Phoenix land in Mars

I don't know if it is exactly but around the 23:38 zulu of the 25h of May of 2008 the spacecraft Phoenix lands on the Mars arctic pole.

The information is better to become from the experts than from my read and transcript. Then I suggest to read the sources: the Arizona university, and Nasa.

Iñaki Ochoa is gone

Today is a day in mourning for the mountaineer people, Iñaki Ochoa de Olza dies after 5 days suffering a HACE at 7400m altitude complicated by a HAPE. The bad news are well explained here.

To suffer one of this illness is one of the worst things that you can have in the mountain. You need to descend as fast as you can, but when you have a really bat whether is when the mountain is saying you 'rest with me'.

We wants to stay in the mountain, he express this intention before. But by the way it is a really impossible mission to try to rescue the body.

The great this of the mountain is the fellowship that you receive from the other people. In the Annapurna the people that tries the rescue this day are still there. Now the priority is the descending of all the people that forgets their project and risk their lives to save Iñaki.

Thanks to this helpers.

Supernova birth

I'm only one more of the ones who write something about the casual photo taked from a supernova in the explosion moment.

Artistic view (for sure, our telescopes cannot see like that)

As we can read in many places (many) some astronomers, that was studying a past supernova, found in the acquisition an abnormal x-ray emissions and they doesn't become from their object under study. this becomes just from the neighborhood.

Is really difficult to record an explosion, ask this to the war reporters. You never know where it will explode. As I read in a book, record and explosion so far doesn't give you the image, so close you will not have health to explain it. If you think 16.5 light years is far, I prefere to not be closer.

From Sierra Lima Lima, to Golf Romeo Oscar (and go back)

The first trip alone. Take off from Sabadell with the icao name LELL (Lima Echo Lima Lima, in the NATO alphabet) and the iata name SLL (Sierra Lima Lima) alone in the airplane.

After the take off permission from Sabadell tower in the 13 way, I fly bearing 70 until notify 5 NM out the ATC (Nautical Miles), traffic information on 125.25, then change the bearing between 50 and 60 direction to the mountains. 20 minutes fly to arribe to the SW (Sierra Whisky) access point of Girona, iata name GRO (Golf Romeo Oscar) icao LEGE (Lima Echo Golf Echo).

Tuning the radio to 120.90 and call the tower 'Girona, buenos días de la EC-ERV' (Echo Charlie Echo Romeo Victor). 'EC-ERV le veo sobre SW proceda a viento en cola derecha pista 20, notifique establecido'. Easy, they saw me before do nothing... they are on my, and all the other medium birds from Ryanair, Spanair, and others (airplanes like a A320, much bigger than my C152).

'EC-ERV estableciendo viento en cola derecha 20', 'Roger ERV'. And before arrive the end of tail wind the allows me to land 'ERV autorizado a aterrizar, pista 20, viento 230 8KT' and the answer 'autorizado a aterrizar 20 ERV'. Base, final, and landing... 'ERV abandone por la primera salida y siga al amarillo'. It's funny to follow this yellow car to the parking platform.

In the Aena's office, a new fly briefing, back to the airplane and go back! 'Girona buenas tardes de la EC-ERV', 'EC-ERV adelante', 'EC-ERV en plataforma de aviación general para vuelo visual a Sabadell, solicito instrucciones de rodadura', 'Detrás del Ryanair en rodadura, ruede al punto de espera de la pista 20, detrás', this expresion of say two times 'detrás' is to be sure that you understand, the answer is mandatory 'Detrás del Ryanair en rodadura, rodar al punto de espera 20, detrás'.

In the wait point I did the engine test and announce the tower, I'm ready to take off with 'EC-ERV punto de espara 20 listo', the tower answer was 'Roger EC-ERV'.After two A320 take offs and one citation landin, arrives my torn: 'EC-ERV entre y mantenga', 'entrar y mantener EC-ERV'.

'ERV autorizado a despegar 20, viento 260 12KT', ready to take off! 'Autorizado a despegar 20 ERV'. Taking off in a 3Km way with a cessna that only needs 400 or 500 meters is funny, I was 500ft over the field before the end of the way. 'ERV notifique abandonando por SW'. The ground reference of the SW point is a castle but there is another littler one before when you go out. it means went I say 'ERV alcanzando punto SW' the tower says... 'Segun mi pantalla usted está aun a 5 millas de SW, pero si lo desea puede pasar a la escucha de traficos en 25 25'. Ups! this was my mistake... by the way, tuning the radio to 125.25 and direct to Sabadell...

A factory in polinyà was on fire, and when I arrive to the Echo access point of LELL ('ERV accediendo por punto echo a 2500 pies'). 'ERV debido a incendio dirijase directo a base izquierda de la 13, notifique establecido '. The rest of the fly was like the common ones in sabadell.

Now I have an stamp and a line on my fly book saying that I went to Girona as a pilot in command!

Append: A video in Microsiervos about the 'follow me' car in the Barcelona airport (iata BCN, icao LEBL ).

Bad news from Great Britain

I read this article that is funny at the beginning because the author wrote the typical comparison of a synchrotron building to a donut. Also the first paragraph is good because some of the main reasons for the synchrotron existence are described (but there are others more). This tools are not made only to do the physicist busy and playing their toys, this building has something to produce in the society.

After years of people doing a bet on this infrastructure, many people can be forced to restart their specialization. Yes, because they have two options: work in another thing or move out the country. This type of job is really specialized. An accelerators physicist, or a protein crystallographic scientist can not be moved fast and easily to another type of job.

I understand, bad times would come, but the bad point is when science is becoming an exchange money. Badly is when everything can be explained by the bad times, good and bad maneuvers. Only insist in take care, read much and compare and contrast the information you have. Put it in doubt and create your opinion.

Nerd t-shirt

For a long time, a little sheet of paper is traveling with me. The reason is because in the LHC visit I bought a nerd t-shirt.

As a manual, the t-shirt came with this paper explaining the image that you will like to dress. I have no idea, for me it like when you buy something with Chinese or Japanese symbols.

But they explain, the first line describes the forces that we already knows as some views of something unified: the electricity, magnetism and strong and weak nuclear forces.

The second line is about how the forces act with the fundamental matter particles (quarks and leptons).

The third describes how the mass is become real, from the higgs boson, and the fourth ables this unknown particle to do it job.

By the way, physics are not democratic. The existence or not of the higgs dowsn't depend of who many people likes this theory...