Physicists Show Both Russia And Turkey Were Lying About The Downed Russian Plane ... by Robin Andrews

... by Robin Andrews

photo credit: The Russian military jet shortly after it was hit by a missile. DAHBOO777/YouTube

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 twitter? Share on reddit Share on google_plusone_share re Sharing ServicesFollowing the recent downing of a Russian military jet by Turkish forces somewhere along the border of Syria and Turkey, both nations offered very different accounts of what happened. Two astrophysicists at the Belgian university KU Leuven have used simple Newtonian mechanics to show why both countries’ accounts cannot possibly be correct.

Last week, a Russian military jet was shot down by Turkey, who claims that it violated their airspace for 17 seconds, and ignored 10 warnings in the space of five minutes. Russia claims that it was shot down over Syrian airspace, and that it never violated Turkish territory. Two Belgian researchers decided to review the video footage of the incident to try and ascertain which account is more accurate.

When the first jet is hit, it begins tumbling to the ground, falling for 30 seconds before it impacts the hillside. Assuming the pilot lost control of the plane immediately, the downwards movement is only dependent on gravitational acceleration. Backtracking this acceleration downwards, they calculated that the plane was traveling at a height of 4,500 meters (14,800 feet) when it was hit – roughly consistent with Turkish accounts at this point.

Turkey claimed a specific crash site, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from where it was hit. This means that it must have been traveling at an initial speed of 980 kilometers per hour (610 miles per hour). Turkish officials say that the jet was traveling through 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) of Turkish airspace for 17 seconds.

At this speed, however, it would have only taken seven seconds. In addition to this, if the jet was traveling at that speed, it would cover a distance of 80 kilometers (50 miles) in five minutes – making the Turkish military’s statement of “ten warnings in five minutes” seem highly implausible; the warnings could not have all fitted into just seven seconds. The warnings made would therefore have been based on mere speculation as to whether or not the plane was crossing the border.

Image credit: An airstrike on Kobane, a town close to the Syrian-Turkish border.

15 gorgeous gadget gifts for geeks who care about design

This tech ranges from cute to beautiful, but each one has a little special something that makes it a gorgeous gadget with an especially clever design and a great pick for the 2012 gift-buying season.

Slingbox 500

Watch TV anywhere. I know, it sounds like a beautiful dream, but this is no joke. Enjoy your favorite movies and shows in full HD at 1080p on your PC, Mac, tablet, smartphone or TV with this sleek little gadget. The compact design is ready to travel with you, keeping you up-to-date on all of the latest and greatest TV happenings.

iHome iP4 Boombox

Harkening back to the days of yore, the iP4 gives nostalgia a makeover. Just hook up your iPhone or iPod and, voila! You have an instant dance party on your hands. It comes in black, blue and bright pink (if you’re feeling a little extra sassy).

Ferrari Earphones

As the winter draws near, there’s lots of holiday music going around. Whether you want to tune in or not, these stylish earphones are sure to get attention wherever you go. We think this is a pretty great way to share your passion for the brand without, you know, buying a Ferrari.

5 facts about @

@ All the familiar icon was not known in this country before the computer age. Usually when borrowing the name from another language is not new is invented, but simply copied. But sometimes the original name can be unpronounceable, indecent or relevant rules of the language. Apparently, this is what happened with the @ symbol – its official name of “commercial floor” Russian ear seems completely pointless. So why “dog”?

1. In the 1990′s, when the @ first tried to translate into Russian, there were a lot of options equal – “krakozyabrami”, “hook”, “frog”, “ear”, and others. True, they are now almost disappeared, and “dog” has spread around the Runet remained, because any language tends to have only one universal word for anything there. Other names are marginal, although there may be a lot. For example, in English, the @ symbol is called not only the words commercial at, but mercantile symbol, commercial symbol, scroll, arobase, each, about, etc.

Wild Gifts for Wanderers and Adventurers

Bodum Fyrkat Portable Grill

This pint-size charcoal grill’s locking lid, waiflike weight—just 5.6 pounds—and heat-shielding silicone grip make it easy to carry with one hand (leaving the other free for the six-pack). Perfect for burgering at the beach or on the balcony.

Hella Slingshot

The branch-and-rubber-band catapult of yore has gone artisanal. The Hella is hand-carved from Mora tree limbs and equipped with a natural latex tube sling and a leather pouch for your projectiles. Mr. Wilson’s windows don’t stand a chance.

Black Diamond Magnetron

This reinvention of the staid climbing carabiner replaces cumbersome locks with easy-to-open magnets. The result: no-fuss one-handed locking and unlocking.

National Geographic Rio Antirio Bridge in Greece

Five hot alternatives to iPhone 5

After many months of rumours, speculation and leaked info, the most anticipated device of 2012 is finally here, iPhone5.

