Surfaces stories:
Even the daredevils have reason to fear Whistler
Feb 19th, 2010 - Washington Post
to set up courses that are both challenging and safe have pierced the smooth surface of the games' glamourPHOTO: Tiger Woods Surfaces in Florida!
Feb 17th, 2010 - People
tiger woods's reintegration into public life has begun. the golfer, who later this week plans to issue an apology and discuss his future, is seen jogging on wednesday in orlando.FACTBOX-Auction of Venezuela's vast Carabobo oil fields
Feb 11th, 2010 - Reuters
feb 10 (reuters) - venezuela on wednesday awarded the largest oil investment of president hugo chavez's 11-year rule, drawing tens of billions of dollars of much-needed.
Solar Dynamics Observatory Launch Now Set For Feb 11
Feb 10th, 2010 - redOrbit
for some years now, an unorthodox idea has been gaining favor among astronomers. it contradicts old teachings and unsettles thoughtful observers, especially climatologists.
"the sun," explains lika guhathakurta of nasa headquarters in washington dc.'Third-hand smoke' - chemical residue that clings to clothes, surfaces - is harmful, too: study
Feb 9th, 2010 - NY Daily News
to surfaces - is harmful to your health as well. residual nicotine from tobacco smoke that is absorbed by indoor surfaces - like upholstery, clothing and even wallpaper - can react with a common indoor pollutant, ambient nitrous acid, to form
Surfaces videos from YouTube:
1:21Microsoft Surface - The Possibilities
www.microsoft.com What is Microsoft Surface? Microsoft Surface™, the first commercially available surface computer from Microsoft Corp., turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, interactive surface. The product provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural gestures ...
2:09Microsoft Surface Demo
Check out these sweet "things". Aren't they just awesome?
3:51New Video of Challenger Disaster Surfaces After 24 Years
On a chilly January morning 24 years ago, Corydon optometrist Jack Moss raised his new video camera to the sky over central Florida and captured one of the darkest moments in American space exploration the explosion of the shuttle Challenger ...
Surfaces from WikiPedia:
In mathematics, specifically in topology, a surface is a two-dimensional topological manifold. The most familiar examples are those that arise as the boundaries of solid objects in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space R3 — for example, the surface of a ball. On the other hand, there are surfaces which cannot be embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space without introducing singularities or intersecting itself — these are the unorientable surfaces.
To say that a surface is "two-dimensional" means that, about each point, there is a coordinate patch on which a two-dimensional coordinate system is defined. For example, the surface of the Earth is (ideally) a two-dimensional sphere, and latitude and longitude provide coordinates on it — except at the International Date Line and the poles, where longitude is undefined. This example illustrates that not all surfaces admits a single coordinate patch. In general, multiple coordinate patches are needed to cover a surface.
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