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Carina Nebula Details: Great Clouds
Credit for Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Credit for CTIO Image: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF
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NASA GOES 11 satellite image showing earth on June 17, 2010 1:00 EST.
Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
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NASA image release June 9, 2010
STEREO (Ahead) kept a steady eye on a narrow portion of a solar prominence that rose up, wavered, and finally broke away from the Sun (May 28-30, 2010). It appeared that the trailing portion of the prominence still remained behind. With the spacecraft's viewing angle at edge on, the prominence looks somewhat like a long thin ribbon. Note that the part that erupted brightened (=heated in this case) as it went up. Prominences are cooler clouds of gas suspended above the solar surface by magnetic forces. They frequently become unstable and break away.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SOHO
To learn more about SOHO go to: soho.nascom.nasa.gov/home.html
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NASA GOES 13 satellite image showing earth on August 3, 2010.
Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
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Most Earthlike Exoplanet Started out as Gas Giant
This artist's impression shows sunrise over CoRoT-7b, the smallest-known exoplanet. The world is about 70 percent larger than Earth. Now, a team led by Brian Jackson at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center finds that the planet may be the rocky remains of a gas giant planet whose atmosphere was evaporated by close proximity to the star. (Goddard Release No. 10-03) 01/06/2010
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
To learn more go to: www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2010/earthlike...
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NASA GOES 13 satellite image showing earth on July 14, 2010 11:45 UTC.
Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
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The sculpture is only 4 cm large .
right upper arm : You can imagine that arm shooting a disintegrating
Newtonian beam .
Left upper Arm : Triple saw made from vintage brass clock gear .
Top Arm : Made from Mysterious yellow amber .
bottom arm : a single magnetic wheel for an alternative transport and stability .
Beholder's floats/hover above the ground . They are known to be obsessively Tyrannic .
Made by Daniel Proulx A.K.A : CatherinetteRings , Steampunk jewelry designer and sculptor
This sculpture is currently on display for the Oxford Steampunk Exhibition .
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A Light in the Darkness
by Will Steed
Hastings looked down the tunnel into the darkness. He looked down at his feet. The pools of filth lay stagnant on the ground at the edges, while a stream of foulness trickled down the middle. His shoes would have make do on their own. Some yards further into the tunnel, he found a twisted piece of iron left off to the side. He knew he was in the right place. The maker's mark on the iron matched the ones taken from the smith's yard near the docks.
Still further down the tunnel, there was a branch. One would lead to the lower reaches, the other further south, towards the houses on Merchant's Row. The criminal element of the lower reaches were prime candidates for the theft of scrap iron, but something tickled at the back of Hastings' brain. His intuition told him there was a connection between the theft of the scrap iron and rumors of an alliance between technologists and the guild of merchants, but there was nothing to prove it, or even to suggest that it was more than the hunch of a detective on probation.
Hastings listened carefully. Over the rumble of the train passing above, he could hear a deep rhythmic sound coming from the tunnel that lead towards Merchant's Row. He walked cautiously down the tunnel, avoiding the splashing of walking in puddles of Ada-knew-what.
As he progressed, the rhythm grew louder and resolved itself to human voices, chanting, and the flicker of torches bounced off the wall. A cult? he thought to himself. That would be the third one this year. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a metal flask, holding it firmly in his hand. As he approached the source of the chanting and flickering, he unlatched a metal cylinder from the beltloop that held his coat.
Before he made his presence known, he stopped to listen. The chanting was in Latin - Laudamus te, deo omnifacente, adjuta nobis, dea technologistorum. Of course it was in Latin, he thought. Latin is the language of the Roman church, why not of other gods? This cult originator had apparently done his research on cultistry. The chanters had dark robes, chalk designs on the floor, and a brass altar. Upon the altar, the mystic theme was broken by a pile of scrap metal. Among the lead and iron piping lay a large vicegrip, a dangerously oversized blunderbuss and a rotary sawblade.
