Scientist: guava tree can bear fruit cloves

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Guava tree with clove buds were united, thus producing the fruit of clove, according to research from the Office of Food Security Padang, West Sumatra Province, Rasmi R, S.St. M.Sc.


"Tekhnologinya quite simply, among others, which have relatively large rose-cut branches, after the young sprout directly connected with clove buds. After 21 days entris will converge, it will pop a clove cloves ready to bear fruit," said Rasmi R, in Padang, Wednesday .


According to him, the connection of the guava tree - which is used as rootstock - that the clove bud, clove will be produced without bothering to plant from scratch.


While the fruit of clove alone, he said, the commercial value because it is one of the non-oil commodity exports scale than the guava fruit.


"Cloves` or `eugenia aromatica is a plant that originated from the island of Zanzibar was once the belle of the plantation in Indonesia," he said, but now the relative prestige of cloves declined further due to the monopoly tataniaga, quotas and plant pest or disease.


He was admitted to the decline of cloves, a study of the commodity also be unattractive, from cultivation, pests and diseases.


This, he said, is also influenced by the tendency of research done on things current or become popular.


While the plant itself also rose into genus and family eugenaceae eugenia. This genus has many species such as eugenia jambula (guava), eugenia sp (pink rivet) and rose apple (Eugenia sp.), Bay leaves and others.


Each species has its advantages and its own uniqueness. Ranging from resistance to environmental stress, high adaptability, resistance to pests, diseases and the rapid growth.


"As a foundation in the science of plant cultivation and biological science to explain that one genus of plants that can be done grafting (graft), patch (grafting), and other wet nurse," she said.


Therefore, the choice of doing this depends on the cultivation of engineering expertise because it has its own advantages and disadvantages.


While most high guava guava rivet is its durability, which black men are old when the size of a thumb.


"This plant is widely grown in the grassland areas Solok, despite dozens of times a fire underneath him alive and relatively large trunk. If water is also quite a lot of guava grows wild on the slopes of the cliffs, the river, and canyon Sianok Bukittinggi," he said.

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"Ghost ship" off the coast of Canada

Seattle - A Japanese-owned fishing boats drifting empty off the west coast of Canada thought to be the first wave of 1.5 million tons of debris that moves in the direction of North America from the tsunami in Japan last March.

Wreckage of coastal towns wiped out in Japan - including refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, roofs and fishing nets - is inevitably moving eastward across the Pacific and may arrive sooner than expected, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

"The first clue is that all these objects that are in a higher position in the water can potentially move across the Pacific Ocean more rapidly than we originally thought," said Director of the NOAA Marine Debris Program, Nancy Wallace. The program had predicted Japan's tsunami debris recently arrived on the coast of North America in 2013.

"Things are moving faster ... it really could be on the beach a lot faster - so much faster now," said Wallace, as quoted by Reuters

On March 20, the Department of Transport Canada to see what he says as an empty Japanese fishing boat in the sea 150 miles south of the Queen Charlotte Islands, adjacent to British Columbia.

The ship has been declared a danger to shipping, but Canada has not said what - if any - he will do on the ship. Coast Guard declared the country would only take action if a fuel spill from the ship. But that seems unlikely.

So-called "ghost ships" is the first evidence that a large piece of debris the tsunami Japan is moving toward the United States.

"It was confirmed that the debris caused by the tsunami will land on the west coast of North America," said Nicholas Mallos, a conservation biologist and marine debris in an independent agency Ocean Conservancy, which monitors the ocean trash problem.

"However, how the amount of debris, how to shape, most of these questions remain unanswered," he said.

NOAA, which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, initially expecting to see the debris arriving in the northern islands of Hawaii in the winter of this year and has moved slowly to Alaska, Canada, and U.S. West Coast next year.

But all of the prophecy, which was made shortly after the tsunami struck Japan on wind and current models are limited, proved inaccurate.

The agency found the debris moved to the north of the northernmost territory of Hawaii, and continues to move to North America, said Wallace. The institution is now changing his predictions.

Earthquake with a strength of 9.0 on the Richter scale shook off the coast of northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, thus triggering the 23-meter-high wall of water, which leveled with the ground all the buildings in various towns on the coast, killing 16,000 people. Three thousand people go undiscovered until now.

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Trash Debris Passed The International Space Station

Monday, March 26, 2012

Moscow - Space Debris waste through the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, forcing the crew to evacuate the rescue plane, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA).

