Omnia Vincit Veritas

ON THE DESK... INFORMATION, IDEAS, STUDIES AND RESEARCH - a notebook; The Challenges - Figure out WHO you are and WHY you are here. - Learn to recognize and overcome EVIL (tyranny, slavery, oppression, etc.) - Learn to spread LOVE, compassion, healing and knowledge.

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¿Quién es dueño de lo que ves, lees y escuchas? -y de lo que no! Propietarios de medios de comunicación en España.

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How 37 Banks Became 4 In Just 2 Decades, All In One Astonishing Chart

If you were wondering how banks got “too big to fail,” here’s a good place to start. This chart shows us how, over the last couple of decades, 37 banks have became just 4 mega-banks. These same 4 mega-banks have, thus far, been immune to the consequences of any and all of their terrible decisions that places the entire world economy in jeopardy.

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The “free market” is four corporations who are subsidized by the government, protected by the establishment, and bailed out by taxpayers reflexively.

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RESEARCH: LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) - 681 Gigapixels!

IMAGE (Above): Spectacular LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) allows exploration from 60°N up to the pole at the astounding pixel scale of 2 meters [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

On 18 June 2009, NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to map the surface of the Moon and collect measurements of potential future landing sites as well as key science targets. After two and a half years in a near-circular polar orbit, LRO entered an elliptical polar orbit on 11 December 2011 with a periapsis (point where the LRO is closest to the surface) near the south pole, and the apoapsis (point where LRO is furthest from the surface) near the north pole.  The increased altitude over the northern hemisphere enables the two Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) and Wide Angle Camera (WAC) to capture more terrain in each image acquired in the northern hemisphere. As a result, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) archive now contains complete coverage from 60°N to the north pole (except of course for areas of permanent shadow) with a pixel scale of 2 meters.   

The LROC team assembled 10,581 NAC images, collected over 4 years, into a spectacular northern polar mosaic. The LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) is likely one of the world’s largest image mosaics in existence, or at least publicly available on the web, with over 680 gigapixels of valid image data covering a region of the Moon (2.54 million km², 0.98 million miles²) slightly larger than the combined area of Alaska (1.72 million km²) and Texas (0.70 million km²) -- at a resolution of 2 meters per pixel! To create the mosaic, each LROC NAC image was map projected on a 30 m/pixel Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) derived Digital Terrain Model (DTM) using a software package called Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS). A polar stereographic projection was used in order to limit mapping distortions when creating the 2-D map. In addition, the LROC team used improved ephemeris provide by the LOLA and GRAIL teams and an improved camera pointing model to enable accurate projection of each image in the mosaic to within 20 meters.

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LNPM by the numbers:

     * Square image; 931,070 pixels across and down

     * Total pixels: 866,891,344,900  (867 billion)

     * Pixels with image data: 680,808,991,627 (681 billion)

     * NAC images: 10,581

     * Size of compressed mosaic: 950 Gigabytes

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New Horizons’ Best View of Pluto’s Craters, Mountains and Icy Plains This movie is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby on July 14, 2015. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel – revealing features smaller than half a city block on Pluto’s diverse surface. The images include a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains – giving scientists and the public alike a super-high resolution view of Pluto’s complexity. Credit:  NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

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The planet Earth on December 11, 1966, imaged by NASA’s ATS-I satellite.

(University of Wisconsin)

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I’ve had a stressful day, so if you’re in the same situation here’s something to relax: a flight through 400,000 galaxies! This simulation is made from real data and images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Feeling small? This video only takes you to a redshift of 0.1, which corresponds to a distance of 1.3 billion light years from Earth. The most distant galaxy ever observed has a redshift of 11.1!

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This glorious map helps you keep track of every space mission in the Solar System

We’ve come so far.

Space exploration is pretty amazing right now. Just yesterday, we launched the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft, which will hunt for signs of life on Mars, and by now, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is likely way out in interstellar space. NASA recently announced that it plans to visit Europa, one of the most promising candidates in our Solar System to host life, and even NASA’s chief scientist thinks we’ll find alien life within 20 to 30 years, as long as we keep exploring.

