blogging (space junk)
updated: March 22
* The entire space station complex had to move out of the way for approximately 3 hours (using thrusters to create a slow drag affect) from a very small piece of a 10 year old Chinese satellite rocket motor. The piece of space junk measured just 4-inch (10-centimeter).
- The frequency of space junk impact has "suddenly" become a recurring issue.
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notes:
The PDS is mainly designed for scientists researching the planets: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/
Mars program faces turning point
As mission costs mount, some scientists say other destinations beckon
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29842638/
Showing posts with label Mars Exoplanet Systems NASA Exploration Stellar Properties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mars Exoplanet Systems NASA Exploration Stellar Properties. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
reference:
Sunday LA Times bloggers
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/
Think Progress
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/21/geithner-krugman/
http://www.communitycounts.com/forum/?id=obama
Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog: Digital-Image Color Spaces
http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page1
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/
Think Progress
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/21/geithner-krugman/
http://www.communitycounts.com/forum/?id=obama
Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog: Digital-Image Color Spaces
http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page1
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Space Junk funk ... Space Station under attack... Again.
blogging:
Looks like another collision is possible (last report: Feb 12).
It appears that "tactical" efforts will not alone be sufficient going forward. For now, it will work. Tomorrow who knows.
What does NASA have in mind?
Will new NASA Space Defense weapons be devised / accelerated to shoot down the possibility of collision with multiple pieces of junk in space? What kind of weapon would this be? Photon? Gas? Particle? Laser? Nuclear?
It appears that the frequency of collision with such "high velocity" debris will only increase.
continuing.
SEE:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4307535.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/03/16/space.station.debris/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Looks like another collision is possible (last report: Feb 12).
It appears that "tactical" efforts will not alone be sufficient going forward. For now, it will work. Tomorrow who knows.
What does NASA have in mind?
Will new NASA Space Defense weapons be devised / accelerated to shoot down the possibility of collision with multiple pieces of junk in space? What kind of weapon would this be? Photon? Gas? Particle? Laser? Nuclear?
It appears that the frequency of collision with such "high velocity" debris will only increase.
continuing.
SEE:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4307535.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/03/16/space.station.debris/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Destroyed Satellite's high speed debris worries scientists...
notes:
1. We have no idea what to expect in such a disaster. Nothing.
2. The debris is traveling at 660 ft per sec.
3. This could set off a chain reaction of events that puts the Space Station and other satellites in trouble.
Will their be interplanetary cooperation? NASA's debris experts are working on the situation now with Russian counterparts.
ongoing.
1. We have no idea what to expect in such a disaster. Nothing.
2. The debris is traveling at 660 ft per sec.
3. This could set off a chain reaction of events that puts the Space Station and other satellites in trouble.
Will their be interplanetary cooperation? NASA's debris experts are working on the situation now with Russian counterparts.
ongoing.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
The Obama Database ... Who owns the data? (draft)
blogging:
draft v02
-Blogging on the Barrack Obama Campaign 2008 Database.
Return for ongoing updates or subscribe to our feed. Thank you.
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The massive "opt-in" database launched in early 2007 by Joe Rospars (New Media Director) and the Obama team had provided the Obama '08 campaign a unique opportunity (but not a unique idea) to develop and interact with a rapid (post early adapter) following. These citizens provided an unprecedented amount of personal information while volunteering and contributing funds via Facebook, YouTube (via Obama’s own “channel”), IM, and other “real time” digital interfaces. Viral political campaigning had taken hold for good in this time frame changing the political landscape once and for all, forever. But we knew that already!
Since the Obama campaign opted out of taking matching funds and essentially had not used the DNC apparatus to run its campaign, BarackObama.com took what many (drDigipol, CAP, Politico, Salon, Media Bureau, and many others) already knew was going to happen – a virtual candidate that owes nothing to (but is more than happy to use) old media and the old political guard while being able to take over their own destiny via an online centric advocacy campaign.
It had finally become mainstream that (starting at the RNC’s Digital Alley at the 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia and followed at the DNC in Los Angeles) online advocacy and activity can translate to offline, on-the-ground results. This was done not just by connecting via the Internet but allowing the user to be enabled and featured. This is contrary to all past campaigns that spent so much time and money "controlling" the message as well as the medium. With the verticalization of (the web) Social Networks such as YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook, and IM as a new strategic Real Time activator/enabler, Obama's New Media team established a permanent platform through which people could identify with (they were already “adapted” users) and use themselves as “activists.” In a rudimentary way, citizens were now part of the campaign, or so they thought. The goal was to quickly activate citizens in the following ways:
1. Ensure that all people would be accessible via a "Mobile" interface and therefore, in touch, at all times, anywhere.
2. Allow and enable for the creation of "Niche Campaigning" via use generated posting of Web Campaign based Videos.
3. Establish Microtargeting scenerios and deliver "themes" and "candidate produced" video and txt interaction directly to people who want it 24/7.
