Bouquets of sweets

All my attempts to make a blog theme fail, because so much of all that you want to share - it is impossible to resist! . I'm partial to the packaging and unconventional bouquets, so photos of bouquets of sweets just froze.

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Robots for sex

It is assumed that the first case where this can happen to Massachusetts.

Within a hundred years people will be able to marry robots. This was reported by news agency 'Associated Press'.
... Levy recently completed writing his Ph.D. work on the relationship between humans and robots. He talks about what are the advantages and disadvantages, if married to a robot.
The idea of ​​a possible romantic relationship between humanity and mechanical creations dates back to ancient times. One of the Greek myth tells of the sculptor Pygmalion, who fell in love with a statue of ivory, which was named Galatea. In the story, the statue of the goddess Venus gave life.
This idea has been preserved to our days. 40 years ago, scientists have noted that students are experiencing strange feelings for the ELISA (ELISA), which is able to ask questions and mimic a therapist.
' More and more robots become more human - said Levy. - Robots are helping to build cars, deliver mail, conduct tours, clean the house or just be a toy '.
Levy said that in the future robots will be developed so that they can adopt the appearance and character, which can be in love. With them you can make love and even marry them.
' Love and sex with robots is inevitable ' - says Levy.
Levy believes that all the signs of love and power. can be transferred to the relationship between man and robot, as the similarity of characters can be programmed.
In 2006, Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Network on the study of robots, has suggested that sex with a robot will be possible within 5 years.
With advanced computer programs the relationship between man and robot will be closer and can get to the marriage.
Levy believes that the quickest way it can happen in Massachusetts, which has a more liberal views of U.S. law. Moreover, in the state of a very rapidly developing new technologies.
It can help people with excessive modesty, ugly appearance or mental problems and find your soul mate. The partners also will reduce the robot, according to scientists, the number of crimes related to sexual harassment. However, this issue needs further investigation.
It is unclear whether such a relationship will change the world and all civilization.
Levy is now busy writing a work on ethical issues in the use of robots.







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' Green corridor ' in Chelyabinsk

As early as December 11 passengers crossing the border, who have no baggage with them, subject to mandatory declaration to obtain the use of ' green corridor '. That is, they will be able to cross the border without going through the border and customs control.
To open a ' green corridor ' in the airport ' Chelyabinsk ' had to take the help of the governor of the region, which held with the management of customs and border services of the Russian Federation all the necessary negotiations.
In the near future, the international sector of the airport will receive five additional passport control booths, and - the automatic baggage sorting system.


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Terrestrial titanium: a double layer at the boundary

Despite numerous differences, the largest of Saturn's moons Titan in some ways strikingly similar to our planet. Another similarity between the structure of its atmosphere showed.

Titan - not only the largest moon of Saturn, but the only known satellite with its own dense atmosphere, which makes the lion's share, as on Earth, nitrogen. We can say that the atmosphere of Titan - a big mystery, starting from the question of its origin and composition, structure and finishing.

The bottom layer of the atmosphere adjacent to the surface of a planet (or satellite), is called the boundary layer. The boundary layer is experiencing the greatest influence on the part of the planet (or satellite) - but he himself, with its precipitation, cloudiness and winds affect the planet ( or satellite ) is stronger than the other layers of the atmosphere. In many respects, it is their interaction are determined by weather and climate on the boundary of the solid and gaseous media, where you and I inhabit.

The boundary layer of Earth's atmosphere has a thickness of 0.5 to 3 km. As a result, even the few available data on the local boundary layer is often contradict each other.

For example, according to information received by the probe Voyager 1, the thickness of the boundary layer of the atmosphere of Titan is 3.5 km, and the probe Huygens, who managed to land on Titan and briefly worked on the surface, gave a figure of only 300 m. To sort out this confusion, scientists from the Laboratory of meteodinamiki (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique) French National Research Center have created a detailed three-dimensional model of Titan's climate. The main conclusion to which they came, is that Titan is even more like Earth than might be expected so far.
The calculations showed that the lower atmosphere of the satellite consists of two separate layers, temperature regimes which differ markedly from the upper layers. The bottom layer, according to modeling, has a thickness of 800 m and, as on earth, very dynamic - changes are occurring, literally, by leaps and bounds. The next layer up is at 2 km, and its dynamics is associated with seasonal changes in the satellite. Similarly, organized by the nether regions of our atmosphere, and.

Perhaps it is the presence of two layers, with their different dynamics explain previous conflicting results - and sustained winds encountered, going down to the surface, the probe Huygens; and giant sand dunes, found in equatorial regions, and the boundary layer of methane clouds.

Now, the authors intend to develop and build on the success: in the next model they would consider cycling of methane on Titan, which is largely similar to our water cycle - evaporation from the surface of lakes of liquid through the formation of clouds - to precipitation.

Caffeine - a new system of indexing Web sites from Google

Carrie Grimm, the developer of Google.

Today we are happy to announce the completion of work on our new system of indexing websites - Caffeine. Caffeine at 50% ... Whatever you're looking for - news, blog posts or on the forums - you need page is now even faster fall in our index, but you can find them faster.

A few words for those who are not familiar with search technology. When you are looking for information on Google, you're not working with ... The search is performed on an index of the network created by Google. This index is very similar to the index at the end of the book that helps you find the information you need.

Why do we need to create a new system of indexing? . First, the amount of information in the network increases, and its presentation formats are becoming more diverse. At the current site you will find videos, images, news and updates in real time. Pages are richer and more complex in structure. Second, people expect much more from the search. Members interested in the latest information on the topic, and publishers want their audience to find the material immediately upon publication.

To keep pace with the rapid development of network and meet the growing expectations of users, we created a system of Caffeine. In the picture you can see how to work the old system of indexation and now works as a new.



In our old index had several layers, some of which are updated regularly than others. Most of the index is updated every two weeks. To update the index of the layer, we need to analyze the entire network, thus creating a delay between the moment of finding the page, and so, when it became available to the user.

Caffeine, in turn, allows us to analyze the information on the Internet, ... This means that search results will display the most recent information, regardless of the time and place of publication.

Every second, the system handles hundreds of thousands of pages. If we imagine that these pages of paper, a stack of them would grow at a rate of about 5 kilometers per second. The database contains about Caffeine 100 million. gigabytes of data, and new information is added at a rate of several hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625 000 iPod-s with the largest amount of memory to store the array of information.

When you create Caffeine we focused on the future of the Internet. This system is an excellent foundation for building other, more rapid and the volume index, since it can better adapt to the development of a network. This summer there will be other improvements. Stay tuned!.

Time Machine is built...

In the photo in 1941 (Canada) in the circle - the guy with the things. from the future. T-shirt with printed logo, portable camera, sunglasses, models of the XXI century. The visitor from another time?.
If the first time travel even considered as a science, but science fiction, but now they have suddenly become a favorite toy of theoretical physicists. Renowned physicist Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology, once said in one of his lectures:.

- Once upon a time travel was the exclusive prerogative of writers. Serious scientists have avoided them like the plague - even when writing novels under a pseudonym, or secretly read them. How times have changed! . Why this change? .

At present, there are many different devices to move projects in the past or future. And chief among them - is the Large Hadron Collider. Recall that it was launched in autumn 2008. This is the most powerful in the history of particle accelerator, located on the border of Switzerland and France. In its 27 -kilometer ring are now trying to smash beams of protons accelerated to nearly light speed. As expected, this device will provide new information on the particles and forces acting in space, as well as to reproduce the conditions that arose after the Big Bang created the universe.

After starting the collider, first inhabitants were terrified of the giant black hole that seems to be able to swallow Earth. But scientists quickly reassured all, convincing, that the collision of particles in the collider if there will be holes, the microscopic. Or of such size that they can be used as handy tools for. time travel.

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With such a sensational proposal was made by two doctors of physical and mathematical sciences, Professor of Mathematics Institute of the Steklov Irina and Igor Volovich Aref'eva.

- The theoretical principles of modern mathematical physics admit the possibility of time travel - explains the correspondent member of RAS Volovich. - One of the acceptable models of the current time machine - the so-called wormhole passable (wormhole, sometimes referred to as ... And the probability of formation of the wormhole in the LHC is comparable with the probability of occurrence of the black hole itself, which can occur when particles collide with high energy.

How to explain the physics, ... Entrance to the tunnel may be the size of a star with a planet, with the house and even a speck of dust - though for what purpose to use the tunnel. After all, you can send a photon, but you can tour the whole hronoturistov. And if you choose to dive, then emerges in a different place. You can go to another galaxy, another universe can be. And you can - in the past. On the physical properties of the entrance to the ... The difference is that there can not only go but back.


One of the zagvozdok in the concept of ... Such a force, some astrophysicists, for example, called dark energy - the mysterious antigravity mass, which in theory the universe is filled with. It was she who could, according to scientists, to be exactly what will support the ... And not to collapse all behind hronoturista. And because the LHC is designed to, figuratively speaking, a part of the space on Earth, then it can be and try to get some of this dark energy. This is also an important detail to create a wonderful machine! . And the LHC is perfectly capable to.

- Such a phenomenon known to physicists as ... - It allows, in theory at least, go back in time.

- A possible paradox described by Bradbury even when the traveler caught in the past, accidentally stepped on a butterfly, and as a result of his time, came to power other president? .

- We expected such problems - meets Professor Volovich. - And they came to this result: a journey may change the course of history is possible, but not very much. So, in terms of mathematical theory, stepping on a butterfly it will be possible, but it will not at all the butterfly, which can lead to the described changes. The same goes if you go back in time with the intent to kill his own grandfather. At the last moment necessarily something happens that does not allow to translate this intention into practice.

To the time machine has become a reality, the scientists need to begin to BAC at least reached its design capacity (currently he is working at half strength ), and stopped to break down.

- And while most of what we can hope for, - says Igor, - is that the LHC will show signs of the existence of ... If part of the collision energy in the collider will disappear, it just may be due to the creation of particles that pierce through the time of ...

Specialists Research Centre of the European Council for Nuclear Research ( CERN), promise that the LHC will work, as expected, in September. Then it becomes clear how well the Russian physicists decided the most intriguing problem of humanity.

skeptics.

Dr. Brian Cox of Physics, University of Manchester:.

- The energy of billions of cosmic rays that hit Earth's atmosphere for five billion years, exceeds the energy that the LHC will create a. But no one has ever observed any cases of temporary anomalies or ...

Professor David Deutsch of Oxford University:.

- Travel time - it is hypothetical speculation, but to find fault with them is essentially impossible. Nevertheless, I believe that this mechanism does not work for some reason (for example, the path for the messages from the future will not open ), even if their guesses are correct.

Researcher Physics Department of Moscow State University George Vasiliev:.

- In reality, it is impossible to create a time machine. Even with the collider. In addition, the LHC, as well as from all the major projects of this kind, it is difficult to expect any significant practical use.