China’s getting kinda threatening about conquering the entirety of the South China Sea, and is starting to warn the US to abandon it’s allies.
Wen warns US on South China Sea dispute
Hasn’t this region of the world seen this sort of imperialism before? Worked out well the last time.
… and, much to a lot of peoples surprise – including mine – the previous result showing very slightly FTL travel time for the neutrinos has been repeated.
Neutrino experiment repeat at Cern finds same result
Initial analysis of the work by the wider scientific community argued that the relatively long-lasting bunches of neutrinos could introduce a significant error into the measurement.
Those bunches lasted 10 millionths of a second – 160 times longer than the discrepancy the team initially reported in the neutrinos’ travel time.
To address that, scientists at Cern adjusted the way in which the proton beams were produced, resulting in bunches just three billionths of a second long.
When the Opera team ran the improved experiment 20 times, they found almost exactly the same result.
Well, that’s… huh.
For the data to be really confirmed, it will have to be confirmed by other, unrelated groups of scientists using other hardware. But it’s not like you can pick up a neutrino generator at Ace Hardware and a neutrino detector at Wal Mart. Maybe eBay.
I thought sure I’d posted a similar video like this taken from the ISS before, but a quick search didn’t turn it up.
It’s definitely worth a watch.
JAW DROPPING Space Station time lapse!
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Sitting next to the YF-23 at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH (or at least it was a few years ago) is an example of the General Electric YF120. The YF120 was in competition with the Pratt & Whitney YF119; both the YF-23 and the YF120 lost their respective competitions. The YF120 was an advanced engine, capable of efficient operation at low speed as well as supersonic. As shown here, it was equipped with a vectoring nozzle providing pitch axis control. Thrust was around 35,000 pounds.
Just about there.
Call me old fashioned (get OFF my lawn), but I’ve always kinda liked 1930’s/40’s swing music. And sometimes – just sometimes – a modern musician tinkering with an old recording, sampling it and adding modern music, can make something really rather spiffy.
Case in point: Parov Stelar’s “Booty Swing,” which samples Lil Hardin Armstrong’s “Oriental Swing.” You might have recently heard a bit of this in a recent commercial for a Las Vegas hotel. But here’s the whole thing, in a YouTube video featuring some kid dancing (specifically: shuffling) to it:
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Both the music and the video put a smile on my face. Then I turn on CNN and the smile goes away, but still…
Anyway, here’s the commercial:
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And looking at the concept the other way, here’s a Bridgestone Tires commercial featuring Lou Bega’s “Mambo Number 5.” The song’s not that old, not that good, and got played so damned often that the public eventually ran screaming away from it. But what makes the commercial awesome isn’t the song, but the old *car,* a highly modified 1957 Eldorado Brougham, tearin’ it up on the Bonneville Salt Flats. I’ve never been over fond of cars from the fifties (except for the Ford Nucleon), but damn… I want me one of these!
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A photo of a display model of a Vought transport aircraft using the ADAM (Air Deflection And Modulation) system for vertical thrust. Note six small turbojets – two in the forward fuselage, four in wingtip pods – drive four large fans embedded in the wings. Process essentially the same as the V-460 design.
Thanks to Mark Nankivil.
Lockheed F-35B takeoff/landing tests on board the USS Wasp. Some pretty spiffy footage of vertical landings and short takeoffs… pay special attention to the effect of the jet blast on the water.
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Wow.
Let me translate that from Brit-gibberish into good ol’ American:
Passengers, who had already paid their tickets for a flight from India to England, were forced to come up with £20,000 in cash in Vienna because their airline had not paid its bills. Without the cash, their 757 would not have been able to get the fuel it needed. So the passengers were escorted off the plane into the airport to the nearby ATM’s to withdraw cash to pay up.
That’s a paddlin’.