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Cold Fusion

Published on 2011-10-28 16:00:00

Energy of sun and stars First comments and results from Andrea Rossi on their 1MW E-Cat plant test: Andrea Rossi October 28th, 2011 at 10:37 AM FIRST INFORMATION REGARDING THE 1 MW PLANT TEST: WE STARTED REGULARLY THE TEST THIS MORNING. EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL SO FAR. THE 1 MW E-CAT IS WORKING IN SELF SUSTAINING. TONIGHT I WILL PUBLISH THE NON SECRET REPORT THAT THE CUSTOMER WILL RELEASE. > read more

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

Published on 2011-01-21 15:00:00

The Belt of Orion Belt of Orion (c) Sergi Verdugo Martínez (astrophoto-sv.com) Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka, are the bright bluish stars from east to west (left to right) along the diagonal in this gorgeous cosmic vista. Otherwise known as the B > read more

Dune

Published on 2010-09-28 15:17:00

Planetary ecology The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem is that it’s a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a f > read more

Astrophotography, light years away

Published on 2010-09-06 16:29:00

Closer look to photometry through the telescope Andromeda galaxy (M31) (c) Sergi Verdugo Martínez (astrophoto-sv.com) A good photo depends basically upon an adequate illumination, that is, the flux of light that comes from the object towards the > read more

Paragliding aerodynamics

Published on 2010-08-21 08:55:00

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci A paraglider are just a couple layers of fabric (nylon) connected int > read more

The Star Diaries

Published on 2010-08-07 12:27:00

The Ijon Tichy chronicles Seventh Voyage. Part 1. This is Idiotic It was on a Monday, April second --I was cruising in the vicinity of Betelgeuse-- when a meteor no larger than a lima bean pierced the hull, shattered the drive regulator and part of > read more

Marathon run

Published on 2010-07-30 14:08:00

(reduced to figures) 1896 Marathon start Despite the unrealistic belief of Pheidippides route from Marathon battlefield to Athens in 490BC that supports its legend, marathon run has written its own history. Neither the first modern Olympic games i > read more

Greenhouse effect

Published on 2010-07-02 14:08:00

A rough numerical estimation If we consider the Total Solar Irradiance (radiation intensity) reaching Earth as an averaged 1365.5 [Watts/m2] (known as the Solar constant), according to the Stefan-Boltzmann law (that is infered from Planck's law of s > read more

The Matrix

Published on 2010-06-29 09:43:00

Welcome, to the desert of the real The Matrix : William Gibson is known to be the originator of the word "cyberspace", and he is the genuine creator of the Matrix, in his first novel Neuromancer (1984); and the followings, included within t > read more

Soccer ball

Published on 2010-06-24 16:55:00

(with Alias|wavefront PowerAnimator, but fits Maya or Rhino easily) Theoretical basics : A (classical) soccer ball is made up of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons, distributed so that 5 hexagons surround each pentagon, and each hexagon is surrounded by 3 > read more

Alien

Published on 2010-06-24 10:09:00

All other considerations secondary. Crew expendable Alien : One of the best science-fiction movies ever, along with Blade Runner, and by extension, of his director Ridley Scott. In fact, in Blade Runner (1982) there were used same visual and sound ef > read more