This pipe can lifts water upward with no power

Carrying liquids up a hill usually involves a pump, or a lot of buckets. But now it seems water can do some of the heavy lifting itself. Chinese researchers have created a tiny water pump that requires no power source. In other words, it can push water upward without adding energy.

Antigravity pipe lifts water. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1FAkHUn)

Kesong Liu of Beihang University in Beijing, China, and his colleagues have developed a way to lift water with no need for an external source of energy. Although the technique only works over short distances at the moment, it could be useful for microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices that shift small amounts of water around to analyse diseases.

A copper mesh treated with an alkali solution creates a hydrophobic surface, one that repels water. That keeps the liquid moving along. But it takes placing a few drops of water underneath the mesh to coax it to move the water out of the pipe entirely.

It may seem like magic, but it's all thanks to the surface tension of water. When the droplet touches the larger column of water, this surface tension breaks and the energy used to keep the droplet spherical goes into lifting the water. "We thought, why not use water's own energy to propel the antigravity delivery?" says Liu.

The contraption is tiny, able to work at just a 1 cm length. But it could create efficient ways to miniature motors, medical devices, and more objects that can work on such a small scale. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | NEW SCIENTIST]

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Unique Boxy Custom Bike

This bike began its life as a 2008 Yamaha Scorpio motorbike. Then the guys at Jakarta-based Thrive Motorcycles got their hands on it and made some kind of a magic touch. After then, here's a unique boxy-shaped custom motorcycle as the result.

A unique boxy custom bike of Thrive MC named T005 Cross. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1HeOk2Z)

They stripped it down, added some custom handlebars, fitted fat and knobby off-road tires to 18-inch spoke rims, added stainless steel exhaust, put in a smartphone mount for a dashboard, and cut the body from a sheet of aluminum. And the frame is made by custom to accommodate the insane body design.

Right side view of Thrive MC T005 Cross. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1HeOk2Z)

As the result, the 2008 Yamaha Scorpio custom bike with Bandung-plate number now given a name of the 'Thrive MC T005 Cross,' under commissioned of a client who's a graphic designer.

Front and rear view of Thrive MC T005 Cross. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1HeOk2Z)

As explained to Pipeburn, a Thrive builder said, "We began to wonder what kind of spirit would live in between such extremes. We though there must be more than neutrality; maybe the grey area is more mysterious than you could ever imagine? What if it could be really bad and very good at the same time?"

Rear side view of Thrive MC T005 Cross. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1HeOk2Z)

To ensure decent amounts of off-road control, Thrive sourced a new Rental ‘Fatbar’ handlebar and completed the set-up with a custom clutch and brake lever, a custom dashboard with indicators and a GPS/phone mount, and some custom switch gear. 

They capped off the ‘bars with bespoke bar-end turn signals to try keep to the overall clean look. Job done, then. Comfortable? Probably not. But as soon as you see yourself reflected in a car window, you won't care how it feels.

Updates (21/09/20)

The Thrive MC T005 Cross boxy-shaped motorbike ever had sat on display at the Peterson Automotive Museum in a year from April 14, 2018 to April 14, 2019.

Kept spur your adrenaline on the power of the two-wheeled monster and stay alive with true safety riding. May God will forgive Your sins and so does the cops...... *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | PIPEBURN | VINTAGENT]

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Seeing Captain Nemo's six-wheeled car

Captain Nemo’s ride was arguably the most extraordinary thing about the 2003 flick “The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen” and over a decade after its silver screen debut, the Nautilus Car is headed to auction.

Captain Nemo’s Nautilus Car on the scene of 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen'. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1ddb4Ef)

Designed by Carol Spier, and custom made for production, the car's unique fiberglass body sits atop a Land Rover Fire Tender, while a steel sub frame houses a big Rover V8 engine.

Here are several pictures of Captain Nemo’s Nautilus Car. (All pictures taken from: http://bit.ly/1ddb4Ef)

One of the most striking cars ever seen on film sits on six massive 28-inch wheels, and powerful hydraulics enables the car to hop up and down like some sort of 19th century lowrider.

