Sunday, October 31
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I have to admit, this really looks cool. The Trek Geek inside of me just went a little apeshit. Haynes…the publishing company best known for printing manuals on how to disassemble (and reassemble) your 1972 Triumph Bonneville (I just ordered that one), has put together an owner’s manual for the USS Enterprise.
And it looks pretty damn cool.
Haynes publishes owner’s manual for Star Trek’s U.S.S. Enterprise | Mail Online.
I can’t think of a worse week to open a new attraction in Central Florida…the same week Universal Studios opens Harry Potter’s Wizarding World???
Really guys…TIGHT work. You really couldn’t of held it a week?
Anyway… (In case you missed it…)
Star Trek Live, a new interactive stage show made its worldwide debut at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Friday, June 11, 2010.
“Each 30-minute show will combine special effects, audience interaction and an exploration of real space-age technology. Guests will also see on-screen appearances from Captain Kirk and Spock.
“In the show, the audience portrays new Starfleet cadets assembled for the first day at the Starfleet Academy. As we are introduced to the Academy, the Earth itself comes under attack from a renegade Romulan, leaving the fate of the future itself in the hands of our cadets. The new cadets will have to learn the intricacies of living and working in space, modern space travel and the latest in communication and technology.”
Here’s a gallery of images from the Star Trek Live show
Star Trek Live makes its debut at Kennedy Space Center | Orlando Attractions Magazine Blog.
When space shuttle Atlantis lifts off later tomorrow on what NASA has planned to be its final flight, helping to launch it will be a rocket booster segment that first flew 25 years ago on the orbiter’s maiden mission.
The aft dome on the left solid rocket booster scheduled to loft Atlantis’ STS-132 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) Friday first launched STS-51J, the orbiter’s first flight to space, on Oct. 3, 1985.
The almost quarter-century reunion between Atlantis and its reusable solid rocket booster’s casing is just one of the historical connections between the orbiter and its launch system. Including STS-132, 18 of Atlantis’ 32 flights are represented by the boosters’ segments, underscoring the legacy that NASA’s fourth-to-fly orbiter will leave after it is retired.
SPACE.com — Shuttle Atlantis to Fly Final Flight With Rocket Segment From Maiden Mission.
Was Einstein Wrong?
For decades, physicists have struggled to marry quantum mechanics. Other forces of nature, like electromagnetic forces, can be described quantum-mechanically by the motion of photons. But when you attempt to work out the gravitational force between two objects in terms of a quantum graviton, you quickly run into trouble—the answer to every calculation is infinity.
But now Petr Hořava, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks he understands the problem. It’s all, he says, a matter of time.
Einstein famously overturned the Newtonian notion that time is absolute—steadily ticking away in the background. Instead he argued that time is another dimension, woven together with space to form a malleable fabric that is distorted by matter. The snag is that in quantum mechanics, time retains its Newtonian aloofness, providing the stage on which matter dances but never is affected by its presence. These two conceptions of time don’t gel.
The solution, Hořava says, is to snip threads that bind time to space at very high energies, such as those found in the early universe where quantum gravity rules. “I’m going back to Newton’s idea that time and space are not equivalent,” Hořava says. At low energies, general relativity emerges from this underlying framework, and the fabric of spacetime restitches, he explains.
Can Hořřava gravity claim the same success? The first tentative answers coming in say “yes.”
Splitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein’s Spacetime: Scientific American.
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. Of course, you remember in Star Trek IV, Scotty traded the formula for ‘Transparent aluminium’ to get the plexiglass needed to store the humpback whales in the Klingon Bird of Prey. But the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.
“What we have created is a completely new state of matter nobody has seen before,” said Professor Justin Wark of Oxford University’s Department of Physics, one of the authors of the paper. “Transparent aluminium is just the start…which may one day allow the power of nuclear fusion to be harnessed here on Earth.”
My buddy, Larry Larsen, took 264 individual photos from the Apollo 11 Moon Landing mission and composited them using Microsoft Photosynth. The result is stunning…
