Saiyan: March 2011

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

22 Reasons Why should Buy the Bugatti Veyron Million Dollar Car

1. It’s $1.7 million dollars

2. Because it looks like the Batmobile.

3. To change the 4 tires, which are special made and to-order by Michelin, costs $47,000. Oh, another important note on tires: the only company that is certified by VW to remove and put tires on the rims charges a cool $71,000 dollars for the service.

4. The car needs 10 radiators to keep engine temperatures in control, even though the engine is exposed to the elements.

4 radiators for the engine cooling system.
1 radiator for the air to liquid intercoolers.
2 for the air conditioning system.
1 transmission oil radiator.
1 differential oil radiator.
1 engine oil radiator.

5. It costs VW nearly $5 million dollars to make one Veyron, but they sell it for substianlly less than that. When the project manager was asked why in the world a car company would do that he answered, “we realize it’s a loss, but we get to say we created the fastest, most expensive and powerful production car in the world.”

6. The car’s top speed is 256 miles per hour. To give you some context, that would have you cover the Minnesota Viking’s football field in .7 tenths of a second.

7. They are only making 220 of them, which means you-be-a-cool-cat.

8. If you have a mechanical failure, you can push a button in the car and a GPS beacon is activated, and a special VW/Bugatti mechanic is flown to your location to assist you/the towing company in removing your car from the side of the road.

9. To give you some context of how much power 1001 horsepower is: The most powerful car in the world for nearly 15 years was the McLaren F1 GTR. If you lined up the GTR against the Veyron, and let the GTR take off until it hit 125mph before theVeyron started, the Veyron would still beat it to 200mph.

10. To get the car to it’s top speed you have to pull over, put the car in park, and insert a key into a slot that lowers the rear wing and lowers the entire car closer to the ground, creating more aerodynamic downforce.

11. The car has a 8.1 liter W16 engine. That’s 2 V8′s put together.

12. It’s all-wheel drive, an excellent selling point for Midwest owners of the supercar.

13. It will do 0-60 mph in 2.4 seconds.

14. It will do 0-100 mph in 5.7 seconds. Some added context: That’s faster than any Ferrari or Lamborghini can get to 60mph by your standard joe-the-plumber high performance sports car owner.

15. You can create 3.1 G of deceleration when slamming on the brakes from 200mph. That’s just 3G shy of what an F16 fighter pilot would hit when doing tactical takeoff’s.

16. Clothing designer Hermes upholstered 3 of them in a special edition release of the automobile. These 3 are for my people.

17. It’s top speed is 1/3 of the speed of sound.

18. At top speed, the engine will suck in as much air as you breathe in 4 days.

19. At top speed, when you slam on the brakes, the rear spoiler will also angle itself down, acting as an airbrake. The braking power the rear wing creates is equal to a small VW hatchback.

20. Oh, it has 4 turbochargers.

21. It will do 0-186 mph in 16 seconds.

22. Most car designers think it’s the most obnoxious thing in the world.

Monday, 28 March 2011

All New 2011 Beauty "Ducati Diavel"

“The challenge of building a muscular silhouette over a pure-bred competition motor had to be met with determination and a delicate touch, and the result is a frontal area that looks like a power athlete on the starting blocks,” explains the team at Ducati Design responsible for the project.
“With the front wheel kept close to the Diavel’s body and using the short tail of a sport bike, we were able to blend this muscular design with a chassis that matched.”

The stance of the Diavel is that of readiness, dominance, and confidence bordering on superiority. With lateral radiators adding muscle to its broad “shoulders,” which then taper down across the engine and into the belly-fairing with oil cooler, the athlete took shape.

A massive 240 section rear tyre was a perfect example of how Diavel designers used a no-compromise attitude when applying their wish list of features. Ducati’s philosophy for innovation has always been to push the boundaries of design in the name of exciting motorcycles.

16 And 17 Core Processors

With an unusual core number of 17, IBM’s new BlueGene/Q processor draws attention. AMD’s 16-core processor Interlagos might arrive a bit earlier than expected and the Itanium shows new signs of life.

The “Heptakaideka-Core” processor BlueGene/Q, presented by IBM at the supercomputing conference SC10 in New Orleans, is supposed to power the 20Pflops computer Sequoia, which IBM is supposed to deliver to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in about 2 years. However, only 16 of its 17 cores are meant for computing, the extra core will handle control and I/O tasks. Actually, the BlueGene/Q even has 18 cores, but one of them is spare, that can improve the yield or the reliability during operation. Unlike its BlueGene predecessors, the Q-version was upgraded to 64-bit processing and the SIMD unit was widened so that now it can execute four double precision fused-multiply-add commands with eight floating-point operations per clock. Accordingly, at 1.6 GHz clock speed, the processor would get 205 Gflops – but resourceful software engineers could still improve the performance by making the 17th core calculate, too. Additionally, the processor supports four-way SMT and so, for instance, provides the operating systems (RHEL6 on the I/O nodes, special compute OS on the computing nodes) with 64 “logical” cores or threads.

hanks to the 64-bit support, the modules can now run 8 or 16 GB of DDR3 memory. Five links (2 GB/s per direction) connect each module to its neighbors, making it possible to create different 5D topologies. Half a rack with 8192 BlueGene/Q cores has already proven its capabilities in the Linpack benchmark. With 65.3 Tflops, the test system from the Thomas J. Watson Research Center scored 115th place in the new Top500 list. Its power consumption of 38.8 kW represented a new record value for energy efficiency at close to 1700 Mflops/watt. The Sequoia is supposed to get 96 fully equipped racks, which are supposed to deliver 20 Pflops of theoretical peak performance at the end of 2012.

The True AVX Processor

By then, AMD’s 16-core Interlagos with the new Bulldozer architecture should already have been on the race track for quite a while. At the SC10, AMD even raised the scientists’ hopes that the processor might be ready earlier than expected, which would mean before the third quarter of 2011. The wide-spread doubt in the HPC scene concerning the “halved” FPU – a Bulldozer module contains two integer cores, but only one FPU – was more or less coherently countered by AMD, with the argument that the “Flex FP” is capable of executing two 128-bit commands simultaneously (SSE, AVX). In particular, this is true for the multiply-add commands (FMA) – which are much valued for HPC and which are not supported by Intel’s Sandy Bridge and will probably be lacking from the feature list of its successor, the Ivy Bridge, too. Only for the currently still rarely used 256-bit AVX operations Bulldozer links both units.