Hastings drew attention to himself by flicking the lever on the side of the metal cylinder. The snapping of a spring and the sliding of metal against metal drew the attention of two cultists, who broke from the circle of robed enchanters and advanced on him. With his truncheon extended, he let the robed chanters reach him. The chanting from the other cultists changed, growing louder as he faced the fighters: venite, surmitte nobis monstrum mechanicum. The swinging truncheon caught one cultist on the knee, his scream loud enough to be heard over the chant, which grew louder with each repetition. A blow from the second cultist knocked him to the floor, his truncheon rolling out of reach, lying halfway into the chalk circle on the floor.
The lead cultist, with a thick gold chain hanging around his neck, drew forth a glass orb and placed it on the altar as the chanting stopped, leaving a ringing in Hastings' ears, and only the screaming of the injured cultist rang through the tunnel. The cultist who had punched Hastings pulled him up by his coat-front. Hastings shook the flask in his left hand and flicked the lid off it. A smell even fouler than the stench of the effluent in the tunnels rose into the cultist's nose. The grip on his coat slackened as the cultist collapsed to the floor in a stupor.
Covering the flask once more, Hastings returned his focus to the other cultists. The torches had blown out while his attention was distracted, and the tunnel was lit by the golden glow of the orb on the altar. The light was growing fast, and Hastings and the cultists were forced to cover their eyes.
When the light cleared the pile of scrap on the altar had gone. Instead, a metal creature was suspended in mid air above the altar. A large eye in the middle surveyed the room suspiciously while metallic tentacles moved around it. The sight of metal moving like flesh made Hastings' own flesh crawl. Most of the cultists looked as shocked and sickened as Hastings, backing away towards the walls, but the lead cultist held his ground.
'Behold! I bring you forth from the divine workshop' he declaimed. 'I bind you to this place, leaving only to do my bidding! I hold you here under my power until I see fit to remove you to the place from which you came.'
The metal creature regarded the room carefully, floating in silence. Its eye turned to the chalk markings on the floor. It floated to the edge of the circle, where Hastings' truncheon lay across the line on the floor. The eye shifted its gaze back to face the lead cultist, whose eyes had grown wide. The cultist looked at Hastings.
'What have you done?' he demanded of Hastings. 'You've given it its freedom. We have no control over it.'
Hastings knelt on the floor, looking dumbly at the metallic creature, which beheld the scene before it. The creature floated out of the chalk circle, leaving directly over the gap made by the truncheon. The eye beheld Hastings once more, dipping softly, before floating back up the tunnel towards the surface of the city.
The lead cultist fled after it, declaming in Latin. After they had both gone out of sight, there was the scream of spinning metal, the scream of suffering man and the sickening sound of death. A golden light flashed, and the screaming stopped.
Now in the dark, Hastings drew out a small box with a crank on it. After a short winding, a light glowed in the darkness. The whimpering sound of the remaining cultists turned to gratitude, and Hastings led the cultist merchants slowly back to the surface.
In a foggy alleyway, a light yellow glow grew. A scream pierced the night, and then there was silence.
NASA image release April 22, 2010
Object Names: Carina Nebula, NGC 3372
Image Type: Astronomical
Credit: NASA/N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF
To read learn more about this image go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hubble20th-img....
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As a qualified Computer Technologist from Univ of Wales; I always believes in using the technology to create arts.
This is using the software of www.chaoscope.org.
Chaoscope is a 3D strange attractors rendering software. When you visiting the link above; there are sample of pictures rendered by the program. You can check the Gallery to see more examples of what Chaoscope can do.
It is an ongoing project created and maintained by Nicolas Desprez ; the current version is 0.3.1. It is a freeware running on the Windows™ platform.
I have used the Chaotic - flow Plasma to generate this image.
Then I did some work using Picasa & Corel Paintshop Pro Xi to get to the finish presentation of the above image.
Thank you for your visit & support.
I appreciate it.
NASA / NOAA GOES-13 satellite image showing earth on March 2, 2010 at 8:45 UTC.
Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
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The technologists who worked with my husband were lovely ladies who smiled & joked with him. They pinpointed the radiation to his vocal folds where cancer had taken hold. He is over ten years cancer free now.
The Jaipur Foot: $28.
