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Veil of Thorns – The Girl Without A Face – Video

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Veil of Thorns - The Girl Without A Face
Reward on Moozar : reward-my-music.com Grave Groove P. Emerson Williams is a Great Prince of Hell, commands twenty-six legions of demons (23 according to other authors), and teaches astronomy and the knowledge of poisonous plants, herbs and precious stones. He is also known as Fluffy and Mimzy. He is depicted as either being a crowned owl with long legs, a raven, or a man. or a scary monster. Expose yourself to his GOTHRONOMICON depictions at your own risk, for the legions of Fluffy Necrofuturists will burrow in the minds of those of weak moral fibre and infect their souls with that infernal (yet informal) darkness.From:P. Emerson WilliamsViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:39More inMusic

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Veil of Thorns – Last Breath – Video

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Veil of Thorns - Last Breath
Reward on Moozar : reward-my-music.com Grave Groove P. Emerson Williams is a Great Prince of Hell, commands 93 legions of demons (23 according to other authors), and teaches astronomy and the knowledge of poisonous plants, herbs and precious stones. He is also known as Fluffy and Mimzy. He is depicted as either being a crowned owl with long legs, a raven, or a man. or a scary monster. Expose yourself to the Necrofuturist Transmission at your own risk, for the legions of Fluffy Necrofuturists will burrow in the minds of those of weak moral fibre and infect their souls with that infernal (yet informal) darkness.From:P. Emerson WilliamsViews:1 0ratingsTime:03:59More inMusic

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The Journeymen – Ep.57: Project Astronomy Tower #6 (Minecraft Survival) – Video

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The Journeymen - Ep.57: Project Astronomy Tower #6 (Minecraft Survival)
The Journeymen Peeps, is much appreciated if you thumb up this video, as it helps us out a lot. Also make sure to leave a comment with feedback on the video, so we can improve our content 😀 The team is finally starting a new group project, and this time we #39;ll create an astronomy tower, as an addition to the city that is starting to take shape. Enjoy the hard work of 4 journeymen members: Ryouseiken, DestinedOne, Esttown and Gamerbomb, through out this first session of the astronomy project. The Journeymen Server is a minecraft survival server, where a bunch of friends/youtubers are joined together to create the ultimate dirt houses. The Journeymen Members: Kidmischief: http://www.youtube.com Ryouseiken: http://www.youtube.com DestinedOne: http://www.youtube.com MichaelDj54: http://www.youtube.com Esttown: http://www.youtube.com Get in touch with me: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com facebook: http://www.facebook.com Website: http://www.gamerbomb.org Twitch http://www.twitch.tv Steam: steamcommunity.comFrom:GamerbombViews:97 15ratingsTime:17:43More inGaming

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The Moon – Video

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The Moon
Technical Specifications: Shot on a Canon EOS 600D mounted onto my 8 Inch Dobsonian Telescope with manual control, hence the shakiness of the clips. If you want to see more Astronomy related content click #39;like #39; and leave a comment below! - It just helps me know that you care. 🙂 ---- Music by Kevin MacLeod, and the piece is called #39;At Rest #39;.From:StarFireNetworkViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:28More inEntertainment

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Our Place In The Cosmos -Astronomy Song – Video

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Our Place In The Cosmos -Astronomy Song
This is a quick song I wrote for an astronomy project! OUR PLACE IN THE COSMOS ( Lyrics) Verse 1 See what I #39;ve learned in this short time about the stars and how they align like constellations round my walls How far #39;s our earth from the sun? How many AU #39;s? Oh yea just 1, thats how we measure across the sky and maybe the moon doesn #39;t have a dark side, but theres moons for planet mars oh the things we #39;ve learned over time Chorus I see the sky, oh way up high and think about my place in the cosmos Stars and planets all combine, our galaxies are so sublime Milky way Verse 2 So lets see, terrestrial planets are small, barely room for life or an atmosphere at all so funny how our earth could beat the odds And did you know our suns just a star that lights our world but theres bigger ones our far like super giants the biggest ones of all Now I know the moon effects the ocean tides When the sun and moon align oh the things we #39;ve learned over time Chorus I see the sky, oh way up high and think about my place in the cosmos Stars and planets all combine our galaxies are sublime Milky way Telescopes and satellites, to explore the starry night oh the things weve learned over time Chorus I see the sky, oh way up high and think about my place in the cosmos Stars and planets all combine our galaxies are sublime.. I see the sky, oh way up high and think about my place in the cosmosFrom:SarahBernardoMusicViews:4 0ratingsTime:03:13More inMusic

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Star Spot Episode 5: The Transit of Venus, with Jay Pasachoff – Video

