Ps2714 Learning to Wait

The survivor ipad 2 case is pretty cool so far. Whereas I would not recommend throwing it out of the window of a second floor building, the iPhone/ipod touch version would easily be able to handle that. I have intentionally dropped it a few times and the unit still holds up nicely. I also submitted it to a shower test. And it works! The water on the screen guard sometimes tricks the touch sensor into thinking you are touching something when you’re not, but the unit worked perfectly. And I would not recommend submitting your iPad to the full on stream of the shower’s fury. I’m not that brave. My iPad is my baby after all. But for you Facebook junkies out there, next time you up date your status, you could be doing it from the shower. 

When it comes time for buying a protection case for my (hopefully) soon to be iPhone or iPod touch, I will definitely be getting a Survivor Case.

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Bennett is a ninja #textsfrombennett

So can your telescope tell you the temperature, size, weight, and what something is made of? From 40 light-years away? Apparently the Hubble telescope can. How it does is beyond me.

“GJ 1214b, a planet some 40 light-years from Earth, is a water world. It’s almost entirely made of liquid, has an estimated temperature of 230C and is enshrouded by a steamy atmosphere.

“The high temperatures and high pressures would form exotic materials like hot ice or superfluid water: substances that are completely alien to our everyday experience,” explains Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

It’s classified as a super-Earth, as the planet is about 2.7 times Earth’s diameter and weighs almost seven times as much. It orbits its star every 38 hours at a distance of just two million kilometres, resulting in those super-hot temperatures.

The planet was first discovered in 2009, by the ground-based MEarth Project. The next year, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) measured the exoplanet’s atmosphere, and found that it could be composed mainly of water.

But those observations could also be explained if the planet just had a thick, hazy atmosphere. So, the team waited for GJ 1214b to cross in front of its host star (a red dwarf). When that happens, the star’s light is filtered through the planet’s atmosphere, giving hints to the mix of gases it contains.”