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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Head-on collision of coloured vortex rings
Head-on collision of coloured vortex rings.
Note the formation of small rings from the cross-linking of the way voriex filaments of the larger rings.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
RENDERA - Free Graphic Editor
RENDERA - Free Graphic Editor
Rendera is a free graphics program suitable for artistic painting, photo-retouching, colorizing,and seamless tile design. It emulates common art tools and features an easy-to-learn, labeled interface.
The edge-wrapping and interactive offset functions make it perfect for Web background tiles. Version 1.5 includes JPEG support, faster polygon rendering, and minor tweaks.
via this article "Gamma error in picture scaling" by Eric Brasseur Solutions
Developer: Joe Davisson
License: Freeware
Price: Free
License: Freeware
Price: Free
OS: Windows ME | 2000 | XP | Vista
Size: 192 KBhttp://rendera.sourceforge.net/
Size: 192 KBhttp://rendera.sourceforge.net/
Gamma error in picture scaling
There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms. All software tested (August 2007) had the problem: The Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, CinePaint, Nip2, ImageMagick, GQview, Eye of Gnome, Paint and Krita. Also three different operating systems were used: Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. (Software that don't have the problem are listed at the end of this introduction.)...read this article! 4p8.com
Eric Brasseur
How to make Magnetic Fluid (ferro fluid)
How to make Magnetic Fluid (ferro fluid)
Ferrofluid Sculpture
Morpho Tower
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Incredible Home made 3D Printer
Incredible Home made 3D Printer
source: Hackaday.com 3D Printing at Home
YouTube: (fogassa01) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rxk6nlN9uM
Printing a r/c engine crankcase, takes 2 hours per side 4 hours total. Sealed with cyanoacrylate.
Home made 3d printer HM3DP
YouTube: (fogassa01) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rxk6nlN9uM
Printing a r/c engine crankcase, takes 2 hours per side 4 hours total. Sealed with cyanoacrylate.
Home made 3d printer HM3DP
3D Killer
Yes we were expecting remote warriors quietly operating from their comfy remote office.
Of course as an online player I could forecast top score gamers to be recruited.
Next expected step (further): dedicated games that will allow to discover the top players.
Then online games interacting with reality, the players not even knowing it...
Read this post by Griffin McElroy
Monday, February 22, 2010
The shuttle is back on a night landing
The shuttle is back on a night landing
Lighting the Way Home
Photo credit: NASA/ Tom Farrar Jr.
With landing gear down, space shuttle Endeavour approaches Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 
Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray, Kevin O'Connell, Scott Haun
With xenon lights flooding the runway, a drag chute slows space shuttle Endeavour as it returns to NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility.
Endeavour and Discovery do Shuttle Shuffle
RHIC Collider Creates Quark-Gluon Plasma at 4,000,000,000,000 Degrees Celsius | Popular Science
Get Hot On The One A computer visualization of 7,200,000,000,000 degree F quark-gluon plasma in the RHIC collider Brookhaven National Laboratory, via The New York Times
"Hottest matter ever created in a lab; may have induced law-of-nature-warping bubble"
by Stuart Fox.
by Stuart Fox.
read more: popsci.com
Space Shuttle Endeavour making S-turn during atmospheric reentry. The first time it was photographed from Space Station Cupola. Priceless :-)
The first time it was photographed from Space Station Cupola. Priceless :-) Soichi Noguchi @Astro_Soichi
via Twitpic
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Climate Debate
Climate Debate
When World War 1 occured, the weather forecast became strategic. The everyday bulletin being unsatisfactory to the soldiers creeped in the trenches, they invented their own system which happened to be far more accurate than the official predictions.
The device was simple, yet efficent: tomorrow we will get the same weather as today...
If I simply apply this to nowaday's global warming threat, it seems to me that not much has changed and if it has, it seems much more to get colder than warmer.
