Aug 27
Don’t forget to read your tide tables..
Jun 18
Another video showing the size comparison between planets and stars can be seen here.
May 08
Here’s what my Macbook Pro sounds like!
Noisy Movie 1 (mov) 1.1mb
Noisy Movie 2 (mov) 3.9mb
It is probably a fan and fortunately not the hard drive!
Update: Took the machine to the local Apple shop on a saturday and got it back the following friday with a new left fan. So far it sounds very good. No more scary noises.
May 04
An interesting graphical example of the Powers of 10 showing orders of magnitude from 10 million light years down to the subatomic level can be seen here.
Apr 26
LibraryThing is a site to maintain a database of your books. A blurb from their site:
LibraryThing is a new site for book lovers. It’s basically two sites in one. LibraryThing helps you create a library-quality catalog of your books. You can do all of them or just what you’re reading now. And because everyone catalogs online, they also catalog together. LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share.
If this suits your fancy check them out here.
Apr 20
The BBC reports that British scientists are planning to see whether a Star Trek-style deflector shield could be built to protect astronauts from radiation.
Apr 19
Thirty years after in landed on Mars, the Viking 1 lander was spotted from space by The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Full Image (3.7mb)
The Obiter was also able to locate the Mars Rover Opportunity. You can see all the images here.
Apr 19
Here are some pictures showing the relative size of the planets.
But they are really small when compared to stars. Take a look at this video!
Apr 16
Here’s the deepest portrait of the visible Universe ever achieved by humankind. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the million-second-long exposure reveals the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called “dark ages”, the time shortly after the big bang when the first stars reheated the cold, dark Universe. Link
Apr 12
Here is a great picture of Saturn from above, taken by the Cassini probe. You’ll never see Saturn like this from Earth!
