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During the three-year trek of NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, rover planners captured a horizon photograph at the end of each drive. 309 images taken during the 13-mile journey appear in this video.During the three-year trek of NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity from Victoria crater... more
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No reports yet of debris from falling satellite
Clues to Gaddafi’s death concealed from public view
Mexican president: US dumping criminals at borderNo reports yet of debris from falling satellite
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Explanation: The New Horizons spacecraft took some stunning images of Jupiter on its way out to Pluto. Famous for its Great Red Spot, Jupiter is also known for its regular, equatorial cloud bands, visible through even modest sized telescopes. The above image, horizontally compressed, was taken in 2007 near Jupiter's terminator and shows the Jovian giant's wide diversity of cloud patterns. On the far left are clouds closest to Jupiter's South Pole. Here turbulent whirlpools and swirls are seen in a dark region, dubbed a belt, that rings the planet. Even light colored regions, called zones, show tremendous structure, complete with complex wave patterns. The energy that drives these waves surely comes from below. New Horizons is the fastest space probe ever launched, has now passed the orbits of Saturn and Uranus and is on track to reach Pluto in 2015.
http://t.co/oAps6GpUExplanation: The New Horizons spacecraft took some stunning images of Jupiter on its... more
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It’s long been a dream to have a human settlement on the Moon, but in this age of budget cuts and indecisive plans for NASA’s future, a Moon base may seem too costly and beyond our reach. However, noted lunar scientist Dr. Paul Spudis from the Lunar and Planetary Institute and a colleague, Tony Lavoie from the Marshall Space Flight Center, have come up with a plan for building a lunar settlement that is not only affordable but sustainable. It creates a Moon base along with a type of ‘transcontinental railroad’ in space which opens up cislunar space – the area between Earth and the Moon – for development.
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http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-paul-spudis-sustainable-lunar-base.htmlIt’s long been a dream to have a human settlement on the Moon, but in this age... more
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On 12th and 13th August 1883, an astronomer at a small observatory in Zacatecas in Mexico made an extraordinary observation. José Bonilla counted some 450 objects, each surrounded by a kind of mist, passing across the face of the Sun.
Bonilla published his account of this event in a French journal called L'Astronomie in 1886. Unable to account for the phenomenon, the editor of the journal suggested, rather incredulously, that it must have been caused by birds, insects or dust passing front of the Bonilla's telescope. (Since then, others have adopted Bonilla's observations as the first evidence of UFOs.)
Today, Hector Manterola at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, and a couple of pals, give a different interpretation. They think that Bonilla must have been seeing fragments of a comet that had recently broken up. This explains the 'misty' appearance of the pieces and why they were so close together.
But there's much more that Manterola and co have deduced. They point out that nobody else on the planet seems to have seen this comet passing in front of the Sun, even though the nearest observatories in those days were just a few hundred kilometres away.
That can be explained using parallax. If the fragments were close to Earth, parallax would have ensured that they would not have been in line with the Sun even for observers nearby. And since Mexico is at the same latitude as the Sahara, northern India and south-east Asia, it's not hard to imagine that nobody else was looking.
Manterola and pals have used this to place limits on how close the fragments must have been: between 600 km and 8000 km of Earth. That's just a hair's breadth.
What's more, Manterola and co estimate that these objects must have ranged in size from 50 to 800 km across and that the parent comet must originally have tipped the scales at a billion tonnes or more, that's huge, approaching the size of Halley's comet.
That's an eye opening re-examination of the data. Astronomers have seen a number of other comets fragment. The image above shows the Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 comet which broke apart as it re-entered the inner Solar System in 2006. There's no reason why such fragments couldn't pass close by Earth.
One puzzle is why nobody else saw this comet. It must have been particularly dull to have escaped observation before and after its close approach. However, Manterola and co suggest that it may have been a comet called Pons-Brooks seen that same year by American astronomers.
Manterola and co end their paper by spelling out just how close Earth may have come to catastrophe that day. They point out that Bonilla observed these objects for about three and a half hours over two days. This implies an average of 131 objects per hour and a total of 3275 objects in the time between observations.
Each fragment was at least as big as the one thought to have hit Tunguska. Manterola and co end with this: "So if they had collided with Earth we would have had 3275 Tunguska events in two days, probably an extinction event."
A sobering thought.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1241/298/Earth_Came_Close_To_An_Extinction_Level_Event_In_1883.htmlOn 12th and 13th August 1883, an astronomer at a small observatory in Zacatecas in... more
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Scientists in Singapore have developed a surprising use for ordinary salt that they say could help deal with the increasingly quantities of data that companies and individuals are creating and storing.
link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8827734/Table-salt-multiplies-hard-disk-space-six-times.htmlScientists in Singapore have developed a surprising use for ordinary salt that they... more
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We’ve all seen the traditional grade-school scale models of the solar system. Maybe you made one years ago in science class out of painted Styrofoam balls or colored construction paper.
