Transhuman Interests

Transhuman Interests

We talked about reporting interesting news about the Transhuman project in case there were changes in the human side of the "experiment to make a man part human and part machine." This is one of those reports.

Humanoido Transhuman has taken a marked interest in all things astro. In particular he is developing remote activity for large telescopes and setting up a system that can gather data from the Solar System, galaxy and beyond. In the final analysis, the system will gather data from the Solar System such as planets, moons, asteroids, and comets, and beyond - stars, nebula, clusters, black holes, galaxies, cosmic radiation, spectra, supernova, and a host of other objects. The plan is to share this unique information and images and see what new things result.

Looking for a New Language

Humanoids Writing Programs
Humanoido is looking for a new programming language that can be used with humanoid robots so they can do their own programming during space flight.

Space flight and rocket launches now have a number of qualified astro bots that are part of the rocket crew and their work rosters continue to increase. A number of applications have arisen during space exploration that require machine life forms to do on-the-fly programming of systems and interpret that data and make decisions. On board memory is limited so the programming requirements cannot be too obtrusive. Contact Humanoido

About Space1 from the Founder

Space1 tourism

ABOUT SPACE1 FROM THE FOUNDER

About Space1: Space1 began January 2014 and is now international. It's a worldwide peaceful endeavor for safe space tourism through rocket travel. We have 7 members holding 21 Space1 roles.

Note from the Founder
I'm the founder of Space1, Taiwan Rocket Lab 1 & 2, American Rocket Lab 1, CEO, Rocket Scientist, and developer of a new Science Weather and Astro Observatory for rocket launches. The idea for Space1 was brewing for many years. President Obama's opening up space to private industry in the USA marked a turning point in space exploration, making space tourism possible on a large scale to the public for the first time.

President Obama Space
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/11/president-obama-space.html

Last year, I designed and built 14 rockets and invented the world's first Safety Rocket. We have 3 Space Ports in 4 countries. Space1 is on the verge of changing the world and beyond. It will make space travel, space tourism, safe and affordable for the first time in history.

We are working to open a fourth space port in Singapore. Our mission directive is to open up safe affordable space tourism for everyone in the world. There are no requirements (age, gender, health, weight, height, education, training, religion, culture, location, affluence) to go into space on-board our safety rocket which could make this a boon in history.

— The first 100 people to fly the safety rocket will go down in history as the first group of space tourists and members of the most elite club in the world! —

Space1 Links
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2015/01/space1-links-in-january-2015.html

Humanoido Labs Update

HUMANOIDO LABS UPDATE

First new robot at the new lab

Humanoido introduced three new international labs in 2014. The recent move to new facilities provides more space and was completed in November of 2014. Work is progressing to refine the setup within each laboratory.

Astro Aeronautics Lab (Intl Taiwan Lab 63 - TAL)
The Astro Aeronautic Laboratory officially opened with its first experiment on Thursday November 13, 2014.

http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2014/11/iphone-pocket-telescope.html
iPhone Pocket Telescope

DeckLab in the Sky (Intl Taiwan Lab 62 - TDL)
November 4th 2014
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2014/11/decklab-in-sky.html
Rocket Lab (Intl Taiwan Lab 61 - TRL)
 September 24th, 2014
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2014/11/decklab-in-sky.html

Moving into the new facilities - panoramic view

Rocket Lab is located on the entire second floor. This facility has resources in mechanics, electronics, digital computing, the Big Brain, parts and components, all the Micro Space equipment, inventions, rockets, and a series of working spacecraft. Two large work benches are currently provided for work. The laboratory also includes guest space for scientists.

Labs Lists
HUMANOIDO LABS LIST
This information includes Primary Functions, and Nostalgia.
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/06/humanoido-labs-list.html
This large post describes 58 labs and includes the evolution of the lab and how the idea originated.

Humanoido Lab List
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/07/humanoido-lab-list.html
This post describes 60 labs, updating with the newest labs in 2013.

Humanoido Labs Update
Adds three new labs to the list in 2014. 
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2014/11/humanoido-labs-update.html

iPhone Pocket Telescope

IPHONE POCKET TELESCOPE

As put together by Humanoido in the new Astro Aeronautics Lab, the iPhone pocket telescope is designed as a small portable telescope that can shoot great images without a tripod or special mounting. This is accomplished using electronic and combined software image stabilization and the additional camera features of the new iPhone 6 Plus.

iPhone view with stock lens

The phone, telescope tube assembly, and telescope clip all fit easily into a pocket. The US$13 telescope is a barrel, with focus, that threads into a clip which attaches it to the iPhone.

