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This week in science
Our ever so vigilant trainspotting department presents you with news of science and technology.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in USA reports about their new telescope becoming operational after a successful launch into space on August 16, 2024 on board of the NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-R (PTD-R) satellite. The instrument is of a new design for both an ultraviolet and short-wave infrared monolithic telescope in one compact package. The gadget, thus combining ability to observe in both red and blue sides of the spectrum, was aptly named Deep Purple.
“Our observation campaign will begin the week of Sept. 2 and we will survey the Earth background, the galactic bulge and other satellites in orbit,” said Principal Investigator Jordan Smilo.
Meanwhile in Europe, a project to recover energy and other valuable resources from, ahem, urban waste with the help of purple bacteria was also named Deep Purple:
The DEEP PURPLE concept relies in a versatile, integrated and flexible Multi-Platform Biorefinery, based on the metabolism of Purple Phototrophic Bacteria (PPB) to extract and recover high added-value compounds for the bio-based industry such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), ectoine and cellulose in 2 demo sites (ES, CZ).
Somebody must be a fan over there too. Please, do step forward if you are reading this.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Congratulations for a young Blackmore back in the day & his naming of the b(r)and eh? Cheers.
August 30th, 2024 at 21:10Yo,
Look-out for those “Fireballs”, they have the fire coming out from with-“In Rock”. It may take a “Machine Head” operator or authorized person to identify & confirm before the general public asks “Who do we think we are ?”…
But it’s all “Purpendicular” I suppose…
Peace !
August 30th, 2024 at 22:49“Meanwhile in Europe, a project to recover energy and other valuable resources from, ahem, urban waste with the help of purple bacteria was also named Deep Purple …”
Holy shit!
August 30th, 2024 at 23:41I think they should have named it Space Trucker..
August 31st, 2024 at 08:01I bet they thought about it, but that name has meanwhile become a bad omen: It was the signature song of the Space Shuttle Columbia crew
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that perished in the 2003 accident which inspired Steve to write Contact Lost.
The only good thing about it was that it was mercifully quick. The crew was in elated and chatty mood returning home when the damaged (during the launch, but no one had noticed) heat protection gave up and before they even realized it they were were all gone.
September 2nd, 2024 at 16:02