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A contest from NASA! 

Design a space colony! Space colonies are permanent communities in orbit, as opposed to being on the moon or other planets. Designing a space colony involves physics, mathematics, space science, environmental science and many other disciplines.

 This contest is for 11-18-year-old students from anywhere in the world. Individuals or teams may enter.

Grades 6-9 and 10-12 are judged separately, except for the grand prize.

All participants will receive a certificate. Prizes will be awarded to winning entries.

Submissions must be received by March 31, 2008.

For additional information about the contest, visit http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/Contest/. If you have questions about this competition, please contact Wenonah Vercoutere at Wenonah.A.Vercoutere@nasa.gov.

It was a wonderful Sunday evening. After a sound lunch and some rest I sat before the television. All the curtains down and doors closed and of course the mobile to silent mode and with array of snacks and juices in reachable distance. It was the Wimbledon 2007 final, the clash of the titans Roger Federer and Raphael Nadal. With lots of expectations for a thrilling final the mood was set. The match started at 06:30 pm IST. (more…)

Source: http://hinode.msfc.nasa.gov/

Hinode is a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC).

If you are a whizkid fond of telescope, this should be interesting to you. Hinode has got an amazing telescope called ‘Solar Optical Telescope (SOT)’.

It has a resolution of 0.2 arcseconds or 0.00006 degrees. Putting those numbers into perspective, the telescope can see features on the sun as small as 90 miles wide from its orbit 93 million miles away. Its unique ability is, it can see the sun’s magnetic field. Wow!

Hinode means ’sunrise’ in Japan!

This is to share my travel checklist with you. Hope this will be useful to all travelers.

Documents

• Personal Identification Card (preferably issued by government with photograph), visiting card, driving license
• Accommodation plan and alternate risk plan documents
• Passport, Visa
• Transportation(Air / Train / Bus) tickets, accommodation / resort / hotel reservations
• Addresses, and phone numbers of where you’ll be staying, local enquiry and emergency phone numbers in a separate sheet to keep in pocket (more…)

Introduction:This article gives a solution for the question, “How to fix the iPod problem ‘Do Not Disconnect’ message is not going away and Apple iPod is not responding / hanged / frozen?”
Problem description: Whenever the Apple iPod displays “Do Not Disconnect” message, the disconnect should be done only after proper ‘Eject’. Sometimes even after doing proper ‘Eject’, the message may not go away and the Apple iPod may have frozen / hanged too, that is not responding to user inputs. (more…)