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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
I just came across this funny news headline: The Vatican says it's OK to believe in Aliens. Of course its not OK to believe in aliens. Are you kidding?'OK' is an understatement.Think of what would have happened to someone who believed in the existenc
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
A 5-part documentary about the search for extrasolar planets.Part 1:Part 2:Part 3:Part 4:Part 5:
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
What a nice acronym for a project that will bring us marvelous new worlds to thinker with. This coming fall, astronomers will start a massive search for new planets by observing about 11,000 nearby stars over 6 years. This number dwarfs the roughly 3
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Cloud Apps
Just tried out this new image-editing app from Aviary.Aviary's Phoenix is like a simplified photoshop that you can run from your browser. I think kids and teens will love it. Its also perfect for casual users who need to do simple edits on photos.The
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
By now you must be wondering why I have added a very curious parameter to the definition of Exoplanetology, which is "the search for life on other worlds". What does "Life" have to do with Exoplanets? Should we just let Exoplanetology simply be the s
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
A proposed telescope would focus light primarily with a patterned sheet of metal rather than a large mirror or lens. The telescope would have amazingly sharp vision and could spot Earth-size planets around other stars.The technique takes advantage of
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
Dust bunnies are probably the best metaphor when trying to understand how planets form. (Although stars form much in the same way, its rare and difficult to see.)It's simply a property of matter to coalesce or aggregate, specially when in a vortex wi
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
Fantastic Trailer for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. I got goosebumps all over me!
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
I received an invitation to try out this new "Semantic Social Utility" called Twine and I decided to give it a spin. Of course, I planted the seeds of Exoplanetology in there. You may find the topic of Exoplanetology "en-twined" via this URL: http://
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
Light curve of XO-1 made in 2006 by Bruce L. GaryFor the aspiring Amateur Exoplanetologists, this book is for you. Its called Exoplanet Observing For Amateurs. The bad news is that it's out of print (the author, Bruce L. Gary says so himself). The go
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Archetyper
I've now been using "Hello Worlds!" rather than the proverbial "Hello World!" in Java programming. I have adopted that practice to remind myself of the "Plurality of Worlds" that is right before our very eyes. In my opinion, the new generation will
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
Photo Credit: Alien Plant by Conradh on Flickr.We have often set our imaginations on discovering animal-like creatures on other worlds. Yet the first forms of life that we might likely find are alien plants. It makes sense. Plants definitely have to
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
Imaginary but possible lifeforms on a jupiter-like planet. Photo from page 42 of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.A post at io9 mentions the possibility of life aside from the usual carbon-based or water-based type.I'm reminded of the musings and calculations of
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: iBlackle
The Earth Hour came, now Earth Day cometh! Let me be a li'l ridiculous now by saying Earth Year is next! Let me beat them to it because I'm sure all the skeptics will point that out. On Tuesday, April 22, 2008 I hope you'll take time to enjoy the Ear
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Archetyper
We all have these "alter-egos" and we like to create names for our alternate identities. We live out adventures behind those names and seek out worlds for them to inhabit. But in the end, we all come back to our rightful place and come home with our
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Cloud Apps
Of course! Cloud Platforms should be friendly to cloud applications. At the moment, two Cloud Computing platforms are battling it out: Amazon EC2 and Google Apps. Competition is good, and it will benefit everyone. Remember Java's Write-Once-Run-Anywh
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
I played around with Trendrr and the 3 graphs you see are the new Exoplanets discovered per month for 2008, Total new exoplanets in 2008, and a mashup of the previous two charts.Trendrr is a new site that allows users to manipulate a growing number o
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
No. These are not eyeballs nor fisheggs. They're new planets discovered by superWASP.As promised, the 10 new wasp planets are now in the Freebase Catalogue of exoplanets, WASP-6b all the way to WASP-15b. As there are still some discrepancies in data,
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Archetyper
While jogging this morning, I felt the cool wind in my face and as I looked up to enjoy it's refreshing touch, I saw the magnificent blue sky. And I thanked God for that moment.From Flickr, this is the closest photo that I could find to the clouds I
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
WASP-3b: One of the Extrasolar planets discovered by SuperWASP. WASP-3b is one of hottest exoplanets ever detected. It was discovered in 2007.No, this is not an April fools day joke: 10 new Exoplanets have just been discovered by the SuperWASP (Wide
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: iBlackle
I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought that Google hacked my iBlackle logo! Google finally turned their search page into black! And take note of the message at the lower part. It seems so like iBlackle! The snapshot you see of the Search Giant's page
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Archetyper
This is a truly well-orchestrated exhibit : Design and the Elastic Mind at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The online exhibit is already a wonderful feast for interface buffs, visualization maniacs, designers, thinkers and tinkerers - but going to
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- 52 Days Ago
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
As I imported the names of all the known exoplanets into freebase, the pattern was very apparent. In most cases, Exoplanets are named after their parent star, such as 51 Pegasi b, where the parent star is 51 Pegasi, and the last letter "denotes" the
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Exoplanetology
Below is a list of Exoplanet Catalogues. A list of lists, a Meta-Catalogue of Exoplanets. I will continually update this particular post as I come across new ones. Extrasolar Planets EncyclopaediaURL: http://exoplanet.eu/catalog.phpDescription: The m
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: Archetyper
Cyborg Janus by ink_river. What Would AI Do?Wired's April issue came 2 days before Easter, giving me a good amount of time to read it amidst the "Happy Easter" greetings floating around. An article on Ray Kurzweil entitled "Staying Alive" suits well
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metapsyche has posted a new entry on: iBlackle
Turn all your lights off March 29, 2008 at 8pm. It's called Earth Hour. Support this cause to raise awareness on environmental issues such as Climate Change, Carbon Footprint, and so on.It would be a great time for a candle-light dinner date with you
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