Tags Results for 'earth'

Carefully Timed Jerks Could Power Space Elevator (Tuesday 06th of January 2009 12:30:02 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "BBC has an interesting article on the long-standing issue of how to power
the 'climber' that would ascend a space conveyor into space. preceding ideas have be featured
freight microwave or laser power to the climber beamed from the ... (more)

Water Detected At Record Distance From Earth (Monday 22nd of December 2008 02:00:01 AM)

Matt_dk writes with news that scientists have detected water in a galaxy 11.5 billion
light-years from Earth. diploma came in the form of emissions from water masers around a quasar
at the center of the galaxy. expose at such a large stretch was made ... (more)

Urine Passes NASA Taste Test (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 05:15:01 AM)

Ponca City, We love you writes "Astronauts flying aboard space shuttle Endeavour are conveying
a device to the International Space Station that may leave you wondering if NASA is taking
hazardous waste dump too far. Among the ship's cargo is a water regeneration ... (more)

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth (Saturday 01st of November 2008 11:30:02 AM)

MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered corroboration of seductive portals connecting
the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs
form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), ... (more)

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth (Saturday 01st of November 2008 11:30:01 AM)

MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered demonstration of entrancing portals connecting
the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs
form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), ... (more)

Old Materials Resurface For "Prebiotic Soup" (Friday 17th of October 2008 10:00:01 PM)

AliasMarlowe writes "Stanley Miller performed the famous experiments in the 1950s showing that
amino acids and other pile blocks for biomolecules could be produced by passing lightning
through a mix of simple hydrocarbons, water vapor, and ammonia (thought ... (more)

Soyuz With Richard Garriott Successfully Launched (Sunday 12th of October 2008 06:00:01 PM)

Toren Altair writes "Soyuz TMA-13 with ISS Expedition Crew 18 and Richard Garriott successfully
launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 7:01 UT (3:01 EDT). The Soyuz capsule will dock to the ISS
in two days. Garriott will return to Earth with Expedition ... (more)

Looking for Earth-Like Exoplanets (Saturday 11th of October 2008 03:45:02 PM)

Show manual is running a story bestowal the search for planets like Earth orbiting other stars.
While we've been able to locate a few "super earths" so far, none of them really compare in
size or the incipient for habitability with our own world. Fortunately, ... (more)

Bill Clinton, ... (Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 04:10:02 AM)

Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Bill Gates all died in a plane crash and went to meet their
maker.The supreme deity turned to Al and asked, tell what is meaningful about yourself. Al
responded that he felt that the earth was the furthermost importance and ... (more)

Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)

Eldavojohn writes "New experimentation funded by the national Science ground at the teaching
hospital of Miami is showing that carbon dating (the 13C/12C ratio used to infer age) in the
ocean can only be trusted up to 150 million years ago. From the primary ... (more)

Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? (Saturday 30th of August 2008 06:00:01 PM)

Mbutala writes "I am getting close to popping the question, and I've been racking my brain for
an idea for a cool and unique wedding band. I've been cerebration of contacting a company that
can (possibly) fabricate a ring from pure Iridium (Ir) or a ... (more)

Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)

KentuckyFC writes "We've long thought that nuclear decay rates are constant inconsiderate of
ambient temperature (except in a few special cases where beta decay can be influenced by
puissant drawing fields). So that makes it hard to explain two puzzling ... (more)

Three young women in there thirties are on a road trip and are tearing down the ... (Wednesday 30th of July 2008 12:10:02 PM)

Three young women in there thirties are on a road trip and are tearing down the freeway.
unfortunatley, they lose control, the car flips over the guard rail on to the polar lanes and
gets smashed by an eighteen wheeler.Up at the pearly gates, all ... (more)

Mars Orbiter Finds Evidence For Ancient Rivers, Lakes (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)

Cowards unsigned points out news that studies based on data from the Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter have found that vast regions of Mars contained rivers and lakes when the planet was
young. The studies also suggest that the water existed for quite some ... (more)

Earth and Moon From an Alien's Perspective (Friday 18th of July 2008 07:35:35 PM)

Krygny writes "NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft (whose wide-reaching mission is called EPOXI) has
created a video of the moon transiting Earth as seen from 31 million miles away. Scientists are
using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds. ... (more)

Moon Rocks Still In Demand After Almost 40 Years (Monday 14th of July 2008 02:35:22 PM)

