Tuesday, December 29, 2009

All Hits 70s - Sky.fm web radio

music streaming to you from the 70s
clipped from www.sky.fm

All Hits 70s kind of explains itself really. UK DJ Jimi King is responsible for the musical content for this channel at SKY.fm.

All Hits 70s

Sky.fm Hit 70s




Currently Playing

The Eagles - One of These Nights
Last 3 Tracks Played:

Bad Company - Can't Get Enough

Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Anothr Love Like Mine

The Police - Every Breath You Take
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100 Additional Seventies Singles

the rest are at the source
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The Top 100 Seventies Singles

The rest are at the source
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Friday, December 25, 2009

Michio Kaku

Using the Sagan model of personal sciences
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Digital Universe-3d Stellar Cartography from the Hayden Planetarium

Digital Universe Atlas

Digital Universe

Since 1998, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium have engaged in the three-dimensional mapping of the Universe. This cosmic cartography brings a new perspective to our place in the Universe and will redefine your sense of home.

The Digital Universe Atlas is distributed to you via packages that contain our data products, like the Milky Way Atlas and the Extragalactic Atlas, and requires free software allowing you to explore the atlas by flying through it on your computer.

Milky Way

Digital Universe Atlas

The Digital Universe consists of the Milky Way Galaxy and that which is outside our Galaxy, the extragalactic, including a multitude of other galaxies and quasars.

Educator's Activities

Distance markers to Orion
Developed for use in the classroom, these five activities (PDFs) are accompanied by special Digital Universe data sets and flight paths.

WISE Brown Dwarf Simulation

WISE brown dwarf simulation

Partiview User's Guide & Data

Partiview data
  • About the Atlas
  • Guide
  • Sky-Skan Plug-In
  • E & S Plug-In
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    The BioSuit

    clipped from www.astronautix.com

    Bio-Suit

    Biosuit
    Class: Manned. Type: Space Suits. Nation: USA. Agency: MIT.
  • Electric Alloy Mesh Concept, using a seamless Shape Memory Alloy mesh to generate voltage-controlled mechanical counter-pressure. Pressure would be distributed by a viscous thermal-regulating gel layer. The gel layer moderated the high temperature of the SMA later and protected the body against impacts the skin directly, wicking away perspiration and absorbing body heat.
  • Thermal Gel Suit Concept, using "smart" polymer gels which expanded at a threshold temperature to create mechanical counter-pressure. The smart gel was trapped in a quilted layer beneath a stretchless restraint layer. The restraint layer prevented outward expansion of the gel, directing the pressure inwards against the body.
  • Electric Gel Suit , using "smart polymer gels which expanded in an electric field to create mechanical counter-pressure.
    Stretch Alloy Band Suit Concept
    Electric Alloy Zipper Suits
    Electric Alloy Remote Zipper Suit concept
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    VirGO Browser from ESO Science Archive

    clipped from archive.eso.org

    VirGO

    VirGO is the next generation Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive Facility
    developed by the VO Systems Department. It is a plug-in for the popular open
    source software Stellarium with added capabilities for browsing professional
    astronomical data.
    for Linux i386 32bits
    VirGO-1.4.4-linux32.tar.gz(50mb)
    for Windows 32 bitVirGO-1.4.4-win32.zip(66mb)
    for MacOSX IntelVirGO-1.4.4-macosx-universal-leopard.dmg(54mb)

    User Guide (New!)
    VirGO-UserGuide-1.4.4-1.pdf(0.3mb)
  • On Windows: download the zip file, uncompress it and double click on stellarium.exe
  • A 32 bit linux machine (i86 architectures only) or MacOSX or Windows 32 bits.
  • A large fraction of ESO's non proprietary science products are already accessible through VirGO and more are to come:

    It superimposes DSS background images and allows to view the sky in a real life mode as
    seen from the main ESO sites.
    It is possible to add some extra star catalogs to allow seeing more than the default 2.3 million stars (up to 210 millions)
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    Stellarium

    clipped from www.stellarium.org
    Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
    It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. view screenshots
    screen preview

    Sourceforge is the central website where we collaborate on Stellarium, and where you can be heard too!

    clipped from www.stellarium.org
    Basic controls
  • Look around by mousedragging, or moving your mouse against the edges of the window
  • Zoom
  • Clickable world cities map to set coordinates
  • Observation
  • All stars from the Hipparcos catalogue
  • The planets of our solar system, and their natural satellites
  • All Messier objects
  • All NGC objects
  • Landscapes
  • Fisheye projection
  • Spherical panorama projection
  • Viewing
  • Constellation art for the 88 Western constellations stemming from Greek mythology, and 11 for the Inuit sky culture
  • Fog near the earth's surface
  • Localization
  • Sky localization
  • Scripting
    clipped from www.stellarium.org

    Main Page

    clipped from launchpad.net
    Stellarium
    clipped from launchpad.net
    clipped from stellarium.org

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