GRB 090423: probably the birth of a black hole
Resolving a Galactic Mystery - NASA
"An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the galaxy.
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X-ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the galaxy is due to millions of such sources. "
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photo09-034.html
【注意？】
？？？最初NASAにしては不可解な外部への誤リンクがあった www.LINKTOIMAGE.com
同上
Chandra : Galactic X-ray Ridge :: 29 April 09
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X- ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the Galaxy is due to millions of such sources.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/gridge/
Nearsighted No More: Astronomers Resolve Milky Way’s Mysterious X-Ray Glow | Universe Today
"the Galactic ridge X-ray emission, first detected 25 years ago and observed recently by NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observatory. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/nearsighted-no-more-astronomers-resolve-milky-ways-mysterious-x-ray-glow/
Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way: CfA Press Room
Cambridge, MA - It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way. "
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200912.html
Rogue Black Holes May Wander the Galaxy | Universe Today
“These black holes are relics of the Milky Way’s past,” said Loeb, from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “You could say that we are archaeologists studying those relics to learn about our galaxy’s history and the formation history of black holes in the early universe.”
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/rogue-black-holes-may-wander-the-galaxy/
GRB 090423: probably the birth of a black hole
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
"The burst occurred at 3:55 a.m. EDT on April 23rd. Swift quickly pinpointed the explosion, allowing telescopes on Earth to target the burst before its afterglow faded away. Astronomers working in Chile and the Canary Islands independently measured the explosion's redshift. It was 8.2, smashing the previous record of 6.7 set by an explosion in September 2008. A redshift of 8.2 corresponds to a distance of 13.035 billion light years.
"We're seeing the demise of a star -- and probably the birth of a black hole -- in one of the universe's earliest stellar generations," says Derek Fox at Pennsylvania State University."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/28apr_grbsmash.htm?list1073247
NASA Sets Briefing About Shuttle's Readiness to Service Hubble
NASA managers have scheduled a news conference on Thursday, April 30 to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.
"Updated: 04/24/09
The launch window for STS-125 "
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html#FLIGHTPLANA
CBS News Space Place - Space Shuttle Facts and Figures
HST- Servicing Mission 4 Essentials
"Servicing Mission 4 Essentials"
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SM4_Essentials.html
Servicing Mission 1
The mission STS-61 of the Space Shuttle Endeavour took place in December 1993, and involved installation of several instruments and other equipment over a total of 10 days.
Servicing Mission 2
Servicing Mission 2 Discovery (STS-82) in February 1997 replaced the GHRS and the FOS with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), replaced an Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with a new Solid State Recorder, repaired thermal insulation and again boosted Hubble's orbit.
Servicing Mission 3A
Hubble SM3B: 1of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Hubble SM3B: 2of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Servicing Mission 3A Discovery (STS-103) took place in December 1999, split off from Servicing Mission 3 after three of the six onboard gyroscopes had failed. (A fourth failed a few weeks before the mission, rendering the telescope incapable of performing science observations.)
Servicing Mission 3B
Servicing Mission 3B Columbia (STS-109) in March 2002 saw the installation of a new instrument, with the FOC being replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
NASA - Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
"And at the time you guys will be the last people to lay eyes on Hubble as it floats away. Got any plans for that moment?
Hubble Huggers
Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
When I first went to Hubble, at the end of our three spacewalks, we deployed Hubble on Christmas Day, and I had very mixed feelings.
It was a wonderful sight to watch it slowly drifting off on the Earth’s horizon. I was privileged to go back again and I felt like I was visiting an old friend. I was convinced at the end of the last mission, as it floated away, that I would never get a chance to see the Hubble again but I knew somebody would. And of course that got thrown into disarray with the cancellation of the servicing mission on the shuttle, and so here I am, going back to visit an old friend to give it a new life along with a, a team of some Hubble repeats, other Hubble Huggers, and a new team."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
Mike Massimino (Astro_Mike) on Twitter
"Just arrived at the kennedy space center, driving to the launch pad to check out our spaceship, space shuttle atlantis, 13 days from launch" April 28
http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike
April 29,10 a.m. -
House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Hearing on NASA’s FY 2010 Budget
より一層厳しいッ予算
NASA may abandon plans for moon base - 29 April 2009 - New Scientist
"NASA will probably not build an outpost on the moonMovie Camera as originally planned, the agency's acting administrator, Chris Scolese, told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Under Scolese's predecessor, Mike Griffin, the agency held firm to its moon base plans. But the comments by Scolese, who will lead NASA until President Barack Obama nominates the next administrator, suggest a shift in the agency's direction. He spoke to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies of the House Committee on Appropriations.
Scolese was asked repeatedly whether NASA could still make it to the moon by 2020 under the proposed 2010 budget, but failed to give a clear yes or no, and his answers suggested the agency's plans were in flux.
Some clarification about any shift in NASA's goals and priorities could come on 6 May, when the Obama administration's detailed 2010 budget proposal for NASA is set to be released."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17052-nasa-may-abandon-plans-for-moon-base.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space
未だに記事が出る ISSに行けなかったAlpha Magnetic Spectrometer
ちゃんと調整はしているのだった・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer | BBC NEWS
Samuel Ting: So my main job at this moment is to make sure the final phase of the assembly of the detector that nothing goes wrong. The other things are in the hand of God or the hand of Congress.
Samuel Ting, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the MIT, is the driving force behind a particle detector that is designed to operate on the ISS.
The US space agency (Nasa) is still awaiting funding to fly the mission, which was cut from the space shuttles' manifest following the 2003 Columbia accident and the decision to retire the fleet in 2010 once the station was finished.
Professor Ting spoke with reporter Irene Klotz from Geneva, where he is overseeing the final checkout of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer at Cern."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
"サミュエル・ティン（Samuel 丁肇中、ピンイン：D〓ng Zh〓ozh〓ng、ウェード式：Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹、1936年 - ）はミシガン生まれの中国系アメリカ人。バートン・リヒターと共にジェイプサイ中間子の発見により1976年にノーベル物理学賞を受賞した"- Wikipedia
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
予算獲得には、むかなそうな方・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
"Samuel Ting: Yeah. We know antimatter doesn't exist in our galaxy, because if it existed it would collide with matter and would produce sharp X-rays. The fact that we don't see these sharp X-rays means it doesn't exist in our galaxy.