4. Utilize an already existing "Smart" user base generated on Social Networks and the skills they (users / Citizens) have acquired.
5. Buy time on networks that include (niche programming) Cable shows via country wide local programming and reinforce via txt and local “meetup” style home “events.”.
6. Openly engage the Blogosphere instead of shunning them (and in turn establishing counter control problems that could go viral) and interacting as a partner, contrary to your opponents, while offering a “possible” voice in policy and –e-government.
7. Purchase and produce Rich Media Online Ads in content rich niche markets to as to stay “interactive” with Citizen users.
8. Speak directly to niche audiences in the manner in which they are accustomed (language and content style are customized based on hyper market analysis).
9. Provide a central repository (portal) to all that is Barack Obama with http://barackobama.com that enables citizen / users to:
1. Find and take part in “local” events and groups
2. Be enabled to contact undecided voters within your demographic
3. Be heard.
So with the above, we now have a tightly controlled but an apparently loosely based, group strategy to engage and enable the Digital (2.0) Citizen .
So when the citizen / user signed up and provided the Obama campaign their personal information, did they believe that they were providing the Campaign or the DNC such personal information? We think, clearly, people volunteered their information because they believed that it would be used by the Obama campaign, not the DNC or any other entity (there was no disclaimer to state this would be the case – or was there?) Where will this information go and will citizens who signed up be asked if their information can be used for "party" happenings?
Tactics to generate such information were personal and widespread. For example, “… as the primaries and caucuses neared, what [Steve] Goodstein calls "a big experiment" started paying off. One Sunday afternoon in early December, minutes before Oprah Winfrey and Obama addressed about 29,000 people at a rally in Columbia, S.C., Jeremy Bird, Obama's state field director, asked the crowd to take out their cellphones and text "SC" to 62262, Obama's short code. The code spells "Obama" on phones.” This was done repeatedly through out the campaign generating “millions” of phone numbers and other personal info.
So, who owns the data?
Well, since it is now housed at the DNC, clearly the DNC.
Ref:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29069515/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081903186_pf.html/
http://www.newpolitics.nethttp://wizbangblue.com/2008/04/29/obamas-database-a-treasure-trove-of-riches.php
draft v02
-Blogging on the Barrack Obama Campaign 2008 Database.
Return for ongoing updates or subscribe to our feed. Thank you.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The massive "opt-in" database launched in early 2007 by Joe Rospars (New Media Director) and the Obama team had provided the Obama '08 campaign a unique opportunity (but not a unique idea) to develop and interact with a rapid (post early adapter) following. These citizens provided an unprecedented amount of personal information while volunteering and contributing funds via Facebook, YouTube (via Obama’s own “channel”), IM, and other “real time” digital interfaces. Viral political campaigning had taken hold for good in this time frame changing the political landscape once and for all, forever. But we knew that already!
Since the Obama campaign opted out of taking matching funds and essentially had not used the DNC apparatus to run its campaign, BarackObama.com took what many (drDigipol, CAP, Politico, Salon, Media Bureau, and many others) already knew was going to happen – a virtual candidate that owes nothing to (but is more than happy to use) old media and the old political guard while being able to take over their own destiny via an online centric advocacy campaign.
It had finally become mainstream that (starting at the RNC’s Digital Alley at the 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia and followed at the DNC in Los Angeles) online advocacy and activity can translate to offline, on-the-ground results. This was done not just by connecting via the Internet but allowing the user to be enabled and featured. This is contrary to all past campaigns that spent so much time and money "controlling" the message as well as the medium. With the verticalization of (the web) Social Networks such as YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook, and IM as a new strategic Real Time activator/enabler, Obama's New Media team established a permanent platform through which people could identify with (they were already “adapted” users) and use themselves as “activists.” In a rudimentary way, citizens were now part of the campaign, or so they thought. The goal was to quickly activate citizens in the following ways:
1. Ensure that all people would be accessible via a "Mobile" interface and therefore, in touch, at all times, anywhere.
2. Allow and enable for the creation of "Niche Campaigning" via use generated posting of Web Campaign based Videos.
3. Establish Microtargeting scenerios and deliver "themes" and "candidate produced" video and txt interaction directly to people who want it 24/7.