Consequently, the Interlagos with its eight modules or 16 cores manages 64 double precision floating-point operations per clock, which makes 224 Gflops at 3.5 GHz. At this clock speed, Intel’s planned 8-core Sandy Bridge EP will achieve the same theoretical peak value. While it doesn’t support FMA, it’s able to execute an AVX multiplication and addition in full 256-bit width in parallel. The Bulldozer’s clock rate specification of 3.5 GHz and the number of transistors per module (213 million) can be found in the abstracts of the presentations for the next International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in February of 2011. Apart from some further details on the Sandy Bridge and Westmere-EX, Intel first of all intents to release first specifications for the next Itanium generation Poulson. The abstract gives away some details already: 32-nm technology, 8 cores with simultaneous multithreading (SMT), 12-issue superscalar (4 bundles with 3 commands each per clock; two times as many as before), 3.1 billion transistors on 544 mm², a total of 50 MB of cache, 128 GB of bandwidth between the processors and 45 GB of memory bandwidth. Now there are speculations that Poulson might feature fine-grained SMT – maybe even with different priorities, like the Power7. A further similarity with the Power7 architecture could be a possible switch to out-of-order execution. This was brought to attention by David Kanter from www.realworldtech.com, in whose forum a certain Linus Torvalds speaks out against the “failed“ Itanium architecture in some pithy lines.

The Itanium only knows modern vector units like SSE in the 32-bit emulation. If the Poulson will have AVX or maybe even something better, is still unknown, but its amount of transistors – after deducting the caches – would most likely be insufficient in any case.

However, the current advanced vector extensions (AVX) are not the same that Intel presented almost three years ago. In the meantime, Intel eliminated some permutation commands and added 256-bit streaming commands. Most importantly, the FMA operations (like “VFMADDPD”) planned as four-operand commands have been reduced to three operands. A source operand will consequently be overridden by the resulting value; which operand that is, can be chosen. So that “VFMADD213PD”multiplies the second operand with the first, adds the third and overrides the first with the result.

Probably, Ronak Singhal, under whose lead the Haswell processor – slated for 2012 – is being developed in the 22-nm process in Oregon (and, later on, the Rockwell in 16-nm structures), encouraged this to make the instruction set compatible with the one of the future 512 bits wide vector unit. This instruction set, which emerged as Larrabee New Instruction Set (LNI) in the past, has exactly the same syntax for FMA; it only supports three operands.

Meanwhile, in addition to the new features, AMD intents to offer the initially planned four-operand version (FMA4) for the Bulldozer, although with a slightly changed encoding. Also the permutation commands, which Intel eliminated, will probably be supported by the Bulldozer. Regarding it this way, the Bulldozer is the processor that Intel originally had in mind for AVX, not the Sandy Bridge.

A Bomb That Could Trigger Devastating Tsunami Waves

SECRET WARTIME experiments were conducted off the New Zealand coast to perfect a bomb that could trigger devastating Tsunami waves, according to government files declassified in Auckland. The New Zealand Herald, citing the files, said that senior United States defence officials believed the weapon had the potential to be as deadly as the atomic bomb. But the tsunami bomb, as it was known, was never fully tested and the war ended before the project was completed.
Its mastermind was Thomas Leech, an Australian professor who as the dean of engineering at Auckland University from 1940 to 1950. He was seconded to the New Zealand Army during the Second World War. He set off a series of underwater explosions that triggered mini tidal waves at Whangaparaoa, just north of Auckland, in 1944 and 1945.
Details of the research, known as Project Seal, are contained in 53- year-old documents released by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The papers, stamped “Top Secret”, show that America and Britain were keen for Seal to be developed in the postwar years. They even considered sending Professor Leech to Bikini Atoll to watch the US nuclear tests and see if they had any application to his work.
In the end, he did not make the visit, although Dr Karl Compton, a member of the US board of assessors of nuclear tests, was sent to New Zealand to meet him.
In July 1946, a letter from Washington to Wellington Defence Headquarters stated: “Dr Compton is impressed with Professor Leech’s deductions on the Seal Project and is prepared to recommend to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that all technical data from the test, relevant to the Seal Project, should be made available to the New Zealand government for further study.”
The announcement in 1947 that he had been awarded a CBE for weapons research led to speculation in some newspapers outside New Zealand about the nature of the work that he had been conducting. No details were released about it at the time because the project was still under way.
Neil Kirton, a former colleague of Professor Leech, told the New Zealand Herald that the experiments involved laying a pattern of explosives underwater to create a tidal wave.
Small-scale explosions were set off in the Pacific and off Whangaparaoa, which was controlled by the army at the time. Mr Kirton said he doubted whether people living in Auckland at the time would have noticed the trials.
What happened to Project Seal once the final report was forwarded to Wellington in the late 1940s is not clear.
Mr Kirton said: “If it could ever be resurrected, under some circumstances I think it could be devastating.”

Views Below Are Not HP Staff, And Have Been Sent To Our News Files Was the tsunami caused by a bomb? By Gordon Deponto, Greatfalls
Could Nuclear testing create a tsunami?

This is a difficult topic to research, because much of the information surrounding nuclear testing is classified. During the Cold War there was fear of tsunamis produced by the detonation of nuclear bombs on the continental shelf off the East Coast of the US. A nuclear bomb was never detonated on the shelf, however a huge explosion did generate a tsunami during World War I causing vast destruction Any large disturbance that displaces a large volume of water can be a potential cause of a tsunami.

If it happened before, it may be a bomb that caused this one. It seems very convenient that the epicenter of the earthquake was in war torn Aceh. Could a bomb or series of bombs on the faultline have caused this huge earthquake/tsunami?

Reporters keep saying it looks like a nuclear bomb was dropped. Was this nuclear weapons above and below the ocean. 3 large Nukes in different areas could do the same damage and cause the same tsunami. We Pray to God that this is not another push for oil and the New World Order by our governments.

FACTS
Aceh has fought for independence for many years – even befor Indonesia became a democracy (AKA US protectorate) a few years ago.

There is oil, a lot of it, and liquid gas in Indonesia.

The US is engaged in military “training” in the region. Flight and naval base with weapons to oufit a huge army

80,000 + people in Aceh died in the earthquake.

I’d predict that Aceh will suddenly become peaceful and cooperative with the US appointed Indonesian government.

THEORY
Is it likely that this whole terrible earthquake/tsunami happened because US/Indonesian army folks thought it would be a good idea to use a big bomb to quench the Aceh independence movement?