Or maybe you've seen one of those giant models hanging from the ceiling of a science museum. Big colorful globes, some with rings around them, some painted swirly colors, others looking more like pitted rocks.
link:http://news.discovery.com/space/what-is-space-111013.htmlWe’ve all seen the traditional grade-school scale models of the solar system.... more
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Britain's most famous front door has been unlocked to 10 young people as part of somewhereto_. The group of talented young people who were looking for somewhereto_ free run, perform spoken word and practice boxing were given free rein to use Number 10 Downing Street as a space to showcase their passions.
Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBJrq1mhxU
somewhereto_ is a nationwide project to help 16-25 year olds find the space they need to do the things they love. The project is delivered by youth engagement agency Livity in media partnership with Channel 4, and funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to help build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK.
Open up a space just around the corner from you at http://www.somewhereto.com/number10Britain's most famous front door has been unlocked to 10 young people as part of... more
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I recently had a conversation with a friend who happens to be an Atheist. I did not want to be so aggressive as to push my viewpoints onto him spiritually or culturally. As I listened to him speak I began to feel a great void of loss he must be experiencing. To deny God is deny all his many blessings, the spiritual knowledge that is essential for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, most of all how could he know where he is going spiritually if he doesn’t know where he came from.
My Spirit began to move my mind in the direction of Light and I had the most splendid idea. Explain it to him, as an energy! There is only one thing in life that everything contains: energy. It is the God Force. This Source Energy makes everything appear, move, and exist. You cannot use the body’s senses to verify Source Energy, yet we know it’s there. It’s a very powerful tool when utilized. As a matter of fact any accomplishment, creation, idea, or thought all needs an energy to manifest.
If man’s will is to create or manifest anything, it is still a reflection of God or the Source Energy. The origin of energy used today, is the same energy derived from the source of the universe since before creation. God is the source of ALL. Our thoughts, ideas, actions, creations, possessions, children, pets, country, planet, world, universe, all there is, is a reflection of Gods source energy. It is manifesting and vibrating on different scales, dimensions, and planes through us and all within and around us.
Everything is energy; including you and me in all its many and multiple external forms shares the same internal energy. From your car, to you’re clothing to the plants and trees outside. Forms of matter can be energy as well as organic materials. There is no such thing as energy of man and energy of things. It is all energy. In the studies of the ancients they explain this energy in the forms of many examples operating on different planes simultaneously.
http://rtruth.blog.com/2011/08/13/%e2%80%9cunderstanding-energy-is-understanding-god%e2%80%9d/I recently had a conversation with a friend who happens to be an Atheist. I did not... more
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NASA's Kepler space telescope is finding lots and lots of extrasolar planets. But how many might support intelligent life? And, is there a "sweet spot" in the galaxy where SETI astronomers should aim their telescopes?
link:http://news.discovery.com/space/where-do-advanced-civilizations-hang-out-111003.htmlNASA's Kepler space telescope is finding lots and lots of extrasolar planets. But... more
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15123830
Click the link above if you want to see the video (The BBC's video anti-embedding technology is too smart for me). If you just want to read the story, continue below.
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China's state TV accompanied coverage of the historic launch of the country's first space laboratory with a patriotic US song, America the Beautiful.
The song is regarded by many as an unofficial national anthem for the US, and features the line: "America! America! God shed his grace on thee."
Some Chinese people say that CCTV must have made a mistake with the music. The broadcaster has not commented.
Millions watched the take-off of Tiangong-1 on Thursday.
Viewers of CCTV were treated to a minute-long animation set to the American song.
The video features only the music from the song and not the lyrics.
"At the time, I was eating in a hotel with foreigners from an American company and Chinese clients and we were watching the live broadcast," posted one user on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter.
"All the Chinese there wanted to disappear."
The song was composed by a New York church organist in 1882, and has long been a favourite of US patriots.
It has been proposed as a replacement for Star-Spangled Banner as the US national anthem.Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15123830
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Have you seen the sun lately? No, no, don't look right at it with your eyes. Ouch. I'm not asking about the weather, either, or at least Earth's weather. The sun itself is a sight to behold right now, and it is creating some fascinating space weather as well.
