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Thursday, 27 December 2012

Amazing Lamborghini Ankonian Car

From the darkest depths of the design mind of the one called Slavche Tanevski comes THIS! The Lamborghini *Ankonian. It’s black. It’s sharp. It’s just fabulous. It’s named after a bull famous for its black hair, which follows the Feruccio Lamborghini (creator of the auto brand) tradition of naming cars after bulls. This bad boy is a proposal for the first Lamborghini hybrid scheduled for 2016. Flashy!

And I don’t mean flashy in any kind of bad way. This car is of a cab-backwards style, which is new for the modern Lamborghini. It’s got a narrow body and complex aesthetics mixed with a combination of soft and angular surfaces.

It’s not quite “green,” but it’s does have that sort of environmental friendliness in mind with it’s downsisedness. And hows it look so hot roddy and light? That fabulous tail on the back, the classic headlight graphics, and those very thin OLEDs embedded between the surfaces. Eccentricities on top of mystery. Two big exhausts as eyes and diffuser as a mouth.








Tuesday, 18 December 2012

NASA Plans to Build a Base Above The Far Side of The Moon

NASA has decided its next big mission, and according to the Orlando Sentinel, it's a project that aims to build a base on the moon. Sound familiar? That's because it's not just NASA who's thinking of building outposts on Earth's natural satellite. Japan's and Russia's space agencies are working on the same thing, former presidential-hopeful Newt Gingrich wanted to make the moon a U.S. state by 2020, and even Domino's hopes to ship a franchise out there to feed the moon's first human colony.

The U.S. space agency isn't planning to build infrastructures on the moon's surface, though... at least not yet. It will instead create what it calls a "gateway spacecraft" that will stay in orbit above the far side of the moon, or the other side of what we see when look up at the night sky. The spacecraft will be designed to support a small crew of astronauts — just like the International Space Station (ISS) — and will serve as the base for future moon and Mars missions.

The spacecraft will likely be built using leftover ISS parts and will stay at a location where the gravity isn't that strong so it can operate using minimal amount of fuel. However, there's one thing NASA has to iron out before it can start putting a gateway spacecraft together: funding. NASA has to secure billions of dollars for the project, which won't be easy considering the agency has been hard up for money due to budget cuts. The agency also has to ensure that safety of its astronauts and come up with a viable rescue plan in case of emergency — something that's difficult to do when the far side of the moon is much, much farther than the current location of the ISS.

If everything goes well for NASA, it will send its new rocket (that's currently being developed) on a test flight in 2017. Construction on the gateway spacecraft will begin in 2019.

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

World's Most Expensive CD CD-ROM

World's most expensive CD CD-ROM. Japan could become the country with the strong economy, after the global crisis. And it spurred some companies specializing in the luxury industry. So the most expensive CD-ROM, called Woman, Sweet 10 Diamonds went on sale in the Japanese islands. The store Takashimaya, has found a buyer for one hundred thousand dollars. This sky-high price is due to the disc jacket, made of platinum with two carats encrusted in her ten diamonds.



Thursday, 6 December 2012

NASA Unveils Stunning Black Marble Images of The Earth at Night

NASA revealed probably the most accurate and many detailed images of the world during the night in a news conference in the American Geophysical Union meeting in Bay Area.

As the composite cloud-free images and animations recorded through the Suomi National Polar-revolving about Partnership satellite are really stunning additionally they reveal human effects around the planet's landscape much more effectively than NASA's previous Blue Marble daytime shots of Earth.

"Evening time imagery offers an without effort graspable look at our world,Inch stated William Stefanov, a geoscientist in NASA's Worldwide Space Station programme office. "City lighting is a great way to track urban and suburban growth, which feeds into planning energy use and concrete hazards, for studying urban warmth islands, as well as for initializing climate models."

The gear onboard Suomi NPP includes the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometre Suite (VIIRS) -- a minimal light sensor which enables the satellite to tell apart evening lights with 250 occasions the dynamic range than previous satellites.

VIIRS also utilizes a "day-evening band" to analyse the sources and concentration of light pollutants and insights within the evening use a better knowledge of a persons global footprint.

To produce the pictures, data sent from Suomi two times each day to some ground station in Svalbard Norwegian was planned to the earlier Blue Marble pictures. Within the ones above, light-creating phenomena for example aurora and fires happen to be electronically removed to produce a focused consider the city lights.

Your day-evening band could produce such high definition pictures utilizing a repeated checking technique after which reacting towards the light quantity of a produced pixels to amplify more dark images and stop better ones from oversaturating.

"The evening is nowhere as dark once we may think,Inch stated Steven Burns, an atmospheric researcher at Colorado Condition College. "Actually, our planet isn't really dark. And that we needn't be at nighttime by what is going on during the night any longer either."