and nigel tufnel prolly has 3...

Nanoguitar: "Made for fun to illustrate the technology -- the world's smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long -- about the size of a single cell -- with six strings each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide. Just one of several structures that Cornell researchers believe are the world's smallest silicon mechanical devices. Researchers made these devices at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, bringing microelectromechanical devices, or MEMS, to a new, even smaller scale -- the nano-sized world."
See World's smallest silicon mechanical devices are made at Cornell.

((i dont know where i found this))

Infrared Images of Saturn's Poles

((i dont hear the word "hexagon" used much in planetary science. this particular hexagon is, like, half the width of the earth.))
from jpl

This is a side-by-side view of large cyclones at both poles of Saturn obtained by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard the Cassini spacecraft.

These high-spatial-resolution polar orthographic projections of the north (left) and south (right) polar regions show rings of clouds and hazes circling the poles, as observed in the near-infrared at a wavelength of 5 micron, some seven times the reddest wavelength observed by the human eye. The resolution is 200 kilometers (149 miles) per pixel.

The left image is the first detailed image of Saturn's entire north polar region ever obtained. The movie covers a six-hour period at close range, as close as 240,000 kilometers (149,000 miles) above the clouds from a nearly-overhead viewpoint.Winds reach over 150 meters per second (325 miles per hour) at 88.3 degrees south latitude, just outside the first bright ring nearest the pole. The pole itself is covered by a small cloud some 600 kilometers (about 375 miles) wide. The cyclone reaches out some 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) from the pole, bordered by the hexagon. This hexagon is populated by fast-moving clouds which also reach speeds of over 500 kilometers per hour (300 miles per hour).

The south pole image (right), acquired just a few hours after the north polar image also shows a polar cyclone, complete with a central eye clear of clouds. This cyclone extends out some 15,000 kilometers (9,000 miles) from the pole.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm. The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team homepage is at http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Star Trek 2009

im gonna post spoilers for a while
Do Not read this blog if you are allergic to Star Trek or Star Trek spoilers

new Star Trek movie ((spoiler alert))

costume details emerge Dont Look!
Do Not read if you avoid spoilers for Star Trek
spy cam pics from a starfleet academy location shoot here

Quote

Using the mark test, we obtained evidence for mirror self-recognition in the European Magpie, Pica pica. This finding shows that elaborate cognitive skills arose independently in corvids and primates, taxonomic groups with an evolutionary history that diverged about 300 million years ago. It further proves that the neocortex is not a prerequisite for self-recognition.

upcoming marvel movies

this from marvel

As Marvel Studios powers up to begin production on its next highly anticipated slate of films, the studio has made an agreement with Raleigh Studios to film each of Marvel's next four films at Raleigh's facility in Manhattan Beach, CA.

The four projects to be produced at the studio facility over the next three years include "Iron Man 2," "Thor," The First Avenger: Captain America" and "The Avengers."


The Marvel live action releases to be filmed at Raleigh Manhattan Beach Studios are scheduled to arrive in theaters beginning in 2010 and going through 2011. Specifically the release dates are "Iron Man 2" on May 7, 2010; "Thor" on July 16, 2010; "The First Avenger: Captain America" on May 6, 2011; and "The Avengers" on July 15, 2011.



and this from wiki


Punisher: War Zone 2008 Lions Gate Entertainment / Marvel Studios Distributed by Columbia Pictures outside the US
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2009 20th Century Fox / Marvel Studios Post-Production
Announced
Iron Man 2 2010 Marvel Studios In development.
Thor 2010 Marvel Studios In development.
The First Avenger: Captain America 2011 Marvel Studios In development.
Spider-Man 4 2011 Columbia Pictures / Marvel Studios In development.
The Avengers 2011 Marvel Studios In development.

NOTE: The subsidiary Marvel Studios has two films planned for every year, starting in 2008. They will all be distributed by Paramount Pictures with the exception of The Incredible Hulk, which, according to a prior arrangement due to Hulk, was distributed by Universal Studios.

[edit] Planned films

* Ant-Man - In development
* Black Panther - In development
* Iron Fist - Announced
* Daredevil 2 - Announced
* Doctor Strange - In development
* Ghost Rider 2 - Announced
* Nick Fury - In development
* Silver Surfer - Announced
* Runaways - In development
* Venom - In development
* X-Men Origins: Magneto - In development
* X-Men: First Class - In development


((Ant-man?!?!?!!))

a trip to Annapolis part 2

same annapolis, different view