But the Universe has 100 million galaxies, so you really need to do a very sensitive, very careful search for this."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
IYA Live Telescope Today - Messier 10 | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/iya-live-telescope-today-messier-10/
European, Chinese Satellites Watch Solar Storms Pummel Earth | Universe Today
"The movie above, and the solar flare video below, were released by the European Space Agency today, along with descriptions of two solar eruptions spotted using ESA’s four Cluster satellites and the two Chinese/ESA Double Star satellites. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/european-chinese-satellites-watch-solar-storms-pummel-earth/
CDサイズに500Gバイトを記録 GEがホログラフィック技術を開発 ITmedia
"米General Electricのディスクは、ホログラフィックストレージ技術を利用している。ホログラフィックストレージは、情報を3Dパターンで表してディスク全体に記録する。
GEの研究チームは、反射率およそ1％で直径約1マイクロメートルのホログラフィックマークを記録することに成功した"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news079.html
Twitterに対抗できるか：Facebook、ストリームを利用できる「Open Stream API」をリリース - ITmedia
ビデオチャットアプリメーカーのSeesmicが同APIを利用したガジェット「Seesmic Desktop」をリリースした。このガジェットを利用すると、例えばTwitterも使っているFacebookユーザーは、FacebookのストリームとTwitterのつぶやきを並行して表示しておくことができる。
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/0904/28/news085.html
これって昔からのDTMの常道のまま、結局素人にはロクに使えないってこと(笑)
3分で“神調教”に？ Netぼかりすα版で曲を作ってみた - ITmedia
"「ぼかりす」VocaListenerは、独立行政法人・産業総合研究所（産総研）が開発した。歌声を聞き取って、その歌い方の特性をまねて歌声合成する技術だ。
歌声だけを抜き出した音声データと歌詞を与えれば、VOCALOIDで使われているVSQファイルを吐き出してくれるというのが便利なところだ。
Netぼかりすによって吐き出されたファイルに書き込まれるのは、ピアノロールにノート情報（歌詞と音程、音長）、さらにパラメータとして音量情報のDYN、細かい音程情報のPITと、その幅を決めるPBSだ。このDYNとPITにより、ビブラートや微妙な節回しを表現し、元歌の歌手の歌い方をまねしてくれるのだ。
やってみて一番苦労したのは、Netぼかりすが歌手の歌い方に忠実すぎるために、自分の音程の不安定さやリズム感の悪いところまで再現してしまうところ。"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news088.html
VOCALOID“神調教”技術「ぼかりす」実用化へ、ヤマハと産総研が連携 - ITmedia
"VOCALOID技術の本家ヤマハは、開発元である産業技術総合研究所（産総研）からライセンスを受け、実用化に取り組む。
ユーザーは元歌を歌って録音し、そのデータと漢字交じりの歌詞を送れば、その歌い方をそっくりにまねたVSQというVOCALOID Editor形式に、歌詞が入った状態で変換してくれる"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/27/news039.html
クライスラー破綻濃厚 債務交渉が決裂 米報道（毎日新聞） - Yahoo!ニュース
"０７年の世界販売台数は２６８万台。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000064-mai-bus_all
Current level of influenza pandemic alert raised from phase 4 to 5
http://www.who.int/en/
World Health Organization - Centre For Health Development
更新が遅い日本版
http://www.who.or.jp/influenzaj.html
WHO confirms pandemic threat raised to 5 out of 6
Reuters
新型インフルWHO、警戒水準「５」に引き上げ
米政府、豚インフルエンザの最新情報をTwitterで発信:マーケティング - CNET Japan
http://japan.cnet.com/marketing/story/0,3800080523,20392443,00.htm
成田空港で外国帰りの女性に陽性反応 （産経新聞）
"乗客は病院に搬送された。日本人女性とみられる。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000604-san-soci
Resolving a Galactic Mystery - NASA
"An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the galaxy.
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X-ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the galaxy is due to millions of such sources. "
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photo09-034.html
【注意？】
？？？最初NASAにしては不可解な外部への誤リンクがあった www.LINKTOIMAGE.com
同上
Chandra : Galactic X-ray Ridge :: 29 April 09
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X- ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the Galaxy is due to millions of such sources.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/gridge/
Nearsighted No More: Astronomers Resolve Milky Way’s Mysterious X-Ray Glow | Universe Today
"the Galactic ridge X-ray emission, first detected 25 years ago and observed recently by NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observatory. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/nearsighted-no-more-astronomers-resolve-milky-ways-mysterious-x-ray-glow/
Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way: CfA Press Room
Cambridge, MA - It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way. "
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200912.html
Rogue Black Holes May Wander the Galaxy | Universe Today
“These black holes are relics of the Milky Way’s past,” said Loeb, from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “You could say that we are archaeologists studying those relics to learn about our galaxy’s history and the formation history of black holes in the early universe.”
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/rogue-black-holes-may-wander-the-galaxy/
GRB 090423: probably the birth of a black hole
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
"The burst occurred at 3:55 a.m. EDT on April 23rd. Swift quickly pinpointed the explosion, allowing telescopes on Earth to target the burst before its afterglow faded away. Astronomers working in Chile and the Canary Islands independently measured the explosion's redshift. It was 8.2, smashing the previous record of 6.7 set by an explosion in September 2008. A redshift of 8.2 corresponds to a distance of 13.035 billion light years.
"We're seeing the demise of a star -- and probably the birth of a black hole -- in one of the universe's earliest stellar generations," says Derek Fox at Pennsylvania State University."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/28apr_grbsmash.htm?list1073247
NASA Sets Briefing About Shuttle's Readiness to Service Hubble
NASA managers have scheduled a news conference on Thursday, April 30 to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.
"Updated: 04/24/09
The launch window for STS-125 "
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html#FLIGHTPLANA
CBS News Space Place - Space Shuttle Facts and Figures
HST- Servicing Mission 4 Essentials
"Servicing Mission 4 Essentials"
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SM4_Essentials.html
Servicing Mission 1
The mission STS-61 of the Space Shuttle Endeavour took place in December 1993, and involved installation of several instruments and other equipment over a total of 10 days.
Servicing Mission 2
Servicing Mission 2 Discovery (STS-82) in February 1997 replaced the GHRS and the FOS with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), replaced an Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with a new Solid State Recorder, repaired thermal insulation and again boosted Hubble's orbit.
