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Oh, yes! T. Rex showerhead
3-D printing just got my interest big time:
From University of Utah's Twitter feed (@UUtah): RT @MarriottLibrary: 3D printed T-Rex showerhead? Yes, please!
Is it for sale? To alumni, maybe?
Spread the word; friends don't allow friends to repeat history.
1 Comment	| Dinosaurs, Higher education, Libraries, Technology, Utah	| Tagged: Cool Stuff, Dinosaurs, Libraries, T. Rex, Technology, University of Utah	| Permalink
Posted by Ed Darrell
Gold medal to NASA and JPL: Mars mission succeeds against overwhelming odds
Curiosity is on the ground.
What were the odds? What did NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) need to overcome? Watch this:
Did that astonshingly Rube Goldberg-looking set of devices work?
Here's the news, from NBC's science editor Alan Boyle:
PASADENA, Calif. — After eight years of planning and eight months of interplanetary travel, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory pulled off a touchdown of Super Bowl proportions, all by itself. It even sent pictures from the goal line.
The spacecraft plunged through Mars' atmosphere, fired up a rocket-powered platform and lowered the car-sized, 1-ton Curiosity rover to its landing spot in 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wide) Gale Crater. Then the platform flew off to its own crash landing, while Curiosity sent out a text message basically saying, "I made it!"
That message was relayed by the orbiting Mars Odyssey satellite back to Earth. A radio telescope in Australia picked up the message and sent it here to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. When the blips of data appeared on the screens at JPL's mission control, the room erupted in cheers and hugs.
Congratulations! We need good news, and this is great news.
So far as I can tell, no U.S. television network covered the event live in Pasadena. What a shame.
NPR's story on the landing, other links
Christian Science Monitor article prior to the landing
Pass the Peanuts: Landing Day Here for NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity (space.com)
Mars landing live from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (newscientist.com)
Curiosity landing live from NASA's JPL (go.theregister.com)
NASA counting down to nail-biting Mars plunge – San Jose Mercury News (mercurynews.com)
Mars rover Curiosity nears make-or-break landing attempt scheduled for Monday – @Reuters (reuters.com)
Rover 'Curiosity' Now in Clutches of Mars' Gravity (news.discovery.com)
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Amazing film – Flight of the eagle owl
Imagine for a moment that you are a wee little mousie, sitting on a tuft of grass nibbling on a seed. You think you feel a breath of a breeze from in back of you and you turn around to see this beautiful thing
Amazing nature – The Eagle Owl, posted with vodpod
Beautiful, but terrible, too.
Owls fly silently. Their feathers have evolved to move without rustles, to let the wind slip through them without making a whish. Owls demonstrate evolution at its mightiest, and nature, as the poets note, "red in tooth and claw."
Filmed at 1000 frames per second, according to Dogworks.com. According to Vurtrunner at YouTube, filmed with a
Photron Full HD High Speed Camera SA2.
I'd like to know more about this film. Trained owl? Wild owl enticed by what kind of bait? Longer movie about eagle owls? I'm not familiar with them. So many little mysteries on the internet.
Update: From YouTube's account of SloMoHighSpeed:
New Photron SA-2 High Definition High Speed Camera. Shot of 'Checkers' the eagle owl, 1000fps 1920×1080 resolution. Shot by SlowMo (www.slowmo.co.uk). See the owl and other birds of prey at www.turbarywoods.co.uk.
The Eurasian Eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle owl resident in much of Europe and Asia. It is also one of the largest types of owls.
The Eagle Owl is a large and powerful bird, smaller than the Golden Eagle but larger than the Snowy Owl. It is sometimes referred to as the world's largest owl, but this is actually the Blakiston's Fish Owl, which is slightly bigger on average.[2][3] The Eagle Owl has a wingspan of 138–200 cm (55–79 in) and measures 58–75 cm (23–30 in) long. Females weigh 1.75-4.5 kg (3.9-10 lbs) and males weigh 1.5-3.2 kg (3.3-7 lbs).[4][5][6] In comparison, the Barn Owl weighs about 500 grams (1.1 lbs).
Tip of the old scrub brush to Kathryn.
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Carnival of Evolution #38 — take THAT, creationism!
Larry Moran is much the overachiever, sort of the Hermoine Granger of evolution wizards scientists.
So, we shouldn't be surprised that his hosting of the Carnival of Evolution #38 at his rollicking blog Sandwalk resulted in one of the longest, largest, most jam-packed blog carnivals ever.
Go see — unless you're a creationist. If you're a creationist you'll see so much that you'll begin to doubt your faith in creationism and anti-science, and then you're likely to confuse that with doubt of God, and you can't stand such a faith trial.
Yeah, you, Don McLeroy. And you, Granville Sewell. More knowledge than you can hold in your head.
Which article in the Carnival of Evolution is your favorite, Dear Reader?
Tip of the old scrub brush to P. S. Myers at Pharyngula (soon moving . . .).
38 Comments	| Biology, Evolution, Science	| Tagged: Biology, Cool Stuff, Evolution, Larry Moran, Sandwalk, Science	| Permalink
George Jetson come true? Maverick Flying Car at Oshkosh
Next time somebody asks 'where's my flying car?" you can show them this.
Steve Saint of I-TEC drove his road-legal flying car from Florida to Oshkosh this summer. Since then the FAA has also issued the Maverick a S-LSA aircraft airworthiness certificate. I-TEC hopes to be in production by EAA Oshkosh 2011.
[Because it comes with built-in autoplay from the Experimental Aircraft Association, it's below the fold.]
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Firefall in Yosemite: Horsetail Fall's spectacular February show
New program from Yosemite National Park's "Nature Notes."
This one has something to appeal to the heart of almost everybody: Photos from Ansel Adams, photos from Galen Rowell, interviews with sons of each, discussion of the (properly) much-maligned old "firefall" of hot fire coals for tourists — and the story of the natural firefall one might see, if the conditions are right, and if one is in Yosemite in the right place, on the right days of February.
This video was produced by Steven M. Bumgardner, with extra camera help from Josh Helling. Those guys do great work. It features photographer Michael Frye, Michael Adams, Ansel Adams' son, and Tony Rowell, the son of Galen Rowell.
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Celestial holiday ornament – I mean, supernova bubble
Supernova SNR 0509-67.5, image a composite of Hubble Space Telescope and CHANDRA X-ray Observatory images - image from NASA (click on image for larger view)
Press release from NASA:
This colorful creation was made by combining data from two of NASA's Great Observatories. Optical data of SNR 0509-67.5 and its accompanying star field, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, are composited with X-ray energies from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The result shows soft green and blue hues of heated material from the X-ray data surrounded by the glowing pink optical shell which shows the ambient gas being shocked by the expanding blast wave from the supernova. Ripples in the shell's appearance coincide with brighter areas of the X-ray data.
The Type 1a supernova that resulted in the creation of SNR 0509-67.5 occurred nearly 400 years ago for Earth viewers. The supernova remnant, and its progenitor star reside in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. The bubble-shaped shroud of gas is 23 light-years across and is expanding at more than 11 million miles per hour (5,000 kilometers per second).
Data from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, taken in 2006 with a filter that isolates light from glowing hydrogen were combined with visible-light images of the surrounding star field that were imaged with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in 2010. These data were then merged with X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory taken with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) in 2000 and 2007.
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.Hughes et al, Optical: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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