Moonbird lamps

Yukio Hashimoto has designed the Moonbird lamps for
Japanese lighting manufacturer Yamagiwa.

Tesla Model S

The first mass-produced highway-capable electric car will
be the Tesla S sedan. On a 220V outlet, the car can be
recharged in 4 hours. The car fits seven people and their
luggage: five adults and two children in rear-facing seats.
8,000 battery cells allow a 300 mile driving range with
the fully loaded version.

The dashboard screens were installed to rid the interior
of buttons. The 17-inch main display is fully 3G and
Internet capable.

The biggest hitch: the car doesn't go into production
until the end of 2011. The Model S will start at just under
$50,000.

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Fractal

A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is approximately a reduced-size copy of the whole. The is phenomenon is called a self-similarity. The term (fractal) was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975.
Because they appear similar at all levels of magnification, fractals are often considered to be infinitely complex. Fractals that occur in nature include: mountain ranges, lightning bolts, and snow flakes.Images of fractals can be created using fractal generating software. Images produced by such software are normally referred to as being fractals even though they may not possess all the necessary characteristics. It
is possible to zoom into a region of the artificial image that does not exhibit any fractal properties.

'Never Gonna Give You Up'

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I took this picture of Breonna yesterday.

Open racism

NASA space shuttle blasts off to fix Hubble

The shuttle Atlantis rocketed into space today on a repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble had been canceled after the 2002 space shuttle Columbia disaster.
A second shuttle, Endeavour, stood on a nearby pad, ready for launch in a matter of days if Atlantis suffered disabling damage during the launch and the astronauts needed to be rescued. The Hubble is in dire need of a tune up. The telescope has an antenna with a hole in it the size of a .22-caliber bullet. One of the telescope's main cameras has died along with an instrument called a spectrograph. Three of six stabilizing gyros are inoperable. A data router failed, and a backup had to take over. The telescope is slower to latch onto guide stars. The batteries are running down and the exterior has been torn
up by countless collisions with tiny particles.
The successor to the Hubble, the 6.5-meter James Webb infrared telescope, is scheduled for launch in 2014. It will tunnel even deeper into space to capture images of the earliest galaxies, so far away that their light was emitted near what is thought to be the beginning of time and is only now reaching NASA instruments. There is hope that someday NASA will build a space telescope twice the size of the Webb and about 25 times as sensitive as the Hubble. The picture above was taken by the Hubble and is thought to be NASA's most famous image. It has been aptly named 'Pillars of Creation'.

Latest movie: Star Trek (IMAX)

Never been a Star Trek fan but I liked the trailers and Zoë Saldaña is easy on the eyes. It turned out to be a good decision to see this one.

Nebula

A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas, helium gas and plasma. Nebulae often form star-forming regions. In these regions the formations of gas, dust and other materials clump together to form larger masses, which attract additional matter, and eventually will become big enough to form stars. The remaining materials are then believed to form planets.

The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The nebula was first observed by John Bevis, and corresponds to a bright supernova recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054. At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a rotating neutron star, which emits pulses of radiation from gamma rays to radio waves with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second. This nebula was the first astronomical object identified with a historical supernova explosion.

The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42, is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,270±76 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across.

Endangered species: Comoro Black Flying Fox

Comoro Black Flying Fox (Pteropus livingstonii) is the largest, rarest bat found in the Comores and is listed as critically endangered. They have very slow wing beats and often glide instead of flying. They use updrafts of warm
air to help extend their gliding distance. It lives in
montane forests on the islands of Anjouan and Moheli where its habitat is declining as a result of deforestation and human predadation. Black flying foxes exist at an estimated population of 400 individuals. Rapid destruction of the forest habitats they rely on indicates these flying foxes may become extinct within 10 years.

Pointe Dume - Malibu, California