Servicing Mission 3A
Hubble SM3B: 1of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Hubble SM3B: 2of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Servicing Mission 3A Discovery (STS-103) took place in December 1999, split off from Servicing Mission 3 after three of the six onboard gyroscopes had failed. (A fourth failed a few weeks before the mission, rendering the telescope incapable of performing science observations.)
Servicing Mission 3B
Servicing Mission 3B Columbia (STS-109) in March 2002 saw the installation of a new instrument, with the FOC being replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
NASA - Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
"And at the time you guys will be the last people to lay eyes on Hubble as it floats away. Got any plans for that moment?
Hubble Huggers
Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
When I first went to Hubble, at the end of our three spacewalks, we deployed Hubble on Christmas Day, and I had very mixed feelings.
It was a wonderful sight to watch it slowly drifting off on the Earth’s horizon. I was privileged to go back again and I felt like I was visiting an old friend. I was convinced at the end of the last mission, as it floated away, that I would never get a chance to see the Hubble again but I knew somebody would. And of course that got thrown into disarray with the cancellation of the servicing mission on the shuttle, and so here I am, going back to visit an old friend to give it a new life along with a, a team of some Hubble repeats, other Hubble Huggers, and a new team."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
Mike Massimino (Astro_Mike) on Twitter
"Just arrived at the kennedy space center, driving to the launch pad to check out our spaceship, space shuttle atlantis, 13 days from launch" April 28
http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike
April 29,10 a.m. -
House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Hearing on NASA’s FY 2010 Budget
より一層厳しいッ予算
NASA may abandon plans for moon base - 29 April 2009 - New Scientist
"NASA will probably not build an outpost on the moonMovie Camera as originally planned, the agency's acting administrator, Chris Scolese, told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Under Scolese's predecessor, Mike Griffin, the agency held firm to its moon base plans. But the comments by Scolese, who will lead NASA until President Barack Obama nominates the next administrator, suggest a shift in the agency's direction. He spoke to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies of the House Committee on Appropriations.
Scolese was asked repeatedly whether NASA could still make it to the moon by 2020 under the proposed 2010 budget, but failed to give a clear yes or no, and his answers suggested the agency's plans were in flux.
Some clarification about any shift in NASA's goals and priorities could come on 6 May, when the Obama administration's detailed 2010 budget proposal for NASA is set to be released."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17052-nasa-may-abandon-plans-for-moon-base.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space
未だに記事が出る ISSに行けなかったAlpha Magnetic Spectrometer
ちゃんと調整はしているのだった・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer | BBC NEWS
Samuel Ting: So my main job at this moment is to make sure the final phase of the assembly of the detector that nothing goes wrong. The other things are in the hand of God or the hand of Congress.
Samuel Ting, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the MIT, is the driving force behind a particle detector that is designed to operate on the ISS.
The US space agency (Nasa) is still awaiting funding to fly the mission, which was cut from the space shuttles' manifest following the 2003 Columbia accident and the decision to retire the fleet in 2010 once the station was finished.
Professor Ting spoke with reporter Irene Klotz from Geneva, where he is overseeing the final checkout of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer at Cern."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
"サミュエル・ティン（Samuel 丁肇中、ピンイン：D〓ng Zh〓ozh〓ng、ウェード式：Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹、1936年 - ）はミシガン生まれの中国系アメリカ人。バートン・リヒターと共にジェイプサイ中間子の発見により1976年にノーベル物理学賞を受賞した"- Wikipedia
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
予算獲得には、むかなそうな方・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
"Samuel Ting: Yeah. We know antimatter doesn't exist in our galaxy, because if it existed it would collide with matter and would produce sharp X-rays. The fact that we don't see these sharp X-rays means it doesn't exist in our galaxy.
But the Universe has 100 million galaxies, so you really need to do a very sensitive, very careful search for this."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
IYA Live Telescope Today - Messier 10 | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/iya-live-telescope-today-messier-10/
European, Chinese Satellites Watch Solar Storms Pummel Earth | Universe Today
"The movie above, and the solar flare video below, were released by the European Space Agency today, along with descriptions of two solar eruptions spotted using ESA’s four Cluster satellites and the two Chinese/ESA Double Star satellites. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/european-chinese-satellites-watch-solar-storms-pummel-earth/
CDサイズに500Gバイトを記録 GEがホログラフィック技術を開発 ITmedia
"米General Electricのディスクは、ホログラフィックストレージ技術を利用している。ホログラフィックストレージは、情報を3Dパターンで表してディスク全体に記録する。
GEの研究チームは、反射率およそ1％で直径約1マイクロメートルのホログラフィックマークを記録することに成功した"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news079.html
Twitterに対抗できるか：Facebook、ストリームを利用できる「Open Stream API」をリリース - ITmedia
ビデオチャットアプリメーカーのSeesmicが同APIを利用したガジェット「Seesmic Desktop」をリリースした。このガジェットを利用すると、例えばTwitterも使っているFacebookユーザーは、FacebookのストリームとTwitterのつぶやきを並行して表示しておくことができる。
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/0904/28/news085.html
これって昔からのDTMの常道のまま、結局素人にはロクに使えないってこと(笑)
3分で“神調教”に？ Netぼかりすα版で曲を作ってみた - ITmedia
"「ぼかりす」VocaListenerは、独立行政法人・産業総合研究所（産総研）が開発した。歌声を聞き取って、その歌い方の特性をまねて歌声合成する技術だ。
歌声だけを抜き出した音声データと歌詞を与えれば、VOCALOIDで使われているVSQファイルを吐き出してくれるというのが便利なところだ。
Netぼかりすによって吐き出されたファイルに書き込まれるのは、ピアノロールにノート情報（歌詞と音程、音長）、さらにパラメータとして音量情報のDYN、細かい音程情報のPITと、その幅を決めるPBSだ。このDYNとPITにより、ビブラートや微妙な節回しを表現し、元歌の歌手の歌い方をまねしてくれるのだ。
やってみて一番苦労したのは、Netぼかりすが歌手の歌い方に忠実すぎるために、自分の音程の不安定さやリズム感の悪いところまで再現してしまうところ。"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news088.html
VOCALOID“神調教”技術「ぼかりす」実用化へ、ヤマハと産総研が連携 - ITmedia
"VOCALOID技術の本家ヤマハは、開発元である産業技術総合研究所（産総研）からライセンスを受け、実用化に取り組む。
ユーザーは元歌を歌って録音し、そのデータと漢字交じりの歌詞を送れば、その歌い方をそっくりにまねたVSQというVOCALOID Editor形式に、歌詞が入った状態で変換してくれる"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/27/news039.html
クライスラー破綻濃厚 債務交渉が決裂 米報道（毎日新聞） - Yahoo!ニュース
"０７年の世界販売台数は２６８万台。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000064-mai-bus_all
Current level of influenza pandemic alert raised from phase 4 to 5
http://www.who.int/en/
World Health Organization - Centre For Health Development
更新が遅い日本版
http://www.who.or.jp/influenzaj.html
WHO confirms pandemic threat raised to 5 out of 6
Reuters
新型インフルWHO、警戒水準「５」に引き上げ
米政府、豚インフルエンザの最新情報をTwitterで発信:マーケティング - CNET Japan
http://japan.cnet.com/marketing/story/0,3800080523,20392443,00.htm
成田空港で外国帰りの女性に陽性反応 （産経新聞）
"乗客は病院に搬送された。日本人女性とみられる。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000604-san-soci
Resolving a Galactic Mystery - NASA
"An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the galaxy.
