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A Gardner's Discovery Solves The Stonehenge mystery

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 12:11:00 +0000

The Stonehenge mystery solved by a gardener is making news headlines this week, and it makes many people wonder why a gardener is solving a Stonehenge mystery that eluded archaeologists and historians. There are many mysteries surrounding the Stonehenge. This week’s so-called amazing discovery is discussing the question as to whether Stonehenge was once a complete circle or not. According to a Slate report on Sept. 4, “dry weather and a short hose may have revealed one of the prehistoric monument’s secrets.”

While many people have always believed that Stonehenge used to be a complete circle (before someone needed a few of the stones for something more useful), historians were not quite as convinced.

“Historians have long debated whether Stonehenge was a full or incomplete circle, with some arguing a lack of stones in the south-west quadrant is proof it was never complete,” reports the BBC. “Previous scientific techniques such as geophysics failed to find any evidence.”

But who needs archeologists or historians to solve one of the mysteries of Stonehenge if you have a gardener? According to a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the journal Antiquity, “a chance appearance of parchmarks” discovered by a gardener provides evidence that Stonehenge was once a complete circle.

The “parchmarks” were discovered by gardener Tim Daw whose job was to water the grass around the stones during the driest weeks of the summer. In July of last year, gardener Daw had to use a water hose that did not reach the south-west quadrant of Stonehenge.

Coincidentally (or was it?) this was also the part where there was a gap in the otherwise Stonehenge circle. Daw recalls the moment when he noticed something that apparently had eluded historians so far:

“I was standing on the public path looking at the grass near the stones and thinking that we needed to find a longer hosepipe to get the parched patches to green up. A sudden light-bulb moment in my head, and I remembered that the marks were where archaeologists had looked without success for signs that there had been stone holes, and that parch marks can signify them. I called my colleague over and he saw them and realised their possible significance as well. Not being archaeologists we called in the professionals to evaluate them. I am still amazed and very pleased that simply really looking at something, that tens of thousands of people had unwittingly seen, can reveal secrets that sophisticated machinery can't.”

The Stonehenge mystery solved, or at least one of the mysteries, by a gardener instead of archaeologists is somewhat hard to believe. Wouldn’t historians have taken a closer look at those missing spots during the past decades and maybe even dug up some of the grass which might explain the signs of dry patches? However, archaeologists are apparently stunned by the gardener’s keen observation and admit that they were unable to discover what Tim Daw did by merely looking at the site. In September's issue of the journal Antiquity, British archaeologist Mike Pitts explained the impact that the gardener's discovery has on the scientific community and Stonehenge:

"This is a wonderful piece of serendipitous research, highly productive and promptly published. If anyone remained unconvinced that new, targeted excavation at Stonehenge is needed, surely any doubts must now be dispelled?"

Video. Stonehenge mystery solved

Arriving Somewhere But not Here by Porcupine Tree

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sun, 25 May 2014 17:36:00 +0000

Another masterpiece by Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere but not Here. It is part of Album Deadwing which is part of a wide project that in the intention has been lead to a film on the subject treated.

King Crimson's Adrian Belew plays the second guitar solo on Arriving Somewhere But Not Here.

The complete concept and story of Deadwing of which Arriving Somewhere But not Here is part has never been entirely announced by Porcupine Tree, and this is likely due to Steven Wilson's intentions of attempting to turn this into a movie, and not wanting to spoil any portions of the story.

Wilson said it is a surreal "ghost story," and "the idea's ultimately that this album will form a kind of companion with the feature film."[10]He stated that David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick were major influences for the filmscript.

Video. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Live

Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Lyrics

Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes
Never trust the sound of rain upon a river
Rushing through your ears

Arriving somewhere but not here

Did you imagine the final sound as a gun?
Or the smashing windscreen of a car?
Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out was a song?

All my designs, simplified
And all of my plans, compromised
All of my dreams, sacrificed

Ever had the feeling you've been here before?
Drinking down the poison the way you were taught
Every thought from here on in your life begins
And all you knew was wrong?

Arriving somewhere but not here

All my designs, simplified
And all of my plans, compromised
All of my dreams, sacrificed

Did you see the red mist block your path?
Did the scissors cut a way to your heart?
Did you feel the envy for the sons of mothers tearing you apart?

Biodiesel is now Sustainable thanks to new Fuel Cells

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sun, 25 May 2014 11:22:00 +0000

A new fuel-cell concept, developed by an Michigan State University researcher, will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while removing their dependence on fossil fuel from their production process.

The platform, which uses microbes to glean ethanol from glycerol and has the added benefit of cleaning up the wastewater, will allow producers to reincorporate the ethanol and the water into the fuel-making process, said Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist and one of the co-authors.

“With a saturated glycerol market, traditional approaches see producers pay hefty fees to have toxic wastewater hauled off to treatment plants,” she said. “By cleaning the water with microbes on-site, we’ve come up with a way to allow producers to generate bioethanol, which replaces petrochemical methanol. At the same time, they are taking care of their hazardous waste problem.”

The results, which appear in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, show that the key to Reguera’s platform is her patented adaptive-engineered bacteria – Geobacter sulfurreducens.

