Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The force is with the mouse

The Walt Disney Co buys Lucas film company empire for $4.04 billion this week, the production behind "Star Wars" froms its  founder, George Lucas. They are also make the announce of the seventh movie in the "Stars Wars" series called Episode 7 until the 2015, follow it with Episode 8 and 9 one movie every two or tree years.
Lucas said "It´s now time for me to pass the Star Wars on to new generations of filmmakers."
The deal brings Lucasfilm under the Disney banner with oder brands that Disney have purchase like Pixar, ABC , ESPN, Marvel. in a conference Disney said that they would try to revive "Stars Wars".

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/30/technology/disney-buys-lucasfilm/index.html

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Photo captures 84 million stars in Milky Way

Astronomers have catalogued 84 millions stars at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy using a cosmic photo taken in Chile by a telescope. A view that has been the largest survey ever of the stars in our galaxy core.The telescope can zoom the image so large that it would measure 30 feet long by 23 feet tall if printed with resolution of a typical book.The image contains 10 times more stars than previous studies.Astronomers identify 173 million different objects in the 9-billion-pixels image, of which 84 million could be confirmed as stars, the rest were distat objects such as galaxies.




Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Historic jump from edge of space

Felix Baumgartner a 43-year-old Austrian became the first person to go faster than the speed of sound without traveling on jet or spacecraft. He was in an open hatch of a capsule suspended above Earth wondering that if he jump he could make it back alive, millions of people were watching him become the world´s first supersonic skydiver on Internet and more than 40 television stations in 50 countries carried the live feed. He jumped to New Mexico desert 24 miles, landing his feet on desert, lifted his arms in victory.

In an interview after he was on earth he says:

"When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data,"The only thing you want is to come back alive."




Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Body of Mexico top drug boss stolen

An armed group stole the body of Mexico leader drug cartel Zetas from a funeral home in northern Mexico, just hours after he was killed in a gun battle.
Mexican marines say that according to de forensic test including finger prints confirmed that they had killed Zetas boss Heruberto Lazcano alias The Executioner who is leader of one of the most powerful drug gangs,and also one of Mexico´s most wanted men.He was killed along with another suspected Zeta member in Sunday afternoon.
The zetas practice some of the most violent acts in the country´s drug war and has killed about 60,000 people during President Felipe Calderon term.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19879585


Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Hong Kong ferry collision

Hong Kong police arrested six crew after a ferry and a company boat with people collided, killing 37 people as the boat sank. Five children were among the dead and more than 100 people were taken to the hospital and several of them were suffering serious injuries or in critical condition. The collision sparked a major rescue involving helicopters, diving teams and many boats.
"Within 10 minutes, the ship had sunk. We had to wait at least 20 minutes before we were rescued" said one survivor, wrapped in a blanket.
The arrest involved crew of both vessels, the police think that someone did not fulfill their responsibility thats why they made the arrest.