As popular as iPhone is — selling more than 25 million handsets worldwide last quarter alone (and iPhone 5 pre-orders topping 2 million in its first 24 hours) — they’re not the only game in town. In fact, many of today’s Android phones can outperform iPhone 5, feature for feature, plus Google’s mobile platform is far less restrictive than Apple’s iOS. Microsoft and Research in Motion are also cooking up some compelling iPhone alternatives with its Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 OS smartphones, respectively.

Another consideration: not everyone can buy an iPhone even if they want one, maybe because their carrier doesn’t support it (T-Mobile, for one) or perhaps the cost of Apple’s phone is prohibitive to some (just like their Macs).

And so the following is a look at a few competing smartphones that not only challenge iPhone 5 on a few fronts, but even outshine Apple’s iconic device.

If you want a killer screen, consider: Motorola Droid Razr HD

If you want a solid cameraphone, consider: Nokia Lumia 920

Deadly Hunter Killer submarine

She cost around £1billion to build, has sonar so sensitive it can hear other vessels 3,000 miles away and carries a giant payload of 38 deadly Tomahawk cruise missiles.

HMS Ambush, the Royal Navy’s newest nuclear attack submarine, is one of the most sophisticated and powerful vessels of her type ever built.

The giant Astute-class sub, which was launched today, is so hi-tech she doesn’t even need a periscope.

Awesome: HMS Ambush, which was built by BAE Systems, is believed to be the world’s most powerful nuclear attack submarine. Her huge weapons payload includes super-accurate Tomahawk cruise missiles and Spearfish torpedoes for fighting other vessels

Success: The super hi-tech vessel has undergone rigorous testing ahead of today’s launch. Despite her size the sub’s 103 crew will be tightly packed, with some sleeping up to eight to a room in bunk beds

The importance of Technology in a changing World

These days, businesses are more reliant than ever before on technology, to help improve communications and to maximise efficiency in the workplace. The increased use of the internet, email and mobile technology has revolutionised the way companies operate and made IT a critical factor in building and maintaining a successful company. Yet still even today too many companies think of technology as a necessary evil rather than truly embracing all the opportunities it can bring to make organisations more efficient.

In the past companies may have been able to get away with paying lip service to IT but in the fast changing modern world this will no longer be possible. Now, with the convergence of voice and data and the much greater reliance of mobile communications, it is crucial for all businesses to urgently develop a coordinated IT Strategy.

Of course historically, companies tend to regard telecoms and data networking as being from separate budgets, but because of converging networks and the opportunities that VoIP can offer (Voice over Internet Protocol), it is no longer possible to look at them in isolation. In fact given the increased importance of remote working and the need to make sure all staff work as effectively as possible, these days companies really have no choice. The simple truth is if you don’t embrace change now, your competitors will.

7 steps to recover deleted pictures from memory card

The development of memory cards

Memory cards were launched around 1990 when engineering in cellular phones and digital cameras began to evolve and develop into far more sophisticated. As in-built storage on telephones may be very reduced, on ordinary all-around 10MB, the necessity for excess storage took place and therefore the memory card, the SD card was among the list of initially.Though the SD card was the first to become launched this was rapidly followed from the Mini SD, Micro SD, the MS Micro2 and the Micro SDHC. One of the first companies to leap to the bandwagon with all the required for memory was SanDisk, although many other people have followed. Not only have been they made use of in phones, cameras and camcorders they were also taken gain of by these applying video clip games controllers to the likes in the Xbox, GameCube and Play station.Memory cards vary from 32MB to a huge 32GB which happens to be normally put to very good use in the high conclude electronic digital camera vary. SanDisk generate an 8GB memory stick M2 which numerous on the new slim Sony Ericsson telephones use. With multi-media phones possessing great resolution cameras, then substantial amounts of memory for storage is important. The beauty of the M2 is usually that it really is appropriate with units that utilize the memory stick Pro Duo with all the use of an M2 adapter. The memory stick M2 also happens in storage of 1GB, 2GB and 4GB.Because of the huge development and wide use of memory cards, more and more people will concern on the memory card recovery and pictures recovery.

Let me tell you 7 steps to recover lost photos.

1. Make Memory Cards Recovery an example on Windows.

2. Contect Memory Cards to a computer via your card reader.

3. Choose the main functions and click next button to detect photos on Memory Cards.

4. Preview the detected photos on the main windows, and select your lost photos.

5. Recover the selected photos to new folder on another disk. Also you can enter a new entry by yourself or with the original directory.

6. If you want to recover the deleted photos or lost images on hard disk, just lanuch the software and select the drive to detect photos.

7. The operations of hard disk recovery and memory cards recovery on mac are the same.

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Gravity Wave

Lapse of gravity wave action from the Tama, Iowa KCCI-TV webcam on 6 May 2007.

Lenticular Clouds Gallery

Lenticular clouds, technically known as altocumulus standing lenticularis, are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally aligned at right-angles to the wind direction.


