Penguins would say: “You haven’t seen
anything…….”

…flying saucers made by google….
…oh my gauge, I’m so glad that google works for humans on earth
and not for some other alien intergalactic invasion race…

Finally there’s something for the real
tele-photographer enthusiast.Ladies and Gentleman,
the worlds “last civilian” tele-lens for photographers.

1700mm focal length
luminous intensity 1:4
weight 256 kg

And some overview figures to see the whole “monster” at once:


If you’re still looking for something “bigger” I can only suggest
to hijack the hubble space telescope, or google the net for earth
based extremely large telescope projects like thess one.

Some of you might remember
cable-remote-controlled cars, with even fixed or wire- pulled
steering.
And our highest dreams would be to be able to afford the money to
buy a remote controlled plane one fine day.Then came the day we had enough money to do so. And we didn’t allow
our kids to fly by themselves because “this toy is just for daddy”
and much to expensive if it crashes.
Yeah, someday later we crashed it by ourselves…. done.

Kids nowadays will come up with this, and just keep smiling at us,
dinosaurs, and don’t let us play because we might not understand
how, cause we’re so “seventies ?”

And for those people of you that didn’t like the sound of the first
video, here’s something more scary…..

This late morning was so foggy, I was
almost scared to go to work

Following the search for
extraterrestrial life with the SETI@HOME project and
huge amounts of further other projects that are being worked on
using a cross-platform distributed computing architecture named
BOINC, there is now a new
project for volunteer participants to help work on:
Stardust@HOME

The spacecraft Stardust
was launched in 1999 to catch dust particles of comet Wild 2.
Therefore a substance called aerogel was invented
which is capable of catching high speed dust particles and softly
de-accelerate them so they will stuck inside the aerogel and can be
brought home to mother earth without any damage.

The aerogel which holds the dust particles “maybe from beginning of
the universe” is now to be inspected by “you”. Since it’s almost
impossible to find a needle inside of a soccer-field, you can
imagine the work that has to be done to find particles from outer
space sticking inside the aerogel. So what has been done to solve
this problem ? “Simply”: The aerogel is scanned layer for layer by
a microscope and the images are stored in a database. From this
database you’re now able to access pre- and past-focussed images
and search for dust impacts.

Once you finished a short tutorial and training, you’re presented
new images to analyze mixed with already known images to test your
discovery “or spamming” skills.
Wow, that’s what I call science by wire….

VIA has just invented a formula to
measure ecology of processors.
In it’s “TreeMark” called index, VIA’s new C7-D processor
takes
a top position, by
only needing four trees over 3 years to compensate
the CO2 produced by the energy consumed for the processors
operation.

Compare your own
processor, it’s just that easy:

1 Assuming 27% standby mode, 3% sleep mode, 67%
idle mode, 3% performance  mode
2 Global
average carbon intensity of electricity
3 Based on
average broad leaf tree
Other “TreeMarks” ordered by their integer performance:

35 Trees = Mac Pro Quad Xeon 3,0 [115,3
SPECint_rate_base2000]
73 Trees = 2 x Xeon DualCore 2,8 [ 59,0
SPECint_rate_base2000]
53 Trees = 2 x
Opteron 285 (2,6) [ 76,4 SPECint_rate_base2000]
6 Trees = iMac
2,16
[ 34,5 SPECint_rate_base2000]
19 Trees = Athlon X2 5000(FX-60) [ 34,0
SPECint_rate_base2000]
21 Trees = Pentium D
820         [ 28,3
SPECint_rate_base2000]
18 Trees = Pentium IV 540J 3,2   [ 17,4
SPECint_rate_base2000]
2 Trees = Mac Mini G4 1,2
[  6,0 SPECint_rate_base2000]