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Daniel Brown – NASA Oklahoma Grand – 1135.37 @ 163.6 – Video
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Results from the NASA Oklahoma Grand 2014 powerlifting meet that took place on October 18th, 2014. I ended with 385.81/264.55/485.01 for an 1135.37 at 163.6 body weight.
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Amazing Journey Into A Galaxy of Stars-NASA’s Hubble Telescope – Video
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Powers of magnification take you on an incredible journey into the vastness of our universe. Hubble #39;s powerful telescope gives us a new perspective and awareness. A must see!!!!
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Don’t You Think That NASA Should Hide These Pictures? – Video
Don #39;t You Think That NASA Should Hide These Pictures?
Despite any political differences between the United States and Russia, the space agencies of the two countries continue their cooperative work in Earth #39;s orbit, aboard the International Space...
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NASA F104 Starfighter Maiden Flight (1/5 scale RC turbojet) – Video
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The maiden flight of a 1/5 scale Skymaster F104 Starfighter. Built and heavily modified by The Little Jet Company. Powered by a 22kg JB220 turbojet and using a PowerBox Royal SRS running...
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Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater Light Echoes Captured by Swift Satellite – Video
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NASA #39;s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a rapid-fire "storm" of high-energy blasts from a highly magnetized neutron star, also called a magnetar, on Jan. 22, 2009. Now astronomers ...
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UFO spotted in NASA video of astronauts International Space Station – UFO Caught on Camera! – Video
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NASA's Mars fleet survives close brush with comet (+video)
Three spacecraft at Mars survived a close brush with a comet that buzzed by the Red Planet Sunday (Oct. 19), while scientists on Earth captured some amazing images of the comet's close pass.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) probe and Odyssey spacecraft appear to be in good health after hiding behind Mars as Comet Siding Springwhizzed 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) past the planet at high speed. The three spacecraft and two rovers NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity plus the two other probes at the Red Planet, were also charged with gathering information about the comet and its effect on Mars.
"We're glad the spacecraft came through, we're excited to complete our observations of how the comet affects Mars and we're eager to get to our primary science phase," MAVEN principal investigator Bruce Jakosky, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, said in a statement. [See photos of Comet Siding Spring]
People using telescopes captured some incredible images of Comet Siding Spring and Mars from Earth. One photo, from the Siding Spring Observatory, shows Mars as an extremely bright spot with the comet shining in blue at the center of the image. Background stars also fill the stunning image of the close approach.
"Working on three scopes at the Siding Spring Observatory, we hoped that between them, we'd get a great result," astronomer Nick Howes told Space.com of his plans to capture images of the comet. "When the images started coming in, we knew we had something special, just from the raw data. There's been a lot of great images taken today; we're just proud that the education-driven Tzec [Maun Foundation] took some of them."
Another image of the comet, taken from Spain by photographer Juan Miguel Gonzlez Polo, shows the comet (a circled green streak) flying toward Mars on Oct. 17 before its closest pass with the Red Planet.
The spacecraft at Mars had to take cover behind the planet because the speeding dust sloughed off by Comet Siding Spring could have posed a threat to the mechanisms of the probes. The comet was flying through space at 126,000 mph (203,000 km/h) relative to Mars, according to NASA.
The spacecraft's evasive maneuvers seemed to have worked, and all three of NASA's orbiting spacecraft managed to gather some data as the comet flew by. The spacecraft observed any changes to the Martian atmosphere that could have been caused by the comet's dust, and scientists were also hoping to gather data the could help them learn more about the
"The telemetry received from Odyssey this afternoon confirms not only that the spacecraft is in fine health but also that it conducted the planned observations of comet Siding Spring within hours of the comet's closest approach to Mars," Odyssey Mission Manager Chris Potts, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.
Editor's Note: If you tracked Comet Siding Spring with a telescope and captured an image of the comet, let us know! You can send images and comments in to Space.com at: spacephotos@space.com.
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NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP Satellite Team Ward Off Recent Space Debris Threat
While space debris was the uncontrolled adversary in the award-winning space thriller film "Gravity," space debris, also known as "space junk," is an ongoing real-life concern for teams managing satellites orbiting Earth, including NOAA-NASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, or Suomi NPP, satellite. It is not unusual for satellites that have the capability of maneuvering to be repositioned to avoid debris or to maintain the proper orbit.
On an otherwise quiet Sunday on September 28, the Suomi NPP mission team was monitoring a possible close approach of a debris object. By early evening, the risk was assessed to be high enough to start planning a spacecraft maneuver to put the satellite into a safer zone, out of the path of the object classified in a size range of 4 inches up to 3.3 feet.
It was determined that the object (travelling at almost 17,000 mph) was approaching at a nearly "head on" angle, and could potentially only miss the Suomi NPP satellite by approximately 300 feet on Tuesday, September 30, if no action was taken. With that knowledge, the decision was made at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, September 29, for NOAA's Satellite Operations Facility, or NSOF, in Suitland, Maryland, to reposition Suomi NPP. Operational control as well as planning and execution of all Suomi NPP maneuvers take place at NSOF.
"Because Suomi NPP moves at a similar speed as the debris object, if there had been an impact, it would have occurred at a combined speed of nearly 35,000 mph. This would have been catastrophic not only to the satellite, but would result in thousands of pieces of new debris," said Harry Solomon, Mission Manager for Suomi NPP at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Space around Earth is littered with numerous man-made objects that could potentially collide with operating spacecraft and each other (creating more debris). There are more than 20,000 objects being monitored by the U.S. Department of Defense for satellite managers around the world.
Only about 1,000 of those 20,000 objects are operating spacecraft. The rest of the monitored space debris ranges in size from the size of a softball, to massive rocket bodies, all orbiting uncontrolled at relative speeds averaging about 22,300 mph in low-Earth orbit, where the majority of the objects reside.
Yet it is the unknown, often smaller, untracked objects that pose the biggest threat. "If a spacecraft is lost due to being hit by debris, the odds are the satellite will be hit by something the trackers can't see," said Nicholas Johnson, NASA chief scientist (retired) for orbital debris at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
That is exactly the scenario Solomon and his counterpart, Martin England, mission operations engineering lead at NSOF hope will never happen.
Risk Team Monitors Unmanned Missions Threats for NOAA and NASA
While NASA's Johnson Space Center manages monitored debris threats for spacecraft related to U.S. manned missions such as the International Space Station, the responsibility for unmanned missions managed by NASA falls to the Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis, or CARA, team operating out of NASA Goddard.
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NASA orbiter beams back images of Siding Spring comet
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- An icy, glowing comet recently whizzed by Mars, forcing NASA to position its orbiting probes on the other side of the Red Planet, shielded from the dust and debris trailing the massive space rock. But even as NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was taking shelter, it was able to capture some closeups of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring.
According to NASA, the new photos -- captured using the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera -- are the highest-resolution images ever captured of a comet from the Oort Cloud.
The best shots of the comet's bright nucleus suggest previous estimates as to the size of Silver Spring were inaccurate. In the lead-up to the comet's flyby, astronomers put the nucleus's diameter at roughly half a mile. But the new images, which measure just three pixels across at its brightest point, indicate Silver Spring is not even half the size of astronomers' original estimates.
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Bipolar disorder discovery at the nano level
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CHICAGO --- A nano-sized discovery by Northwestern Medicine scientists helps explain how bipolar disorder affects the brain and could one day lead to new drug therapies to treat the mental illness.
Scientists used a new super-resolution imaging method -- the same method recognized with the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry -- to peer deep into brain tissue from mice with bipolar-like behaviors. In the synapses (where communication between brain cells occurs), they discovered tiny "nanodomain" structures with concentrated levels of ANK3 -- the gene most strongly associated with bipolar disorder risk. ANK3 is coding for the protein ankyrin-G.
