Ready for more adventures in Lodi Aug 19, 2008
I enjoyed floating back to the earth, but enjoyed having my feet touch it even more. I am not sure if I would ever jump out of a plane again on my own free will, but the experience was nevertheless unforgettable. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
New minor planet found in solar system Aug 19, 2008
2 billion km from Earth and could provide clues about the formation of comets, scientists have said. The minor planet 2006 SQ372, which could be as wide as 96 km across, is slightly closer to the Earth than the planet Neptune and is orbiting the Sun in a 22,500-year, 241-billion-km trip, researchers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey announced at a gathering of astronomers in Chicago ... Major planets, such as Earth and Mars, travel around the Sun in more circular orbits, but the object has a... (Sify)
Global warming spells disaster for Chilka Aug 19, 2008
Increase in the average temperature of earth is causing more water to evaporate ... The environmentalist suggests that the policy makers, industrial houses and the world leaders should focus on the use of clean and green energy to save the earth from the imminent deluge that threatens to devour the entire human civilisation. (Merinews)
Why not every scientist worships at Darwin's feet Aug 18, 2008
Naturalism opposes supernaturalism and insists that the natural world exists without incursion from outside, or as Carl Sagan put it: "The cosmos is all there is, or was, or ever shall be." The theistic view finds expression in the opening words of Genesis: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Theism understands the universe not to be a closed system, but a creation, initiated and maintained by God. The Genesis statement is a statement of belief, not a statement of science. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Infotainment Aug 18, 2008
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed four small statues of the Sphinx, the mythological figure of a lion with a human head, the Higher Council of Antiquities said on Friday ... Earth is the only planet not named after a god. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
BACK TO THE MOON: Obama outlines space plan... Aug 18, 2008
His NASA not only will inspire the world with both human and robotic space exploration, but also will again lead in confronting the challenges we face here on Earth, including global climate change, energy independence, and aeronautics research ... It will solicit public participation, engage the international community, and work toward a 21st century vision of space that constantly pushes the envelope on new technologies as it pursues a balanced national portfolio that expands our reach into... (The Drudge Report)
Veterans gathering for McCain speech Aug 18, 2008
John Glenn, the first man to orbit the Earth ... Maintain infrastructure investments in Earth-monitoring satellites and support systems. (Florida Today)
Space station toilet and solar panel await Discovery Aug 18, 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. American and Japanese astronauts plan to blast off aboard the shuttle Discovery today on a 14-day delivery and repair mission to the international space station 220 miles above the Earth ... In September, ground controllers noticed vibrations in the mechanism as it turned the panels to track the sun while the station circles the Earth. (Yahoo News -- Space Shuttle)
Shooting stars Aug 18, 2008
Apart from guiding undergrads on basic astronomy, he photographs the sun every day as part of a research project studying how rotation of the sun and solar activity influence the climate on earth ... The motorised mount moves counter to the earths rotation, so the subject being photographed under long exposure will appear still. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Follow your footprint to green way of living Aug 18, 2008
One of Carbon Rally's challenges is not only helping to save the Earth but also is saving Towner money ... Carbon Rally founder Jason Karas has had to answer critics who say that so many pennies in a jar don't add up to much bankable Earth savings ... "Here I am a lover of the Earth, and I'm wasting water like some kind of heathen," she said. (AZCentral -- News)
Recycling blues Aug 17, 2008
Its the right thing to do for the earth, said Ruff. Ive got it in my blood. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie Lobby... Aug 17, 2008
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957). William Hopper and Joan Taylor star in this wild tale of a Venusian creature hitching a ride back to Earth. (Suite101.com)
The Great Planet Debate Aug 17, 2008
Earth still has to fend off stray asteroids that pass its way, so is Earth a planet. And if Earth were out at the orbit of Neptune, it wouldn't have the gravitational chops to dominate much of anything ... Posted by John Mahony August 15, 2008 At 04:37 PM PDT Kelly wrote: "'Clearing' is dynamicist-speak for a gravitationally dominant object, such as Jupiter. Except that Jupiter has thousands of asteroids, called Trojans, that share its orbit so maybe Jupiter and, likewise, Saturn aren't... (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Solar Sailing Aug 17, 2008
