Snow geese in front of the moon ….
source:::::Earth sky news site
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Cartoon of the Day !!!
source:::: glasbergen.com
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World Outside My Window !!!
Some people look outside their window and see a beautiful tree. Then there are some who can see a beautiful view of the surrounding area. Then there are some, like those on the internation space station, that can look outside their windows and see the entire world. One might say that is the ultimate of views.
A beautiful video of the view one sees from outside this particular window…
pl click the link above for the video and watch the world as seen from ISS WINDOW !!!!
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source::::: youtube
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How to Install Love in Your Heart !!!…
There are a lot of metaphors for love, but I think this is one of the best metaphors for ‘installing’ love in our lives. A great little dialog between a customer support representative and a woman who wants to install… love.
Support Rep. : Hello ma’am, how can I help you today?
Client: Well, I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and I’ve finally decided to install LOVE. I was hoping you could help me through the process.
Support: Of course ma’am, no problem. Are you ready to continue?
Client: Well, I’m not a very technical person, but yes, I think I’m ready to install now. What’s the first step?
Support: First you must open HEART. Have you located your HEART?
Client: Yes I have, but there are several other programs running right now. Is it okay to install while they are running?
Support: What programs are running ma’am?
Client: Let’s see, I have PAST-HURT.EXE, LOW-ESTEEM.EXE, GRUDGE.EXE, and RESENTMENT.COM running right now.
Support: No problem. LOVE will gradually erase PAST-HURT.EXE from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but it will no longer disrupt other programs. LOVE will eventually overwrite LOW-ESTEEM.EXE with a module of its own called HIGH-ESTEEM.EXE. However, you have to completely turn off GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM. Those programs prevent LOVE from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ma’am?
Client: I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?
Support: My pleasure. Go to your Start menu and invoke FORGIVENESS.EXE. Do this as many times as necessary until GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM have been completely erased.
Client: Okay, done. LOVE has started installing itself automatically. Is that normal?
Support : Yes. You should receive a message that says it will reinstall for the life of your HEART. Do you see that message?
Client: Yes I do. Is it completely installed?
Support : Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other HEART’s in order to get the upgrades.
Client: Oops. I have an error message already. What should I do?
Support: What does the message say?
Client: It says ‘ERROR 412 – PROGRAM NOT RUN ON INTERNAL COMPONENTS.’ What does that mean?
Support: Don’t worry ma’am, that’s a common problem. It means that the LOVE program is set up to run on external HEARTS but has not yet been run on your HEART. It is one of those complicated programming things, but in non-technical terms it means you have to ‘LOVE’ your own machine before it can ‘LOVE’ others.
Client: So what should I do?
Support : Can you pull down the directory called ‘SELF-ACCEPTANCE’?
Client: Yes, I have it.
Support : Excellent. You’re getting good at this.
Client: Thank you.
Support: You’re welcome. Click on the following files and then copy them to the ‘MYHEART’ directory: FORGIVE-SELF.DOC, REALIZE-WORTH.TXT, and ACKNOWLEDGE-LIMITATIONS.DOC. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any faulty programming. Also, you need to delete VERBOSE-SELF-CRITIC.EXE from all directories, and then empty your recycle bin afterwards to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.
Client: Got it. Hey! My HEART is filling up with new files. SMILE.MPG is playing on my monitor right now and it shows that PEACE.EXE, and CONTENTMENT.COM are copying themselves all over my HEART. Is this normal?
Support: Sometimes. For others it takes a while, but eventually everything gets downloaded at the proper time. So, LOVE is installed and running. You should be able to handle it from here. One more thing before I go.
Client: Yes?
Support : LOVE is freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everybody you meet. They will in turn share it with other people and they will return some similarly cool modules back to you.
Client: I will. Thanks for your help!
source::::babamail.com
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An Eagle”s Eye View…Spectacular Footage !!!
Spectacular footage of Australia’s north west desert region has been captured, inadvertently, by a sea eagle that ‘stole’ a video camera and took it for a 70-mile flight.
