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Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Happy #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou
Celebrating the #StarWarsDay, Here are two awesome cover version of the "Star Wars Main Theme" in Metal Version by Galactic Empire and Symphonic Suite by Jelani Eddington
Happy #StarWarsDay, everyone! May the 4th be with you
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Migaloo. The Ultra-Luxury Private Submarine
Check out this ultra-lux submarine. Called The MIGALOO, it offers upscale amenities like a pool and a large deck.
Choosing a yacht can be such a chore for wealthy folks. With almost too many to choose from, you might have an easier time picking your perfect submarine.
The MIGALOO is billed as "The Ultimate Lux Sub". It offers upscale amenities like a pool and a large deck for relaxation.
Marketed as an alternative to luxury yachts, as expected, it offers the option to travel below the water's surface.
Measuring over 375 feet long by 36 feet wide, the submarine is anything but small. It bears the appearance of a traditional submarine in most aspects but the tower is custom designed in order to house a staircase and elevator shaft.
The designers stated "The enormous space of the aft deck includes lounge areas, sun beds, a bar, an 8 by 3 meter-pool as well as a heli-pad that offer a wide range of activities and possibilities. When MIGALOO is submerged, all furniture is stored in large storages underneath the granite decking."
What do you think? Would you like to own this submarine?
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Who's Visiting Who?
Infographic: Who's Visiting Who? Every spacecraft currently exploring (or about to explore) a major solar system object (other than the Earth and Sun).
From jpl.nasa.gov
Friday, April 15, 2016
HAL Robot Suit By Cyberdyne
The HAL robotic suit is available for rent in Japan. The suit, produced by Cyberdyne, has an international safety approval. The first nursing-care robot was designed for elderly and disabled people who find it difficult to get around, e.g. you can move your arm slightly and let HAL help you reach the top shelf.
Via:popsci.com
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Science Experiment: Why the Sky is Blue?
This experiment is perfect to help answer the classic kid question: "why is the sky blue?"
A glass of water, white powder soap, a flashlight and voila. Sunlight is composed of all the colors of the rainbow. When light passes through the soapy water, blue is reflected.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
A Neil Armstrong Conspiracy Theory
A real conspiracy! That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for the Aliens.
From Stan Winston School of Character Arts
On this day in 1981, Osbourne 1 - the first portable micro computer was released
On this day in 1981, Osbourne 1 - the first portable micro computer was released. During that time, 'portable' meant that the device can be packed away and transported to another location. The Osbourne 1 weighed 10.7 kg and was powered directly through an electric socket (there was no onboard battery). It was sold for around $1700. What did your first laptop weigh? #TDIH
From: HISTORY Asia
Saturday, March 26, 2016
European Space Agency announces plans to build a 'Moon village' by 2030
Villages on the Moon built by huge 3D printers and inhabited for months at a time by teams of astronauts could be a reality in the next decade or so, a recent conference of 200 scientists, engineers, and industry experts has concluded.
Construction of this manned lunar base could begin in as little as five years, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced at their International Symposium on Moon 2020-2030 in the Netherlands last month, suggesting that a new Moon village could provide a potential springboard for future missions to Mars.
"The ESA space-exploration strategy sets the Moon as a priority destination for humans on the way to Mars," NASA’s Kathy Laurini told Leonard David at Space.com. "The timing is right to get started on the capabilities which allow Europe to meet its exploration objectives and ensure it remains a strong partner as humans begin to explore the Solar System."
NASA in particular has a vested interest in seeing this happen, as the Moon has been designated the most strategic pitstop for a manned mission to Mars, with MIT scientists calculating last month that astronauts could launch from Earth with up to 68 percent less mass if they collected most of their heavy liquid fuel from a Moon base on the way.
Add that to the fact that NexGen Space LLC, a consultant company for NASA, recently estimated that a lunar refuelling station would "reduce the cost to NASA of sending humans to Mars by as much as $US10 billion per year", and a Moon village is starting to look pretty inevitable.
The plan outlined by the ESA is that, starting from the early 2020s, robots will be sent to the Moon to begin constructing various facilities, followed a few years later by the first inhabitants.
Back in 2013, the ESA teamed up with building companies to start testing out various Moon base-building technologies, and determined that local materials would be the best for constructing buildings and other structures, which means no need for transporting resources from Earth at an astronomical cost.
"First, we needed to mix the simulated lunar material with magnesium oxide. This turns it into 'paper' we can print with," Enrico Dini, founder of UK manufacturing company, Monolite, said at the time.
"Then for our structural 'ink', we apply a binding salt which converts material to a stone-like solid. Our current printer builds at a rate of around 2 metres per hour, while our next-generation design should attain 3.5 metres per hour, completing an entire building in a week."
Architectural firm Foster + Partners came up with a weight-bearing 'catenary' dome design, which features a cellular structured wall to shield residents against micrometeoroids and space radiation, and a hollow closed-cell structure that would give the building a good strength-to-weight ratio.
Once we’re there, scientists argued, we could figure out if the resources on the Moon are as valuable as we think they are.
"We keep talking about lunar resources, but we still need to demonstrate they can be used … [that] they are, in fact, reserves," engineer Clive Neal from the University of Notre Dame told Space.com. "So ground truth verification of deposit size, composition, form and homogeneity requires a coordinated prospecting program. A successful program would then clearly demonstrate that lunar resources can enable solar system exploration."
Whether the Moon village becomes a reality in the next decade or so, NASA is determined to get its astronauts orbiting around it for months at a time, announcing last month that it’s "going to get out of ISS as quickly as we can" to set up shop near the Moon instead.
