#cometlanding on #67P celebrated in the New Year's Eve Google Doodle!

Originally shared by European Space Agency, ESA

#cometlanding  on #67P  celebrated in the New Year's Eve Google Doodle! 
https://www.google.nl/?doodle=16872125&hl=en&gws_rd=ssl&nord=1

Google Intern has added support to run Crouton¹ in a Chrome OS Window.

Originally shared by François Beaufort

Google Intern has added support to run Crouton¹ in a Chrome OS Window. Thanks to a 4,471 lines patch², fearless people can now run their favorite Linux distributions on their Chrome Devices in a nice window without jumping between Virtual Terminals as before. 

Here's how to get there:
- First, you need to make sure your Chrome Device is in Developer Mode³ (not Dev Channel).
- Install the Crouton Integration Chrome Extension⁴
- Download crouton⁵
- Open a shell with ++T, type shell and hit
- Run sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t unity,extension 
- Enjoy!

¹ https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
² https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/pull/1144
³ http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/developer-mode
⁴ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gcpneefbbnfalgjniomfjknbcgkbijom
⁵ https://goo.gl/fd3zc

Source: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/pull/1144

Meine Tochter hat zwar schon etwas vorgegriffen und die drei Weisen mit Geschenken kommen lassen, und das Christkind...

Meine Tochter hat zwar schon etwas vorgegriffen und die drei Weisen mit Geschenken kommen lassen, und das Christkind ist auch schon da, aber so eng wollen wir das mal nicht sehen.
(Und den Engel bitte nicht übersehen!)

http://www.kleist.de/droid-krippe/

The International Space Station is decorated for the holidays as the #ISS crew studies life in space:...

Originally shared by NASA

The International Space Station is decorated for the holidays as the #ISS crew studies life in space: http://1.usa.gov/1GURUgv

"I’m ready for our army of Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots. "

Originally shared by Urs Hölzle

"I’m ready for our army of Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots. "
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car

Today we’re unwrapping the best holiday gift we could’ve imagined: the first real build of our self-driving vehicle...

Originally shared by Google self-driving car project

Today we’re unwrapping the best holiday gift we could’ve imagined: the first real build of our self-driving vehicle prototype.  

The vehicle we unveiled in May (goo.gl/qDUtgq) was an early mockup—it didn’t even have real headlights! Since then, we’ve been working on different prototypes-of-prototypes, each designed to test different systems of a self-driving car—for example, the typical “car” parts like steering and braking, as well as the “self-driving” parts like the computer and sensors. We’ve now put all those systems together in this fully functional vehicle—our first complete prototype for fully autonomous driving.

We’re going to be spending the holidays zipping around our test track, and we hope to see you on the streets of Northern California in the new year.  Our safety drivers will continue to oversee the vehicle for a while longer, using temporary manual controls as needed while we continue to test and learn.  Happy holidays!

NASA has reported surprising spikes in methane gas on Mars, raising the possibility of microbial alien life on the...

Originally shared by National Geographic

NASA has reported surprising spikes in methane gas on Mars, raising the possibility of microbial alien life on the red planet.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/141216-mars-methane-curiosity-space-science/?utm_source=GooglePlus&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_gp20141217news-mars&utm_campaign=Content

Check out Google's Year in Search 2014, starring ESA Rosetta and Philae's #CometLanding !

Originally shared by European Space Agency, ESA

Check out Google's Year in Search 2014, starring ESA Rosetta and Philae's #CometLanding !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwHCGAr_OE

#Rosetta   #Philae  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwHCGAr_OE

Logbook: L+20, L+21

Originally shared by Samantha Cristoforetti

Logbook:  L+20, L+21

My third weekend on ISS is coming to an end and I find myself being very ambivalent about the passage of time. On the one hand, days have just flown by and it seems like yesterday that we arrived. On the other hand, the time when I used to walk and sleep in a bed almost seem like distant memory and it feels like I’ve always floated, always slept in a sleeping bag, always run on the wall and lifted weights on the ceiling.  In other words, the Space Station is starting to feel like my home and my normal life.

Then I get to fly a huge robotic arm lurking in the darkness outside our  window, with the Earth passing by beneath, and I still wonder if it’s real or if it’s a dream. That’s right, Butch and I spent some time in the Cupola yesterday at the controls of the robotic arm in preparation for Dragon capture next week. After hundreds of hours of simulation, it was my first time moving the actual Station arm!

I have told you in the last logbook about our onboard simulator, Robot. Sim time is good, but it’s important to get a feel for the real arm before capture day. That’s why Saturday afternoon we got to practice so-called “offset grapples”.

