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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Mac Date: October 5, 2011, 1:21 pm
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I think I'll have to exclude the term 'cool' here. This looks
more irritating than cool. Of course we face the dilemma of
fighting that snooze.
Tocky
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 5, 2011, 1:25 pm
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Anyone dumb enough to pay $70 for a clock deserves all the pain
that clock is sure to inflict on them in the morning.
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Mac Date: October 31, 2011, 3:44 pm
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PETMAN
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Mac Date: November 11, 2011, 11:22 am
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[glow=red,2,300]USS Carl Vinson's flight deck
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This could go under WTF or Sports, but it really is a marvel of
technology to put a basketball court and seats on a flight deck
of a carrier.
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGgK-9IbIJ4
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Mac Date: November 16, 2011, 9:34 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Hi-Speed owl attack[/glow]
very cool. Note the last few seconds and what the wings and
feathers do.
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 16, 2011, 9:59 am
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Stuff like this is what I like to see. Wait. I said like twice
in one sentence. Somethings off.
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Mac Date: November 16, 2011, 2:01 pm
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O phucking-mazing
[glow=red,2,300]Earth HD| Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over |
NASA, ISS[/glow]
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Mac Date: December 1, 2011, 8:17 am
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Ride the U2 @ 70K feet
[quote]You can see why the U-2 is considered the most difficult
plane in the world to fly. Each pilot has a co-pilot, who
chases the plane on the runway in a sports car. Most of the cars
are either Pontiac GTOs or Chevrolet Camaro the Air Force buys
American. The chase cars talk the pilot down as he lands on
bicycle-style landing gear.
In that spacesuit, the pilot in the plane simply cannot get a
good view of the runway.
Upon takeoff, the wings on this plane, which extend 103 feet
from tip to tip, literally flap.
To stabilize the wings on the runway, two pogo sticks on wheels
prop up the ends of the wings.
As the plane flies away, the pogo sticks drop off.
The plane climbs at an initial climb rate of nearly 15,000 feet
a minute.
We kept going up to 13 miles above Earth's surface.
You get an incredible sensation up there. As you look out the
windows,
it feels like you're floating, it feels like you're not moving,
but you're actually going 500 mph..
The U-2 was built to go higher than any other aircraft In fact
today, more than 50 years since it went into production, the U-2
flies higher than any aircraft in the world with the exception
of the space shuttle.
It is flying more missions and longer missions than ever before,
nearly 70 missions a month over Iraq and Afghanistan, an
operation that is unequaled in history.
The pilots fly for 11 hours at a time, sometimes more than 11
hours up there alone. .
By flying so high, the U-2 has the capability of doing
reconnaissance over a country without actually violating its
airspace.
It can look off to the side, peering 300 miles or more inside a
country without actually flying over it.
It can "see" in the dark and through clouds.
It can also "hear," intercepting conversations 14 miles below.
The U-2, an incredible piece of history and also a current piece
of high technology, is at the center of the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. .
Enjoy the ride!
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Chiprocks1 Date: December 1, 2011, 10:45 am
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They got "The Right Stuff".
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
By: Mac Date: December 6, 2011, 11:33 am
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Another Earth?
HTML http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45554617/ns/technology_and_science-space/
This is all very exciting news...
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft
has confirmed the discovery of its first alien world in its host
star's habitable zone — that just-right range of distances that
could allow liquid water to exist — and found more than 1,000
new exoplanet candidates, researchers announced Monday.
The new finds bring the Kepler space telescope's total haul to
2,326 potential planets in its first 16 months of operation.
These discoveries, if confirmed, would quadruple the current
tally of worlds known to exist beyond our solar system, which
recently topped 700.
The potentially habitable alien world, a first for Kepler,
orbits a star very much like our own sun. The discovery brings
scientists one step closer to finding a planet like our own —
one that could conceivably harbor life, scientists said.
"We're getting closer and closer to discovering the so-called
'Goldilocks planet,'" Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames
Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., said during a news
conference on Monday.
Hunting down alien planets
The $600 million Kepler observatory launched in March 2009 to
hunt for Earth-size alien planets in the habitable zone of their
parent stars, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, might
be able to exist.
Kepler detects alien planets using what's called the "transit
method." It searches for tiny, telltale dips in a star's
brightness caused when a planet transits — or crosses in front
of — the star from Earth's perspective, blocking a fraction of
the star's light.
The finds graduate from "candidates" to full-fledged planets
after follow-up observations confirm that they're not false
alarms. This process, which is usually done with large,
ground-based telescopes, can take about a year.
The Kepler team released data from its first 13 months of
operation back in February, announcing that the instrument had
detected 1,235 planet candidates, including 54 in the habitable
zone and 68 that are roughly Earth-size.
To date, just over two dozen of these potential exoplanets have
been confirmed, but Kepler scientists have estimated that at
least 80 percent of the instrument's discoveries should end up
being the real deal.
More discoveries to come
The newfound 1,094 planet candidates are the fruit of Kepler's
labors during its first 16 months of science work, from May 2009
to September 2010. And they won't be the last of the prolific
instrument's discoveries.
"This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth's twin,"
Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA Headquarters
in Washington, said in a statement.
Mission scientists still need to analyze data from the last two
years and on into the future. Kepler will be making observations
for a while yet to come; its nominal mission is set to end in
November 2012, but the Kepler team is preparing a proposal to
extend the instrument's operations for another year or more.
Kepler's finds should only get more exciting as time goes on,
researchers say.
"We're pushing down to smaller planets and longer orbital
periods," said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead
at Ames.
To flag a potential planet, the instrument generally needs to
witness three transits. Planets that make three transits in just
a few months must be pretty close to their parent stars; as a
result, many of the alien worlds Kepler spotted early on have
been blisteringly hot places that aren't great candidates for
harboring life as we know it.
Given more time, however, a wealth of more distantly orbiting —
and perhaps more Earthlike — exoplanets should open up to
Kepler. If intelligent aliens were studying our solar system
with their own version of Kepler, after all, it would take them
three years to detect our home planet.
"We are getting very close," Batalha said. "We are homing in on
the truly Earth-size, habitable planets."
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