Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2014

He did a 180 on "climate change"

December 21, 2014 Climate Change , Energy 0 Comments
"Confessions Of A Greenpeace Drop out" (VIDEO)



HeartlandTube, Jul. 22, 2014, YouTube

Patrick Moore, founding member and former president of Greenpeace, delivers keynote address, "Confessions of a Greenpeace Drop out" at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on July 8, 2014.

Watch it: www.youtube.com

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Mind over matter...

December 17, 2014 Age , Health 0 Comments
Real Vs. Perceived Age: A Matter Of Life And Death

Lindsey Tanner, Dec. 15, 2014, Sun Herald

The researchers analyzed data from a study in England on aging that included information on deaths during a follow-up period that ended in February 2013; deaths totaled 1,030. About 14 percent of the young-feeling adults died during the follow-up, versus 19 percent of those who felt their actual age and 25 percent of those who felt older.

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

No reward without risk

November 09, 2014 Buzz Aldrin , Science 0 Comments
Buzz Aldrin: Pioneers Will Always Pave The Way With Sacrifice

Buzz Aldrin, Nov. 7, 2014, TIME

Every type of transportation has involved loss of life, as witnessed with the Conestoga wagon heading west and giving way to the stagecoach, the railroads, motor homes and eventually airplanes.

Indeed, airlines came into existence because of the commercial use of World War 1 aircraft, put to work to carry mail for the government. That convinced the commercial sector to develop the airlines of today.

Now we are contemplating point-to-point and suborbital rocket flight, distinctly a commercial stepping-stone from the pioneering days of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo’s giant leap to the moon.

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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Spectacular 'Supermoon' Rises This Weekend -- "Bigger and brighter than most other full moons this year..."

July 13, 2014 NASA , News.yahoo.com 0 Comments
By Tanya Lewis, Jul. 11, 2014, News.yahoo.com

You might want to step outside early tomorrow morning (July 12), when a bulging "supermoon" will glow brightly in the sky.

Tomorrow's supermoon, which reaches full phase at 7:25 a.m. EDT (11:25 GMT), will be bigger and brighter than most other full moons this year. It will be the first of three such moons in consecutive months, and the next supermoons will occur on Aug. 10 and Sept. 9, according to NASA.

The moon follows an oval or elliptical orbit, and a supermoon occurs when the moon is in the part of its orbit closest to Earth. At this point, known as "perigee," the moon is about 30,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) closer to the planet than at its farthest point, or "apogee." [In Photos: Glitzy Images of a Supermoon]

Tomorrow and Sept. 9, the moon will be full on the same day as perigee, and on Aug. 10, it will be full during the same hour as perigee, making it especially bright.

Supermoons gained attention last year, when a June 2013 full moon was 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons, according to NASA. But these monstrous moons aren't all that uncommon, as it turns out.

"Generally speaking, full moons occur near perigee every 13 months and 18 days, so it's not all that unusual," Geoff Chester, an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., said in a statement. "In fact, just last year, there were three perigee moons in a row, but only one was widely reported."

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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Nat Geo: The Hunt For Life Beyond Earth: One Of The Oldest Questions May Be Answered In Our Lifetime--Are We Alone?

July 06, 2014 California , Jet Propulsion Lab 0 Comments
Credit:  Mark Thiessen
By Michael D. Lemonick, July, 2014, Nationalgeographic.com

An electronic signal travels from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, to a robotic rover clinging to the underside of foot-thick ice on an Alaskan lake. The rover's spotlight begins to glow. "It worked!" exclaims John Leichty, a young JPL engineer huddled in a tent on the lake ice nearby. It may not sound like a technological tour de force, but this could be the first small step toward the exploration of a distant moon.

More than 4,000 miles to the south, geomicro­biologist Penelope Boston sloshes through murky, calf-deep water in a pitch-dark cavern in Mexico, more than 50 feet underground. Like the other scientists with her, Boston wears an industrial-strength respirator and carries a canister of spare air to cope with the poisonous hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide gases that frequently permeate the cave. The rushing water around her feet is laced with sulfuric acid. Suddenly her headlamp illuminates an elongated droplet of thick, semitransparent fluid oozing from the chalky, crumbling wall. "Isn't it cute?" she exclaims.

These two sites—a frozen Arctic lake and a to­xic tropical cave—could provide clues to one of the oldest, most compelling mysteries on Earth: Is there life beyond our planet? Life on other worlds, whether in our own solar system or orbiting distant stars, might well have to survive in ice-covered oceans, like those on Jupiter's moon Europa, or in sealed, gas-filled caves, which could be plentiful on Mars. If you can figure out how to isolate and identify life-forms that thrive in similarly extreme surroundings on Earth, you're a step ahead in searching for life elsewhere.

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