During NASA's Apollo missions to the moon, roughly 842 pounds of rocks were collected from the
lunar surface. Scientific demand for the rocks has always been high, and a review board tracks
and sends out hundreds of samples each year, even now, decades ... (more)

journey to the center of the earth 3d (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:07:14 AM)

journey to the center of the earth 3d movie, journey to the center of the earth 3d video
journey to the center of the earth 3d scene About journey to the center of the earth 3d hourney
to the center of the earth 3d, nourney ... (more)

Pieces of Ancient Earth May Be Hidden On the Moon (Saturday 28th of June 2008 06:40:26 PM)

Swestcott brings us a story from Space.com about the break of finding testimony for ancient
Earth life on the moon. A team of scientists has published work confirming that meteorites
originating from Earth could have remained sufficiently intact while ... (more)

Private Efforts Fill Gaps In Earth's Asteroid Defenses (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 09:10:06 PM)

Hugh Pickens sends us to Seed digest for an update on Earth's defenses against collisions with
near-earth objects (NEOs). The bottom line is that law is moving slowly on cataloging NEOs but
private bodies are picking up some of the slack. "In 2005, the ... (more)

Paintings of Italian Artist - Lucio Salvatore (Thursday 10th of April 2008 12:00:00 AM)

LANGUAGEThis series of pictures is a meditation on the origins of Thought and its fundamental
words whose interpretations, that havechanged through the different Epochs, have and will
always determine the destiny of every civilization. ... (more)

Venus' Stop/Start History Highlighted By Probe (Monday 07th of April 2008 02:45:02 AM)

An anonymous reader writes "Science Daily reports on scientific findings from the ESA's Venus
Express probe. The device, which is even now orbiting Earth's sister planet, is feeding back
data hinting at Venus' origins. Initially, the probe has found, ... (more)

Scholarships From FOSS Organizations? (Sunday 23rd of March 2008 01:45:02 AM)

Athaulf writes "I'm a high school kid with big dreams of prestigious technical knowledge
schools like MIT or Cal-Tech. The problem is, my upper-middle class family had more down to
Earth plans for me and my college choices (about $30,000/year more down ... (more)

Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth (Wednesday 27th of February 2008 01:00:07 PM)

Iamlucky13 writes "A minor academic debate among astronomers is the final fate of the earth. As
the sun ages and enters the red giant stage of its life, it will heat up, making the earth
inhospitable. It will also expand, driven by helium fusion so ... (more)

Radio Telescopes on Moon to Study Cosmic Dark Ages (Friday 22nd of February 2008 07:00:05 AM)

The retold Fallacy brings news that NASA has awarded a $500,000 grant to develop plans for an
array of radio telescopes to be located on the moon. The telescopes would be used to gather
data from the earliest stars and galaxies, observations of which ... (more)

US To Shoot Down Dying Satellite (Friday 15th of February 2008 01:45:02 AM)

A user writes "US embassy say that the Pentagon is planned parenthood to shoot down a broken
spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March. We discussed the device's decaying
orbit late last month. The customer's broker Press has learned that ... (more)

Geologists Claim Earth May Be Softer Around The Middle Than Previously Thought (Tuesday 29th of January 2008 08:45:05 AM)

A new geological study is suggesting that what we know about the lower mantle of the Earth may
have to be reevaluated. Since we are unable to very sample the Earth at those depths,
scientists rely on the use of seismic waves to study the ... (more)

US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris (Sunday 13th of January 2008 12:45:05 PM)

GSGKT writes "Today's supervision Times runs a story about the increasing problem with space
junk orbiting the earth. Debris from the anti-satellite missile test by the Chinese military
last year threatens the integrity of more than 800 business expenses ... (more)

Neonode planning revamped OS, totally new handsets (Wednesday 09th of January 2008 08:49:00 PM)

Filed under: Cellphones, CES, Features We've just gotten out of a meeting with Thomas Eriksson,
co-founder and CTO of Neonode, and we've learned some very exciting cue about the company's
newest, as-yet-unannounced phones. We were shown designs of the ... (more)

Could An ExtraTerrestrial Find Earth with a Telescope? (Saturday 22nd of December 2007 03:00:08 PM)

Active Seti writes "If aliens were hunting life outside their own planet, could they peer
through the vastness of space and lock onto Earth as a likely home for life? Researchers say
with a roughly Hubble-sized array gate could measure Earth's 24-hour ... (more)

Deep Impact Probe to Look for Earth-sized Planets (Friday 21st of December 2007 02:45:11 PM)

Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "NASA has given health center of Maryland scientists the green
light to fly the Deep Impact probe to Comet Hartley 2. The spacecraft will pass Earth on New
Year's Eve at the beginning of a more than two-and-a-half-year journey ... (more)

 

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