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Bo (woof) In Commentary: If the old adage “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” is true, then Boris, the bull mastiff, is going to have one tough landing. Why do I say this? Because Boris can be seen from outer space! That, my friends, is big! (Most owners worry about losing their dogs if they slip through the front door - but with Boris, the bull mastiff, it is unlikely to be a major concern. The dog, which weighs in at a stagger 14 stone, is so large he can even be spotted from space...(con't @ http://boknowsonline.com/2008/06/12/myspace-from-space/)

First, the bad news: the inner solar system is unstable. Given enough time, Jupiter's gravity could yank Mercury out of its present orbit. Two new computer simulations of long-term planetary motion — one by Jacques Laskar (Paris Observatory), the other by Konstantin Batygin and Gregory Laughlin (University of California, Santa Cruz) — have both reached the same disturbing conclusion. Says Laughlin, "The solar system isn't as stable as we'd thought." Both teams have found that Jupiter's gravity can increase Mercury's orbital eccentricity over time. Mercury's path around the Sun is already nearly as elliptical as Pluto's. But Jupiter can make...

With less than two months to go before it is due to land on Mars, NASA's Phoenix probe has been directed towards a specific landing site called Green Valley. The site has few boulders that could potentially endanger a landing and lots of water ice for the lander to study.

This is a video of some of earth’s universe grandeur. The song is, God Is So Good, sung by children. The pictures and images were taken by Hubble telescope and the last image is called the Cat’s Eye Nebula.

Every climate scientist in the world has known beyond any doubt, for at least several years now, that late 20th century warming was driven almost entirely by the very high levels of solar activity between 1940 and 2000. They also know the corollary: that when solar activity drops into a down phase, the earth will get cold, possibly even precipitating the next ice age (due any century now). It seems certain at this point that we are in for at least a substantial dip in global temperature. ... If global cooling is known to be the real and impending danger,...

Gusting winds swept away Artorius One after its successful second stage separation. "We had a perfect, uninterrupted launch sequence, ignition was nominal as were the separation and chute deployment," said *****, an Artorius Aerospace engineer. "But we didnt count on wind gusts at altitude to be that high." The separation was viewed visually as was chute deployment. Thats when a wind gust at about 400 ft took the parachuting re-entry vehicle far to the northwest of the Artorius Space Flight Center near [REDACTED]. At this time its wherabouts are unknown.

(WASHINGTON, DC) Astronaut Scott Parazynski did more than perform emergency surgery on a torn solar panel on the International Space Station today. At the end of his spacewalk, almost as an afterthought, he reached out with a 90-foot robotic arm and boom extension, and deftly snagged a strand of twine dangling from a mysterious bundle of space debris. “Yee haw,” was all that earthbound controllers could hear Parazynsky say into his space helmet at that moment. However, Col. Douglas H. Wheelock, giving visual cues to Parazynsky during what officials have termed the most dangerous spacewalk in history, shouted something else:...

Yet another busy news week. As I write this, Fox News is breaking (ahead of CNN, ABC and USA Today) the news that Bobby Cutts has been taken into custody for the murder of Jessie Davis. The man who lost his family in a violent Illinois shooting has been charged with their murder. A pair of naked twenty-somethings plummeted to their deaths from a roof top. The US and North Korea are again engaged in talks regarding North Korea's nuclear program. Iran still has a president who fancies himself the Bringer of the Apocalypse and Syria is still his willing...

What if it has all been a great big misunderstanding? What if the AGW scare turned out to be nothing more than mass hysteria driven by leftist environmental zealots, aided and abetted by scientists whose computer simulations led them to the mistaken conclusion that they understood the infinitely complex machinations of our atmosphere and oceans? What if, despite the ad nauseam claims of the CoGW, climate change really is a natural phenomenon not driven in any way by atmospheric CO2 concentrations? Dr. Tim Patterson of Carleton University in Canada is among the ever-increasing number of qualified scientists giving the lie...

What if "Mabus", is not a person? If he saw this in a vision, back then, he would have thought it was a persons name. What if it was something else. PROJECT MABUS(2007)- Man And Biosphere program of the United States. This project name is MABUS, it was started in the late 1970's and the United States rejoined the project in 2004. Project MABUS was formed to protect the natural resources and environment throughout the world. So ask yourself this, he stated that Famine, Hunger, and drout was the beginning. What if the "death"/failure of project MABUS,led to mass global...

The entire solar system appears to be warming up lately. What's the root cause? As an update to my story earlier this month on the discovery of global warming on Mars, I thought it appropriate to survey the rest of the solar system. Global warming was detected on Jupiter last year, and the warming is apparently behind the formation of a second red spot. Global warming on Neptune's moon Triton has also been noted, with severe atmospheric changes as a result. And even tiny Pluto has experienced moderate warming in recent years, with temperatures rising a full 3.5 degrees. The...

