Photos from the Nexus One Google Phone [Google Phone]

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Oh hey, it's the Google Phone! Nexus One! Whatever it's called! Here's some shots taken with the phone, including some of the phone.

The EXIF data on the sample photos pulled from Picasa all say that they were taken with a Nexus One, manufactured by HTC. Though sizes vary, the resolution max appears to be 2592×1944. The ones we were emailed obviously show the phone in action, though supposedly they were also taken by the Nexus One.

Oh, BTW, does anybody think that a "secret phone" that a thousand people (or so) are walking around with is like, dumb?



Alternator Capacitor

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Morning,

I am facing the problem with the alternator capacitor. FYI, there may or may not be a built-in capacitor inside the alternator just between the regulator and rectifier. I found that when the regulator or rectifier damage(diodes), the capacitor also damaged. I dont know what corr

Anti-Space Mom with Pro-Space Kids

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Mom, the Eagle Has Landed!, Slate

"... And yet my boys are in love. They ask for library books about outer space. They had a DVD of the moon landing. They go to the local planetarium. They recite facts about planetary gasses and burned-up stars and black holes and something else called a white hole. "Mom, did you know?" they ask before launching into a minilecture. I never do. Nor, if I'm honest, do I care to find out. The other day, Eli interrupted himself in the middle of a shooting star explanation and said, sagely, "Mom, sometimes you don't really listen to me." This leaves me with a guilty question: What do you do when your children's interests don't match your own? Do you do your utmost to cultivate genuine enthusiasm and expertise? Do you fake it? Or do you keep the faith with your own passions, figuring you're teaching a lesson about assertion of selfhood and independence?"

Bringing Home The Bacon

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Shelby and Aderholt secure money for Redstone Arsenal projects, Huntsville Times

"A key spending bill that goes before the full Congress this week includes almost $90 million directly for Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center projects - including work on lunar landers and FBI explosive disposal research."

House votes to protect Ares, Huntsville Times

"After months of fighting for the North Alabama space community, it is a tremendous victory to see critical funding restored to Marshall Space Flight Center, Ares, and Constellation," Griffith said. "This bill not only saves but guarantees the survival of the safest, most advanced and most efficient vehicle we have at NASA."

Crowdsourcing NASA

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NASA Nebula: Enabling Participatory Exploration Through Open Data APIs

"One of the projects Nebula has been very excited to support enables the public to view and explore the surfaces of the Moon and Mars in unprecedented resolution in both Google Earth and Microsoft World Wide Telescope. The NASA team responsible for these projects leveraged Nebula to perform sophisticated large-scale image processing and hosting of hundreds of thousands of high-resolution images and over 100 terabytes of data."

Sea Level Already Rising on Atlantic Coast

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Climate change migrants-- Sculptures in Copenhagen

Sea level is rising along US Atlantic coast, say Penn environmental scientists

An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimetres faster in the 20th century than at any time in the past 4,000 years.

Sea-level rise prior to the 20th century is attributed to coastal subsidence. Put simply, land is being lost to subsidence as the earth continues to rise in response to the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period. Using sediment cores from the U.S. Atlantic coast, researchers found significant spatial variations in land movement, with the mid-Atlantic coastlines of New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland subsiding twice as much as areas to the north and south. Coastal subsidence enhances sea-level rise, which leads to shoreline erosion and loss of wetlands and threatens coastal populations.

Researchers corrected relative sea-level data from tide gauges using the coastal-subsidence values. Results clearly show that the 20th-century rate of sea-level rise is 2 millimetres higher than the background rate of the past 4,000 years. Furthermore, the magnitude of the sea-level rise increases in a southerly direction from Maine to South Carolina. This is the first demonstrated evidence of this phenomenon from observational data alone. Researchers believe this may be related to the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and ocean thermal expansion.

‘There is universal agreement that sea level will rise as a result of global warming but by how much, when and where it will have the most effect is unclear,’ said Ben Horton, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Penn. ‘Such information is vital to governments, commerce and the general public. An essential prerequisite for accurate prediction is understanding how sea level has responded to past climate changes and how these were influenced by geological events such as land movements.’

The study provides the first accurate dataset for sea-level rise for the U.S. Atlantic coast, identifying regional differences that arise from variations in subsidence and demonstrate the possible effects of ice-sheet melting and thermal expansion for sea level rise.

Source:
Science Centric | 12 December 2009

Maritime Terminal Papeete Tahiti

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Construction has begun on a new Gare Maritime on the Quai de Moorea in downtown Papeete, Tahiti. Papeete is the third-largest port under the French flag (after Calais and Cherbourg) and a proper Maritime Terminal has been badly needed.

