Hubble Sees Intergalactic Mating

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Hubble sees 'planet' around star

Hubble sees 'planet' around star 05/12/2004 08:33 AM
The first direct image of a planet circling another star may have been obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble sees 'most distant object'

Hubble sees 'most distant object' 02/15/2004 01:14 PM
Astronomers say the latest discovery shows why the US space agency must keep the telescope working.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble sees
'planet' around star

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble sees
'planet' around star 05/13/2004 03:43 PM
Best evidence yet (maybe) for keeping the Hubble around: .. Hubble Spots a Planet? .. something like this

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3707185.stm
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M.I.A. for intergalactic overlord

M.I.A. for intergalactic overlord 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: There's an expression about entertainers -- "triple threat." It refers to someone so talented, they're equally adept in three areas, such as singing, dancing, and acting. M.I.A is a quadruple threat, because she is also adept at things like nuclear weapons and fighter jets, as you can see in this video. She totally fucking rules. My brother turned me on to her months back via a folder of freshly-burnt MP3s, and she's all over the place now. MeFi has a nice roundup post about the young Sri Lankan sensation today.
Link to QuickTime video for Galang, Link to MeFi roundup post with pointers to media coverage, Link to MIA's home page (hawks ringtones, among other things). I'm pretty sure that "Day to Day," the show I contribute to on NPR, is doing a piece about her this week...

Update: Piggy sez: "I couldn't access the mov file posted for the Galang video, so I found this link to it in Real format."

Reader F-Bomb sez:

I also had the same problem with the video link, so I found this one in Quicktime Format as well: Link.

Isaac B2 sez:

Ruben Fleischer is an incredible director who directed the M.I.A. video. You've probabyl seen hs Burger King commercial, but his video for DJ Format/MC Abdominal's "Hit Song" could be some of the finest video work I've seen in a while, featuring a great song and impressive graphics: Link

mnemesis sez:

This is link to a mashup of the M.I.A. Galang w/ the Super Mario Brothers theme. It's a bit of an improvement: Link.

We name new Dr Who intergalactic
übervillain

We name new Dr Who intergalactic
übervillain 07/06/2004 08:06 AM
Exclusive Terrifying robotic entity unveiled

Virgin Intergalactic Planetary

Virgin Intergalactic Planetary 09/27/2004 06:59 AM
It was bound to happen eventually - Richard Branson announced the launch of Virgin Galactic, a joint venture between Virgin and Mojave Aerospace Ventures, the company responsible for SpaceShipOne. They expect to send up to 3000 people into suborbital space over five years for £115k each (around $200k)and the first ship will be named the Virgin SpaceShip VSS Enterprise (well, I guess he can name it what he wants...). It's all immensely exciting, but personally I think Virgin Spacelines sounds classier.

TalkToAliens.com -- World's First
"Intergalactic Communication System" --
Now Transmitting for the Public into
Deep Space

TalkToAliens.com -- World's First
"Intergalactic Communication System" --
Now Transmitting for the Public into
Deep Space 03/14/2005 06:15 PM
TalkToAliens.com allows the public to broadcast messages into space via a custom engineered "Intergalactic Transmitter" and parabolic dish antenna. People simply need to call the TalkToAliens.com phone line. The system operates 24 hours a day. [PRWEB Mar 9, 2005]

The Mating Dance of Elephants

The Mating Dance of Elephants 04/07/2005 07:50 AM

According to a BusinessWeek article, phone companies trying to get into the video market are running into an obstacle: movie studios and other content owners. They aren't willing to license their content for video-on-demand and other new distribution formats.

Frankly, I hope the studios continue to hold out against the inevitable transformation of the video marketplace. The telcos are pouring money into fiber and IPTV deployments because they are scared about the competitive threat from cable companies, who are getting into the voice market. At some point, all dressed up with nothing to show, they may decide to take matters into their own hands. I'd love to see the phone companies throw their resources and political muscle into the process of blowing up the existing video value chain, alongside the smaller innovators like Tivo and BrightCove.

Hi tech mating rituals

Hi tech mating rituals 11/17/2003 12:59 AM
iafrica.com Nov 17 2003 0:15AM ET

Robotic mating proposal

Robotic mating proposal 03/28/2005 01:17 PM
Xeni Jardin: Jason Striegel wrote an interesting post for Hackaday about a proposed sexual evolution mechanism for robots. He tells Boing Boing:

Using Lego Mindstorms, you can create simple robots that have the ability to mate (swap a simple software genome) and evolve (random chance of single point mutations). Mutations that make a robot unfit for traversing its environment or unable to mate will effectively drive it toward extinction as it cannot pass on its genes.

It's a pretty interesting experiment, as you can watch novel behaviors emerge with each generation. Even more interesting are the possible applications for an evolution based robotic platform. Two things that immediately come to mind are sex-based software upgrade mechanisms for distributed machines and distributed robot cultures that can adapt as a group to be optimized for communication in an environment, rather than being explicitly programmed for the task.