Geobacter are naturally occurring microbes that have proved promising in cleaning up nuclear waste as well in improving other biofuel processes. Much of Reguera’s research with these bacteria focuses on engineering their conductive pili or nanowires. These hair-like appendages are the managers of electrical activity during a cleanup and biofuel production.

First, Reguera, along with lead authors and MSU graduate students Allison Speers and Jenna Young, evolved Geobacter to withstand increasing amounts of toxic glycerol. The next step, the team searched for partner bacteria that could ferment it into ethanol while generating byproducts that ‘fed’ the Geobacter.

“It took some tweaking, but we eventually developed a robust bacterium to pair with Geobacter,” Reguera said. “We matched them up like dance partners, modifying each of them to work seamlessly together and eliminate all of the waste.”

Together, the bacteria’s appetite for the toxic byproducts is inexhaustible.

“They feast like they’re at a Las Vegas buffet,” she added. “One bacterium ferments the glycerol waste to produce bioethanol, which can be reused to make biodiesel from oil feedstocks. Geobacter removes any waste produced during glycerol fermentation to generate electricity. It is a win-win situation.”

The hungry microbes are the featured component of Reguera’s microbial electrolysis cells, or MECs. These fuel cells do not harvest electricity as an output. Rather, they use a small electrical input platform to generate hydrogen and increase the MEC’s efficiency even more.

The promising process already has caught the eye of economic developers, who are helping scale up the effort. Through a Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization grant, Reguera and her team are developing prototypes that can handle larger volumes of waste.

Reguera also is in talks with MBI, the bio-based technology “de-risking” enterprise operated by the MSU Foundation, to develop industrial-sized units that could handle the capacities of a full-scale biodiesel plant. The next step will be field tests with a Michigan-based biodiesel manufacturer.

Read more at http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113153782/fuel-cell-concept-makes-biodiesel-sustainable-052314/#tGpZtUysDUk4Vzo5.99

Summer the New Hit by Calvin Harris

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Wed, 14 May 2014 20:54:00 +0000

Looking for Calvin Harris new Hit? That is Summer the new song by Calvin Harris. I'm sincere: I never heard before the Calvin Harris name (I know, I'm the only one around the whole World!). But this song has caught my imagination. Not for the beautiful girls who populate the official video, but for how Summer is constructed in melody and rhythmic. I think that is a Masterpiece of the genre.

Look at the

tutorial: How to play Summer Calvin Harris. Maybe what i'm trying to explain would be clear

The Song Summer by Calvin harris is composed of 3 parts well defined. An intro, a more Melodic part and the Rhythmic. Perfect the Masterpiece is here! Summer by Calvin Harris.

Everything is seasoned with the voice sober and essential by Calvin Harris!

Gallery. Beautiful Girl taking part to the Video Summer by Calvin Harris

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Video. Official Video Summer By Calvin Harris

Lyrics. Summer By Calvin Harris

When I met you in the summer
To my heartbeat sound
We fell in love
As the leaves turned brown

We could be together baby
As long as skies are blue
You act so innocent now
But you lied so soon
When I met you in the summer

When I met you in the summer
To my heartbeat sound
We fell in love
As the leaves turned brown

We could be together baby
As long as skies are blue
You act so innocent now
But you lied so soon
When I met you in the summer

Tin-Based Solar Cell The Photovoltaics of The Future

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:47:00 +0000

Using readily available equipment, researchers at from Northwestern University have developed a new type of solar cell based on tin instead of lead perovskite, according to a new report in Nature Photonics.

“This is a breakthrough in taking the lead out of a very promising type of solar cell, called a perovskite,” said study author Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, an inorganic chemist at Northwestern. “Tin is a very viable material, and we have shown the material does work as an efficient solar cell.”

When made with lead, the perovskite structure has about 15-percent efficiency in converting solar energy into electricity. The Northwestern researchers said their new tin-based cell should be able to eventually equal and potentially surpass that level of efficiency. Being hailed as the new frontier of solar energy technology, perovskite cells have been increasingly researched in recent years.

“Our tin-based perovskite layer acts as an efficient sunlight absorber that is sandwiched between two electric charge transport layers for conducting electricity to the outside world,” said study author Robert P. H. Chang, a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern.

The solid-state tin cell is comprised of five levels, with each level being a crucial component. The first layer of the novel cell is electrically-conductive glass, which permits sunlight to get into the cell. The next layer, Titanium dioxide, is placed onto the glass and the two first layers act as the front contact side of the solar cell.

Next, the light-absorbing tin perovskite layer is laid down. This is carried out in a protected environment called a nitrogen glove box that prevents oxidation.

The next level is the hole transport layer, which is necessary to close the circuit and achieve a functional cell. This layer demands exact chemistry to prevent destroying the tin below. This essential chemistry was determined by learning the reactivity of the perovskite structure. This level also is put down in the glove box. The nearly-completed cell is then enclosed and can now be exposed to the air.

A slim layer of gold is used to top off the solar cell and act as the back electrode. Once completed, the entire device is approximately one to two microns thick.

The scientists then analyzed the device under simulated full sunlight and documented an efficiency of 5.73 percent. They added that the tin cell can absorb the majority of the visible light spectrum and the perovskite salt can be dissolved – reforming upon solvent removal.