This would be a terrible murderous plot to intentionally kill so many people. Those in power might say these people are poor and are causing the New World order many troubles. If this is the kind of freedom the New World order brings, intentional death to make it work, then God help those that conspire to do this. On the day of judgment there will be no where to hide. ( If the life of thousands of poor Aceh people made in the image of God is the way the New World Order intends to make it easier to control the region and take the oil.), then this is not freedom but death to all who go along with such a diabolical plan. If they tried to get rid of the Aceh rebels with a bomb it worked well, but they never thought it would cause a big tsunami. The New World Order Pushers don’t care how many lives they take to make their one World Government work. These are my thoughts, lets hope this is not the real reason the Tsunami was so large.
By Gordon Deponto, Greatfalls U.S.

A Bomb That Triggers A Tidal Wave

The idea of a bomb that triggers a tidal wave is not as outlandish as it may first appear. Towards the end of WWII a top-secret project was underway in the waters off the coast of New Zealand to perfect just such a weapon. Project Seal as it was known was a secret weapon developed under the auspices of British and American defence chiefs who considered it as important as the atomic bomb.

Prof Thomas Leech, dean of engineering at Auckland University, conducted the experiments in the sea off Auckland on the so-called Tsunami bomb; in recognition he was awarded the CBE in 1947. The existence of the weapon was only disclosed in 1999 when New Zealand’s Foreign Ministry released declassified documents. According to the papers British and American defence chiefs were keen to see the development of the weapon, which would be exploded near enemy territory with the intention of creating devastating tidal waves (9). It doesn’t take a genius to realise that if the bomb were to carry a nuclear charge it would inundate such low lying countries as Holland and southern England. Significantly the Russians are also said to have developed such a weapon. – the TruthSeeker, 10/22/04

On December 18, 2004, I ran a story entitled, BND Guy: December 27… Expect “Something Big”… This Is It, Folks, and if read, you can see that I got a lot of flack for running it. Whether it remained a real story that got delayed or not, it certainly was close. Would the Russians, being aware of an event such as that, realizing the power it would give to Bush to go “Empiring”, would they do one better and not only stall Bush’s “warring” but also show off their ability to rule the world as well?

Could the Russians have triggered the recent Asian Tsunami?

1. Do stories differ as to how many missiles were fired? Yes.

2. Are the missiles capable of reaching this distance from Russia? Yes.

3. Is Russia playing war games with the U.S.? Yes.

4. Was notification of the Tsunami delayed? Yes.

5. Is world depopulation a planned and coordinated effort? Yes.

6. What was that strange silence by all world leaders??

1. Do stories differ as to how many missiles were fired?

The Russian government was testing missiles last week. This testing was meant to show Russia’s advancement in nuclear proliferation and to tell the world they had trumped Bush’s Missile Shield program. But varying reports show that there is some degree of uncertitude over how many missiles were fired and from where?

This from the Russian Information Agency Novosti:

MOSCOW, December 20 (RIA Novosti) – This week the Strategic Missile Forces are going to launch two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the SMF press service said…..The missile division deployed in the Orenburg region, which launched a missile for the last time in 1991, will launch a combat-training version of the RS-20V Voyevoda (NATO codename SS 18 Satan)….The combat training launch will not be the only one this week, as the Topol M, a fifth-generation ICBM, will be launched at Plesetsk Space Center from a state-of-the-art mobile launcher….[1]

This from an Associated Press on Friday, Dec. 24:

A government statement says the test involved a mobile version of the top-of-the line Topol-M. Military officials say the missile is capable of hitting targets more than six-thousand miles away. Russia’s official news agency says today’s launch is expected to be the last of four test-firings of the Topol-M’s mobile version before its deployment set for next year.[2]

Now check out this from Rediff.com on Dec. 25:

“Russia on Saturday successfully tested its Generation-next hypersonic inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of dodging any future missile shield.”[3]

When exactly was the last firing? And how many missiles were actually fired? According to their release, one may never know: “The missiles can carry up to 1’200 kilograms in warheads and have a range of about 10’000 kilometers. Reportedly able to conduct in-flight maneuvers and to avoid detection and interception, the Topol-M is sometimes presented by the Russian military as Moscow’s response to the US National Missile Defense shield (NMD) program.”

And where???

Dec. 20 – “The missile division deployed in the Orenburg region, which launched a missile for the last time in 1991, will launch a combat-training version of the RS-20V Voyevoda (NATO codename SS 18 Satan).” This week the Strategic Missile Forces are going to launch two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the SMF press service said.

Dec. 20 – “The missile was fired from a mobile launcher at the Plesetsk launch pad in the northern region of Arkhangelsk…”

Dec. 22 – “It was fired from a missile base Dombarovka in the Orenburg region, some 1’300 kilometers southeast of Moscow.” [6]

Dec. 24 – “Friday’s launch is expected to be the last of four test-firings of the Topol-M’s mobile version before its deployment set for next year [7]

Dec. 25 – “In the presence of Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov and Economic Development Minister Gherman Gref, a RS12M2 Topol-M mobile ICBM was test launched at 1239 hours (1509 IST) from the cosmodrome Plisetsk in north Russia. This was the fourth successful test of the new missile before its induction in 2005.” See Also [10]

Hey, that’s more than 2 or 4???

State tests of the silo-based Topol-M inter-continental ballistic missile’s (ICBM’s) mobile ground-based version, as well as those of the Bulava (Mace) new-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), are being conducted rather successfully, Ivanov told those present. [8]

After President Bush signed a 2002 nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, the U.S. intelligence community concluded that it would be unable to verify reliably whether the Kremlin was abiding by the pact.

The intelligence agencies issued the warning because the treaty didn’t require that each side be allowed to inspect the other’s long-range nuclear missiles and bombers and warhead storage facilities. The Bush administration had opposed mutual inspection during negotiations with the Russians.[11]

2. Are the missiles capable of reaching this distance from Russia?

04/20/04…the launch from Plesetsk tested the Topol-M at its maximum range of approximately 11,000km (approximately 6,830 miles). As a result, the dummy warhead struck a target in neutral waters of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the Aleutian Islands….[4]

Distance from Archangel region of Russia where missiles were fired (64° 33′ N, 40° 32′ E) to the point of contact stated by the USGS Earthquake site (3.251°N, 95.799°E): 8098.440 kilometers or 5032.138 miles

3. Is Russia playing war games with the U.S.?

There have been numerous reports of Russia flexing its military muscle. These latest missile launches are yet another example of Bush and Putin revving up the Cold War again. From Russia’s recent agreements to join China in military maneuvers to Bush gathering alliances to join his Missile Shield program. Check out just one example of the little games you don’t hear about

