All Entries Tagged With: "Space"
Could newly discovered planet sustain life?
A team of astronomers said today that they’ve discovered the first solid example of a planet outside our solar system that could sustain life.
Alien Speech? Found in NASA’s Saturn Radio Signal
I just wanted to thank everyone for their input..good and bad… I still have no idea yet what this is…
Very Strange Tsunami
Republicans and Democrats are tied at 46% among registered voters in Gallup’s weekly tracking of congressional voting preferences, marking a shift after five consecutive weeks in which the Republicans held the advantage.
Extreme technology: IT at the ends of the Earth
In space, no one can hear you scream at your PC. And in combat in Iraq or at a research station in the Antarctic, computers face tough conditions. Anna Leach meets the extreme tech experts
Magnetic apocalypse 2012
Ph.D. Anatoly Levitin, head of the geomagnetic variations laboratory at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Most Powerful Magnetic Storm in over 3 years
This time we got lucky. This is the message that comes from NASA on the heaviest impact of magnetic storm on our planet caused by the sun. In over 3 years we have not seen such an intensification of solar activity causing this big of a magnetic storm on Earth. It was in December 2006 that scientists last registered a storm of this magnitude.
Eyjafjallajökull Is Beginning of Decades of Misery
The ash clouds of the Eyjafjallajökull are just the beginning of decades of volcanic activity in Iceland en consequently represent the equal number of years of disturbance for the airline industry. Scottish scientists have come to this conclusion. They studied 205 eruptions out of a total of the past 1,100 eruptions.
Off-shore drilling areas opened from Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean
The opening of petroleum drilling areas in the Gulf of Mexico, off the SE Atlantic coast and north of Alaska was announced by President Obama on March 31(at the same time as the plan for higher gas mileage). According to the White House press release.
Global climate change impacts in the United States.
Following up on the scientific studies about the harm from mountaintop removal mining (see below), the Environmental Protection Agency set what it termed “clear benchmarks for preventing significant and irreversible damage to Appalachian watersheds at risk from mining activity.
BP Gulf Oil Gusher is Worst US Oil Spill by Far
The underwater gusher of crude from the BP rig wreckage in the Gulf is the greatest oil spill disaster the U.S. has ever suffered. The flow from the Deepwater Horizon well has been unstoppable for more than a month, but progress was being made at stemming the flow by May 27th.
