News Briefs 19-03-2010
Posted by G.C at 05:03, 19 Mar 2010”Keeping an eye on the world going by my window…”
- Immaculate black holes located near universe’s conception.
- According to NASA, “Earths are common".
- Martian avalanche, with stunning photo. Meanwhile, Martian atmosphere appears to have been wiped away by a solar super-wave -- yet there still appears to be proof of life on Mars.
- More on the changing spots of Jupiter.
- Solar storms and killer electrons.
- Rings of Saturn more unstable and violent than previously believed. More here.
- Star on near-collision course with the solar system (and by ‘the’, I mean ours).
- The danger of hacking the climate. More here.
- A witness to the 'Battle for Los Angeles' in 1942.
- Ion trap could open door to quantum computing.
- Relativity, the final test.
- Extinction looms for Bluefin and Polar Bears after failing to gain UN protection.
- Hiding gold, one invisibility cloak at a time.
- Moonwater, the growing mystery.
- Meet the Velociraptor’s cousin.
- F-35 makes first vertical landing.
- Did the ‘Colbert Bump’ create a new messiah?
- The buried, ancient rivers of the outback.
- Salt and power, not to be confused with Salt n’ Pepa.
- Concerns over proposed £20m visitor centre at Stonehenge.
- Hobbits had million-year history on Flores?
- Huffington Post removes 911 conspiracy theory piece by Jesse Ventura?
- Ufologist Jenny Randles asks: does ufology have a future?
- Man with virtually no serotonin or dopamine defies expectations.
- Astronauts return from the ISS via a Soyuz capsule. Leaving, re-entry, and landing, in images courtesy of Astronaut Soichi on the ISS (except the last one, unless he's got one hell of a telephoto lens).
Thanks to Perceval, Greg, RPJ and the almighty Beatles.
Quote of the Day:
“Running everywhere at such a speed, Till they find, there's no need…”
J. Lennon
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Comments
23 October 2006
7 weeks 5 days
Mankind nearly went the way of the dinosaurs several times over the last 6 million years. With the current detection systems, you, your family, your friends, and everyone you knew or loved could be blown off the face of the Earth in an instant, with no warning except for the inbound small comet fragment or asteroid's entry into the atmosphere. Maybe enough time for you to kiss your butt good-bye, but possibly not.
Out of its $17,000 - $18,000 million per year budget, NASA will spend $20 million on detection (but in fairness WISE and DAWN should be added to that), instead of anywhere near the amounts required.
The NSF budget and USGS budgets for impact research are small as well.
What do you think mankinds goal in space should be?
The awareness that we're all already passengers on spaceship Earth seems to be growing, at least out here on the "fringe".
E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas
12 April 2007
1 hour 5 min
To unite.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
2 weeks 11 hours
What do you think mankind's goal in space should be?
To go.
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
1 hour 5 min
To go... where?
See? if we can't unite, we won't agree on the destination.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
2 weeks 11 hours
it doesn't matter, one direction is as good as the other.
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
1 hour 5 min
Yes, but... unless we have an infinite amount of spaceships, we DO need to agree on one specific destination now, don't we? ;)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
2 weeks 11 hours
If we have N spaceships, we can go to N destinations at any 1 (one) time. Then, after each ship gets there, we can go to another N destinations. This second set can include the first set, if we still want to.
One problem with uniting is similar to that of pacifism - it's not a stable state.
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
1 hour 5 min
Your family road trips must be a real hooch, amigo! :-P
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
26 June 2009
2 weeks 2 days
Earths may be "common". However 1. they haven't found one yet. Not even close. 2. It doesn't matter whether we find one that's habitable; no one can even conceive of a real way of -getting- to one yet. The nearest stars are -centuries- away.
The only working spaceship we know of is the one we're sitting on, and we're ruining it. We're just beginning to understand how it works. In the past when humans ruined an ecology, they moved on. Not possible any more.
If the 'habitable Earths' out there are ever going to be reachable, we have to stop the bleeding -here- so that we'll have the resources and finances to get -there-. We have been living in a time when the 'grab all you can get, there's no tomorrow' philosophy has been running rampant for a century. Unless we stop that, we're never going anywhere.
Green isn't just a 'nice alternative'. It's the only hope.
12 April 2007
1 hour 5 min
Why should we care if the other Earths are reachable?
Personally I would be relieved to know that God wasn't so careless as to invest all of His/Her efforts in just ONE improbable experiment.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
14 January 2011
1 year 3 weeks
This is great!!! This page highlights the news feed!!!!