Posts filed under 'My planet'

The Hayflick limit.

Telomeres hang out at the end of our chromosomes, and you know what, A Japanese study has suggested that age can be determined through analysis of a persons telomere length.

So long as your DNA is good baby

Elsewhere, it is suggested that shortening and depletion of the telomere leads to cell death.
So hay let us consider stopping the shotening.
Now that would be a good idea.
We have considered for a while and looked at some wiki stuff and in a related article, there is a link between revitalising the telomere and tumor growth, am i making this up?

Chromosome with telomeres

The word chromosome comes from the Greek χρῶμα (chroma, color)
What about Telomere?

Add comment January 4th, 2009

Hidden Worlds

pictures from a scanning electron microscope in the nano-scale.

zinc oxide nanorods, by Michael Oliveri

zinc oxide nanorods, by Michael Oliveri

nanorods other zinc oxide structures, by Michael Oliveri

Element gallium and the growth of silicon oxide nanowires, by Michael Oliveri

Germanium balls and zinc oxide wires, by Michael Oliveri

Get a little more detail here.

Add comment January 2nd, 2009

Sand, and go God for getting it done in under a week

You know if it was down to me the solar system wouldn’t have been finished, just kind of left there suspended in a curved space time geometrical shape.. hanging.
It has to do with Character and the necassary traits to complete a task.
Some folk.. Brilliant, but always moving on to the next big thing.
And tonight we shall consider sand, for it is most intriguing in it’s cubical nature.

SiO2

Sand covers.. no one seems to commit a very accurate answer of it’s proliferation across the globe, but let us just say there is lots of sand.
And we do love our beaches, the sea crashing in, yo Dude surfer dude, or gently rolling casting it’s salty spray on tanning skin.
Between our toes and in our shoes the sand of life from days gone by.
Organisms perished holding aged secrets of weather patterns, climatic flux, turbulanec in our eco system.
I’m nearly sure that Sahara means desert.
So we have desert desert, and as we have previously stated we love our sand, but I’m kinda thinking that God must have got a little distracted in the old creation thingy, and thought **** it, I’ll just wap a desert there, no bother, easy chemistry, no complex structures, obviously feeling a little bit tired today.
‘You know plenty of mountains and lots of beautiful pastures, my creativity has limits.’
The above: not a real quote from God, just a satirical comment by the author of this nonsense.
So we have sand, and if I was a comical genious I could expand upon this and possibly make you laugh, but bestowed onto me was a body which appreciates temperatures in the temperate zone, so it does kind of make me wonder.. What the hell when I think of deserts, in particular conjunction with the biblical interpretation of the age of the planet.
And having said all that Only six months till a holiday on the beach.
My Lordy.

Add comment December 5th, 2008

Meteor strike Canada

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan

Nov 23rd 2008

NICE

Update:

A frozen pond

Add comment November 24th, 2008

Live

Writing


The tags make everything seem so serious.
and yet simple in their constructed nature.
To not write meaningless content, to not consider content meaningless.
The key to a chemical biological multi symbiotic relationship with our keyboard our surroundings, the food we eat, consume assimilate, our astro physical nature, atomic glass, a sandy shore.
A top hat, a baseball cap, one obscuring the view of a helios scope fix-ed blindly upon a stained glsss door.
A certain quantum relation, an incomplete perception.,
and the obvious truth being or you might say equals = energy.
I wonder if = = actually exists, I wonder only just now, it wasn’t an old thought.
You can understand why people started doing ‘witchcraft’
in inverted commas obviously, I don’t know why, but there you go.
So far from everyones mind it seems, a song in here some lyrics.
It knocked me on my arse today. This life,
and it was basically due to the construction of my human body in relation to it’s surroundings.
and it became dark early, although that in itself was a nice tinking together the glass monent, doing an eternal two minute gasp.
Start a post on my blog, My ood I talk to myself all the time.
That is a feature that needs introduction, I don’t know why it didn’t occour to me before.
and this is where those tags begin to reappear.

Jazzy

not knowing what you know.
I wish i had the time to talk about tea, as I have now suspended a tea bag in a cup of almost boiling water.
But instead a worthy starfleet officer.

Add comment November 10th, 2008

ZZ Lizard in the house.

Interesting

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1 comment September 4th, 2008

Can’t figure my boiler, how can I figure the universe.

Bang..

The milkyway galaxy

Tis home.
The Milkyway

Credit: Knut Lundmark, Copyright Lund Observatory.

There is also a nice explanation of the picture/drawing here.

Lets have another look..

Infrared image of the core of the Milky Way galaxy

Infrared image of the core of the Milky Way galaxy

So some facts for you.

The stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, and is believed to be, on average, about 1,000 light years thick. It is estimated to contain at least 200 billion stars and possibly up to 400 billion stars, the exact figure depending on the number of very low-mass stars, which is highly uncertain. Extending beyond the stellar disk is a much thicker disk of gas. Recent observations indicate that the gaseous disk of the Milky Way has a thickness of around 12,000 light years – twice the previously accepted value. As a guide to the relative physical scale of the Milky Way, if it were reduced to 130 km (80 miles) in diameter, the Solar System would be a mere 2 mm (0.08 inches) in width.