“Other scientists will see what we have done and improve on our methods,” Kanatzidis said. “There is no reason this new material can’t reach an efficiency better than 15 percent, which is what the lead perovskite solar cell offers. Tin and lead are in the same group in the periodic table, so we expect similar results.”

The researchers said their cell offers the possibility of both higher efficiency and lower fabrication costs while being environmentally friendly.

“Solar energy is free and is the only energy that is sustainable forever,” Kanatzidis said. “If we know how to harvest this energy in an efficient way we can raise our standard of living and help preserve the environment.”

Source redorbit.com

Green Mobility Vision at BYD Auto Co. 5-4-2 initiative.

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Wed, 07 May 2014 19:43:00 +0000

BYD, at the Beijing Auto Show, announced its “5-4-2” initiative, which sounds to us like an announcement linked to more PHEVs and EVs in the future.

“5-4-2” is a performance standard, in which 5 represents the maximum of 5 seconds in acceleration from 0 to 100km/h (0-62 mph). 4 is for number of wheels under power and 2 stands for number of liters of gasoline maximum that shall be consumed for 100 km traveled in a BYD car.

The first car that meet “5-4-2” is all-new Tang, all-wheel-drive plug-in SUV.

BYD Qin is selling in high volumes in China, but for now its seems to be outside of “5-4-2”. According to BYD, sales in just two Chinese city markets (Tianjin and Shanghai) makes Qin the top selling New Energy Car in China with sales of just under 2,000 units per month now (3,000 sales achieved in the first 3 months of 2014).

BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu announced that when the Tang launches in Beijing this year, there will be a race with other cars.

For 2016, scheduled for BYD is the reveal of a super-hybrid, the “Ming”, which will be powered by four in-wheel motors with torque-vectoring. BYD has some experience in this area, as all BYD electric buses have in-wheel motors.

Chariman Wang stated:

“This is not just a dream. In the electronic era, we can do things we couldn’t do in the mechanical eras.”

But first, in 2015, we will see the Han, which just like Ming will meet the “5-4-2” standard.

Interesting times these are for BYD.

The Great Beauty won the Oscar while Mullholland Drive has not

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:32:00 +0000

The Great Beauty, the italian film by Paolo Sorrentino has been awarded by foreign language Oscar i.e. Academy Award. Personally I did not like the movie. I found it lacking in content, poor in acting, but the film was honored with an Oscar.

The Plot

Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from... continue
Certainly, the film is evocative, excellent photography, superb soundtrack. But is this enough for a movie to make it win an Oscar? I'm not sure!

I came recently across the picture below

I cannot stop thinking about how great this film is. Mulholland Drive. Definitely one of the most beautiful and intense movie in the history of Cinema.

Well Mulholland Drive did not win the Oscar, while The Great Beauty yes!

You decide! I can only leave you with the official trailers of both Movies

The Great Beauty

Mulholland Drive

Should Renewable Energy be Necessarily Stored?

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:39:00 +0000

The question if Renewable Energy should be stored or not is an important one. The Technology about Energy Storage Systems is improving day by day but the costs are still high. So it's important to understand if there are different ways to use Renewable Energy since is the Energy of future.

At the moment one can think about Renewable Energy generation that since the global quota produced is small compared to the global quota of Energy produced it would be convenient to use it at the same moment when Renewable Energy is produced.

This could be true if the Global net we know with the name grid would so simple to understand as to switch a button. Unfortunately it is not!

What seems so straightforward on our end –turn on the lights and bam, electricity! – is truly a complex system designed to move huge amounts of power staggering distances, all so that we can exercise our right to run the washing machine, dishwasher, and power drill all at the same time.

When you plug your smartphone into the wall outlet, you’re tapping into the grid. “The power grid is like a massive pool,” says Charles Barnhart, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project. “There are lots of hoses pouring in, and lots of taps pouring out.” The hoses pouring in come from power generators, including everything from coal to nuclear to hydroelectric to wind to solar sources. The taps pouring out are our smoothie blenders, refrigerators, stereos – and that dead phone battery of yours.

Here’s one key thing to know about the grid: It doesn’t function unless energy demand (from us) and energy supply (from power plants) balance out. Too much demand, and we lose power. Too much supply, and we also lose power, as the aging grid can’t handle much surplus energy. Grid operators prevent this by carefully monitoring and predicting energy demand (for example, they often expect a surge in demand on hot days when we all crank up our air conditioners), then calling on power producers to deliver that precise amount.

The problem with the ever-fickle wind and sun is that they’re not so easy to predict and control.

Overall, energy from renewable sources does make up a decent slice of the country’s total power – about 13 percent. But the grid is constantly fluctuating, and at any given (sunny, windy) time and place, renewables might be humming hard enough to overwhelm our demand for energy (as it did during this Pacific Northwest storm, or on most nights in Texas).

All right, you might say. I get it – but when wind and solar are pumping, shouldn’t we dial back all the grid’s dirty power sources and let renewables shine? I’ll let Paul Denholm, Senior Energy Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, handle this: “You can only turn a power plant down so much. A Prius comes to a stop at a red light and the engine shuts off. When the light turns green, the engine starts up again. Power plants aren’t like that – if you turn it off, you have to keep it off for hours. Also, it’s really expensive to turn a power plant on and off. “It would be great if in the middle of the day, when the sun is shining, we could turn power plants off.

