11 september 2007

A litlle billiart anyone ?

Did the gods play billiard 160 million years ago ? Some years ago (ages ago ?) when we were working on Kohonen neural networks, one of the Engineers at the Ghent University, Faculty of AutoControl (Prof Boullart) made a robot that could make a point in a billiart game. It was presented at a local technology trade fair "Flanders Technology". Before him the gods must have had the same idea but they almost made the last point of the match. Almost.... Although this has not mutch to do with neurophysiology this interesting "C.S.I" type article in Nature sept 2007, pinpoints the reason that almost (just almost) this blog would never have come to existence. The autors in this Nature article have discovered the culprit that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and nearly ended all life on earth. This was a very close one. He sure looks fierce to me !! PS let's hope the gods did not turn to soccer !! NATURE|Vol 449|6 September 2007 NEWS &

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