What is Analemma?

Well, if you did’t know. Let me give you a hint.. It has to do with how the sun moves about. When documenting the suns position, and how it shifts with time, you will find a pattern, a shape if you so will, called Analemma.

Spiffy! Now.. What does it look like?

Here’s a picture and a link to the source! From the excellent Haklab‘s Flickr photostream

Cassini takes a look at Saturn

If you would like to take a look visit the Nasa website for the Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft. There’s some amazing pictures of Saturn, never seen before.

Here’s a preview for you!

From the Nasa site:

“Between the blinding light of day and the dark of night, there is a strip of twilight on the globe where colorful details in the atmosphere can be seen. Bright clouds dot the bluish-grey northern polar region here. In the south, the planet’s night side glows golden in reflected light from the rings’ sunlit face. “

Beautiful!

1,920 tonnes of magnet

This beast of a repelling/attracting thingy has just been put in the ground near the French-Swiss border, it’s all part of a craaazy experiment to find the origin of matter. A cause that I for one find very satisfying. It makes sense to try and find out what we are really made of.. 

From the Times Online:

“Scientists involved in the 15-year experiment — smashing particles together at high speed — could bring new knowledge to the secrets of the universe, such as the possible existence of multiple dimensions. “

Hux Flux reloaded

The name of the blog is now simply: Hux Flux

To celebrate the blog seems to have put on a new outfit!

Happiness!

US of A to Record everything?

So, the stereotypical evil geniuses (the description ‘genious’ may be a bit drastic but they haven’t been stopped yet..) at the Pentagon seems to be constantly coming up with new ideas on how to make us all in to obedient little citizens. From Wired’s blog comes this article about a new report from Pentagon, the report states amongst other scary things:

 ”To counter these new threats, technology exists, or could be developed, to provide new levels of spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution and diversity. Furthermore, the ability to record terabyte and larger databases will provide an omnipresent knowledge of the present and the past that can be used to rewind battle space observations in TiVo-like fashion and to run recorded time backwards to help identify and locate even low-level enemy forces. For example, after a car bomb detonates, one would have the ability to play high-resolution data backward in time to follows the vehicle back to the source, and then use that knowledge to focus collection and gain additional information by organizing and searching through archived data.“

Here’s a direct link to the report. Read and get with the programme. A new time is coming, not too soon, we can all hope!