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Month: December 2014
Mopeds: A Documentary Short
THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, VOL. 1 by Neil Gaiman, P Craig Russell and others
A host of artists — including P. Craig Russell, Kevin Nowlan and Jill Thompson — help adapt Mr. Gaiman’s tale, where a living boy is raised by ghosts, into graphic novel form.
#4 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Hardcover Graphic Books
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Today in Space
NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft, designed to transport extremely large cargo, rests after making a special delivery to the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The aircraft measures more than 48 feet to the top of its tail and has a wingspan of more than 156 feet with a 25-foot diameter cargo bay – the aircraft features a hinged nose that opens 110 degrees.
A representative test article of a futuristic hybrid wing body aircraft will be unloaded from the Super Guppy on Friday, Dec. 12 at Langley Research Center. The large test article, representing the uniquely shaped fuselage cross-section, is made out of a low-weight, damage-tolerant, stitched composite structural concept called Pultruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure, or PRSEUS. Langley’s Combined Loads Test System will subject the revolutionary carbon-fiber architecture test article to conditions that simulate loads typically encountered in flight.
Image Credit: NASA via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/content/super-guppy-spends-a-restful-night-in-the-nasa-langley-hangar
A representative test article of a futuristic hybrid wing body aircraft will be unloaded from the Super Guppy on Friday, Dec. 12 at Langley Research Center. The large test article, representing the uniquely shaped fuselage cross-section, is made out of a low-weight, damage-tolerant, stitched composite structural concept called Pultruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure, or PRSEUS. Langley’s Combined Loads Test System will subject the revolutionary carbon-fiber architecture test article to conditions that simulate loads typically encountered in flight.
Image Credit: NASA via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/content/super-guppy-spends-a-restful-night-in-the-nasa-langley-hangar
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Late spring and summer weather brings blooms of color to the Atlantic Ocean off of South America, at least from a satellite view. The Patagonian Shelf Break is a biologically rich patch of ocean where airborne dust from the land, iron-rich currents from the south, and upwelling currents from the depths provide a bounty of nutrients for the grass of the sea—phytoplankton. In turn, those floating sunlight harvesters become food for some of the richest fisheries in the world.
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP captured this view of phytoplankton-rich waters off of Argentina on Dec. 2, 2014. Scientists in NASA’s Ocean Color Group used three wavelengths (671, 551, and 443 nanometers) of visible and near-infrared light to highlight different plankton communities in the water. Bands of color not only reveal the location of plankton, but also the dynamic eddies and currents that carry them.
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Image Credit: Norman Kuring, NASA’s Ocean Color Group, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/content/colorful-and-plankton-full-patagonian-waters
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP captured this view of phytoplankton-rich waters off of Argentina on Dec. 2, 2014. Scientists in NASA’s Ocean Color Group used three wavelengths (671, 551, and 443 nanometers) of visible and near-infrared light to highlight different plankton communities in the water. Bands of color not only reveal the location of plankton, but also the dynamic eddies and currents that carry them.
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Image Credit: Norman Kuring, NASA’s Ocean Color Group, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/content/colorful-and-plankton-full-patagonian-waters
Michael Smith of Maine went outside shirtless after being…
Michael Smith of Maine went outside shirtless after being awakened one morning, yelling at a tree removal company to get off his property.The workers thought they saw a gun in his waistband and called police. Smith, who’d gone back to bed, was woken again minutes later – this time by Maine State Police at his front door, backed up by a group of troopers with assault rifles in his driveway. They were asking him via a megaphone to come out of his house. Smith did have a gun, but it was tattooed on his stomach. No charges will be filed against Smith, but police said they always take reports of a gun or threat seriously.
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Today in Space
From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore took this photograph of the Great Lakes and central U.S. on Dec. 7, 2014, and posted it to social media.
This week on the station, the Expedition 42 crew has been busy with medical science and spacesuit work while preparing for the arrival of SpaceX’s Dragon commercial cargo craft, scheduled to launch on Dec. 16 on a two day trip to the station before it is captured by the Canadarm2 and berthed to the Harmony node.
Image Credit: NASA/Barry Wilmore via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/content/great-lakes-and-central-us-viewed-from-the-international-space-station
This week on the station, the Expedition 42 crew has been busy with medical science and spacesuit work while preparing for the arrival of SpaceX’s Dragon commercial cargo craft, scheduled to launch on Dec. 16 on a two day trip to the station before it is captured by the Canadarm2 and berthed to the Harmony node.
Image Credit: NASA/Barry Wilmore via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/content/great-lakes-and-central-us-viewed-from-the-international-space-station
"A PSYCHIC show due to take place at Darwen Library Theatre has been cancelled due to ‘unforeseen…"
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A PSYCHIC show due to take place at Darwen Library Theatre has been cancelled due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’.
An Evening of Mediumship with International Medium June Field was due to take place on Thursday, April 3, but the performance will no longer go ahead.
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– Lancashire Telegraph
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