ENERGY SURVEY AND MAPPING OF LOADS

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Hi,

I need to conduct an Energy Survey soon, I need your opinion for preparing my mapping mission. Here are some facts I know and think I know.. :
(I have looked into the Ireland SE site and found titles mainly)

1. I need to map the system under investigation. (It should be a straight for

Geminids tonight! | Bad Astronomy

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The annual Geminids meteor shower peaks tonight, so if you’re willing to brave the cold weather (assuming it’s cold where you are) then tonight is your best chance! I wrote a guide to watching meteors showers a while back (it’s for a different shower, but the general advice still holds true) that should help, too. I’ve heard rumors that things will be pretty good tonight for people on the east coast of the U.S. after midnight. If the clouds dissipate tonight I may go for them myself… now that it’s finally warmed up to the better side of the freezing point of water around here.

And if you do observe, you can join people across the planet and record your observations on Twitter using the hashtag #MeteorWatch. Universe Today has details.


Replacement Fuse T3.15AL250V

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Hi,

I am in the UK at the moment. Can anyone advise of the exact type of the fuse mentioned below: Once I know the type I can order a couple. I need one only, but will order a spare.

Replacement fuse: T3.15AL250V

Physical size: 20 mm long x 4.5 to 5 mm in diameter. I am shaking

The Week on “In Retrospect, Not the Best Comparison” | Cosmic Variance

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Here are the opening sentences of Chapter Five of my book:

When most people hear “scientist,” they think “Einstein.” Albert Einstein is an iconic figure; not many theoretical physicists attain a level of celebrity where their likeness appears regularly on T-shirts. But it’s an intimidating, distant celebrity. Unlike, say, Tiger Woods, the precise achievements for which Einstein is actually famous for remain somewhat mysterious to many people who would easily recognize his name.

And now we can add, “and some achievements should really stay mysterious, thanks just the same.”

The best of Sentient Developments: 2009

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Here are my favorite Sentient Developments articles from the past year:

The best of the guests

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A hearty thank you goes out to all the guest bloggers who contributed to Sentient Developments in 2009. Here are my favorite of their articles from the past year:

Obama Administration launches Massive Assault on Financial Privacy

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by Eric Dondero

According to NewsMax, the Obama Administration is now hiring "hundreds of new employees," for the IRS, to go after tax patriots who invest overseas.

The Democrat-controlled Congress just approved $387 million for the IRS fiscal year 2010 budget to hire the new employees.

From NewsMax:

The IRS high wealth unit, part of a broader effort to combat international tax evasion, is focusing on "the entire web of business entities controlled by a high wealth individual," IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman told a tax conference this week.

The IRS is also opening new criminal offices in Beijing, Panama City and Sydney to focus on funds flowing out of Europe and into Asia... At the center of the agency's offshore effort is its legal cases against Swiss banking giant UBS AG. UBS agreed to turn over nearly 5,000 names of individual American clients and paid $780 million to settle a criminal case for aiding tax evasion.

The IRS has also begun initial steps to join forces with other governments to scrutinize corporate tax filings...

President Barack Obama has proposed tightening tax rules for U.S. multinationals, including one in which companies delay paying taxes on income earned offshore, a legal practice known as deferral that officials say is abused.

If there was ever a time to completely abolish the IRS, now is it. We Libertarian Republicans must do everything we can to help elect GOP candidates on the record in support of getting rid of the agency. And remember, we're now fully into primary season. We must support those candidates in primaries who don't fudge on the abolish IRS stance.

Fortunately, a number of Republican Congressmen are already on record in support of abolishing the IRS, Ron Paul, of course, but also first-term Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana (Source), Rep. Jeff Flake of AZ and Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia.

Libertarian Republican candidates for Congress for 2010, have called for the absolishment of the IRS. They include Rand Paul running for US Senate in Kentucky and Peter Schiff for Senate against Dodd in Connecticut.

Schiff said on Fox News back in April:

Why not just abolish it completely? How about a flat-tax of zero. Why don’t we shrink government and have a much smaller national tax. It’s far less destructive to our economy and people don’t have to surrender their individual rights to privacy in order to comply with tax law?

Schiff's father Irwin Schiff is serving a lifetime prison sentence for writing a book in the 1980s, "The Great Income Tax Hoax," and urging others to avoid paying the income tax. Schiff believes the tax to be UnConstitutional, and inherently illegal.

Want to strike back at the IRS? For Tax Patriots, supporting Schiff's son for US Senate is an good way to start. Then follow up with a contribution to Rand Paul for Senate in Kentucky.

SchiffforSenate.com

RandPaul2010.com