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Original iPhone to go the way of the dodo on June 11, 2013

While military-grade Predator drones can cost as much as $4 million, it’s already possible to buy one of a new generation of hobbyist aircraft — unmanned aircraft systems complete with cameras, GPS, infrared sensors, and microphones, all under the control of a smartphone or tablet — for less than $300. Not surprisingly, people are lining up to buy them. The Federal Aviation Administration estimates that, within a decade, private drones will constitute a $90 billion industry.

iminbetweenstars:

Image: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope provides a close-up look of Comet ISON (C/2012 S1), as photographed on April 10, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter’s orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the sun.

Hubble Captures Comet ISON

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet (C/2012 S1) ISON was photographed on April 10, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter’s orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the Sun (394 million miles from Earth).

Even at that great distance the comet is already active as sunlight warms the surface and causes frozen volatiles to sublimate. A detailed analysis of the dust coma surrounding the solid, icy nucleus reveals a strong, jet blasting dust particles off the sunward-facing side of the comet’s nucleus.

Preliminary measurements from the Hubble images suggest that the nucleus of ISON is no larger than three or four miles across. This is remarkably small considering the high level of activity observed in the comet so far, said researchers. Astronomers are using these images to measure the activity level of this comet and constrain the size of the nucleus, in order to predict the comet’s activity when it skims 700,000 miles above the sun’s roiling surface on November 28.

The comet’s dusty coma, or head of the comet, is approximately 3,100 miles across, or 1.2 times the width of Australia. A dust tail extends more than 57,000 miles, far beyond Hubble’s field of view.

More careful analysis is currently underway to improve these measurements and to predict the possible outcome of the sungrazing perihelion passage of this comet.

This image was taken in visible light. The blue false color was added to bring out details in the comet structure.

ganaya:

“We aren’t the only ones to write and read, to code, to decipher the codes of others, to understand, mutate, invent, communicate, exchange signals, process information, encounter one another… to thus win our lives. Everything in the world does it, like us:  the light, the wind, the rain, chemical reactions and the reactions of living things, the yews and the sperm whales. The world resonates with a common language, no doubt formal, I don’t know if it’s poetic but what does it matter, the essential thing remains sharing these codings, this universal language, music and science.” - Michel Serres [Biogea, 2012:172]

Parallella a 12 layer board with aggressive line and drill hole dimensions

bblacha:

green is back in the gardens #nofilter

trelvix:

Wheels up in Seven hours.

Yellar dog is sleeping in black cat’s bed.

The line between spite and love is one to be poked and not straddled.

Or slept upon.

We’ll see how this plays out upon our triumphant return from the Land of The Pollen Count.

Narratives 2.0  visualizes music. Different music tracks are segmented into single channels that are then shown in a fan-like structure.

A Place Where Old Computers Go to Live

bblacha:

mar/28/2013 #nofilter