Day and Night together

The photograph attached was taken by the crew on board the Columbia
during its last mission, on a cloudless day.
The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting.
Half of the picture is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities' lights.

The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert .

Note that the lights are already on in Holland , Paris , and Barcelona,
and that's it's still daylight in Dublin , London , Lisbon , and Madrid .

The sun is still shining on the Strait of Gibraltar . The Mediterranean Sea is
already in darkness.

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands;
below them to the right are the Madeira Islands ; a bit below are the
Canary Islands; and further South, close to the farthest western point
of Africa , are the Cape Verde Islands.

Note that the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during
day time and night time.

To the left, on top, is Greenland , totally frozen.

BIG-BABY galaxy

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Top image: The newly discovered HUDF-JD2 galaxy, which would lie inside the circle, is not seen by telescopes reading visible light. Bottom image: Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer is able to "see" the young galaxy as a faint red spot.

BIG-BABY galaxy

Top image: The newly discovered HUDF-JD2 galaxy, which would lie inside the circle, is not seen by telescopes reading visible light. Bottom image: Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer is able to "see" the young galaxy as a faint red spot.


New images reveal a "big baby" galaxy that may lie as far from the Earth as any galaxy yet discovered. Astronomers say the new galaxy is surprisingly massive and mature for its early age—raising questions about how galaxies are formedThe galaxy represents a time when the universe was just 800 million years old. Scientists place the universe's age at around 14 billion years.
The Birth of Galaxies

The universe's other young galaxies are generally much smaller. Scientists believe that many of these smaller galaxies gradually combined over time to build larger galaxies like the Milky Way.

But the new galaxy not only contains hundreds of billions of stars, it seems to have finished its star formation at a tender age.

"This galaxy, named HUDF-JD2, appears to have bulked up quickly, within the first few hundred million years after the big bang," said Bahram Mobasher of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
At the Edge of Observation

The HUDF-JD2 galaxy is located in a tiny patch of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

No one knows for sure how far away the galaxy lies because the discovery is pushing the very limits of telescope technology.
Hubble cannot see the galaxy in visible light, but this non-observation may hold important information.

"The fact that we don't see it in the deepest optical images ever taken is one of the reasons we believe it's as old as it is," Dickinson explained.

As the universe expands, light is stretched and shifted to longer, redder wavelengths. The newfound galaxy's visual wavelengths appear to have been so reduced that they were absorbed by space hydrogen as they traveled the billions of light years toward Earth.

The galaxy was spotted via Hubble's infrared images and by an infrared camera on the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory.

Such state-of-the-art equipment enabled astronomers to discover the galaxy, but the big baby's exact distance will likely remain a mystery until the next generation of telescopes emerges.

Aerial View of famous places of Earth

Eiffiel tower:

Pyramid:

These are the pics sent to me by my friend.

AMAZING PICS!

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Sony's new AIBO robo-dog talks but needs petting

Tokyo - Japan's Sony unveiled a new version of its canine robot AIBO which -- unlike your average puppy -- can talk and keep a diary but which still needs love and attention.

The toy pet, which vaguely resembles a beagle with floppy ears, cannot walk nor talk when first switched on.

Apart from walking, it eventually converses with some 1,000 phrases suited to the "character" it develops as the owner cheers it up and strokes it.

It keeps a diary using pictures taken with its built-in camera when it is in the right mood. The owner can peek at the diary the following day, reading what comment AIBO made.

"AIBO owners have sometimes asked us what AIBO is feeling like in certain situations as it was not clear. They will be pleased to have this speaking function," said Kiyoko Kondo at Sony's Entertainment Robot Company.

"You would become more emotionally involved," she said.

The robo-dog may steal owners away from the Tamagotchi virtual pet, which swept the world in the mid-1990s.

Sony starts taking orders Thursday, with a price tag of 194,250 yen (1,720 dollars) in Japan including a five-percent sales tax.

Depending on the character it develops, a playful AIBO will try to come out when enclosed by cardboard while a pampered AIBO will call its owner for help.

The new model is also more like its flesh-and-blood equivalent, scratching its ears with a hind leg, yawning and cooing in response to gentle stroking.

But it also comes with several lives. Owners can skip the maturing process and make AIBO an adult instantly or switch the adult back to a pup to enjoy the growing-up stage.

AIBO charges its battery by itself when it is "hungry".

Sony has sold 150,000 AIBOs since the original edition was launched in 1999 as the world's first entertainment robot.

Buyers of the first model were technology aficionados and young men but the customer group has gradually expanded to housewives in their 40s and 50s with grown-up children, Kondo said.

The robot dog has also won the hearts of senior citizens who want to show it to their grandchildren or have someone to talk to, Kondo added.