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Star Spot Episode 5: The Transit of Venus, with Jay Pasachoff
Episode 5: The Transit of Venus, with Jay Pasachoff Unless you expect to be alive in 105 years, you won #39;t want to miss the June 5/6 transit of Venus. The appeal of this unique phenomenon has bridged the gap between art and science. It was was basis for a military brass band march, as well as a play and an opera. One man who will be making the most of this event is renowned transit of venus authority Jay Pasachoff. Jay M. Pasachoff is the Director of the Hopkins Observatory as well as Chair of the Astronomy Department and Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College. He comments frequently on the status of astronomy and science education, and is the author of textbooks in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and various other sciences. Pasachoff has an article in the May 2012 issue of Physics World about transits, and he sits down with Justin Trottier to discuss the history, science, and deep significance, of the Transit of Venus. After exploring the amazing discoveries that can be made from such a deceptively simple event, the two discuss Pasachoff #39;s varied career which has taken him into nooks all over the field of astronomy, then onto science education and the dangers of pseudoastronomy. More information and details about Transit of Venus events near you are available at venustransit.nasa.gov In Current in Space, we discuss blows to the favourd theories of dark matter, a historic flight that could open space to the commercial sector, and surprising plans ...From:thestarspotTVViews:4 1ratingsTime:32:20More inScience Technology

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DadLiamProductions Astronomy – Mercury – Video

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DadLiamProductions Astronomy - Mercury
This is an educational video about Mercury. Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system, and the closest planet the the Sun. Surprizingly, little is known about this tiny world. Mercury has many craters. The craters were possibly formed by asteriods, comets, and meteoroids hitting the rocky surface. The largest crater is the Caloris Basin. It looks like a bullseye and is about 1300 miles across. Without an atmosphere, Mercury has the highest range of temperature in the solar system. At the day side, the temperature reaches nearly 800 degrees Farienheit. While on the night side, the temperature reaches nearly -300 degrees Farienheit. The latest spacecraft to visit Mercury, was the MESSENGER spacecraft in 2008. MESSENGER sent back data and images to Earth. MESSENGER continued to send data until 2011. We have learned a few discoveries about Mercury, but this tiny, cratered world remains a mystery.From:DadLiamProductionsViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:11More inEducation

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Weaving a Tale of Strange Weather

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By Rebecca Horne | November 20, 2012 5:22 pm

Basket-weaving and astronomy may seem like an unlikely pairing, but artist Nathalie Miebachs work is evidence that the duo makes perfect sense.

Twelve years ago, Miebach was taking astronomy classes at Harvard and studying basket-weaving with a local artist at the same time. As she struggled with abstract concepts of deep space and time, she hit upon the idea of using basket-weaving as a three-dimensional grid for astronomical data in order to give it a more comprehensible physicality. She elaborates:

Basket-weaving is my main sculptural medium through which I translate the data into sculpture because it provides me with a simple yet effective 3D grid through which to translate data. The sculpture becomes collaboration between the material, the numbers, and myself. The material I use to translate is reed, which has an inherent tension that does not allow me to completely control it. If I push it too hard, it will simply break. My lack of control ensures that the numbers have as much of a say in creating the form as I do. It is the changing nature of the numbers over time as well as the inherent tension of the reed that create the shape of the sculpture. Only in certain instances do I step in and exert pressure when I sense the piece falling physically apart. I never know what the shape will be beforehand, which often leaves me scratching my headsome shapes are easier to work with than others.

A residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in Cape Cod, MA, inspired her to bring weather and climate change data into her work. In order to understand the complexity of climate, she has gone so far as creating her own weather station and collecting her own weather data much of it collected at the Herring Cove Beach in Cape Cod. By assigning colors and shapes to variables like temperature and wind strength and providing an explanatory legend, Miebach allows her viewer to decipher the sculptures. In the work shown here, each pair of vertical spokes is assigned an hour of the daythe green round reed is twilight data, the yellow flat reed is sun data, the red and orange sticks are high and low tide readings, the blue balls are the number of whales sighted at the particular day and hour, and so on.

Miebachs work is on permanent display at the Massachusetts College of Art New Residency Hall in Boston. Upcoming shows include one at Museum of Science, Boston, MA that highlights collaborative projects with Jon Finke of MIT and sound artist Marc McNulty, and a solo exhibit at the California Museum of Arts and Craft, Los Angeles, CA in the fall of 2013.

Twilight, Tides and Whales -Cape Cod Reed, wood, data, 30x18x20, 2006. Nathalie Miebach

This piece looks at the relationship between moon and sun rise and set, data, tidal and twilight readings taken in Provincetown, MA, and whale sightings along the New England Coast during the time frame of February-March 2006. All of the data comes from the U.S. Naval Observatory, NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration), and the Northeast Fishery Science Center.

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NE Ohio Astronomy Professor & Observatory Director Available to Debunk December 21 Doomsday #Mayancalendar

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Mayan Calendar, End-of-the-World Myth Busting by Baldwin Wallace University astronomy professor and Burrell Memorial Observatory director Gary Kader. Gary is available to address the following topics:

The end of Baktun 13 on the Mayan calendar

The planetary alignment, or lack there of

The Sun aligning with center of the Galaxy (This is true!)

