Jackson's hair made into diamonds -- for real

Since Michael Jackson's sudden death on June 25, the rumor mill over details of his bizarre personal life has ground away nearly non-stop, and on Friday, one company said it was turning his hair into diamonds. That one is true.

The claims this week included a report in Rolling Stone magazine that a prosthetic nose he wore apparently went missing when he was taken to the morgue, and a British tabloid trumpeted a headline that

he fathered a secret love-child.

In one by-product of the "Thriller" singer's death, a Chicago company said on Friday it had obtained some of the hair Jackson burned while filming a 1984 Pepsi commercial and planned to create a limited edition of diamonds from it.

"Absolutely this is for real," said Dean VandenBiesen, founder of LifeGem, which has a patent on a process that extracts carbon from hair, turns it into crystals and then into high-quality laboratory diamonds.

VandenBiesen told Reuters he thought the company could make about 10 diamonds. No sale price has been set but VandenBiesen said LifeGem created three diamonds from locks of Beethoven's hair in 2007, and sold one of them for around $200,000.

Separately, the Aug. 6 issue of Rolling Stone magazine reported that not only was the left arm of Jackson's dead body "scored with needle marks" -- claims that have arisen before -- but he wore an artificial nose that was missing when he was taken to the Los Angeles county morgue.

"The prosthesis that he normally attached to his damaged nose was missing, revealing bits of cartilage surrounding a small dark hole," the magazine said in an unsourced report.

While that report could not be confirmed, Los Angeles coroner's officials did say earlier this week they were probing security breaches in their offices.

The coroner's office is expected to release an official cause of death next week which could shed light on some of the reports, including Jackson's possible use of powerful drugs.

And even as custody of Jackson's three children is set to be decided in court on Aug. 3, The Sun newspaper speculated the singer may have had a love-child raised in Norway.

Omer Bhatti, 25, sparked interest when he was spotted sitting with the singer's immediate

family at Jackson's public memorial earlier this month. Bhatti reportedly spent time with Jackson at his Neverland Valley Ranch in the 1990s and was known as "Little Michael".

But another of Jackson's former proteges, singer Ricky Harlow, told celebrity website

People.com on Friday that although they were close he doubted Bhatti was Jackson's son.

"They had a father-and-son type of connection," Harlow, 26, told People, "but I never thought

he (Jackson) was his biological father."

In Jackson's 2002 will, the singer listed only three children now living: Prince Michael Jackson, Jr, Paris Michael Kathering Jackson and Prince Michael Joseph Jackson II.

flying camera...

Not with the wings of course. But with a flying stick.

Yes the same one that you used to play in your child

hood days. This conceptual gadget is actually a

camera embedded in a flying stick. Rub it off to air

and let it take pictures from a height. What you need

to do is roll it from your palms and let it go. Flying

Stick automatically takes pictures at set intervals.

Pictures from above are prettier than ones

from ground.

No specification about memory and resolution

are finalised as this is in a concept phase. Surely

the imagination includes face detection

and other high end camera features.

Only time can tell how much feasible is it.

fig: here, ter r 2 pictures which has been taken with te help of te camera....

Elevator to the space....!

Space Elevator :-

“ Japan invests 9 billion dollars for the construction of the SPACE LIFT,

estimated to be completed by 2031.

Currently the only way to get anything into space is by using

rocket propelled vehicles, but whether they are single use

vehicles or reusable craft like the shuttle, they are incredibly

expensive to run and maintain. However with the recent and

continued development of carbon nanofibres (carbon nanofibres

are immensely strong structures able to support incredible

weights, while themselves weighing very little) there may be

an alternative, albeit with its own drawbacks.

Space elevators are not a new concept, Arthur C. Clarke spoke

of them in his novel '3001: The Final Odyssey'. But there have

been some major engineering hurdles which have needed to be

resolved before the concept can become a reality. And slowly

technology is catching up with fiction.

A space elevator is a structure designed to lift cargo or personnel

into orbit in much the same way a conventional elevator takes

you to the top of a building. And although the initial cost of creating

a space lift would be huge, in the billions of dollars, after completion

the greatly reduced costs of getting heavy cargo into space would soon recoup the original investment. A tether space elevator consists of

several components. Firstly the base station.

The base station is the point at which the elevator is attached to the

earth. Several proposals for the the base station have been suggested,

including floating platforms which can be moved to avoid inclement

weather and reduce the chance of damage, as well as land based stations,

usually positioned at high altitude locations near the equator.

To the base station is attached the tether. The tether is the cable which runs continuously from the earth to a geosyncronous orbital anchor point situated 21,700 miles (35,000 kilometers) above the earths surface. Possibly a captured asteroid or some ther suitably large structure.Obviously the tether is the section with the most developmental problems. The cable needs to be

incredibly strong, able to support its own weight and the weightof the carriage which will run up and down its length. It alsoneeds to resist corrosion, weather and the extreme cold of the upper atmosphere.

Carbon nanotubes (C60) are the only material which have thepotential to cope with the desired stresses and strains of a space elevator.However the material needs further development and a reduction in manufacturing costs before it could be used in the quantities required for a tether. But its properties mean that it is currently the only viable option. The vehicle, or carriage which travels up the cable has its own problems which need solutions before the space elevator can become reality. One of the biggest problems is the required energy necessary to climb all the way to the top. Because the cable is stationary, the carriage is required to crawl up its length. Several power systems have been proposed including nuclear power, regenerative braking (descending carriages pass their energy to ascending carriages), and laser or microwave power beams. Whatever method prevails, it will power the carriage to crawl up the cable using roller wheels which grip the tether.

Obviously the exact science and technology behind any proposal

for a space lift is baffling to all but the most cranially gifted. But the concept of an extraterrestrial elevator is one anyone can get excited about. And at the current rate of scientific advancement some experts have predicted that if it was desired, a working space lift could be operational by 2031.

Friendship

Hi ........

It is by chance we met, by choice we became friends...

Friendship is a strange thing....

we find ourselves telling each other the deepest details of our lives...

things we don't even share with our families who raised us...

But what is a friend? A confidant? A lover? A fellow email junkie?

A shoulder to cry on? an ear to listen? a heart to feel?...

A friend is all these things...

and more. No matter where we met, ....

I call you friend. A word so small...yet so large in feeling...

a word filled with emotion.

It is true great things come in small packages.

Once the package of friendship has been opened, it can never be closed...

it is a open book always written...

waiting to be read... and enjoyed.

We may have our disagreements...

we may argue... we may concern one another...

friendship is a unique bond that lasts through it all....

A part of me is put into my friends...

some it is my humor...

some it is my listening ear...

some it is real life experiences...

some it is my romanticism...

but with all, it is friendship.

Friendships forged are a construct stronger

than steel built as a foundation...

necessary for life...

and necessary for love.

Friends...you and me...

you brought another friend..

and then there were 3...

we started our group...

Our circle of friends...

and like that circle...

there is no beginning or end...

with regards

Aravind.C

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SAEC, ECE-A, 4th Yr

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