The lens recorded the bird’s flapping wings – in sound and vision – the crevasses it flew through, the desert it crossed and finally the amusing moments when it landed and began pecking at the device.
The motion-sensor camera had been set up by Aboriginal rangers in a gorge near the Margaret River last May in the hope of capturing images of fresh-water crocodiles.
The camera had been set up to record fresh-water crocodiles but instead recorded the crevasses along the route taken by the bird
But within weeks the camera had disappeared. No-one, they agreed, would dare to steal it from croc territory, so they believed it had somehow fallen into the water.
Then, just a few weeks ago, ranger Roneil Skeen and his colleagues received a message from a Parks and Wildlife ranger saying a small device had been found near another river more than 70 miles away.
The video camera revealed the identity of the thief and just where the scoundrel had taken it.
Rangers were able to extract three 30-second clips that showed the juvenile sea eagle scooping up the camera and taking to the air with it, capturing amazing scenes of the Australian outback.
When the camera was eventually deposited on firm ground, the eagle can be seen approaching the lens and pecking at it.
‘There are 14 of us rangers and we’ve been pretty amazed at what we’ve seen on the camera,’ said Mr Skeen, a member of the Gooniyandi Aboriginal tribe.
‘We’ve had camera traps moved by animals before, but none of them have taken off – a sort of flying camera. It was quite incredible to see it’.
Mr Skeen told the ABC: ‘We knew this was a juvenile eagle because the adult sea eagles, once they get their food or their prey, they usually take it right up into the sky and drop it
But this one was still learning because he just took it near the cliff-side and he never dropped it. He just put it down and started pecking at it.
‘An adult one would have flown it right up the top and yeah, for sure, it would have smashed that camera.’ It won’t happen again, said Mr Skeen.
He and his colleagues have resolved to bolt their camera down next time.
source:::: RICHARD SHEARS in mailonline.com UK
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An Eagle”s Eye View… Video Link ….
source :::mailonline.com UK
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” What Happened in My Birth Year ” !!!
The screen is going to fade to black; if you wear glasses, have them on, then follow the instructions below. You’ll be pleasantly surprised with this one… It is interesting………
Type the year only!!
Then click the question (?) mark!
Sit back and enjoy!!
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Phone Calls That Made History !!!
Nixon calls Armstrong on the moon (July 20, 1969)
For the first time, human beings land on the moon. So, what’s the best way to follow up this achievement? Well, by congratulating them the same day. Who does it? US President Richard M Nixon, of course. Nixon called Neil Armstrong, the first man who landed on lunar surface, and congratulated him and his fellow astronauts Michael Collins and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin Jr.
The first call: Rings a Bell? (March 10, 1876)
“Watson, come here. I need you.” This is where it all began. Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, from the next room. While working on a device to send multiple telegraph signals over the same wire by using harmonics, he heard a twang. That led Bell to investigate whether his apparatus could be used to transmit the sound of a human voice. Bell’s journal contains the following entry: “I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] the following sentence: ‘Mr Watson, come here — I want to see you’. To my delight he came and declared that he had heard and understood what I said.”
Call that prevented nuke war (Oct 26, 1972)
The closest the world came to a nuclear war was in 1962 when Soviet Union began placing missiles in Cuba to defend against a possible US invasion of the island nation. There was no dialogue between the US and Soviet Union, but things started moving toward a peaceful resolution on October 26, 1962 after a telephone call between President Kennedy and his brother and attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy. The President told Robert that the US would remove missiles from Turkey if Soviet Union got its missiles out of Cuba. Robert conveyed this information to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, which put an end to the looming crisis.
Bush’s ‘wake-up’ call to Rice after WTC attack (Sept 11, 2001)
No one expects to wake up in the morning to watch footage of planes crashing into the World Trade Centre, New York City. It was Sept 11, 2001. Then American President George W Bush, who had been to a photo-op event in Florida, immediately called National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice to find out what was going on. That telephone call ignited Bush administration’s response to terrorism.
