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Why Astrophotography Is Worth the Trouble

By Posted on 11.2.2009 8 Comments
Astrophotography is hard. Astronomically hard. Everything has to be perfect. Your telescope, with camera attached, must track your target in precise synchronization with the rotation of the Earth. It can't shake. It can't even vibrate. You have to nail your camera's exposure settings or you'll be rewarded with an incoherent mess. Your targets are often so dim you can't even see them until after the image has been made, so focusing is a nightmare. So why try? Because it makes the entities floating in the vastness of the universe much more real than any Hubble wallpaper on your computer desktop can.

10.19.2009 at 03:23pm - Comment by DarkFx

That is some nice gear you have! Nice shot of the cluster
Technology

Is it Possible for a Spacecraft to Fly Straight Through Jupiter?

By Sally Younger Posted on 10.12.2009 32 Comments
Despite its gusty reputation as a “gas giant,” Jupiter’s blood-red clouds hide a dense, rocky core that’s perhaps 20 times as massive as Earth. That core blocks any spacecraft’s passage through the center of the planet, but even a detour through the clouds would be a disaster.

10.15.2009 at 08:28pm - Comment by DarkFx

Lets just get to Mars..
Technology

Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab

By Stuart Fox Posted on 10.15.2009 42 Comments
Just because most black holes are solar-system-sized maelstroms with reality-warping gravitational pulls doesn't mean you can't have one in your pocket! That's right, just in time for the holidays comes the pocket black hole. Designed by scientists at the Southeast University in Nanjing, China, this eight-and-a-half-inch-wide disk absorbs all the electromagnetic radiation you throw at it, with none of the pesky time dilation and Hawking radiation associated with the larger, interstellar versions.

10.15.2009 at 08:20pm - Comment by DarkFx

Brilliant
Science

Universe To End Sooner Than Previously Thought

By Stuart Fox Posted on 10.8.2009 22 Comments
While Robert Frost famously said that he prefers the world to end in fire, physicists have long predicted the universe will end with an icy sputter known as "heat death." Heat death occurs when the universe finally uses up all its energy, with all motion stopping and all the atoms in creation grinding to a halt. And, based on new calculations from a team of Australian physicists, it looks like heat death is far closer than previously thought.

10.15.2009 at 08:15pm - Comment by DarkFx

If all this matter is being fused into the purest of energy from the intense pressure of the gravity then it will eventually spew it out like a fountain and its formation into the elements and eventually into planets and gaseous bodies in the universe. If the Universe is Not Spherical, we would Not be able to listen to the Static of the Big Bang today. That Frequency would still be going outwards, not infinitely reverberating. When the Pressure of the Universe is Less then the Amount Mass taking up the Volume, then I see the black holes exploding out all that matter anyways, in whatever form. Nature will Always Exist, and will continue to expand. If Earth life dies off, hopefully some Organic Matter somewhere in space gets privileges to a perfect environment and grow into something intelligent over Trillions of Years
Technology

LHC Test Could Lead to Hyperdrive Space Propulsion (Well, In Theory)

By Clay Dillow Posted on 10.9.2009 40 Comments
Add one more thing to the list of mysteries, theories, and unsubstantiated ideas that will be confirmed/denied/debunked if CERN ever gets the Large Hadron Collider up and running: hyperdrive spacecraft propulsion. In 1924, German mathematician David Hilbert published a paper noting a pretty amazing side effect to Einstein's relativity: a relativistic particle moving faster than about half the speed of light should be repelled by a stationary mass (or at least it would appear to be repelled, to an inertial observer watching from afar).

10.15.2009 at 07:30pm - Comment by DarkFx

Xspot I completely agree with your suggestive opinion. Especially about a Food Replicator. People need energy to perform properly, and not enough of us get our daily nutritional value's and +. With obviously the expense as issue. Once we start growing meat with future stem cell genetic research we could have prime cuts incredibly affordable and plenty to offer already "trimmed". www.darkfx.cjb.net
Technology

LHC Test Could Lead to Hyperdrive Space Propulsion (Well, In Theory)

By Clay Dillow Posted on 10.9.2009 40 Comments
Add one more thing to the list of mysteries, theories, and unsubstantiated ideas that will be confirmed/denied/debunked if CERN ever gets the Large Hadron Collider up and running: hyperdrive spacecraft propulsion. In 1924, German mathematician David Hilbert published a paper noting a pretty amazing side effect to Einstein's relativity: a relativistic particle moving faster than about half the speed of light should be repelled by a stationary mass (or at least it would appear to be repelled, to an inertial observer watching from afar).