Their appearance was as dramatic as it was unexpected. They came without warning and left in their wake a trail of confusion and shock. The Russian SU-27 and its reconnaissance escort flew in tandem, flying low and fast, exactly as if they had been on a strike mission. Their target was the prized centrepiece of the US Seventh Fleet in the Sea of Japan, the USS Kitty Hawk. Somehow, through a combination of skill and daring they evaded the radars and look-outs of an entire naval Battle-group to swoop past the aircraft carrier at its centre. If this had been for real the Kitty Hawk would have been sunk or the planes shot down; but the planes were not shot down because the Battle-fleet was taken completely by surprise, moreover this happened not just once but three times in late October and November last year. Then, as if to add insult to injury, the Russians emailed photos to the Pentagon taken by their planes as they buzzed the Kitty Hawk. Interfax quoted Russian naval spokesman Anatoly Kornukov as saying the buzzing of the USS Kitty Hawk had been a “planned operation… Our jets’ appearance was a big surprise for Americans,” Kornukov said. “The photos clearly show the panic on the carrier’s deck.” ” TruthSeeker

“Quietly and deliberately the Russian and Chinese military machines are being rebuilt and readied, or in the words of Russia’s naval commander Adm. Vladimir Kuroyedov: “It is time for our ships to move away from the pier.”

4. Was notification of the Tsunami delayed?

Sulamee Prachuab, who heads the department’s Seismological Bureau, said the agency needed to be cautious because the government’s tourism agency deems that such warnings would hurt tourism if a predicted natural disaster didn’t occur.

The LATimes reported this morning:

“THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING OR WATCH IN EFFECT. AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS.

ORIGIN TIME — 0059Z 26 DEC 2004.

COORDINATES — 3.4 NORTH 95.7 EAST

LOCATION — OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA

MAGNITUDE — 8.0

EVALUATION:

THIS EARTHQUAKE IS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE PACIFIC. NO DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.

Don Blakeman, a USGS geophysicist, was about to have Christmas dinner when his pager went off — a computer-generated warning that a major quake had just occurred. A colleague, Julie Martinez, also was paged and began analyzing data on her home computer while Blakeman drove to the office.

As data from more and more stations began to arrive, Blakeman revised the estimate of the temblor’s magnitude to 8.5 — a threefold increase in size. He triggered a computer program that notified the White House, State Department and major relief agencies of a massive quake.

I personally copied the data from the USGS Earthquake site on Sunday. Changes made to the listing since then are in BOLD.

Magnitude 9.0

Date-Time Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:50 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time [00:58:53]

Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 6:58:50 AM = local time at epicenter [07:58:53] 1 Hour Difference!!

Location 3.251°N, 95.799°E [3.316°N, 95.854°E]

Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program [30 km (18.6 miles)]

Region OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA

Distances

255 km (160 miles) SSE of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia

320 km (200 miles) W of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia

1275 km (790 miles) SSW of BANGKOK, Thailand

1605 km (990 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 8.9 km (5.5 miles); depth fixed by location program

Parameters Nst=169, Nph=169, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.4 sec, Gp= 29° [Nst=276, Nph=276, Dmin=654.9 km, Rmss=1.04 sec, Gp= 29°],

M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9

Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usslav

Felt Reports At least 3,000 people killed in Sri Lanka, 2,300 in India, 2,000 in Indonesia, 289 in Thailand, 42 in Malaysia, 8 in Somalia and 2 in Bangladesh by tsunamis. Tsunamis also occurred on the coasts of Maldives and Cocos Island. At least 200 people killed, buildings destroyed or damaged in the Banda Aceh area, Sumatra. Felt widely in Sumatra. Also felt in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. This is now the fourth largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and is the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska earthquake.

They have changed the TIME, DEPTH, LOCATION & PARAMETERS of the Earthquake.

5. Is world depopulation a planned and coordinated effort?

“We are saying with Global 2000 and in real policy that you must lower population rates. Population reduction and control is now our primary policy objective- then you can have some development.”Accordingly, the Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs has consistently blocked industrialization policies in the Third World, denying developing nations access to nuclear energy technology–the policies that would enable countries to sustain a growing population. According to State Department sources, and Ferguson himself, Alexander Haig is a “firm believer” in population control.” “WORLD DEPOPULATION IS TOP NSA AGENDA: The Haig-Kissinger Depopulation Policy – March 10, 1981”

6. What was that strange silence by all world leaders??

Why were our “Leaders” slow to react?? One can justifiably argue that the leaders didn’t react because they simply do not care. (“Blair still refused to come home early, but since he was jolted into action, the pace of the official response has accelerated markedly.”) & Annan didn’t move. These three were all on vacation, right. World leaders are never on vacation. It’s their job NOT to be on vacation during world disasters.

Or perhaps there was more to it. Maybe, they were aware of something more than a “natural disaster. They didn’t even break their silence when “Tsunami toll rises to 68,000; aid teams arrive” came scrolling across their TVs?? People, I think it’s safe to say that our “World Leaders” were in war-mode, wondering where the next hit was coming. If the Russians did “preempt” Bush’s fake war, it could be that Bush was regrouping…going to plan B…

Putin, he was one of the first to call.[5] Putin called on Sunday. Not too many Russians lost their life in this disaster. Not many at all…

And what about that measely $15 million. Well, how else to take all the attention from the fact that you have been in your bunker awaiting war and saying nothing than to have your buddies at the New York Times release “Stingy-Gate” and drive the Rove-mobile over to the bank and throw up $350 Million, impressing farmer Brown…

Well, that is all about this. If you can offer any info that might strengthen this theory or officially debunk it, send it in. I’m leaving with this lovely

NOTES

[1] MISSILE FORCES PREPARING FOR ICBM LAUNCHES

MOSCOW, December 20 (RIA Novosti) – This week the Strategic Missile Forces are going to launch two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the SMF press service said.

According to the press service, Russian Missile Forces Commander Nikolai Solovtsov will preside over both launches.

The missile division deployed in the Orenburg region, which launched a missile for the last time in 1991, will launch a combat-training version of the RS-20V Voyevoda (NATO codename SS 18 Satan).

“This Voyevoda launch will be the first in a series of planned events. It will also be another step in fulfilling the President’s task of making as much use as possible of the technological potential of missile systems by extending their service life beyond the producer warranty life,” the Strategic Missile Force spokesman said.

The combat training launch will not be the only one this week, as the Topol M, a fifth-generation ICBM, will be launched at Plesetsk Space Center from a state-of-the-art mobile launcher.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref are expected to attend the launch at the space center.

The Topol M mobile missile system is world-unique and much superior in its combat performance to its predecessor Topol. Silo-based and mobile Topol Ms will make up the core of Russia’s missile force for many years to come.

