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Phoenix Mars landing

Video: YouTube

First images and video have recently been provided of the Phoenix Mars landing. The Phoenix made a successful arrival on Mars Sunday evening, May 25.

The NASA spacecraft Phoenix landed in the Northern Polar Region of Mars and will begin three months examining a site and it’s likelihood of having frozen water.

The above video shows a pan by the spacecraft’s video device looking out across the Martian Polar Plains.

Below is a video describing the mission and how it happened

Video: YouTube

3D image (below) showing Phoenix Mars Spacecraft upon landing

Image: NASA

Man barricaded in No mans land

Photo: Flickr Set by durotriges

We previously stated in an earlier post that the Island of No Mans Land Fort was for sale for 20 Million Dollars. We have now learnt that this is not the asking price.

The story as related by BBC news is that the Island is up for sale by creditors KPMG, due to the fact that the company who owns the island is in receivership.

The asking price for the island is a mere 4 Million Pounds or approximately 7.85 Million US Dollars.

In an even more amazing twist for the historical island, the previous owner, property developer Harmesh Pooni has recently barricaded himself on the island and refused to allow anyone to land by boat or helicopter.

“In a statement, a KPMG spokeswoman, said: “Mr Pooni has never been the freeholder of No Man’s Land Fort but was a director of Bob’s Leisure Limited a company, which was the registered freeholder of the fort, having purchased it using monies borrowed from Lexi Holdings Plc.”

“Bob’s Leisure Limited went into administration on 26 October 2004 and Mr Pooni was made bankrupt on 23 January 2006.

“Lexi Holdings Plc were left as a creditor of Bob’s Leisure Limited as the loan had not been repaid.

“It is our view that Mr Pooni is trespassing on the fort.”

“Mr Pooni said he came out of bankruptcy in November 2006 and Bob’s Leisure Limited was “reconstituted” in December 2007.

He claims he has a legal right to benefit from the proceeds of the sale of the fort

The battle is now set to move from the high seas to the High Court as it is the subject of possession proceedings, which were transferred there on 5 March.”

Website: Man barricaded in No mans land

That’s a load of Bull :) aka Chilli, the Largest bullock in the world

Photo: Funis2cool

Photo: Funis2cool

As Homer Simpson would say…. “Mmmm Monsanto Growth hormones.”

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Mysterious fanged fish found in pond in Utah

Video: MSNBC

This mysterious fanged fish was found in pond in Utah. I don’t think I would like to go wading in that pond.

Four or five months ago I was swimming in our local river, as I was walking out of the water I felt this thing attacking my ankle, it was really latching on and biting me so I quickly got out of the water. Apparently it was a catfish and I had disturbed it’s breeding ring where it has it’s eggs laid.

When I got out of the water I had a small amount of blood dripping from my ankle and a few little bite marks. Somehow I don’t think that the fish in this video would have been quite so forgiving, you would really know it if it had latched on like the catfish did.

Anyways, my advise is stay out of the local ponds!

Airless tyres by Michelin, what has happened to them?

Video: YouTube

What has happened to these tyres. Apparently they were introduced to the world back in 2005. 3 years later and I have not seen any cars with them. They look like such a good idea and I thought they may have taken off by now.

The accompanying blurb says:-

Radical new tire design by Michelin. The next generation of tires

These tires are airless and are scheduled to be out on the market very soon.

The bad news for law enforcement is that spike strips will not work on these tires.

This is what great R&D will do, and just think of the impact on existing technology:
A.) no more air valves…
B.) no more air compressors at gas stations….
C.) no more repair kits…
D.) no more flats…

I was surprised to see the new Michelin tires though on an Audi in a Philadelphia Car show, but I guess the Germans do make the world’s best cars… they just cant win wars. So now I’ve both offended and pleased some Americans & Germans. Oh well, you can please some of the people etc. etc. Take the blue pill not the red one if it’s a problem.

If anybody can has these tyres or knows someone who has used them, we would really appreciate some information about how successful they are in real use day in day out.