The Hindu god Ganesha is elaborately recreated on either side of the decorative grille, and along with elephant motifs and other symbolic carvings, sport an aged gold finish complementing the cracked off-white body. The interior is equally elaborate, upholstered in faux brown leather and silver.

At 22 feet long by nine feet wide, the car is not suitable or legal for road use, but runs beautifully and can clock 80 mph. It is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at Coys’ Blenheim Palace auction which held on July, 2015. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | CARBUZZ]

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Soleil Anadi, a Coachbuilt Corvette

The 2011 Top Marques car show in Monaco welcomed the world premiere of the Soleil Anadi, a coachbuilt Corvette that is the brainchild of Ugur Sahin, a Turkish designer based in the Netherlands.

Soleil Anadi at the 2011 Top Marques car show in Monaco. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1LlLo6i)

Sahin sold the rights to the design of the Anadi to a company called Soleil Motors, which then joined forces with Ercole and Paolo Spada from Spada Concepts and Will Castro from Unique Autosport to complete the project.

The design carries a gorgeous coupe concept with the basic of 2007 Z03 concept. They made a Z03 line concept increasingly assertive, original and spectacular production. The Z03 concept has a new face with a shark nose, side and rear body which also deliberately designed differently.

Right side view of Soleil Anadi. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1LlLo6i)

The Corvette form still attached on the Anadi design, that taken from several generations of previous Corvette models. Even the modern interpretation shape is also taking part of the Stingray, which comes from 1960s.

Rear side view of Soleil Anadi. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1LlLo6i)

Lying under the hood is a Corvette sourced 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine producing 651-horsepower. Soleil Motors said projections of current testing indicate the Anadi reaching top speeds in excess of 200 mph (321 km/h) and capable of completing the 0-60 mph (96 km/h) sprint in less than 3.5 seconds.

Soleil Motors said that the Anadi was sold at a price of US. $299,995 or about €208,000, with production set to be limited to 300 cars worldwide. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | SOLEIL MOTORS | CARSCOOPS]

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Apparently, the motion of Earth slows

Are you think that the day and night throughout the history of life is always the same? If yes, you are wrong. A day and night are determined based on the time required by the Earth in doing one rotation on its axis turns varies.

Scientists know that variations through decades of research with the technique of 'Very-Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)'. In essence, scientists measured a day and night at various locations all the time, then compare them.

Face of Earth from outer space such as taken by the Japanese satellite Himawari 8. Our Earth looked more gray. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1FxT2Dw)

1.7 milliseconds per 100 years 

The research results of the VLBI, combined with the fossil-based research, revealing that the Earth's rotation slowed. Because slowing rotation of the Earth is the tidal force of the Moon. The Moon itself increasingly moving away from the Earth.

The study by University of Durham physicists, FR Stephenson and colleagues, LV Morrison, revealed that within 100 years, the speed of rotation of the Earth slows down about 1.7 milliseconds. The time duration is very short. As the comparison, for wink alone takes more than that. However, when accumulated in the long term, the difference can be substantial.

Big difference it would make inaccurate forecasts and measurements. For example, when we want to estimate the peak of the eclipse phenomenon at the time of Babylon in 136 BC. With a rotation variation, resulting from calculation errors can reach 48.8 degrees due to the time difference totaled 11.700 seconds.

A day and night just 23 hours

Evidence that the day and night can be great variations revealed by Daniel MacMillan of the Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

"At the time of the dinosaurs, Earth completed one rotation for 23 hours, and in 1820, Earth's rotation was 24 hours, 86,400 seconds. Since 1820, the mean solar day increased by about 2.5 milliseconds," he said, as explained on the website of NASA in 2012 ago.

RA Nelson and colleagues stated in a paper "Leap Second, Its History and Possible Future" in volume 38, 2001 of the Metrologia journal reveal more surprising facts. According to them, because the tidal force and other causes, in 2,000 years, the Earth has lost of time about 3 hours.

Leap seconds 

In order to maintain standards at the same time remain in line with what is happening with the Earth, Moon, and Sun, scientists then initiated the leap second in 1972. The concept, the addition or subtraction can even one second at certain times so that time remains in sync with the Earth's rotation.