According to open press, the Russian Strategic Missile Force operates silo-based Topol M systems. In the future, mobile launchers will become operational along with silo-based ones. The first stationary Topol M RS-12s (NATO codename SS-X27) entered the Russian inventory in 1997.

According to official data, each of the four currently active missile regiments armed with the Topol Ms operates six to ten intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The Topol M has the following characteristics: length (incl. warhead) – 22.7 meters, diameter – 1.95 meters, takeoff weight – 47.2 tons, payload – 1.2 tons, operational range – over 10,000 kilometers. It has three engines, which enable the vehicle to supercede the cruising speed of all previously made peers.

The RS-20 Voyevoda (the Satan) has a takeoff weight of about 211 tons, a length of around 34 meters, and an operational range of over 10,000 kilometers with the independent inertial navigation system. The 8.8-ton warhead includes ten independently targetable re-entry vehicles whose total power is equal to 1,200 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. A single missile can totally eliminate 500 square kilometers of enemy defenses.

[2] Russia test-fires mobile version of its latest missile

MOSCOW Officials in Moscow say the Russian military has successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile.

A government statement says the test involved a mobile version of the top-of-the line Topol-M. Military officials say the missile is capable of hitting targets more than six-thousand miles away.

Russia’s official news agency says today’s launch is expected to be the last of four test-firings of the Topol-M’s mobile version before its deployment set for next year.

Media reports have said the missile lifts off faster than its predecessors and maneuvers in a way that makes it more difficult to spot and intercept.

Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[3] Russia successfully tests hypersonic ICBM

Russia on Saturday successfully tested its Generation-next hypersonic inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of dodging any future missile shield.

In the presence of Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov and Economic Development Minister Gherman Gref, a RS12M2 Topol-M mobile ICBM was test launched at 1239 hours (1509 IST) from the cosmodrome Plisetsk in north Russia.

Twenty-five minutes later it scored a bulls-eye 6,000 kilometres away at the Kura range in Kamchatka in the far east, the defence ministry said.

This was the fourth successful test of the new missile before its induction in 2005.

Topol-M ICBMs will become the ‘backbone’ of the Russian nuclear missile forces by 2015 and are expected to be in service till 2040. Equipped with three powerful engines, they are capable of penetrating through multi-layered enemy missile defences.

In November, addressing his top generals, President Vladimir Putin had shocked the world by announcing plans to shortly deploy ‘unique missiles capable of penetrating any future missile defence systems under development’ in the US.

In the late 1980s, responding to US president Ronald Regan’s ‘Star Wars’ plans, the then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had cautioned that the USSR will take ‘asymmetrical’ measures, which would turn the US missile shield costing hundreds of billion dollars into a ‘useless toy’.

[4] Russia successfully tests hypersonic ICBM

Russia on Saturday successfully tested its Generation-next hypersonic inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of dodging any future missile shield.

In the presence of Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov and Economic Development Minister Gherman Gref, a RS12M2 Topol-M mobile ICBM was test launched at 1239 hours (1509 IST) from the cosmodrome Plisetsk in north Russia.

Twenty-five minutes later it scored a bulls-eye 6,000 kilometres away at the Kura range in Kamchatka in the far east, the defence ministry said.

This was the fourth successful test of the new missile before its induction in 2005.

Topol-M ICBMs will become the ‘backbone’ of the Russian nuclear missile forces by 2015 and are expected to be in service till 2040. Equipped with three powerful engines, they are capable of penetrating through multi-layered enemy missile defences.

In November, addressing his top generals, President Vladimir Putin had shocked the world by announcing plans to shortly deploy ‘unique missiles capable of penetrating any future missile defence systems under development’ in the US.

In the late 1980s, responding to US president Ronald Regan’s ‘Star Wars’ plans, the then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had cautioned that the USSR will take ‘asymmetrical’ measures, which would turn the US missile shield costing hundreds of billion dollars into a ‘useless toy’.

[5] Putin sends condolences to South Asian leaders over earthquake

MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (Xinhuanet) — Russian President Vladimir Putin onSunday sent condolences to leaders of the Asian nations which were hit by tidal waves caused by a devastating earthquake off Indonesia’s northwest coast.

Putin conveyed his deep condolences to leaders of India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka over the enormous loss of life and material damages in the catastrophe, the Kremlin said in a statement.

More than 4,000 Asian people have been reportedly killed by horrible tsunamis triggered by the devastating earthquake measured8.9 on the Richter scale, which jolted sea areas northwest of Indonesia’s Sumatra Sunday morning.

The Interfax news agency here reported that the Russian Embassyin Thailand had confirmed that an unspecified number of Russian citizens were among the victims at the scenic resort of Phuket Island.

[6] Russia tests first post-Soviet Satan missile

ISN SECURITY WATCH (22/12/04) – For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) has successfully test-fired on Russian territory a heavy intercontinental ballistic missile RS-20V Voevoda, classified by NATO as the SS-18 Satan. The RS-20, the heaviest in the inventory of the Russia’s strategic nuclear forces, was fired today from a silo in the Urals Mountains and hit its target at the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Far East, more than 6’000 kilometers away. RVSN’s spokesman told RIA Novosti news agency today that the test was the first in a series that RVSN has planned under orders from President Vladimir Putin to boost the effectiveness of the deployment of the Russian nuclear potential. After a thorough examination of the test-fire results, RVSN may decide to prolong the Satan missile deployment span for another year. The missiles were produced in the late 1980′s. The missile that was fired today had been deployed for combat for 16 years, according to Interfax news agency. It was fired from a missile base Dombarovka in the Orenburg region, some 1’300 kilometers southeast of Moscow. Since 1991, heavy missiles were not fired from bases, as it was believed to be too dangerous. Instead, they were fired from Baikonur spacecraft and missile facilities in Northern Kazakhstan. Satan missile’s range is 10’000 kilometers and it can carry 10 warheads and is believed to be able to destroy objects within an area of 500 square kilometers. On Friday, Russia will test-fire a mobile version of the Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk missile base in the northern Arkhangelsk region. An unnamed Defense Ministry official told Interfax that it would be the last test for the mobile Topol-M missile, after which it would be deployed to serve as the chief weapon for Russia’s strategic missile forces. The Topol-M system has been deployed in silos since 1998. The missiles can carry up to 1’200 kilograms in warheads and have a range of about 10’000 kilometers. Reportedly able to conduct in-flight maneuvers and to avoid detection and interception, the Topol-M is sometimes presented by the Russian military as Moscow’s response to the US National Missile Defense shield (NMD) program. President Putin has repeatedly called on Russia’s defense forces to boost the country’s strategic nuclear potential. Two months ago, he announced that Russia was developing a new nuclear missile system that no other nuclear-armed nation would possess in the near future. (By Nabi Abdullaev in Moscow)

