Jupiter In Astral Collision ...

Rare flash of light seen on Jupiter in astral collision

A flash of light believed to be caused by astral matter colliding with Jupiter has been captured on camera by an amateur astronomer in Japan.

Video footage depicting the unusual flash of light was recorded by amateur stargazer Masayuki Tachikawa at his home in Kumamoto City, southern Japan.

It is the third sighting of flashes of light on Jupiter this year, with similar reports by astronomers based in the Philippines and Australia.

Junichi Watanabe, a professor at the NAOJ, told Kyodo News: "This kind of footage is rarely filmed."

It was in the early hours of Saturday morning that Mr Tachikawa, 52, recorded a glow that lasted for around two seconds near Jupiter's equator using a video telescope at his home.

"I took it for noise signals at first but I was really surprised because the image of the light remained on the video," Mr Tachikawa said.

Astronomers believe that the astral body that hit Jupiter was most likely less than 1km in width as there was no trace left after the flash subsided.

With the rise of sophisticated telescopic equipment on the market, a growing number of amateur astronomers are making significant planetary observations.

In June, amateur planet-watchers also captured on camera a similar fireball that seemed to hit into Jupiter with a flash.

Further investigations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope concluded that this flash was caused by a giant meteor as it plunged into the atmosphere surrounding Jupiter.

By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo - Published: 5:13PM BST 23 Aug 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-video/7960799/Astral-matter-collides-with-Jupiter.html

The Smart Game ...

There once lived a great mathematician in a village outside Amritsar.
He was often called by the local king to advice on matters related to the economy.
His reputation had spread as far as Afghanistan in the west and Burma in the East.

So it hurt him very much when the village headman told him, "You may be a great mathematician who advises the king on economic matters but your son does not know the value of gold or silver."

The mathematician disturbed by the allegation, approaches his son at home that evening.
Father: "What is more valuable - gold or silver?"
Son: "Gold,"
Father: That is correct! Why is it then that the village headman makes fun of you, claims you do not know the value of gold or silver? He teases me every day. He mocks me before other village elders as a father who neglects his son. This hurts me. I feel everyone in the village is laughing behind my back because they think you do not know what is more valuable, gold or silver. Explain this to me, son!?
Son: "Every day on my way to and fro from school, the village headman calls me to his house. There, in front of all village elders, he holds out a silver coin in one hand and a gold coin in other. He asks me to pick up the more valuable coin. I pick the silver coin. He laughs, the elders jeer, and everyone makes fun of me. And then I make my way.
This happens every day. That is why they tell you I do not know the value of gold or silver."

(The father was confused. His son knew the value of gold and silver, and yet when asked to choose between a gold coin and silver coin always picked the silver coin.)
Father: Why don't you pick up the gold coin?

In response, the son took the father to his room and showed him a trunk full of hundreds of silver coins.
Son: "The day I pick up the gold coin the game will stop.
They will stop having fun and I will stop making money."

The bottom line is...
Sometimes in life, we have to play the fool because our seniors and our peers, and sometimes even our juniors like it. That does not mean we lose in the game of life. It just means allowing others to win in one arena of the game, while we win in the other arena of the game. We have to choose which arena matters to us and which arenas do not.

My Influencials of Friends & Foe's ...

Bill Gates, Plato, Cui Jiano, Vladimir Lenin, Pavel Korchagin, Bill Clinton, Peter I of Russia, Bruce Lee, Winston Churchill, Henri Matisse, Pelé, Guan Yu, Ramesses II, Charles de Gaulle, Margaret Thatcher, Alfred Nobel, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, Elvis Presley,
J. Robert Oppenheimer, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Audrey Hepburn,
Ludwig van Beethoven, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, Maxim Gorky, Sun Yat-sen, Deng Xiaoping, Alexander Pushkin, Lu Xun, Josef Stalin, Leonardo da Vinci, Karl Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Ford, Lei Feng, Jonas Salk, Norman Bethune, or Harold E. Varmus?, Sigmund Frued, Jack Kevorkian, Chiang Kai-Shek, Queen Elizabeth II, Mike Tyson, Vladimir Putin, Lewis Carroll, Shirley Temple, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Einstein, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, Yasser Arafat, Julius Caesar, Claire Lee Chennault, Luciano Pavoratti, George W Bush, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Osama bin Laden, Liu Xiang, Dante Alighieri, Friedrich Nietzsche, Steven Spielberg, Pablo Picaso, Abraham Lincoln, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Laozi, Marilyn Monroe, Salvador Dalí, Empress Dowager Cixi, Marie Curie, Ariel Sharon, Prince Charles of Wales, Kofi Annan, Qi Baishi, Qin Shi Huang, Hideki Tojo, Mother Teresa, Mikhail Gorbachev, Soong Ching-ling, St Peter, Otto von, Bismarck, Run Run Shaw, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Li Bai, Charles Darwin, Confucius, Corneliu Baba, Michelangelo, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Michael Jordan, Marcel Duchamp, Aristotle, Liu Bei

Celebrities that found success despite looking like a camel

Original Artists: Zhang An, Li Tiezi, and Dai Dudu
The creators are Chinese artists. They are Dai Dudu, Liaoning Art Institute’s Vice President; Li Tiezi, contemporary oil painter; Zhang Anjun, chairman of the Shenyang Youth Association of Artists, and contemporary oil painter. Dai Dudu led the effort.

According to Dai Dudu, the three began work on the painting in 2006, completing it 10 months later. “At the time, we wanted to represent world history within a single painting. We wanted to showcase the world’s story, and let viewers feel as if they were flipping the pages of a history book,” Dai said. Article Source.

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