gash the space
shuttles window in 1983.
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LITTER LAUNCH Pieces of Delta II rockets

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