[7] Russia tests mobile ICBM

The Russian military successfully test-fired a mobile version of its top-of-the-line Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday, officials said. The missile was fired from a mobile launcher at the Plesetsk launch pad in the northern region of Arkhangelsk and hit a designated target on a testing range on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces said in a statement. Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, Economics Minister German Gref and other top officials attended the launch. Friday’s launch is expected to be the last of four test-firings of the Topol-M’s mobile version before its deployment set for next year, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The Topol-M missiles, capable of hitting targets more than 6,000 miles away, have been in silos since 1998 and about 40 are on duty now, according to military officials. Russian media reports have said the missile lifts off faster than its predecessors and maneuvers in a way that makes it more difficult to spot and intercept. It is also reportedly capable of blasting off even after a nuclear explosion close to its silo. “The missile can penetrate all invented and even yet to be invented missile systems, including those equipped with space-based elements, with high probability,” said Yuri Solomonov, who heads the Moscow Institute of Thermal Systems which designed and manufactured the missile. The deployed Topol-Ms have been fitted with single nuclear warheads, but officials have mentioned plans to equip each missile with three individually targeted warheads. President Vladimir Putin has said Russia is developing new strategic nuclear weapons excelling anything which other nations have. Military analysts have said the new weapon would likely be based on the Topol-M.

[8]RUSSIA SET TO UPGRADE ITS NUCLEAR AND CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS: IVANOV

MOSCOW, December 10, (RIA Novosti) – Russia, which unfailingly abides by all previously signed and ratified international agreements, aspires for the well-balanced development of strategic nuclear forces and to maintain their personnel at required levels. This was disclosed to foreign military diplomats today in Moscow by Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.

According to Ivanov, the Yury Dolgoruky fourth-generation SSBN (Strategic Submarine Ballistic Nuclear) will be commissioned next year, with the Russian Air Force receiving two Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers.

State tests of the silo-based Topol-M inter-continental ballistic missile’s (ICBM’s) mobile ground-based version, as well as those of the Bulava (Mace) new-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), are being conducted rather successfully, Ivanov told those present.

In Ivanov’s words, general-purpose forces will receive a lot of new and revamped weaponry and combat hardware; permanent-readiness units and elements will be getting them, in the first place.

As of January 1, 2005, Russia’s Armed Forces will have 1,207,000 officers and soldiers, as well as 876,000 civilian personnel, after incorporating the railroad force.

At the same time, we are guided by geopolitical requirements and the defense-sufficiency principle, while planning our military potential’s possible use, Ivanov informed his audience.

As far as our Armed Forces’ mass-destruction weapons are concerned, I can assure you that the Defense Ministry attaches priority to guarding such weapons against terrorists, etc., Ivanov stressed.

According to Ivanov, the first special Russian peace-keeping brigade will be established by February 2005 on the basis of one of the Volga-Urals military district’s mechanized-infantry units. This brigade will take part in a joint Russia-NATO program for enhancing combat compatibility of national military formations. This program stipulates quite a few joint combat-training, language-training and other related projects, Ivanov explained.

The peace-keeping brigade will have just over 2,000 men, comprising three mechanized-infantry battalions, a reconnaissance battalion, as well as logistics-support units, Ivanov noted in conclusion.

[9] TOPOL-M BALLISTIC MISSILE TO LIFT OFF FROM PLESETSK SPACE CENTER TODAY

MOSCOW, DECEMBER 24, (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, as well as Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref, are to observe the launch of the fifth-generation Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at the Plesetsk space center in the Arkhangelsk region (northern European Russia) December 24. Ukraine’s Sich-1M satellite is to lift off atop a Cyclone-3 launch vehicle from Plesetsk today, as well.

Talking to RIA Novosti, people at the Russian Defense Ministry noted that the Strategic Missile Forces and the Space Forces will jointly test-fire this Topol-M ICBM from a self-propelled launcher.

The mobile Topol-M ICBM complex is unique in itself. Unlike its predecessor, i.e. the Topol ICBM, the new complex boasts a much more impressive combat potential, as well as greater serviceability. Plans are in place to deploy silo-based and mobile Topol-M ICBMs.

These objectives were accomplished by adapting missile warheads to missile defense system conditions, as well as by enhancing ICBM mobility and secrecy levels. Consequently, such ICBMs cannot be detected by technical reconnaissance systems easily enough.

The Topol-M ICBM (warhead included) measures 22.7 meters long and 1.95 meters in diameter. Its lift-off mass and combat load totals 47.2 tons and 1.2 tons, respectively. This ICBM has a range of more than 10,000 km. the Topol-M’s three engines enable it to fly much faster than previous missile types. Moreover, the new ICBM’s several dozen auxiliary engines and guidance systems propel it along an unpredictable trajectory; enemy tracking stations will therefore have trouble detecting it.

Apart from the Topol-M, it is intended to launch Ukraine’s Sich-1M satellite atop a Cyclone-3 rocket and the KS5 MF-2 tiny satellite from Plesetsk at 2.20 p.m. Moscow time.

The Sich-1M is a remote-sensing satellite for conducting optical, infrared and microwave observations of the terrestrial surface for economic purposes. This spacecraft would also be expected to conduct scientific experiments in the field of ionosphere and magnetosphere studies.

For its own part, the KS5 MF-2 tiny satellite will photograph the terrestrial surface.

The Sich-1M spacecraft consists of an airtight body which is connected with four fly-open panels featuring sensors and equipment packages. The body’s opposite bottom is fitted with a gravity stabilizer, as well as a solar-battery servo-drive and current collector. Satellite equipment is installed on girders inside the airtight body, comprising a specialized complex and an auxiliary complex, too.

The Sich-1M will be orbited by a Cyclone-3 rocket, what with the mission-control center near Moscow guiding the spacecraft during the initial stage. The Yevpatoria-based national spacecraft control-and-testing center in the Crimea (an autonomous republic of Ukraine) will then take over.

[10] Dec. 25th – Russia test-fires mobile strategic missile

[11] U.S. unable to confirm Russia’s compliance with weapons treaty

WASHINGTON – After President Bush signed a 2002 nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, the U.S. intelligence community concluded that it would be unable to verify reliably whether the Kremlin was abiding by the pact.

The intelligence agencies issued the warning because the treaty didn’t require that each side be allowed to inspect the other’s long-range nuclear missiles and bombers and warhead storage facilities. The Bush administration had opposed mutual inspection during negotiations with the Russians.

