Those who love their water toys will find it especially hard to resist this new baby from Dutch submarine manufacturer U-Boat Worx. Launched at the 22nd Monaco Yacht Show this September, this baby will surely make all boys who love their toys drool. Christened the C-Explorer 5 (or the CE5 in short), this beauty is a submarine like no other and is dubbed by its makers as “the world’s first subsea limousine.” Two years in the making, (our readers would remember that we announced her conception way back in 2010) this submarine is truly a class apart. The CE5 is air conditioned and designed to seat four plus a pilot. . . . Read Complete Report
Photo: The aurora as seen as a color composite image from the NORUSCA II camera. Three bands were combined to make the image. Each band was assigned a different color — red, green, and blue – to enhance the features of the aurora for analysis.Credit: Optics Express.
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New camera provides tantalizing clues of new atmospheric phenomenon
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2012—Hoping to expand our understanding of auroras and other fleeting atmospheric events, a team of space-weather researchers designed and built NORUSCA II, a new camera with unprecedented capabilities that can simultaneously image multiple spectral bands, in essence different wavelengths or colors, of light. The camera was tested at the Kjell Henriksen Observatory (KHO) in Svalbard, Norway, where it produced the first-ever hyperspectral images of auroras—commonly referred to as “the Northern (or Southern) Lights”—and may already have revealed a previously unknown atmospheric phenomenon.
Details on the camera and the results from its first images were published today in the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express. . . . Read Complete Report
THEY might be ancient graffiti tags left by a worker or symbols of religious significance. A robot has sent back the first images of markings on the wall of a tiny chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt that have not been seen for 4500 years. It has also helped settle the controversy about the only metal known to exist in the pyramid, and shows a “door” that could lead to another hidden chamber.
The pyramid is thought to have been built as a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu, and is the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world still standing. It contains three main chambers: the Queen’s Chamber, the Grand Gallery and the King’s Chamber, which has two air shafts connecting it with the outside world. Strangely, though, there are two tunnels, about 20 centimetres by 20 centimetres, that extend from the north and south walls of the Queen’s Chamber and stop at stone doors before they reach the outside of the pyramid. (see diagram).. . . Read Complete Report
Compare The New Scientist Diagram of the known pyramid interior (link in article above) with the one provide me by my friend and Hollow Earth Artist Max Fyfield over 20 years ago.
It seems Today’s tomb explorers are getting closer to proving the truth as envisioned by Max Fyfield all-those-years-ago.. . . . EDITOR
Canned beer makes its debut on this day in 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production.
By the late 19th century, cans were instrumental in the mass distribution of foodstuffs, but it wasn’t until 1909 that the American Can Company made its first attempt to can beer. This was unsuccessful, and the American Can Company would have to wait for the end of Prohibition in the United States before it tried again. Finally in 1933, after two years of research, American Can developed a can that was pressurized and had a special coating to prevent the fizzy beer from chemically reacting with the tin. . . . Read Complete Report
Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team, including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, squeezed in a little extra target practice after zapping the first fist-sized rock that was placed in the laser’s crosshairs last weekend. Much to the delight of the scientificteam, the laser instrument has fired nearly 500 shots so far that have produced strong, clear data about the composition of the Martian surface.
“The spectrum we have received back from Curiosity is as good as anything we looked at on Earth,” said Los Alamos National Laboratory planetary scientist Roger Wiens, Principal Investigator of the ChemCam Team. “The entire MSL team was very excited about this and we popped a little champagne. . . . Read Complete Report
Photo: X47B – The U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman-developed X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System made its debut flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., on Sunday, July 29. SOURCE
by Staff Writers
Patuxent River MD (SPX) Aug 01, 2012
The Northrop Grumman-built X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator has successfully completed its historic first flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent (Pax) River. The 36-minute flight – the first for the tailless, strike-fighter-sized aircraft since it was transported to the Navy base in June from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. – was successfully completed on July 29 at 11:36 a.m. Eastern time.
It marks the first time a tactical unmanned aircraft has been fully integrated into the air traffic patterns and the command and control structure of the Pax River flight test complex. . . . Read Complete Report
Photo: The FBI robot that was sent into Aurora Co. mass-murderers apartment ahead of personnel. CREDIT FBI SOURCE Scientific American Public Domain.
The first boots on the ground in the explosives-rigged apartment of Aurora, Colo., shooting suspect James Holmes were actually robot tracks. Fortunately for police, military and emergency res-ponders, bots are showing their mettle in this and other dangerous situations and helping keep their human handlers out of harm’s way.
A bomb disposal robot examines a car nearby to the cinema in Aurora where a gunman shot 14 people dead at a screening of the new Batman film. Report by Katie Lamborn.