4. Utilize an already existing "Smart" user base generated on Social Networks and the skills they (users / Citizens) have acquired.
5. Buy time on networks that include (niche programming) Cable shows via country wide local programming and reinforce via txt and local “meetup” style home “events.”.
6. Openly engage the Blogosphere instead of shunning them (and in turn establishing counter control problems that could go viral) and interacting as a partner, contrary to your opponents, while offering a “possible” voice in policy and –e-government.
7. Purchase and produce Rich Media Online Ads in content rich niche markets to as to stay “interactive” with Citizen users.
8. Speak directly to niche audiences in the manner in which they are accustomed (language and content style are customized based on hyper market analysis).
9. Provide a central repository (portal) to all that is Barack Obama with http://barackobama.com that enables citizen / users to:
1. Find and take part in “local” events and groups
2. Be enabled to contact undecided voters within your demographic
3. Be heard.
So with the above, we now have a tightly controlled but an apparently loosely based, group strategy to engage and enable the Digital (2.0) Citizen .
So when the citizen / user signed up and provided the Obama campaign their personal information, did they believe that they were providing the Campaign or the DNC such personal information? We think, clearly, people volunteered their information because they believed that it would be used by the Obama campaign, not the DNC or any other entity (there was no disclaimer to state this would be the case – or was there?) Where will this information go and will citizens who signed up be asked if their information can be used for "party" happenings?
Tactics to generate such information were personal and widespread. For example, “… as the primaries and caucuses neared, what [Steve] Goodstein calls "a big experiment" started paying off. One Sunday afternoon in early December, minutes before Oprah Winfrey and Obama addressed about 29,000 people at a rally in Columbia, S.C., Jeremy Bird, Obama's state field director, asked the crowd to take out their cellphones and text "SC" to 62262, Obama's short code. The code spells "Obama" on phones.” This was done repeatedly through out the campaign generating “millions” of phone numbers and other personal info.
So, who owns the data?
Well, since it is now housed at the DNC, clearly the DNC.
Ref:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29069515/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081903186_pf.html/
http://www.newpolitics.nethttp://wizbangblue.com/2008/04/29/obamas-database-a-treasure-trove-of-riches.php
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Super Soldiers .. .smart or just bots?
Ok, so we have a soldier that has capabilities beyond belief ... Armor, weapons, self sustaining capabilities, training, and most of all - other super soldiers. Where does the line cross from "Robot" to "human" if at all? Where does the next gen network slip out of reality and into a parallel fighting force? Are rogue Robots not far behind? What happens if networks are compromised - and they will be - where do these soldiers stand in terms of allegiance? What happens when one of these battle field vehicles is commandeered by enemy super soldiers?
Are they then capable of doing soldier work as humans? Or are we seeing the end of the human on the frontlines of the battle field? Drones already rule the sky and satellites have been "eyes" on the inside for some time.
When the future combat systems take over, who is in charge? Anarchy? Or Big Brother?
Are they then capable of doing soldier work as humans? Or are we seeing the end of the human on the frontlines of the battle field? Drones already rule the sky and satellites have been "eyes" on the inside for some time.
When the future combat systems take over, who is in charge? Anarchy? Or Big Brother?
Monday, January 5, 2009
... 1st Post in 2009
Look for blog to begin with Inauguration 2009 coverage!
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TechHeadz is a gathering at the cross roads of human interaction, technology, and the future.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
http://www.mogulus.com/blog
Taken from the Mogulus Blog located at:
http://www.mogulus.com/blog/
notes:
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz3.html
http://www.mogulus.com/blog/?p=778
-How much Bandwidth was used?
Video
/ Chat (posts per minute)
/ Page views / ClickStreams
http://www.mogulus.com/pari
http://live.youtube.digitaria.com/site/streams.xml
http://www.mogulus.com/blog/
notes:
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz3.html
http://www.mogulus.com/blog/?p=778
-How much Bandwidth was used?
Video
/ Chat (posts per minute)
/ Page views / ClickStreams
http://www.mogulus.com/pari
http://live.youtube.digitaria.com/site/streams.xml
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Martian Ice stories just keep coming ... Is Life far behind?
Notes ...
I can't help but chuckle to hear and read the stories coming from NASA about water on Mars. We have now apparently documened "Glaciers" at the Martian mid-latitudes, something first observed by NASA's Viking orbiters in the 1970's. Considering just a few short years ago it was thought generally impossible for water to exist at all, one has to wonder where this is all going.
We'll try and keep on top of it ...
more...
