Jyoti Dahiya
"Space, the final front ear!"
Occupation: Management consultant
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2013-06-11 06:36:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Using science & technology to help those without drinking water
Millions of people lack access to clean drinking water today (more facts here: http://bit.ly/11rz5dC).
We wanted to help, but didn’t want to harm the environment with a process like desalinization or reverse osmosis (more info here: http://bit.ly/14t5kyh). After looking at the options, we settled on atmospheric water generation (see how it works here: http://bit.ly/16Y4H3L). The only byproduct of the process is slightly warmer and cleaner air exiting the machine. And, environmentally friendly alternate energy sources are compatible with our custom-built water generators.
You can see our largest to date generator being built in Gilroy, California here - http://bit.ly/18pgJU6 and the completed generator here - http://bit.ly/11rzjSe and here - http://bit.ly/114Yrm7
Atmospheric water produc... more »
2013-06-11 05:58:45 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
Iain Banks - may he rest in peace
Iain, Banks, renowned author of science fiction novels lost the battle against cancer today, only 59 years old.
2013-06-07 14:11:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
HD95086 b, a newly discovered planet orbiting a young star about 300 light-years from Earth, is believed to be the lowest-mass exoplanet ever to be caught on camera.
Astronomers predict it has a mass just four to five that of Jupiter based on the exoplanet's brightness. Its young host star - 10 to 17 million years old (compared to our own at 4.6 billion years old) - is slightly bigger than our Sun and is surrounded by a disc of debris.
Gaël Chauvin, a researcher at the Institut de Planetologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble in France, said "The brightness of the star gives HD 95086 b an estimated surface temperature of about 700 degrees Celsius. This is cool enough for water vapor and possibly methane to exist in its atmosphere.”
Astronomers used an adaptive optics instrument mounted on the European Southern Observatory‘s Very Large Telescope to capture an image ... more »
2013-06-05 13:59:26 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg took this photo of the sun setting behind the Earth's limb from the ISS on Sunday, June 2.
2013-06-05 10:32:39 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Journals of the Fall, pt. 3
12th Day after the Fall
I think I’m going to be sick.
I’ve felt this way all day, since I saw the other trucks. Or one of them anyway.
I wasn’t supposed to see, and if any of the guards ever reads this, I’m dead, but I don’t think I care anymore.
They tried to be careful, parked the one truck out of sight of all the others. They had screens up to keep us from seeing, but one of the corners was torn and I saw enough.
They had those things in there! I saw my neighbor. The one who’d disappeared. What was left of her anyway. They dragged her—it—out of the truck. Then made it walk off in chains and a muzzle.
I thought they were supposed to be saving us? Why are they bringing them in? What could
- The journal ends here. J.T.
Record #127-08-03
Blog of Joe Nesmith
35... more »
2013-06-03 15:33:00 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)
Did you catch any of the Northern Lights over the weekend, mainly on June 1? Here are some images from various locations in the northern parts of the US. There are more chances for aurorae tonight as a fast moving stream of solar wind is buffeting Earth's magnetic fields.
Various credits (see images) & Spaceweather.com
#Aurora #SpaceWeather
2013-06-03 15:30:10 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
(Mon02) Fansal and Aztlan on Titan
Although hidden from human eyes, the Cassini spacecraft can spot these dark features on the surface of Titan thanks to its special near-infrared filters. The features seen here have been dubbed "Fensal" and "Aztlan" by scientists. The dark features are believed to be vast dunes of particles that precipitated out of Titan's atmosphere.
