Why Men and Women Cant be friends

Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy – 2010-Jan-29

La discussion est tres drole et merite d’etre ecoutee meme si elle est longue et que vous n’apprendrai probablement pas grand chose de scientifique. La partie sur le film Titanic est un classique instantane ;-)

Via: Bad Astronomy: Colbert on Tyson

KMix Lockups, Freezes, and Performance

Si comme moi vous avez eu des problemes dernierement avec kmix, cet article devrait vous interesser. Ca semble avoir regler les miens.

awesomelinux.blogspot.com: KMix Lockups, Freezes, and Performance

Regardless, I eventually figured a solution to the problem: Quit kmix. You may need to actually kill the program. Next move/delete/rename the folder ‘kmix’ in the folder ‘~/.kde/share/apps/. Restart kmix, and it will recreate a default ‘~/.kde/share/apps/kmix/’ folder with default settings.

Comet Lovejoy Plunges into the Sun and Survives

nasa.gov: Comet Lovejoy Plunges into the Sun and Survives

Via: slashdot.org: Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives

“It’s absolutely astounding,” says Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC. “I did not think the comet’s icy core was big enough to survive plunging through the several million degree solar corona for close to an hour, but Comet Lovejoy is still with us.”

The most dramatic footage so far comes from SDO, which saw the comet go in (movie) and then come back out again (movie).

Comet Lovejoy was discovered on Dec. 2, 2011, by amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy of Australia. Researchers quickly realized that the new find was a member of the Kreutz family of sungrazing comets. Named after the German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who first studied them, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments of a single giant comet that broke apart back in the 12th century (probably the Great Comet of 1106). Kreutz sungrazers are typically small (~10 meters wide) and numerous. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory sees one falling into the sun every few days.

Savage Chickens : Better Watch Out

Savage Chickens : Better Watch Out

APOD: Jupiter Rotation Movie from Pic du Midi

APOD: Jupiter Rotation Movie from Pic du Midi

Full rotation of Jupiter from Jean-Luc Dauvergne on Vimeo.

APOD: The Umbra of Earth

APOD: The Umbra of Earth

Hotel Kakslauttanen

Via: likecool.com: Hotel Kakslauttanen

Code Cards

Via: swiss-miss.com: Code Cards

xkcd: Tradition

xkcd: Tradition

La phrase sous le graphique est la meilleure description de Noel…. EVER! ;-)