Rotary Jaipur Foot Project in Rwanda--Clinic and Fitting Center
Kinombe, Rwanda. Central Africa.
August 30, 2006
Special thanks to Peter (technologist) for his insight and willingness to collaborate with the Oregon-based Rotary LN-4 Prosthetic Hand Project.
For more information on the international success of the Jaipur Foot visit:
www.landminesurvivors.org/news_article.php?id=577
www.time.com/time/reports/heroes/foot.html
www.jaipurfoot.org/01_org_awards.asp
Statistics on land mines in Africa:
Bluewater Shopping Centre, which was completed in 1999, was built in a redundant quarry near to Greenhithe, Kent. The centre has three double-storey arcades, one of which is known as the "Guildhall". The frieze of the upper storey of Bluewater's "Guildhall" is decorated with 106 carvings representing the 100 Livery Companies of the City of London at the time of construction in 1999 plus the 6 Companies without Livery. Of those six, all but the Parish Clerks and the Watermen & Lightermen have since achieved full livery status. The carvings are set out in blocks of five in order of precedence and run from the Mercers to the Information Technologists followed by those of the six Companies without Livery. The eighth of these blocks contains the carvings representing the Coopers, Tylers & Bricklayers, Bowyers, Fletchers and Blacksmiths. The final carving in the sequence, which represents the World Traders, being the odd one out, has been extended to fill a whole shopfront bay.
Goddard scientist David Harding and Goddard technologist Tony Yu are developing a lidar system that could meet an ambitious requirement of the proposed LIST mission.
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In 2007, the National Research Council threw down a challenge: Design a space-based laser altimeter that could measure the height of Earth's surface everywhere to within a mere 10 centimeters — all at 5-meter resolution. To this day, some believe it can't be done.
Goddard scientist Dave Harding begs to differ.
He and his team have embraced the challenge and are developing a laser altimeter that could provide the data from a berth onboard the NRC-proposed Lidar Surface Topography, or LIST, mission. It would generate highly detailed maps of topography and vegetation that scientists could use to forecast and respond to natural hazards and study carbon storage in forests.
Read more: 1.usa.gov/17N3Bql
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Credit: Bill Hrybck/NASA
NASA video release July 13, 2010
To view a still image of NGC 2467 go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4789705443
This zoom sequence begins with a very wide-field view of the southern sky including the spectacular Milky Way. We gradually close in on the stellar nursery NGC 2467 and as the zoom finishes the full majesty of this complex region of gas, dust and young stars is revealed in a very detailed picture from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: ESO, S. Brunier, NASA, ESA and Orsola De Marco (Macquarie University). Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin
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If you are of a certain age, Lego's 'Classic Space' them magically landed in your childhood bringing the dream of space exploration to your toy box.
For this reason, the first generation of Classic Space - the blue and grey theme of 1978-1979 is considered the gold standard of Lego historic themes.
I am of that age.
So is Elon Musk - visionary, entrepreneur and space technologist.
I suspect that Musk is probably a fan of classic space - and I think I can see clear hints of the shapes present in the theme in his electric-powered Tesla Cybertruck, launched last week.
Sure, it was all splendid in shiny stainless steel - just like another of my childhood icons, the Back to the Future DeLorean.
In the back of mind though, during that somewhat bizarre launch event, my thoughts ran to "Maybe this is the Mars rover, and not the road car truck", then "I would probably look pretty cool dressed as Lego Classic Space."
So, here it is Elon's SpaceX Cybertruck.
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Apollo 11 Mission image - View of Earth (July 21, 1969)
View of the Earth terminator. One third of Earth sphere illuminated,East Africa visible. Image was taken after the transearth insertion as the Apollo 11 crew traveled back to Earth. Original film magazine was labeled V. Film Type: S0-368 Color taken with a 80mm lens.
To learn more about Apollo 11 go to: www.nasa.gov/apollo45/
or www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_40/
Credit: NASA/APOLLO 11
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NASA video acquired August 1 - 2, 2010.