But how do you keep track of all these awesome space missions? To help out,the guys at Pop Chart Lab have created this beautiful poster showing our space exploration to date. It spans all the way from 1959 to 2015, and features over 100 exploratory probes, landers, and rovers.

As you can see on the poster below, the majority of our machines never leave Earth’s orbit. There are a whole lot of crowded lines near our planet, each of which belongs to a space probe or explorer of some kind. But as you get further from Earth, there are less and less of these brave explorers, and you get to see just how far humanity has travelled into our Solar System.

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For teaching: Engineering, astronomy

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Planet Saturn, February 22, 2016, observed by the Cassini space probe.

(NASA)

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Intricate Geometric Designs are Drawn With Wooden Drawing Machine

Inspired by vintage 19th century drawing machines, like the Spirograph, the Cycloid Drawing Machine composes intricate geometric designs in a limited space. With the use of no electricity or motor, the equipment comes with a base, three geared turntables, 18 gears, colored pens and test paper for customization.

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Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn all align for first time in 11 years.

Earthlings can now observe a rare celestial gathering: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all in alignment in our sky - and will continue to be for around a month. The last time the five paraded in a line was December 2004 to January 2005.    

(via Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn all align for first time in 11 years)

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January 16, 2016 - New Data About Weird Sun KIC 8462852 — It's Had Drastic Light Changes for 100 Years.  Alien Megastructure?

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“The century-long dimming and the day-long dips are both just extreme ends of a spectrum of timescales for unique dimming events, so by Ockham’s Razor, all this is produced by one physical mechanism. This one mechanism does not appear as any isolated catastrophic event in the last century, but rather must be some ongoing process with continuous effects.”

- Bradley E. Schaefer, Ph.D., Prof. of Physics & Astronomy, LSU

Strange light dimming of the baffling star KIC 8462852 by as much as 20% has now been found in archival Harvard photograph plates between 1890 to 1989. That means the phenomenon can’t be explained as cometary debris, but must be a persistent and evolving process. That provokes further speculation that the mystery objects erratically blocking the star’s light might be an “alien megastructure,” perhaps constructed to harvest energy from the sun. Illustration by Danielle Futselaar/SETI Int'l. See January 13, 2016, Cornell University arXiv.org.

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NASA has trialled an engine that would take us to Mars in 10 weeks

And may have inadvertently created a warp drive in the process.

NASA scientists have reported that they’ve successfully tested an engine called the electromagnetic propulsion drive, or the EM Drive, in a vacuum that replicates space. The EM Drive experimental system could take humans to Mars in just 70 days without the need for rocket fuel, and it’s no exaggeration to say that this could change everything.

But before we get too excited (who are we kidding, we’re already freaking out), it’s important to note that these results haven’t been replicated or verified by peer review, so there’s a chance there’s been some kind of error. But so far, despite a thorough attempt to poke holes in the results, the engine seems to hold up.

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FLASHBACK: The Secret Space Programs Shocking True Purpose Revealed

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(via Could NASA be hiding ‘proof that ISS is being monitored by aliens’? (VIDEO) — RT News)

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Prescription Drugs And The Slowdown In Health Care Spending

Prescription Drugs And The Slowdown In Health Care Spending | At the intersection of health, health care, and policy.

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“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” – Malcolm X

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The Colors of the Moon

Is the moon really this colorful? In a way, yes. The lunar surface actually does have quite a bit of color, although in reality it is very subtle. In this photograph, the color saturation has been enhanced to bring out the differences in the colors of the various areas of the surface. The hues are correct, just much more vivid than we usually see them.

Aside from making an interesting aesthetic presentation, the colors also give clues as to the mineralogy of the moon’s surface. Also, at the sites of many impact craters we can see that deeper material exposed (and in some cases scattered) by the impact is of a different composition than the material on the surface.

Credit: Russell Croman