http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Optical Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:43:41 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Optical Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:09:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ccc_1371269278 helle 0 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ccc_1371269278 helle Speaker Creates <span class="highlight">Optical</span> Illusion Effect speaker, optical illusion Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:55:29 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dca_1371282432 meatpockets00 randomly found this on my journeys through the internet. would be sweet to have bedsheets like this so I can stay home and sleep all day long! where is meatpockets? mwahaha! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dca_1371282432 meatpockets00 <span class="highlight">Optical</span> Camo Chinaman camo,stealth,warfare, cloaking, need these in bedsheets, Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:44:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b30_1371600852 m16carbine Paraphrasing Oron Oriol, Executive VP of marketing and development at Rafael : "The bomb is equipped with an electro-optical targeting system that allows it to strike targets even when the area targeted is saturated by GPS jamming systems . This bomb can hit targets 100 km away. It is also small and its radar signature is extremely low. Therefore it is very difficult for an air-defense system to detect it. Similarly, each F-16 can carry 16 of these bombs, each able to destroy a different target at once - this make it difficult for enemy radar. Air-defense systems, such as the S-300 and others, will have a very hard time dealing with these capabilities. The Israeli Air Force is currently the only customer operating this system. The Spice-250 allows the user to operate far away from the areas which are saturated by air-defense systems." The standoff range of 100km is the highest for any glide-bomb in the inventory along with the SDB. It is still less than half the standoff range of some missiles equipped on Israeli F-16s, such as IMI's Delilah air-to-surface missile (whose standoff range is 250 km), or Rafael's Popeye Turbo air-to-surface missile (whose standoff range is 320 km). But the Spice-250 works with no independent propulsion. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b30_1371600852 m16carbine New Israeli long-range standoff (100 km) munition unveiled today at Paris Air Show israel, weapons, standoff, iaf, syria, syrian civil war, s-300 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:00:25 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1d7_1371476330 Donegal First Digitally Scanned Photograph 1957 Technically, this is the very first digital photograph - all these years later, digital cameras are only just beginning to have the full capabilities of film cameras. Russell Kirsch was a computer pioneer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA when he developed the system by which a camera could be fed into a computer. The photo is of Kirsch's three month old son Walden and it measured a mere 176x176 pixels. Baby Walden now works in communications for Intel. First Color Landscape 1877 This photograph was taken by Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron who invented the subtractive (cyan, magenta, and yellow) color method of taking photographs. Louis was a French pioneer in color photography and he worked in both subtractive and additive (red, green, and blue) color. This particularly photograph is called "Landscape of Southern France". First Color Photograph 1861 This is a photograph of a tartan ribbon. It was taken by James Clerk Maxwell by photographing the ribbon three times - each time with a different color filter over the lens. The three images were then developed and projected onto a screen with three projectors using the same color filters as the initial cameras. When the three images aligned, a full color photo appeared. The three original plates are now kept in Edinburgh, where Maxwell was born. First Human Subject 1840 This is the very first photograph that intentionally has a human as its main subject. What is most striking to me about this photograph is that it shows a part of history which is now long gone (except in some royal households): a regular footman and a carriage - the common means of transport at the time as automated vehicles would not become common for another 40 years. The year this photograph was taken was the year that New Zealand became a British colony, that Queen Victoria married Prince Albert, and the year that the world's first postage stamp was created. The photograph was taken by William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the negative / positive photographic process. First Human In A Photograph 1838 This is the first photograph ever taken that captures the image of a man. The man is not clear and is slightly blurred (no doubt due to the long exposure required). The man can be seen in the foreground - fortunately he stood still long enough (getting his shoes polished) for the 10 minute exposure to include him. The image was taken by Louis Daguerre who invented the Daguerreotype - one of the earliest methods of photography. The French government purchased the rights to the daguerreotype and released it free to the world. Second