Our target was the grapple fixture of Dextre, the multiarm roboto currently living outside on the Lab, and the starting position was a high over about 5 meters above the target. I messed up the alignment for Butch and he got to adjust it on the fly while approaching the grapple fixture, then we swapped roles and I got to do the same.

Of course, we didn’t really grapple Dextre: in fact, triggering closure of the end effector snares was not even enabled on the hand controllers. The purpose was purely to get a feel for how the real arm responds to inputs, especially in terms of oscillations. I was actually surprised by the steadiness of the real arm: it seemed less of a challenge than in the simulator to keep the oscillations under control. I should tell you that oscillations are the big enemy, therefore we train to give very smooth and progressive hand controller inputs. One jerky movement and the arm can start to oscillate more than you like it.

With Dragon arriving next weekend, we have a busy week ahead of us. We’ll get probably half days off on Friday and Saturday and, of course, we’ll have a full working day on Sunday with the arrival of Dragon. In fact, after Capture Dragon will be berthed to the Node 2 Nadir position, so we’ll have it just outside our crew quarters, almost like adding another small room to our living area. And this room will come already full of goodies!

Futura mission website (Italian): Avamposto42
avamposto42.esa.int

#SamLogbook   #Futura42  

(Trad IT)  Traduzione in italiano a cura di AstronautiCAST qui:
http://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook

(Trad FR) Traduction en français par Anne Cpamoa ici:
 https://spacetux.org/cpamoa/category/traductions/logbook-samantha

(Trad ES - Currently not updated) Tradducción en español aquí:
http://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora

Search? On a social network?!?! My mind is blown!

Originally shared by Alida Brandenburg

Search? On a social network?!?! My mind is blown!

What's next, Facebook? FLYING CARS? You crazy!

(God god, finally. Welcome to 2011, Facebook. We Google+ers have been here for quite some time.)


#socialmedia   #socialnetworks   #facebook  
http://bit.ly/1sezy7a

Chromecast, now with guest mode

Originally shared by Google Chrome

Chromecast, now with guest mode

New #Chromecast guest mode feature makes it even easier for your friends with Android devices to cast content to your TV without first needing to connect to your WiFi. Learn how to set it up at chromecast.com/guestmode. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vJC9p6bzQY

Historic Blue Marble Image: On this day in 1972, Apollo 17 launched to the moon, and the crew snapped this photo of...

Originally shared by NASA

Historic Blue Marble Image: On this day in 1972, Apollo 17 launched to the moon, and the crew snapped this photo of Earth on the way. The original caption is reprinted below:

View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica south polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap. Note the heavy cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible. The Arabian Peninsula can be seen at the northeastern edge of Africa. The large island off the coast of Africa is the Malagasy Republic. The Asian mainland is on the horizon toward the northeast.

Ob das bis Saisonende so bleibt?

Ob das bis Saisonende so bleibt?

Chrome OS Admin Console Gets “Smart Unlock” to Unlock Chromebooks With Phones #chromeweekender

Originally shared by Chrome Story

Chrome OS Admin Console Gets “Smart Unlock” to Unlock Chromebooks With Phones #chromeweekender
http://ow.ly/FtvOj

It's a first: From about three times the distance from Earth to the moon, our Dawn spacecraft spies its final...

Originally shared by NASA

It's a first: From about three times the distance from Earth to the moon, our Dawn spacecraft spies its final destination -- the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the dwarf planet. This is Dawn's best image yet of Ceres as the spacecraft makes its way toward this unexplored world..

This uncropped, unmagnified view of Ceres was taken by Dawn on Dec. 1, 2014.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Im Alangang...

Im Alangang...

Originally shared by FC Red Bull Salzburg

60.MIn: WAHNSINN!!!!! Wir FÜHREN!!! Von 2:0 auf 2:3 und das in 8 Minuten und dem dreifachen Torschützen: Nummer 27:...........
Was geht ab..............

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FK Austria Wien 2 : 3 FC Red Bull Salzburg
Gorgon (3.) Grünwald (20.), Alan (52. 58.60.)

Überraschung: Pariasek ohne Versprecher: http://youtu.be/pjEENPfThCA

Überraschung: Pariasek ohne Versprecher: http://youtu.be/pjEENPfThCA
http://youtu.be/pjEENPfThCA

Google+ Dead?!

Originally shared by Hillel Fuld

Google+ Dead?!

Pretty sick of people telling me G+ is a ghost town. In a fraction of the time, I have 2x the amount of people "following" my posts here than on Twitter!

Would be nice to have a post I can show people to illustrate the point that there is real value here!!

Are you actively using Google+? Let me know in the comments how often you use it and why you like it here! Will be passing this post on quite often so feel free to elaborate why you enjoy Google+!