Some customers say they bought AIBO after their dogs died. And AIBO, unlike the real thing, does not cause allergies, and does not need to take a walk or seek the nearest lamp post to respond to the call of nature.

Cycling Robot

TOKYO — Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has demonstrated a bicycling robot designed to showcase the electronic component manufacturer's sensor technologies at next week's CEATEC Japan 2005 show.
CEATEC, Japan's largest electronics show runs from Oct. 4-8 in Makuhari.

Tentatively named Murata Boy, the system is an integrated machine that looks like a bicycle with a humanoid robot rider. The 50-cm-high, 5-kg robot hits speeds of up 60 cm per second. The robot can also balance on two wheels while stationary using sensors.

Receiving commands from a PC via wireless LAN, it moves forward and backward, stops and starts. Murata demonstrated the robot's balance control by running it on a 2-cm-wide balance beam.

Murata said it developed the robot to highlight its sensors and other products that can be used in robot designs. Murata Boy is equipped with four types of sensors: two gyro sensors used to detect angular velocity and inclination; an ultrasonic sensor to detect obstacles; and a shock sensor to detect rough surfaces.

Nobel prize winners of -2005

Economics:
The prize is being awarded with one half to:
1. Robert J. Aumann
2. Thomas C. Schelling
Physics:
The prize is being awarded with one half to:

1.ROY J. GLAUBER for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence

and one half jointly to

2.JOHN L. HALL and THEODOR W. HÄNSCH for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.

Peace:
Mohamed ElBaradei for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.

Literature:
Harold Pinter who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms.

Physiology or Medicine:
1.Barry J. Marshall
2.J. Robin Warren
for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.

EDGE TECHNOLOGY

Further enhancements in data capability over the core GSM network will be provided with the introduction of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution - known as EDGE*. This will achieve the delivery of advanced mobile services such as the downloading of video and music clips, full multimedia messaging, high-speed colour Internet access and e-mail on the move.

EDGE (or Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution) is a 3G technology that delivers broadband-like data speeds to mobile devices. It allows consumers to connect to the Internet and send and receive data, including digital images, web pages and photographs, three times faster than possible with an ordinary GSM/GPRS network. EDGE enables GSM operators to offer higher-speed mobile-data access, serve more mobile-data customers, and free up GSM network capacity to accommodate additional voice traffic.
source: Ericsson

EDGE TECHNOLOGY

Further enhancements in data capability over the core GSM network will be provided with the introduction of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution - known as EDGE*. This will achieve the delivery of advanced mobile services such as the downloading of video and music clips, full multimedia messaging, high-speed colour Internet access and e-mail on the move.

EDGE (or Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution) is a 3G technology that delivers broadband-like data speeds to mobile devices. It allows consumers to connect to the Internet and send and receive data, including digital images, web pages and photographs, three times faster than possible with an ordinary GSM/GPRS network. EDGE enables GSM operators to offer higher-speed mobile-data access, serve more mobile-data customers, and free up GSM network capacity to accommodate additional voice traffic.

China Launches Its First Piloted Spaceflight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- China reached a milestone in human history Tuesday with the launch of its first piloted spaceflight into Earth orbit.

Blasting off from a remote space base in the Gobi Desert atop a Long March 2F rocket, a single Chinese astronaut named Yang Liwei is circling the planet every 90 minutes aboard the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

As a result, China has become only the third nation on Earth capable of independently launching its citizens into orbit. The former Soviet Union was first in 1961, followed by the United States in 1962.

It is expected the three-part capsule, whose more modern design is largely based on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, will make 14 orbits and remain in space for about 21 hours before executing re-entry and a parachute landing onto Chinese soil.
Liwei, 38, is an avid ice skater and swimmer, according to Chinese news media. He was raised in the northeast province of Liaoning and comes from a family of teachers. He had been a pilot since 1987 and an astronaut since 1998.

What is CDMA technology?

The world is demanding more from wireless communication technologies than ever before as mre people around the world are subscribing to wireless. Add in exciting Third-Generation (3G) wireless data services and applications - such as wireless email, web, digital picture taking/sending, assisted-GPS position location applications, video and audio streaming and TV broadcasting - and wireless networks are doing much more than just a few years ago.

This is where CDMA technology fits in. CDMA consistently provides better capacity for voice and data communications than other commercial mobile technologies, allowing more subscribers to connect at any given time, and it is the common platform on which 3G technologies are built.

CDMA is a "spread spectrum" technology, allowing many users to occupy the same time and frequency allocations in a given band/space. As its name implies, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) assigns unique codes to each communication to differentiate it from others in the same spectrum. In a world of finite spectrum resources, CDMA enables many more people to share the airwaves at the same time than do alternative technologies.

