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Topic: Science and Nature News Redux Posted: 29-Mar-2012 at 02:52 |
Van Allen belt radiation creates gamma rays and delivers free neutrons after lightning!It is my theory of course,they still do not know how: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/nuclear-lightening.ars
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Posted: 29-Mar-2012 at 08:46 |
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"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
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Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'
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Posted: 29-Mar-2012 at 11:05 |
Mysterious geologic structure seen from space
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Posted: 29-Mar-2012 at 11:11 |
Dive to ocean bottom was like trip to 'another planet and back,' Cameron saysPublished March 26, 2012-Associated Press
In James Cameron's fantasy films, like "Avatar" and "The Abyss," the unexplored is splashed in color and fraught with alien danger. But on his dive to the deepest place on Earth, reality proved far different: white, barren and bland.Yet otherworldly -- and amazing. "I felt like I literally, in the space of one day, had gone to another planet and come back," Cameron said Monday after returning from the cold, dark place in the western Pacific Ocean, seven miles (11 1/4 kilometers) below the surface. "It was a very surreal day." Cameron is the first person to explore the deepest valley in the ocean since two men made a 20-minute foray there more than half a century ago. He spent about three hours gliding through the icy darkness, illuminated only by special lights on the one-man sub he helped design. That was only about half as long as planned because his battery ran low. |
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/26/dive-to-ocean-bottom-was-like-trip-to-another-planet-and-back-cameron-says/#ixzz1qWTER3rn
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Posted: 29-Mar-2012 at 11:17 |
Marine monster mystery on South Carolina beachWritten By Benjamin Radford-Published March 29, 2012-Discovery News
A bizarre creature that washed ashore last week in Folly Beach, S.C., sparked speculation in the area and on the Internet that a dead sea monster might have been discovered. The tan-brown animal with greenish patches was strange enough, but what really baffled beachgoers was its massive size and the dinosaur-like bony plates on its sides. It's not clear just how long it was, but photos suggest it exceeded 10 feet. Like many washed-up carcasses it carried both a salty stench and an air of mystery. Speculation ran rampant, with commenters suggesting that the creature was everything from a dinosaurian sea monster to a toxin-spawned mutation to a chupacabra. Scientists, however, were somewhat more skeptical. |
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/29/marine-monster-mystery-on-south-carolina-beach/#ixzz1qWUyxDYW
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Posted: 30-Mar-2012 at 03:05 |
Changes in land surface measured with high precision up cm with Cryosat satellite: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMHTAGY50H_index_0.html
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Posted: 30-Mar-2012 at 08:34 |
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Posted: 31-Mar-2012 at 02:13 |
Organic "racial" theories:(Non organic is not alive?Our Silicon tablets have non organic brain also!) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120330205815.htm
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Posted: 31-Mar-2012 at 02:22 |
Let there be light: 'Human Achievement Hour' to coincide with Earth HourPublished March 30, 2012-FoxNews.com
As millions of people sit in the dark during Earth Hour to call for action against climate change this weekend, a libertarian think tank wants you to fight the power by keeping the lights on. The Competitive Enterprise Institute plans to commemorate Earth Hour 2012 with its "Human Achievement Hour," 60 minutes to gather with friends in a heated home, watch television and surf the Internet instead of dimming or shutting off the lights altogether to draw attention to climate change. "HAH is an annual event meant to recognize and celebrate the fact that this is the greatest time to be alive, and that the reason we have come is that people have been free to use their minds and the resources in their environment to experiment, create, and innovate," reads a CEI website on the event scheduled to coincide with Earth Hour 2012 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time Saturday. |
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/30/let-there-be-light-human-achievement-hour-to-coincide-with-earth-hour/#ixzz1qg1ZIFql
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Posted: 31-Mar-2012 at 02:25 |
Six-legged Swiss calf uncowed by disabilityPublished March 29, 2012-Associated Press
A six-legged calf has defied the odds by thriving despite a vet's prediction at birth that it wouldn't survive. Seven-week-old Lilli is now a minor celebrity in her native Switzerland after local media were splashed with images of the calf frolicking across a sunny field. Farmer Andreas Knutti from Weissenburg, which 19 miles south of the capital Bern, says he couldn't bring himself to euthanize the animal because she was "so full of life." He told Swiss daily Blick Thursday that a curve in her spine means Lilli may never become a normal milk cow. But Knutti says if the calf stays healthy she'll still be allowed to join the others when they head for their Alpine pastures this summer. |