But the sun will set, and you wouldn’t have the plants back on again in time.” And so we’re left with a situation where we use renewable energy when the demand is high enough. When the wind is blowing/ sun is shining but we don’t need the energy, however, we can either curtailwind/solar production or figure out a decent way to store the excess.

That’s why renewable energy storage is a bright idea today, not years in the future. There’s lots of exciting science being done in this department, from high-tech batteries to pressurized air stored in volcanic rocks to hydropower reservoirs to residential water heaters. This is all part of the Smart Grid, a broad collection of ideas aimed at modernizing our creaky power system and integrating renewables more seamlessly. Some day, we may wash our hands of our dirty power sources.

Cassini Probes Finds Plastic on Titan

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:52:00 +0000

The NASA Cassini spacecraft has found propylene, a chemical used in the boxes that store food and other consumer products, on Titan, one of Saturn's moons (the largest). This is the first identification of plastic on a Moon or a Planet outside the Earth. The small amount of propylene has been identified in the lower atmosphere of Titan by the instrument CIRS (Composite Infrared Spectrometer), an infrared ray instrument that can measure the heat emitted by Saturn and its Moons.

Propylene is the first molecule to be discovered on Titan using CIRS, as stated in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. This finding answers to a mystery that dates back to the observations of the Voyager 1 spacecraft in the eighties. Voyager had identified in the atmosphere of Titan's hazy brownish-many hydrocarbons, chemicals that make up mainly oil and other fossil fuels on Earth. On Titan, the hydrocarbons are formed after the light of the sun has broken the methane, the second most abundant gas in the atmosphere. The fragments just freed can connect up to form chains with two, three or more carbon atoms. The family of chemicals with two carbon atoms includes the ethane and propane that of three, the member heavier, and propyne, one of the lighter components. But the intermediate chemicals, including propylene, were missing so far.

Gravity Streaming Full Movie

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:26:00 +0000

Gravity is an upcoming Film directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Strictly speaking it's the story of a medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.

The Actor Stars are Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.

The Film is a masterpiece of 3D effects to recreate the light of the Earth and Sun on an astronaut and the weightlessness of zero gravity.

Gravity is no ordinary sci-fi flight of fantasy every single frame and movement had to be planned out before filming started to merge the CGI and live action seamlessly. Visual effects coordinator Tim Webber’s team referenced thousands of NASA photographs of the space shuttle and International Space Station down to every last nut and bolt.

Video. Gravity Film Trailer

Page localizations. Beware to Duplicate Content and Google Penalizations

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:27:00 +0000

Several Companies offer the same Service or Product in different cities. The page content would be very similar for each city and could appear as duplicated in most cases. Duplicate content is not a Google best practice and some penalizations could appear reducing the whole website traffic. So how to best practice and avoid Google penalization?

This is the Argument of a Dumb Seo Questions that I proposed to the Google Plus Community Seo Questions. Several SEO experts moderated by the Founder Jim Munro have answered to my question. You can see below the full Hangout discussing several SEO Questions including mine.

Content is the Master

In order to avoid penalizations the answer is just one: write unique content! Or better: uniquely localize each service/product city page in order to obtain a unique content page.

There are at least 2 benefits to write localized unique content for each city / service:

Avoid Google penalizations for duplicate page content
Better competitive SEO local pages.

How to write SEO targetized local pages

Look at your local competitors.
Choose the right local Keywords. For example if are dealing with Solar panel installation it could happen that the search traffic volume for city A is higher for the keyword "PV Systems" while the most searched keyword for the city B would be "Solar Panels". One of the tool that can help to choose the best local keyword is the Google Keyword Planner.
Add testimonials
Use immagination!

What happens if the cities are thousands and you would need to create thousands pages?

Unfortunately you have to provide unique content for each page even if they are thousands!

As you know the way to success is hard and rough!

The only suggestion I can give you is to group several pages to reduce the number.

The Dumb SEO discussion and Hangout

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions G+ community.

W.E. Jonk: If you cannot provide any unique high quality content I wouldn't create it.
RoxBlog Rox: Hi +W.E. Jonk ; ;They are landing pages. I already created few, not all just to try and they are first page in SERP for the right keyword. But since the page should be thousands i'm aware!
Manikanta Reddy Doragacharla: Hi
I have dout reg. G plus
For my G Plus a/c how many pages can i create ?
W.E. Jonk: +RoxBlog Rox ;I do understand that when you look at your competitors that you see that they are creating pages targeting specific cities. By itself this isn't a problem. However if the different city pages are more or less duplicates, then it might not be best practise. And that is how I read your post: Duplicating a page, change the URL and instead of mentioning city A you swap that for city B.

The problem with that is that you are creating doorway pages. Google defines doorway pages as:

Doorway pages are typically large sets of poor-quality pages where each page is optimized for a specific keyword or phrase. [1]

What low-quality is or how much is a large set I don't know but you are taking a risk.