Halley's Comet was to make its closest approach to Earth in 1986, and NASA conceived the exciting idea of propelling a probe via solar sail to rendezvous with the comet. Eventually, the project was scrapped. (FirstScience.com)
Studying Volcanoes With Balloons Aug 17, 2008
"The balloons are piloted remotely by satellite link," Durant explained, "with flight visualization using Google Earth. We were looking at tropospheric volcanic emissions of sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and water, which can be hazardous to human and animal health and degrade ecosystems." ... Voss worked through the night at home in Massachusetts, while Durant worked remotely in the field to fly the balloon using Google Earth ... The Google Earth images were so clear we could count the rows of... (Science Daily)
Glacier park: The next century - Paradise in peril Aug 17, 2008
WEST GLACIER These mountains have always been old, weighed heavy with age and rooted in deep time, the kind of place where you can heft a handful of early, early earth and wonder at the world before. Rippled rock at 10,000 feet is sediment laid down 1. (Missoulian, MT)
Final frontier ... future boom Aug 17, 2008
It could also see a rebirth in the environmental movement as people saw the fragility of earth from space. Countries are working on developing such technology but Australia is being left behind. (The Canberra Times)
Will Discovery Help Repel Asteroids Headed for Earth? Aug 17, 2008
Will Discovery Help Repel Asteroids Headed for Earth ... Will Discovery Help Repel Asteroids Headed for Earth ... The discovery may help scientists predict asteroids' travel routes with greater accuracy and even provide crucial data to help deflect asteroids headed for Earth, researchers say. (Yahoo News -- Meteors and Asteroids)
Creationists defeated in Kansas school vote on science teaching Aug 17, 2008
In redrafting guidelines for science teaching, the board removed language suggesting that key concepts such as a common origin for all life on Earth and for species change were seen as controversial by the scientific community ... Unlike traditional creationism, which claims that God created the earth in six days, proponents of intelligent design say the workings of this planet are too complex to be ascribed to evolution. (Yahoo News -- Church-State Issues)
A giant bleep for mankind Aug 16, 2008
At that single meeting, the writer-director Andrew Stanton and his colleagues sketched out on napkins the ideas for A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo - and one more movie, about a lonely robot left behind when humans abandon Earth ... In Wall-E's world, it is 700 years since humanity departed the dying Earth to live aboard a space-bound pleasure dome named Axiom ... Wall-E, a "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class", is a janitor robot designed to clean up the mess left behind. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Mars robots begin test campaign Aug 16, 2008
Set to leave Earth in 2013; primary aim is to search for life Will launch on a heavy-lift rocket, such as the Ariane 5 Vented landing bags allow for a larger payload Rover will carry a 16 ... Such is the distance between the planets, it can take 20 minutes for an instruction sent from Earth to arrive at Mars. (BBC News)
NASA: Mars Lander sends most detailed Martian pics yet Aug 16, 2008
"Taking required the highest-resolution microscope operated off of Earth and a specially designed substrate to hold the Martian dust," said Tom Pike, a Phoenix science team member, in a statement ... The robotic arm, which weighs between 20 and 30 pounds on Earth, is the key to the effort. (Computerworld)
Restatement Pulls GeoEye's Goals Back Down to Earth Aug 16, 2008
But on Tuesday, the satellite company disclosed that it is confronting setbacks here on Earth. GeoEye said it will have to restate its accounting for 2005 through 2007, lowering profit for the period by $31 million. (Washington Post -- Technology)
Success for Mars rover bag test Aug 16, 2008
"The flow out of the airbag is at sonic velocity, so there's no feedback like you'd get with an impact on Earth. This means the whole control system has to be much more precise, much cleverer. Ultimately, we will have to test the system in a vacuum chamber to replicate conditions on Mars." ... Would leave Earth in 2013; primary aim is to search for life Could use a Proton rocket if Russians join the project Vented landing bags release some design constraints Allows for a 16. (Yahoo News -- Mars Exploration)
Partial lunar eclipse coming Aug. 16 Aug 16, 2008
A solar eclipse is almost always accompanied by a lunar eclipse two weeks before or after it, since in two weeks the moon travels halfway around its orbit and is likely to form another almost-straight line with the Earth and sun ... Just over two weeks after casting its shadow across the Arctic, Russia, Mongolia and China, will swing around to slide deep through the northern edge of the Earth's own shadow on the night of Aug. 16-17 ... The moon will pass through the northern part of the Earth's... (MSNBC -- Politics)