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X-ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the galaxy is due to millions of such sources. "
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photo09-034.html
【注意？】
？？？最初NASAにしては不可解な外部への誤リンクがあった www.LINKTOIMAGE.com
同上
Chandra : Galactic X-ray Ridge :: 29 April 09
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X- ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the Galaxy is due to millions of such sources.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/gridge/
Nearsighted No More: Astronomers Resolve Milky Way’s Mysterious X-Ray Glow | Universe Today
"the Galactic ridge X-ray emission, first detected 25 years ago and observed recently by NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observatory. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/nearsighted-no-more-astronomers-resolve-milky-ways-mysterious-x-ray-glow/
Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way: CfA Press Room
Cambridge, MA - It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way. "
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200912.html
Rogue Black Holes May Wander the Galaxy | Universe Today
“These black holes are relics of the Milky Way’s past,” said Loeb, from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “You could say that we are archaeologists studying those relics to learn about our galaxy’s history and the formation history of black holes in the early universe.”
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/rogue-black-holes-may-wander-the-galaxy/
GRB 090423: probably the birth of a black hole
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
"The burst occurred at 3:55 a.m. EDT on April 23rd. Swift quickly pinpointed the explosion, allowing telescopes on Earth to target the burst before its afterglow faded away. Astronomers working in Chile and the Canary Islands independently measured the explosion's redshift. It was 8.2, smashing the previous record of 6.7 set by an explosion in September 2008. A redshift of 8.2 corresponds to a distance of 13.035 billion light years.
"We're seeing the demise of a star -- and probably the birth of a black hole -- in one of the universe's earliest stellar generations," says Derek Fox at Pennsylvania State University."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/28apr_grbsmash.htm?list1073247
NASA Sets Briefing About Shuttle's Readiness to Service Hubble
NASA managers have scheduled a news conference on Thursday, April 30 to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.
"Updated: 04/24/09
The launch window for STS-125 "
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html#FLIGHTPLANA
CBS News Space Place - Space Shuttle Facts and Figures
HST- Servicing Mission 4 Essentials
"Servicing Mission 4 Essentials"
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SM4_Essentials.html
Servicing Mission 1
The mission STS-61 of the Space Shuttle Endeavour took place in December 1993, and involved installation of several instruments and other equipment over a total of 10 days.
Servicing Mission 2
Servicing Mission 2 Discovery (STS-82) in February 1997 replaced the GHRS and the FOS with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), replaced an Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with a new Solid State Recorder, repaired thermal insulation and again boosted Hubble's orbit.
Servicing Mission 3A
Hubble SM3B: 1of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Hubble SM3B: 2of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Servicing Mission 3A Discovery (STS-103) took place in December 1999, split off from Servicing Mission 3 after three of the six onboard gyroscopes had failed. (A fourth failed a few weeks before the mission, rendering the telescope incapable of performing science observations.)
Servicing Mission 3B
Servicing Mission 3B Columbia (STS-109) in March 2002 saw the installation of a new instrument, with the FOC being replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
NASA - Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
"And at the time you guys will be the last people to lay eyes on Hubble as it floats away. Got any plans for that moment?
Hubble Huggers
Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
When I first went to Hubble, at the end of our three spacewalks, we deployed Hubble on Christmas Day, and I had very mixed feelings.
It was a wonderful sight to watch it slowly drifting off on the Earth’s horizon. I was privileged to go back again and I felt like I was visiting an old friend. I was convinced at the end of the last mission, as it floated away, that I would never get a chance to see the Hubble again but I knew somebody would. And of course that got thrown into disarray with the cancellation of the servicing mission on the shuttle, and so here I am, going back to visit an old friend to give it a new life along with a, a team of some Hubble repeats, other Hubble Huggers, and a new team."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
Mike Massimino (Astro_Mike) on Twitter
"Just arrived at the kennedy space center, driving to the launch pad to check out our spaceship, space shuttle atlantis, 13 days from launch" April 28
http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike
April 29,10 a.m. -
House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Hearing on NASA’s FY 2010 Budget
より一層厳しいッ予算
NASA may abandon plans for moon base - 29 April 2009 - New Scientist
"NASA will probably not build an outpost on the moonMovie Camera as originally planned, the agency's acting administrator, Chris Scolese, told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Under Scolese's predecessor, Mike Griffin, the agency held firm to its moon base plans. But the comments by Scolese, who will lead NASA until President Barack Obama nominates the next administrator, suggest a shift in the agency's direction. He spoke to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies of the House Committee on Appropriations.
Scolese was asked repeatedly whether NASA could still make it to the moon by 2020 under the proposed 2010 budget, but failed to give a clear yes or no, and his answers suggested the agency's plans were in flux.
Some clarification about any shift in NASA's goals and priorities could come on 6 May, when the Obama administration's detailed 2010 budget proposal for NASA is set to be released."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17052-nasa-may-abandon-plans-for-moon-base.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space
未だに記事が出る ISSに行けなかったAlpha Magnetic Spectrometer
ちゃんと調整はしているのだった・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer | BBC NEWS
Samuel Ting: So my main job at this moment is to make sure the final phase of the assembly of the detector that nothing goes wrong. The other things are in the hand of God or the hand of Congress.