more details - http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=4824
Cassini has revealed that Titan's surface is shaped by rivers and lakes of liquid ethane and methane (the main component of natural gas), which forms clouds and occasionally rains from the sky as water does on Earth. Winds sculpt vast regions of dark, hydrocarbon-rich dunes that girdle the moon's equator and low latitudes. Volcanism may occur as well, but with liquid water as the ... more »
2013-06-03 14:55:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)
DETECTION OF THE COSMIC GAMMA RAY HORIZON MEASURES ALL THE LIGHT IN THE UNIVERSE SINCE THE BIG BANG
Published online May 24, 2013, in The Astrophysical Journal
How much light has been emitted by all galaxies since the cosmos began? After all, almost every photon (particle of light) from ultraviolet to far infrared wavelengths ever radiated by all galaxies that ever existed throughout cosmic history is still speeding through the Universe today. If we could carefully measure the number and energy (wavelength) of all those photons—not only at the present time, but also back in time—we might learn important secrets about the nature and evolution of the Universe, including how similar or different ancient galaxies were compared to the galaxies we see today.
This figure illustrates how energetic gamma rays (dashed lines) from a distant blazar strike photons of ext... more »
2013-06-03 13:56:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Fresh fruit from Earth is a treat for astronauts on the International Space Station, not a pantry staple. For an orphanage in Rwanda, drying fresh fruit is a way to become financially self sufficient, thanks to the efforts of engineers volunteering their time to help them do just that. Take a look at the *Engineers Without Borders* project featured on fragileoasis.org:. http://www.fragileoasis.org/projects/engineers-without-borders
+NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and +European Space Agency, ESA astronaut +Luca Parmitano both arrived on the International Space Station last week. Humans, apples and oranges float in zero gravity!
2013-06-03 13:52:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
V838 Monocerotis heic0617 a-5
To help kick off the Summer sky viewing season in the Northern Hemisphere, here is an Animated #GIF of V838 Monocerotis.
a red variable star in the constellation Monoceros about 20,000 light years (6 kpc) from the Sun. The previously unknown star was observed in early 2002 experiencing a major outburst. The reason for the outburst is still uncertain, but several conjectures have been put forward, including an eruption related to stellar death processes and a merger of a binary star or planets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V838_Monocerotis
Images taken and strung together by +European Space Agency, ESA and courtesy of the always stellar +Lars DeRuntz. Add them to your circles immediately, and get out there to do some good old fashioned star gazing. Life is too short not to.
#Space #astronomy #science #Cosmos #GIFs... more »
2013-06-03 12:32:36 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Mars Express : _ It was built on a relative shoestring, was completed in just five years and was designed to survive for just 687 days. Ten years later, after more than 12,000 swings around the Red Planet, Europe's Mars Express is still going strong._
Along with NASA's massively successful fleet of probes and landers, the orbital scout has helped pull aside the veil of secrecy surrounding our sister planet. It has pointed to the presence of subterranean water and a wild volcanic past and shed light on the bizarrely-pocked martian moons.
The first European mission to explore another planet, Mars Express was launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket on June 2 2003, just when Earth and Mars were approaching their closest alignment in 17 years. The mission, designed to last for one martian year, has already been extended four times, and its latest closure date is for the end of... more »
2013-06-02 10:56:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Journals of the Fall, pt. 3
12th Day after the Fall
I think I’m going to be sick.
I’ve felt this way all day, since I saw the other trucks. Or one of them anyway.
I wasn’t supposed to see, and if any of the guards ever reads this, I’m dead, but I don’t think I care anymore.
They tried to be careful, parked the one truck out of sight of all the others. They had screens up to keep us from seeing, but one of the corners was torn and I saw enough.
They had those things in there! I saw my neighbor. The one who’d disappeared. What was left of her anyway. They dragged her—it—out of the truck. Then made it walk off in chains and a muzzle.
I thought they were supposed to be saving us? Why are they bringing them in? What could
- The journal ends here. J.T.
Record #127-08-03
Blog of Joe Nesmith
35... more »
2013-06-02 09:53:34 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)
Don't You Lava This?
Exploding heart of lava from a vent on Kilauea Volcano at Pele’s Heartbeat. The photographer says, "Flowing lava is a very unique subject [to photograph]. It is literally liquid light. Only the aurora borealis comes close to it. Basically, the first time I experienced flowing lava, I was hooked. And I have been the Volcano Man ever since." Read more: http://goo.gl/4ibZk
Photo: G. Brad Lewis
2013-06-02 09:49:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
I just learned of Jack Vance's passing. The man was a giant.
