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Space probe finds frozen sea on Mars
Post Date: 2005-02-24 06:35:46 by 2Trievers
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LONDON (Reuters) - A European space probe scanning the surface of Mars has discovered what scientists say appears to be a giant frozen sea near the planet's equator. The discovery was the first of a body of what may be water that has been found away from the polar ice caps and was revealed by the Mars Express spacecraft that has been orbiting and photographing the planet for a year. Although the high resolution images only cover an area a few tens of kilometres across, they are in what appears to be a flood plain measuring a massive 800 kilometres long by 900 kilometres wide. The area is covered by a thick layer of volcanic ash, according to the European Space Agency which has published ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-02-24 06:15:06 by 2Trievers
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APOD: 2005 February 24 - Ski Enceladus Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 February 24 Ski Enceladus Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: Small, icy, inner moon of Saturn, Enceladus is only about 500 kilometers in diameter. But the distant world does reflect over 90 percent of the sunlight it receives, giving its surface about the same reflectivity as fresh snow. Seen here in a sharp view from the Cassini spacecraft's recent flyby, Enceladus shows a variety of surface ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-02-23 11:14:07 by 2Trievers
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APOD: 2005 February 23 - Voyage of an Antarctic Iceberg Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 February 23 Voyage of an Antarctic Iceberg Credit: MODIS, Terra, NASA Explanation: What if part of New York broke off and slammed into New Jersey? Both being anchored land masses, that is unlikely to happen, but an event of that size scale did occur off the Antarctic coast over the last three months. Long Island, New York sized B-15A iceberg floated across 100 kilometers of the Ross Sea and struck a submarine shoal just ...
Analysis of Energy Requirements for the Expansion of the Dust Cloud Following the Collapse of 1 World Trade Center
Post Date: 2005-02-19 14:51:53 by RickyJ
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The North Tower's Dust Cloud Analysis of Energy Requirements for the Expansion of the Dust Cloud Following the Collapse of 1 World Trade Center by Jim Hoffman October 16, 2003 [Version 3] On September 11th, Both of the Twin Towers disintegrated into vast clouds of concrete and other materials, which blanketed Lower Manhattan. This paper shows that the energy required to produce the expansion of the dust cloud observed immediately following the collapse of 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) was much greater than the gravitational energy available from its elevated mass. It uses only basic physics. Introduction Vast amounts of energy were released during the collapse of each of ...
EDC Image Gallery Collections [interesting website]
Post Date: 2005-02-19 08:54:29 by 2Trievers
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Earth As Art Collection Earth As Art 2 Collection
Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth
Post Date: 2005-02-18 20:48:16 by Brian S
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posted: 18 February, 2005 2 p.m. ET A huge explosion halfway across the galaxy packed so much power it briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere in December, astronomers said Friday. No known eruption beyond our solar system has ever appeared as bright upon arrival. But you could not have seen it, unless you can top the X-ray vision of Superman: In gamma rays, the event equaled the brightness of the full Moon's reflected visible light. The blast originated about 50,000 light-years away and was detected Dec. 27. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). The commotion was caused by a special variety of neutron star known as a ...
Russian Cargo Ship Set for Launch to Space Station [Old Russian Junk At It Again]
Post Date: 2005-02-17 21:27:48 by Brian S
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Feb 17, 2005 — By Irene Klotz MELBOURNE, Fla. (Reuters) - A Russian cargo ship filled with extra food, water and equipment to repair and upgrade life support systems is being prepared for launch to the International Space Station, NASA officials said on Thursday. The supplies will not only build up the reserves for the station's live-aboard crew, but help prepare the outpost in case it needs to serve as a temporary shelter for visiting space shuttle astronauts. NASA plans to dispatch in May its first shuttle to the space station since the Feb. 1, 2003, Columbia accident grounded the remaining fleet. A panel investigating the Columbia disaster determined that NASA should always have ...
Macrovision touts new copy-protection technology for DVDs
Post Date: 2005-02-17 10:36:08 by Flintlock
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Macrovision touts new copy-protection technology for DVDs Associated Press LOS ANGELES - A new technology from Macrovision Corp. claims to block virtually all known methods for making unauthorized copies of DVDs. The Santa Clara-based company's RipGuard DVD, launched this week, is designed to thwart cracking programs that get around the encryption system used in standard DVDs. Macrovision also claims a related system to be used with RipGuard can foil attempts to make analog copies of DVDs. Such copies are made by connecting a video recorder to a DVD player's video and audio output jacks, a method that previous DVD copy protection software has failed to prevent fully. Attempts to ...
