Big Bro’™ just emailed me a picture he took of Discovery’s piggyback flight into Washington D.C. - pretty cool stuff. Discovery also has its own Flickr photo-pool - click the link above.
Did you know?
Tomatoes get their flavour from an enzyme - one that breaks down at around 4°C.
So don’t put tomatoes in the fridge.
Coronal Mass Ejection.
Our dear old Sun has been turbulent lately, with the largest solar storm since 2005.
As a result, streams of high-energy particles have been bombarding Earth and being deflected by our magnetic field, forming an impressive display called the “aurora borealis” or “northern lights”. The strength of the particle stream, coupled with a moonless night sky, meant that the aurora should have been visible over much of Britain last night (usually, it can only be seen in the far north of Scotland).
Which probably accounted for the 100% cloud-cover around my house.
:-(
I’ve only had a chance to explore a tiny portion of this - but so far, it’s absolutely fan-bloody-tastic!
We don’t allow faster than light neutrinos in here” said the bartender.
A neutrino walks into a bar.
A neutrino walks into a bar.
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| — | Mike Rundle |
“Once RadioAstron’s 27 carbon fibre petals open up to form a dish, the telescope will start to collect data, then combine it with observations captured by radio telescopes on Earth [using a process called] interferometry.
The result is expected to have an incredibly high resolution - as if taken by a telescope with a dish as wide as the maximum distance between the antennas - from the Earth to the Moon.”
Just in case you didn’t missed that : [the resultant ‘virtual dish’ is] as wide as [the distance] from the Earth to the Moon.
F**k!!!