The tube rotates with a scale from 3 meters to infinity. The iPhone provides auto focus which works well through the telescope.

The photos shown here are all from the unit hand held. Note the remarkable sharpness obtained as a product of the mobile phone and the lens quality.

Telescope view at 8x

The telescope, made of coated precision glass lenses, has 8x magnification at F1.1 and the iPhone has 3X zoom, giving EFL values ranging from 8 to 24X on a sliding scale. Astronomically speaking, this should be enough scale to detect rings around Saturn, cloud belts on Jupiter, the Galilean Moons, and great detail on the Earth's Moon. It will also be exceptionally handy for capturing special selected events like occultations of stars, planets, and moons plus solar and lunar eclipses. Note: solar eclipses will require the use of special heat absorbing and light absorbing features.

Our first test zeroed in on a spherical water tank off in the

The telescope at 24x using 3x zoom

distance. This was shot with the iPhone's normal camera lens, the telescope at its standard 8x and the phones 3x zoom. The round tank is visible approximately in the center of the photo.

The next photo shows the tank view at 8x through the telescope with no zoom. As the telescope is fitted, there is some vignetting though very slight near the edges. The depth of field is focused directly on the tank.

The telescope view at 24x using the Apple camera zoom is remarkable for a hand held image, showing sharpness. The camera cost NT$398 and was missing the tripod and the mobile phone mount. This prompted the discovery of the telescope to function well in a hand held mode.

In the future, the telescope and camera pair will be paced during the first clear nights when the Moon and brighter planets are visible.

Tiny Telescope for Near Space

Telescope photo showing the Moon

TINY TELESCOPE FOR NEAR SPACE FLIGHT
The next Near Space flight will carry a small telescope up into the fringes of space, and will be capable of imaging planned celestial objects during the day and night. The first time telescope will be equipped with a battery operated CCD camera imager capable of single integration color or black and white at ISO 28,000 or more.

NODAL POINTS

Short term integration

The initial tests will be unguided, i.e. accepting the motions of the spacecraft. We will study the best spacecraft orientations for particular telescopic data collecting and imaging with the greatest points of stability and least angular rotation and linear motion.

This will occur at nodal points established during the flight.

IMAGE STABILIZER
The telescope will include an Image Stabilizer to reduce imaging motion and produce more clear and less trailed images.

Solar imaging

PIXELS
With over 10 million pixels, the telescope can produce fine resolution shots.

CCD
This is an electronic telescope with a built in CCD Charge Coupled Device.
 
TIMED INTEGRATIONS
The telescope is equipped to do integrations of up to 15 seconds to capture faint objects and possible star fields during flight. Solar integrations can be as short as 1/1,600th of a second.

FOCAL LENGTH

Atmospheric effects

The small telescope is variable at f/2 to F/4.9 with a focal length from 28mm to 105mm. Part of the telescope is electronic, thus capable of FL modification.

MONITOR
A 3-inch color monitor is attached to the telescope for focus, framing and viewing in various modes.

Storage Media

STORAGE

Deep Sky M57 on storage

iPhone 5 support with Siri AI

Free iPhone app supplements telescope data

Image storing is available in the following formats: RAW 3648 x 2736, JPEG 3648 x 2736, JPEG 2816 x 2112, JPEG 1600 x 1200, JPEG 640 x 480, JPEG 3648 x 2048, JPEG 2816 x 1584, JPEG 1920 x 1080, JPEG 640 x 360, JPEG 3648 x 2432, JPEG 2816 x 1880, JPEG 1600 x 1064, JPEG 640 x 424, JPEG 2736 x 2736, JPEG 2112 x 2112, JPEG 1200 x 1200, JPEG 480 x 480, JPEG 2192 x 2736, JPEG 1696 x 2112, JPEG 960 x 1200, JPEG 384 x 480.