link:http://news.discovery.com/space/have-you-really-seen-the-sun-110928.htmlHave you seen the sun lately? No, no, don't look right at it with your eyes.... more
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As if there weren't enough things in this world to lose sleep over we now have to worry about satellites that have reached their expiration date falling on top of us while we worry about everything else that could potentially kill us. Of course the odds that it will actually fall on a human are extremely small but somehow thanks to the around the clock news coverage and a space agency that isn't really sure where the satellite is going to end up a lot of us are convinced that if we don't wake up every fifteen minutes tonight to look skyward in hopes that it lands on someone else it will definitely land on us. I for one am not going to really spend any time worrying, or at least any time more than I usually do about things I have no control over. Have a great weekend world and remember to duck!As if there weren't enough things in this world to lose sleep over we now have to... more
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Explanation: Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it like this: all dusty. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. With a long exposure from a dark location, though, the dust cloud surrounding the Pleiades star cluster becomes very evident. The above exposure took about 30 hours and covers a sky area several times the size of the full moon. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus). A common legend with a modern twist is that one of the brighter stars faded since the cluster was named, leaving only six stars visible to the unaided eye. The actual number of Pleiades stars visible, however, may be more or less than seven, depending on the darkness of the surrounding sky and the clarity of the observer's eyesight.
http://t.co/HM87KLrYExplanation: Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you... more
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A planet orbiting two suns - the first confirmed alien world of its kind - has been found by Nasa's Kepler telescope, the US space agency announced.
It may resemble the planet Tatooine from the film Star Wars, but scientists say Luke Skywalker, or anyone at all, is unlikely to be living there.
Named Kepler-16b, it is thought to be an uninhabitable cold gas giant, like Saturn.
The newly detected body lies some 200 light years from Earth.
Though there have been hints in the past that planets circling double stars might exist, scientists say this is the first confirmation.
'Stunning'
It means when the day ends on Kepler-16b, there is a double sunset, they say.
Kepler-16b's two suns are smaller than ours - at 69% and 20% of the mass of our sun - making the surface temperature an estimated -100 to -150F (-73 to -101C).
The planet orbits its two suns every 229 days at a distance of 65m miles (104m km) - about the same solar orbit as Venus.
The Kepler telescope, launched in 2009, is designed to scour our section of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets.
"This is really a stunning measurement by Kepler," said Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution for Science, a co-author of the study.
"The real exciting thing is there's a planet sitting out there orbiting around these two stars."
Kepler finds stars whose light is regularly dimmed, which means there is an orbited planet between the star and the telescope.
Nasa's scientists saw additional dips in the light in both stars at alternating but regular times, confirming the dual orbit of the planet.
The finding was reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.A planet orbiting two suns - the first confirmed alien world of its kind - has been... more
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Dark mode plasma phenomena exist on the Sun.
The image at the top of the page is the most detailed ever taken of the Sun's chromosphere. The smallest features are 130 kilometers in size. Each spicule is about 480 kilometers in diameter, with a length of 3200 kilometers. The largest measure as much as 8000 kilometers long. Although the light and dark regions are colorful, the colors were added in processing.
In the electric Sun hypothesis, the Sun is a glowing anode, or positively charged "electrode." The cathode is an invisible "virtual cathode," called the heliosphere. The heliosphere is at the farthest limit of the Sun's coronal discharge, billions of kilometers from its surface, where a "double layer" isolates the Sun's plasma cell from the galactic plasma that surrounds it. Galactic plasma is otherwise called the Interstellar Medium (ISM).
Electric forces occurring within the double charge layer above the Sun’s surface are responsible for the incredibly active plasma phenomena that we see. Since Electric Universe theory assumes that celestial bodies interact through conductive plasma and are connected by circuits, the Sun is also assumed to be electrically connected with the galaxy. The Sun can be thought of as an electrically charged object seeking equilibrium with its environment. However, it is not stable. The charges flowing into and out of the Sun can sometimes increase to the point where it releases plasma discharges called solar flares.
Conventional scientists see solar flares, or coronal mass ejections (CME), taking place when magnetic loops "reconnect" with each other, causing a short circuit. The so-called "magnetic energy" is said to accelerate gases into space. Although "magnetic reconnection" is a poorly constructed theory, it is the only explanation offered by heliophysicists.
The "solar wind" is a dark mode emission radiating from the Sun at approximately 700 kilometers per second. In a Universe governed by gravity, the Sun's heat and radiation pressure cannot explain how the charged particles that make up the solar wind accelerate past Venus, Earth and the rest of the planets. Prior to the discovery, no one expected such acceleration.
In an Electric Universe, there is an obvious explanation: electric fields in space. Since coherent charges flow through the Solar System, then it seems reasonable to conclude that the dark mode solar plasma is affected by the electrodynamic fields of the Sun and its planetary family.
Solar flares could be tremendous lightning bursts in that case, pushing plasma to near relativistic speeds. If the circuit that connects the Sun with the Milky Way extends for hundreds of thousands of light-years, massive amounts of electrical energy might be contained in such magnetically confined “transmission lines” feeding the solar anode.
According to the Electric Sun theory, flares, the hot corona, and all other solar phenomena result from changes in the electrical input from our galaxy. Birkeland current filaments slowly rotate past the Solar System, supplying more or less power to the Sun as they go. Arc mode, glow mode, and dark mode discharges are all influenced by those flowing currents of electric charge.