Image: fastcoolcars.com

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Halliburton caught poisoning the troops in Iraq

Video: YouTube

If there is any justice in the US at all, there should a full and open inquiry in to this and other matters. If it’s found to be as bad as it seems, the people who benefited the most, should be held to account… then put up against the wall and shot.

Car Runs On Air

Video: YouTube

This little Air car reminds me a bit of the Citroën 2CV, which was and possibly still is, that ugly little underpowered French car, which strangely enough was quite popular. In defense of the French, the Citroëns as a rule have always been very innovative, but as with most rules, the 2CV I still think was the exception that makes the rule.

However, this Air car could well be an answer to pollution, global warming and commuting, it’s specs are pretty good, and to be honest I can’t see why it would not be so. Their claims are that it will do up to 200 miles, 60 mph and it can apparently be charged in something like 3 minutes… these are all very good and believable numbers, and it could do this with virtually zero emissions, especially if it’s compressed gas comes from using photovoltaic solar cells to power the air compressor.

However, the ‘perpetual motion’ thing is marketing doing what marketing does, make glib, uninformed statements which are ignorant of the laws of physics.

Gas Prices: Then and Now

Photo: FuKung.com

The most disturbing part about this comparison is that the while I was travelling around the USA in 1995-96 the prices were approximately 95c to 108 or there abouts for regular and now in about the same time period from 2001 to 2008 the prices have have risen 3 fold.

The Oil Companies would be absolutely loving these wars, not only can they force the price up for regular consumers, but also the governments are paying huge amounts more to the oil companies for all the transport they have running about in the war zones. For Oil companies and big business a good old fashioned strung out war campaign is a good thing.

Website: Gas Prices Then and Now

Scientists build first Memristor: Missing fourth electronic circuit element

In an exciting breakthrough, scientists from HP Labs have built working prototypes of a new electronic circuit component called a ‘Memristor’. The device may lead to instant-on PC’s and analog computers that act in the same way a human brain does.

Until recently the Memristor had only been described using mathematical equations written back in 1971 by engineering student Leon Chua. Although Chua knew this circuit element should exist, he was unable to come up with a physical manifestation of the component.

“Thirty-seven years later, a group of scientists from HP Labs has finally built real working memristors, thus adding a fourth basic circuit element to electrical circuit theory, one that will join the three better-known ones: the capacitor, resistor and the inductor.”

The researchers believe this discovery may be integral in the production of Instant-on PC’s and more energy efficient computers and even computers that act in the same way as the human brain.

See the full story at the website link below.

Website: Memristor

F111 doing over 350mph collides with Pelican at 3,000′

Photo: Point Niner

Photo: Point Niner

The F111 was flying at 900m (3,000′) on a test bombing run at Evans Head, northern NSW, when it struck a pelican with the fiberglass nose. The pelican was then sucked into one of the engines, which naturally enough reduced it’s power. It must be said that the air crew did a magnificent job of nursing the aircraft, on it’s 30-minute flight back to the Amberley Base, despite the damaged nose, wing and engine.

Australia is the only country in the world that still has F111 Long-range strike fighters, and although they are quite old, they are a very different aircraft from what they were originally. These ‘Pigs’, as they are affectionately known, a nick name related to it’s long nose and it’s ability to ‘get down in the dirt’, whilst using it’s TFR (Train Following Radar). It’s a truly awesome sight to watch one of these high speed behemoths hugging the ground, a tactic used in the ‘Hi-Lo-Hi’ operations. The F111 are still much loved and still an extremely effective aircraft.

Air Commodore Ted Bushell (rtd) has gone on record to say: “The F111 was quite capable of going out to 2020 and beyond and still retaining a very real deterrent and strategic strike capability throughout our region”. Unfortunately our politicians think they know better and they are talking about retiring the F111 by 2010. I’ve thousands of hours in various aircraft and been around aircraft for most of my life. I’ve also seen the F111 up real close and I have mates who have flown F18s to Porters and I’ve yet to meet anybody who knows what they are talking about; and doesn’t have a vested interest, who agrees with the government on this retirement in 2010.

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