M1 integration

HIGH TECH TELESCOPE
The high technology telescope supports HD recording and uses a folded lens design. This is specifically designed for Near Space flight and has low profile compacted folded dimensions of approximately 4-inches x 2 x  1. The folding design extends another one inch to the 1-inch dimension. It can do continuous auto timed repeated imaging at about 2 FPS running on Lithium Ion batteries. Images are saved to a multi media card which can be retrieved after the flight.

SUPPORT
Small telescopes can be supported with iPhone 5 functions, including the built in talk-to artificial intelligence SIRI when the sound environment is relatively quiet.

M42 PGT Paradigmic Genius Telescope

BIG BRAIN SUPERCOMPUTER
PGT PARADIGMIC GENIUS TELESCOPE VIEWS M42

MONDAY OCTOBER 15TH 2012 - STUNNING VIEWS! were obtained using the Big Brain's PGT Super Telescope. Observations were completed on Monday, driven with a new portal window designed to show a wider view FOV (thanks to the experimental FR) with more visible detail and less cluttering of telescope controls.

M42 is the birthplace of stars and shows a wealth of detail in expanding hydrogen dust and filamentary detail. Glowing nebulosity is lit up by nearby and embedded stars. The PGT is an experimental telescope that's performing beyond all expectations.

The successful new portal version is functional though still under construction - it appears it will be chosen for primary use. This is the second image captured with the PGT. The previous observation did focusing on a Black Hole at the center of galaxy with a massive Event Horizon and a Relativistic Space Time Jet.


EXPANSION
One possible future expansion of the PGT may include the GMM's (Genius Molecular Microscope) Stage Cascader to zoom in to highly detailed portions of a wide FOV Cosmic View. This will ride atop the ocularic section for amplification and permit highly detailed magnified enlargement of selected areas much like results obtained from refinement stages within the GMM.

THE EXPERIMENT
It will be an exciting experiment to attach the Molecular Cascader atop the PGT Telescope and view the results. If permanently used, it could usher in a new age of telescope. One proposal is Molecular PGT or MPGT for Molecular Paradigmic Genius Telescope. This may be shortened to MGT Molecular Genius Telescope.

Venus Meets 101

SPECTACULAR VIEWS OF VENUS AT TAIPEI 101

THE CONTINUING  SAGA OF THE VENUS JUPITER ALDEBARAN CONJUNCTION AT 101

Photo 1 - Panorama

Photo 2 - Wide View

Friday July 27th 2012 

Photo 3 - Zoom

Photo 1 The panoramic view in photo 1 was shot in the early morning of July 27th, 2012 at 3:22:06 am, with a Canon Powershot S95 at 1 second exposure (2 EV) with a 28mm f/2 lens and ISO 1,600 shows a rich field of celestial sky objects - from top: the Pleiades star cluster, the planet Jupiter, the Hyades star cluster, Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus the Bull, Capella in the constellation Auriga. Note the position of very bright Venus to the immediate right of Taipei 101. Click on the photo to see the full panorama. 

Photo 2 The next photo shows a wide view shot in portrait format obtained earlier at 3:20:12 am. These first two images were at 1080 x 1920 1.2MB and screen shot for reduction.


Photo 3 The zoom is highly detailed at f/4... and perhaps the most dramatic with Jupiter, Aldebaran, and Venus poised immediately next to Taipei 101 (at the right side aboub 3/4th of the way towards the top).

Jupiter Venus Conjunction Widens

JUPITER VENUS CONJUNCTION WIDENS

Along with more stars and the return of another UFO!

All observations made at Humanoido Lab Number 50.

Wednesday July 25th 2012 3:53:18 am

Clear skies returned this morning to reveal the stunning Jupiter Venus Aldebaran conjunction above the Taipei 101 skyscraper.

The event was double spectacular as another UFO buzzed the surrounding sky for a short time. This time, the UFO made a wide sweeping pass and did not appear to land behind the Skyscraper 101 as some UFOs did in the past. It's believed some type of landing strip is located there, although it was confirmed that the conventional airport is located in another direction.
 

The earlier time at 3:53:18 revealed a darker sky and more stars, thus showing constellations Taurus the Bull and Auriga with the bright star Capella (to the left) more clearly. The small cluster of stars located about three fourths of the way toward the top is the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. In the photo with trailed star images, clearly the elongation of the UFO follows the path of a different angle.