2013-05-29 10:53:44 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano joined their Expedition 36 crewmates when the hatches between the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft and the International Space Station officially opened at 12:14 a.m. EDT. Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA, who arrived at the station on March 28, welcomed the new crew members aboard their orbital home.
Nyberg, Yurchikhin and Parmitano's arrival restored the station's crew complement to six. They will continue scientific research aboard the space station. Expedition 36 will continue to take advantage of the orbital lab's unique microgravity environment and expand the scope of research. The crew will perform experiments that cover human... more »
2013-05-29 06:07:47 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)
What killed the hundreds of people whose remains were found in and around an isolated lake in the high Himalayas? http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-skeleton-lake-of-roopkund-india
2013-05-28 05:38:22 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
What is a Neutron Star? : It is the remnants of a Supernova and the subsequent gravitational collapse of a massive star. It is only prevented from collapsing on itself by Pauli's exclusion principle. Neutron stars typically arise from the collapse of massive stars. These stellar remnants are made almost entirely of neutrons, and are incredibly dense...about the mass of the sun, but squeezed into a sphere just a few miles wide.
A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoonful of its material would have a mass over 900 times the mass of an large airport. This star spins around at dizzying speeds of 200 to 600 times per second!
Researchers have focused on the extremely volatile surfaces of neutron stars. In a process called accretion, white-hot plasma pulled from a neighbouring star rains down on the surface of a neutron star with incredible force — equivalent to 100 kil... more »
2013-05-27 07:02:35 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Infinity
by Knut Torgersen
“We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.”
-- Professor Robert Wilensky,
The noise was the same at Lab 51 as at all the other test facilities; clattering of typewriters, ding to warn about reaching the end of line within a few characters, followed by a ka-chung from the carriage return. And a constant chatter from the monkeys, of course. All 7109 of them, after one died yesterday and had yet to be replaced.
Dr Clark Hammond was worried and more than a tad disappointed. He sighed after reviewing the results from test subject M-51-0977176, pondered for a couple of minutes on how to present the bad news and walked to the office of Professor Jeremy Green, the faculty dean. ... more »
2013-05-27 06:57:10 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
A new piece of flash fiction, spurred by another prompt from the ever-dependable +Chuck Wendig .
Spiritualists were all frauds, in Gladys' experience. But perhaps tonight it might be different ?
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2013-05-27 06:18:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and the Mont Saint Michel
Another fantastic image from french astrophotographer Thierry Legault showing the 3 planets conjunction of yesterday with one of the greatest monument of France.
Worth an APOD !
http://www.webastro.net/forum/showthread.php?t=106925
2013-05-26 10:22:01 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Little Things, pt. 5
And here we end our little tale of the zombie apocalypse. Thanks for reading! Full story will be posted as a draft tomorrow.
The going was faster with the improved light, and they soon left the lake behind them. Jake grimaced as a dull pain spread out from where he’d gashed himself. “Hey,” he said a short time later. “We got anythin’ left in the pack? This ain’t stopped bleedin’ yet.”
Oliver gave him a pained look. “Might be somethin’. If we press on, we can be there soon.”
“Yeah, and we’ll be trailin’ a line of the dead right behind us. Every step I take, I’m leavin’ blood behind.”
The other man sighed in resignation. “Right. We’re low though, man. Real low. This’ll clean us out but good.” He snapped the lid open on their travel kit and passed over a bottle of disinfectant, relatively clean rags for bandages, and t... more »
2013-05-26 06:03:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Stories on Google+ | +David Grigg
+The Narratorium brings us a shivery little piece by David Grigg.
#storiesongoogleplus #shortstory #horror #fantasy
2013-05-26 05:03:28 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Space | What's well known and lives closer than we thought?
