http://sgforums.com/forums/1164/topics/316947 en-US 60 <p>dont worry la the picture of AH Tseng will distract the enemy.....they are suppost to be stupid right?</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src= "http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm137/spyder-album2/Singapore/my08-002-0-myp.jpg" height="985" alt="" width="721" /></p> <p><img src= "http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm137/spyder-album2/Singapore/my08-004-0-myp.jpg" height="985" alt="" width="721" /></p> Sun, 11 May 2008 20:37:16 +0800 sgforums.com:1164:316947:8078856 Dajal.suci http://sgforums.com/forums/1164/topics/316947 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by CX:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>Hmmm...</p> <p><img src= "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/JROppenheimer-LosAlamos.jpg" height="315" alt="" width="228" /></p> <p>J Robert Oppenheimer</p> <p><img src= "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Niels_Bohr.jpg" height="326" alt="" width="231" /><br /> <br /> Niels Bohr</p> <p>And last but not least...</p> <p><img src= "http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/z_Projects_in_progress/050418_Einstein/050405_einstein_tongue.widec.jpg" height="371" alt="" width="298" /></p> <p>Guess who?</p> <p>These were all scientific titans and very public figures of their days... they were either nobel prize winners themselves, or who had produced research and made discoveries that were nobel prize winning material... And they all worked on the Manhatten Project.</p> <p>Its a bit silly to suggest that scientists ought to be locked away like hermits and never see the light of day... They just happen to work in a military-linked lab, but their first and foremost pre-occupation is always their research and their scientific work, which is improved through sharing with fellow scientists at international conferences and scientific journals</p> <p>just as our scientists read such papers and get useful ideas and directions for their research, it is only reasonable that they give back to these journals and get recognised for their good work through publications.</p> <p>They do have to seek permission before submitting research for publication and it is considered an achievement in academia to have an article published in a well-known journal.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>&nbsp;</p> Sun, 11 May 2008 11:14:43 +0800 sgforums.com:1164:316947:8077742 CX http://sgforums.com/forums/1164/topics/316947 <p>Hmmm...</p> <p><img src= "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/JROppenheimer-LosAlamos.jpg" height="315" alt="" width="228" /></p> <p>J Robert Oppenheimer</p> <p><img src= "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Niels_Bohr.jpg" height="326" alt="" width="231" /><br /> <br /> Niels Bohr</p> <p>And last but not least...</p> <p><img src= "http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/z_Projects_in_progress/050418_Einstein/050405_einstein_tongue.widec.jpg" height="371" alt="" width="298" /></p> <p>Guess who?</p> <p>These were all scientific titans and very public figures of their days... they were either nobel prize winners themselves, or who had produced research and made discoveries that were nobel prize winning material... And they all worked on the Manhatten Project.</p> <p>Its a bit silly to suggest that scientists ought to be locked away like hermits and never see the light of day... They just happen to work in a military-linked lab, but their first and foremost pre-occupation is always their research and their scientific work, which is improved through sharing with fellow scientists at international conferences and scientific journals</p> <p>just as our scientists read such papers and get useful ideas and directions for their research, it is only reasonable that they give back to these journals and get recognised for their good work through publications.</p> <p>They do have to seek permission before submitting research for publication and it is considered an achievement in academia to have an article published in a well-known journal.</p> Sun, 11 May 2008 11:13:21 +0800 sgforums.com:1164:316947:8077741 CX http://sgforums.com/forums/1164/topics/316947 <p>oh ya and if what you said is true, wont you be making it worse by posting it on the net by&nbsp;making it more accessible?</p> Fri, 09 May 2008 16:49:06 +0800 sgforums.com:1164:316947:8073691 rain-coat http://sgforums.com/forums/1164/topics/316947 <p>is this a weapon of mass destruction? is this technology so sophisticated that others must kidnap them in order to have it? cant they just buy one and afterwhich produce their own like sg did with the 6 new stealth ships?</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Fri, 09 May 2008 16:46:49 +0800 sgforums.com:1164:316947:8073684 rain-coat http://sgforums.com/forums/1164/topics/316947 <p>*smacks forehead*</p> <p>Its not like they revealed our big names behind stuff like MetalStorm or something...</p> Fri, 09 May 2008 11:57:53 +0800 sgforums.com:1164:316947:8072987 Shotgun http://sgforums.com/forums/1164/topics/316947 <blockquote> <p>ANDREA SOH<br /> SCIENTISTS in Singapore<br /> have produced a nerve<br /> agent detector that fits on<br /> to a chip the size of a credit<br /> card.<br /> This device will allow anti-biochemical<br /> personnel responding<br /> to a terrorist chemical<br /> strike, such as the 1995 Tokyo<br /> subway sarin attack, to quickly<br /> identify those who are exposed<br /> to the deadly gas.<br /> It can detect sarin or other related<br /> chemical warfare agents in<br /> a small drop of blood.<br /> The home-grown lab-in-achip<br /> is the result of a two-year<br /> research collaboration between<br /> DSO National Laboratories and<br /> Nanyang Technological University<br /> (NTU).<br /> The team recently published<br /> details of their trials in the April<br /> edition of the journal by the<br /> prestigious UK-based Royal Society<br /> of Chemistry.<br /> The team comprises Dr Loke<br /> Weng Keong, 39, the DSO head<br /> of medical counter-measure<br /> (chemical) lab, NTU Associate<br /> professor Nguyen Nam Trung,<br /> 38, and DSO defence research<br /> engineer Tan Hsih Yin, 25.