Plasma Physics

Plasma Secrets



Plasma is the fourth state of matter, gas, liquids and solids being the other three. It seems they have managed to create the coldest and densest (not dense at all, mind you) plasma living so long we are able to observe it. I always get highly alerted whenever I read about anything plasma since I used to occupy myself with it for say more than 16 hours a day. If you do that, you are stuck with plasma for the rest of your life.

The Negative Moon

Inverse Moon

Military - Planes

Norway Saves US Economy?



Credit: Lockheed Martin

F-35 Lightning II



Well, helps out a little bit by going on a major defense gear shopping spree. LOL

Sweden hates us even deeper now. They wanted us to buy SAAB Gripen planes. Some say this is Norway's revenge on Sweden for pretending to stay neutral in WWII. Just a joke...:-D

Androidny's* course in Norwegian: This is 'ovkult'!





*Or anybody else planning to visit Norway wanting to be prepared to establish a dialog with the natives.

Water Recycler

Urine Turns to Water



That is the plan. Not working, yet!

Exoplanet?

Exoplanet? In Blue



Credit: ESO

Beta pictoris seen in infrared

The hot sport of finding evidence of extrasolar planets results in amazing imagery. Not surprisingly I love this infrared image of Beta pictoris; it's bright blue! It is not completely proven that the element very close to this star actually is a planet, but evidence point in that direction. If it is in fact a planet, it will the planet orbiting closest to any star that we know of, including in our own planetary system.

Jet Engines

Blowing - Off To the Moon Soon?




Powered up to blow up! :-)

Orion and Ares-1 rocket being tested these days. Looks marvelous. Wish I could have seen that in-situ!






The boilerplate Orion crew module that will be used for the Orion Launch Abort System Pad Abort-1 flight test is tilted on jacks during weight and balance testing at NASA Dryden. (NASA photo / Tony Landis)

Physics As Art

Shock Art



Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Shock waves - sulfur in air.