Some U.S. lawmakers and many arms-control experts raised similar concerns about the lack of verification mechanisms in the 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, or SORT, after it was concluded.

The intelligence community laid out its misgivings to Bush, his senior advisers and members of Congress a month after he and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the treaty.

The assessment, which reflected the consensus of 15 civilian and military intelligence agencies, concluded that Russia’s precarious finances would force it to slash to about 1,500 the number of nuclear warheads deployed in bombers, submarine-launched missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

But the assessment said there could be circumstances in which Russia could deploy without detection by the United States a few hundred more warheads than the 2,200 allowed by SORT.

Bush’s decision to sign an arms reduction agreement with no verification procedures was an attempt to move the Cold War U.S.-Soviet rivalry toward a Russo-American partnership. After he and Putin met in June 2001, Bush said: “I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. … I was able to get a sense of his soul.” Bush later added that he’d liked Putin because he’d referred to “a higher power.”

Since then, however, Putin’s attempts to interfere in Ukraine’s election, his continuing efforts to maintain influence over other former Soviet republics, and his attacks on critics in the press and the business community have strained relations.

At a news conference on Monday, Bush said that during his second term, he would discuss with the Russians ways to give each side access to the other’s nuclear storage facilities.

“I think one of the things we need to do is give the Russians equal access to our sites, our nuclear storage sites, to see what works and what doesn’t work, to build confidence between our two governments,” he said. Bush and Putin plan to meet in February.

A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bush was referring to joint efforts to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists and that the administration wasn’t changing its position on the lack of verification measures in the treaty.

SORT, signed by Bush and Putin on May 24, 2002, required the United States and Russia to reduce by Dec. 31, 2012, the number of nuclear warheads installed on long-range bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles to no more than 2,200.

At the time, each side had an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 warheads on long-range missiles and bombers.

Unlike earlier strategic arms reduction treaties, the pact didn’t require the two countries to destroy warheads and launchers taken out of service, allowing them to keep as many as they wanted in their reserve stockpiles, poised for rapid redeployment.

Moreover, the treaty lacked the robust verification measures, such as regular on-site inspections, that had been the cornerstones of ensuring both sides’ compliance with earlier treaties.

Those pacts included the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, which was signed by Bush’s father and required the sides to slash their deployed warheads to no more than 6,000 by 2001.

But START’s expiration in 2009 – three years before SORT must be fully implemented – will end all onsite inspections and other verification measures that Russia and the United States now undertake.

In its assessment, the intelligence community said that if START verification procedures were extended through 2012, it would be able to verify Russian compliance with SORT with a high degree of certainty. Without such an extension, the United States could no longer know with certainty what the Russians had.

The Bush administration had other reasons for excluding verification from the treaty. The White House and Pentagon wanted to preserve U.S. flexibility to increase the number of deployed nuclear warheads beyond the SORT limit in the event of renewed tensions with Russia or the emergence of a new nuclear-armed rival.

At the time, experts also saw the administration’s push for the treaty as a way of soothing the impact on Russia of Bush’s decision in late 2002 to withdraw the United States from a treaty banning both sides from deploying nationwide anti-missile defenses.

Thursday, 31 March 2011

The Agera R has all the features and functionalities of the Agera, but also features a few more unique solutions to further enhance performance even further.

Koenigsegg was the first Sports car manufacturer that took a step towards green technology when the bio fuel CCXR was introduced in 2007. The Agera R, based on the highly competitive Agera, follows in the footsteps of the CCXR as it also runs on E85 bio fuel.

As the Agera R is a flex fuel car. It is also possible to run the R on normal petrol. As 95 octane fuel has less octane than E85, the power goes down to 940 hp and 1100 nm of torque, as the boost pressure and ignition timing is altered to match the fuel characteristics.

Koenigsegg now also offer an R version of the Agera for countries that does not have E85 or E100 readily available. This non bio-fuel version has to be run on a minimum of 98 octane fuel and has been optimized to give an output of 1050 hp and 1140 nm of torque.

Triplex rear suspension

Furthermore the RTD system has an anti-squat effect. Traditional anti-squat systems are designed into the geometry of the suspension. These systems do not add any components or weight. However they compromise the geometry of the suspension for other aspects of handling than anti-squat.

Dynamic rear wing

Hypercars of today generate massive amounts of down force in low to medium speed and less down force in very high speed, in order not to overload the tires and not to create too much drag. Most hypercars therefore have heavy hydraulically operated wings and flaps to cater for this need.

Koenigsegg however, following the "less is more" philosophy, has designed a dynamic system to that take care of the above described needs. This system is standard on the Agera R and optional on the normal Agera.

All these added features to the Agera R truly make it unique. The normal Agera already has a performance out of this world, still the Agera R manages to push it just that little bit further.

Technical Specifications AGERA R

Performance

Aerodynamics

Cd. 0,33 to 0,37 with adaptable rear wings. Frontal Area: 1.873 m2 Total Downforce at 250 km/h: 300 kg Flat underside of chassis. Venturi tunnels at rear of chassis/body.

Dimensions

Chassis

Engine

Transmission

Specially developed 7-speed dual clutch, 1 input shaft transmission with paddle-shift. Electronic differential

Steering

Rack and pinion power assisted steering. 2.7 turns lock-to-lock. Turning circle: 11 metres. TRW electro-hydraulic power-assisted.

Brakes

Front brakes: Ventilated ceramic discs Ø 397 mm, 40 mm wide. 6-piston calipers. Power-assisted. Rear brakes: Ventilated ceramic discs Ø 380 mm, 34 mm wide. 4-piston callipers. Power-assisted.

Traction Control

F1-style for optimal performance with 5 different handling modes.

Wheels

Koenigsegg forged Vortex generating aluminium wheels with centre locking Front: 19" x 9.5" Rear: 20" x 12.5"

Tyres

Dedicated Michelin Supersport Unidirectional with asymmetric thread pattern Front: 265/35 – 19" (Y) Rear: 345/30 – 20" (Y) Speed rating: 420+ km/h

Body

Two-door, two seater with removable hardtop stowable under the front hood lid. Body made from pre-impregnated carbon fibre/kevlar and lightweight sandwich reinforcements. Carbon vents over wheels.

Electrical System

Solid state digital semiconductors - no fuses or relays. Can bus operated and fully programmable functionality.

Equipment

Extra Equipment

Fitted luggage, special leather and colour requests, full visible carbon body, Inconel exhaust system, Front winglets, rear view camera, heated seats, ski box roof, skis, winter wheel package, 4 point racing harnesses.