Besides the manual thing you might get hit by Panda. That is, if you have many low-quality pages your whole site might see a reduce in the rankings. Panda was especially designed for publisher to:

not to focus too much on what they think are Google’s current ranking algorithms or signals [2]

There are probably more things one can mention but I showed you why G might not appreciate this practise from the Guidelines point a view and from an algo point a view. ;

[1] ;https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2721311?hl=en
[2] ;http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html
RoxBlog Rox: +W.E. Jonk ;thank you for your comprehensive explanation. But in this case I'm really not using a trick. I really need those pages. They are not poor quality but Google can interpret them as duplicate. I will find a different solution in order to do not get a penalization. Thanks
W.E. Jonk: What you can do is having unique content for the cities you are targeting. For example customer testimonies or work that you did in that particular city. If you have an office you can set up Google Places or other listings. You can also do a special offer. ;

In general try to create additional value for people from a particular city. Why should they land on the city targeted page instead of a generic product page?
RoxBlog Rox: ok. Thank you Very much. I will try to implement it. ;
Justin Y: +RoxBlog Rox also maybe talk about your service compared to others that offer the same service. What separates you from them? What more can you provide or touch base on what others do not provide that might be unique. Look at the trends and check the queries space for the cities you're trying to target to see how should be optimizing for each city. Run each page through copyscape to avoid duplicate content when you're finished creating each targeted page.
RoxBlog Rox: Hi +Justin Y ;thank you for the advice and for let me know copyscape. I checked one the pages I have already online and it results no copy ware found online. This sounds good for me! :-) Anyway in some City i'm not on first page Serp so I planned to focus more on the content of those pages in order to improve positioning. For your reference I post 2 links to different cities in order you can see what are differences between city pages. Bari pagehttp://www.bnrgreenmobility.it/vendita-biciclette-elettriche-bari/
Cosenza page ;http://www.bnrgreenmobility.it/vendita-biciclette-elettriche-cosenza/

Justin Y: You're welcome. It's going to be a bit of a challenge to get on the top of SERPs because of local results and how Google treats them. You can break some ground if your domain has some good authority but also know that people might be paying for clicks as well through SEM, especially if its ecommerce.

Dumb SEO Hangout

Tesla Motors the Best Electric Cars - 500 Km with 2€

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:50:00 +0000

Which is the best Electric Car? At the moment the answer to this question is very easy! Tesla Motor produces the best electric Cars under different point of view. Tesla’s goal is to accelerate the world’s transition to electric mobility with a full range of increasingly affordable electric cars. California-based Tesla designs and manufactures EVs, as well as EV powertrain components for partners such as Toyota and Daimler.

First of all the TESLA full charge Autonomy

Tesla cars can run for 500 Km and recharge in 20min for 100 Km more! This is a record that makes Tesla Motors cars the most useful electric cars ever.

Tesla cars design

The Tesla motors design is stunning. The interior design as well as the exteriors. Have a look to this Video.

Tesla Cars Safety

Despite its lightweight metal body, the Tesla Model S electric vehicle earned the highest automobile safety rating in North America. Here are all the test and a Video showing Safety of the Tesla Car Models.

Life on Mars

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:40:00 +0000

Is there Life on Mars? Some new Curiosity pictures seems to confirm that perhaps life was present on Mars year Ago!
How do you can explain the Lizard walking on the Martian soil?
Or the Brontosaurus stuck in the Martian soil?
And what about the Mars rat.
All the pic in the Gallery are credited by Nasa and appear in the official archive of the photos taken by Curiosity on the Martian soil.
It could be an optical illusion but who knows. Maybe Mars was populated log time ago from strange creatures.

There is comprehensive evidence for life on Mars if you know where and how to look for it. It seems one can find everything from animals to fossils, bones, skulls and even carved or manufactured objects. They can be found in some of the images beamed down from the Mars Rover Curiosity. Unfortunately NASA seem to be over compressing most of the images that are free to download from their website but some of the large panoramic TIF files are of good quality and are at 200 DPI. (Dots per inch)

These are the ones to go for. The animals in the main are dead and look freeze dried in Gale Crater. Mummified in the extreme cold nights that in go down to about minus 60 but the days are hot. Up to 70 degrees or more. There are very conflicting views about the temperatures on Mars mainly caused by people using averages witch are quite misleading. As for the air on Mars we are told that there is only 0.5% oxygen. Personally I think more like 5% in some areas unless the surviving creatures have adapted to breath Co2 or Hydrogen. This may explain why most of the living creatures found so far are small rodents and reptiles. They can survive on very low quality air and can burrow to avoid freezing.

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I don't know if life or Mars was present or not. The same question is posed by David Bowie song below:

Video. David Bowie Life on Mars

Gobekli Tepe: The temple that should not exist

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sat, 04 May 2013 14:52:00 +0000

Gobekli Tepe (trad: round hill - navel) is an archaeological site located about 18 km north-east
from the city of Şanlıurfa in modern Turkey, near to the Syria border, in which was found the oldest example of a stone temple, dating back to 9600 BC and that is undermining all the standard believes about the origins of Human civilization.

Göbekli Tepe is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge but it was built much earlier and not with blocks of stone roughly cutted but with limestone pillars finely sculpted in bas-relief. They are still visible parade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, wild boar!