Ecliptophiles, get out your binoculars. The moon could be turning red again. Or maybe orange. Or maybe a dull brown. The color is unpredictable because it depends on the amount of dust and clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere, which filters and refracts the indirect light from the sun that manages to reach the moon even during a total eclipse. But whatever the color, this is a show worth watching when the moon rises Saturday evening in the eastern sky and is eclipsed by the Earth’s shadow. You just have to be in the right spot. In America, that means being...

This cannot be a happy day at the NASA press office. Lisa Nowak, 43, drove hundreds of miles to confront a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut, Bill Oefelein, according to police. (Photos: NASA)It is always awkward answering questions when one of your employees is arrested. It becomes still more awkward when the employee is an astronaut. And it gets really, really awkward when, as the Times’ Christine Hauser reports, the employee is accused by police of driving from Houston to Orlando in diapers, arming herself with a BB gun and pepper spray, donning a wig and trench...

Global warming is caused by fluctuations in Sun's core temperature, and NOT by human activities, according to a scientist from George Mason University.

Last December over one thousand Israelis purchased land on the moon. The price of each one-eighth-acre plot of land is about $60. Each buyer gets an ownership certificate and a photographed map of the purchased area. So far some 55.5 million acres of land on the moon have been sold to people all over the world. Daniel Yaron, CEO of Crazyshop, the company which markets moon property in Israel, said that the typical rationale for such a purchase is as a “gag gift.” “It makes for an unusual gift for those ‘hard-to-buy-for’ friends and relatives,” Yaron explained. Yaron’s explanation was...

Welcome to the site! Several days ago in an uncharacteristic burst of productivity, The Beast crafted a mildy amusing satire (Below) poking fun at Conspiracy freaks, the MSM Fauxtographers, and French Genius Jerry Lewis. One need only look at the header, "Bush Lied, International Polar Moon Camp Already There!", to realize that this is not a serious work of journalism. It's FAKE. It's a JOKE! The column ran through its typical one-hundred-reads-over-twenty-four-hours cycle uneventfully, and then something odd happened; yesterday it got another hundred reads. Well, so what? Two hundred reads on an internet of billions barely qualifies as any...

The hype surrounding potential water and life is a good example of how a scientists' and bureaucrats' funding ambitions can shape what is scientifically "respectable". Dramatic new pictures suggest Mars has flowing liquid water on its surface, significantly increasing the chances that there could be life on the Red Planet. Anyone who speculated about life on Mars was once thought to be a kook. NASA then figured out how to use the potential of life on Mars to justify its budget, a credulous news media went along and now Serious Scientists openly speculate on the matter.The pattern is general and...

An Opportunity to Study Mars - October 06, 2006 This video compilation shows images from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's 32 months on Mars.

From “The Evolution Handbook” by Vance Ferrell, B.A., M.A., B.D Printing 2005 From Chapter 2, pages 70 - 73Part 2 The Big Bang And Stellar EvolutionLet’s take it point by point--That is the theory. It all sounds so simple, just as you would find in a science fiction novel. And that is all it is. The theory stands in clear violation of physical laws. Celestial mechanics, and common sense. Here are a number of scientific reasons why the Big Bang theory is unworkable and fallacious. THE BIG BANG EXPLOSION 1. - The Big Bang theory is based on theoretical extremes....

It looks like a speck of dust on the surface of the sun. But this spectacular picture shows the space shuttle Atlantis alongside the International Space Station (ISS) silhouetted as they orbit the earth.

See for example this thread first. The new entertainment from Google Real-life peep shows for the frugal! View the Earth from space See more than her face Relax, and pop a Leinenkugel!

Stephen Hawking chooses a new voice Celebrated Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has selected and is using NeoSpeech's Text-to-Speech engine, VoiceText, as his new voice. VoiceText is integrated into Dr. Hawking's communicator, E Z Keys, enabling him to clearly communicate with the outside world.

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On September 18, Iranian-born, Dallas businesswoman Anousheh Ansari (bio here) and two astronauts are scheduled to blast off in a Russian Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Ansari replaced Japanese-born businessman Daisuke Enomoto, who was pulled from the flight for medical reasons. The Iranian news media has not made too much of the first Iranian woman scheduled to go into space, but there have been a number of reports about it and this Iranian space site has a number of pictures. So it is interesting to me that one of the photos has clearly been photoshopped...

Astronomers voted for a sweeping reclassification of the solar system. Pluto was demoted to the status of a “dwarf planet.” In the new solar system as defined by the International Astronomical Union, there are eight planets instead of nine. The demotion of Pluto was seized on by the Democratic National Committee as another Bush Administration failure. “Not since the days of Herbert Hoover has our solar system had only eight planets,” said Howard Dean, DNC Chairman. “Bush has wrecked the economy, mismanaged the war on terror and, now, he’s lost an entire planet. Is there no end to the bungling...

