Peter Clay’s U.S.S. Bakula rocket fins flutters and wave like flags as it enters and exits the speed of sound and was captured with an Aiptek DV4500 onboard video camera.

Click for the video (4.5 MB WMV)

The video has been examined frame-by-frame by some experts and resulted as “not fake”.

The video has inspired many theories as to what was captured but these are the only known facts.
• USS Bakula is PML Quantum Leap with some “enhancements” Peter added for extra strength
• This flight used a AT K550 to a K185
• The G10 fins are VISIBLY intact and feel solid (see the post flight exam) with only a minor fracture at the base on two opposing fins
• The G10 fins were built with an extra “tip to tip” layer of 3oz fiberglass making their final (average) thickness 3/16″
• The fins did flutter in some capacity
• The anomaly occurred entering and exiting Mach
• The footage is unaltered except for where altimeter data is added
• The lower section of the sustainer rotates from it’s original orientation with the camera / upper sustainer.
• The Sustainer recovered without incident

The fins in the picture are the ones “featured” in the video captured. Click the image below for the fin exam video (WMV small)

WMV Video (4.5 MB)
Slow-mo Video of the Flutter (WMV 900kb)

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A follow up to the Disposable E-mails I have posted a while ago. Some sites may have already blocked those popular Disposable e-mail addresse’s domains forcing you to give your true e-mail address which is bad, so keep Spam away!

services added lately are marked with a * sign

No registration:
• * maileater - All emails stay up for exactly 4 hours.
• * mytrashmail - email stays for maximum 5 days in your account (emails inspammed accounts are deleted after 12 hours)
• 6url.com - E-mail will expire in a certain amount of time.
• greensloth.com - E-mail deleted after 4 hours, lots of ads!
• spamday.com - provides mail forwarding, account exists for 24 hours, after that its deleted.
• tempinbox.com - provides Atom feeds, receive-only.

Registration required:
• gishpuppy.com - forwards email to your real account.
• mailnull.com - forwards email to your real account
• spammotel.com - forwards email to your real account
• willhackforfood.biz - account exists for an optional time selected

Mike Hollingshead has an Amazing Pics of the Aurora Phenomenon taken with a canon digital rebel with 17-40L lens. These images were all shot from Blair Nebraska. Imagine standing under it. It should be a breath taking experience.

View the gallery

Other Aurora Galleries:
http://www.royhooper.ca/gallery/AuroraBorealis?page=1
http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-11-8.htm
http://www.noriomatsumoto.com/

Digg Story:
http://digg.com/science/Aurora_Photography

With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 15 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the ‘make monitor.opml’ button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format. RSS feeds of the following search engines are currently included:

• Technorati tag search
• del.icio.us tag search
• Google News search
• Blogmarks tag search
• MSN search
• Yahoo search
• Icerocket search
• Feedster rss search
• Blogdigger search
• Plazoo search
• blogg.de tag search
• Find articles search
• furl search
• Flickr tag search
• Google Blog Search

Several search engines offer their results as RSS feeds - so many it’s hard to keep track. Useful web service MonitorThis to the rescue: enter your search keyword, and MonitorThis generates a file of 15 search engine RSS feed URLs, from Google to Yahoo to Technorati to del.icio.us.

http://uckan.info/depot/monitorthis/

via [lifehacker]

A bunch of cool Flash sites I have on my bookmarks list. Some of these are old but they’re all worth lookin’ at.
Here are they: –(enjoy:-)

If you know some cool flash sites, don’t hesitate to post it on the comments area!
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Deskloops is an interesting free Windows XP application that helps you organize your open application windows.

Looks a little bit like 3d desktop switcher on linux
To rotate pages, middle click+drag

Deskloops does this by arranging windows along a virtual horizontal loop. At any one time, you’ll see window open on screen as usual, but in fact any number of other windows, set on that loop, can be rotated in from left or right. A strip of thumbnails on top of the screen maps the loop’s full content.

Download Deskloops Beta

This page contains various tips and tricks for Firefox or Flock. Most of these tips involve editing of text files on your hard drive and is not recommended if you’re not familiar with basic file and folder usage.

~Note: Some of these tips/tricks may not work or aren’t needed with Flock. I haven’t tested them all.

Link: Tips & Tricks