Showing posts with label lake views. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lake views. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2022

July 18 2022 - Space Pictures every day

Space this week and space every week.  Will there be pictures every week like those published in the last week?  The SPACE.com article says that astronomers were "starstruck" with the Webb telescope - more powerful than they could possibly imagine.  "It was an emotional day for scientists as they shared with the world the first science-quality images from NASA's next-generation observatory." 

Here is the Flickr site with the most recent images. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums

This is an excellent gallery as it has no ads and is archival so one can see all the activities along the way. For example, it has engineering test imagines and pictures of staff involved in the deployment activities.  

How many pictures would it take to photograph every person working on the James Webb Space Telescope?  More than 1,000 and in more than 17 countries.   That's a lot of people and countries.

But the Webb telescope is focused on space and there's a lot of space to cover, so we likely can expect pictures every week. 

It looks like the Caribbean to me, but its is one of the Grimsby gardens on the tour on Saturday.  Sitting on the lake edge, there's a little bunk down below.  Skyline viewing from there would be excellent. 
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Monday, May 15, 2017

Why is a Computer so Smart?

Wake Up on the Bright Side - Because it has a Motherboard


Mother's Day weekend saw a worldwide online extortion attack in somewhere between 74 and 150  countries.  Included are government organizations such as NHS in Britain.

It is called 'ransomware' in which people are locked out of their files and presented with a demand to pay hackers.

What a story of intrigue that involves the US National Security Authority code known as "Eternal Blue" which made its way from a hacking organization called Shadow Brokers to a separate crime gang. Demands have ranged from $US300 to $US600.  The campaign was spreading five million emails per hour. The malware's name is WCry.  In Spain, major firms had to shut down computers using megaphone announcements. Even Russia was hit by a virus attack.


Experts believe the timing is related to the April 14 attack by the US on Syria with a message from the Shadow Brokers that they voted for Trump and are losing faith in him. 

We have two lake views today - the first from Grimsby's Nelles Beach.  This canoe up on the shore just seemed like one of those absurd scenes.  There's a boat launch access at Nelles Beach, which can explain the canoe sitting there.  There is no beautiful sandy beach to stroll along this year with the high lake levels. The next one is from a lakefront home in Burlington, showing its beautiful view across the bay to the Burlington Bridge.