We strongly advice you to watch this informative video by scientist at NASA about this terrific cataclysm. Detailed report is here.

Update: This was supposed to be April Fools joke, Google wont take you to the Mars, but AeroSpace Engineering students will:)

Google just made an announcement about its Project Virgle, which says that right now humans have technology to make life on Mars possible and Project Virgle will start taking people for settlement on Mars in coming 20 years.

Here is what Project Virgle is: (Click here to apply)

• For thousands of years, the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world’s every last nook, cranny and subdivision.

• Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
• Ever yearned to journey to the stars? You can learn how to become a Virgle Pioneer, test your Pioneering potential, or join the Mission Control community that will help develop the 100 Year Plan we’ve outlined here.

Here is Google’s Official Announcement:

• In my life, I’ve had a lot of exciting adventures and launched a lot of ambitious business ventures. I’m delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google which qualifies on both counts.
  Virgle’s goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it’s high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world.In the years to come, we’ll be sending up a series of spaceships carrying (along with the supplies and tools needed to build the new colony) what eventually will be hundreds of Mars colonists, or Virgle Pioneers — myself among them. If you think you might want join us (or invest in or otherwise assist this vast venture), I hope you’ll read more here about how Virgle will work, what our brave Pioneers can expect and what the future holds for what just might be the most ambitious adventure in mankind’s long and storied history.See you on the north side of Kasei Valles!

Dün öğlen saat 3 civarında bölüm sekreterliğinden gelen mailde TAİ ve THY’de staj başvurusu duyuruldu. Bu sene TAİ 30 kişilik, THY ise 15 kişilik kontenjan açmış. TAİ’ye en son başvuru tarihi 26 mart, THY’ye ise 27 mart, her iki başvuru için gerekli tek belge resmi olmayan not göstergesi. Student Affairs Information System’den giriş yaptığınızda Unofficial Student Grade Summary’yi çıktı alıp onu sekreterliğe götürmeniz yeterli.

En son staja kabul olanlar listesine TAİ için burdan, THY için de burdan ulaşabilirsiniz.

Herkese bol şans, umarım herkes istediği yerde stajını yapabilecek.

A huge thank you to Serjan Akhmetov for sharing the manual with us.

Have something worth sharing send it over to editor@aerometu.com

Dubai-based airline Emirates has become the first commercial airline to allow passengers to make mobile phone calls during flights.

Emirates said the first permitted mobile phone call was made on a flight between Dubai and Casablanca. The aircraft, an Airbus A340, is fitted with a system which stops mobiles from interfering with a plane’s electronics. Emirates plans to extend the system to more aircraft and later this year add BlackBerry and other data services. According to the airline, the mobile service will only be activated when the aircraft is at cruising altitude and the cabin crew will be able to monitor and control the use of the system. Passengers will be able to receive and send text messages, but the crew will be able to prevent voice calls at certain times, such as during night flights. Passengers will also be requested to keep their phones on “silent” mode, said the airline.

High demand

Emirates said it decided to introduce the use of mobile phones in its fleet after experiencing high demand for the phones already installed in aircraft seats. The airline had to obtain approval from international air safety organisations before adopting the system, which was developed by the AeroMobile company. “We have gone to considerable lengths to ensure that all safety and regulatory issues have been fully addressed”, said AeroMobile Chief Executive Bjorn-Taale Sandberg. Emirates flies to more than 60 countries and is owned by the government of Dubai.

Turkish Airlines?

NACA blade airfoil series, click on image for larger view.

Have something that everyone should see? send it over at editor@aerometu.com

Then turning to a copilot he says: “You know, all I could use right now would be a cup of coffee and a blowjob”.

Everyone on the plane hears this and stewardess rushes to cockpit to turn the mike off, and someone from the back shouts:

-Honey, don’t forget the coffee:)

The problem - almost 60 percent of U.S. aerospace workers in 2007 were 45 or older - could affect national security and even close the door on commercial products that start out as military technology, industry officials said.

While U.S. universities are awarding nearly 200,000 engineering, math and computer science degrees annually - 2 1/2 times as many as they did 40 years ago - defense companies must compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft and Verizon for the best and the brightest.

Industry leaders are doing their best to emphasize the allure, and growing importance, of jobs linked to national defense.

Aerospace Industries Association Chief Executive Marion Blakey said the country could be facing another “wake-up call,” similar to the 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik, the world’s first man-made satellite. China’s success in shooting down one of its own satellites last year, as well as the upcoming retirement of the U.S. space shuttle fleet, signal that the country cannot afford to take its technological and military superiority for granted, said Blakey, the former head of the Federal Aviation Administration.

In addition to fierce competition for a limited pool of math and science experts from all corners of corporate America, contractors working on classified government programs are hamstrung by another factor: restrictions on hiring foreigners or off-shoring work to other countries.

Ian Ziskin, a vice president at Northrop Grumman Corp. in Los Angeles, estimates that roughly half of that company’s 122,000 workers will be eligible to retire in the next five to 10 years. The trend is the same at Lockheed Martin Corp., of Bethesda, Md., which could lose up to half of its work force of 140,000 to retirement over the next decade. At Boeing, about 15 percent of the Chicago company’s engineers are 55 or older and eligible to retire now.

The launch of Sputnik set off panic that the United States was falling behind in the space race. And it swelled the ranks of aerospace and defense workers as a wave of Americans answered a call to help the United States regain military superiority and began careers building rocket ships and missiles.

Fifty years later, industry executives fear there won’t be enough new defense sector workers to replace those employees as they retire.

For its part, Boeing is up against telecom giants such as Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. as it grows its satellite business. It even competes with video game makers such as Electronic Arts Inc. for 3-D graphic designers and software programmers.

At the same time, defense executives acknowledge, the sector does not exert the same patriotic pull as it once did because young people today have never known a time when the United States was not a leader in space exploration or the world’s sole superpower.

The industry confronts another challenge. Unlike technology companies, defense companies generally have to hire American citizens because they need employees who can obtain security clearance. This eliminates foreign graduates of American universities and foreign employees in the United States on H-1B visas.

Similarly, defense contractors cannot outsource to countries with more technical workers, such as India or China.

Against this backdrop, defense companies are reaching out to American students in the earliest grades.

Lockheed Martin is sending employees into elementary schools to tutor students in math and science and is recruiting high school students to shadow Lockheed workers on the job. The company’s engineers coach robotics teams, conduct rocket propulsion experiments for students and participate in mentoring programs.

Defense contractors are also trying to market themselves to job candidates with flexible schedules, tuition reimbursement programs and plenty of opportunities for advancement. Above all, noted Linda Olin-Weiss, director of staffing services at Lockheed Martin, the defense industry offers “challenging work on programs of national importance.”

The implications of falling behind extend beyond national security because military technology often has civilian uses, too. The origins of GPS satellites and the Internet are linked to military applications.

But with the U.S. space program planning a return to the moon and a manned mission to Mars, Blakey believes there is at least one event on the horizon that could lure a new generation of Americans into the aerospace and defense industry.

“The question is: How do you encourage young kids to think of themselves as potential scientists and engineers?” Blakey said. “We hope that a return to the moon and Mars will help inspire them.”

Original published in San Francisco Chronicle.