Technology opinions and digital photography
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BP attempts
If you want to have more technical details about the various attempts BP botched while trying to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon rig, here are all the diagrams about: THE BLOWOUT PREVENTER CHEMICAL DISPERSANTS RELIEF WELLS CONTAINMENT DOME TUBE TOP KILL JUNK SHOT WELL CAP WITH DOME…
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O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen
Found by chance alone, I wanted to let you immerse into it. YouTube link
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Drunk in the jungle
Did you know it? Marula is a kind of fig quite common in Sub-saharian Africa that is (too) much appreciated by elephants and many other animals. But when it get old and ripe, it starts fermenting quickly. Then, this worthless fruit should receive the warning label like “Drink responsibly” or “Don’t drink and drive”. YouTube…
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Manage your process priorities in Win7
You may not know it but all processes and all programs are not running with the same energy in your Windows-based computer. There is something named “process priorities” that manages which program will run first or will run with the most direct access to the CPU. photo credit: Ioan Sameli All this goes quite transparently,…
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Canon and the robot: A high-rez fable
There is a race to obtain the largest possible digital photography and you have seen quite a number of them in our record images theme here. Today, Gerald Donovan, a Dubai-based photographer has associated the best photo robot and a Canon EOS 7D D-SLR camera. This contraption allowed to automatically shoot nearly a million (!)…
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High temperatures, low temperatures
Here, we don’t even speak about Summer or Winter; This is not about global warming either. The Rasmussen College presents us a great poster sweeping the widest possible range of temperatures to allow us to travel through universe’s thermal diversity. I hope they will sell the poster somewhere.
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If you want 25 answers
photo credit: Marco Bellucci So, as suggested, you used Yahoo! Answers to grab the attention of Yahoo! users (and Yahoo! search engine) and of people who have questions to ask. So, you thought that this was the end of it? Of course not. Even if Yahoo! has a great legion of followers (specially in the…
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The Scale of the Universe
A nice Flash animation that you can play with to get a grasp of the dimensional diversity of our universe. Fly from portion of a yocto-meter to many yotta-meters.
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