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European Scientist

     След завършването на войната в Европа, през 1945 г., в американската окупационна зона в Германия бил арестуван един немски офицер, служил по-рано във войските на СС. У него било открито писмо, подписано от групенфюрера от СС Фрелих, в което са дадени следните цифри: „166 млн швейцарски франка, 300 млн американски долари, 31 милиарда в златни кюлчета, 5,5 милиарда в наркотици…” Къде са разположени тези огромни суми и къде са тези ценности, и до днес никой не може да даде отговор. Не е трудно човек да се досети, че става дума за укрити по време на Втората световна война ценности, откраднати от нацистите. Днес е известно, че с приближаването на краха на нацистка Германия, нейните ръководители успяват да укрият на най-невероятни места награбеното от цяла Европа – най-вече злато и брилианти за милиарди долари, хиляди безценни произведения на изкуството, като по-голямата част от тях така и не…

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LIFE Behind the Picture: Larry Burrows’ ‘Reaching Out,’ 1966

Peter Turnley

Gimme Good Style

Even though he is best known for his war photos and photojournalism, Peter Turnley shows us beautiful images of something really different than hatred…it’s actually the opposite of hate, it’s love.

And what is the better set to shoot lovers than the City of Lights itself ?

Parisians really have no shyness when they show their love, which is quite refreshing because we, Indonesians, are quite strict when it comes to PDA and love whatsoever.

There is nothing much to say about the shoots. They’re lovely (I know, what a limited choice of words), I like the way Peter shoots them like photos for mere newspaper yet they feel really artistic, really show me how to … love.

And the best thing is; he didn’t forget to include gays. They deserve to love as much as all of us do.

Bravo !

(What is the french for Bravo/Great/Perfect ?)

(I don’t…

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Asteroid-Targeting System Could Vaporize Dangerous Space Rocks.

From NASA: Site A meteor seen flying over Russia on Feb. 15 at 3:20: 26 UTC impacted Chelyabinsk.

A meteor seen flying over Russia on Feb. 15 at 3:20: 26 UTC impacted Chelyabinsk. Preliminary information is that this object was unrelated to asteroid 2012 DA14, which made a safe pass by Earth today. Image credit: Google Earth, NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

 

 

Preliminary information indicates that a meteor in Chelyabinsk, Russia, is not related to asteroid 2012 DA14, which is flying by Earth safely today.

The Russia meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia. The meteor entered the atmosphere at about 40,000 mph (18 kilometers per second). The impact time was 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15), and the energy released by the impact was in the hundreds of kilotons.

Based on the duration of the event, it was a very shallow entry. It was larger than the meteor over Indonesia on Oct. 8, 2009. Measurements are still coming in, and a more precise measure of the energy may be available later. The size of the object before hitting the atmosphere was about 49 feet (15 meters) and had a mass of about 7,000 tons.

The meteor, which was about one-third the diameter of asteroid 2012 DA14, was brighter than the sun. Its trail was visible for about 30 seconds, so it was a grazing impact through the atmosphere.

It is important to note that this estimate is preliminary, and may be revised as more data is obtained.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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Steve Cole
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Janet Anderson
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
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Feb. 15, 2013

MEDIA ADVISORY : M13-033

NASA Experts Discuss Russia Meteor in Media Teleconference Today

WASHINGTON — NASA experts will hold a teleconference for news media at 4 p.m. EST today to discuss a meteor that streaked through the skies over Russia’s Urals region this morning.

Scientists have determined the Russia meteor is not related to asteroid 2012 DA14 that will safely pass Earth today at a distance of more than 17,000 miles. Early assessments of the Russia meteor indicate it was about one-third the size of 2012 DA14 and traveling in a different direction.

Panelists for the teleconference are:
— Bill Cooke, lead for the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
— Paul Chodas, research scientist in the Near Earth Object Program Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

News media interested in participating should dial 888-843-7186 and use the passcode METEOR.

The teleconference will be carried live online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For detailed information concerning the Earth flyby of 2012 DA14, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html

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A look at baseball found on Shiloh battlefield

The Cotton Boll Conspiracy

Baseball’s connection to the War Between the States has long been recognized. Soldiers played ball as a way to occupy free time, of which there was a great deal in between the occasional battle or skirmish or for those in prison camps, and officers saw it as a way to keep men active during down time.

However, baseball relics from 150 years ago are exceedingly rare, partly because the generally scarcity of luxury items such as sporting goods during the war, partly because of the transiency that is the nature of army life and partly because of time itself.

Which makes the above item all the more fascinating: Slate magazine published the image earlier this week of a ball found and retrieved in 1862 in Shiloh, Tenn., amid the detritus of one of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles. The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6-7, 1862, and resulted in…

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