Rakesh Sharma calling from space (April 1984)
Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian in space, whose telephonic conversation with Indira Gandhi is still talked about. When the then Prime Minister asked Sharma how India looked from above, he replied: ‘Saare Jahan Se Achcha.’ Sharma’s maiden space flight was on April 3, 1984. He conducted experiments during his mission on Soviet Union’s Salyut 7 Space Station.
Obama’s call to Iran President (Sept 27, 2013)
After seeing off Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after their summit meeting in September, President Barack Obama hurried back to his Oval office in the White House to make a historic phone call. Obama’s 15-minute call to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at around 2:30 pm on Sept 27 – as the latter headed in a car to the airport after attending the UN session in New York – laid the foundation for the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers led by the US.
source:::: Manjunath R Setty, India Syndicate in msn.com
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A Bridge that Rotates… An Engineering Marvel !!!
So what happens when you combine Engineering and limitations? Engineers are usually accustomed to thinking out of the box but every once in a while they tend to come up with something quite magnificent and legendary, such as; The Gateshead Millennium Bridge. The Bridge has been constructed upon River Tyne in England and is different from other bridges in a very unique way. We have Gateshead’s Quays arts quarter at the south bank while Quayside of Newcastle on the north bank.
Bridge itself is essentially an assembly of two peculiar curves. One of these curves serves as the deck while the other supports it via cables. The idea was to entertain pedestrians and cyclists while also entertaining the ships that make use of river. So whenever a ship needs to pass through, the whole bridge rotates as a single assembly where both curves counter-balance each other as one rises up and the other drops down to give way to ships. These curves, parabolic in nature, extend the crossing distance of 105 meters to almost 120 meters providing an adequate length for the clearance above water.
The Bridge is also known as ‘Blinking/Winking Eye’ because of the way it looks when it is in motion. Stylish and elegant are the words used to describe the motion of this bridge and watching it work is always a great view to look at. The operation of the bridge requires the use of six 45 cm diameter Hydraulic rams, equally distributed and each requiring the power of a 55kW electric motor to function. The bridge rotates a total of 40 degrees and it takes around 4.5 minutes to complete the rotation,though wind speed has a say in this time too.
The http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7nXXy1NhpM
bridge has won quite a number of awards over its design including the architects Wilkinson Eyre, the 2002 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize, the 2003 Gifford IStructE Supreme Award, and in 2005, the Outstanding Structure Award from International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE).
source::::: wonderful engineering site
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Is it True NASA Used Space pens and Russia Used Pencils ???!!!
NASA Spent $12 Million For a Space Pen While the Russians Just Use Pencils-Fiction!
Summary of the eRumor
The message says that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spent ten years and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity for use by astronauts. The pen will write upside down, underwater, on almost any surface and is functional at extremely hot and cold temperatures. The Russians, however, filled the need for a space writing instrument by simply using pencils.
The Truth
For some people, it’s sport to point out government waste and bureaucratic stupidity, but this story about the space pen won’t provide ammunition for it. The government did not fund the development of the pen, it did not cost $12 million to perfect, and neither the Americans nor the Russians consider it desirable to use pencils in space. In fact, both Americans and Russians use the space pen for their flights.
The famous space pen, which is still a popular product today, was developed by Paul Fisher the founder of the Fisher pen company. An engineer who improved ball point technology, he created his “bullet pen” in the 1940’s, which became one of the best-selling pens of the Twentieth Century. Later, he perfected a pen that was sealed with pressure inside of the cartridge that made the ink to flow regardless of gravity. It also worked in high and low temperature extremes, underwater, and wrote on many kinds of surfaces. According to the Fisher Pen company, after extensive testing, NASA chose the pen in 1967 for use by Apollo astronauts and it’s been a part of space travel ever since. The company says it took Fisher about 2 years and $2 million to develop the space pen. Prior to 1967, there were no pens that worked in space so there were pencils used, but there were concerns about pencil dust floating around the space capsules as well as fears that if the tip of a pencil broke off and drifted into the electronics, there would be problems.
A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300C.
When confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil.
source:::::true or fiction .com
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