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Catching the Light

emmineb — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:21:47 GMT

Astrophotography News and Notes <>

Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day (U.S. Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications Department)

emmineb — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:58:30 GMT

<> You can obtain the times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, transits of the Sun and Moon, and the beginning and end of civil twilight, along with information on the Moon's phase by specifying the date and location in one of the two forms below and clicking on the "Get data" button at the end of the form. Use Form A for cities or towns in the U.S. or its territories. Use Form B for all other locations. Both forms are immediately below.

Cryptome

emmineb — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:31:49 GMT

[wikipedia:] Cryptome is a website hosted in the United States since 1996 by independent scholars[1] and architects John Young and Deborah Natsios[2] that functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. According to the site: Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance—open, secret and classified documents—but not limited to those.[3] Cryptome hosted documents, consisting of over 54,000 files,[4] include suppressed photographs of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, lists of people believed to be MI6 agents

Dark Roasted : American Supersonic Airliners: Race for a Dream

emmineb — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:29:46 GMT

It all started in 1952 with small-scale studies of SST designs by Boeing, but things heated up significantly when in 1962 the governments of Britain and France decided to join efforts in the creation of a supersonic "Concorde" airplane. The intrepid Russians also came up with the Tu-144 (no less capable, but plagued by accidents). The American government nearly panicked and responded with its own program SCAT (Supersonic Commercial Air Transport) in 1963, which got endorsement from President Kennedy himself. The race for dominating supersonic airways was on. (At that time it was believed that all future commercial aircraft would be supersonic). The goal was to produce a commercial aircraft capable of carrying 250 passengers (twice as many as the Concorde) a

Great Circle Mapper

emmineb — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:45:32 GMT

# Introduction # Flight Paths # Locations # Flight Ranges # ETOPS # About the Maps # Great Circle Calculations

Inflight Safety - Summary

emmineb — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:01:12 GMT

I first entered the aviation industry in 1983 when I joined British Airways as Cabin Crew. During my induction course, I was taught safety drills and procedures and basic surival principles, subjects which were refreshed annually thereafter. I flew for seven years on both shorthaul and longhaul routes, on Tridents, TriStars (L10-11s) and Boeing 737s, 747s & 757s. In all that time, on all those aircraft, I never had anything even remotely approaching an emergency - but I was always prepared, just in case!

Making the sky searchable

emmineb — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:09:37 GMT

In other words, their computer program will make night sky searchable. The team is organizing and mixing images coming from astronomical databases with images coming from 'all kinds of cameras, amateur telescopes, large ground-based telescopes, and space telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope.' This specialized search engine is still in beta-version, but is available to both professional and amateur astronomers.

PERMANENT Asteroid mining, space colonies, commercialization

emmineb — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:49:43 GMT

P rojects to E mploy R esources of the M oon and A steroids N ear E arth in the N ear T erm G o a l s We mean business!Don't expensively launch from Earth, use construction materials already in space.Build valuable, profitable products and habitats in orbit (not send back to Earth).Non-governmental, commercial, faster, cheaper large scale space development. O r g a n i z a t i o n PERMANENT is an introductory guide for all, a reference source for experts and a news site on space resources. We link to known, quality websites, stockpile technical resources of third parties not on the web, and help them publish on the web.

Saturn Sounds Spooky

emmineb — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:52:27 GMT

You know those sci-fi movies where the score is meant to be "eldritch", "eerie", "ethereal", "uncanny", "freaky" or whatnot? Well, Saturn really does sounds like that, in a way no musician could hope to compose. Listen to what Cassini heard on its way and around Saturn: Day 207 (10 seconds) Day 324 (73 seconds) Day 1268 (28 seconds) Day 517 (11 seconds) Day 542 (10 seconds) For pictures and info for each tune, check here: day 207, day 324, day 1268, day 517, day 542.

Sentient Developments: Astrosociobiology article on Wikipedia deleted

emmineb — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:45:31 GMT

Astrosociobiology Astrosociobiology (also referred to as exosociobiology, extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), and xenosociology) is the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies. The field involves the convergence of astrobiology, sociobiology and evolutionary biology. Hypothesized comparisons between human civilizations and those of extraterrestrials are frequently posited, placing the human situation in the same context as other extraterrestrial intelligences. Whenever possible, astrosociobiologists describe only those social characteristics that are thought to be common (or highly probable) to all civilizations. Since no extraterrestrial civilizations have ever b