10.13.2009 at 04:44am - Comment by DarkFx

Dont use imperial facts as evidence to off topic claims with little relevance without explanation. i.e. Politics.
Science

Water Bears Are Headed for a Martian Moon

By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 10.12.2009 7 Comments
Water bears, the tiny creatures that have already been proven to survive direct exposure to the vacuum of space, were slated for launch to a Martian moon this month. But Russian officials chose to delay their first interplanetary mission in more than a decade due to safety and technical issues, until the next launch window opens in 2011.

10.12.2009 at 03:25pm - Comment by DarkFx

Yes, Send other life to a planet so that it can grow rapidly and evolve and then maybe we can have bug wars like starship troopers and test our technology on some eight legged aliens just in case we come into contact with real threatening aliens so we can be "prepared".
Technology

LHC Test Could Lead to Hyperdrive Space Propulsion (Well, In Theory)

By Clay Dillow Posted on 10.9.2009 40 Comments
Add one more thing to the list of mysteries, theories, and unsubstantiated ideas that will be confirmed/denied/debunked if CERN ever gets the Large Hadron Collider up and running: hyperdrive spacecraft propulsion. In 1924, German mathematician David Hilbert published a paper noting a pretty amazing side effect to Einstein's relativity: a relativistic particle moving faster than about half the speed of light should be repelled by a stationary mass (or at least it would appear to be repelled, to an inertial observer watching from afar).

10.11.2009 at 06:23pm - Comment by DarkFx

Something from nothing can be possible when examined theoretically and logically. It is possible for an external mass of matter existing on a Radiated;Faster/Slower animation rate to have an effect on the present acknowledged by humans in an instance of how fast we perceive units of light and react. The only problem i see with this hyper velocity propulsion is that you could end up in solid material like rock and be completely mangled like a bad glitch. It would have to be an extremely precise computing system to be able to assure clear of obstacle when arriving at the destination.
Science

NASA Catches Two Black Holes Sucking Face

By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 10.7.2009 10 Comments
Colliding black holes may prove more interesting to scientists than the immovable object versus the unstoppable force. New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has combined with optical images from Hubble to show off a merging black hole pair in all its glory.

10.8.2009 at 04:39pm - Comment by DarkFx

The photo was taken in X-Ray with an overlay of basic optical imagery. All that light is far to radiated to see normally. I think the larger black hole will consume the smaller one, right down to the math of the mass. This may result in a quasar expelling Gamma radiation. Beautiful photo. www.darkfx.cjb.net
Science

Scientists Find The Gene That Produces THC

By Stuart Fox Posted on 9.15.2009 27 Comments
In one of the few scientific developments likely to interest both the Governor of North Dakota and Method Man, scientists at the University of Minnesota have identified the genes in cannabis that allow the plant to produce THC. Finding the genes opens the path to either create drug-free hemp plants for industrial purposes, or to develop plants with much higher concentrations of the psychotropic chemical.

9.18.2009 at 08:03pm - Comment by DarkFx

Make an entire batch of pure purple hairs? Sounds Great! Now I can expand even more my perception of units of light acknowledged and think ever so fast erratically, and contradictionally precise. And DESTROY THE TOBACCO COMPANIES. Seriously, its the most laced drug in the world next to crack cocaine and X. If you want to smoke it, grow your own plant. And if you have never experienced Marijuana's effects, your claims are limited and unlikely logical. Don't look to the idiot that smokes pot to stereotype us by, look to the idiots that don't, and seek the rare experienced intellectuals instead to explain the prolonged exposure process of thc and how it helps self-altering the mind to be all it can be.