Astronaut Answers Questions from Space Aug 16, 2008
HOUSTON, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Flying 220 miles above the Earth aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff is ready to take your questions ... He flew to the station aboard the space shuttle Discovery in June and will return to Earth aboard shuttle Endeavour in November. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
'Green' costs, gun ruling, watchdogs Aug 16, 2008
Oh, she slipped the surly bonds of earth, and flung her eager task through footless falls of air ... We have God-ordained Christian Domination over the earth ... We have God-ordained Christian Domination over the earth. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Farmers get cash for capturing carbon Aug 16, 2008
How the Earth maintains a temperature conducive to life. Check out five far-out ideas on how to engineer a cooler Earth. (MSNBC -- Environment)
POWAY: Parents, students get look at energy-efficient school Aug 16, 2008
The photo was in a corridor featuring several large images of natural earth events. (Photo by Bill Wechter - Staff Photographer). (North County Times)
Partial Lunar Eclipse On 16th August Aug 16, 2008
In a partial lunar eclipse, the Earth, Sun and Moon are almost exactly in line and the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. The Moon is full but moves partly into the shadow of the Earth and dims dramatically with the shadowed portion of the lunar surface lit by sunlight that passes through the Earth s atmosphere ... Stronger atmospheric scattering of blue light means that the light that reaches the lunar surface has a reddish hue, so observers on Earth will see a Moon that is... (Science Daily)
War in Georgia may put space station at risk Aug 16, 2008
It is one of the projects possibly put in jeopardy by the turmoil in the Caucasus -- and by one measure one of the closest to the troubled region -- but it is nowhere on Earth. Because the U.S. space shuttles are scheduled to be retired in 2010 and the replacement craft won't be ready until 2015, the international space station, orbiting roughly 150 miles above Earth, will rely in coming years to a large extent on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft for crew transport. (Los Angeles Times)
Editorial: The State Of The Console War Aug 16, 2008
I'm sorry, but I don't care how innovative your interaction gimmick is; without the software, no video game system on earth can win a console war. Surprising PS3 reliability: I say "surprising" because I honestly didn't believe this system would be as unbelievably solid as it is. (PSX Extreme)
Newton's quest 'to understand all of nature' Aug 16, 2008
He even uses the Earth's true shape (our planet is slightly "bulged" at the equator) to explain the "precession of the equinoxes" the gradual wobble of the Earth's axis in a 26,000-year cycle ... There could no longer be any doubt that celestial and terrestrial physics were as one; the same rules applied in the heavens as on Earth. (Globe and Mail)
Face up to the dark face of the moon in eclipse Aug 16, 2008
36am the Earth's shadow will sweep across the moon's face, darkening part of the full moon ... Lunar eclipses occur at full moon when the sun, Earth and moon are perfectly aligned. (The Age)
Spacewalkers begin station's electrical upgrade Aug 16, 2008
The slow rotations will enable the panels to track the sun for the first time as the space station orbits the Earth ... Discovery's astronauts will conduct another heat shield inspection before their spacecraft returns to Earth on Dec. 21. (Yahoo News -- International Space Station)
Crew may do extra ISS spacewalk Aug 16, 2008
----------------- ----------------- RELATED BBC SITES. Last Updated: Friday, 15 December 2006, 09:59 GMT. (Yahoo News -- International Space Station)
NASA decides against earlier dates for 2 shuttle launches Aug 16, 2008
Hubble, which circled the Earth for the 100,000th time on Monday, will receive new power storage batteries and replacement gyroscopes for the steering system. Endeavour's astronauts have trained to install a pair of new science instruments as well as make repairs to two cameras. (Houston Chronicle)
Beijing Smog Cleanup: Has It Worked? Aug 16, 2008
It's not clear exactly how much the aerosols cool the Earth that's what Ramanathan is trying to figure out but he believes that without such pollution, the Earth might be considerably warmer today. That means that as developing nations like China clean up their conventional air pollution as the world is seeing now in Beijing it could paradoxically release one of the last restraints on global warming. (Time.com)
NASA Delays Robotic Moon Mission Aug 15, 2008
This artists rendering released by NASA shows the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter going around the moon with Earth in the background. NASA delayed the launch Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008, of the unmanned spacecraft to the moon whose job is to scout for potential landing sites to eventually return astronauts to the lunar surface. (CBS News)
What freedom means for your sun sign Aug 15, 2008
