Saturday, 13 October 2012


Interesting Facts 

Russian Satellite Takes 121 Megapixel Image And Video Of Earth

A Russian weather satellite has taken a 121 megapixel image of planet Earth, over 22,000 miles above the surface. The image was taken by Russia’s Electro-L satellite, and unlike other images taken by spacecrafts, it was taken in one single shot. Each pixel in the image represents a little over a half-mile of the Earth’s surface. The Electro-L satellite captures a picture of this quality every half-hour to monitor the weather on Earth. The image uses a combination of visible and near-infrared wavelengths to make-up the image, so vegetation is seen as red, rather than green.A time-lapsed video has been created using images taken by the Electro-L satellite’s 121 megapixel camera. The video is composed of about 350 shots.

Wozniak Sold His Scientific Calculator to Raise Capital.

In order to raise enough money to buy parts and build the first few orders of the Apple I, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen van and Wozniak, then an HP employee, sold his Hewlett-Packard 65 scientific calculator for $500.Those born after 1990 might be surprised that a mere calculator would raise any kind of capital, but back in 1976, a scientific calculator cost as much as a laptop does today, and the HP-65 was in fact marketed as “the smallest programmable computer ever.”



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