Is it a bird? is it a plane? No, look, its a dead pixel!!
BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Irish cinema 'set to go digital'
Ireland is set to become the world's first country to have digital film in every cinema.
All movie houses in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are to have their traditional 35mm film projectors replaced.
The Irish Film Board said it would lead to a "pretty amazing" picture quality for cinemagoers.
"It's pure digital projection and picture perfect quality," said the board's Moira Horgan.
It says the new digital technology will see an end to flickering and scratching associated with some old projectors.
Fantastic!! :)
Sunday, March 20, 2005
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Lab fireball 'may be black hole'
Sure it wasn't black and big enough though!
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A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said.
It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.
Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball has a striking similarity to a black hole.
His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org and is reported in New Scientist magazine.
When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks and gluons.
These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions.
But Nastase, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, says there is something unusual about it.
Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations.
The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.
However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole.
The RHIC is sited at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Sure it wasn't black and big enough though!
[QUOTE]
A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said.
It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.
Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball has a striking similarity to a black hole.
His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org and is reported in New Scientist magazine.
When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks and gluons.
These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions.
But Nastase, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, says there is something unusual about it.
Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations.
The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.
However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole.
The RHIC is sited at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Friday, March 18, 2005
13 things that do not make sense!
NewScientist compilation of thirteen known things that do not make sense - like the placebo effect, the dark matter, dark energy, cold fusion etc!! Thought provoking!!!
NewScientist's 13 things that do not make sense!
NewScientist compilation of thirteen known things that do not make sense - like the placebo effect, the dark matter, dark energy, cold fusion etc!! Thought provoking!!!
NewScientist's 13 things that do not make sense!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
And the bikers on mighty Hondas and BMW cruisers finished off the parade with a lot of VRROOOM VRRROOOM, noise and glamour!
Good one!! :)
Good one!! :)
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
Irish take on Indians and Bollywood - quite impressive actually - well done lads, good job - Indian! :)
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
The pheonix - just like Ireland, from the mass immigration to the states to Celtic Tiger (12% growth, 10 or so years) - neat!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
He looks like he is being pulled by something or someone... oh, never mind!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
Guinness's was the most impressive and elaborate display at the parade, no surprises there then, eh? :)
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
Still wearing the same shoe as last year, come on now Charlie, if you can't buy a new one, at least polish the one you have, will ya?
He is cool though, isn't he?
He is cool though, isn't he?
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
Nice! This year, due to the newly installed Luas power cable, which the Parade organisers overlooked even after repeated warnings from Luas authorities, might explain why most of the floats are not too high, or flexy, balloon like blow up things!! Anyway, Good one!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
This was the best thing ever... see the next photo for them in action!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
I am not sure what the message here was, it sure was impressive - pushing that thing all the way!!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
The flags - Irish, American, emm.. and err.. I meant to look them up in the internet!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
The flags - Irish, American, emm.. and err.. I meant to look them up in the internet!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
The bored horses pulling the fancy BlingBling needed some serious persuasion to step away from the limelight!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
It sure was a long walk, an the end is in sight - this bunch looks tired!
St. Patrick's Day Parade Pictures 2005
Half a million, according to local media, is the number of people turned up to watch the St. Patrick'd day parade this year. It sure was crowded where I was standing!
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