3 Year Warranty

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

The Honda CBR600F is back and as accessible as ever, with enough performance (around the bends at least) to keep even the most seasoned roundabout surfer interested. Before the heavens opened and left us all tiptoeing around b

olt upright, the CBR was given a thorough thrashing to see if it could live up to s

1. It’s $1.7 million dollars

2. Because it looks like the Batmobile.

3. To change the 4 tires, which are special made and to-order by Michelin, costs $47,000. Oh, another important note on tires: the only company that is certified by VW to remove and put tires on the rims charges a cool $71,000 dollars for the service.

4. The car needs 10 radiators to keep engine temperatures in control, even though the engine is exposed to the elements.

4 radiators for the engine cooling system.

1 radiator for the air to liquid intercoolers.

2 for the air conditioning system.

1 transmission oil radiator.

1 differential oil radiator.

1 engine oil radiator.

6. The car’s top speed is 256 miles per hour. To give you some context, that would have you cover the Minnesota Viking’s football field in .7 tenths of a second.

7. They are only making 220 of them, which means you-be-a-cool-cat.

8. If you have a mechanical failure, you can push a button in the car and a GPS beacon is activated, and a special VW/Bugatti mechanic is flown to your location to assist you/the towing company in removing your car from the side of the road.

10. To get the car to it’s top speed you have to pull over, put the car in park, and insert a key into a slot that lowers the rear wing and lowers the entire car closer to the ground, creating more aerodynamic downforce.

11. The car has a 8.1 liter W16 engine. That’s 2 V8′s put together.

12. It’s all-wheel drive, an excellent selling point for Midwest owners of the supercar.

13. It will do 0-60 mph in 2.4 seconds.

14. It will do 0-100 mph in 5.7 seconds. Some added context: That’s faster than any Ferrari or Lamborghini can get to 60mph by your standard joe-the-plumber high performance sports car owner.

15. You can create 3.1 G of deceleration when slamming on the brakes from 200mph. That’s just 3G shy of what an F16 fighter pilot would hit when doing tactical takeoff’s.

16. Clothing designer Hermes upholstered 3 of them in a special edition release of the automobile. These 3 are for my people.

17. It’s top speed is 1/3 of the speed of sound.

18. At top speed, the engine will suck in as much air as you breathe in 4 days.

19. At top speed, when you slam on the brakes, the rear spoiler will also angle itself down, acting as an airbrake. The braking power the rear wing creates is equal to a small VW hatchback.

20. Oh, it has 4 turbochargers.

21. It will do 0-186 mph in 16 seconds.

22. Most car designers think it’s the most obnoxious thing in the world.

1. Bugatti Veyron: 267 mph, 0-60 in 2.5 secs. Aluminum, Narrow Angle 8 Liter W16 Engine with 1200 hp, base price is $1,700,000. Tested again on July 10, 2010 with the new 2010 Super Sport Version, the Bugatti Veyron once again claimed its title as the fastest car in the world at 267 mph.

3. Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo: 248 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 secs. Twin Turbo All Aluminum V8 Engine with 750 hp, base price is $555,000. Smooth and bad-ass, will make you want to show it off non-stop.

4. Koenigsegg CCX: 245 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 secs. 90 Degree V8 Engine 806 hp, base price is $545,568. Made in Sweden, it is aiming hard to be the fastest car in the world, but it has a long way to go to surpass the Bugatti and the Ultimate Aero.

5. McLaren F1: 240 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 secs. BMW S70/2 60 Degree V12 Engine with 627 hp, base price is $970,000. Check out the doors, they looks like bat wings, maybe Batman need to order one and paints it black

6. Ferrari Enzo: 217 mph, 0-60 in 3.4 secs. F140 Aluminum V12 Engine with 660 hp, base price is $670,000. Only 399 ever produced, the price goes up every time someone crashes.

7. Jaguar XJ220: 217 mph, 0-60 in 3.8 secs. Twin Turbo V6 Engine with 542 hp, base price was $650,000. Made in 1992, this car still got what it takes to make the list.

8. Pagani Zonda F: 215 mph, 0-60 in 3.5 secs. Mercedes Benz M180 V12 Engine with 650 hp, base price is $667,321. With a V12 motor, this baby can do much better.

9. Lamborghini Murcielago LP640: 211 mph, 0-60 in 3.3 secs. V12 Engine with 640 hp, base price is $430,000. Nice piece of art, the design is very round and smooth.

10. Porsche Carrera GT: 205 mph, 0-60 in 3.9 secs. Aluminum, 68 Degree, Water Cooled V10 Engine with 612 hp, base price is $440,000. The most powerful and most expensive Porsche nearly made the list as #10.

Monday, 28 March 2011

With an unusual core number of 17, IBM’s new BlueGene/Q processor draws attention. AMD’s 16-core processor Interlagos might arrive a bit earlier than expected and the Itanium shows new signs of life.

The True AVX Processor

The Itanium only knows modern vector units like SSE in the 32-bit emulation. If the Poulson will have AVX or maybe even something better, is still unknown, but its amount of transistors – after deducting the caches – would most likely be insufficient in any case.

Cd. 0,33 to 0,37 with adaptable rear wings.
Frontal Area: 1.873 m2
Total Downforce at 250 km/h: 300 kg
Flat underside of chassis. Venturi tunnels at rear of chassis/body.

Specially developed 7-speed dual clutch, 1 input shaft transmission with paddle-shift.
Electronic differential

Rack and pinion power assisted steering. 2.7 turns lock-to-lock.
Turning circle: 11 metres. TRW electro-hydraulic power-assisted.

Front brakes: Ventilated ceramic discs Ø 397 mm, 40 mm wide.
6-piston calipers. Power-assisted.
Rear brakes: Ventilated ceramic discs Ø 380 mm, 34 mm wide.
4-piston callipers. Power-assisted.

Koenigsegg forged Vortex generating aluminium wheels with centre locking
Front: 19" x 9.5"
Rear: 20" x 12.5"

Dedicated Michelin Supersport
Unidirectional with asymmetric thread pattern
Front: 265/35 – 19" (Y)
Rear: 345/30 – 20" (Y)
Speed rating: 420+ km/h

Views Below Are Not HP Staff, And Have Been Sent To Our News Files Was the tsunami caused by a bomb? By Gordon Deponto, Greatfalls
Could Nuclear testing create a tsunami?

FACTS
Aceh has fought for independence for many years – even befor Indonesia became a democracy (AKA US protectorate) a few years ago.

THEORY
Is it likely that this whole terrible earthquake/tsunami happened because US/Indonesian army folks thought it would be a good idea to use a big bomb to quench the Aceh independence movement?