Samuel Ting, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the MIT, is the driving force behind a particle detector that is designed to operate on the ISS.
The US space agency (Nasa) is still awaiting funding to fly the mission, which was cut from the space shuttles' manifest following the 2003 Columbia accident and the decision to retire the fleet in 2010 once the station was finished.
Professor Ting spoke with reporter Irene Klotz from Geneva, where he is overseeing the final checkout of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer at Cern."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
"サミュエル・ティン（Samuel 丁肇中、ピンイン：D〓ng Zh〓ozh〓ng、ウェード式：Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹、1936年 - ）はミシガン生まれの中国系アメリカ人。バートン・リヒターと共にジェイプサイ中間子の発見により1976年にノーベル物理学賞を受賞した"- Wikipedia
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
予算獲得には、むかなそうな方・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
"Samuel Ting: Yeah. We know antimatter doesn't exist in our galaxy, because if it existed it would collide with matter and would produce sharp X-rays. The fact that we don't see these sharp X-rays means it doesn't exist in our galaxy.
But the Universe has 100 million galaxies, so you really need to do a very sensitive, very careful search for this."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
IYA Live Telescope Today - Messier 10 | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/iya-live-telescope-today-messier-10/
European, Chinese Satellites Watch Solar Storms Pummel Earth | Universe Today
"The movie above, and the solar flare video below, were released by the European Space Agency today, along with descriptions of two solar eruptions spotted using ESA’s four Cluster satellites and the two Chinese/ESA Double Star satellites. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/european-chinese-satellites-watch-solar-storms-pummel-earth/
CDサイズに500Gバイトを記録 GEがホログラフィック技術を開発 ITmedia
"米General Electricのディスクは、ホログラフィックストレージ技術を利用している。ホログラフィックストレージは、情報を3Dパターンで表してディスク全体に記録する。
GEの研究チームは、反射率およそ1％で直径約1マイクロメートルのホログラフィックマークを記録することに成功した"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news079.html
Twitterに対抗できるか：Facebook、ストリームを利用できる「Open Stream API」をリリース - ITmedia
ビデオチャットアプリメーカーのSeesmicが同APIを利用したガジェット「Seesmic Desktop」をリリースした。このガジェットを利用すると、例えばTwitterも使っているFacebookユーザーは、FacebookのストリームとTwitterのつぶやきを並行して表示しておくことができる。
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/0904/28/news085.html
これって昔からのDTMの常道のまま、結局素人にはロクに使えないってこと(笑)
3分で“神調教”に？ Netぼかりすα版で曲を作ってみた - ITmedia
"「ぼかりす」VocaListenerは、独立行政法人・産業総合研究所（産総研）が開発した。歌声を聞き取って、その歌い方の特性をまねて歌声合成する技術だ。
歌声だけを抜き出した音声データと歌詞を与えれば、VOCALOIDで使われているVSQファイルを吐き出してくれるというのが便利なところだ。
Netぼかりすによって吐き出されたファイルに書き込まれるのは、ピアノロールにノート情報（歌詞と音程、音長）、さらにパラメータとして音量情報のDYN、細かい音程情報のPITと、その幅を決めるPBSだ。このDYNとPITにより、ビブラートや微妙な節回しを表現し、元歌の歌手の歌い方をまねしてくれるのだ。
やってみて一番苦労したのは、Netぼかりすが歌手の歌い方に忠実すぎるために、自分の音程の不安定さやリズム感の悪いところまで再現してしまうところ。"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news088.html
VOCALOID“神調教”技術「ぼかりす」実用化へ、ヤマハと産総研が連携 - ITmedia
"VOCALOID技術の本家ヤマハは、開発元である産業技術総合研究所（産総研）からライセンスを受け、実用化に取り組む。
ユーザーは元歌を歌って録音し、そのデータと漢字交じりの歌詞を送れば、その歌い方をそっくりにまねたVSQというVOCALOID Editor形式に、歌詞が入った状態で変換してくれる"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/27/news039.html
クライスラー破綻濃厚 債務交渉が決裂 米報道（毎日新聞） - Yahoo!ニュース
"０７年の世界販売台数は２６８万台。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000064-mai-bus_all
Current level of influenza pandemic alert raised from phase 4 to 5
http://www.who.int/en/
World Health Organization - Centre For Health Development
更新が遅い日本版
http://www.who.or.jp/influenzaj.html
WHO confirms pandemic threat raised to 5 out of 6
Reuters
新型インフルWHO、警戒水準「５」に引き上げ
米政府、豚インフルエンザの最新情報をTwitterで発信:マーケティング - CNET Japan
http://japan.cnet.com/marketing/story/0,3800080523,20392443,00.htm
成田空港で外国帰りの女性に陽性反応 （産経新聞）
"乗客は病院に搬送された。日本人女性とみられる。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000604-san-soci
Resolving a Galactic Mystery - NASA
"An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the galaxy.
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X-ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the galaxy is due to millions of such sources. "
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photo09-034.html
【注意？】
？？？最初NASAにしては不可解な外部への誤リンクがあった www.LINKTOIMAGE.com
同上
Chandra : Galactic X-ray Ridge :: 29 April 09
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X- ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the Galaxy is due to millions of such sources.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/gridge/
Nearsighted No More: Astronomers Resolve Milky Way’s Mysterious X-Ray Glow | Universe Today
"the Galactic ridge X-ray emission, first detected 25 years ago and observed recently by NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observatory. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/nearsighted-no-more-astronomers-resolve-milky-ways-mysterious-x-ray-glow/
Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way: CfA Press Room
Cambridge, MA - It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way. "
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200912.html
Rogue Black Holes May Wander the Galaxy | Universe Today
“These black holes are relics of the Milky Way’s past,” said Loeb, from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “You could say that we are archaeologists studying those relics to learn about our galaxy’s history and the formation history of black holes in the early universe.”
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/rogue-black-holes-may-wander-the-galaxy/
GRB 090423: probably the birth of a black hole
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
"The burst occurred at 3:55 a.m. EDT on April 23rd. Swift quickly pinpointed the explosion, allowing telescopes on Earth to target the burst before its afterglow faded away. Astronomers working in Chile and the Canary Islands independently measured the explosion's redshift. It was 8.2, smashing the previous record of 6.7 set by an explosion in September 2008. A redshift of 8.2 corresponds to a distance of 13.035 billion light years.