Ans: SS Cygni!
This is a famous double-star system that now proves to be a fairly standard example of its type, now that it's been found to be a lot closer than first measured. Hubble observations said, about a decade ago, that it was way out at 520 light years. That would make it ultra-bright, and should have also made it ultra-stable, and not wont to shoot out radiation every 49 days or so. This last is well documented, as every single one of these outbursts has been watched since 1896 (now that's an amazing statistic).
However, parallax observations by very long baseline arrays using radio instead of visible light and extra-galactic reference points, now show that it is (merely) 370 light-years away. So what looked wondrously anomalous when it was far away proves to be a more common-or-garden... more »
2013-05-26 04:54:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Space | Hubble spots a bubble
The Ring Nebula, staple illustration for generations of astronomy books and the target of wowed amateur astronomers' telescopes, is more complex than that faithful image. New observations using the Hubble Space Telescope show spokes and knots besides the rings, which are still moving slower than the centre is expanding (which actually form the rings).
To me, it looks like an unfolding flower with a jewelled center, but hey, it's pretty withal.
#space #RingNebula #hubblespacetelescope
2013-05-23 14:46:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Save some space on your eReader -- available from Musa Publishing May 31:
2013-05-23 11:21:20 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)
Strong words - author questions the current guideline daily amounts in the UK, and blames the links between organisations and officials issuing dietary advice and the food industry that profits from selling sugary foods.
2013-05-20 07:20:22 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)
Stories on Google+ | +Matthew Graybosch
An intriguing prequel to the upcoming Without Bloodshed, where Naomi is only 21. This is already at Chapter 3. Naturally, you should go back and read the other chapters, too.
#sciencefiction #fantasy #storiesongoogleplus
2013-05-03 13:08:24 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)
(Fri02) This week in cool space images April 26th 2013
Sorry for the skip last week, life got in the way, but here is a supersized edition to make up for it. Closing in on 100 images this year already.
Enceladus starts us off this week in full view
Chandra shows a 1,000 year old cosmic tapestry
Dawn gives us a topo view of the Torquata crater on Vesta
HiRISE shows us the Hashir Crater in 3D perspective.
Hubble and Herschel team up to show a fresh perspective on the Horsehead Nebula.
Curiosity provides a 3D look at Mount Sharp.
Raw image of the swirling power of Saturn
and Hubble spots the Ison Comet near Jupiter.
have a great weekend
#scienceeveryday #thisweekincoolspaceimages
2013-05-01 18:38:14 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
Happy Birthday +The Final Colony - Author Lacerant Plainer !
May I take the opportunity to reintroduce this story:
Mining the Asteroid - 2
http://www.lacerantplainer.com/2012/06/mining-asteroid-2.html
Here's an illustration to go with it. ;)
#sciencefiction #HappyAlienDayLacerantPlainer
(Rats, did I just miss it by 5 minutes??)
2013-04-30 15:44:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Here's a fully-fledged short story for your delectation, originally published in eFiction magazine a few months ago.
2013-04-24 14:20:21 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)
Books | Science fiction
Everything you've always wanted in science fiction, including high powered lasers.
#books #sciencefiction #nealasher
2013-04-24 14:10:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Books | Detective
Every parent's nightmare comes true in this book. It gets more frightening before the denoument.
#books #detective
2013-04-17 09:55:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Books | Thriller
Faith is the name of the person who needs saving. But you guessed that, right?
#books #DavidBaldacci
2013-04-15 12:14:55 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)
Good morning, G+!
Last night, I didn't get the "moon and Jupiter" shot I wanted, but playing with different exposures, I was able to find a combination that let me see the 4 Galilean moons as tiny points of light. Of course to really see anything you need binoculars or a telescope, but I was happy to walk away with this one
Photo: no processing other than the labelling. lens 400 mm on an EOS 60D [1.6x crop factor] = 640mm equivalent. 0.5 sec exposure at F5.6 and ISO 2500.
