Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Δεν Διαβάζω Ματωμένα Βιβλία
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
NASA Visualization Explorer Now Available For All iOS Devices
NASA Visualization Explorer Now Available For All iOS Devices, originally uploaded by NASA Goddard Photo and Video.
NASAViz Story Solar Continuum on the iPad
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NASA Visualization Explorer Now Available For All iOS Devices
The popular NASA Visualization Explorer app, first launched for the iPad in July 2011, is now available for the iPhone and all devices running iOS 5.1+
A new universal version of the app is now available for download in the iTunes app store. Click here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasaviz/ to download the app
The app, which features the data visualization work of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, Earth Observatory and others, publishes two stories per week about the full range of NASA's astrophysics, planetary, heliophysics and Earth science missions.
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Daedalia Planum
Close-up view of the two dominant lava flows that reach the foot of the highland terrain (seen at the top of the image in this orientation). The older of the two eruptions produced the smooth lava surface to the south of the island (right), which later experienced extensive faulting. The younger lava flow (left) has a rougher texture and overlies the faulted lava plain, and therefore occurred later, with some of the lava flowing into the troughs. This region was imaged by the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express on 28 November 2013 (orbit 12 593), with a ground resolution of 14 m per pixel.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Stonebalancing in #Greece
A Balancing Act
Life is a balance of work and play
A constant balance between night and day
The balance between good and bad
A balance between happy and sad
Friends and family, pets and the lawn
Twenty four seven, your whole life long
Then one day in the middle of the night
Your thrown off balance, nothing seems right
What once was, is no longer the norm
Your left in turmoil in the eye of a storm
You struggle to regain control in your life
To make sense again, turn wrong into right
To define the person you are now
To make it through life, some way, some how
On auto pilot you just fly along
Hoping to catch a breeze, to give words to your song
Then in the future the scales line up again
BEWARE! It’s just an illusion, my friend
Rhonda Baker
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος - Το χειμώνα ετούτο
Τον χειμώνα ετούτο
άμα τον πηδήσαμε
Τον χειμώνα ετούτο
άμα τον πηδήσαμε
Γι' άλλα δέκα χρόνια
άιντε καθαρίσαμε
Γι' άλλα δέκα χρόνια
άιντε καθαρίσαμε
Οι μειοψηφίες
τάγματα ξυπόλητα
Οι μειοψηφίες
τάγματα ξυπόλητα
σκαρφαλώνουν μέσα
σε σκοτάδια απόλυτα
σκαρφαλώνουν μέσα
σε σκοτάδια απόλυτα
Κόμμα και ρετσίνα
κι άσματα επινίκια
Κόμμα και ρετσίνα
κι άσματα επινίκια
Είμαι δεκαεξάρης
σας γαμώ τα Λύκεια
Είμαι δεκαεξάρης
σας γαμώ τα Λύκεια
Δεν είμαι Πασόκα
δεν είμαι ούτε ΚΚΕ
Δεν είμαι Πασόκα
δεν είμαι ούτε ΚΚΕ
Είμαι ό,τι είμαι
κι ό,τι τραγουδώ για σε
Είμαι ό,τι είμαι
κι ό,τι τραγουδώ για σε
Του Θεού η χάρη
μας φυλάει απ' τα σουξέ
Του Θεού η χάρη
μας φυλάει απ' τα σουξέ
Κι ο ουρακοτάγκος
απ' τα θεϊκά εφέ
Κι ο ουρακοτάγκος
απ' τα θεϊκά εφέ
Το τραγούδι ετούτο
τό 'πα το εβδομηνταεννιά
Το τραγούδι ετούτο
τό 'πα το εβδομηνταεννιά
Σ' αγαπάω ακόμα
αλλά εσύ είσαι κακιά
Σ' αγαπάω ακόμα
αλλά εσύ είσαι κακιά
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -- Lao Tzu Copyright © Demetrios the Traveler
Monday, December 16, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Maria Callas - Habanera - Carmen - Bizet - french subtitles (+playlist)
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -- Lao Tzu Copyright © Demetrios the Traveler
Monday, October 21, 2013
Ursa Major over #Konitsa, #Epirus, #Greece
The constellation Ursa Major contains the group of stars commonly called the Big Dipper. The handle of the Dipper is the Great Bear's tail and the Dipper's cup is the Bear's flank. The Big Dipper is not a constellation itself, but an asterism, which is a distinctive group of stars. Another famous asterism is the Little Dipper in the constellation Ursa Minor.
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you can use the Big Dipper to find all sorts of important stars:
If you draw an imaginary line from Merak through Dubhe out of the cup of the dipper (see the picture above) and continue five times as far as Dubhe is from Merak, you will arrive at Polaris, the North Star.
Now draw an imaginary line along the handle of the dipper and continue the arc across the sky. Eventually this will lead you to the very bright star, Arcturus in the constellation Boötes. If you continue the arc further, you will reach Spica in Virgo. You can remember this by saying "Arc to Arcturus and Speed to Spica."
If you follow the other two stars in the cup of the dipper (Megrez and Phecda) down below the cup, you will get to Regulus.html, the brightest star in Leo.
According to some Native American legends, the bowl of the Big Dipper is a giant bear and the stars of the handle are three warriors chasing it. The constellation is low in the sky in autumn evening sky, so it was said that the hunters had injured the bear and its blood caused the trees to change color to red.
Although the whole of Ursa Major is difficult to see without very dark skies, the Big Dipper is one of the most recognizable patterns in the northern sky. In other cultures it was identified as a wagon or cart, a plow, a bull's thigh, and (to the Chinese) the government.
The Big Dipper was also a very important part of the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape from the South before the Civil War. There were songs spread among the slave population which included references to the "Drinking Gourd." The songs said to follow it to get to a better life. This veiled message for the slaves to flee northward was passed along in the form of songs since a large fraction of the slave population was illiterate.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
may the Duct tape with you!
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...., originally uploaded by Christolakis.
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....