Category: Sciences
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Iceland stops all whale hunting
Iceland ministry of fisheries, Einar K. Gudfinnsson, decided that whale hunting -who started again in 2003- had no longer any reason to be. The reasons probably lie between the international opposition to whale hunting, lack of internal Iceland market and lack of exports to Japan. Source: Futura-Sciences.
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100 Best Reviewed Sci-Fi Movies
Right! This is the ambition of Rotten Tomatoes to present us with the list of the 100 best reviewed Science-Fiction movies.
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1 million people living in a 4-km-high tower
After all, even the most cool-headed men can sometimes appear identical to the most futuristic Sci-Fi authors. The promoters of a mad Japanese project make it obvious with this tower (should I say “sky-scrapper”?) of 13,000ft high that could welcome no less than a million souls. A tower that Taisei Construction Corporation (TCC) intends to…
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Oil reserves, a world map
The Sietch blog publishes an interesting map of the world where country sizes are proportional to the size of their underground oil reserves. Colors can also point to the big users of oil (headed by the United States of America) which are also the big CO2 producers. Why do you believe that every country in…
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Water on Mars: Evidence on video
An American student, Andrew Shaner, curently preparing his PhD thesis, created a YouTube video to present the elements that scientists have to show that water was available on Mars and may (still) be available. YouTube link Source: Futura-Sciences.
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The story of the two little robots who wouldn’t die
Sometimes, science goes hand-in-hand with the most romantic story. This is the case of the two Mars rovers sent by NASA to the red planet. Their mission has been extended and extended while they strived well beyond their official life expectancy. Nowadays, they are out of a large dust storm that had all scientists worried.…
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Dark side of Uranus
Uranus is too far from us to be seen clearly. But you don’t need a space probe to see the dark side of Uranus since it’s Hawai telescope which collected these images in August.
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No digital noise photography
Guillermo Luijk has a very interesting technique to remove completely all noise from digital photos. We know that this is a difficult task, but his solution is defenitely worth trying. It is relatively simple. The steps are: Shot the scene in a correct exposure according to our usual workflow Repeat the shot now reducing shutter…
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Top colors in movie posters
It is quite common for movies to have nearly the same colors even if they present completely different features. In this context, there is a study titled “Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies” presenting in details the color spectrum of Hollywood blockbusters.