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“It could be sold for around $20, because (retailers) have...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:38:28 -0400

“It could be sold for around $20, because (retailers) have to make a profit … and we think they should not cost any more than that. We will make our money from advertising,” he added.

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The bicycles are not only very cheap to make, they are very light and do not need to be adjusted or repaired, the solid tires that are made of reconstituted rubber from old car tires will never get a puncture, Elmish said.

“These bikes need no maintenance and no adjustment, a car timing belt is used instead of a chain, and the tires do not need inflating and can last for 10 years,” he said.

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He said that as bicycles would be so cheap, it hardly mattered how long they lasted.

“So you buy one, use it for a year and then you can buy another one, and if it breaks, you can take it back to the factory and recycle it,” he said.

photojojo: NASA’s HiRISE camera caught this photo of the...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:00:00 -0400

photojojo:

NASA’s HiRISE camera caught this photo of the Curiosity rover landing on Mars!

You can see the parachute and everything. So cool.

Photo Captured of Curiosity Landing on Mars

Earthquakes, since 1898, by magnitude

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:01:00 -0400

Earthquakes, since 1898, by magnitude

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/06/06/a-high-definition-time-lapse-of-venus-flying-past-the-sun/

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:55:39 -0400

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/06/06/a-high-definition-time-lapse-of-venus-flying-past-the-sun/

The light we see with human eyes consists of photons with...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:58:53 -0400

The light we see with human eyes consists of photons with energies in the range 2 to 3 electron volts. The gamma-rays Fermi detects are billions of times more energetic, from 20 million to more than 300 billion electron volts. These gamma-ray photons are so energetic, they cannot be guided by the mirrors and lenses found in ordinary telescopes. Instead Fermi uses a sensor that is more like a Geiger counter than a telescope. If we could wear Fermi’s gamma ray “glasses,” we’d witness powerful bullets of energy – individual gamma rays – from cosmic phenomena such as supermassive black holes and hypernova explosions. The sky would be a frenzy of activity.

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"The early analysis indicated that the anomaly was constant over time. This suggested some force..."

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:20:35 -0400

“The early analysis indicated that the anomaly was constant over time. This suggested some force external of the spacecraft was “putting on the brakes,” not an on-board system that would slowly be running out of power. With the newly recovered data, Turyshev and colleagues were able to discern that the anomaly was, in fact, decreasing over time, consistent with decaying thermal power on-board the spacecraft.”

- http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/innovative_technologies/pioneer_anomaly/20110722.html

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Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:15:22 -0400

http://isanglitrongliwanag.org

Mellow Brick Road, A Wizard Of Oz Remix

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:00:06 -0400

Mellow Brick Road, A Wizard Of Oz Remix

“Seagull stole my video camera in Cannes France. I found...

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:10:14 -0400

“Seagull stole my video camera in Cannes France. I found it on the castle wall, where I had to climb.”

"An avalanche of blackouts carried across continents by long-distance power lines could last for..."

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:28:22 -0400

“An avalanche of blackouts carried across continents by long-distance power lines could last for weeks to months as engineers struggle to repair damaged transformers. Planes and ships couldn’t trust GPS units for navigation. Banking and financial networks might go offline, disrupting commerce in a way unique to the Information Age. According to a 2008 report from the National Academy of Sciences, a century-class solar storm could have the economic impact of 20 hurricane Katrinas.”

- http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/22jun_swef2011/

The Arctic Light

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:00:06 -0400

The Arctic Light

photojojo: So many stunning photos of the Endeavour space...

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:30:11 -0400

photojojo:

So many stunning photos of the Endeavour space shuttle over at The Atlantic’s In Focus.

You can see the Earth below in this one!

Photo by NASA crew member

Because they’re now made of soda-lime glass, Pyrex measuring...

Wed, 18 May 2011 16:01:06 -0400

Because they’re now made of soda-lime glass, Pyrex measuring cups can shatter violently when exposed to a sudden and extreme temperature change.

"The results of Gravity Probe B give physicists renewed confidence that the strange predictions of..."

Wed, 18 May 2011 08:03:06 -0400

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The results of Gravity Probe B give physicists renewed confidence that the strange predictions of Einstein’s theory are indeed correct, and that these predictions may be applied elsewhere. The type of spacetime vortex that exists around Earth is duplicated and magnified elsewhere in the cosmos—around massive neutron stars, black holes, and active galactic nuclei.

“If you tried to spin a gyroscope in the severely twisted space-time around a black hole,” says Will, “it wouldn’t just gently precess by a fraction of a degree. It would wobble crazily and possibly even flip over.”

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- http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/04may_epic/

Each night, Risinger set the six cameras — high-end monochrome...

Tue, 17 May 2011 23:04:54 -0400

Each night, Risinger set the six cameras — high-end monochrome astrophotography imagers equipped with different filters — to point in the exact same spot and continuously feed his laptop with images. He monitored the photographs in real-time and passed the dark hours eating sunflower seeds. Meanwhile, his dad slept.

Back in Seattle, Risinger began piecing the panoramic image together in January. He used a computer software program to scan each frame, recognize the pattern with a database of stars and then match them with the other colors and frames. That got projected onto a sphere.

via yahoo news