Photograph Ever Taken 1826 Incredibly, this same year Beethoven was still writing music, the Inquisition held the last public procession of penitent heretics (auto de fe) in Spain, and America's second president, John Adams, died. Like the first photograph ever taken, this was taken by Nic'ephore Ni'epce and it is the first photograph of a real scene (the first photograph was of a painting). It was taken with a camera obscura (an ancient optical device used for entertainment and drawing) and took eight hours to expose - hence the sunlight falling on both sides of the building. The photograph is called "View from the Window at Le Gras". This is included not just because it was the first photo of a real scene, but also because it was believed to be the very first photo ever until 2002 when an earlier photograph was found ...which is First Photograph 1825 This photograph was only discovered in 2002 and is now known to be the very first permanent photograph ever taken by Nic'ephore Ni'epce - the father of photography. It is an image of an engraving of a man walking a horse and it was made using a technique known as heliogravure. The method involves a piece of copper covered with light sensitive bitumen. This metal plate is exposed to light and creates an image which is then transferred to paper. The image has been declared a national treasure by the French government and it sold for $392,000 at auction to the French National Library. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1d7_1371476330 Donegal Earliest Known Photography Examples Photography, Landscape, Digital, Portrait, Colour, Black &amp; White Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:21:29 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=903_1371316681 PhilNice From a french program called &quot;Groland&quot;. Trompe l'oeil accessory, just in case. Don't think any translation is necessary! Just in case - Trompe l'oeil = Optical illusion/trickery Finally, for all non french-speaking LLeakers, this is an approximative translation (did my best!) announcer : An ad for the smartest among us Off : What's more stressful than having to poo while being in the car and in the country? Female : Could you stop please? Male : You're joking, I can't stop! Female : I don't know, I cannot stand Off : How to deal with urge whiteout loosing dignity? Hopefully, Made In Groland introduce its brand new innovation : the trompe l'oeil to poo into the wild. Easy to use, easy to store, the trompe l'oeil to poo into the wild will allow to relieve yourself anywhere, anytime and discreetly. The trompe l'oeil to poo into the wild with its trowel are at only 34 Eugros (Groland money), and for 10 Eugros more, you got the helmet. The trompe l'oeil to poo into the wild also exists in the version &quot;I harvest&quot; or &quot;I play in the France soccer team&quot;. The trompe l'oeil to poo into the wild is a Made In Groland Product. Back to announcer : Hell yeah, we have to innovate in Groland! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=903_1371316681 PhilNice How to poo into the wild - fake satiric commercial trompe, oeil, commercial Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:58:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e48_1370526544 hard_core88 mind blogging optical illusion.... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e48_1370526544 hard_core88 How did he do that??? fat, guy, swims, through, hoop, in pool Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:04:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f9e_1370242986 juba776 US and Canadian military inspectors are expected to complete on Monday their two-day joint monitoring mission over Russian territory under the international Open Skies Treaty, the Russian Defense Ministry said.The NATO inspectors fly on board a refitted C-130 Hercules transport aircraft along a designated route with a total length of 5,500 kilometers (3,417 miles), the ministry said. Under the Open Skies treaty, each aircraft flying a routine monitoring mission is fitted with a sensor suite including optical panoramic and framing cameras, video cameras with real-time display, thermal infrared imaging sensors, and imaging radar. The Open Skies Treaty, which entered into force on January 1, 2002, establishes a regime of unarmed aerial observation flights over the territories of its 34 member states to promote openness and transparency of military forces and activities. Russia ratified the deal in May 2001. The image data recorded during the observation flights can be shared among all signatories to support the monitoring of compliance with existing or future arms control treaties. According to the treaty, Russia and the United States each have a quota of 42 inspection flights per year, while other signatories have quotas of 12 or fewer. Russia conducted 10 Open Skies monitoring missions so far this year, the defense ministry earlier said. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f9e_1370242986 juba776 NATO Inspectors Fly 'Open Skies' Mission Over Russia NATO, russia open, ski , days, Sat, 25 May 2013 17:56:06 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=716_1369518517 ridvanco Saudi Crown Prince Salman, who also acts as Deputy PM and Defence Minister, is said to have agreed with Turkish officials, during his visit to Turkey earlier this week, to order unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of type Anka, including the type of Anka-B which can fire air-to-ground missiles. The following 408-word report sheds more light on the subject and tells what about the Saudi-Turkish agreement. Note that Anka UAV variants are made by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). ANKA-B will have the following payload: 16- Roketsan Cirit 70mm Semi-Active Laser guided missiles and 4 - UMTAS anti-tank missiles/ or Hellfire missiles ASELFLIR-300T (next generation also used in the Agusta/TAI T-129 Attack helicopter and Turkish Heron's) Electro-Optical Day Camera (EO Day TV) Day Camera (EO-Electro Optic) Thermal Camera (IR-Infrared) LRF-Laser Range Finder LD-Laser Designator and Spotter SAR-Synthetic Aperture Radar MTI- Moving Target Indicator ISAR-Inverse SAR Please note that ( the last photo is photoshoped, it made to give some referenace about anka-b type model of Turkish UAV . And all development phases made by T"urks ) now time to think for ameirkans, what if arabs have uav-s ... :) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=716_1369518517 ridvanco Saudi Crown Prince Salman, Turkey and Anka-B UAV Turkish, Turkey, Anka, Army, Uav, Usa, Saudi, Arabia, Military, Iran, Israel Fri, 24 May 2013 10:03:31 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d81_1369403919 euronymus Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved the wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of one kilometer. Their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in seamlessly with the capacity of optical fiber transmission. In the future, such radio links will be able to close gaps in providing broadband internet by supplementing the network in rural areas and places which are difficult to access. Digital, mobile and networked - changing media usage habits of modern society require the faster transmission of increasing volumes of data. Compared to the European standard, Germany lags behind in the expansion of the fiber-optic network, according to statistics from the FTTH Council Europe. Deploying new fiber-optic cables is expensive and difficult when there are natural or urban obstacles such as rivers or traffic junctions. Broadband radio links can help to overcome such critical areas, thereby facilitating the expansion of the network infrastructures. In rural areas they can be a cost-effective and flexible alternative to "Fiber to the Home". Researchers have now set a new world record in wireless data transmission: For the first time, fully integrated electronic transmitters and receivers have been developed for a frequency of 240 GHz, which allows the transmission of data rates of up to 40 Gbit/s. This equals the transmission of a complete DVD in under a second or 2400 DSL16000 internet connections. Distances of over one kilometer have already been covered by using a long range demonstrator, which the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology set up between two skyscrapers as part of the project "Millilink". "We have managed to develop a radio link based on active electronic circuits, which enables similarly high data rates as in fiber-optic systems, therefore allowing seamless integration of the radio link", says Prof. Ingmar Kallfass, who coordinated the project at Fraunhofer IAF within the scope of a Shared Professorship between IAF and KIT. Since 2013, Kallfass is with the University of Stuttgart, where he continues to lead the project. High Frequencies enable Fast Data Transmission Using the high frequency range between 200 and 280 GHz not only enables the fast transmission of large volumes of data, but also results in very compact technical assembly. Since the size of electronic circuits and antennae scales with frequency / wavelength, the transmitter and receiver chip only measures 4 x 1.5 mm^2. The semiconductor technology developed at Fraunhofer IAF, based on transistors with high carrier mobility (HEMT), makes it possible to use the frequency between 200 and 280 GHz with active transmitters and receivers in the form of compact, integrated circuits. The atmosphere shows low attenuation in this frequency range, which enables broadband directional radio links. "This makes our radio link easier to install compared to free-space optical systems for data transmission. It also shows better robustness in poor weather conditions such as fog or rain", explains Jochen Antes of KIT. Up to now, radio links were not able to directly transmit the data rates of glass fiber. This might change in the future, as the test setup of the project shows. Such a high performance system would also have the advantage of the so-called bit transparency, i.e. the signal of a glass fiber could be fed directly and without energy-consuming transcoding into a radio link. It could then be transmitted and redirected into a glass fiber. The record data from the test setup is only the beginning. "Improving the spectral efficiency by using more complex modulation formats or a combination of several channels, i.e. multiplexing, will help to achieve even higher data rates", says Antes. This could give new impetus to the expansion of the broadband network. Maybe Germany will then no longer occupy the lower ranks compared to the rest of Europe. About the Project The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports the project "Millilink" with a total of 2 million Euros of funding within the support measure "Next-generation