Four elements are: Fire Earth Air Water ... The Earth has to follow fireball i.e. the Sun ... Earth is the base, but it doesn't have the freedom as it can't grow as per its wishes or desires. (India Times, India)
Students garner Fermi Institutes Sugarman Awards Aug 15, 2008
My work has to deal with how cosmic rays are affected by their journey from their source to Earth a trip that takes them through the galactic magnetic field and the diffuse background of particles inhabiting interstellar space, he said ... Located approximately 10,000 light years from Earth in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy, DR21 is giving birth to some of the most massive stars ever observed. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Just flick the switch to vaudeville Aug 15, 2008
You might think Grocery Choice is useless, too, with its supermarket pricing guides that apply to regions so large that they would only be of strategic assistance to a Mars-based consumer wondering idly where to point the space-hopper in order to maximise the chances of bargain Earth vegies. And you might very well think Fuel Watch is useless; in all likelihood, we will never know, seeing as the new Senate appears poised to mow it down. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Sheikh appeal Aug 15, 2008
In a letter to her publisher, Miss Winspear wrote: "Who on earth can truly identify with a sardonic Spanish Don, a handsome surgeon, a dashing Italian or a bittersweet Greek? The real aim of romance is to provide escape and entertainment, not to dish up 'real life' and 'real life people on a plate with egg on it'!". Shirley Valentine would surely agree. (BBC News -- UK)
"Going Green" When Cleaning Clothes Aug 15, 2008
Ecos by Earth Friendly Products Free : A Plenty favorite: It's a nice, garden-fresh, mild detergent that's tough on stains. It washes a full load with just one ounce and has a built-in soy-based fabric softener and cellulose-based optical brightener. (CBS News -- Early Show)
> read more Aug 15, 2008
Earth still has to fend off stray asteroids that pass its way, so is Earth a planet. And if Earth were out at the orbit of Neptune, it wouldn't have the gravitational chops to dominate much of anything. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Editorial: Oil prices bring out our greener side Aug 15, 2008
But the earth is smiling ... We needed something to make us tighter, less wasteful, more appreciative and kinder to the earth. (Stoneham Sun, MA)
Psychologists determine what it means to think 'green' Aug 15, 2008
Psychologists determine what it means to think 'green. By Christinne Muschi for USA TODAY. (USA Today -- Life)
Space station toilet and solar panel await Discovery Aug 15, 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. American and Japanese astronauts plan to blast off aboard the shuttle Discovery today on a 14-day delivery and repair mission to the international space station 220 miles above the Earth ... In September, ground controllers noticed vibrations in the mechanism as it turned the panels to track the sun while the station circles the Earth. (Yahoo News -- Space Shuttle)
To The Moon And Mars: Psychologists Show New Ways To Deal With Health Challenges In Space Aug 15, 2008
Psychologists said longer missions mean astronauts will be faced with immense psychological pressures as they adjust to being so far away from Earth, which could lead to depression and interpersonal conflicts ... "Behavioral health problems can interfere with the success of the mission, especially on long-duration space flights like missions to the International Space Station, the moon and Mars. These self-guided software tools will provide private and immediate access to treatments even though... (Science Daily)
CB makes adventure town list Aug 15, 2008
At the very least, please just resign as administrator of planet earth. Gene wrote on Aug 13, 2008 4:19 PM:What these people are writing about is not Coos Ba, the town but rather, Coos Bay, the area. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Fly Me to the Moon Aug 15, 2008
And his latest film would appear to be an attempt to combine 3-D film's two until-now-separate genres, educational movies and spectacular adventures that have the viewer ducking and weaving like a prize-fight combatant ( Journey to the Center of the Earth, for instance). On the basis of his 3-D animation experiment in Fly Me to the Moon a film that is strictly one-dimensional in terms of characters and storytelling let us hope that Stassen's hybrid doesn't take. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The highs and lows of Griffins's D-list life Aug 15, 2008
Notorious for having told Jesus where he could get off on the Emmys, Griffin has kinetic body language, boundless energy, an infectious laugh and a greatly exaggerated sense of grievance, all of which stand her in good stead as the fourth season of My Life on the D List begins with an episode in which she loses out at the Producers' Guild Awards to the politically correct Planet Earth. "[Expletive] Planet Earth!" she says repeatedly, blaming her loss on Oprah, who apparently has endorsed the... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
APS needs proposals for renewable energy Aug 15, 2008
