"I should say it is the most complicated photograph I have ever made. It shows position of the Sun on the sky in the same time of a day during one year..." - http://baszottbanda.blogspot.com/
"Analemma - a trace of the annual movement of the Sun on the sky - is well known among experts of sun-dials and old Earth's globes as a diagram of change of seasons and an equation of time. Between August 30th 1998 and August 19th 1999 I have photographed the Sun 36 times on a single frame of 60-mm film. The pictures were taken exactly at 5:45 UT (Universal time) of every tenth day. Previously, the position of the Sun on the sky was calculated with computer as well as optimal moments of time for taking each of the exposures. However, my success was strongly limited by the weather. Nobody can guarantee fine weather every tenth day even for a few minutes. Approximately, there are 120-170 sunny days a year in Crimea. That made me sure that my aim could be achieved. To do the job, the camera must stay fixed during 12 months. It was difficult to find such a place where the camera would be safe. The solution of the problem was to make a plug-in platform rigidly connected to the camera,...
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- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Given the extreme age of the universe, and its vast number of stars, if planets like Earth are at all typical, then there should be many advanced extraterrestrial civilizations out there, and at least a few in our own Milky Way. Another closely related question is the Great Silence, which poses the ...
- Nik
from Posterous
It's always funny to me when scifi movies and novels depict aliens as "thousands of years ahead of us in technology", or an interstellar empire that spans hundreds (or thousands) of star systems and they just happened to do it for example 10,000 years ago! Or the long-dead "master civilization" that's been extinct for... gasp: 100,000 years!!! Ok, I get the idea that it's for dramatic intents it's just never been logical. That's why I like Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence novels... :D
- Adrian
True. In every movie and book aliens are always more advanced in technology. This is actually the first article i read that explains why. And it makes sense ;) I always wonder why we keep searching for life as we know it. Cause what are the chances statistically that extraterrestrial life develops in form and shapes and intelligence as we know here on earth....
- Nik
Well, we have a sample of 1 to conjecture on. The thing is... physics, chemistry and [conjecturally] biology are probably fairly consistent at least in our galaxy, so who knows. There are so many factors to consider, but there are also a LOT of planetary systems out there so the odds are that there are "aliens" right now sitting on a planet wondering the same thing. It's just numbers. Question is how many pockets are out there RIGHT NOW and how far.
- Adrian
We will eventually discover them (or they us), if they exist in our time. I don't think we should only be looking for something we already know. I mean why just look for planets with water and oxygen. It is so restrictive.
- Nik
Because we know that recipe created life at least once, so statistically we can't be *that* unique. Also we are experienced in spotting tell-tales and traces, but with other chemistries we'd be hypothesizing, unless we can actually create the chemistry in a lab here on Earth (we may have... sorry, I'm not an expert).
- Adrian
Check out those sick Louboutins she is wearing ... I want a pair :)
- fatima
Seriously, I would love to isolate whatever genes give this woman such a sense of beauty and glamour and introduce it into the general population, thus making the world a billion times prettier. Or just ask her out for lunch, whichever is easier.
- Steven Perez
SATAN: Keanu, I can keep you young looking forever, but your acting skills will suck. Or... KEANU: Yes? SATAN: Or, I could make you the greatest actor of your generation, but you'll age so fast, you'll be playing grandpa roles at the age of 32. KEANU: Uh....If I'm hot, people still won't care how bad I act, right?
- Anika
"Last Saturday and Sunday, Windows 7 powered an estimated 5% and 5.14% of all computers that were online those days, according to Internet metrics vendor Net Applications. The two-day average of 5.07% was higher than the 5% of the market that Net Applications said Apple's operating system averaged for the week of Nov. 15-21."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
"A controversial Scottish brewery has launched what it described as the world's strongest beer - with a 32% alcohol content."
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
64 Proof! Wow! That puts this beer in the spirits category, which starts at 20% alcohol content!
- Kurt Starnes
I've seen their other beers in the shops, not tried them yet. I love the name, "Tactical Nuclear Penguin" = :D
- Amy
I believe that spirits in the UK start at 40%, or maybe that's just whisky.
- James Myatt
I've had one of their beers from Tesco before and it was extremely tasty; IIRC, it was Punk IPA. They really do have fantastic marketing. I have a lot of respect for them.
- James Myatt
This is going to be to be what Mad Dog 20/20 was to wine. The Danes used to frown on we Americans who enjoyed an occasional Carlsberg Elephant beer, because over there that puts you in the same class as the public drunks and public urinators (which, of course, go hand in hand.) This a lot more potent that Elephant!
- Mark Jepsen
The video is indeed excellent, Susan.
- Mark Jepsen
Only the scotts!! *que Irish immigration to Scotland*
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
She was a Latin pop sensation b4 releasing a US album . So weird I remember the tranformatiob covered by Latin news ... When I was 16
- Caroline
from iPhone
3 definetely! others are so out of date... but for me in personally, it's 9
- ozztrojen
شاندیز من یه سوال دارم چون تو قدیمی هستی شاید بدونی جوابش رو، یکسری ها اینجا هستند من رو فالو میکنن، فید هام رو لایک میزنن اما درخواست اشتراک آدم رو میزارن تو آب نمک، این یه جور چس کلاس فرند فیدیه؟!!×
- ѕнαнιη
نه ببم جان، اولا که من فید تو رو دارم فالو میکنم ثانیا فکر میکنم فید تو اصلا خصوصی نبود... منظورم یکسریهایی هست فیدشون خصوصیه حالا دنبال مورد نگرد...
- ѕнαнιη
شاهین اولا EQ نه و IQ. دوما ...؟ یادم رفت چی میخوام بگم.. IQ رو میبینی
- فریاد
نمی دونم شاهین / من نمی تونم قضاوتی به مردم کنم راستشو بخوای / خودم هم پالیک بودم الان پرایوت شدم چون هی بهم هشدار دادن :| وگرنه حالم از این قفل بد می شه
- Shandiz
It's between the stroke one from the neuroanatomist - Jill Barad, I now remember - and the very first one I ever saw, on Seadragon out of MSFT.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone