Ssun2011

Hello Friends, its amazing to be on chat.

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:23:30 -0400

Hello Friends, its amazing to be on chat.

robot-heart: (via berries | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:13:26 -0500

robot-heart:

(via berries | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

food-fix: I’m a sinner (by ☠Pixie)

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:13:12 -0500

food-fix:

I’m a sinner (by ☠Pixie)

dorji …………….at a GLANCE!

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:19:56 -0500

dorji …………….at a GLANCE!

cwnl: Incredible New Astrophotograph of the Small Magellanic...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:45:47 -0500

cwnl:

Incredible New Astrophotograph of the Small Magellanic Cloud

A new portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud reveals our galactic neighbor in unprecedented detail. The picture, taken in infrared light by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, is helping astronomers better understand the life cycle of dust in the galaxy.

Understanding where dust comes from, how it forms bodies such as planets, and how it gets dispersed in the spaces between objects can result in new insights into galaxy formation. And the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy close to the Milky Way, is an analog for some of the tiny galaxies that first populated the universe.

Image courtesy NASA, JPL-Caltech, STScI

alchymista: Day 6: Interesting Facts About CarbonAtomic Symbol:...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:44:01 -0500

alchymista:

Day 6: Interesting Facts About Carbon
Atomic Symbol: C; Atomic Number: 6; Atomic Mass: 12.0107

Carbon is the basis for organic chemistry, and thus all living organisms, due to its ability to bond with itself and countless other elements.

In solid elemental form, it can form one of the hardest substances (diamond), and also one of the softest (graphite).

Carbon has no limits to its usefulness; being used for graphite, diamonds, lubricant, drilling, fossil fuels, in smoke detectors, carbon-fiber, radiocarbon dating, and much, much more.

Carbon’s history dates back to around 3750 BC., when it was first used by the Egyptians and the Sumerians for reducing copper, zinc, and tin ores to make bronze.

Image: Diamond, a cubic carbon crystal, is the hardest known mineral.

"THE WAY YOU..."

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:00:14 -0500

““THE WAY YOU SMILED…………………………………….. I THOUGHT I WAS SELECTED!””

- Ssun2012

cwnl: Informational: Nearly Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Alien...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:44:50 -0500

cwnl:

Informational: Nearly Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Alien Sun

NASA’s Kepler mission has detected two worlds, one slightly smaller and one almost the same size as Earth. This is the first time that Earth-sized planets have been confirmed orbiting another star.

Relative Sizes of Stars and Planets —1. Mercury, Mars, Venus,...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:18:57 -0500

Relative Sizes of Stars and Planets

—1. Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth

—2. Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter

—3. Jupiter, Wolf 359, Sol, Sirius

—4. Sirius, Alderamin, Maia, Kraz

—5. Kraz, Arcturus, Canopus, Rigel

—6. Rigel, Sadir, Pistol star, Mira

—7. Mira, x Carinae, Mu Cephei, VY Canis Majoris

“Science is the best tool we have by far, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: There are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: Whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.” —Carl Sagan

Copyright: Dave Jarvis

The first of 3 photos by Olivier Vandeginste, taken 10 km east...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:40:00 -0500

The first of 3 photos by Olivier Vandeginste, taken 10 km east of Hvolsvollur at a distance 25 km from the Eyjafjallajokull craters on April 18th, 2010. Lightning and motion-blurred ash appear in this 15-second exposure. (© Olivier Vandeginste) #

How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Einstein? Results...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:38:28 -0500

How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Einstein?

Results from a second experiment uphold the observation that neutrinos are moving faster than the speed of light. The OPERA collaboration, which first reported the superluminal neutrinos in September, has rerun the experiment and detected 20 new neutrinos breaking Einstein’s theoretical limit.

The findings are heartening to anyone hoping to see a major physics revolution in their lifetime. But scientists, as ever, are being cautious, and it will take an independent replication of the results by another team to even begin convincing many of them.

“This eliminates one major class of systematic errors, and it’s impressive for the OPERA team to have mounted in a short period of time,” said physicist Robert Plunkett of Fermilab National Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. “However, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t an error somewhere else in their system.”

Neutrinos are subatomic particles with hardly any mass that are able to fly through most matter as if it wasn’t there. Despite their negligible mass, if they were somehow able to exceed the speed of light limit set by Einstein’s theory of special relativity, it would present a major head-scratcher to modern physicists.

The OPERA team’s detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy had previously detected neutrinos produced in bunches at CERN arriving 60 nanoseconds earlier than light speed would allow. The tricky part is that these bunches took a good length of time to produce — much longer than 60 nanoseconds — so the researchers had to be careful with their analysis. If they thought a neutrino was coming from the start of the bunch when it was actually coming from the end, then that neutrino would not actually be moving faster than light.

In their first experiment, the OPERA team used statistical analysis to show this situation was unlikely, but other scientists were not completely persuaded. The new experiment produced neutrinos in bunches over just three nanoseconds, far shorter than the faster-than-light anomaly. The results were the same: Neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than the speed of light. The findings were robust enough that members of the OPERA collaboration who had refused to sign on to the first paper were now willing to put their name on the new one.