Now, I couldn't find any specific reference to fembots with gun-boobies in Jason's post, but any excuse to post this jpeg's a good one. Link

James P. Howard says:

This is ancient technology. Start with the Wikipedia article on genetic algorithms (Link) and for an excellent lay introduction, suggest "Artificial Life" by Steven Levy (Amazon Link)

Mating Calls (BusinessWeek Online)

Mating Calls (BusinessWeek Online) 08/06/2004 09:38 AM
BusinessWeek Online - Cell phones are indispensable when you're on the road. But back in the office, they mostly get in the way. They ring at odd times, and if you use a headset with your office phone, they're awkward to answer. They certainly do nothing to improve your efficiency. The best solution would be to make your cell phone and land line work together better instead of competing for your attention. I've been looking at three different types of gadgets that let you do just that. The caveat: You'll need particular phones or wireless providers to use them. ...

Octopus Lays Eggs After Successful
Mating

Octopus Lays Eggs After Successful
Mating 06/18/2004 12:25 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Thu Jun 17, 07:18 am GMT

So Begins the Vice-Presidential Mating
Dance

So Begins the Vice-Presidential Mating
Dance 02/14/2004 01:04 AM
Leading Democrats have begun the process of quiet jockeying and careful calculation that they hope might make them someone's running mate.

Net art applet: Secret mating lives of
robots

Net art applet: Secret mating lives of
robots 07/28/2004 11:16 AM
Offspring is a lovely abstract visualization of the pair bonding process of a theoretical robot colony:

"Each robot is assembled, ages through youth, comes into a reproductive stage, and eventually dies of fatigue. If a robot is lucky enough to find a mate during it's reproductive stage, baby robots may be assembled.

Visually, the Offspring image is a historic graph of robot colony size and distribution. Males of the population are represented by single horizontal lines while Females are shown as double lines. (...) Robots can only mate with robots near them in both space in age. To encourage dissimilar permutations, robots are not allowed to mate with siblings."

BoingBoing reader Skye Ashbrook says, "They even give you the source code to each process. I'd love to take those and build small apps on my system to render really high-res versions to output to nice paper on an IRIS printer or something. They can't handle much traffic so if the link is fUXXored, please please keep trying back -- it is so worth it." Link

Update: BoingBoing reader Prion adds, "I was marveling at the mating robots and had in my mind that the work was similar to the magic found at levitated.net. Looking at the credits in the source code I discovered that flash master j.tarbell was the author, one of the levitated.net contributors. For glorious nonlinear flash animation, visit the site."

Town kills 500 pigs for mating with dogs
(Reuters)

Town kills 500 pigs for mating with dogs
(Reuters) 07/09/2004 06:57 AM
Reuters - A Kenyan mayor has ordered more than 500 pigs to be shot dead because they were mating with stray dogs, the East African Standard has reported.

Mating Dinosaurs, crashed 'puters and
"virus' galore"

Mating Dinosaurs, crashed 'puters and
"virus' galore" 02/01/2005 08:42 PM

Special thanks to the script kiddies who've decided to make me misreable with over 50 virus' coming at me - at a time. And woe be it to the poor slob who's repair shop forgets to put the screwws back in the internal hard drive.

So all in all - Jan. 2005 was my lightest month of blogging - like ever. I think I offended Jason Kottke at some Vloggercon party, my clients are starting to get cranky and my kids finally got their birthday presents - which I had promised them back in November at their Bar Mitzvah.

The good news is that Carl is back, he's married and we're ready to rock the world.

First up - ourmedia.org.

It was great to see Greg Elin in NYC at Vloggercon and Mary Hodder at both Vloggercon and Blog Business Summit.

I also upgraded to MR 3.15 - but swtill no WYSIWYG editing. Anil promised something - but now I can't remember when we get it. He also said I get to come in and pitch open source infrastructure ideas to 6A - I can't wait.

They always seemed like the most likely candidates for becoming a DLA company - and supporting all sorts of new kinds of micro-content standards.

I have my fingers crossed on that one.

Critics call eHarmony's mating formula
patent nonsense

Critics call eHarmony's mating formula
patent nonsense 05/28/2004 04:57 AM
Chicago Sun-Times May 28 2004 8:44AM GMT

The end of Hubble?

The end of Hubble? 02/01/2005 09:18 PM
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will probably die before 2010 due to insufficient financial resources to service it. There is no official announcement by NASA yet, but it is expected for 7 February 2005 during the presentation of the 2006 budget. (Sources: BBC, Space.com).

The Best of Hubble

The Best of Hubble 12/10/2003 03:04 PM
The Best of Hubble Its mission will end in 2010. Four years later it will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. Many astronomers are calling for Hubble to be refurbished and its mission extended to 2020. Here are some of it's best pictures.