2013-04-13 13:30:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)
An intriguing futuristic short film from the talented Andreas Wannerstedt!
Consumed is a 3D short film about a not so distant future, where extreme overpopulation has become a global crises. The population growth has reached a critical tipping point and there's food and water shortages all around the world. The story revolves around a "Food Replicator", or a so called molecular assembler, a device that can rearrange subatomic particles and guide chemical reactions with atomic precision. In an attempt to prevent mass starvation, this device is used to synthesize nutritions with the ability to self-replicate. But during the initial tests something goes wrong and out-of-control self-replicating compounds starts to spread, consuming all matter while building more copies of them selves.
This is very similar to a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario called "Grey goo", a ... more »
2013-04-13 13:11:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Books
Ooh, that's a lot of reading! Including 4 science fiction and 2 fantasy. Mwahahaha!
#books
2013-04-13 12:51:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Books | Thriller
The man should have been named Jeffery Devious...
#books #thriller #JefferyDeaver #KathrynDance
2013-04-13 11:59:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Books | Legal thriller
Not all clients of defense lawyers are innocent. (This is not a spoiler).
#books #PerriOShaughnessy
2013-04-13 11:31:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Books | Detective
Now, this is a psychological thriller.
#books #detective #PeterRobinson #InspectorBanks
2013-04-13 10:45:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Books | Thriller
Whodunnit? Who was it done to? A crackerjack read with a brand new series hero.
2013-04-13 10:09:18 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
NO TITLE
As Oswald approached the city, a feeling of dread washed over his luscious, hairy frame. He may be the best looking Worgen in all of Plainsville City, but that does not mean he isn't disturbed by the town's recent events. In fact, it was his striking, silk-furred, creamy brown physique that made him so worried. With all of the death, destruction, and undeath making the hot list around here, who knew what could be waiting around the corner, ready to disfigure him, as he trotted onto what used to be the main strip.
Just as he was considering how silky smooth his mane had become (this became a recent priority of his), he stretched his long neck into the air, and held his nose high, to locate the origin of a new smell. It was a pleasurable smell. Like lilies, fresh linen, and... and... something. It reminded him of the beautiful young woman he left behind after he... more »
2013-04-13 10:24:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Space | Lovely photo
Our favourite planet. Via +Kiril Minanov
#space #earth
2013-04-13 07:56:27 (2 comments, 18 reshares, 7 +1s)
Online petition for protecting rationality
Sanal Edamaruku exposed a 'miracle' at a Catholic Church as a leaky pipe, and now the church and its supporters have filed cases against him all over Mumbai, under sections of the IPC that can get him arrested.
#SanalEdamaruku
2013-04-13 07:34:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
(Fri06)This week in Cool Space Images April 12 2013
the slightly Barsoom heavy edition.
ESO shows us a ghostly green bubble that is the planetary nebula IC1295
Raindrops on Mars or just sand dunes you decide in this HiRise Image
Fall comes to the southern half of Titan
Herschel finds a retired star with planets and debris disc
Opportunity is in a quiet period on Mars due to solar conjunction
twin explosive craters on Mars as seen by Mars Express.
#scienceeveryday #thisweekincoolspaceimages
2013-04-12 04:05:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Today is the day.
Emerald City Blues, my latest work, is free today through Saturday. It's an Urban Fantasy story, inspired by hardboiled detective novels and colored with the shades of Film Noir.
Maddie Sheehan, a struggling private eye, is busily ruining her liver when an old friend comes calling with a problem. That problem might just be her last case. Soon she is careening from disaster to disaster, always one step behind and ten steps below her adversary. To solve it, she will have to call on skills she learned a decade before - but even magic might not be enough to save her skin.
It's sharp, it's snarky, and it's filled with characters you'll want to meet again and again. Emerald City Blues - download it today, reshare it with your friends, write a review - but most of all, enjoy!
Direct link: http://amzn.to/Z96eAH
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