Slipstream

A slipstream is a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid (typically air or water) is moving at velocities comparable to the moving object, relative to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving. The term slipstream also applies to the similar region adjacent to an object with a fluid moving around it. "Slipstreaming" or "drafting" works because of the relative motion of the fluid in the slipstream.

A slipstream created by turbulent flow has a slightly lower pressure than the ambient fluid around the object. When the flow is laminar, the pressure behind the object is higher than the surrounding fluid.

The shape of an object determines how strong the effect is. In general, the more aerodynamic an object is, the smaller and weaker its slipstream will be. For example, a box-like front (relative to the object's motion) will collide with the medium's particles at a high rate, transferring more momentum from the object to the fluid than a more aerodynamic object. A bullet-like profile will cause less turbulence and create a more laminar flow.

Slipstream (2005 film)

Slipstream is a 2005 science fiction film, written by Louis Morneau and Phillip Badger and directed by David van Eyssen. The film stars Sean Astin, Vinnie Jones, and Ivana Miličević. It was first shown at the London Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival on February 3, 2005. The film concerns the efforts of a socially inept scientist (Sean Astin) and a female FBI agent (Ivana Miličević) to recover a time travel device (called "Slipstream") that was stolen by a group of bank robbers commanded by Vinnie Jones. The film was imagined as part science fiction, part action and part buddy comedy.

Plot

Stuart Conway (Sean Astin) has developed a hand-held, cellphone-like time travel device called 'Slipstream' that allows the user to travel back in time 10 minutes by interfacing with a cellphone system regional antenna. At first, he uses the device primarily to try, albeit unsuccessfully, to arrange a date with a female bank clerk.

The final time he tries to use the device, a group of bank robbers commanded by Winston Briggs (Vinnie Jones) rush into the bank and demand the money from the vault. At the time, FBI agent Sarah Tanner (Ivana Miličević) and her male partner Jake (Kevin Otto) are in the bank tracking Stuart. Tanner initiates a gunfight against Jake's advice. Both agents are armed with pistols, while the criminals are wielding automatic weapons. By the end of the fight, Jake is shot and killed because he chased the criminals outside the bank.

Slipstream (genre)

Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction.

The term slipstream was coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in an article originally published in SF Eye #5, in July 1989. He wrote: "...this is a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange; the way that living in the twentieth century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility." Slipstream fiction has consequently been described as "the fiction of strangeness," which is as clear a definition as any of the others in wide use. Science fiction authors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, editors of Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, argue that cognitive dissonance is at the heart of slipstream, and that it is not so much a genre as a literary effect, like horror or comedy.

Slipstream falls between speculative fiction and mainstream fiction. While some slipstream novels employ elements of science fiction or fantasy, not all do. The common unifying factor of these pieces of literature is some degree of the surreal, the not-entirely-real, or the markedly anti-real.

Anubis (genus)

Anubis is a genus of longhorn beetles belonging to the family Cerambycidae.

Species

References

1912 Anubis

1912 Anubis, also designated 6534 P–L, is a stony asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on September 24, 1960, by the Dutch and Dutch–American astronomers Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, and Tom Gehrels, who took the photographic plates at Palomar Observatory, California.

The S-type asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group consisting of about 200 known bodies. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.6–3.2 AU once every 4 years and 11 months (1,807 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.09 and is tilted by 3 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. It has a rotation period of 4.6 hours and an albedo of 0.24, assumed by the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link.

The designation P–L stands for Palomar–Leiden, named after Palomar and Leiden Observatory, which collaborated on the fruitful Palomar–Leiden survey in the 1960s. Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Cornelis and Ingrid van Houten at Leiden Observatory. The trio are credited with several thousand asteroid discoveries.

List of Ronin Warriors characters

The following is a list of characters in the Ronin Warriors manga and anime series authored by Hajime Yatate.

Protagonists

Ryo Sanada

Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (Japanese), Matt Hill (English)

Ryo Sanada is the unofficial leader of the Ronin Warriors. He wears the red Armor of Wildfire (烈火, Rekka), which represents the element of fire and the guiding virtue Jin (仁, Jin, lit. benevolence and dubbed as Virtue). He later acquires the white Armor of Inferno (白い輝煌帝, Shiroi Kikotei, lit. White Sun Emperor). He is often seen with his white tiger, White Blaze. He is brash and impulsive, but has a good heart.

Ryo first appears with White Blaze just as Talpa's invasion begins. The two fight a Dynasty Soldier alone and are almost killed until Rowen appears with the others. Although Ryo defeats the Soldier with their help, he is reluctant to accept them. He agrees to help Mia and Ully find the Warriors after Talpa separates them. Ryo unlocks the Armor of Inferno when he and the Warriors are captured and absorbed by Talpa. He equips the armor by gathering the energies and guiding virtues of four of the other armors.