broadband access networks". Apart from the two research institutes Fraunhofer IAF and KIT, the project involves the industrial partners Siemens AG, Kathrein KG und Radiometer Physics GmbH. The aim of the project is integrating wireless links / radio links into broadband optical communication networks in order to provide rural areas with access to fast internet. Other possible applications are Indoor Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) as well as intra-machine and board-to-board communication. A distance of over one kilometer has already been covered by using a long range demonstrator between two skyscrapers in Karlsruhe. The high frequency chip only measures 4 x 1.5 mm^2, as the size of electronic devices scale with frequency / wavelength. Source: http://www.iaf.fraunhofer.de/en/news-media/press_releases/press-2013-05-16.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d81_1369403919 euronymus New World Record in Wireless Data Transmission Wireless, internet, broad, data, transmission, high, frequency, digital Sun, 05 May 2013 10:13:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c8_1367763030 mcattack Cool optical illusion. Follow instructions in video. This is NOT a lame scare video. Instead, a nice departure from LL carnage. Enjoy. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c8_1367763030 mcattack <span class="highlight">Optical</span> Illusion - It works! optical, illusion Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:23:04 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb2_1366038254 bandit1200 Near the center of Pasadena, California, a team of scientists, engineers, and project specialists is busily planning and designing what eventually will become the most advanced and powerful optical telescope on Earth. When completed later this decade, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will enable astronomers to study objects in our own solar system and stars throughout our Milky Way and its neighboring galaxies, and forming galaxies at the very edge of the observable Universe, near the beginning of time.............................................. http://www.tmt.org/ Plans to build the world's largest optical telescope on top of a volcano in Hawaii have been approved. The plan by California and Canadian universities call for a 30m telescope, the largest ever created. The $1bn telescope would be able to observe planets that orbit stars other than the sun and enable astronomers to watch new planets and stars being formed.It should also help scientists see some 13 billion light years away for a glimpse into the early years of the universe. Construction costs are expected to top $1 billion. The telescope's segmented primary mirror, which is nearly 100 feet (30 meters) long, will give it nine times the collecting area of the largest optical telescopes in use today. Its images will also be three times sharper. But the telescope may not hold the world's largest title for long. A group of European countries plans to build the European Extremely Large Telescope, which will have a 138-foot (42-meter)-long mirror. To build the world's largest telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano won approval from the state Board of Land and Natural Resources on Friday. The decision clears the way for the group managing the Thirty Meter Telescope project to negotiate a sublease for land with the University of Hawaii. Some Native Hawaiian groups had petitioned against the project, arguing it would defile the mountain's sacred summit. Native Hawaiian tradition holds that high altitudes are sacred and are a gateway to heaven. In the past, only high chiefs and priests were allowed at Mauna Kea's summit. The mountain is home to one confirmed burial site and perhaps four more. Environmentalists also petitioned to stop the telescope on the grounds it would harm habitat for the rare wekiu bug. The board approved the project anyway, but imposed two dozen conditions including a requirement that employees be trained in culture and natural resources. The University of California system, the California Institute of Technology and the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy are spearheading the telescope. China, India and Japan have signed on to be partners. The University of Hawaii is involved because it leases the summit land from the state of Hawaii. Mauna Kea's peak already hosts about a dozen telescopes. The dormant volcano is popular with astronomers because its summit is well above the clouds at 13,796 feet, offering a clear view of the sky above for 300 days a year. The state's isolated location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean also means the area is relatively free of air pollution. Few cities on the Big Island mean there aren't a lot of man-made lights around to disrupt observations. http://www.tmt.org/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb2_1366038254 bandit1200 The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) World's largest <span class="highlight">Optical</span> Telescope Gets Go-ahead: The Thirty Meter Telescope, TMT, World's largest, Optical Telescope Fri, 17 May 2013 10:38:41 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3d3_1368801441 bawbawwtf http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3d3_1368801441 bawbawwtf 12 Amazing <span class="highlight">optical</span> illusions Amaizng, Optical, Illusions