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Posted: 31-Mar-2012 at 02:28 |
New Milky Way Photo Captures 1 Billion StarsPublished March 29, 2012-Space.com
More than a billion stars blaze bright in a new photo of our Milky Way galaxy snapped by an international team of astronomers. The new picture, which was released today (March 28), combines infrared images of the Milky Way taken during sky surveys by two different instruments, the UK Infrared Telescope in Hawaii and the VISTA telescope in Chile. The photo is part of a 10-year project that is gathering mountains of data to help guide future research, scientists said. "This incredible image gives us a new perspective of our galaxy, and illustrates the far-reaching discoveries we can make from large sky surveys," Nick Cross, of the University of Edinburgh, said in a statement. "Having data processed, archived and published by dedicated teams leaves other scientists free to concentrate on using the data, and is a very cost-effective way to do astronomy." |
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Posted: 31-Mar-2012 at 02:32 |
$7M Spaceport Runway Extension ApprovedPublished March 29, 2012-Associated Press
The nearly two-mile-long runway at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico will have to be extended to accommodate Virgin Galactic's sleek rocket-powered spacecraft, spaceport officials confirmed Thursday. New Mexico Spaceport Authority board members voted during a regular meeting Wednesday to extend the runway by another 2,000 feet. Spaceport America is the world's first terminal, hangar and runway built specifically for commercial space travel. Virgin Galactic, which will be the spaceport's anchor tenant, determined through a battery of test flights and simulations that more room would be needed for landings under certain circumstances. |
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Posted: 31-Mar-2012 at 13:04 |
Simple Yet Complex Primate Brain Structure Aided Human Evolution, Suggests Study"... It's
not a tangled mass, but a simple, yet highly complex, criss-crossing
grid of neural fibers, much like the fine threads of a sheet of fabric.
This is how scientists would now describe the structure of the neural
lines and connections that make up the primate brain, including humans.
It is, according to the leading scientist of a recently completed study,
one reason why evolutionary processes were able to more easily take
hold in the primate brain and lead to the changes that helped make us
and our primate cousins what we are today.
The study is detailed In the March 30 issue of Science. It
reports the discovery of an amazingly simple and organized, yet complex
neural structure that makes up human and primate brains. Specifically,
the researchers found that the neural pathways carrying signals through
the brain are oriented not in a tangled, disorganized
fashion, as has been typically pictured, but in a curving,
three-dimensional grid. Their analysis revealed that neural fibers of
the brain white matter
formed a grid pattern of parallel and criss-crossing fibers, interwoven
like the threads in a sheet of fabric, defining an orderly
three-dimensional curved grid structure. The same pattern was observed
for humans as well as for all of the four non-human primates species –
rhesus monkeys, owl monkeys, marmosets and galagos - examined in the
study. Says study leader Van Wedeen, MD, Associate Professor of
Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Martinos Center for
Biomedical Imaging: "Finding this kind of simple organization in the
forebrain of higher animals was completely unsuspected"...." "...In conducting the work, researchers used diffusion spectrum MR imaging –
a technology Wedeen developed that reveals the orientation of the
brain's neural fibers. With diffusion imaging, a scanner detects water
and chemicals injected into and moving through individual fibers to
reveal their locations and orientation relative to each other. They then
applied a mathematical analysis of the crossing or adjacent pathways in
the brains. Previous studies of animal brains also showed similar
patterns, but it was not certain that such structures were widespread or
only defined certain brain systems. Observing this in the human brain
has long eluded scientists because, in part, the human cortex of the
brain has multiple folds that make it difficult to determine the
structure of the neural connections. ..." http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/simple-yet-complex-primate-brain-structure-aided-human-evolution-suggests-study
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Posted: 01-Apr-2012 at 03:03 |
Be careful about your lighters cause Eye sensors could detect infrared light in it!Last Oko is in position for it's early warning assignment tasks: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/oko.html#last
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Posted: 01-Apr-2012 at 03:06 |
A new report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation
and Development paints a grim picture of the world in 2050 based on
current global trends. It predicts a world population of 9.2 billion
people, generating a global GDP four times the size of today's,
requiring 80 percent more energy. And with a worldwide energy mix still
85 percent reliant on fossil fuels by that time, it will be coal, oil,
and gas that make up most of the difference, the OECD predicts. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/hot-crowded-and-running-out-of-fuel-earth-of-2050-a-scary-place.ars
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