Leap second itself emerged thanks to advances in the measurement of time, especially the second, more precise with cesium atoms. The year of 2015 is one year that would have a leap second. One second will be added on June 30, 2015.

There are a number of people who want to abolish the leap second because it is technologically inconvenient. For example, create a computer system error. However, other groups, said that the leap second will still need to keep precision time.

In addition, if leap seconds are removed, then, in the long term, major changes will occur in the time believed the change of seasons and others. And NASA predicts that if leap seconds are removed, then, in 500 years, the time on Earth will be different 25 minutes with the real time according to the movement of the Earth's rotation and revolution. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | ]

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The future car technology mimics the workings of the human brain

The most recent innovation of the automotive world is autonomous car. More recently, Audi re-innovating but not participate to make autonomous car, but to design a car that can think and learn like human beings.

As reported by Speedlux on Monday, June 15, 2015, a car that will be created by Audi will work with computerized technology that simulates the human brain.

To develop this huge and ambitious project, Audi will cooperate with Nvidia, a world-class technology company. The California-based company have helped design the auto piloted driving technology.

Autonomous Audi uses 'deep learning' to mimic human brain. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1efB0Au)

The autonomous A7, known as 'Jack,' served as a demonstrator for the artificial intelligence algorithms, programmed into the tablet-sized zFAS driver-assistance control that serves as the brain for managing its autonomous systems.

This technology operates through various camera recording images. These images were analyzed by the processor. The processor is capable of studying objects and distinguish these objects.

The whole process involves terabytes of data and must be completed very quickly, relying on an integrated Nvidia Tegra processor rather than sending the information into the cloud.

While according GTSpirit, the system is so advanced because it has the ability like eyes, nose and mouth. This capability is used to detect and differentiate vehicles and other objects on the street.

One of the key elements of this system are in each trip, the system will continue to process the information. Just like humans, the process of adding data to make the car becomes increasingly 'smart'. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LEFTLANENEWS]

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Revealed, Venus has active volcanoes

Scientists have long believed that Venus has volcanoes that are still active. Analyzed data collected by the Venus Express spacecraft, scientists now prove that the second closest planet from the Sun it does have volcanoes.

"We have seen a number of events in which the spots on the surface of Venus suddenly heats up and cools down," said Eugene Shalygin of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.

The Venus Express orbiter has found the best evidence yet for volcanic activity on Venus. The researchers based their finding on tell-tale hot spots on Venus' surface. Pictured is an artist's impression. (Picture from: http://dailym.ai/1GukaE0)

There are four spots were detected scientists. Previously, scientists have known that itru spot is a region of volcanoes. However, this is the first time scientists succeeded in proving that the spot could experience significant temperature changes.

"It is the most strongest evidence today about volcanism on Venus," said Shalygin as quoted by the Daily Mail on Friday, June 18th, 2015.

Radiating our from the Venusian volcano Ozza Mons (red, center) are thousands of miles of rift zones (purple). Data from the Venus Express spacecraft suggests there are active lava flows in hotspots along the rifts. (Picture from: http://dailym.ai/1GukaE0)

In the spot called "Object A" which covers only about 1 square kilometer, scientists know that the temperature can reach 830 degrees Celsius, much higher than the usual temperature around 480 degrees Celsius.

Results of this study are consistent with other data from Venus Express showing signs of volcanism on Venus recently.

This Infographic provides key pieces of evidence that can be explained by recent volcanic activity on Venus.  Scientists believe Venus' volcanoes covered the planet in a cataclysmic flood of lava around half a billion years ago - and they believe these volcanoes may still be active today. (Picture from: http://dailym.ai/1GukaE0)

In 2010, a number of mountain infrared image taken by Venus Express indicates that lava once flowed from thousands to millions of years ago. A few years later, there was a surge of sulfur in the atmosphere of Venus that could be a clue that an active central volcano.

"Our study shows that Venus, our nearest neighbor, is still active and changed at this time. This step is important to understand the differences in evolutionary history of Earth and Venus," said Shalygin. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | DAILY MAIL]

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