Spectacular aurora lit the night sky from Europe to North America on August 3, 2010, thanks to a 12-hour long geomagnetic storm. The storm occurred as large clouds of charged particles from the Sun interacted with the magnetic field around Earth. As the particles zoomed along the magnetic field, they collided with and energized oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere. When the energized atoms relaxed, they emitted light, providing a brilliant show.
To read more go to: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45072
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NASA images courtesy STEREO. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
Instrument: STEREO
NASA GOES 13 satellite image showing earth on May 28, 2010 11:45 UTC.
Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
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NASA GOES 13 satellite image showing earth on May 14, 2010 14:45 UTC.
Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
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May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC
Cloud vortices off Isla Socorro, North Pacific
Satellite: Terra
To see the full image go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4641459959
NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team
To learn more about MODIS go to: rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?latest
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Walking the ancient forests of Vancouver Island is an experience that seldom disappoints. My companions on this day were Washington state based environmentalist Joshua Wright (l), and Greg Herringer, a forest technologist who oversees the British Columbia Timber Sales (BCTS) Legacy Tree Program
Caption: The image behind NASA technologist Jacob Englander shows the trajectory to Odysseus, a Trojan asteroid. Englander used his new orbit-determination tool to create the design (not associated with any mission or mission proposal) because a colleague suggested Odysseus was a difficult-to-reach target.
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Credit: NASA/Goddard/Pat Izzo
Traveling to remote locations sometimes involves navigating through stop-and-go traffic, traversing long stretches of highway and maneuvering sharp turns and steep hills. The same can be said for guiding spacecraft to far-flung destinations in space. It isn’t always a straight shot.
A NASA technologist has developed a fully automated tool that gives mission planners a preliminary set of detailed directions for efficiently steering a spacecraft to hard-to-reach interplanetary destinations, such as Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and most comets and asteroids.
The tool, the Evolutionary Mission Trajectory Generator “offers a paradigm shift from what we normally do,” said Jacob Englander, a technologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who devised a concept for his computer-based tool while a doctorate student at the University of Illinois in Champaign. “EMTG will be used, and already is being used, to develop trajectories for proposed Goddard missions that cannot be designed using any other current tool.”
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During the course of my travels (~100k flown miles per year on United), I've learned a few things. Being a technologist and a huge fan of gear, I've had the opportunity to field a variety of different bags, cameras, flashlights, laptops, tablets, e-readers, mp3 players, IEMs, etc. I thought I'd share a few tricks of the trade that have stuck over time and have made my travels simpler.
There are a few themes I follow when I travel - less is more, redundancy is good, lighter is better. If I pack something and don't use it after 3 trips, it comes out. There are a few exceptions to this rule - the most notable being a basic First Aid kit that I keep in my toiletries bag - Edit: per requests sent to me via messages, I will post the contents of the first aid kit in a future post - short version includes safety pins, emergency medications like Advil, Tylenol, Nyquil, Caffeine, Imodium), a small sewing kit, Neosporin, bandaids, a chemlight, small packable towel, etc.
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Garmin GPSMap 62s handheld GPS. Mine has a 16gb Sandisk MicroSDHC card loaded with city and topo maps for just about every continent I could possibly end up on. Great for finding directions in a new city both on foot and in-car. I carry this vs a car-mounted GPS because this handheld GPS takes AA batteries (I load mine up with Energizer Lithiums), which can easily be replaced if I'm on foot. Can't say the same for most in-vehicle GPS devices.
SureFire Flashlight - The model varies because I have so many it's absurd, but it's always a 2xCR123 model. This time it's an L4 Lumamax. It's also always the 2nd SureFire I have with me (I carry a SureFire Titan T1A in my pocket everywhere). I always have spare batteries with me as well - usually 2 or 4 of them.
Doorstop - This hasn't seen much use in recent times because I mostly stay in Starwood properties (the W San Francisco for this trip) that at least provide a decent illusion of security, but it doesn't weigh much and I keep it around anyway because I like having it with me. This particular doorstop can be deployed in a variety of ways to keep doors open, keep them closed, etc. If you've ever seen how easily an older-style hotel door chain-lock can be bypassed - same for some keycard locks - you'll understand =]
Recyclable tote bag - This one came from a conference - they fold up nice and flat and don't weigh much and are handy to have for lugging around handouts, souvenirs, and just creating some extra storage if your main pack is full.
