Becsüld meg!

"Ott is volt egy!"

http://twitpic.com/662hqp/full

My new desktop picture.. :)

A shooting star photo taken from IIS by an astronaut.

Bird Flight Deciphered

http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo

It looks wonderful.. however, it reminds me one of Philip K. Dick's novels: Do Androids Dream About Electronic Sheeps?

I bet the main usage fields of this technology will be entertainment and military.

Airborne Laser Testbed Successful in Lethal Intercept Experiment

"The Missile Defense Agency demonstrated the potential use of directed energy to defend against ballistic missiles when the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) successfully destroyed a boosting ballistic missile. The experiment, conducted at Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division Sea Range off the central California coast, serves as a proof-of-concept demonstration for directed energy technology. The ALTB is a pathfinder for the nation’s directed energy program and its potential application for missile defense technology....."






source and more information: http://www.mda.mil/news/10news0002.html

Sunset

"Layers of Earth's atmosphere, brightly colored as the sun sets, are featured in this image taken by the STS-127 crew on the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Endeavour. This image was taken on July 29, 2009, one day before the shuttle landed, completing a 16-day, 6.5-million mile journey.

Image Credit: NASA"




link: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Norway skies not kept clear

This time again, it wasn't from the future, nor from other planet:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/09/awesomely-bizarre-light-show-freaks-out-norway/

Clouds of Apocalyps

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/17-10/st_clouds

Night sky, milky way

http://www.sergebrunier.com/gallerie/pleinciel/360.swf

A LiDAR Odyssey in Earth Observation

ISPRS Laserscanning `09 invited talk is online.

from

"Pierre H. Flamant

Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique,

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace

École Polytechnique"

Very interesting and enjoyable pdf about Earth`s atmospheric LiDAR research.

http://laserscanning2009.ign.fr/download/LS09_Invited_talk_PHF.pdf