The Complex dates back to seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza, and it is the oldest known example of monumental architecture. Around 8000 BC the site was abandoned deliberately and voluntarily buried with earth brought by man.

Archaeologists continue to dig and discuss its meaning. Göbekli Tepe and other sites in the Middle East are changing our ideas about a turning point in human history: the Neolithic Revolution, when hunter-gatherers were transformed into sedentary farmers.

The site is located on an artificial hill about 15 meters high with a diameter of about 300 m, situated on the highest point of elevation of a elongated shape which dominates the surrounding region, between the Taurus Mountains and the Karaca Dag and valley where the city of Harran. The site used by man would have had an extension from 300 to 500 square meters.

So far, less than a tenth of the site has been excavated. This gives an idea of the awe inspired in the temple to the pilgrims who gathered here 7,000 years before the construction of Stonehenge.

The Gobekli Tepe discovery

Gobekli Tepe was first identified in 1963 by a turkish-American research group. They noticed several piles consisting of fragments of flint, a sign of human activity in the Stone Age. The site was later rediscovered thirty years later by a local pastor, he noticed some odd shaped stones protruding from the ground.

The news came to the head of the museum of the city of Şanlıurfa, who contacted the ministry, who in turn got in touch with the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul headquarters.

The excavations were begun in 1995 by a joint cooperation between the Museum of Şanlıurfa and the German Archaeological Institute under the direction of Klaus Schmidt. The latter was working in the previous year some archaeological sites in the region. In 2006 the excavations went to German universities of Heidelberg and Karlsruhe.

The excavations brought to light a monumental megalithic sanctuary, consisting of an artificial hill bordered by stone walls rough dry. They were also found four circular enclosures, bordered by huge limestone pillars weighing over 10 tons each, probably plucked with the use of stone tools. According to the Director of the archeological site, the stones pricked up and arranged in a circle symbolize an assembly of men.

The more interesting discovery concerns about 40 stones disposed to form a T high as five feet. The limestone blocks, weighing five tons, were brought here from a nearby quarry even if the wheel or domesticated beasts of burden were not yet introduced.

Most of them are engraved and they show the different types of animals (snakes, ducks, cranes, bulls, foxes, lions, boars, cows, scorpions, ants). Some recordings were voluntarily canceled, perhaps to prepare the stone to receive new ones. There are also decorative elements such as patterns of dots and geometric patterns.

Geomagnetic surveys have indicated the presence of other stones, almost 250 still buried in the ground. Another T-shape stone, extracted only half the quarry, was found about 1 km far from the site. It has a length of about 9 m and was probably intended for the sanctuary but from some reason was abandoned.

There are also some isolated sculptures, in clay, very ruined by time, which probably represent a boar or a fox. Comparisons can be made with statues of the same type found in the sites of Nevali choirs and Nahal Hemar.

The sculptors had to do their work directly on the plateau of the sanctuary, where they were also found stones unfinished and bowl-shaped cavity in the rock clay, a technique already used during the Epipaleolithic to get clay for sculptures or the clay binder used in the masonry.

In the rock there are also phallic representations, maybe go back to later periods, finding comparisons in Sumerian and Mesopotamian cultures (sites of Byblos, Nemrik, Helwan and Aswad).

Until now, 45 of these stones have been dug, but there are indications that there is much to discover. Geomagnetic surveys imply that there are hundreds more standing stones, just waiting to be brought to light. Gobekli Tepe would have been an extraordinary site. A kind of Turkish Stonehenge.

Several factors make of Gobekli Tepe archeology an isolated and unique case.
The first is its age. Radiocarbon dating shows that the complex is at least 12,000 years ago, perhaps even 13,000 years old.

This means that it was built around 10,000 BC. Gobekli Tepe is thus the oldest complex site constructed by Man in the world. It is so old that it precede the time when it is believed Man become sedentary. Gobekli comes from a part of human history that is unimaginably distant, deep past of hunter-gatherers.

How did cavemen build something so ambitious? The archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, thinks that bands of hunters would have gathered sporadically at the site, during the decades of construction, they lived in tents made of animal skin and kill the local game for food. The many flint arrowheads found around Gobekli support this thesis, but also support the dating of the site.

This revelation, that Stone Age hunter-gatherers could have built something like Gobekli, radically changes our view of the world, because it shows that the life of the ancient hunter-gatherers in this region of Turkey, was far more advanced than we ever conceived. It is as if Gods came down from heaven and Gobekli had been built with their own hands.

Gobekli Tepe as a Constellation representation

The particular arrangement of the complex of Gobekli Tepe is also the arrangement of the main stars of the constellation of the Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters, called by the ancient Romans Vergilie) that count different stars visible at naked eye in the constellation of Taurus.

A few years ago, archaeologists found at Cayonu a pile of human skulls. They were found under a slab altar, dyed with human blood. No one is sure, but this may be the first evidence of human sacrifice: one of the most inexplicable human behavior, which could have developed only in the face of a terrible societal stress.

Experts are debating the evidence of Cayonu. But what no one denies is that human sacrifice took place in this region, including Palestine, Israel and Canaan. Archaeological evidence indicates that the victims were killed in huge death pits, children were buried alive in jars, others were burned in large jars of bronze.

