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Many people have heard the story of when Newton sat under an apple tree to think, and suddenly an apple fell on his head and he conceived the theory of gravity. But after a long time, physicists knew gravity was a very strange physical law. Compared to other basic interaction forces, gravity was very difficult to deal with. Now the reasons for this peculiarity may have been explained: gravity is not a fundamental interaction force, but instead may be the derivative of another more fundamental power.Many people have heard the story of when Newton sat under an apple tree to think, and... more
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"When combined with other types of measurements, the Planck data homes in on an age for the universe of 13.798 billion years, give or take a mere 0.037. And it pushes down what fraction of everything in the universe is dark energy, from 71.4% to 69.2%.""When combined with other types of measurements, the Planck data homes in on an... more
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THROUGH THE WORMHOLE : As scientists peer across the galaxy, a new revelation emerges: The universe is shockingly organic. Are the secrets to the life and death of the universe hidden not in physics, but biology? Could it be that the universe is alive?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jIeHsefCPk
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When the New Year brought in the year 2013, our planet Earth was very close to its perihelion – its closest point to the sun for the year. In 2013, Earth comes closest to the sun on Wednesday, January 2 at 5 hours Universal Time (UT). Translating UT to Central Time in the United Sates, perihelion happens last this evening, on Tuesday, January 1, at 11:00 p.m. CST.
The word “perihelion” is from the Greek words peri meaning near, and helios meaning sun.
Earth is closest to the sun every year in early January, when it’s winter for the Northern Hemisphere. We’re farthest away from the sun in early July, during our Northern Hemisphere summer. So you can see that Earth’s distance from the sun isn’t what causes the seasons. On Earth, it’s mostly the tilt of our world’s axis that creates winter and summer. In winter, your part of Earth is tilted away from the sun. In summer, your part of Earth is tilted toward the sun. The day of maximum tilt toward or away from the sun is the December or June solstice.
Are the December solstice and January perihelion related?
Earth is about 5 million kilometers – or 3 million miles – closer to the sun in early January than it will be in early July. That’s not a huge change in distance. It’s not enough of a change to cause the seasons on Earth.
Though not responsible for the seasons, Earth’s closest and farthest points to the sun do affect the lengths of the seasons. When the Earth comes closest to the sun for the year, as now, our world is moving fastest in orbit around the sun. Earth is rushing along now at 30.3 kilometers per second (almost 19 miles per second) – moving about a kilometer per second faster than when Earth is farthest from the sun in early July. Thus the Northern Hemisphere winter (Southern Hemisphere summer) is the shortest season as Earth rushes from the winter solstice in December to the March equinox.
Latest sunrises also in early January for mid-northern latitudes
In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer season (June solstice to September equinox) lasts nearly 5 days longer than our winter season. And, of course, the corresponding seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are opposite. Southern Hemisphere winter is nearly 5 days longer than Southern Hemisphere summer.
It’s all due to the shape of Earth’s orbit. The shape is an ellipse, like a circle someone sat down on and squashed. The elliptical shape of Earth’s orbit causes the variation in the length of the seasons – and brings our closest point to the sun, in 2013 on January 2, at 5:00 Universal Time.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/01/02/perihelion_earth_is_closest_to_the_sun_today.html
http://blog.trafficshaper.com/wordpress-content/uploads/2011/01/Perihelion2011.jpgWhen the New Year brought in the year 2013, our planet Earth was very close to its... more
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Where does life come from?
Are we really just stardust?
And is there life elsewhere than on this planet?
A new form of science poses all these questions and tries to bring the answers - astrobiology like you've never seen it before.
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Some people read cards. Some people read tea leaves. And some people look to the stars to predict the future. WHACKO-TV has once again out-sourced its news responsibility to aliens. In this case, it is the return of that crazy spaceman Total Commander Nimrod to deliver the other-world news. The attitude of this creature will absolutely drive some to drink, while others to think. It’s ALIEN NEWS just as you like it, still warm and radioactive.Some people read cards. Some people read tea leaves. And some people look to the stars... more
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THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream -- uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future.