"We're seeing the demise of a star -- and probably the birth of a black hole -- in one of the universe's earliest stellar generations," says Derek Fox at Pennsylvania State University."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/28apr_grbsmash.htm?list1073247
NASA Sets Briefing About Shuttle's Readiness to Service Hubble
NASA managers have scheduled a news conference on Thursday, April 30 to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.
"Updated: 04/24/09
The launch window for STS-125 "
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html#FLIGHTPLANA
CBS News Space Place - Space Shuttle Facts and Figures
HST- Servicing Mission 4 Essentials
"Servicing Mission 4 Essentials"
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SM4_Essentials.html
Servicing Mission 1
The mission STS-61 of the Space Shuttle Endeavour took place in December 1993, and involved installation of several instruments and other equipment over a total of 10 days.
Servicing Mission 2
Servicing Mission 2 Discovery (STS-82) in February 1997 replaced the GHRS and the FOS with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), replaced an Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with a new Solid State Recorder, repaired thermal insulation and again boosted Hubble's orbit.
Servicing Mission 3A
Hubble SM3B: 1of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Hubble SM3B: 2of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Servicing Mission 3A Discovery (STS-103) took place in December 1999, split off from Servicing Mission 3 after three of the six onboard gyroscopes had failed. (A fourth failed a few weeks before the mission, rendering the telescope incapable of performing science observations.)
Servicing Mission 3B
Servicing Mission 3B Columbia (STS-109) in March 2002 saw the installation of a new instrument, with the FOC being replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
NASA - Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
"And at the time you guys will be the last people to lay eyes on Hubble as it floats away. Got any plans for that moment?
Hubble Huggers
Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
When I first went to Hubble, at the end of our three spacewalks, we deployed Hubble on Christmas Day, and I had very mixed feelings.
It was a wonderful sight to watch it slowly drifting off on the Earth’s horizon. I was privileged to go back again and I felt like I was visiting an old friend. I was convinced at the end of the last mission, as it floated away, that I would never get a chance to see the Hubble again but I knew somebody would. And of course that got thrown into disarray with the cancellation of the servicing mission on the shuttle, and so here I am, going back to visit an old friend to give it a new life along with a, a team of some Hubble repeats, other Hubble Huggers, and a new team."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
Mike Massimino (Astro_Mike) on Twitter
"Just arrived at the kennedy space center, driving to the launch pad to check out our spaceship, space shuttle atlantis, 13 days from launch" April 28
http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike
April 29,10 a.m. -
House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Hearing on NASA’s FY 2010 Budget
より一層厳しいッ予算
NASA may abandon plans for moon base - 29 April 2009 - New Scientist
"NASA will probably not build an outpost on the moonMovie Camera as originally planned, the agency's acting administrator, Chris Scolese, told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Under Scolese's predecessor, Mike Griffin, the agency held firm to its moon base plans. But the comments by Scolese, who will lead NASA until President Barack Obama nominates the next administrator, suggest a shift in the agency's direction. He spoke to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies of the House Committee on Appropriations.
Scolese was asked repeatedly whether NASA could still make it to the moon by 2020 under the proposed 2010 budget, but failed to give a clear yes or no, and his answers suggested the agency's plans were in flux.
Some clarification about any shift in NASA's goals and priorities could come on 6 May, when the Obama administration's detailed 2010 budget proposal for NASA is set to be released."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17052-nasa-may-abandon-plans-for-moon-base.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space
未だに記事が出る ISSに行けなかったAlpha Magnetic Spectrometer
ちゃんと調整はしているのだった・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer | BBC NEWS
Samuel Ting: So my main job at this moment is to make sure the final phase of the assembly of the detector that nothing goes wrong. The other things are in the hand of God or the hand of Congress.
Samuel Ting, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the MIT, is the driving force behind a particle detector that is designed to operate on the ISS.
The US space agency (Nasa) is still awaiting funding to fly the mission, which was cut from the space shuttles' manifest following the 2003 Columbia accident and the decision to retire the fleet in 2010 once the station was finished.
Professor Ting spoke with reporter Irene Klotz from Geneva, where he is overseeing the final checkout of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer at Cern."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
"サミュエル・ティン（Samuel 丁肇中、ピンイン：D〓ng Zh〓ozh〓ng、ウェード式：Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹、1936年 - ）はミシガン生まれの中国系アメリカ人。バートン・リヒターと共にジェイプサイ中間子の発見により1976年にノーベル物理学賞を受賞した"- Wikipedia
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
予算獲得には、むかなそうな方・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
"Samuel Ting: Yeah. We know antimatter doesn't exist in our galaxy, because if it existed it would collide with matter and would produce sharp X-rays. The fact that we don't see these sharp X-rays means it doesn't exist in our galaxy.