But a great deal of scrutiny remains.

“I can now say that the probability of the result being correct has increased from 1 in a million to one in 100 thousand,” wrote physicist Philip Gibbs on the viXra log (though he stressed that those numbers were merely illustrative and not actual calculated values).

What is your most awkward moment last week?

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:59:18 -0500

Foodaholic!!!

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:15:53 -0500

Foodaholic!!!:

trevorgeoffrey:

America’s Best Charcuterie.

Cured Meats

1. Speck: Olli Salumeria, Manakin, VA
Imagine prosciutto that took a trip to Northern Italy, spent a few hours in a smokehouse, and got dusted with pepper. $11 for 4 oz., sliced; murrayscheese.com

2. Mocetta (Bresaola Piccola): Creminelli Prime Meats, Salt Lake City
Think of bresaola—paper-thin air-dried beef—as jerky with an Italian accent. $75 for 2.2 lb.; creminelli.com

Pate

3. House-Made Rabbit Pate: Formaggio Kitchen, Cambridge, MA
It’s hard not to like rabbit when it’s combined with pancetta, Madeira, and pistachios and then wrapped in prosciutto. $13 for 1/2 lb.; formaggiokitchen.com

Cured Sausage

4. Chorizo Navarre: Olympic Provisions, Portland, OR
Spanish chorizo (don’t confuse it with the fresh Mexican variety) gets its fiery red color from smoked paprika and cayenne. $10 for about 6 oz.; olympicprovisions.com

5. Finochietta: Salumeria Biellese, NYC
Classic Tuscan salami (flavored with both fennel seed and fennel pollen) from a legendary maker. $15 for 1 lb.; salumeriabiellese.com

Spreads

6. Nduja: Boccalone, San Francisco
The idea of soft, spicy salami may sound odd, but slathered on warm bread, this Calabrian-style paste will no doubt become your latest addiction. $24 for about 8 oz.; boccalone.com

7. Iowa White Spread: La Quercia, Norwalk, IA
An unctuous blend of cured prosciutto fat, ground coriander, rosemary, and bay leaf. If butter went to heaven, this is what it would taste like. $10 for 1 lb.; laquercia.us

The Oddball

8. Coffee Lomo: Salt & Time, Austin, TX
One of the crowning achievements of America’s recent charcuterie boom: Spanish-style pork loin rubbed with wood-roasted coffee, chile, and cumin, then cured for four months. $7 for 2 oz., sliced; saltandtime.com

The heart-throb of the City~

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:51:06 -0500

The heart-throb of the City~

Solar System May Have Lost Fifth Giant Planet And here we are,...

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:19:09 -0500

Solar System May Have Lost Fifth Giant Planet

And here we are, still whining about Pluto being demoted, here’s a planet that might have been completely exiled from our Solar System’s unfriendly circle of planets:

Astronomer David Nesvorny from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas believes that the solar system might have once contained a fifth gigantic planet, which was ejected deep into the galaxy in a moment of cosmic turmoil.

By looking at the population of the Kuiper belt — the icy-cold ring of asteroids beyond Neptune — and by studying the historical fingerprints left on the craters of the Moon, Nesvorny was able to piece together clues about our solar system’s adolescence.

He found that a dynamic instability, which occurred about 600 million years into the solar system’s life, greatly affected the orbit of our giant planets and scattered smaller bodies. Some moved into the Kuiper belt and others traveled inwards, marking their course as impacts on the Moon and planets.

But that scenario has a flaw. Slow changes in Jupiter’s orbit would have had a large effect on the orbits of the terrestrial planets. All hell would have broken lose, and the Earth could have collided with Mars or Venus. Something had to change.

“Colleagues suggested a clever way around this problem,” says Nesvorny in a press release. Instead of a slow movement, Jupiter’s orbit could have quickly changed, which would have altered the outer solar system but been less harmful to the inner planets.

Unfortunately, this too caused problems. Computer simulations, ran thousands of times, showed that Jupiter’s quick jump had the intended effect, but Uranus or Neptune was always knocked out of the solar system. “Something was clearly wrong,” Nesvorny explains.

So perhaps, instead, the early solar system could have had five giant planets instead of four. By plopping an additional giant planet with a mass similar to that of Uranus or Neptune the simulation worked as planned. Jupiter jumped into place, the inner planets remained unharmed and the outer planets stayed behind.

“The possibility that the solar system had more than four giant planets initially, and ejected some, appears to be conceivable in view of the recent discovery of a large number of free-floating planets in interstellar space, indicating the planet ejection process could be a common occurrence,” says Nesvorny in the release.

"Where sharp weapons won’t work, use the blunt ones~"

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:43:55 -0500

“Where sharp weapons won’t work, use the blunt ones~”

Its 11.11.11 according to English Calender...

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:28:09 -0500

I'm too happy to be here. . . I mean on the Earth! Saan from Mystic Land

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:25:07 -0500

Saturn After Equinox Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL,...

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:09:20 -0500

Saturn After Equinox

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA