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Space 101: A Long, Long Way from Beautiful Pluto

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The spacecraft which had reached the planet Pluto (yes, it is a planet now) is now one of the fastest man-made craft with a relative velocity of 49,600 km/h – the record is still held by Voyager 1, currently travelling at 61,720 km/h relative to the Sun. Poster source: http://www.theplanetstoday.com

We have passed the half of this year and considering what we have gone through so far, one hopes that the year would end sooner than expected. But before that, when it comes to the topic of science and space, 3 things would have made the year 2015 very sweet indeed.

One would be the NASA spacecraft New Horizons passes by .

And frankly speaking, Pluto never looked so beautiful before this and with radio signals taking four and a half hours to travel between the spacecraft and Earth, the spacecraft can only transmit data at 1 to 2 Kbps, which means that the transmission of all data (for last 10 years) will require sixteen months (source: Wikipedia).

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Space 101: Next Stop, The Illusive Red Planet?

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Are we on target to visit the ? Given the state of the country as at now, you can safely say that when we celebrate the year 2020, this country would not have achieved the status of a “developed country”. So Dr M’s will remain a vision and will not become a reality, at least in 2020.

For one, religion had taken precedent in key areas of the country and have caused a mismatch of priorities. Instead of us busy with human resource development and preparing the country for a “developed” status, we are busy on which law to use and how holy or religious one must be.

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Tech News 101: Confirmed, No KitKat for SP

Sigh, it was not a big surprise though…

Seeing how other (newer & higher model) models are getting their to but not the SP, I had long suspected that Sony, in the end, will not deploy Kitkat to SP model.

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Technology 101: NVIDIA’s Tegra K1

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(So much computing from NVIDIA in just one car – well, it is not a dream any more. The focus must be on technology and know-how and not an in-fight on who owes the name of God and everyone getting so tense on issues that will not elevate the nation with the rest of the developed countries. Image source: http://phandroid.com)

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Tech News 101: The Symbian is FINALLY dead!

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( monocoque case – that is what grabs you when you see a powered for the first time. That’s what happened to me and it became my first smartphone and it remained until it was clear that it’s OS, Symbian^3 will no longer be developed with new releases. Image source: http://mobilemegamall.com)

My venture to smartphones probably triggered by an incident at a car park – the parking attendant with dirty short pants & flip-flops was updating his status on Facebook with an iPhone. It then occurred to me that the age of the smartphone is already here and somehow I had missed catching the boat.

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Tech News 101: Next Change: Ubuntu 12.04

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(The next generation of Ubuntu with a more sophisticated dashboard – a far cry from the dull, simple version 6.10 that I installed back in 2006. Image source: http://www.webupd8.org)

UPDATE 3: You can download the Ubuntu 12.04 Manual from here

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End of The World 2012: Killer Solar Flares

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(Solar flares is a serious threat around . Both NASA and ESA confirmed the next huge flares between September 2012 and May 2013. We all heard about the big one in 1859 and it looks like we are not far away from major solar flares coming our way. Source: Wikimedia)

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Tech News 101: Nokia N8 Firmware Update Part 3

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(Any new to with new features, themes and UI is always welcomed. Image )

This probably will be the “last” ^3 OS update before Nokia goes all out on Windows Phone 7

I managed to update my N8 to the latest – yesterday but to do that, one needs the latest Nokia Suite (FOTA – firmware update over the air was not possible).

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Technology 101: Environment Friendly Home Solar in Malaysia

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(The entire home solar set is expected to cost house owners RM60,000 – it is not cheap but the return of investment does look favourable. If there are special funds for house owners to part-finance the set-up cost and then tie the repayment to the monthly FiT, that will promote greater use of solar panels at residential areas. Image source: http://www.eurocosm.com/)

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