Hi. My name is Panos Tsimpoglou and here I share my thoughts, ideas, and random things I find online. I'm the founder and software architect of Anamo.eu, and a co-founder at Rewrd. When the PC is off, I hit the gym. Thanks for visiting.
The Spanish victory in the World Cup predicted. Not w/ an octopus but with maths…
(“Soccer Math This graph shows the Spanish team passes the ball much more frequently than the Dutch team, which a University of London mathematics team predicts will lead the Spanish to victory. University of London Clairvoyant cephalopod Paul also chooses Spain over the Dutch”)
21 Lutetia, with Saturn in the Background ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
The European Space Agency has released the first close-ups of the asteroid Lutetia snapped by the Rosetta mission over the weekend, revealing that the mysterious asteroid has taken quite a beating over the years. And by years, we mean something like 4.5 billion. As suspected, it turns out that Lutetia is probably very, very old. ESA’s Rosetta mission got a quite a view of Lutetia as it passed within 1,965 miles of it while en route to its final destination, the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta’s sensors and cameras grabbed reams of data during the flyby, which lasted just one minute as Rosetta was moving some 33,554 miles per hour. What Rosetta saw was a battered, cratered rock that appears to be a survivor from the very birth of our solar system. That finding is key, as Lutetia has long been a mystery to astronomers. In some regards, it appears to be a C-type asteroid spawned from the solar system’s beginnings. In other aspects, it has appeard to be an M-type, which are associated with fragments of the cores of larger planetary bodies and usually are high in iron. The final verdict is not yet in, but the images taken by Rosetta will inform the scientific analysis of the asteroid. Rosetta will now hurtle on toward its 2014 meeting with Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will follow the comet for months as it makes its closest approach to the sun and send a landing craft to the surface of the comet in November 2014, the first such mission to do so. (WOW. #jawdropping-biblicallystunning-pics)
Now that’s what I call a complicated way of doing smt very simple as moving a 1,2Kg piece of wood.
(“the GRASP Lab’s tiny aircraft have learned to work in teams to lift heavy payloads with surprising grace.”)
This guy is rightfully very happy. Because he is disabled, and he no longer needs his wheelchair…
(“REX, the Robotic Exoskeleton, is designed to help those usually bound to wheelchairs stand up and walk, and it should be commercially available later this year.”)
Imagine an electricity Grid that can move electricity from Canada to Brazil. And the amount of energy that arrives in Brazil is almost 99% of the original. That is what super conductors can promise us.
(Let’s put that Green Energy mambo jumbo to overdrive, w/ proper innovation.)
A demonstration of a particle physics simulator may be the most amazing video of dirt you will ever watch. Watch this. In HD.
(Gaming/Movies/Applications will soon go to an epically new level. That’s what Bill Gates defined as 3D. Can’t wait.)
Did u know that there are less than 3.500 Great White sharks in the world?
(Too many for my taste.)
It’s a junk world.
(“Orbital Debris The dots on this NASA-generated chart represent known pieces of large orbital debris. NASA The Fengyun satellite that China blew up in 2007 is space enemy number one”)
Show me the numbers. Flash powered.
That’s wrong. Even for sb like me.
(Jar Jar Binks on a plate. It must have been the Huts…)