Scientific debate rarely titillates the masses. But this one -- involving computer espionage, ancient tree rings and a Penn State global warming professor -- has sparked a worldwide firestorm.
It started with a computer hacker, who has remained anonymous in the 21/2 weeks since he cracked into the account of a British climate researcher and blasted private e-mails all over the Internet.
The e-mails are provocative and often blunt. They reveal a stubborn reluctance among global warming scientists to disclose their raw data and calculations. Global warming skeptics say the exchanges also expose a deliberate manipulation of data...read more: THE MORNING CALL
Last polar bear by Arne Naevra
The device was simple, yet efficent: tomorrow we will get the same weather as today...
If I simply apply this to nowaday's global warming threat, it seems to me that not much has changed and if it has, it seems much more to get colder than warmer.
Armand Dauré
Climategate debate by Frank Warner
To skeptics, it's proof positive of a hoax. Scientists insist they are misunderstood.
Scientific debate rarely titillates the masses. But this one -- involving computer espionage, ancient tree rings and a Penn State global warming professor -- has sparked a worldwide firestorm.
It started with a computer hacker, who has remained anonymous in the 21/2 weeks since he cracked into the account of a British climate researcher and blasted private e-mails all over the Internet.
The e-mails are provocative and often blunt. They reveal a stubborn reluctance among global warming scientists to disclose their raw data and calculations. Global warming skeptics say the exchanges also expose a deliberate manipulation of data...read more: THE MORNING CALL
Butterfly
Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302
This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene.
What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour -- fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes!
Space rock contains organic molecular feast
The Murchison meteorite came down in Australia in 1969
"Space rock contains organic molecular feast" by Doreen Walton.
Scientists say that a meteorite that crashed into Earth 40 years ago contains millions of different carbon-containing, or organic, molecules...BBC News 
Murchison meteorite specimen at the National Museum of Natural History (Washington);
a fragment of a meteorite that landed in Murchison, Australia, in 1969. (Carbonaceous chondrite)
a fragment of a meteorite that landed in Murchison, Australia, in 1969. (Carbonaceous chondrite)
Wikipedia: Murchison meteorite
The Hexakopter / Holger Buss
Tests of the MK-HexaKopter
Flight-Test, GPS-Test and Payload-Test
MikroKopter - HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo.
website Holger Buss : MikroKopter.com
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane
Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA
If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on rings will appear to disappear. This is because Saturn's rings are confined to a plane many times thinner, in proportion, than a razor blade. In modern times, the robot Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn now also crosses Saturn's ring plane. A series of plane crossing images from 2005 February was dug out of the vast online Cassini raw image archive by interested Spanish amateur Fernando Garcia Navarro..
Let There Be Light!
"Let there be light! Cupola windows open toward Sahara desert. Priceless!" Soichi Nogushi
Image Credit: NASA
"Endeavour pilot Terry Virts opened the windows of the newly installed cupola one at a time early Wednesday, giving spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick an early look into the International Space Station's room with a view that they had helped install.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Live with Soichi Noguchi
Live with Soichi Noguchi on Twitpic!
Mardi Gras! Galveston, TX, USA.
Nagoya, JAPAN. See the castle with golden fish?
Mars? Actually salt desert in Iraq.
Mardi Gras! Galveston, TX, USA.
Nagoya, JAPAN. See the castle with golden fish?
Zimbabwe. Should be near Victoria Falls, but covered with clouds...
Beijing, China. Can you see the Olympic studium?
Monday, February 15, 2010
Twilight of the Shuttle
Twilight of the Shuttle
Coments 9. scibuff Says: "Endeavour sunset video"
Image Credit: NASA
Shuttle Silhouette
In a very unique setting over Earth's colorful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this photo by an Expedition 22 crew member on board the International Space Station, as the shuttle approached for its docking on Feb. 9 during the STS-130 mission.DISCOVER / Bad Astronomy
The Shuttle Endeavour launched into orbit last week, blazing upward on its penultimate mission to the International Space Station. As it approached, astronauts onboard the now nearly-complete station snapped this dramatic photo of the Orbiter.
