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Supermoon Full Moon

Astronomy Global News

The full moon last night was rather special, quite extra-ordinary in fact.  It is not one of those  ordinary full moons that occur monthly.  This August 2014 full moon is called a supermoon.  This is because it is apparently 30 percent brighter and 14 per cent much nearer the earth than the average full moon. This is due to the fact that this particular full moon is in perigee, when the moon is at its closest to the earth. By the way the term used for when the moon is at its farthest is apogee (learnt this at my Earth Science in high school 😉 lol). I heard that this occurrence does not happen often. The next time will be in 20 years!!!

Last night Peter, our super photographer, was able to capture this phenomenal wonder in celluloid.

If you want to see what the fuss is all about, lol, there is still a chance tonight. If you are in London, the sky at night tonight will be clear, apparently.

Supermoon Full Moon

Supermoon on 11 August 2014 Photo by PH Morton

Supermoon on 11 August 2014
Photo by PH Morton

Supermoon on 11 August 2014 Photo by PH Morton

Supermoon on 11 August 2014
Photo by PH Morton


If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure…
Then the moon and flowers will guide you along the way.
– Ryokan

Supermoon on 11 August 2014 Photo by PH Morton

Supermoon on 11 August 2014
Photo by PH Morton

Teleporting is Already Happening

Physics Research & Studies

Beam Me Up, Coxie
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Professor Brian Cox recently guested at a morning tv show called “This Morning” at ITV.   Brian Cox, the foppish scientist, was actually a member of a pop group sensation of the early to mid 90s, called D:REAM.  He was the key board player.  This was a part-time interest while he was being a particle physicist at the University of Manchester.

Today, Brian Cox has more or less left the music industry.  He is now well and truly a member of the academia.  He now works at CERN, Geneva.

The high brow Professor Cox has not completely left his pop star image; instead he is now the new face of popular science in Britain.  He is often found fronting documentaries about science particularly things that have something to do with Particle Physics.  I must say he’s got the knack of making high faluting subjects, brain numbing topics, to sound interesting and can be understood by viewers from all walks of life.

During his guest appearance at This Morning, Prof Cox revealed that teleportation is no longer a science fiction.  It is already happening and being applied at this very minute.

He further said that we will be able to teleport ourselves to work or anywhere in the universe just like in Startrek.

I am not sure whether professor Cox has really seen Startrek or knows the science of Startrek.

According to Startrek, teleporting is done by replication.   You go through a pattern buffer in the transporter.  Your original molecules and atoms are stored there but replicated and teleported to wherever you wanted to be.

What if during teleportation, the original does not completely separate from the replicant, you will be left thoeritically with twin entities!  Bizarre.

Apparconfused_facebook_emoticonently “real” teleportation does not do copies.  The real thing is teleported to appear somewhere else.  At the moment scientists are working on teleporting atoms and molecules and this has been a success and the mass being teleported is getting bigger and bigger all the time.

Interesting!

 

 

The Sun, The Star

Astronomy

The Sun, The Star

The sun shines for the whole world.
– Taisen Deshimaru

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We owe our existence to the life giving warmth and stability of our nearest star our own sun also known as Sol. at nearly 93 million miles or 150,000 kms from it’s tiny in comparison rocky child our earth.

Being Children pre-internet

1001 - Global Granary List Computers Nostalgia

I love the mini-video below. It showed the games that I remember playing as a child in the Philippines.

I especially love piko (hopscotch)

In a way I pity children of today.

Being Children pre-internet

The advent of computer and internet brought in untold usefulness to everyone of us but as they said, nothing is ever perfect. Though I can’t live without access to the internet/computer now, it does have negative impacts on some lives. Especially in the west, the computer has somehow put paid to children playing outside. Children nowadays would rather be in their pc or ipad playing games rather than in the garden or at the park playing hide and seek with their friends.

I supposed we have become too security conscious. We want our children under our radar almost 24/7 and the easiest way to ensure this is to allow them access to the computer; sitting in front of it where we know where they are.

Let us think about this, “As a child, would you rather be playing computer games or playing tugs with friends outside in the sunshine?!!!”

by lorosa Traditional Art / Paintings / People©2010-2014 lorosa

by lorosa
Traditional Art / Paintings / People©2010-2014 lorosa

Post by RAKISTA.

Flower Pruner Gadget

Gadgets

All gardening is landscape painting.
– Alexander Pope

Flower Pruner Gadget

I recently bought a new pair of gardening gloves in beautiful flowery pink and I noticed that it came with the above flower pruner as a special gift.

I love this new gadget, it is so useful now that spring flowers, especially from the bulbs, are beginning to wilt and past their best.

I have been using this pruner for de-heading flowers which have drooped. I read from one of my gardening books to de-head or cut off the wilting flowers to bulbs as they still use up nutrients that should be stored for next year’s show of blooms.

So with my new pink gloves, I have been pruning and de-heading flowers from our boarders, tubs, rose bushes and even trees in the garden with a vengeance using my little gadget which is now permanently residing on my gardening apron’s pocket; ever ready for any unwanted blooms. LOL