The favorite imaging settings for this type of view are Program, ISO 1,600, 2 EV, f/2, no zoom, 1-second exposure, 1064 x 1600 727K image format with AWB in JPEG setting. A 28mm lens was used for this hand held shot. The first photo does not show the UFO.

The second image shows the UFO located directly above the 101 Tower. It appears elongated or saucer shaped on its North-bound trek. Numerous images were obtained showing the object moving across the sky.


 

Photos have no guiding from the hand-held camera. To capture these images, the author must hang out of the skyscraper several hundred feet above the open ground to avoid the building obstruction to the south. The entire process is a bit risky but result in very good images. Pieces of the this obstruction are visible in some photos at the right side.

The third photograph shows the unidentified object changing position again, moving from right to left. This shows the elongation of the object most clearly as the stars are not trailed. Photos were pre-processed with Apple iPhoto using enhancements: Exposure, Definition, Sharpness, and De-noise. The fourth photo shows another UFO change in position towards the North.

The final photo shows an enlargement of the UFO with saucer shape and a plume appearance directly to the top. The visual view of the craft exhibited some noted red color lights at times, not seen here in this photo.

07.20.2012 Venus Conjunction Sky Map Experiment

Above right: Taipei 101, Jupiter, Venus, Capella in Taurus

July 20, 2012 Venus Jupiter Conjunction Sky Map Experiment

Constellation Auriga with bright star Capella

Friday morning was clear enough to capture Venus Jupiter conjunction and the most stars ever photographed in the early morning dawn sky. This experiment shows that a simple hand held camera shooting a very clear sky at high ISO ratings can create a "downtown" star map from a heavily light polluted high density populated city. This 1 second exposed (2 EV) image was taken at 4:20:06 am with settings of f/2, a 28mm lens, and ISO 1,600. No UFOs were seen during the sequence of observations. Enough stars are seen to clearly define the constellations. This view is screen captured from the original 1064 x 1600 pixel image. The star map is rotated to match the actual view of the constellation Auriga and the brightest star Capella, in the photo to the left of the Taipei 101 skyscraper. The photo shows the Pleiades star cluster, Venus, Jupiter, Aldebaran in the Hyades star cluster, and the constellation Auriga with the bright star Capella. A PowerShot Canon S95 CCD camera was used to obtain the sequential images in this study. The camera eye is recording numerous stars not seen to the naked eye view. To conduct a program of creating the aforementioned sky maps, a simple tripod is recommended. It may also be possible to go deeper on the exposure and this deserves continued experimentation. The Lab 50 is obstructed by a brick structure on the South, so for an all sky mapping project another lab is recommended, like Area 51 atop the skyscraper.

Moon Venus Dual Light Source

MOON VENUS CAPTURE

THE DUAL LIGHT SOURCE PROJECT

This same field conjunction image shows the planet Venus and the Moon together - exposed to reveal Moon light reflected from the Sun and from the Earth (earthshine), along with Venus light reflected from the Sun. The photo was imaged in telescope mode with a 1 second exposure (EV at 2) at ISO 1,600. The 28mm lens was zoomed (6-22.5mm) at f/4.9. Taken July 15th Sunday 2012 at 4:21:49 am local Taipei time. The combined digital plus optical zoom equaled 15X.

Wax Eye

Big Brain Gets a Wax Eye

Now don't say "ewe" too quickly as this simple eye uses technology from optics (a single double convex lens) and a piece of waxed paper from a local grocery store. The wax paper is the image forming element and the lens projects the image onto the paper. A sensor or camera is placed behind the paper and photos the image in real time using macro mode. It works well on brighter objects, terrestrial, the Moon and brighter Planets, depending on the diameter of the lens.

Brain Crypt Astro Observatory Lab

Brain Crypt Observatory

Big Brain Crypt Lab Loft before moving in

This entire space is dedicated to one lucky expansive Big Brain!!!

The new Big Brain Crypt and Lab Loft has lots of windows (at left & center), though it looks bigger in the photo than in real life.

Any one of the many Big Brain robotic telescopes can set outside on high rise skyscraper roof top access to observe a complete sky panorama, according to a Big Brain's astronomical agenda. Observation equipment controlled by the Brain can also set on the outside home Deck. Control is possible by direct means, wireless and routed cables through the windows.

Will the Big Brain fit into this Lab space? Initially the space seems large for one project but never underestimate the constant growth of the Big Brain!