The flipping of the Earth's polar rotation. (Actually, the magnetic field flips at random intervals ranging from less than 0.1 million years to as much as 50 million years)

Collisions with a rogue planet Nibiru (Not going to happen, because it doesn't exist)

The possibility of an asteroid sneaking up on us

The Apophis asteroid near Earth collision in 2029 Super nova explosions (Very very remote)

Solar flares and the 11 year sunspot cycle (An inconvenient truth, but not an extinction event)

For local media, visuals available inside the observatory. More on BW's Burrell Memorial Observatory

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Erlang in global radio astronomy – monitoring and controlling custom built hardware at the bit level – Video

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Erlang in global radio astronomy - monitoring and controlling custom built hardware at the bit level
This is a video of Harro Verkouter #39;s talk at London erlang Factory Lite http://www.erlang-factory.com In radio astronomy - the field I work in - data processing requirements are so large we have to build custom hardware to actually do it. In the talk I would like to introduce the observation technique we currently use, very long baseline interferometry, and the hardware that is currently being developed for expanding its capabilities. Feeding and controlling this FPGA powered device will require a distributed system also capable of controlling embedded devices remotely over a network. A primary objective was to produce a system where the hardware developers and VHDL programmers (not generally Erlang savvy programmers) should also be able to use the code to easily interact with their logic code running on the FPGAs. Talk objectives: I would like to show that Erlang is really good at what it was written for: interacting with (embedded) systems, dealing with binary data, running a distributed system for monitoring and controlling it. Target audience: Technology oriented people with an interest in low level programming or global high-speed network connections being used in a real time radio astronomical application. Talk may contain traces of physics.From:ErlangSolutionsViews:0 0ratingsTime:28:18More inScience Technology

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From Kepler to Webb: The History of the Telescope – Video

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From Kepler to Webb: The History of the Telescope
Hank regales us with the history of the telescope, and then introduces us to some folks from the team who are working on the newest telescope in the chronology - the James Webb Space Telescope, an infrared telescope due to launch in 2018. Thanks to the team at Northrop Grumman for allowing us the privilege of touring their facility, and to the scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for their help with this video. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Follow SciShow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com For more on how Webb compares to Hubble: http://www.jwst.nasa.gov About Webb in general: http://www.jwst.nasa.gov More on telescopes: en.wikipedia.org telescope, lens, mirror, james webb space telescope, jwst, webb, NASA, Hubble, history, historic, kepler, gallileo, design, isaac newton, refracting, reflecting, cassegrain, space, universe, northrop grumman, astrophysics, astronomy, infrared, IR, radiation, wavelength, spectrum, atmosphere, exoplanet, galaxyFrom:scishowViews:27743 1527ratingsTime:04:24More inEducation

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Live streaming of the total eclipse using only solar power from Australia [Panasonic] – Video

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Live streaming of the total eclipse using only solar power from Australia [Panasonic]
On November 14, 2012 a total eclipse was witnessed in Cairns, Australia. Panasonic successfully streamed this rare astronomical event live solely using the power generated by HIT solar cells and shared the amazing moment with over 800000 astronomy fans around the world. Please take a closer look at this project, which took full advantage of the wide array of Panasonic #39;s energy solutions. For more information on our solar panels, visit: http://www.panasonic.com.auFrom:PanasonicAustraliaViews:3 0ratingsTime:04:06More inScience Technology

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Doomsday Postponed: Mayan Calendar May Be Wrong – Video

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Doomsday Postponed: Mayan Calendar May Be Wrong
Doomsday Postponed: Mayan Calendar May Be Wrong It looks like those preparing for the end of the world on December 21, 2012 may have some more time to get ready. According to a new report, the conversion from the Mayan calendar to the Gregorian calendar may have been conducted improperly, leading to a potential multi-decade miscalculation: A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.) Image By: (Mac Slavo - http://www.SHTFplan.com), By AmateurArtGuy, By puuikibeach, By Peta-de-Aztlan and By Kim-bodia. Source: Author: Mac Slavo http://www.SHTFplan.com Please subscribe, comment and share and get the message out, peace.From:MrKeyOfKnowledgeViews:13 1ratingsTime:04:31More inEducation

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Organic Material and Ice found on Planet Mercury by Scientists – Report by John D. Villarreal – Video

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Organic Material and Ice found on Planet Mercury by Scientists - Report by John D. Villarreal
WOW - Scientists have found organic material and water ice on the planet Mercury! What do you make of this discovery? John D. Villarreal, the Super Genius, reports and comments on this science news story. web.mit.edu http://www.nytimes.com http://www.sciencedaily.com ________________________________________________________________ **Animations, Movie Image Credit** Note: The outside animations movie I used in my video are courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NOT copyrighted. Please here here: messenger.jhuapl.edu messenger.jhuapl.edu messenger.jhuapl.edu Please also see here: http://www.nasa.gov Animations movie credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Note: The outside image used in my video is courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory. The NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory image I used is NOT copyrighted: messenger.jhuapl.edu messenger.jhuapl.edu Please also see here: http://www.nasa.gov Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory Note: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie ...From:ConservativeNewMediaViews:5 1ratingsTime:07:45More inScience Technology

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