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Comment Maybe science can help? (Score 1) 412

by DrTomAustin on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @10:39AM (#51939993) Attached to: NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam'

Actually looks more like an atmospheric phenomena called a blue jet. These are often times associated with a red sprite and are caused by lightning. The happen in the atmosphere at the upper part of the troposphere and nudging into the bottom-side of the ionosphere. Take a look at the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... They are beautiful and until recently poorly understood but sorry guys not a UFO.

AMD Betting Future On the GPGPU 181

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @03:10PM from the shiny-things-sell-best dept.

arcticstoat writes with an interview in bit-tech "AMD's manager of Fusion software marketing Terry Makedon revealed that 'AMD as a company made a very, very big bet when it purchased ATI: that things like OpenCL will succeed. I mean, we're betting everything on it.' He also added: 'I'll give you the fact that we don't have any major applications at this point that are going to revolutionize the industry and make people think "oh, I must have this," granted, but we're working very hard on it. Like I said, it's a big bet for us, and it's a bet that we're certain about.'"

This Is Apple's Next iPhone 492

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 19, 2010 @11:15AM from the or-so-they-say dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There has been some speculation about it. Not anymore: 'This is Apple's next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing, and here are all the details.' Judging by Gizmodo's reaction, it looks like a winner."

Geomagnetic Storm In Progress 110

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 05, 2010 @03:13PM from the sky-is-falling dept.

shogun writes "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports a strong geomagnetic storm is in progress. The shuttle, ISS and GPS systems may be affected." They think this storm was caused by a weak solar flare on April 3rd. As you may expect, this has caused some unusually impressive northern lights since it started. What you may not expect is a photograph from Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard the International Space Station showing the aurora from orbit. He apparently tweets a lot of pictures from space. He and his crewmates have taken over 100,000 pictures since coming aboard the ISS.

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