Nasa unveils personal aircraft - Puffin!

This is a one man aircraft (experimental) which is electrically propelled.

According to Scientific American, the 3.7-meter-long, 4.1-meter-wingspan craft is designed with lightweight carbon-fiber composites to weigh in at 135 kilograms (not including 45 kilograms of rechargeable lithium phosphate batteries.) The Puffin can cruise at 240 kilometers per hour, but for those high speed chases, can zoom at more than 480 kph. See video below.

Harley Davidson India 2010 bikes and prices!

In Delhi Auto expo, Harley davidson India, announced the 2010 bikes and their prices.

They range from 6.95 Lakhs to 34.95 Lakhs (Ex-Showroom Delhi), that's quite a lot as compared to their prices in USD.

Here are prices for all their 2010 bikes, prices are ex-showroom Delhi prices.

Model	Price(Rs.)
XR 1200X	11,95,000
XL 1200N Nightster	9,95,000
XL 883R Roadster	7,95,000
XL 883L Roadster	6,95,000
Dyna
FXDB Street BOB	13,95,000
FXDC Super Glide Custom	15,45,000
Softail
FLSTF Fat boy	18,45,000
FLSTC Heritage Softail classic	19,45,000
V-ROD
VRSCDX Night rod special	18,95,000
Touring
FLHR Road kind	20,45,000
FLHX street glide	21,95,000
CVO
FLHTCUSE Ultra classic	34,95,000

You can visit the site here.

I am a Page 3 celebrity ....lol

I woke up this morning and did my duty, I casted my vote in the state elections.

I came home and was about to have my breakfast when the phone rang. My friend was excited and told me that me, my wife and best friend are on Page 3 of Times of India... lol

Some times it pays to pay so much for brunch ... ;)

Here is the article

Thats me, my friend Harish, and my wife (from left to right)

Yeah I know... thats the best way to get your photo in the paper, doing what you like the most !!

Infamous Hitler video

Here is the infamous Hitler video / commercial "Aids is a mass murderer".

Pretty shocking video ...!!

its here

I think it conveys the message though !!

The newest element named .... Copernicum

The newest element on the periodic table will likely be named in honor of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Element 112 will be named Copernicum, with the element symbol "Cp."

Thirteen years ago, element 112 was discovered by an international team of scientists at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (Center for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany.

The element is produced by a nuclear fusion, when bombarding zinc ions onto a lead target. As the element already decays after a split second, its existence can only be proved with the help of extremely fast and sensitive analysis methods. Twenty-one scientists from Germany, Finland, Russia and Slovakia have been involved in the experiments that led to the discovery of element 112.

Since 1981, GSI accelerator experiments have yielded the discovery of six chemical elements, which carry the atomic numbers 107 to 112. The discovering teams at GSI already named five of them: element 107 is called bohrium, element 108, hassium; element 109, meitnerium; element 110, darmstadtium; and element 111 is named roentgenium

Source: PhysOrg and UniverseToday

The HD video of the flyover of LRO camera.... its just awesome !!

As the video shows, this is the first flyover of Reconnaissance Orbiter camera on June 30 2009

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Sunspot

I saw this amazing image of a sunspot, and thought I should share it with everyone

Caption: ©UCAR, image courtesy Matthias Rempel, NCAR

Seriously, I don't think we should stare at this too long … but for scientists who plan to, this new, high-resolution view of a sunspot stands to unlock secrets of the Sun's mysterious energetics.

In the just-released image above, the interface between a sunspot's umbra (dark center) and penumbra (lighter outer region) shows a complex structure with narrow, almost horizontal (lighter to white) filaments embedded in a background having a more vertical (darker to black) magnetic field. Farther out, extended patches of horizontal field dominate. For the first time, scientists have modeled this complex structure in a comprehensive 3D computer simulation, giving scientists their first glimpse below the visible surface.