<br /> Commenting on the Singaporean<br /> achievement, <span style="color: #ff0000;">Professor Jonas<br /> Berquist, who studies<br /> chip-based blood analysis at<br /> Uppsala University in Sweden,<br /> said he was impressed with the<br /> number of steps integrated into<br /> the device.<br /> “It’s a problem not many people<br /> have solved yet,” he noted.</span><br /> The device can screen 96 people<br /> within half an hour and, being<br /> easily mass-produced, many<br /> more people can be checked at<br /> the same time.<br /> This would shave off crucial<br /> minutes, which means the difference<br /> between life and death for<br /> people exposed to nerve agents.<br /> Only a drop of blood is needed<br /> to be put in the chip, which<br /> can reveal results through an external<br /> detector.<br /> sandrea@sph.com.sg<br /> SEE REPORT IN HOME PAGE A4</p> </blockquote> <p>contd of quote:''2 years of work for S’pore<br /> team to make lab-in-chip</p> <p>WHEN reading reports<br /> of the 1995 sarin gas attack<br /> in Japan, Dr Loke<br /> Weng Keong, the head of DSO’s<br /> medical counter-measures<br /> (chemical) lab, was concerned<br /> that most of the 500 people who<br /> rushed to hospitals were actually<br /> not affected.<br /> Ten years later, Dr Loke, 39,<br /> attended a seminar conducted<br /> by Nanyang Technological University<br /> (NTU) Associate Professor<br /> Nguyen Nam Trung, 38.<br /> It was there that he realised<br /> that Dr Nguyen, the thermal<br /> and fluids researcher, had the expertise<br /> which could help identify<br /> people exposed to nerve<br /> agents in a terrorist attack.<br /> Dr Loke approached Dr<br /> Nguyen to work on finding a<br /> portable device that can detect<br /> sarin easily. DSO research engineer,<br /> Ms Tan Hsih Yin, 25 –<br /> then an undergraduate in NTU,<br /> also joined the team.<br /> DSO is Singapore’s primary<br /> defence research organisation.<br /> Their two years of hard work<br /> has now paid off. The result is<br /> the power of a lab on the size of<br /> a chip. The tool about the size of<br /> a credit card enables mass<br /> screening to be done anywhere.<br /> This ensures that the genuinely<br /> exposed can receive treatment<br /> quickly, and also reassures<br /> the rest that they are not exposed.<br /> At very low levels, symptoms<br /> of the sarin nerve agent – headache<br /> and nausea – is similar to<br /> those induced by fear, Dr Loke,<br /> said.<br /> Hospital facilities in Japan<br /> were severely strained by the<br /> 500 people who rushed to hospitals<br /> for tests to see if they had<br /> been exposed to the gas in 1995,<br /> said Dr Loke.<br /> “In the end, 99 per cent were<br /> actually not affected,” he pointed<br /> out. The attack left 12 dead.<br /> The chip is based on Scentmate<br /> – another nerve agent diagnostic<br /> kit developed by DSO.<br /> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Like Scentmate,</span> it can screen<br /> 96 people within half an hour.<br /> For Scentmate to work, it requires<br /> several equipment to run<br /> a five-step screening procedure.<br /> For the new device, these<br /> equipment have been shrunk to<br /> the size of a credit card. This<br /> makes it easier for responders in<br /> bulky protective suits to use.<br /> Before Scentmate and this<br /> new device was developed, it<br /> took 16 hours to screen as many<br /> samples in a laboratory said Dr<br /> Loke.<br /> The new device works like<br /> this.<br /> First, a drop of blood is collected<br /> and placed on the chip. It<br /> is then mixed with a chemical solution<br /> to extract the sarin agent.<br /> After that, the rest of the blood<br /> is removed.<br /> The mixture containing the<br /> nerve agent is then passed<br /> through a biosensor in the chip.<br /> Finally, the device is connected<br /> to an external detector, from<br /> which the results can be retrieved.<br /> The team was given a<br /> $50,000 grant from the Ministry<br /> of Defence for this research.<br /> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Their findings were published<br /> by UK-based Royal Society<br /> of Chemistry last month.</span><br /> The chip can also be used for<br /> other applications, like detecting<br /> excessive levels of agriculture<br /> pesticides in farmers.<br /> The chip may land up on supermarket<br /> shelves eventually if<br /> companies decide that there is a<br /> market for it, said Dr Loke.<br /> If fear – the main weapon of<br /> terrorists – is reduced, the appeal<br /> of using chemical agents<br /> for terrorist attacks will be lowered,<br /> he said.<br /> “Mass hysteria is contagious,”<br /> he said.<br /> sandrea@sph.com.sg''end of quote..</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> http://myepaper.mypaper.sg/ebook/web_php/fvbrowserjs.php?urljs=http://myepaper.mypaper.sg/ecreator/sphopf/ep080508cnd_opf_files/ep080508cnd.js&amp;ver=Gen</p> <p>1.SG will not compete with other giants in mega projects.</p> <p>But she will spend efforts on niche and important areas</p> <p>which will not appear very grand in medias photos,like missiles</p> <p>,space adveutures etc</p> <p>Do u think SG cant send a spaceman in a Russia space craft,like</p> <p>MY did?</p> <p>2.This small kit can save a lot of lifes.</p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;">3.Will DSO ,DSTA etc NOT to make the faces of staff appearing</span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;">in medias.This may endanger their lives or their family!!!</span></p> <p><img src= "http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/lionnoisy/labonachip.jpg?t=1210303462" height="364" alt="" width="494" /></p> <p>words in the image above ''10 mm''</p> <p><img src= "http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/lionnoisy/labonachip3.jpg" height="327" alt="" width="451" /></p> <p>Is there any Security Officer overseeing the safety of the staff and their family.</p> <p>THis is damn stupid and negligent to allow their identity known,</p> <p>including the names ,faces,etc</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Fri, 09 May 2008 11:26:32 +0800 sgforums.com:1164:316947:8072902 lionnoisy http://sgforums.com/forums/1164/topics/316947