Thanks to Jacob for pointing me to this cool NES belt buckle for sale on etsy.
Want to see more like this? Here’s an Etch-a-Sketch belt buckle.
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How far back in time can the Hubble Ultra Deep Field IR see? About 10 billion years, that’s approximately half a billion years after the Big Bang. Want to look back further? Try the SKA. That stands for the Square Kilometer Array.
The vision for the SKA will be an array of ~3000 dish antenna radio telescopes with a collecting area of about one square kilometer. This will make the SKA about ten times more sensitive than the largest single dish telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
The International SKA Steering Committee has whittled the possible locations for this array to one of two locations: South Africa and Australia are the finalists. If Africa wins the SKA bid, the core of this giant telescope will be constructed in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape Province near to the towns of Carnarvon and Williston, linked to a computing facility in Cape Town. Reasons why South Africa make an ideal location are:
- Low levels of radio frequency interference and certainty of future radio quiet zone.
- Best imaging – an ideal physical environment (little water vapor, calm stable weather conditions)
- Very little light pollution
- Affordable – Required land, labor and support services available cheaply
For a full list of facts on the SA bid, this SKA Africa site has all the details.
I’ve got my fingers crossed they win the bid 
Links:
-SKA Africa
-SKATelescope.org
-Wikipedia: SKA
Cool news from NewScientist on the discovery of two planets on the same orbit:
The two planets are part of a four-planet system dubbed KOI-730. They circle their sun-like parent star every 9.8 days at exactly the same orbital distance, one permanently about 60 degrees ahead of the other. In the night sky of one planet, the other world must appear as a constant, blazing light, never fading or brightening.
“That ending is terrible. This is a Coke ad. We can’t do that,” they told him.
Curtis walked out the meeting, somewhat dejected. He had no ideas for alternative endings. … Curtis went home and sat down to dinner with his wife and his two high-school-aged children. His wife asked how the day’s presentation went. He told them about his predicament. Then his son, Will, who was about 12 at the time, piped up with a suggestion.
That was it. Curtis went back to Coke with the idea, and they loved it.
via Fastcompany
Most mobile phones don’t have a front-facing camera like the iPhone 4 for instance. Now there’s an option for the rest of to get this cool capability on our mobiles.