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SANTA CLARA, CUBA—Every morning, on the edge of town, you can witness a spectacular migration. Hundreds of students in white lab coats pour from a squat university building on to the street, around the line of horse-drawn wagons, and into nearby hospitals. They are international students at the world’s largest medical school, the Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina — ELAM. To put the school’s size in perspective: the University of Toronto has 850 medical students and Harvard University has 735. ELAM has twelve times more students than those two schools combined: 19,550. And, despite being a poor country, every single one of those students is on full scholarship. The school quickly expanded to include students from more than 110 countries, from Mozambique and Yemen to Cambodia and East Timor. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/43071-cuba-healing-the-world-SANTA CLARA, CUBA—Every morning, on the edge of town, you can witness a... more
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We are already beginning to see and experience the effects of the "2012 phenomena" in many ways, some very subtle, based in consciousness, others much more obvious and dramatic such as climatic extremes and disasters caused by weather extremes, in particular hurricanes, typhoons and foldings. At the same time it is increasingly important for humanity generally as well as all life on Earth and Earth, Gaia herself, that as many people as possible discover and fully understand the truth about the event collectively known as "2012" and what it means in practical terms. I now believe the other possible causal factors, including the Sun and "near Earth objects" are actually secondary factors of causation to the primary source of causation - the Galactic Alignment. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/submit-an-article/43070-galactic-alignment-2012We are already beginning to see and experience the effects of the "2012... more
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The big bang was not an explosion of matter into empty space - it was the rapid expansion of space itself. This means that every single point in the universe appears to be at the center. Think of the universe as an empty balloon with dots on it. Those dots represent clusters of galaxies. As the balloon inflates, every dot moves farther away from every other dot. The space between clusters of galaxies expands, like the rest of the universe, at an accelerating rate. (Gravity keeps the clusters themselves the same size.)
Edwin Hubble first observed this phenomenon in 1929, when he noticed that the light from distant galaxies shifted to the red end of the spectrum, as though it had been stretched as it traveled through space. By measuring the wavelengths of the light, Hubble observed that galaxies were expanding away from each other at a rate proportional to their distance from one another.
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Tunisian bloggers succeeded in getting permission to form the first anti-censorship party in Africa and the Arab world. ----- The Tunisian interior ministry just legalised Africa's first anti-censorship political party. The Tunisian Pirate Party, approved on March 13th, is a branch of the worldwide cyber-activist movement. The party consists mainly of bloggers, many of whom were active during the Tunisian revolution and were imprisoned under the former regime. Their goal is to protect the right of more than two million Tunisian internet users to access information without restrictions, according to the party statute. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/43057-tunisian-pirate-party-gets-legal-approvalTunisian bloggers succeeded in getting permission to form the first anti-censorship... more
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Space junk forces astronauts into escape capsules on International Space Station
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 6:08 AM EDT, Sat March 24, 2012 |
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Six crew members were forced to get into escape capsules after space debris threatened the International Space Station.
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The six crew members aboard the space station are ordered to take shelter
The step is taken after it is discovered the debris could hit the space station
It's the third time a crew aboard the space station has been ordered into escape capsules
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(CNN) -- A piece of a debris from a Russian Cosmos satellite passed close enough to the International Space Station on Saturday that its crew was ordered into escape capsules as a precaution, NASA said.
The six crew members were told to take shelter late Friday in their Soyuz capsules after it was determined there was a small possibility the debris could hit the station, the U.S. space agency said in a statement.
NASA said it began tracking the debris early Friday morning but only decided to take the precautionary steps after an analysis showed a slight possibility of hitting the space station.
The debris was predicted to pass about 23 kilometers (14.2 miles) from the space station, NASA said.
"The Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station received an 'all clear' to move out of their Soyuz vehicles after a small piece of a Russian Cosmos satellite debris passed by the complex without incident early Saturday," the statement said.
"They began the process of moving out of the vehicles and back to their regular duties and a weekend off."
NASA also tweeted details of the incident as it occurred, describing the Soyuz capsules as "the crew's transportation to Earth, for either a normal end of mission, or as a 'rescue craft.'"
It described the International Space Station, via Twitter, as the "most heavily shielded spacecraft ever, to protect it from debris."
It is the third time in the space station's history that a crew has had to take shelter in escape capsules because of the possibility of being hit by orbital debris. The last time the crew took cover was in June 2011.
The Expedition 30 crew includes NASA's Commander Dan Burbank and Don Pettit, Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and Oleg Kononenko, as well as Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency.
The crew has been aboard the International Space Station since mid-December.
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CNN's Chelsea J. Carter contributed to this report.