Fossil Reanalysis Pushes Back Origin of Homo sapiens [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-02-17 05:49:36 by 2Trievers
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A new analysis of human remains first discovered in 1967 suggests that they are in fact much older than previously believed. The results, published today in the journal Nature, push back the emergence of our species by nearly 35,000 years. Ian McDougall of the Australian National University in Canberra and his colleagues worked with two well-known fossil finds known as Omo I and Omo II, which were recovered from Ethiopia's Kibish Formation by Richard Leakey. The remains include two partial skulls as well as arm, leg, foot and pelvis bones for Omo I. "Anthropologists said they looked very different in their evolutionary status," remarks study co-author Frank Brown of the ...
Pentagon prepares to build £70bn robot army
Post Date: 2005-02-17 03:21:30 by Zipporah
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The Pentagon is spending £70 billion on a programme to build heavily-armed robots for the battlefield in the hope that future wars will be fought without the loss of its soldiers' lives. MSN Search The scheme, known as Future Combat Systems, is the largest military contract in American history and will help to drive the defence budget up by almost 20 per cent to just over £265 billion in five years' time. Much of the cash will be spent computerising the military, but the ultimate aim is to take members of the armed forces out of harm's way. They would be replaced by robots capable of hunting and killing America's enemies. Gordon Johnson, of the US joint forces research ...
Preliminary Earthquake Report
Post Date: 2005-02-05 12:56:36 by 2Trievers
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Magnitude 6.9 - CELEBES SEA 2005 February 5 12:23:18 UTCPreliminary Earthquake Report West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS A strong earthquake occurred at 12:23:18 (UTC) on Saturday, February 5, 2005. The magnitude 6.9 event has been located in the CELEBES SEA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.) Magnitude6.9Date-TimeSaturday, February 5, 2005 at 12:23:18 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 8:23:18 PM = local time at epicenter Location 5.500°N, 123.400°EDepth514 km (319.4 miles) set by location programRegionCELEBES SEADistances 209 km (130 miles) WSW (251°) from General Santos, Mindanao, Philippines 214 km (133 miles) ...
As SE Asian Farms Boom, Stage Set for a Pandemic - Bird Flu
Post Date: 2005-02-05 06:55:55 by crack monkey
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As SE Asian Farms Boom, Stage Set for a Pandemic Conditions Ripe for Spread of Bird Flu By Alan Sipress Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, February 5, 2005; Page A01 BANGLANE, Thailand -- Prathum Buaklee stepped nimbly along the aging planks running between the cages of his chicken farm, shoveling grain with his meaty hands from a bucket into the feed trays. His feet were bare and caked with dirt. The old plaid shirt hanging on his stocky frame was soiled. And the air was rank with the smell of feathers, droppings and feed. This soft-spoken farmer is part of an agrarian revolution in Southeast Asia and China that has more than doubled poultry production in barely a decade, ...
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who'll be fattest of them all?
Post Date: 2005-02-03 08:00:01 by 2Trievers
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The wicked queen in Snow White had a magic mirror that told the truth. French scientists have gone one better. They have a mirror that will tell the ugly truth - five years on. They have fashioned a thinking looking glass that will offer a reflection of the future, after years of binge drinking and junk food have taken their toll, according to New Scientist today. This mirror will know you better than you know yourself, and never fail to tell you so. Researchers at Accenture Technology, in Sophia Antipolis near Nice, have devised a flat liquid crystal display television screen linked to a set of cameras and some powerful image processing technology. Its first role is to capture the real ...
Dangerous' Global Warming Possible by 2026 - WWF
Post Date: 2005-01-30 13:58:09 by dee_cee
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OSLO (Reuters) - World temperatures could surge in just two decades to a threshold likely to trigger dangerous disruptions to the earth's climate, the WWF environmental group said on Sunday. It said the Arctic region was warming fastest, threatening the livelihoods of indigenous hunters by thawing the polar ice-cap and driving species like polar bears toward extinction by the end of the century. "If nothing is done, the earth will have warmed by 2.0 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by some time between 2026 and 2060," the WWF said in a report. Few scientists have estimated such an early date for a 2.0C rise, seen by the WWF as a threshold that may spur ...
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