Our location amongst the maelstrom

Sun’s location

The Sun (and therefore the Earth and Solar System) may be found close to the inner rim of the Galaxy’s Orion Arm, in the Local Fluff or the Gould Belt, at a hypothesized distance of 7.62±0.32 kpc from the Galactic Center. The distance between the local arm and the next arm out, the Perseus Arm, is about 6,500 light-years. The Sun, and thus the Solar System, is found in what scientists call the galactic habitable zone.

The Apex of the Sun’s Way, or the solar apex, is the direction that the Sun travels through space in the Milky Way. The general direction of the Sun’s galactic motion is towards the star Vega near the constellation of Hercules, at an angle of roughly 60 sky degrees to the direction of the Galactic Center. The Sun’s orbit around the Galaxy is expected to be roughly elliptical with the addition of perturbations due to the galactic spiral arms and non-uniform mass distributions. In addition the Sun oscillates up and down relative to the galactic plane approximately 2.7 times per orbit. This is very similar to how a simple harmonic oscillator works with no drag force (damping) term. Due to the higher density of stars close to the galactic plane, these oscillations often coincide with mass extinction periods on Earth, presumably due to increased impact events.

It takes the Solar System about 225–250 million years to complete one orbit of the galaxy (a galactic year), so it is thought to have completed 20–25 orbits during the lifetime of the Sun and 1/1250th of a revolution since the origin of humans. The orbital speed of the Solar System about the center of the Galaxy is approximately 220 km/s. At this speed, it takes around 1400 years for the Solar System to travel a distance of 1 light-year, or 8 days to travel 1 AU.

Lots going on here, in this space time reality, but what about our neighbors?

Andromeda Galaxy.

A visible light image of the Andromeda Galaxy.

A visible light image of the Andromeda Galaxy.

approximately 2.5 million light-years away. So blow me away baby.. What is real?

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More, bring it on..

Add comment July 23rd, 2008

kupier belt

Object originated from outside the solar system

And where is the object heading?

Volatiles tangled in a delightfully incomprehensible dance, balanced, inexorably connected, to wit the salt of Amun.

Fly me to the moon in your rocket airplane..

amun.JPG

Kupier

The Kuiper belt (pronounced /ˈkaɪpɚ/, to rhyme with “viper”), sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 55 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger; 20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies (remnants from the Solar System’s formation). It is home to at least two dwarf planets – Pluto and Makemake. But while the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (dubbed “ices”), such as methane, ammonia and water.

Amun

Amun (also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imen, Greek Ἄμμων Ammon, and Ἅμμων Hammon, reconstructed Egyptian Yamānu) was the name of a deity, in Egyptian mythology, who gradually rose to become one of the most important deities in Ancient Egypt, before fading into obscurity.

Amun’s name is first recorded in Egyptian as ỉmn, meaning “The hidden (one)”. (Hence the connection to the mysterious kupier belt.)

Amun

Add comment July 15th, 2008

I broke Earths moon,

and smashed the orbits of Phobos and Deimos.

In part 2 of building a model solar system. See part 1 here.

Phase 2. Will be adding the gear wheel for the earth and moon system, plus the Earth itself.
Unfortunately the moon snapped off in the construction stage.
Now how is this likely to effect our planet.
Apparently if the earth was suddenly without its moon, there would be significant problems associated with the planets water.
The moon effects the global altitude of the water, so if this was taken away, a lot of water would be redistributed around the poles.
The effect on the planets rotation would also be changed, the moons location, and gravitational attraction keeps the planet in a relatively stable orbit, no wobbles as such, and as consequence a fairly predictable seasonal climatic balance.
Without this stability life on this sphere would likely have struggled to build itself to the complexity we see today.
So on a lighter note, it’s only a model after all, i’ll get out the super glue and try to restore equilibrium.

Phobos and Deimos

Again in the construction when trying to place the pin on the bottom of mars onto the orbiting moons arm their relative position was changed when I was forced to bring out the hammer to bash the pin in.
I have no idea how this turn of events would effect the solar system as a whole, dynamic interactions and connections are one thing, but i’m thinking not much, considering removing our own moon would apparently not cause all the planets to plunge headlong into a fiery death as we all race towards the sun.

Fate of the solar system in my hands.

Mars and moons

Add comment July 10th, 2008

San Miguel Ibiza

View from a terrace, just after sunset.

Bay Sunset

An evening out. San Antonio Ibiza.

san antonio ibiza

They say cameras never lie, but this picture is definitely pulling the wool.

ibiza1.jpg

View from balc, before room move.

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Bay after sunset

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Tree?

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Vivid

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Stage lights

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Flower.. More vivid

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Bay from up hill

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Bay again, different time of day

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Finale Boogie nights

Add comment June 30th, 2008

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