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There are tons of TV shows out there, like Ancient Aliens, Alien Encounters, My College Son is an Alien, but never before has a TV show been able to bring together experts from the past, the present and the future to answer the question, Are we alone? We know that all one would need to do is to look around to see if you are indeed alone, but these smart guys seems to think that the moon is made out of cheese and there are little men with big eyes that fly here…. Oh, wait. What is that? Up there, in the sky, hey, I gotta go, get the camera…There are tons of TV shows out there, like Ancient Aliens, Alien Encounters, My... more
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Their music itself is “natural,” but more in the sense of a volcano than a flower. “Two young Japanese girls form a rock duo from Osaka, JAPAN!” their website offers by way of explanation, “Creating Naked rock!!!!! Naked soul!!! Red red strong red dress!! Freeeeeedom paradise rock! Jump! With improvisation.” In the three years since the birth of Afrirampo (a nonsense word the band insists to mean, of course, “naked”), Yasashii (drums) and Beppin (guitar) have been spreading their naked rock far and wide, sometimes actually in the nude, otherwise clad in their signature “strong red dresses.” ----------- Kaseo has taken his love of the most adorable Pokemon ever, Pikachu to a whole new level and he now even has a marvelous collection of musical instruments built from modified Pikachu toys.nnOf course these things are as annoying as hell, but I’m sure the kids will love it as much as they love unicorns. The 12 Pikachu orchestra also makes a great case for itself. But the Bent Pikachu Limited Edition definitely takes the cake with its shrill performance that is sure leave a lot of eardrums and thresholds of patience shattered! http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/album-rewievs/43069-new-japan-impro-noise-afrirampo-red-red-strong-12-pikachu-orchestraTheir music itself is “natural,” but more in the sense of a volcano than a... more
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Arab civilization, which is part of human heritage, has faced through its long history great challenges aimed at breaking its will and subjecting it to colonial domination, but it has always rose through its own creative abilities to exercise its role in building human civilization. The Syrian Arab Republic is proud of its Arab identity and the fact that its people are an integral part of the Arab nation. The Syrian Arab Republic embodies this belonging in its national and pan-Arab project and the work to support Arab cooperation in order to promote integration and achieve the unity of the Arab nation. The Syrian Arab Republic considers international peace and security a key objective and a strategic choice, and it works on achieving both of them under the International Law and the values of right and justice. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43064-draft-constitution-for-the-syrian-arab-republic-damascus-referendum-day-photo-essayArab civilization, which is part of human heritage, has faced through its long history... more
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I have great respect and love for the kind of world Jesus Christ imparted through his teachings, many of which were kept hidden from the world by those intent on using him for their own selfish purposes and who still do. So I wanted to convey my gratitude for all he has taught me. A great man, philosopher and teacher who changed the world.
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To a man whose wisdom has left an indelible mark on my soul...
For all my life your example has been mine
Your words a foundation
Your love a comfort in a storm of inhumanity
Your teachings my focus
I see you not as an apparition I cannot reach
I see you as a man of emotions, desires, courage, faith
and steadfast love
A man who was aware of the world and its potential
Untouched by the hatred that blinds the hearts of men
Like a rolling sea that love rolls over me
As a constant reminder of my own humility
Empowering me with a strength of spirit
I did not know I had
Your words a door to the beauty and mystery
That is life and the universe
A beauty and mystery to never be taken for granted
And always respected
Because of your teachings
I do not need to look into the heavens
I look within myself
And I see the light to be used
As a beacon on a path of self discovery
Always knowing my place in this world
And the rare and precious life
Shared by all creatures
That discovery the true miracle
That no building, no ritual, no edict
Can replace
This Earth my church
Your words my song
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The European Space Agency’s Herschel space telescope has captured this gorgeous new view of the famed Eagle Nebula.
The Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Serpens, is visible as a fuzzy red spot to backyard astronomers with a modest telescope.
In 1995, NASA’s Hubble space telescope captured a famous image of one region within the Eagle Nebula: a star-forming cluster named NGC6611, known as the “Pillars of Creation.” Light and heat from young stars carved out the iconic pillars, which are each several trillion miles long.
Herschel’s image isn’t just beautiful, it also updates the Hubble photo and reveals new details about the region. While the Hubble image — taken in optical wavelengths — suggested that the area was a stellar nursery, obscuring dust prevented researchers from proving this.
The above photo, taken in far-infrared wavelengths that can penetrate the dust, gives astronomers an insider’s view of the pillars. They can now see the cocoons of gas and dust that surround the young stars as they form. Eventually, these casings will blow away and the star’s light will be visible.
The Herschel data has also been combined with ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope, which sees the powerful x-ray radiation that the hot, young stars generate. These points stand out as a rainbow of dots near the image center.
The data also suggests one of the massive, hot stars in NGC6611 may have exploded in a supernova 6,000 years ago, releasing a shockwave that destroyed the pillars. Because of the distance of the Eagle Nebula, the destruction of the pillars won’t be visible on Earth for hundreds of years.The European Space Agency’s Herschel space telescope has captured this gorgeous... more
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In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space Telescope couldn't spy it. It took the revealing power of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to uncover not one, but four remarkably red galaxies.
link:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111201125358.htmIn the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a... more
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This film and book project is a collaboration of evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and historian of religions Mary Evelyn Tucker. They weave a tapestry that draws together scientific discoveries in astronomy, geology, and biology with humanistic insights
concerning the nature of the universe.
PBS National Broadcast Premiere coming this December.
Click here for listings nationwide. WNET Ch. 13 in New York City will broadcast the film primetime on December 7th, 8:00pm.
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Today is the birthday of a great scientist and a great man. Carl Sagan instilled a love of the cosmos and science in many and was an inspiration for the world.
Please use this thread to celebrate his life in remembering a man who knew the secret of life:
"The cosmos is in all of us, we're made of star stuff; we are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Thank you for your education, your inspiration and your insights into a fascinating cosmos.
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan.
http://www.carlsagan.com/
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