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New Maps Detail Solar System Objects

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:04:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A must; even the Vogons are interested.

Galactic hitchhikers visiting our solar system, if they exist, would probably love to get their hands on a new guide that puts GPS to shame.

A planetary scientist has made the most detailed maps of our local planets, moons and asteroids yet by combining hundreds of spacecraft images to chart all the nooks and crannies of numerous surfaces, including the asteroids Phobos, Itokawa and Eros. Upcoming targets for mapping include the planet Mercury and eight of Saturn's moons, such as frozen Enceladus with its icy geysers, as well as Earth's moon.

"I have three computers crunching away right now," said Robert Gaskell, a planetary scientist based in Altadena, Calif., who works at the Planetary Science Institute. "One's working on the moon, one's working on Eros, and another's working on Mercury."

Xenophobia

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:07:21 GMT

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Xenophobia is a fear or contempt of that which is foreign or unknown, especially of strangers or foreign people.^[1] It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning "foreigner," "stranger," and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear." The term is typically used to describe a fear or dislike of foreigners or of people significantly different from oneself. When the word appears in science fiction, it usually refers to a fear of extraterrestrials.

Marsmond Phobos

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:56:30 GMT

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Clip Source: grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blogspot.com

Wierd Science

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:58:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Clothes that are dried outside DO smell better because of a process called photolysis. What happens is this: sunlight breaks down compounds in the laundry that cause odor, such as perspiration and body oils.

Clouds fly higher during the day than the night.

Dirty snow melts faster than clean.

Clip Source: phunkyou.com

Wierd Science

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

In Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.

Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

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an2

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:31:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ambient-nights.org

Track 1
Blank & Jones - Time

Track 2
Alan Parsons Project - Apollo (Ambient Mix)

Track 3
Blank & Jones - Watching The Waves

Track 4
Enigma & Deep Forest - Rain Song

Track 5
FSOL - African Water Drums - Journey Into Ambient

Track 6
Phobos - Soul Of Desire

Track 7
Sundog - Seven Minutes to Midnight

Track 8
Delerium - Sensorium

Track 9
Sven Vath - Harliquins Meditation

Track 10
Vangelis - Memories In Green

Gipsy Kings

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:13:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: But they began playing rumba flamenca because "we liked to watch pretty girls dance," said Nicolas.

Latin American beats had been joined with flamenco by gitanos since at least the 1950s, mixing complex strumming with rhythmic, percussive tapping on their guitars' tops. The new Reyes generation — soon to meet and join up with three guitar-playing brothers from the Baliardo family — began creating more pop-oriented songs. They played at roma parties and at street corners until they got their chance to record under the group's new name, Gipsy Kings.

Sharp-eyed individuals might have noted that all the left-handed members of the group play guitars strung upside-down; this is usually as a result of the individuals' not having their own guitars when growing-up. Borrowing and playing a right-hander's the wrong way up was the only way to learn.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Gipsy Kings

Gipsy Kings are a group from Arles and Montpellier (specifically from a cité outside of Montpellier called Phobos) in France. Their parents fled from Spain during the Spanish Civil War. They are Roma musicians, best known for bringing Rumba Catalana, a pop-oriented version of traditional flamenco music to worldwide audiences. Their music has a particular Rumba Flamenca style, with pop influences; many songs of the Gipsy Kings fit social dances, such as Salsa and Rumba. Their music has been described as a place where "Spanish flamenco and Romani rhapsody meet salsa funk".^[1]

They explained the evolution of their sound in the 1996 PBS documentary of their lives and music "Tierra Gitana (Gipsy Ground)". Young brothers Nicholas, Canut and Paul Reyes accompanied their father, famed flamenco singer Jose Reyes, who started out singing "cante jondo (deep song)", traditional flamenco with long-running themes of passion, love, death, etc.

