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6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night

Lumenary7204 writes "The Register has a story about the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a project to build a 6.7 meter effective-diameter ground-based telescope that will be used to map some of the faintest objects in the night sky. Jeff Kantor, the LSST Project Data Manager, indicates that the telescope should be in operation by 2016, will generate around 30 terabytes of data per night, and will 'open a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects.' The end result will be a 150 petabyte database containing one of the most detailed surveys of the universe ever undertaken by a ground-based telescope. The telescope's 8.4 meter mirror blank was recently unveiled at the University of Arizona's Mirror Lab in Tucson.

The Incredible Evolution of the Olympics

Jesse Owens at start of a record-breaking 200-meter race in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Owens won four gold medals, for the 100-meter, 200-meter, long jump and 4x100 relay. Credit: Library of Congress

The Olympics: History, Controversy and Just Plain Strange

Jesse Owens at start of a record-breaking 200-meter race in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Owens won four gold medals, for the 100-meter, 200-meter, long jump and 4x100 relay. Credit: Library of Congress

Handheld LCR Meter Delivers 0.3% Accuracy

For both off-site and on-site use, the Model Z580 handheld LCR meter measures 3.54” x 7.9” x 1.56”, weighs one pound, and delivers a 0.3% accuracy. Packing a five-digit dual LCD, it integrates a comparator (binning) for four-bin sorting with a pass-or-fail warning, plus open- and short-circuit calibration for zeroing, auto ranging, and range-hold functions. The instrument provides 100-Hz, 120-Hz, 1-kHz, and 10-kHz test frequencies, 0.1V, 0.3V and 0.42V test voltages, series and parallel equivalent circuit modes, and auto power off. The Z580 comes with an ac/dc adapter, test lead adapter with Kelvin clips, and a rechargeable 9V battery pack. Price is $415. PROTEK TEST AND MEASUREMENT, Englewood, NJ. (201) 227-1161.

Unstoppable Bolt breaks record in 200-meter, too

Jamaica's Usain Bolt crossing the finish line to win the gold in the men's 200-meter final on Wednesday.

NJIT physics professor directs effort to install 1.2 meter telescope in NJ

NJIT physics professor Andrew Gerrard hopes by the end of October to be able to peer through what will be the second largest optical telescope east of Texas. Under his direction, a 1.2-meter diameter, fully-steerable Itek optical telescope will soon be installed far from city lights atop Jenny Jump Mountain, Hope. http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/jennyjump.html The site, 1100 feet above sea level, is one of the few dark sky locations left in New Jersey.

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Echelon wins smart meter project in Germany; plus insight on smart grid in Europe

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Bolt breaks 200-meter world record, gaining 2nd gold medal

Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrated winning the men's 200m final of the athletics competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Wednesday.

80-Million-Year-Old Fossil Unearthed in Western Canada

A 11-meter-long fossil estimated to be 80 million years old has been unearthed in western Canada, scientists announced Thursday.

Phelps wins 200 individual medley for sixth gold

Michael Phelps won the 200-meter intermediate medley final in a world-record time of 1 minute 54.23 seconds.

Dynolicious for iPhone.. Bes...

Dynolicious is an all-purpose automotive performance meter, utilizing the built-in accelerometer in the iPhone and iPod touch to record your driving characteristics. BunsenTech, the makers of the software, claim that it can record 0-60 times within .08 of a second, accurately estimate your current speed and monitor and record any directional G force. The system seeks to perform nearly every function of (much) more expensive dedicated monitoring units, which seems like an awfully tall order for a $12.99 piece of cellphone software.

Bolt of Jamaica is world's fastest man

Usain Bolt of Jamaica, right, wins the 100-meter sprint, coming in before Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago.

Unique Dark-energy Probe To Measure More Than A Million Galaxies And Quasars

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) uses a 2.5-meter telescope with a wider field of view than any other large telescope, located on a mountaintop in New Mexico called Apache Point and devoted solely to mapping the universe. We now know that some three-quarters of the universe consists of dark energy, whose very existence was unsuspected when telescope construction began in 1994 and still controversial when the first Sloan survey started in 2000.