But the Universe has 100 million galaxies, so you really need to do a very sensitive, very careful search for this."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
IYA Live Telescope Today - Messier 10 | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/iya-live-telescope-today-messier-10/
European, Chinese Satellites Watch Solar Storms Pummel Earth | Universe Today
"The movie above, and the solar flare video below, were released by the European Space Agency today, along with descriptions of two solar eruptions spotted using ESA’s four Cluster satellites and the two Chinese/ESA Double Star satellites. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/european-chinese-satellites-watch-solar-storms-pummel-earth/
CDサイズに500Gバイトを記録 GEがホログラフィック技術を開発 ITmedia
"米General Electricのディスクは、ホログラフィックストレージ技術を利用している。ホログラフィックストレージは、情報を3Dパターンで表してディスク全体に記録する。
GEの研究チームは、反射率およそ1％で直径約1マイクロメートルのホログラフィックマークを記録することに成功した"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news079.html
Twitterに対抗できるか：Facebook、ストリームを利用できる「Open Stream API」をリリース - ITmedia
ビデオチャットアプリメーカーのSeesmicが同APIを利用したガジェット「Seesmic Desktop」をリリースした。このガジェットを利用すると、例えばTwitterも使っているFacebookユーザーは、FacebookのストリームとTwitterのつぶやきを並行して表示しておくことができる。
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/0904/28/news085.html
これって昔からのDTMの常道のまま、結局素人にはロクに使えないってこと(笑)
3分で“神調教”に？ Netぼかりすα版で曲を作ってみた - ITmedia
"「ぼかりす」VocaListenerは、独立行政法人・産業総合研究所（産総研）が開発した。歌声を聞き取って、その歌い方の特性をまねて歌声合成する技術だ。
歌声だけを抜き出した音声データと歌詞を与えれば、VOCALOIDで使われているVSQファイルを吐き出してくれるというのが便利なところだ。
Netぼかりすによって吐き出されたファイルに書き込まれるのは、ピアノロールにノート情報（歌詞と音程、音長）、さらにパラメータとして音量情報のDYN、細かい音程情報のPITと、その幅を決めるPBSだ。このDYNとPITにより、ビブラートや微妙な節回しを表現し、元歌の歌手の歌い方をまねしてくれるのだ。
やってみて一番苦労したのは、Netぼかりすが歌手の歌い方に忠実すぎるために、自分の音程の不安定さやリズム感の悪いところまで再現してしまうところ。"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news088.html
VOCALOID“神調教”技術「ぼかりす」実用化へ、ヤマハと産総研が連携 - ITmedia
"VOCALOID技術の本家ヤマハは、開発元である産業技術総合研究所（産総研）からライセンスを受け、実用化に取り組む。
ユーザーは元歌を歌って録音し、そのデータと漢字交じりの歌詞を送れば、その歌い方をそっくりにまねたVSQというVOCALOID Editor形式に、歌詞が入った状態で変換してくれる"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/27/news039.html
クライスラー破綻濃厚 債務交渉が決裂 米報道（毎日新聞） - Yahoo!ニュース
"０７年の世界販売台数は２６８万台。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000064-mai-bus_all
Current level of influenza pandemic alert raised from phase 4 to 5
http://www.who.int/en/
World Health Organization - Centre For Health Development
更新が遅い日本版
http://www.who.or.jp/influenzaj.html
WHO confirms pandemic threat raised to 5 out of 6
Reuters
新型インフルWHO、警戒水準「５」に引き上げ
米政府、豚インフルエンザの最新情報をTwitterで発信:マーケティング - CNET Japan
http://japan.cnet.com/marketing/story/0,3800080523,20392443,00.htm
成田空港で外国帰りの女性に陽性反応 （産経新聞）
"乗客は病院に搬送された。日本人女性とみられる。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000604-san-soci
Resolving a Galactic Mystery - NASA
"An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the galaxy.
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X-ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the galaxy is due to millions of such sources. "
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photo09-034.html
【注意？】
？？？最初NASAにしては不可解な外部への誤リンクがあった www.LINKTOIMAGE.com
同上
Chandra : Galactic X-ray Ridge :: 29 April 09
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X- ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the Galaxy is due to millions of such sources.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/gridge/
Nearsighted No More: Astronomers Resolve Milky Way’s Mysterious X-Ray Glow | Universe Today
"the Galactic ridge X-ray emission, first detected 25 years ago and observed recently by NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observatory. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/nearsighted-no-more-astronomers-resolve-milky-ways-mysterious-x-ray-glow/
Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way: CfA Press Room
Cambridge, MA - It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way. "
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200912.html
Rogue Black Holes May Wander the Galaxy | Universe Today
“These black holes are relics of the Milky Way’s past,” said Loeb, from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “You could say that we are archaeologists studying those relics to learn about our galaxy’s history and the formation history of black holes in the early universe.”
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/rogue-black-holes-may-wander-the-galaxy/
GRB 090423: probably the birth of a black hole
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
"The burst occurred at 3:55 a.m. EDT on April 23rd. Swift quickly pinpointed the explosion, allowing telescopes on Earth to target the burst before its afterglow faded away. Astronomers working in Chile and the Canary Islands independently measured the explosion's redshift. It was 8.2, smashing the previous record of 6.7 set by an explosion in September 2008. A redshift of 8.2 corresponds to a distance of 13.035 billion light years.
"We're seeing the demise of a star -- and probably the birth of a black hole -- in one of the universe's earliest stellar generations," says Derek Fox at Pennsylvania State University."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/28apr_grbsmash.htm?list1073247
NASA Sets Briefing About Shuttle's Readiness to Service Hubble
NASA managers have scheduled a news conference on Thursday, April 30 to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.
"Updated: 04/24/09
The launch window for STS-125 "
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html#FLIGHTPLANA
CBS News Space Place - Space Shuttle Facts and Figures
HST- Servicing Mission 4 Essentials
"Servicing Mission 4 Essentials"
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SM4_Essentials.html
Servicing Mission 1
The mission STS-61 of the Space Shuttle Endeavour took place in December 1993, and involved installation of several instruments and other equipment over a total of 10 days.
Servicing Mission 2
Servicing Mission 2 Discovery (STS-82) in February 1997 replaced the GHRS and the FOS with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), replaced an Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with a new Solid State Recorder, repaired thermal insulation and again boosted Hubble's orbit.
Servicing Mission 3A
Hubble SM3B: 1of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Hubble SM3B: 2of2 STS-109(Columbia)
Servicing Mission 3A Discovery (STS-103) took place in December 1999, split off from Servicing Mission 3 after three of the six onboard gyroscopes had failed. (A fourth failed a few weeks before the mission, rendering the telescope incapable of performing science observations.)
Servicing Mission 3B
Servicing Mission 3B Columbia (STS-109) in March 2002 saw the installation of a new instrument, with the FOC being replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
NASA - Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
"And at the time you guys will be the last people to lay eyes on Hubble as it floats away. Got any plans for that moment?
Hubble Huggers
Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
When I first went to Hubble, at the end of our three spacewalks, we deployed Hubble on Christmas Day, and I had very mixed feelings.
It was a wonderful sight to watch it slowly drifting off on the Earth’s horizon. I was privileged to go back again and I felt like I was visiting an old friend. I was convinced at the end of the last mission, as it floated away, that I would never get a chance to see the Hubble again but I knew somebody would. And of course that got thrown into disarray with the cancellation of the servicing mission on the shuttle, and so here I am, going back to visit an old friend to give it a new life along with a, a team of some Hubble repeats, other Hubble Huggers, and a new team."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/interview_Grunsfeld.html
Mike Massimino (Astro_Mike) on Twitter
"Just arrived at the kennedy space center, driving to the launch pad to check out our spaceship, space shuttle atlantis, 13 days from launch" April 28
http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike
April 29,10 a.m. -
House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Hearing on NASA’s FY 2010 Budget
より一層厳しいッ予算
NASA may abandon plans for moon base - 29 April 2009 - New Scientist
"NASA will probably not build an outpost on the moonMovie Camera as originally planned, the agency's acting administrator, Chris Scolese, told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Under Scolese's predecessor, Mike Griffin, the agency held firm to its moon base plans. But the comments by Scolese, who will lead NASA until President Barack Obama nominates the next administrator, suggest a shift in the agency's direction. He spoke to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies of the House Committee on Appropriations.