Debris "safely pass in front of the ISS", explains that the U.S. space agency in the social networking Twitter, reports RIA Novosti.

A total of six crew members were told it's safe to return to normal duties.

NASA describes the waste is a residual military communications satellite collision Comsos 2251 Russia's already not working with a commercial Iridium spacecraft belonging to the U.S. in February 2009.

Meanwhile, the Soyuz spacecraft is used to transport crew to and from ISS 'mission ended well for normal as well as a rescue plane, "explained NASA.

Before entering into the capsule, the crew - consisting of two Americans, three Russians and Dutch astronaut - all hatch cover on the ISS.

NASA earlier said it expected to pass through the debris with a distance of 14.8 kilometers ISS underneath.

This is the third time the crew was asked to do the same procedure related a similar incident in 2009 and 2011.

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Titanic Sank Due To The Moon

Thursday, March 8, 2012

San Antonio - For a century after the Titanic disaster, gave the scientists an unexpected new finding reasons for the sinking of the ship: the moon. 


People understand the history or have seen the movie "Titanic" to know that 100 years ago the ship struck an iceberg and eventually sank all the crew. 


But when the Titanic sank, killing 1517 people on 15 April 1912, the researchers are still wondering why Captain Edward Smith ignored the warnings about the presence of icebergs in the shipping area. 


Though Smith is the most experienced captain in the "White Star Line" and several times had sailed the North Atlantic sea lanes. 


At that time he was assigned to conduct the inaugural voyage of the Titanic because he is the best sailor, knowledgeable and cautious. 


Donald Olson, a physicist at Texas State University who became the forensic team of astronomers who conducted the study for months, had a new explanation of the existence of the iceberg in Titanic cruise lines. 


"The connection was able to explain how the lunar iceberg in many remarkable path through which the Titanic," said Olson told Jym Forsyth of Reuters news agency. 


According to him, the type that was hit by an iceberg Titanic Greenland are generally trapped in the shallow waters of Labrador and Newfoundland, and can not continue moving south until they melt enough for the tide to float back or release them. 


So how do so many icebergs can float very far to the south in the shipping lanes in the south Foundland night? 


Tim Olson speculation oceanographers investigating the late Fergus Wood that the movement of the moon toward the Earth is unusual in January 1912 may result in a high tide so that icebergs move farther than usual to separate from Greenland and float up to the cruise lines. 


Olson said the event "a lifetime" occurred on January 4, 1912, when the moon and sun line up in such a way that their mutual gravitational pull. 


At the same time, the movement of the moon toward the Earth at the time it reaches the nearest position for 1,400 years and are in that position within six minutes of the full moon. 
   
On top of that, the movement of the Earth reaches the closest point to the sun in one year just happened the day before. 


"This configuration maximizes power in the ocean tide moon earth. It's incredible," said Olson. 


Olson's research shows that to reach the shipping lanes in mid-April, the mountains of ice that hit the Titanic must have been the fault of Greenland in January 1912. 


High tide due to a strange combination of astronomical events, he said, was enough to dispel the mountains of ice and give them sufficient capacity to float up to the shipping line in April. 


Olson's team had previously tried to use the tidal patterns to determine exactly when the British occupied the Julius Caesar and prove the legend that inspired Mary Shelley bright full moon through the window while writing a story gothic classic "Frankenstein." 


The research team may be able to justify the Titanic Captain Smith, despite two centuries too late, by showing that he had no reason to react casually to report the presence of ice on the cruise line ships. 


At that time he had no reason to believe that the mountain of ice in front of him as much and for that, said Olson....

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Invisible Car Is Not A Fantasy Anymore

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The scientists now are trying to find the optical camouflage technology that can make a car Mercedes F-Cell is almost barely noticeable. 


Tarpaulins are used as cover one side of the LED is coated car. On the other hand there is a SLR digital camera to record the view that serves to cover the car body. 


Technology has been pioneered by scientists at the University of Tokyo, principally adapted based on technology "blue screen" which is used during the event on television weather forecasts. 


Mercedes ad video shot in Hamburg highways and bridges in Bavaria. 


Interesting comments that appear to accompany the video ad on YouTube that ranged from fears of many accidents because other drivers do not see it. Another comment said that the advantage is that it can avoid tarp parking ticket. 


More about mercedes video can be viewed below.

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