Views Of Earth From The Middle Ages To The Space Age/ NPR /Audio Gallery
NPR: Views Of Earth From The Middle Ages To The Space Age by Nell Greenfieldboyce and Jason Orfanon
"The late medieval cosmos, as imagined by German physician, historian, and cartographer Hartmann Schedel in the 1493 (book, Liber Chronicarum.)
The earth is represented as a small, nondescript orb,circled by the sun,moon,planets and stars, watched over by God and his angels. (Public Domain)"
The earth is represented as a small, nondescript orb,circled by the sun,moon,planets and stars, watched over by God and his angels. (Public Domain)"
Listen this story! npr.org
Astronauts install space station's last hub | Reuters
REUTERS: Astronauts install space station's last hub
by Irene Klotz
Cape Canaveral, Florida - The shuttle Endeavour crew bolted the last connecting module onto the International Space Station on Friday, completing more than a decade of major construction on the outpost..."
A teaspoonful of one would weigh about a billion tons!
A teaspoonful of one would weigh about a billion tons!
The Crab Nebula in Blue and White
Credit & Copyright: Jay Gallagher (U. Wisc.), WIYN, AURA, NOAO, NSF
Listen this story
My Pet Neutron Star
Credit & Copyright: Jay Gallagher (U. Wisc.), WIYN, AURA, NOAO, NSF
Listen this story
My Pet Neutron Star
Science Nasa: My Pet Neutron Star (15 February 2010)
"They're about the same size as Manhattan Island yet more massive than the Sun. A teaspoonful of one would weigh about a billion tons. On the outside, neutron stars are brittle.
They are covered by an iron-rich crust. On the inside, they are fluid. Each one harbors a sea of neutrons -- the debris from atoms crushed by a supernova explosion. The whole ensemble rotates hundreds of times each second, and so spawns powerful quantum tornadoes within the star..."
They are covered by an iron-rich crust. On the inside, they are fluid. Each one harbors a sea of neutrons -- the debris from atoms crushed by a supernova explosion. The whole ensemble rotates hundreds of times each second, and so spawns powerful quantum tornadoes within the star..."
http://snipurl.com/udglo
Hubble Captures Double Aurorae Light Show on Saturn | Universe Today
Credit: NASA, ESA and Jonathan Nichols (University of Leicester)
Hubble's view of Saturn with a double view of its fluttering aurorae.
Univers Today: Hubble Captures Double Aurorae Light Show on Saturn, article by Nancy Atkinson universetoday.com
Sunday, February 14, 2010
New 3-D Map of Interstellar Gas Around the Sun | Wired Science
Space is a pretty empty place. But it’s not completely empty, as a new map of the interstellar space in the 1,000 light-years around the sun shows. Read More: wired.com
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Optic art as a way to survive
Optic art as a way to survive
Why are Zebras striped?
But nature has invented another opposite solution: if you can't hide, show yourself...too much and move fast.
Optic art as a way to survive!
You are the Fleet Admiral of the Navy in WWI what do you do?
Dazzle Camouflage
Gif Optic
Fashion helps escaping from predators
The Invisible Shoe
The Invisible Shoe is one of the 5 different shoe concepts by the Brazilian footwear designer Andreia Chaves.
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/12/09/the-invisible-shoe/
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/12/09/the-invisible-shoe/
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Astro_Soichi sends stunning live photos of Earth via Twitter
Astro_Soichi sends stunning live photos of Earth via Twitter
Soichi Noguchi
Jeff Williams: Twitter @Astro_Jeff
Timothy J. (TJ) Creamer: Twitter @Astro_TJ
Soichi Noguchi: Twitter @Astro_Soichi
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International Space Station Astronaut sends stunning live photos of Earth via Twitter | Mail Online
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