Brazilian Orchestra medley
An evening pause: This appears to be a youth orchestra, but unfortunately everything on the webpage is in Portuguese, so I’m not sure.
Hat tip David Nudelman.
Tag: Brazil
Rocket tank lands on Brazil farm
Chicken Little report: A propellent tank from an as-yet unidentified rocket landed near a house on a Brazilian farm on December 28.
The pictures at the link are neat, especially since the man in the selfie showing the farmer’s family and the tank in the background looks so much like New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
A Russia/Brazil partnership for Sea Launch?
The competition heats up: Russia is negotiating a partnership with Brazil to operate Sea Launch.
The Sea Launch rocket is built by Ukraine, which presently has hostile relations with Russia, to say the least. The platform, built with Boeing money, is presently docked on the the U.S. west coast, which is also not what Russia wants. Moving it to Brazil and adapting it for use with a Brazilian rocket solves both problems, though the usability of Brazil’s rocket is at this moment quite questionable.
A new housecat-sized feline species has been discovered in Brazil.
A new housecat-sized feline species has been discovered in Brazil.
Oncillas are housecat-size felines found throughout much of South America, and are also known as little tiger cats, little spotted cats or tigrinas. But not all oncillas are the same: New research suggests that little tiger cats in northeastern Brazil belong to a different species from those elsewhere on the continent, although they look virtually identical.
Researchers analyzed the genetic material of oncillas in northeastern Brazil, and compared them with nearby populations in the south. They found that there was no flow of genes between the two populations of oncillas, and hasn’t been any for millennia, according to the study, published today (Nov. 27) in the journal Current Biology.
This, along with other genetic differences, led researchers to conclude the two populations do not interbreed and are in fact different species, said study co-author Eduardo Eizirik, a researcher at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
Brazil stalls paying its share for the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope.
Brazil stalls paying its share for the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope.
They signed the agreement in 2010, but can’t get their legislature to allocate the money.
Round house in Brazil
Brazil joins the European Southern Observatory
Brazil has become the first non-European partner in the European Southern Observatory.
Brazil successfully launches and recovers rocket to test micro-gravity experiments
The new colonial movement continues: Brazil successfully launched and recovered a suborbital rocket this past weekend.