Showing posts with label Australian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australian. Show all posts

Friday, July 7

Iggy Azalea Takes to the Stage Wearing Revealing Red Latex Pants at Premios Juventud 2017

Whoa.

Iggy Azalea took to the stage at tonight's Premios Juventud 2017, and once she turned around, we're pretty sure some jaws dropped. The singer performed her newest hit "Switch" and left little to the imagination while rocking--like only she can--some revealing red latex pants.

This was the first time the Australian songstress performed at the Univision award show. She not only sang, but she also introduced Maluma's performance.

While Azalea was busy heating up Miami, she's also got some new music we should be hearing very soon.

The "Fancy" rapper announced to her shocked (and enraged) fans on Snapchat that she's collaborating with her arch enemy Azealia Banks. Despite the long-time feud, the rappers have put the beef aside for the sake of music. The 27-year-old singer revealed that Banks will be featured on her upcoming album Digital Distortion.

Many of Iggy's loyal fans responded to her announcement today with outrage, but the performer tried to spin the collab in a positive light, writing, "If you cant understand my desire to turn YEARS worth of negativity into a positive interaction then that's your loss my dear. peace!"

She added, "I don't expect you guys to understand why i would collaborate with someone who has publicly said they hope I die"

The Australian continued to defend her decision, "This has been something extremely negative for so long, if there is a way to make it positive and also be creative together, I'm here for it."

Iggy just keeps on surprising us!

Wednesday, July 5

Space junk could destroy satellites, hurt economies


This undated handout image received on May 31, 2017 from the Space Environment Research Centre shows the EOS Space Systems Satellite Laser Ranging Facility at the Space Environment Research Centre (SERC) tracking space debris at Mount Stromlo near Canberra. The growing number of fast-moving space debris orbiting the Earth could lead to catastrophic collisions with satellites, hurting economies, researchers warned on May 31, 2017 ahead of a summit to coordinate efforts to remove the junk. / AFP PHOTO / Space Environment Research Centre / Handout /

The growing amount of fast-moving space debris orbiting the Earth could lead to catastrophic collisions with satellites, hurting economies, researchers warned Wednesday ahead of a summit to coordinate efforts to remove the junk.

There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called “space junk” — left behind after missions that can be as big as spent rocket stages or as small as paint flakes — in orbit alongside some US$700 billion of space infrastructure.

But only 22,000 are tracked, and with the fragments able to travel at speeds above 27,000kmh (16,777 mph), even tiny pieces could seriously damage or destroy satellites.

“The space junk problem has been getting worse every year,” Ben Greene, head of Australia’s Space Environment Research Centre which is hosting the two-day conference of international space environment scientists in Canberra, told AFP.

“We’re losing three or four satellites a year now to space debris collision. We’re very close, NASA estimates, of within five to 10 years of losing everything.”

Greene added in a statement that “a catastrophic avalanche of collisions which could quickly destroy all orbiting satellites is now possible”, noting that more collisions were creating extra debris.

With society heavily dependent on satellites for communication and navigation, and powering key industries such as transport, finance and energy, the growing cosmic junkyard could threaten economies.

“The Australian economy is entirely dependent on space,” Greene said. “We’re a big country with few people and the only way we can service it, whether it’s with surveillance, safety or search-and-rescue, is from space.”

The barriers to entry for building spacecraft were also falling, making it easier for firms to launch their own objects, said space debris expert Moriba Jah from the University of Texas, who is at the conference.

“I believe that we are certainly on a path to what I call a tragedy of the commons,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, adding that a major collision was “inevitable” without action to tackle the problem.

“You’ve driven on the roads here when you have a lot of mist or fog, and you have to go really slow, and you just don’t know what’s really around you. That’s the perfect analogy to space right now,” Jah said.

Greene said scientists were developing technologies set to be operational in 18 months to track all debris so spacecraft could move around them.

Another idea in the works was Earth-based high-powered lasers that could be fired into space to “push the debris around a little bit”, with the programme 75 percent ready, he added.

An experimental Japanese mission to clear space junk using an electrodynamic ‘tether’ to slow down the orbiting rubbish and bring it into a lower orbit ended in failure in February.