It's easier on the earth and on those who will live in it, too. From dry-country farmers to urban innovators, finding the connections between what we do and the world around us. (AZCentral -- Business)
Intense meteor shower could illuminate Bay Area skies early Jan. 4 Aug 15, 2008
What remains of the long-gone parent comet is merely a faint, tiny starlike object barely more than a mile across that is flying right now around the sun between the orbits of Earth and Jupiter. It is so faint that it can be seen only through powerful telescopes and was only detected in March by the automatic asteroid detector at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. (Yahoo News -- Meteors and Asteroids)
Sunlight's gentle nudge on asteroids detected Aug 15, 2008
The long-predicted effect has been blamed for propelling some asteroid fragments from the Solar System's main asteroid belt into the region near Earth, where they can threaten the planet ... They used this to track a near-Earth asteroid called Golevka ... The team took precise measurements of Golevka's position regularly between its discovery in 1991 and its most recent Earth pass in May. (Yahoo News -- Meteors and Asteroids)
Scientists "Listen" to Plants to Find Water Pollution Aug 15, 2008
Although most of the earth is covered in water, 44 percent of the world's population live in areas with high water stress, and the number is likely to increase because of factors such as global warming and rising population. As water sources deteriorate worldwide, the testing of algae could be used to monitor water quality faster, more cheaply and more accurately than techniques now in use, Dubinsky said. (Planet Ark, United States)
A queen of green Aug 15, 2008
In five short years she'd impressed a green-leery design community with her earth-friendly furniture and sustainable kitchens, receiving numerous national awards along the way and a recent Green Award from Chicago Magazine ... So when she discovered that Aug. 25 was the day the ancient Romans honored Opis the Earth Mother with a lavish festival, no other date would do ... "I just love that they will nourish the earth," says Salisbury. (AZCentral -- Home)
Partial elipse to test China's lunar probe Aug 15, 2008
TIANJIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's first lunar probe satellite, Chang'e 1, will have its solar energy supply tested on Sunday, when the earth eclipses the sun ... In the third phase, another rover will land and return to the Earth with lunar soil and stone samples for scientific research around 2017. (Xinhuanet, China)
RBA Declares Victory Over Inflation in Australia Aug 15, 2008
Let's get right to the point and suggest that Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Rick Battelino was talking to the banks yesterday and not anyone who lives on planet Earth, or Terra Australis Incognito, where last we heard, inflation was running at 4. 5% on a yearly basis. (Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition)
MIT: MIT solves puzzle of meteorite-asteroid link Aug 15, 2008
For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet ... The smaller rocks that most often fall to Earth, it seems, come straight in from the main asteroid belt out between Mars and Jupiter, rather than from the near-Earth asteroid (NEA) population ... By studying the spectral signatures of near-Earth asteroids, they were able to... (USA Today -- Tech)
Discovery explains why asteroids and meteorites are different Aug 15, 2008
The near-Earth asteroid Itokawa ... com Staff Meteorites that fall to Earth usually come directly from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, rather than from the population of larger space rocks that drifted in from the asteroid belt's innermost edge to hang around our planet's neighborhood ... The finding is detailed in the journal Nature and explains why the makeup of most meteorites doesn't match the composition of most near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). (USA Today -- Tech)
How do you define 'planet'? Aug 15, 2008
The Great Planet Debate' - Science Fair - USATODAY.com. The Great Planet Debate. (USA Today -- Tech)
NCsoft Auctions Ability to Send Human DNA Into Space Aug 15, 2008
Garriott will leave the drive on the ISS prior to his return to Earth. Players can be immortalized in Garriotts latest game, with the second item in the auction package, a character in Tabula Rasa to be named after the winner. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Ready for more adventures in Lodi Aug 15, 2008
I enjoyed floating back to the earth, but enjoyed having my feet touch it even more. I am not sure if I would ever jump out of a plane again on my own free will, but the experience was nevertheless unforgettable. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
CLEAN FUTURES Aug 14, 2008
Director/writer Andrew Stanton thumbs his nose at the spic-and-span hyperactive spaceship that humanity has abandoned Earth in, effectively making it a techno-joke. His is a world maintained by robots that are silently put into quarantine rather than instantly destroyed, a sign that the film s human whales can t get rid of these brave new burnouts any faster than they produce them. (New York Press)