[edit] Musical background

Discovery News Explorer

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:21:30 GMT

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Phobos: A future ring of Mars

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:07:47 GMT

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Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Clip Source: www.coolscifi.com

Explanation: This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Panic. These martian moons may well be captured asteroids originating in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or perhaps from even more distant reaches of the Solar System. The larger moon, Phobos, is indeed seen to be a cratered, asteroid-like object in this stunning color image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, recorded at a resolution of about seven meters per pixel. But Phobos orbits so close to Mars - about 5,800 kilometers above the surface compared to 400,000 kilometers for our Moon - that gravitational tidal forces are dragging it down. In 100 million years or so Phobos will likely be shattered by stress caused by the relentless tidal forces, the debris forming a decaying ring around Mars.

Tags: phobos, mars, deathspiral, ring, 100million years

Stickney Crater

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:13:52 GMT

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Clip Source: apod.nasa.gov

Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself, so large that the impact that blasted out the crater likely came close to shattering the tiny moon. This stunning, enhanced-color image of Stickney and surroundings was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within some six thousand kilometers of Phobos last month. Even though the surface gravity of asteroid-like Phobos is less than 1/1000th Earth's gravity, streaks suggest loose material has slid down inside the crater walls over time. Light bluish regions near the crater's rim could indicate a relatively freshly exposed surface. The origin of the curious grooves along the surface is mysterious

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Phobos in 3D (grab those glasses!)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:15:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An anaglyph of Mars' moon Phobos.

Clip Source: www.spaceweather.com

Tags: phobos, astronomy, mars, out of this world, solarsystem, science

3D Moon of Mars - New pictures of Phobos

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:03:59 GMT

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Clip Source: spaceweather.com

3D MOON OF MARS: Grab your 3D glasses. Two weeks ago, NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO) targeted martian moon Phobos and took a pair of high-resolution pictures. Mission scientists have combined them to make a startling red-blue anaglyph. Glasses on? Behold.

The 2D view is nearly as good:

Long ago, something struck Phobos and almost shattered the tiny moon. The scar of that impact, 9km-wide Stickney crater, is located at the top of the image. Color filters in MRO's camera reveal a blue splash of material around Stickney's rim. What is it? No one knows. Equally striking are Phobos' many long grooves and crater chains. Although these seem to radiate from Stickney, recent studies show that most are not related to the crater. Instead they come from the planet below; when asteroids hit Mars, debris flies up and scores Phobos. The grooves seem to emerge from Stickney only because the crater faces Mars.

Tags: mars, phobos, moon, 3d image, nasa, space

Stickney Crater

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:42:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos

Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Stickney Crater

Tango and Phobos CHMs

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:57:38 GMT

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Clip Source: dblog.aldacron.net

Tango and Phobos CHMs

Jussi Jumppanen has compiled CHM files for Tango and Phobos on Windows. Separately, someone else has put together both CHM and PDF versions of the Tango Manual and API reference.

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Coulrophobia: Fear of Clown

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:50:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

coulrophobia [wiki] is the irrational fear of clowns. It comes from the Greek word kolobathristes meaning one that goes on stilts and phobos meaning fear (the Greeks didn’t have a word for clown - the closest thing was those on stilts, i.e. circus performers).

Clown phobia is quite common in small children, but in some, the fear persists well into adulthood. I’ve read that up to 1 in every 7 people have it to some degree

it can be quite a dramatic and overpowering fear in adults. Like this lady who is scared to death of clowns

[Video]

Most phobia started in childhood, but in some, fear of clown is sparked by reading about one

or watching one

Perhaps some clowns are truly evil. Like serial killer John Wayne Gacy [wiki] aka The Killer Clown.

People are apt to overanalyze coulrophobia, though they can come up with interesting reasons. Kathryn Cillick at Phobialist came up with this explanation:

D Installer

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:22:07 GMT

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Welcome to D Installer ¶

This is a package to install DMD, DMD with DSSS, DMD with Tango only and DSSS, and the option to install from preloaded Tango(with included DMD binaray) and DSSS. Currently it is at version 1.002 with all the above supported. Soon Mingw and GDC will be supported. Also Tango and Phobos will soon be able to be installed alongside each other. Custom install support along with predownloading DSSS packages and installing them from D Installer will be supported. If you have any questions you can contact me on the forums. The latest version is available from DInstall:http://www.lester-martin.co.nr/projects. When possible I will add the source to this project to dsource. I will also allow downloading it from dsource as soon as possible. Lester L. Martin II

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