Newfound Monkey Species "Rarest in Africa," Expert Says

The first comprehensive study of a three-foot-tall (one-meter-tall) monkey discovered in Tanzania found that just 1,117 individuals exist, according to researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You

Ant writes with a story from Dan's Data, which says that the battery meter and connection-strength displays in your portable electronics are lying to you, "and not just when they whisper to you in the night." Quoting: "Mobile phones, and most modern laptops, have signal strength and battery life displays. One or both of these displays has probably been the focus of all of your attention at one time or another. Neither display is actually telling you what you think it's telling you. The signal strength bars on a mobile phone or laptop do, at least, say something about how strong the local signal is. But they don't tell you the ratio between that signal and the inevitable, and often very considerable, noise that accompanies it ..."

New Hadco Inground Fixture sets Standards for Waterproofing Effectiveness; Patented Engineering Earn

Littlestown, PA (PRWEB) August 3, 2008 -- Inground lighting remaining leak-free in up to one meter of temporary standing headwater has been introduced by Hadco, one of the world's premier manufacturers of specification-grade exterior architectural lighting. Dual rated IP66/IP68, the new i2.5 inground fixture creates a category of its own for waterproofing, efficiency and effectiveness.

German fire brigade finds python in bathroom

BERLIN (Reuters) - German firefighters pumping water out of a flooded apartment in Essen found a three-meter long python there, police in the western city said on Friday.

The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science

Hugh Pickens writes "When American Swimmer Margaret Hoelzer goes for the gold tonight in the 200-meter backstroke, part of her success will be due to a new system developed by Tim Wei, a mechanical and aerospace engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, that uses fluid dynamics to study human movement allowing scientists and coaches to study how fast and hard a swimmer pushes the water as he moves through it. 'Wei uses a tracking technique called digital particle image velocimetry, commonly used to measure the flow of small particles around an airplane or small fish or crustaceans in water.' Wei filtered compressed air in a scuba tank through a porous hose to create bubbles about a tenth of a millimeter in diameter. When an athlete swims through a sheet of bubbles that rises from the pool floor, a camera captures their flow around the

New gold standard: Phelps wins eighth medal

Brendan Hansen (left) and Aaron Peirsol (center) help Michael Phelps celebrate the Americans' win in the 400-meter relay that clinched Phelps' eighth gold.

Phelps wins third gold

Michael Phelps moved one step closer in his drive to capture eight Olympic gold medals, winning the 200-meter freestyle in 1:42.96, a world record.

Underwater robot moves like an helicopter

MIT researchers have started to test a new underwater robot that can hover in place like a helicopter. The two-meter-long Odyssey IV will be able to move autonomously up to depths of 6,000 meters at a speed of 2.5 meters per second. But unlike other underwater robots, it will be able to stop at a specific location. It could be used by oil companies to inspect the footings of offshore oil platforms. It also could be used by marine archaeologists or oceanographers for specific missions — depending on its price. But read more…

SECOND GUGGENHEIM IN BISCAY: Solomon Guggenheim Foundation approves new project in Urdaibai

The new museum’s management would be set up in Bilbao and is expected to be located in a 80,000 square-meter plot of land in Sukarrieta, Urdaibai, now occupied by a building that usually hosts holiday camps.

Parallel 'nano-soldering' technique chosen for year's top-50 by Nanotech Briefs

You should have so much patience to solder nanowires to nanoelectrodes. Talk about fine work. (A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.)

Waterproof MP3 player

From Lancerlink Corp comes this waterproof MP3 player for marine sports enthusiasts and skiers. The LAQA3 can function in water up to one meter deep. It features 1G built-in memory and can play WMA and MP3 audio files for eight hours thanks to its built-in rechargeable batteries.

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