Stephen SmithDark mode plasma phenomena exist on the Sun.
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Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable planet being described as a "super Earth." While the idea of inhabiting such a planet has some issues -- it's 36 light-years away, for one -- such a planet could be potentially habitable for humans.
If it were possible, would you consider living on another planet? Should we be exploring such an option as a way to start over?Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable planet being described as a... more
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Searching the google machine that is the Internet for "moon landing," you'll find a million pages of links.
Actually its closer to 6 million, but that is beside the point.
Nearly 1 million of those pages are about a "fake moon landing," and I'm here to add to that total.
Not that I'm some conspiracy nut (I am a nut but that isn't why ;-) )
I don't dwell on fake photos or flags blowing in the wind (I couldn't care less about those things), rather I question the big-picture.
The story goes like this:
In 1961, President Kennedy declared that the USA would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. In 1969, men successfully landed on the moon. The 8 years in between are what I'd like to focus on.
My main skepticism comes from simply looking at the dates. I'm supposed to believe that in 8 years, using 1960s technology, NASA designed and developed, from scratch, the 3 most advanced devices of all time (Saturn V Rocket, Space Suit, Lunar Module), and successfully landed men on the moon 6 times in 3 years (that's an average of once every 6 months for those of you who are bad at math!) These men also took off from the moon and safely returned to Earth. That is pretty impressive considering we can't launch a Shuttle from Florida in 2011 if the weather isn't perfect!
Read that part again... 8 years... 1960s technology. That does not and will not ever sit right with me. Using basic logic, one would assume that in 8 years in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s mankind would be developing things that far surpass what we made in the 60s... yet that isn't the case. In fact, it's far from it. Every other facet of life has improved since the 60s yet space travel seems to have regressed. Can you imagine if things like cars, airplanes, computers, & TVs were behind where they were in 1969?!
Additionally, no other developed nation has even come close to replicating these "feats" of the 60s. China, with their endless supply of money, hopes to have a man on the moon by 2030. Again, using basic logic, I wonder why, with the USA already setting the blueprint, and with 2011 technology at their hands, it would take China over 25 years to accomplish what the USA claims to have done in 8, over forty years ago.
Since 1972, no other nation has claimed to put a man past Low-Earth Orbit (160 km - 2000 km from Earth). You have heard of this before... it's where the ISS (International Space Station) resides, between 278 km - 460 km above Earth's surface. The moon, on the other hand, is between 356,000 km to 406,000 km away. Not quite the same, is it? For those of you who think that housing astronauts at 460 km is the same as 406,000 km, I'll tell you to save it, or to trade me your $406,000 for my $460 :-)
Furthermore, prior to 1961, the USA's space program was largely a complete failure. Fifteen consecutive U.S. unmanned lunar missions over a six-year period from 1958 to 1964 all failed their primary photographic missions. Yet just 5 years later, the USA claims to have successfully put men on the moon.
Most people do not realize that no other nation has claimed to put a man on the moon. A lot of people simply assume that Russia did. Those same people, and most others, don't even give a second thought to man landing on the moon. "Of course it happened" is a common reply I hear when talking about the subject.
Yet these people haven't given it serious thought since they learned about it in school, or in the case of the baby boomers, since they "witnessed" it happen! I simply ask for people to use their heads and to start thinking critically, instead of believing everything that is told to them because "it must have happened."
I believe that JFK had good intentions when he made his bold statement in 1961, however I think he bit off more than he could chew. After the early failures of the Apollo program, I believe that NASA had too much pride and too much financial incentive to scrap the program (they had already invested billions, and they would continue to receive funding so long as the program was showing progress.)
Again, the big picture is what makes me skeptical, however if you continue to research on your own, you'll find numerous other examples including cancelled Apollo missions, lost priceless, one-of-a-kind tapes, declarations of a manned Mars landing by 1984 and more.http://wp.me/pWlqU-2V
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hmmmm..... a 1 in 3,200 chance of it hitting someone... i don't like those odds!
Nasa says one of its dead satellites will soon fall to Earth but there is very little chance that it will hit anyone.
The space agency does not know when or where its 20-year-old satellite will drop. It will probably be in late September but could fall in October. And it could land anywhere south of Juneau, Alaska, and north of the tip of South America. Nasa says there is only a one in 3,200 chance of satellite parts hitting someone.
Experts say not to worry. In the more than 50 years of the space age, no one has ever been hurt by falling space debris. The 5.4-tonne satellite was used to monitor the atmosphere. Most of it will burn up during re-entry. Only about 550kg of metal should survivhmmmm..... a 1 in 3,200 chance of it hitting someone... i don't like those odds!... more
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