There they will be days, instead of hours, away from Earth, and far from its protective geomagnetic shield, which will give astronauts a better idea of what they would have to endure physically and psychologically on a manned mission to Mars.
One thing's for sure - we're in for some exciting times ahead.
read more on sciencealert.com..
Friday, March 25, 2016
What's Next for NASA: Planned Missions Through 2030
NASA has accomplished some awe-inspiring things since it was formed on July 28, 1958. From putting man on the moon to the Mars Rover's recent explorations of the Red Planet, NASA's missions have led to great advancements in science and technology.
In honor of NASA's 55th Anniversary we put together this infographic that shows NASA's planned expeditions through 2030.
Do you think man will travel to Mars by 2030? Let us know in the comments.
The First Ever Photograph of Light as Both a Particle and Wave
Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded in capturing the first-ever snapshot of this dual behavior.
Read more on Phys.org..
Monday, March 14, 2016
10 Equations that Changed the World
The brightest minds in history have used mathematics to lay the foundation for how we measure and understand our universe. Time and time again, we have prov. that it only takes one simpte formula to alter the course of humaniry. Here are ten equations that did just that.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Stephen Hawking’s Big Ideas Explained in a Simple Animation
Alok Jha of The Guardian explains some of Stephen Hawking’s big ideas about the universe in a short and simple animation.
No time to read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha explains why black holes are doomed to shrink into nothingness then explode with the energy of a million nuclear bombs, and rewinds to the big bang and the origin of the universe?
via Brain Pickings
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
The Greatest Scientific Theories
Cox: The Geatest Scientific Theories
- EINSTEIN S THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY - 'The theory defines gravity as a property directly related to space and time. This is our best theory for why gravity exists, and it's the best theory to explain the origins of the universe - it suggests the existence of the Big Bang.'
- THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS - 'This states that over time differences in temperature, pressure or chemical potential in a physical system will reach equilibrium, ie, if you have heat and cold in the same environment, both will eventually move towards the same temperature.'
- QUANTUM FIELD THEORY 'This is the "law of everything else". It underpins particle physics, and describes the theory that all forces between particles are carried out by other particles - that all forces basically are particles. It governs the way all matter interacts - from light entering your eye and electrons orbiting an atom, to the structure of DNA.'
- THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY - 'Also known as the first law of thermodynamics, this states that energy can never be destroyed or created. I like to think of it as the reason why ghosts don't exist - this prevents 'Spirits' leaving the body and floating round without any source of energy.
- THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM 'This governs the movement of any rotating object and states that angular momentum, like all momentum cannot change without external influence. It explains why the Earth doesn't crash into the Sun and wh the Earth spins on its axis.'
Relativity in Infographics
The theories of relativity by Albert Einstein revolutionized how the world thinks about space, time, mass, energy and gravity.
FULL STORY: General Relativity at 100: Einstein's Famous Theory Has Aged Well
Prior to Einstein, the laws of Isaac Newton were used to understand the physics of motion. In 1687, Newton wrote that gravity affects everything in the universe. The same force of gravity that pulled an apple down from a tree kept the Earth in motion around the sun.
But Newton never puzzled out the source of gravity.
Read more at Space.com
Easy Way To Understand Dimensions And How The Universe Started To Exist
0th dimension
The 0th dimension contains a dot it's nothing more but pure information
1st dimension
If we take infinite dots we will get a line
2nd dimension
If we take infinite lines, the result is a plane
3rd dimension
If we take infinite planes, we get space
4th dimension
This one is a little trickier, so if we add another dimension to space we get this weird looking thing called and tesseract. Previously we always added another dimension by taking the previous object (black) twice and adding new lines (red) connecting each corner. To understand the resutling concept of the 4th dimension, we need to imagine one single element of the 4th dimension. If one element of the 1st dimension is a dot, an element of the 2nd dimension is a line, an element of the 3rd dimension is a plane that means one element of the 4th dimension is space.
Very confusing, but if we imagine the 4th dimension being time, everything starts to make sense. One element of the 4th dimension is exactly one moment in the universe. Meaning that the universe in its current state is one of infinite elements of the 4th dimension. If every moment was part of a line this line would represent the history and future of our universe.
It goes even further, we can add another dimension. The 4th dimension as a whole is the history of a whole universe, the 5th dimension as a whole is every possible history of the universe. That means it contains every possible outcome for every event in the history of the universe. Adolf Hitler winning the war, the dinosaurs never being extinct by an asteroid and so on.
If we add another dimension it gets beyond human comprehension. It means not only every possible universe, but every possible concept of physical constants. If we go further, we get every possible concept of logical and physical laws. We go even further and we get every possible concept of existence itself.
Keep in mind this is a model for understanding a concept. It's not how it really looks like or works, it's a way to understand. If you ask how our universe started to exist and what the first of all events was, you know that time is just one dimension of many. Our understanding of time is that one thing happenes after the other. Physics tell us that time and cause are just purely concepts of our minds.We happen to live in a universe with physical laws that allow consciousness to exist and travel along the 4th dimensional "line". We are just seeing one moment after the other, infact the history of our universe just exists, not in a particular order. It's a line, the line always exists, it goes infintly into the future and past. There is no first or last, it is like written in a book that has never been written, we are reading it, but how you read it or where you start depends on who is reading it.
The real question is not why anything exists, but if anything does not exist.
More about Dimension:
Dimension on Wikipedia
More about Dimension:
Dimension on Wikipedia
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