21. Juni: Internationaler Humanistischer Feiertag
21. Juni: Internationaler Humanistischer Feiertag
21. Juni: Internationaler Humanistischer Feiertag
June 21st: World Humanist Day
The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst — and Filled with Falsehoods
by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, 14 Jun 2015
Questions About The Sunday Times Snowden Story
by Ryan J. Gallagher, 14 June 2015
Five Reasons the MI6 Story is a Lie
by Craig Murray, 14 June 2015
Picture of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (with Rosetta & Philae) from Earth by the Very Large Telescope in Chile, 22 May 2015.
The signals were received at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt at 22:28 CEST on 13 June. More than 300 data packets have been analysed by the teams at the Lander Control Center at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
"Philae is doing very well: It has an operating temperature of -35ºC and has 24 Watts available," explains DLR Philae Project Manager Dr. Stephan Ulamec. "The lander is ready for operations."
For 85 seconds Philae "spoke" with its team on ground, via Rosetta, in the first contact since going into hibernation in November.
When analysing the status data it became clear that Philae also must have been awake earlier: "We have also received historical data - so far, however, the lander had not been able to contact us earlier."
Now the scientists are waiting for the next contact. There are still more than 8000 data packets in Philae’s mass memory which will give the DLR team information on what happened to the lander in the past few days on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Read More »
4D objects by Jason Hise on entropygames.net.
4D objects by Jason Hise on entropygames.net.
The quest to find Philae
(ESA/Rosetta, update 12 June 2015)
Quantum Gravity via Causal Dynamical Triangulations
J. Ambjorn, A. Goerlich, J. Jurkiewicz, R. Loll
http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2173v1 (8 Feb 2013)
"Causal Dynamical Triangulations" (CDT) represent a lattice regularization of the sum over spacetime histories, providing us with a non-perturbative formulation of quantum gravity. The ultraviolet fixed points of the lattice theory can be used to define a continuum quantum field theory, potentially making contact with quantum gravity defined via asymptotic safety. We describe the formalism of CDT, its phase diagram, and the quantum geometries emerging from it. We also argue that the formalism should be able to describe a more general class of quantum-gravitational models of Horava-Lifshitz type.
Nein, ich hebe die Darstellung nicht auf. man kann das Bild beispielsweise nicht auf den Kopf stellen.
(Anne Staszkiewicz, 2011, Öl auf Leinwand, 150 x 200 cm)
XIPE: the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer
The X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE) was proposed in June 2012 to the first ESA call for a small mission with a launch in 2017 but not selected. XIPE is composed of two out of the three existing JET-X telescopes with two Gas Pixel Detectors (GPD) filled with a He-DME mixture at their focus and two additional GPDs filled with pressurized Ar-DME facing the sun. The Minimum Detectable Polarization is 14 % at 1 mCrab in 10E5 s (2-10 keV) and 0.6 % for an X10 class flare. The Half Energy Width, measured at PANTER X-ray test facility (MPE, Germany) with JET-X optics is 24 arcsec. XIPE takes advantage of a low-earth equatorial orbit with Malindi as down-link station and of a Mission Operation Center (MOC) at INPE (Brazil).
[from Hermann Zapf: "About micro-typography and the hz-program", Electronic Publishing, Vol. 6(3), 283–288, Sept 1993]
R.I.P. Hermann Zapf (8 November 1918 - 4 June 2015)
Inference to the Best Explanation
In Malaysia, Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan blamed the earthquake that jolted Mount Kinabalu June 5, 2015 on a group of European and North American tourists, because they “showed disrespect to the sacred mountain” by stripping down to pose naked on the morning of May 30, at the 8 km mark of the two-day trek up Mount Kinabalu, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Mount Kinabalu is the country’s highest mountain, and considered a sacred site by indigenous people who believe the Borneo landmark is where spirits reside after people die. Meanwhile rescuers recovered the bodies of 19 climbers from the 4,095-metre peak after it was struck, six days after the errant tourists’ visit, by a magnitude 5.9 quake that sent rocks and boulders raining down on trekking routes, trapping dozens of climbers. Read More »
Real-time imaging of density ducts between the plasmasphere and ionosphere
by Cleo [Shyeh Tjing] Loi, Tara Murphy, Iver H. Cairns, et al.
Geophysical Research Letters, published online: 25 MAY 2015, DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063699
Abstract
Ionization of the Earth's atmosphere by sunlight forms a complex, multilayered plasma environment within the Earth's magnetosphere, the innermost layers being the ionosphere and plasmasphere. The plasmasphere is believed to be embedded with cylindrical density structures (ducts) aligned along the Earth's magnetic field, but direct evidence for these remains scarce. Here we report the first direct wide-angle observation of an extensive array of field-aligned ducts bridging the upper ionosphere and inner plasmasphere, using a novel ground-based imaging technique. We establish their heights and motions by feature tracking and parallax analysis. The structures are strikingly organized, appearing as regularly spaced, alternating tubes of overdensities and underdensities strongly aligned with the Earth's magnetic field. These findings represent the first direct visual evidence for the existence of such structures. Read More »
Tubes of plasma floating above the Earth
disovered by Sydney physics undergraduate Cleo Loi, 23.
-- The truth behind chemtrails? :-)
Go for it, ALICE!
13TeV collisions!