These are almost incomprehensible acts, unless you think that the people had learned to have fear of Gods, because they had been driven out of paradise. So he tried to propitiate the wrath of heaven. This savagery may, indeed, be the key to a final solution, baffling mystery. The amazing stone friezes of Gobekli Tepe are preserved intact for a bizarre reason.

Long ago, the site was deliberately and systematically buried with a colossal work together with all its wonderful stone carvings. Around 8000 BC, the creators of Gobekli buried their realization and their glorious temple under thousands of tons of earth, creating the artificial hills on which the Kurdish shepherd walked in 1994. The reason that led the ancients to bury forever the temple of Gobekli Tepe remains a mystery.

Best UFO Evidences. Top 10

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:01:00 +0000

The best UFO evidences in the Video below. There are, according to the film, 10 best evidences to take UFO seriously into account.

The film features Stanton Friedman, Mac Tonnies, Don Ledger, Nick Pope, Bruce Maccabee, Col. Charles Halt, Brad Sparks.

Enjoy the best UFO evidences!

Ancient Alien Pics and Video Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:16:00 +0000

Ancient Aliens theory is a theory which has been developed recently based on numerous discoveries of ancient artifacts that seem to support the hypothesis that ancient aliens have visited the earth at the dawn of human civilization.

Traces of the theory of alien ancient astronauts seem to find in ancient cultures. In particular, in the Sumerian culture and in the Old Testament there are traces of Men descending from Sky with special powers etc ....

However believe it or not I propose you below a roundup of suspicious images and a video summarizing the main foundations of the theory of Ancient Aliens.

The Diamond Planet 55 Cancri e

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:03:00 +0000

The surface of 55 Cancers e, composed largely of graphite, is surrounded by a thick layer of diamond.

The universe is a bit 'more "rich" thanks to the discovery of the chemical composition of a planet located in a nearby constellation: it is made almost entirely of diamond.

This rocky planet, named 55 Cancri e, is large only twice the Earth but eight times the mass of our planet, characteristics which, according to a new study, making it a so-called "super Earth." This planet, observed for the first time in 2011 in front of its parent star, it takes only 18 hours to complete an orbit around its star. Consequently, the surface temperatures, which can reach 2150 ° C (conditions that make the planet uninhabitable) and carbon, create ideal conditions for the formation of diamonds.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has collected data on the orbital distance and mass of the planet, thanks to the resulting computer models, the researchers estimated the chemical composition of 55 Cancri e.

"Science fiction has made us dream planets diamond for many years, and it is amazing to finally have proof that there can be really," said Nikku Madhusudhan, a researcher at Yale University and head of the studio. "This is the first time you discover an extrasolar planet which originated mainly from carbon, this revolutionizes everything we have previously thought about the variety of the chemical composition of the planets."

The diamond planet is located relatively close to the Earth: it is located at a distance of 40 light years from Earth in the constellation of Cancer. When the sky is dark, the guest star 55 Cancri e is clearly visible to the naked eye.

The Yonaguni Monument

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:28:00 +0000

The Yonaguni Monument is a massive rock monument discovered off the coast of Yonaguni island. There is a debate about whether the site is completely natural, is a natural site that has been modified, or is a manmade artifact but the pics are very clear! It seems unlikely the natural origin of those one for example:

Yonaguni Monument Discovery

The sea off Yonaguni is a popular diving location during the winter months owing to its large population of hammerhead sharks. In 1987, while looking for a good place to observe the sharks, Kihachiro Aratake, a director of the Yonaguni-Cho Tourism Association, noticed some singular seabed formations resembling architectonic structures. Shortly thereafter, a group of scientists directed by Masaaki Kimura of theUniversity of the Ryūkyūs visited the Monument.

The formation has since become a relatively popular attraction for divers in spite of the strong currents. In 1997, Japanese industrialist Yasuo Watanabe sponsored an informal expedition comprising writers John Anthony West and Graham Hancock, photographer Santha Faiia, geologist Robert Schoch, a few sport divers and instructors, and a shooting crew for Channel 4 and Discovery Channel. Another notable visitor was freediver Jacques Mayol, who wrote a book on his dives at Yonaguni.

The Yonaguni Monument

Tool marks and carvings have been discovered upon the stones (and documented) which indicate that they have were constructed rather than being natural stone structures.

Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist from Japan’s Ryukyus University, Japan has been studying and mapping the site for over 15 years and believes that the site is over five thousand years old – but was sunk during an earthquake two thousand years ago.

Others have estimated that the structure is far older – including Teruaki Ishii, professor of geology at Tokyo University who determined that the submergence occurred at the end of the last ice age – which was around ten thousand years ago (over twice as old as the pyramids in Egypt) – If this is the case, then our history books would have to be revised to take into account an advanced Eastern culture, more advanced than any early Western culture.

Here are more pics and videos about Yonaguni Monument:

The Story of Earth

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:03:00 +0000

The Story of Earth starts 5 billion years ago when the Sun was formed from Cosmic dust and all the Planets including Earth started to be formed from orbiting residues.

