The Earthquake-Resilient Building The Brilliant Idea: A replaceable‚ building-wide system to help hospitals‚ apartment buildings and office towers survive severe seismic shaking. By Logan Ward and the Editors of Popular Mechanics September 30‚ 2010 6:30 AM Elastic high-strength steel cables run down the center of the system’s frame. The cables control the rocking of the building and‚ when the earthquake is over‚ pull it back into proper alignment. A steel frame situated around a building’s
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Denver‚ Colorado‚ in April 2009. Steven Ritz an active researcher rejected the findings at the ATIC in saying "We have much better statistics and can tell you we do not see so extreme a feature." The Fermi Telescope built by NASA is an orbiting observatory used to detect high energy outputs‚ originally designed for gamma-rays. Yes gamma-rays like the incredible Hulk only scientifically accurate. Both cases have their flaws as the Fermi telescope was not built to identify the
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published an article about the latest development of discovery of more than 50 new alien planets — including one so-called super-Earth that could potentially support life which discovered by an exoplanet-hunting telescope from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Exoplanet or extrasolar planet that orbits a star other than earth’s sun was observed from the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher instrument‚ or HARPS. By studying the properties of all the alien planets detected by HARPS so far
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my life while I was under. She had to give me just the right amount of anesthetics. Too much and I would perish. Too little and I would awake during surgery and feel every tugging motion inside my knee. Outside the operating room far off is an observatory where an astronomer is hard at work. What he does is fascinating and fantastical to my eyes but it would not be something I would like to do full time. Becoming an anesthesiologist is what I decided to do because it is more of a true full time job
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Cited: "About Mauna Kea Observatories." About Mauna Kea. University of Hawaii‚ n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2014. <http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko/about_maunakea.shtml>. "Definition of "Telescope"" Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com‚ n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2014. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/telescope>
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58). Brahe collected astronomical observations for the majority of his life on the island of Hven where he built a castle using the best equipped observatories available. He was required to calculate new orbits of planetary objects using observations collected by Brahe. After becoming his assistant‚ Kepler expected to have access to all of Brahe’s observational data‚ reluctantly‚ Brahe was very cautious
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Maupertuis‚ to measure a degree on longitude. My first stop traveling was the new observatory in Berlin. Then‚ I traveled to Nuremberg and published writings of my own. After‚ I visited Venice‚ Padsa‚ and Bologne before continuation on to Rome and then Paris. I went to London to help Maupertuis to prove a theory a while after. In 1737‚ I returned to Uppsala and took over Sweden’s first modern observatory. This opened in December of 1742. Also‚ upon my return‚ I began a series of
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Professor Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906) was a Professor of Astronomy and Physics as well as the Observatory Director at the Alleghany Observatory in Pennsylvania when he became interested in flight in early 1887. He became the Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute that same year and began building model aircraft that were powered by rubber bands. He called them aerodromes. In November 1887 he became the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute and continued his experiments with his model
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Spectrographs‚ Radio Telescopes & Space Telescopes Astr100 Lecture 10 September 19‚ 2012 Keck 10-meter Telescopes Mauna Kea Observatory‚ HI Keck Telescope Details University of Arizona Mirror Furnace TMT = Thirty Meter Telescope Now in design phase. Cost $800M Thirty Meter Telescope details: 492 segments each 1-m across Active & Adaptive Optics • Active optics – to adjust a big mirror once every minute or so to maintain its mechanical shape • Adaptive optics – to adjust
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5th century‚ an ancient mathematician and astrologist‚ Aryabhata‚ contributed in the field of mathematics and astronomical sciences related to earth and also headed the one of the most prestigious university of ancient India besides building the observatory at sun temple and writing his book. Body: Transition: First of all‚ I would like to make you familiar with background of the great Aryabhatta Main Point 1: Aryabhatta was the great Indian mathematician and astronomer‚ who lived during
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