(images credit: Valuca)




(images credit: Valuca)

These clouds are formed by so-called "mountain waves" of air created by strong winds forced over high mountains. Then they hang over the mountains like alien "motherships"... Mount Rainier in Washington produces some of the most spectacular lenticulars.


Copyright (c)2002 Christopher J Picking

Mega Earthquake and Tsunami

We've briefly touched on this topic in Future Plate Tectonics, yet with another huge wake-up call earthquake (and continuing swarm of smaller quakes) in Japan, we feel we should cover this kind of apocalyptic natural disasters more broadly, as well as raise awareness about horrific conditions for people in North Japan right now. 


(a house drifts the ocean after being swept away by tsunami, image via)

Thousands of people are left without shelter and means of transportation in the wake of combined earthquake/tsunami disaster - in freezing cold, with dwindling supplies (many stores display empty shelves, which is quite an unusual sight for Japan). Please keep Northern Japan in your thoughts, and help by donating through a respectable company - Google - at this link.


(images via)

The earthquake in Japan was so strong (the fifth strongest since 1900) that it even sped up the Earth's rotation by 1.6 microseconds, causing a day to get slightly shorter - more info

And the earthquakes continue in this "Ring of Fire" zone. It almost became a non-event to feel 6.0 aftershocks in Japan today... However, remember that a 9.0 earthquake is 1000 times worse than a 6.0 scale earthquake - the Richter Scale is logarithmic. 


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Pirate Sites Founders Who Changed The Internet

he Internet is a place for exchange of different content, mostly inaccessible to arms of the law. When The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA) laws were suggested, many sites for sharing files were closed or changed their policy. It seems that the freedom of the global network is slowly shutting down, but we all ask ourselves who are the greatest modern “pirates” on the internet who fight against this?

Kim Dotcom

Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, media and internet entrepreneur, media critic, writer, computer programmer and political/internet activist. He is the editor in chief and founder of WikiLeaks – international online self-described not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers.

Shawn Fanning

Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (“P2P”) file sharing platforms, in 1998. Soon after, however, Napster was the target of several music industry-backed lawsuits, which ultimately led to the end of the service.

The most dangerous web pages today

Base of elements from himself the NORTON, the most dangerous web pages today, are:

DO NOT VISIT THEM

You will fill Malware (Viruses) and only that you will open them

Norton

iPhone and Truth That Hurts

Madrid-based art director Nico Ordozgoiti created this set of fun iPhone wallpapers conveying the painful truths about owning an iPhone. 

The Most Dreadful Makeups: Before and After

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Piratebox!

Ταραχές έχει φέρει η διάδοση του PirateBox, ενός κουτιού που ουσιαστικά επιτρέπει το filesharing μέσω ασύρματου δικτύου. Ουσιαστικά δημιουργείται ένα σύστημα διαμοιρασμού αρχείων που Ταραχές έχει φέρει η διάδοση του PirateBox, ενός κουτιού που ουσιαστικά επιτρέπει το filesharing μέσω ασύρματου δικτύου. Ουσιαστικά δημιουργείται ένα σύστημα διαμοιρασμού αρχείων που είναι ασύρματο και ανώνυμο, χρησιμοποιώντας ένα πολύ φτηνό μηχάνημα.

 Η αρχή έγινε με το the Kiosk of Piracy, μια offline έκδοση του Pirate Bay που «έτρεχε» μέσω τοπικού WiFi, από ένα σημείο της Γερμανίας (άρα μη διαθέσιμο στους χρήστες που ήταν έξω από το βεληνεκές του πομπού). Εμπνευσμένος από το project, ο David Darts, καθηγητής στο πανεπιστήμιο της Νέας Υόρκης, σκέφτηκε να φτιάξει ένα φτηνό μηχάνημα που θα είναι WiFi hotspotκαι server μαζί, παρέχοντας έτσι πρόσβαση ανώνυμα στα αποθηκευμένα αρχεία. Η πρώτη έκδοση κόστιζε γύρω στα 100 δολάρια, αλλά πλέον με τη χρήση ενός φτηνού TP-LINK TL-MR3020 3G Wireless N Router στοconfiguration, το PirateBox μπορεί να κοστίσει μέχρι και 50 δολάρια. Το βάζετε στην πρίζα, συνδέετε ένα USB stick γεμάτο με τα αρχεία που θέλετε να μοιράσετε και είστε στον αέρα!

Η τεχνολογία έχει να κάνει με τον διαμοιρασμό αρχείων, κάτι που είναι δικαίωμα κάθε χρήστη και είναι φυσικά κάτι που επικροτούμε. Από την άλλη βέβαια, παραμένει το ακανθώδες ζήτημα του παράνομου λογισμικού και η απορία: πώς θα γίνει έλεγχος για το τι διαμοιράζεται μέσω του πειρατοκουτιού;

Γράφει ο Χρήστος Κουβόπουλος

 

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