The Hubble gets a reprieve...maybe.

The Hubble gets a reprieve...maybe. 08/11/2004 01:44 PM
They're going to try to save the Hubble telescope after all! Yea!
Nasa chief Sean O'Keefe has asked for a firm mission proposal to be worked up in a year, after which a decision whether to proceed will be made.

As discussed previously in this thread, it looked like NASA didn't want to devote the resourses necessary to maintain the 14 year old telescope.

Hope for Hubble

Hope for Hubble 04/29/2004 03:11 AM
USA Today Apr 29 2004 7:24AM GMT

Robot to fix the Hubble

Robot to fix the Hubble 08/11/2004 09:45 AM

My first thought is are they smoking crack. NASA has gave the go ahead to fix the Hubble with a Robot. How in the hell are they going to do that and have enough lift capacity to get it there all in one launch. I know they went to Mars but getting a robot to fix Hubble has me wondering if they can really pull this off. [BBC]< /p>

Hubble loses an eye

Hubble loses an eye 08/09/2004 05:44 AM
Analysis points to power supply problems

So Long, Hubble

So Long, Hubble 01/17/2004 11:18 PM

Hubble casualty of Bush space plan: Sometime in the future, we'll be mourning the poor Hubble Space Telescope. It was good while it lasted.

The Hubble Space Telescope will be allowed to degrade and eventually become useless, as NASA changes focus to President Bush's plans to send humans to the moon, Mars and beyond, officials said Friday. NASA canceled all space shuttle servicing missions to the Hubble...

Did you know that when the Hubble was first launched (then subsequently — and infamously — fixed), there was a program where amateur astronomers could submit proposals and, if they were accepted, could use the Hubble to test their own astronomy theories?

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"Hubble Beelden"

"Hubble Beelden" 03/22/2005 06:47 PM

Hubble 'distraction'

Hubble 'distraction' 07/19/2004 04:32 PM
USA Today Jul 19 2004 8:09PM GMT

030811-hubble.swf

030811-hubble.swf 11/17/2003 06:58 AM
really cool pictures from the Hubble Telescope .. Awesome Hubble Slideshow .. this ~3 MB image set .. Best of Hubble .. animation

wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm
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NASA Gives OK to Fix Hubble Telescope

NASA Gives OK to Fix Hubble Telescope 08/10/2004 10:20 AM

Hubble Verdict: De-Orbit

Hubble Verdict: De-Orbit 04/02/2005 07:43 PM

The Hubble Space Telescope and beyond

The Hubble Space Telescope and beyond 11/12/2003 01:15 PM
The Hubble Space Telescope can be considered one of the most important science instruments created so far. Its service record is beyond impressive, but as it approaches its 14th anniversary of service it is becoming clear that new instruments are needed to complement or replace the now aging Hubble. Instruments that will include all technological advancements in optics and electronics that we have developed since the Hubble launch in 1990. Hubble will serve for at least 10 more years, but there is already the project underway that is aimed to create a new instrument that will help the scientists to observe in even more detail: The James Webb Space Telescope.

Griffin: Shuttle Can Fix Hubble

Griffin: Shuttle Can Fix Hubble 04/13/2005 05:46 AM
President Bush's nominee to lead NASA says he'll consider sending a space shuttle to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Lawmakers want to get him on the job as soon as possible. By Amit Asaravala.

Trouble with Hubble may be fixed

Trouble with Hubble may be fixed 08/10/2004 09:25 PM
USA Today Aug 11 2004 1:26AM GMT

Hubble Verdict: De-Orbit

Hubble Verdict: De-Orbit 04/02/2005 10:19 PM
Slashdot Apr 3 2005 12:24AM GMT

Hubble heads for plunge

Hubble heads for plunge 04/04/2005 03:09 PM
USA Today Apr 4 2005 6:38PM GMT

Hubble vs. Webb - How Far Back Will They
See?

Hubble vs. Webb - How Far Back Will They
See? 05/20/2004 05:48 AM

Prioritizing Science with Hubble

Prioritizing Science with Hubble 05/26/2004 05:57 AM

The race to get as much science as possible out of the Hubble telescope is on. As the agenda for the few years Hubble has left astronomers agonizing on what the priorities should be. [Silicon Valley]

Instead of Revamping Hubble, Replace It

Instead of Revamping Hubble, Replace It 02/05/2005 09:08 PM

Hubble Instrument Goes Dark

Hubble Instrument Goes Dark 08/10/2004 05:08 AM
NASA says one of the Hubble Space Telescope's instruments stopped working last week. The failure is a sign of things to come for the ailing space telescope. By Amit Asaravala.

Astronomers rush to use Hubble

Astronomers rush to use Hubble 05/25/2004 04:34 PM
SiliconValley.com May 25 2004 7:45PM GMT
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