Scolese was asked repeatedly whether NASA could still make it to the moon by 2020 under the proposed 2010 budget, but failed to give a clear yes or no, and his answers suggested the agency's plans were in flux.
Some clarification about any shift in NASA's goals and priorities could come on 6 May, when the Obama administration's detailed 2010 budget proposal for NASA is set to be released."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17052-nasa-may-abandon-plans-for-moon-base.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space
未だに記事が出る ISSに行けなかったAlpha Magnetic Spectrometer
ちゃんと調整はしているのだった・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer | BBC NEWS
Samuel Ting: So my main job at this moment is to make sure the final phase of the assembly of the detector that nothing goes wrong. The other things are in the hand of God or the hand of Congress.
Samuel Ting, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the MIT, is the driving force behind a particle detector that is designed to operate on the ISS.
The US space agency (Nasa) is still awaiting funding to fly the mission, which was cut from the space shuttles' manifest following the 2003 Columbia accident and the decision to retire the fleet in 2010 once the station was finished.
Professor Ting spoke with reporter Irene Klotz from Geneva, where he is overseeing the final checkout of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer at Cern."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
"サミュエル・ティン（Samuel 丁肇中、ピンイン：D〓ng Zh〓ozh〓ng、ウェード式：Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹、1936年 - ）はミシガン生まれの中国系アメリカ人。バートン・リヒターと共にジェイプサイ中間子の発見により1976年にノーベル物理学賞を受賞した"- Wikipedia
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
予算獲得には、むかなそうな方・・・
Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
"Samuel Ting: Yeah. We know antimatter doesn't exist in our galaxy, because if it existed it would collide with matter and would produce sharp X-rays. The fact that we don't see these sharp X-rays means it doesn't exist in our galaxy.
But the Universe has 100 million galaxies, so you really need to do a very sensitive, very careful search for this."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022645.stm
IYA Live Telescope Today - Messier 10 | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/iya-live-telescope-today-messier-10/
European, Chinese Satellites Watch Solar Storms Pummel Earth | Universe Today
"The movie above, and the solar flare video below, were released by the European Space Agency today, along with descriptions of two solar eruptions spotted using ESA’s four Cluster satellites and the two Chinese/ESA Double Star satellites. "
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/29/european-chinese-satellites-watch-solar-storms-pummel-earth/
CDサイズに500Gバイトを記録 GEがホログラフィック技術を開発 ITmedia
"米General Electricのディスクは、ホログラフィックストレージ技術を利用している。ホログラフィックストレージは、情報を3Dパターンで表してディスク全体に記録する。
GEの研究チームは、反射率およそ1％で直径約1マイクロメートルのホログラフィックマークを記録することに成功した"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news079.html
Twitterに対抗できるか：Facebook、ストリームを利用できる「Open Stream API」をリリース - ITmedia
ビデオチャットアプリメーカーのSeesmicが同APIを利用したガジェット「Seesmic Desktop」をリリースした。このガジェットを利用すると、例えばTwitterも使っているFacebookユーザーは、FacebookのストリームとTwitterのつぶやきを並行して表示しておくことができる。
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/0904/28/news085.html
これって昔からのDTMの常道のまま、結局素人にはロクに使えないってこと(笑)
3分で“神調教”に？ Netぼかりすα版で曲を作ってみた - ITmedia
"「ぼかりす」VocaListenerは、独立行政法人・産業総合研究所（産総研）が開発した。歌声を聞き取って、その歌い方の特性をまねて歌声合成する技術だ。
歌声だけを抜き出した音声データと歌詞を与えれば、VOCALOIDで使われているVSQファイルを吐き出してくれるというのが便利なところだ。
Netぼかりすによって吐き出されたファイルに書き込まれるのは、ピアノロールにノート情報（歌詞と音程、音長）、さらにパラメータとして音量情報のDYN、細かい音程情報のPITと、その幅を決めるPBSだ。このDYNとPITにより、ビブラートや微妙な節回しを表現し、元歌の歌手の歌い方をまねしてくれるのだ。
やってみて一番苦労したのは、Netぼかりすが歌手の歌い方に忠実すぎるために、自分の音程の不安定さやリズム感の悪いところまで再現してしまうところ。"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/28/news088.html
VOCALOID“神調教”技術「ぼかりす」実用化へ、ヤマハと産総研が連携 - ITmedia
"VOCALOID技術の本家ヤマハは、開発元である産業技術総合研究所（産総研）からライセンスを受け、実用化に取り組む。
ユーザーは元歌を歌って録音し、そのデータと漢字交じりの歌詞を送れば、その歌い方をそっくりにまねたVSQというVOCALOID Editor形式に、歌詞が入った状態で変換してくれる"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0904/27/news039.html
クライスラー破綻濃厚 債務交渉が決裂 米報道（毎日新聞） - Yahoo!ニュース
"０７年の世界販売台数は２６８万台。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000064-mai-bus_all
Current level of influenza pandemic alert raised from phase 4 to 5
http://www.who.int/en/
World Health Organization - Centre For Health Development
更新が遅い日本版
http://www.who.or.jp/influenzaj.html
WHO confirms pandemic threat raised to 5 out of 6
Reuters
新型インフルWHO、警戒水準「５」に引き上げ
米政府、豚インフルエンザの最新情報をTwitterで発信:マーケティング - CNET Japan
http://japan.cnet.com/marketing/story/0,3800080523,20392443,00.htm
成田空港で外国帰りの女性に陽性反応 （産経新聞）
"乗客は病院に搬送された。日本人女性とみられる。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090430-00000604-san-soci
Resolving a Galactic Mystery - NASA
"An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the galaxy.
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X-ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the galaxy is due to millions of such sources. "
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photo09-034.html
【注意？】
？？？最初NASAにしては不可解な外部への誤リンクがあった www.LINKTOIMAGE.com
同上
Chandra : Galactic X-ray Ridge :: 29 April 09
The glow in the region covered by the Chandra image was discovered to be caused by hundreds of point-like X- ray sources, implying that the glow along the plane of the Galaxy is due to millio