Oceans on Mars?
http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Gamma_Ray_Evidence_Suggests_Ancient_Mars_Had_Oceans_999.html
Did an asteroid kill Mars' magnetic field?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27806478/
... Depicted in the 2004-2008 movie "Order of the Quest."
And of course we have the infamous Exoplanets that are now creeping in to our daily news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_d
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/20/1682394.aspx
What's next - contact?
I can't help but chuckle to hear and read the stories coming from NASA about water on Mars. We have now apparently documened "Glaciers" at the Martian mid-latitudes, something first observed by NASA's Viking orbiters in the 1970's. Considering just a few short years ago it was thought generally impossible for water to exist at all, one has to wonder where this is all going.
We'll try and keep on top of it ...
more...
Oceans on Mars?
http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Gamma_Ray_Evidence_Suggests_Ancient_Mars_Had_Oceans_999.html
Did an asteroid kill Mars' magnetic field?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27806478/
... Depicted in the 2004-2008 movie "Order of the Quest."
And of course we have the infamous Exoplanets that are now creeping in to our daily news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_d
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/20/1682394.aspx
What's next - contact?
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Election User base ...
notes:
We are not commenitng yet on "who" won the ratings game, but we can say for sure that this election "seals the deal" that "New Media" is a fact and that the Networks are now listed in the same breath as websites. What started in 2000 has landed in 2008.
notes:
Election Night ratings blowout: 71.5 million watch Obama win
(The Live Feed is James Hibberd's daily news site covering the television industry.)
http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/11/election-rating.html
Election night draws record viewership
Led by ABC, the networks and cable channels were watched by 71 million.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ratings6-2008nov06,0,495759.story
TV Ratings: ABC Polls Highest on Election Night: Broadcast nets' overall numbers are down from 2004. Wed. November 05, 2008; Posted: 06:14 PM
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1998571/
CNN dominates broadcast, cable, and web "Users" / "Viewers" with huge increase in interaction since Campaign 2004 ...
In the 25-54 bracket, MSNBC was up 87 percent...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/05/cnn-dominates-election-night/
71.5 MILLION VIEWERS...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/election-2008-coverage
Election Night Ratings: ABC Wins Viewers, NBC Demos, CBS Nothing
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/11/05/election-night-ratings-abc-wins-viewers-nbc-demos-cbs-nothin/7649
updated:110508
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10082831-38.html?tag=mncol;posts
We are not commenitng yet on "who" won the ratings game, but we can say for sure that this election "seals the deal" that "New Media" is a fact and that the Networks are now listed in the same breath as websites. What started in 2000 has landed in 2008.
notes:
Election Night ratings blowout: 71.5 million watch Obama win
(The Live Feed is James Hibberd's daily news site covering the television industry.)
http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/11/election-rating.html
Election night draws record viewership
Led by ABC, the networks and cable channels were watched by 71 million.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ratings6-2008nov06,0,495759.story
TV Ratings: ABC Polls Highest on Election Night: Broadcast nets' overall numbers are down from 2004. Wed. November 05, 2008; Posted: 06:14 PM
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1998571/
CNN dominates broadcast, cable, and web "Users" / "Viewers" with huge increase in interaction since Campaign 2004 ...
In the 25-54 bracket, MSNBC was up 87 percent...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/05/cnn-dominates-election-night/
71.5 MILLION VIEWERS...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/election-2008-coverage
Election Night Ratings: ABC Wins Viewers, NBC Demos, CBS Nothing
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/11/05/election-night-ratings-abc-wins-viewers-nbc-demos-cbs-nothin/7649
updated:110508
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10082831-38.html?tag=mncol;posts
Monday, April 28, 2008
Notes: Exoplanet Systems ... 042808
Notes ...
Currently, we do not have sufficiently sensitive techniques to detect Earth-mass planets, except in rare circumstances.
Further Research:
Exoplanet Exploration ... What are exoplanets?
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/astrophysics/exoplanet-exploration
Washington Double Star Catalog, the Catalogs of Nearby Stars, in Hipparcos results, and in Duquennoy & Mayor (1991).
http://arxiv.org
Habitability of Known Exoplanetary Systems Based on Measured Stellar Properties
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/506557
Currently, we do not have sufficiently sensitive techniques to detect Earth-mass planets, except in rare circumstances.
Further Research:
Exoplanet Exploration ... What are exoplanets?
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/astrophysics/exoplanet-exploration
Washington Double Star Catalog, the Catalogs of Nearby Stars, in Hipparcos results, and in Duquennoy & Mayor (1991).
http://arxiv.org
Habitability of Known Exoplanetary Systems Based on Measured Stellar Properties
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/506557
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