Radio - This one is a Yaesu VX-3R 2m Ham radio with a little stubby Maldol antenna. I think it's very handy to have. Cellular networks are among the first things to buckle during a disaster or even when under heavy load at a tech conference - having a radio is very handy.
Watch - Sometimes mechanical, sometimes digital - it really depends on where I'm going and for what purpose. This Suunto Core watch is nice because it has a compass, keeps track of temperature/barometric pressure, etc. Also, it has an alarm, which is really handy until the day comes when I wind up with a mechanical watch with minute repeater from Ulysse Nardin or Audemars Piguet ;]
Phones - iPhone 5 pictured here - I carry 3 phones. 1 work phone and 2 "personal" phones - of the 2 personal phones, one is always an unlocked phone ready to take a SIM that I purchase at my destination. I have AT&T and Verizon as my carriers - if you only have AT&T, you can probably guess why I have two different carriers. I included the phone here because of a specific trick I've been employing for years - I use the camera on my phone to capture quick photos of things I'd otherwise forget during my travels that may be important...like the # of the cab I get into (if I have to ride in a cab) just in case I leave something behind, or a map of my hotel's fire egress route. In the event of an emergency, just about everyone these days will grab their phone, so...
Retractable Cables - I love these. I carry a CAT6, 2x Mini USB and 2x Micro USB - two of them frequently get used with my:
Mini 802.11 AP - This one was a gift from my brother from his last trip to Taiwan, so the menu/firmware is all in Chinese - good thing "SSID" and the other basic things were easy to figure out. A similar American model is available on Amazon. This thing is fantastic - powered via Micro USB and has a WAN IN and LAN out port on it - instant wifi in a hotel room that otherwise only has CAT5E and wants to charge extra for wifi. I always SSH tunnel into my home network before connecting out when on any sort of a public network and use FoxyProxy in Firefox to send my web traffic through my home internet as well.
Location-specific items - I was in San Francisco during this trip and so I had a BART ticket with me as well as a FastTrak (bridge/toll road payment device). You can usually purchase bus passes, train tickets, etc online in advance these days - I like to go prepared whenever possible. The BART tickets ended up being really handy during this trip as I decided to cancel my rental car at the last minute when I figured out that overnight parking at the W hotel in SF is $60/night.
Verizon MiFi - Mine has the huge Mugen Power battery on it. This device is a godsend. I never leave home without it. At some point I had an AT&T 4G device as well, which gave me the redundancy I so badly long for (GSM and CDMA), but I no longer have that. I haven't upgraded to an LTE device because Mugen Power doesn't make a huge battery for the newer MiFis...yet.
Alfa high-power WiFi adapter - Because sometimes - just sometimes - I need to hit a wireless network that's far away and am getting unusable service from my Verizon MiFi. The Alfa gets it done.
Outlets - Another godsend - this one turns a single outlet into 3 + 2 USB. Fantastic in airports, hotel rooms, and just about everywhere else.
I have a few other little things I do that make sense to me but may seem absurd to others: an example would be that I never push out my TripIt/travel status (Aaron is leaving on a trip to _______ for x days) on Facebook, etc. And most of the time, I try to avoid posting my travel photos/details of my whereabouts until I'm nearly home or at home. Maybe it's paranoia, but as a former home burglary victim and a desirable target for all sorts of opportunity criminals, I just can't see a reason why I should make it easier for them by announcing that I plan to be away from my home.
Late last year my local airport implemented TSA's PreCheck, which is a great throwback to travelling pre-9/11. I get to keep my shoes, belt and jacket on and my toiletries and laptop don't need to come out of my bag. The only thing that goes in a bin are my mobile phones. My average time through security (including the "line") has been UNDER 1 MINUTE at the airports I've visited that have PreCheck. I qualified for PreCheck via my enrollment in Global Entry, which is also fantastic as it lets me bypass the lines to re-enter the US at customs.
Explored 4/2/2013