"We knew that ankyrin-G played an important role in bipolar disease, but we didn't know how," said Northwestern Medicine scientist Peter Penzes, corresponding author of the paper. "Through this imaging method we found the gene formed in nanodomain structures in the synapses, and we determined that these structures control or regulate the behavior of synapses."
Penzes is a professor in physiology and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The results were published in the journal Neuron.
High-profile cases, including actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and politician Jesse Jackson, Jr., have brought attention to bipolar disorder. The illness causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. About 3 percent of Americans experience bipolar disorder symptoms, and there is no cure.
Recent large-scale human genetic studies have shown that genes can contribute to disease risk along with stress and other environmental factors. However, how these risk genes affect the brain is not known.
This is the first time any psychiatric risk gene has been analyzed at such a detailed level of resolution. As explained in the paper, Penzes used the Nikon Structured Illumination Super-resolution Microscope to study a mouse model of bipolar disorder. The microscope realizes resolution of up to 115 nanometers. To put that size in perspective, a nanometer is one-tenth of a micron, and there are 25,400 microns in one inch. Very few of these microscopes exist worldwide.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. Moores Law is not dead, but it has clearly reached old age, and no fundamental technology has emerged to replace it. Whatever comes next is likely to challenge old assumptions both for technologists and society at large.
That was one of the conclusions from an IEEE symposium here here exploring the 20-year technology horizon. The discussions examined some of the ways engineers need to take responsibility to represent the capabilities and limits of technology to a world that depends on it but often fails to understand it.
Technology is getting more complicated as we go, and the public is not catching on to this, said Robert Colwell, a consultant and former processor architect at Intel.
He noted troubling issues such as people increasingly taking for granted and de-valuing increasingly complicated technologies such as smartphones and GPS systems. The consumer products are expected to operate perfectly, and when they dont society seeks someone to blame and punish. That doesnt fix the problem, he said.
Even more troubling, sometimes in a debate non-technical individuals disregard scientific findings and offer their personal experience as if it were valid scientific evidence, Colwell said.
Dean Kamen, a veteran inventor and advocate of engineering education, touched on the topic in a keynoted delivered on videotape:
If we as an engineering community dont focus on the right issues and help the pubic understand, we should not expect the future to continue to afford all the advantages of the advancing technology. A lot of people are afraid of [increasingly complex technology] and unwilling to invest in it. Yet society demands the best of technology and has lower and lower tolerance for any risk. We need people to be better educated about the risks and rewards of technology.
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The 2011 English summer riots: Courts accused of 'collective hysteria'
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A review of sentencing following the 2011 English riots has shown that sentences were much harsher than realised at first.
And just as people got caught up in the riots and acted out of character the study, carried out by The University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University, found that the courts themselves got caught up in a similar kind of collective hysteria.
Dr Hannah Quirk, a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law and Justice from The University of Manchester, was the co-author of the research which has just been published in The British Journal of Criminology. She said: "Whilst the offending may have been impulsive, sentencing should not be."
The summer riots of 2011 were commonly described as the worst in living memory due to the speed with which they spread over such a wide geographical area. The disorder began after Mark Duggan, was shot dead by the police in Tottenham, north London.
Over three thousand prosecutions were brought in connection with the unrest, which saw streets in parts of the country awash with violence, looting and arson. By 31 August 2012, of the 2,158 convicted, all but 20 had been sentenced with the vast majority of offending having taken place in London, followed by the West Midlands and Greater Manchester.
Dr Lightowlers, a lecturer in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University, says the courts decided not to follow sentencing guidelines which led to excessive and arbitrary punishments.
She said: "It was not just the courts that over-reacted. An 'uplift' was applied at every stage from arrest, to charge, to remand, to which court dealt with the case."