The CDMA air interface is used in both 2G and 3G networks. 2G CDMA standards are branded cdmaOne and include IS-95A and IS-95B. CDMA is the foundation for 3G services: the two dominant IMT-2000 standards, CDMA2000 and WCDMA, are based on CDMA.

cdmaOne: The Family of IS-95 CDMA Technologies
cdmaOne describes a complete wireless system based on the TIA/EIA IS-95 CDMA standard, including IS-95A and IS-95B revisions. It represents the end-to-end wireless system and all the necessary specifications that govern its operation. cdmaOne provides a family of related services including cellular, PCS and fixed wireless (wireless local loop).

CDMA2000: Leading the 3G revolution
CDMA2000 represents a family of ITU-approved, IMT-2000 (3G) standards and includes CDMA2000 1X and CDMA2000 1xEV technologies. They deliver increased network capacity to meet growing demand for wireless services and high-speed data services. CDMA2000 1X was the world's first 3G technology commercially deployed (October 2000).

CDMA Deployments
CDMA is the fastest growing wireless technology and it will continue to grow at a faster pace than any other technology. It is the platform on which 2G and 3G advanced services are built.

Dont spoil the life of innocent children for the sake of WAR

This is an artists sattarical painting on American's occupation of Iraq.

LAPTOP @ $100

Yeah this gonna become true because the researchers at MIT have made a prototype laptop and this will be market by 2006-jan.
This is mainly designed forthe sake of students and will serve them in various ways!
It needs only a small amt of charge.
do have a look at the pics of this middle class frendly lap top

Newton papers revealed:Gravity theory

Sir Isaac Newton, a physicist and mathematician, laid the foundations for modern science.
His theories on mathematics, optics and gravity have shaped our thinking for over 300 years.
The mass of papers he left after his death in 1727 were divided into two main collections, one of which was presented to the university a hundred years later

ROBOTIC FISH

There may be a different fish to see for every day of the year at the London Aquarium at County Hall, but now there's a new variety that has never swum any of the world's oceansThree stunningly beautiful robotic fish have been created with jewel-bright scales and sinuous, astonishingly life-like movements.


They have been produced by Professor Huosheng Hu and his human-centred robotics team of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essex.

Professor Hu's team have been working with the London Aquarium for three years to develop a biologically inspired robotic fish which mimic the undulating movement of nature's fish species - aiming for the speed of the tuna; the acceleration of a pike, and the navigating skill of the eel.

The robotic fish have sensor-based controls and autonomous navigation capabilities – they can find their own way around the tank safely, avoiding the objects, and react to their environment. The results of years of painstaking work can now been seen in freshwater tanks next to the London Aquarium's Atlantic tanks.

Professor Hu is an expert in the field of robotics and was the mastermind behind the Essex robotic football team who won the 3rd prize in the RoboCup simulation league in 1999. The robotics group at Essex is one of the largest in the UK and is at the cutting edge of research into human-centred robotics.

According to Professor Hu, the aim of the project is to bring the public in direct contact with robots, increasing their understanding of science and technology. "This work has many real-world applications including seabed exploration, detecting leaks in oil pipelines, mine countermeasures, and improving the performance of underwater vehicles."

The Aquarium's marine experts have worked with the robotics team to share their knowledge of the behaviour and movement of a wide variety of fish, and have provided the facilities within the Aquarium for the robotics team to study many species in great detail.

"Our robotic fish are really wonderful to look at and very entertaining," commented Foster Archer, director of the London Aquarium. "It's amazing how beautiful and graceful their movements are - they're going to be incredibly popular with our visitors."

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http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view.php?ArtID=1774

WINDOWS VISTA SCREEN-SHOT(theme)

Have at look at my desktop with windows VISTA inspirat theme pack.

Nano Chips Require Nano Packaging

Information technology (IT) is more than a trillion dollar industry. It includes hardware, software, services and applications. Contrary to the perception, the hardware accounts for better than two thirds and the single most important building block of this hardware, of course, is semiconductor devices such as CMOS, Ga -As, Si- Ge, Silicon- on- insulator for a variety of digital, RF, analog and optoelectronic applications. The total worldwide annual market for these devices is about $150 - 200 B. These devices, the technology for which is at the threshold of Nano scale (100nm), are typically fabricated into wafers as big as 300 mm in diameter and are subsequently diced into individual ICs. They are then packaged, tested, and burned into individual IC devices ready to be surface mount bonded onto system level boards. The total number of ICs produced in year 2000 was about 375B units, each packaged at some cost, typically $00.01U.S. per I/O. The total packaging market, which includes IC Packaging as well as system's packaging, is almost as big as the semiconductor market, together accounting for 25% of IT.