... What is an intelligence or an intelligent life? ... Various particular cases, new regimes, original approaches etc. being attractive as they could, all this is a pale shade of a real process of cognition. ... May an infinitely complicated object be indeed so simple? ... An intelligence could not arise in an infinitely complicated universe! ... There are two possibilities: whether our imagination of infinitely complicated object is incorrect or the surrounding world is not infinitely complicated. ...

. The Enclosure is On!: December 21, 1999 . The day is VERY cold and flurries are just about to start, and the enclosure is rolled over the telescope! . Note all the room in the ceiling!! . And the 'piece de resistance' is walking around the telescope and getting around the doghouse. Everyone set up a cheer and now French can go and sleep at his own house tonight. More pictures to follow tomorrow.

Next: Preparing Data Frames Up: Object Search and Previous: What Data Frames . The user is advised to start working with this new kind of observational material by applying commands to small regions of an investigated frame in order to properly tune control parameters. ... Preparing Data Frames . Setting the Low and High Cuts . Setting the Keywords used by SEARCH/INV Command . Executing the ANALYSE/INV Command . Setting the Keywords used by the ANALYSE Command . ...

Monday, October 8 . The first day of the conference, Monday October 8th, may be entitled "The mathematics of Sossinsky's friends", and will be consist of five one-hour talks by prominent mathematicians on their research results, not necessarily the latest ones, but results that they feel are appropriate for the occasion. The conference program for October 8th is the following: . ... The second day of the conference, Tuesday October 9th, may be called "Sossinsky's mathematics". ...

THIRD CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES SECOND RUSSIAN VISITING CREW "AHDROMEDA" PROGRAMM IMAGES VIDEO . ... The launch of the Russian Soyuz TM-33 manned transport vehicle to the ISS. ... Following its 2-day autonomous flight to the International Space Station (ISS) Orbital Complex around near-earth orbit, rendezvous maneuvers with the Complex, its fly-around, hovering and berthing, the Russian Progress M-45 logistics vehicle has docked successfully with the ISS Orbital Complex at 13:51 Moscow Time. ...

The Night Sky Adventure Leader Kit is the first release in our series of family events and activities on topics in astronomy for Family ASTRO Event Leaders . ... Follow one or more of the links below for more information on the type of nighttime "adventure" you're looking for ( note that Frequently Asked Questions about Night Sky Adventure can also be found by clicking on these links ): . ... Night Sky Adventure . ... All Family ASTRO materials can be ordered online through the ASP's AstroShop. ...

... Гидродинамическое моделирование ветра из газо-пылевого тора в активных ядрах галактик // Kallman T., Proga D. We report on time-dependent axisymmetric simulations of an X-ray excited flow from a parsec-scale, rotating, cold torus around an active galactic nucleus. Our simulations account for radiative heating and cooling and radiation pressure force. ... We computed synthetic spectra predicted by our simulations. ...

... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

... Research . ... Contact . The Terra Hunting Experiment (Official website) . Project Share-site (members only) . ... Terra Hunting Experiment at the Isaac Newton Telescope . ... Please follow the links on this page to find out the latest information on the project. I am the Project Manager and Chief Systems Engineer on THE@INT, so please contact me if you would like any further information. ...

METAR Wishlist Following is a list of items that I'd like to add to METAR or that others have requested. ... It'd be nice to have a lot of METARs which encompass various weather condition which we can test against. ... Sites around the world use similar (but slightly different) formats for their METARs. There is always a METAR format the parser will fail on. Calculate Heat Index and/or Wind Chill Both would be fairly easy to do, provided you get the formulas correct. ...

... Content Model: Optional list header (LH), followed by one or more terms (DT) and definitions (DD). A definition list is a list of terms and corresponding definitions. Definition lists are typically formatted with the term on the left with the definition following on the right or on the next line. ... The definition list element can take the COMPACT attribute, which suggests that a compact rendering be used, and is appropriate if the list elements are small and/or the entire list is large. ...

. This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by John Blomquist on 05/15/2010 06:38:37 . April Moon . I took this image on film sometime around 2004 then digitized it. Finally getting around to posting it here. It was on the other gallery before. Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. About Us Contact Us

Next: Unusual Emission near a Up: NICMOS Science Previous: The Stellar Population in . ... Three examples are presented of how ISOCAM 1 sees the process of stellar evolution. i) Standard staring and coronographic observations with ISOCAM towards BD+31 643 are presented. ... Position 4 is closest to the star; Position 6 coincides roughly with the minimum of emission seen in the images; position 7 with the ring. ... I presented three examples of the evolution of stars as seen with ISOCAM. ...

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. Other Relevant Plots . Several new Radio-loud BAL QSOs . A unique Q+A QSO . | Front page | . | << - Close pairs | Talk summary - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

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The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

Supernova 2002bj in NGC 1821 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002bj in NGC 1821 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... Somewhere around the night of 2002/03/14 this supernova dropped dramatically in brightness. ... Icon generated from Tim Puckett's discovery image. ... Mag . ...