Ανακοινωση- Notification..[ 3190 ]

Modification of this blog - Διαμόρφωση αυτού του blog 

11/12/2013
As of today this blog will be issued in Eglish and or Greek language..
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Από σήμερα αυτό το  blog θα εκδίδεται στην Αγγλική η/και στην Ελληνική γλώσσα

Massive pileup in Wisconsin ] 3189 ]

Massive pileup in Wisconsin caught on video

By Janoa Taylor 3 hours ago

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RAW: Video captures Hwy 41/45 pileup

The snowy weather that has affected much of the country over the past week has produced a remarkable traffic video. A massive pileup in Wisconsin involved between two dozen and 50 vehicles, according to various sources, and can now be seen via a Wisconsin Department of Transportation video.
Five-minute pileup
The multicar pileup happened Sunday around 11 a.m. near Germantown, Wisconsin, along highway 41/45. It was caught on video by a Wisconsin Department of Transportation traffic camera. By the time of the accident, enough snow, ice, and slush had accumulated to blanket the highway. Visibility was also low, with snow coming down.
The video starts with a few cars speeding through snowy conditions and rear-ending cars in front of them. Eventually, the highway turns into almost a parking lot of collisions.
Besides the excessive speeds for the wintry road conditions, the video also shows motorists getting out of their vehicles and standing on the highway as more cars continue to smash into vehicles sitting on the road. More cars approach the scene with nothing warning them of what's ahead, leaving drivers without enough time to stop before plowing into standing vehicles, ditches, and fences.

Germantown police officer Tim Miller, who witnessed the pileup, told WISN Milwaukee, "If people watch NASCAR, and they watch the Daytona 500 or Talledega, where they wait for what's called the Big Crash, where all the cars crash because they're all so close together, that's what this was like -- only there was nobody there to stop it with a yellow flag and slow all the other cars down."

In a post on Facebook, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation warned, "You see people getting out of their cars -- with the desire to make sure others were OK -- but this is extremely dangerous. The video shows many people nearly hit by vehicles."
The accident took several hours to clear and coincided with another pileup involving almost 40 cars on the same highway near Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, reports WISN, which resulted in one death. Between the two situations, 911 operators were overloaded with calls.
The pileup caught on video caused 12 injuries and no deaths, reports WLUK-TV Fox 11.

The Byzantine Empire...[ 3188 ]

The rise and the fall of the Byzantine Empire.

Iran’s divided students...[ 3187 ]

Rouhani addresses Iran’s divided students

View Photo Gallery — Tensions ease between United States and Iran: Relations between the two countries have thawed recently after years of tensions.

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At the time the prospects of an agreement over Iran’s contested nuclear activities seemed dim and inflation hovered near 40 percent.
“We need to strike the right balance between idealism and realism. There are those who want to close the gateways to this country. We know that is impossible,” Rouhani said, apparently referring to domestic and foreign opponents of the interim nuclear deal struck between Iran and global powers in Geneva, Switzerland last month. 
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Rouhani made the address at Shadid Beheshti University in Tehran, before a group of a 1,000 or more students. Various groups of attending students shouted slogans, demonstrating deep political divisions among Iran’s educated youth.
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Some of the students reportedly called for the release of political prisoners, including Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, who led the 2009 post election opposition movement.
Hardline supporters of the regime, known as Basij, were also present and chanted “Death to America” along with other revolutionary mantras.
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Dec. 7 is the annual observance of Students’ Day in Tehran, which commemorates the killing of three students at Tehran University in 1953 who were protesting an official visit by then U.S. Vice President, Richard Nixon.
The date is another reminder for Iranians of the long and complicated relationship between their country and the U.S., and is often marked by students protesting against what they consider American intervention in Iran’s domestic affairs.
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“Today represents a historic day in Iran’s history, when pioneers and students stood against colonialism, despotism and foreign interference,” Rouhani said. “Indeed, in this land, students have always been pioneers in pursuing freedom and offering constructive criticism.”
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Fueled by optimism after the eight-year presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which many here think was marred by economic mismanagement and overuse of the country’s security forces, Rouhani has managed to maintain a fragile peace between opposing political factions, something Ahmadinejad was never able to achieve.
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“This government is committed to all its promises, but we need internal consensus. We need to be more tolerant, rational and avoid being too emotional,” Rouhani said.

NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft ...[ 3186 ]

Forty Years Ago, Pioneer 10's Closest Approach to Jupiter 
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On Dec. 4, 1973, 
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NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft sent back images of Jupiter of ever-increasing size. The most dramatic moment was after closest approach and after the spacecraft was hidden behind Jupiter. Here, images gradually build up into a very distorted crescent-shaped Jupiter. "Sunrise on Jupiter," a team member said. The giant planet crescent gradually decreased in size as the spacecraft sped away out of the Jovian system.
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Launched on Mar. 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Pioneer 10 passed within 81,000 miles of the cloudtops during its closest encounter with Jupiter. 
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This historic event marked humans' first approach to Jupiter and opened the way for exploration of the outer solar system - for Voyager to tour the outer planets, for Ulysses to break out of the ecliptic, for Galileo to investigate Jupiter and its satellites, and for Cassini to go to Saturn and probe Titan. 
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During its Jupiter encounter, Pioneer 10 imaged the planet and its moons, and took measurements of Jupiter's magnetosphere, radiation belts, magnetic field, atmosphere, and interior. These measurements of the intense radiation environment near Jupiter were crucial in designing the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft.
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Image Credit: NASA