Crash after crash between meteorites the first Earth shape has been formed.

The Earth might seem solid beneath our feet but five billion years ago there was no sign of the planet we call Earth. Instead there was only a new star and a cloud of dust in our solar system. Over millions of years, a series of violent changes led to the formation of our world and, eventually, the creation of life.

The Video below is concerning the Story of Earth through key milestones that have led to life.

For example:

learn how water first arrived on Earth,
discover the vital role oxygen played as life forms began to evolve,
find out how land mammals evolved into dinosaurs and other giant beasts, before becoming extinct 65 million years ago.
reveal how humans first began to walk on two feet

Enjoy:

Dark Side Of the Moon Pink Floyd Reggae

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:54:00 +0000

The Dark Side of the Moon is the most important Concept Album released by Pink Floyd and surely one of the most important in the whole Rock Music History. Dark Side of The Moon is also one of my favorite albums. I could have ever imagined to listen it in a new light so different and intriguing.

Thanks to EASY STAR ALL STARS we now have a new version delivered to humanity:

Dub Side Of The Moon Full

a Reggae version of the Dark Side of The Moon! A masterpiece! A must listen.

Below you can find the Full Album. Find inside the beautiful songs Time and Us & Them.

Video. The Dark Side of the Moon Raggae

Higgs Boson CERN discovery.

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:43:00 +0000

The Higgs mechanism had to wait 48 years to be confirmed. Finally during CERN experiment a new particle has been discovered likely to be the Higgs Boson, the so called GOD PARTICLE, responsible to give the Mass to the other particles.

The following VIDEOs illustrates how Higgs Mechanism works and what makes the Higgs Particle so special.

This is a great achievement in the understanding of how our Universe works.

Mayan Prophecy The End of the World Revealed

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:46:00 +0000

According to Mayan prophecy the end of the world should be scheduled for December 21, 2012.

The denial, for those who still needed it, comes precisely from the same holders of the mournful prophecy: the Maya.

A group of archeologists who were investigating a buried city in Guatemala have unearthed for the first time a house adorned with Mayan murals. Alongside the paintings are the remain of calculations made by some mayan astonomers who refers of period of time far beyond the alleged fateful date December 21, 2012. The house belonged to a scribe, is one of thousands of buildings Xultún, a huge Mayan city (31 km wide) discovered about a century ago but still largely buried. The team of archaeologists led by William Saturno began to study it in 2010.

source: nationalgeographic

Search Engine Optimization did by yourself

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:52:00 +0000

Search Engine Optimization is one of the most important thing when start blogging or start a new website. The experts call search engine optimization SEO. SEO is crucial to acquire new audience to your blog or website. In particular the Search Engine Optimization studies how the Serch Engines, like Google, work. Knowing how search engines work can help to structure the pages or posts of your blog in a way it is easier to be found them on Google and in general on the search engines.

For search engines are very important the keywords and how they are distibuted around the text of your webpages or blog posts.

Here there is a very interesting video about search engine optimization.

Energy production of a photovoltaic system. The best online tools

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Being able to calculate how much energy produces a photovoltaic system is essential in order to assess its economic performance. The owner of a photovoltaic system is in effect an Energy producer and it is precisely on the basis of this energy production that some Countries have created a Feed-in-tariff (FiT) mechanism. A photovoltaic system that produces, for example 1000 kWh / year, will be incentivated on this amount. Hence one is thinking about to install a photovoltaic system on his house needs to have an idea in advance of what will be the annual energy production available for FiT.

There are various tools to estimate the output in kWh / year of a photovoltaic system. The best is undoubtedly the simulator of the European Community called PV-GIS which allows very accurate simulations at any latitude and longitude in Europe and Africa.

The link access to PV-GIS Europe is as follows: http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis/apps3/pvest.php.

On the left you can select a location by searching either by name or geographic coordinates.
On the right you can enter the technical data of the photovoltaic system of which you want to determine the energy production in kWh unit. You can leave the simulator PV-GIS to determine what are the optimal orientation and tilt of the location indicated.

The simulation is performed based on solar irradiation data collected during the last 9 years. It is therefore a simulation fairly reliable.

Anyway one must take those data carefully. Some recommendations on the use of those data are necessary since the production of a photovoltaic system depends on many factors which are often difficult to be determined. As for example the average temperature of the solar cells etc. ... The shadowing. PV-GIS does not take into account possible sources of shade etc ....

The simulation result is very comprehensive and provides information on both irradiation and energy produced monthly / annual in kWh.

Strange structures on the Moon. NASA confirms indirectly

noreply@blogger.com (Roxblog) — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:22:00 +0000

NASA has confirmed, but only accidentally, what many people have suspected for long time, namely Moon's Ruins of mysterious civilizations. In the picture below, taken at the NASA Ames Research Center, if we zoom the picture on the table, we can clearly distinguish two structures on the Moon that are not necessarily natural.

We can clearly see a square shaped building, and on the right a triangular structure or maybe a bridge on the Moon. The Man in the foreground is Anthony Colaprete and works at NASA www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2007/colaprete.html. Could those structures on the Moon be made by civilizations? It 'a very intriguing mystery. Below there is also a Video of the strange structures on the Moon.