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A Shared Vision: How Harmonix Is Making Disney's Fantasia And Classical Music Important All Over Again
Vision. Its a quality I often associate with the late Walt Disney Walt Disney, a man who ceaselessly harnessed his imagination to build timeless experiences. That same kind of vision seems to be the principal driving force in the products created by game developer Harmonix. From its smallest projects (A City Sleeps) to massively influential games like Rock Band, Harmonix always seems to have their creative eye on a clear goal: Marrying music with unique gameplay.
Its fitting, then, that Harmonix was tasked with building a bridge between one of Disneys most ambitious film projects and their own style of interactive entertainment. Theyre certainly adept at handling iconic properties and timeless music. If in doubt of that, go play The Beatles: Rock Band, a game developed with an overwhelming reverence and love for the source material.
Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved, out today, is the result of a new collaboration between Disney and Harmonix that, among other accomplishments, proves that a 74-year-old film is indeed timeless with the right people at the helm.
Yen Sid shows his apprentice how to invoke the Muse in Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved
I recently sat down with Matt Boch, Creative Director ofDisney Fantasia: Music Evolved, to talk about the process of working with Disney, the challenge of making centuries-old music relevant to a new audience, and how his own vision is about much more than developing a video game.
FORBES: Matt, a question thats top of mind concerns the two versions of Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved. Are there gameplay differences between the Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions? Were there technical hurdles involved in developing for Kinect 1.0 and Kinect 2.0?
Matt Boch: Theres only one significant feature difference, and thats the ability to share and upload your remixes to youTube. Beyond that we were able to create feature parity. Of course the Xbox One version is more beautiful both in terms of visuals and audio. [The Xbox 360 version contains a necessary level of both video and audio compression.]
FORBES: How was the process of choosing and licensing songs this time around? Was it similar to the way youve built the Rock Band and Dance Central libraries?
Matt Boch: In a lot of ways it was completely different. In some ways its the same. You find a song you like, its relatively contemporary, you go through the licensing process weve gone through for hundreds upon hundreds of tracks with Rock Band and Dance Central catalogues. But theres a couple key differences here. One is the inclusion of music that exists in the public domain. Were spanning centuries here, not just decades!
We also had to go through the process of recording some of these pieces. Some members of our team went to work with the London Symphony Orchestra and thats not a thing we usually do!
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Longmont city council gets look at NextLight fiber optic Internet service
Longmont Power and Communications announced Tuesday night that some residents in south-central Longmont will be able to sign up for city-provided fiber optic Internet Nov. 3
Plus, LPC introduced the city council to the futuristic moniker for the high-speed fiber optic Internet that will eventually permeate the city NextLight.
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1 gigabit/sec speed for $99.95/month or $49.95/month if customer signs up in first three months of neighborhood availability
25 megabit/sec speed for $39.95 a month
The first area of Longmont to gain access to the fiber optic Internet service is a small triangular area of 500 homes roughly bordered by Pike Road, South Sunset Street, Holly Avenue and Lefthand Drive.
On Nov. 3, those potential customers can call LPC and schedule an installation crew to come to their home, LPC Director Thomas Roiniotis said.
The homeowner and the installation crew will then discuss where to extend the fiber optic cables underground in the backyard into the side of the house. LPC will not charge installation fees nor charge to lease a modem, Roiniotis added.
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Halloween goes to the dogs, and cats
Sparky the Corgy from Walnut Creek loves playing dress-up. (Betty Costa)
Some folks need no excuse, but if you're looking for a good reason to dress up your pet, you can't really beat Halloween.
As long as the pet doesn't mind it and it doesn't put them in danger, experts say there's no reason why pets can't join in on the holiday fun.
We asked readers to submit photos of their decked-out dogs and costumed cats so we could share them with all of our readers. Here are a few of our favorites.
There's still time for submit your photos. Go to the Animal Life column at http://www.mercurynews.com/Animal-Life and look for the upload button. Or you can add your picture by posting it on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #mercdresspet.
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