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NASA posted an interesting account from the 1st moon landing for the anniversary of this historic mission on 07/20/1969 + audio link

As is the case with a group think machine that is only interested in discushing shared ideas and beliefs without respect to reason or facts, the people involved with the Free Republic are dictated by their own sets of preowned views and beliefs. Anything that implies the USA to be wrong in its foreign policy is considered unacceptable and the member who made anti American remarks is swiftly banned from the forum. I am sorry to say this but most of you in the forum are low lifes whose knowledge and world understanding is distorted at best and hence you...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: NASA counted down to the launch of space shuttle Discovery on Saturday, hoping to fly a crucial mission and knowing that failure could ground the shuttle fleet permanently and leave the Space Station unfinished. Discovery was scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:49 p.m. EDT on a voyage to the space station that will test repairs to the shuttle’s troublesome fuel tank, which triggered the destruction of shuttle Columbia and the deaths of seven astronauts in 2003. the link is here The Space Program should be something all Americans would...

New Scientist for Dec 14, 2002, had a cover story for Planet X: The Hunt for Planet X by Heather Couperand Nigel HenbestJust over a year after the New Horizons' launch, it will... pick up enough velocity to reach Pluto, possibly as early as July 2015... In their new research, Melita and Brunini have explored three possible reasons for the Kuiper Cliff... The third possibility is that the region beyond was brushed clear by the gravity of Planet X... the KBO orbits they have investigated so far fit in best with the influence of a Planet X.

Astronomers announced that the Earth is being bathed in infrared energy emanating from a massive stellar body a mere 93 million miles away. As a result, the temperature of the planet has been raised hundreds of degrees above what it otherwise would've been. "We have discovered that a massive heat transfer has been underway for at least 4 billion years," said Cambridge University astronomer Horatio Dimsdale. "This has had a substantial impact on the environment." Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, says this vindicates his warnings of impending global catastrophe. "I have been trying to warn earthlings...

Okay, take a breather from the Islam will consume the world, illegal aliens are swarming over the border, and the Democrats are gonna take the house, senate, and, even worse, Bush will NOT be re-elected!!!!! I think this link will work???? http://www.disneycentral.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25879

How low will the forces of political correctness stoop? Well, all the way down to the basement of Chicago's Adler Planetarium, that's for certain. I took Litte Marathon Pundit there Tuesday afternoon. She's on spring break from school this week, and her third grade class is spending a lot of time discussing astronomy. The planetarium underwent a major expansion in the 1990s, I hadn't been there since the project was completed. My daughter liked our day-trip a lot, and that was enough for me. Almost. My probing eye picked up some frightening political-correctness in the astrolobe section of the planetarium....

‘Someone recently asked me about the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, stating that they thought it was irrelevant to creation/evolution because the earth is not an isolated system since the sun is constantly pumping in more energy. ‘This does seem to be a valid point—do creationists still use this argument? Am I missing something here?’ Answer 1: The Second Law can be stated in many different ways, e.g.: that the entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum (in simple terms, entropy is a measure of disorder) usable energy is running out information tends to get scrambled order tends towards disorder...

Products based on NASA Earth observations and a new Internet-based decision tool are providing information to help land and water managers combat tamarisk (saltcedar), an invasive plant species damaging precious water supplies in the western United States. This decision tool, called the Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS), is being used at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Institute of Invasive Species Science in Fort Collins, Colo. It is the result of combining USGS science and NASA Earth observations, software engineering and high- performance computing expertise. "The ISFS combines NASA satellite data with tens of thousands of field sampling measurements, which...

When EU expansion eastwards hits the brick wall of Russia, the EU intends to head upwards into outer space. They have begun preparing at the European Centre for Space Law for their take-over of Mars.

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is leftover radiation from the Big Bang redshifted (stretched) by the universe's expansion into the microwave region of the spectrum. In this image NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) records minuscule temperature fluctuations in the CMB as different colors. In principle, an advanced civilization could create a universe and encode information in the CMB that would let civilizations in the offspring universe know that their universe had been purposefully created. NASA / WMAP Science Team. --------------------------------------------------------------- If our universe was purposefully created — perhaps by a deity or an advanced civilization in another universe —...

Any action that might possibly be taken to divert a 390m-wide asteroid from colliding with Earth is likely to be opposed by environmentalists. The reasons range from reluctance to tampering with Mother Nature to the belief that anything that might destroy civilization would be good for the environment. The asteroid in question is Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036. The impact would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. The Earth would see massive cooling effects from the dust released into the atmosphere. There has been some...

Sunrise by Season Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis Explanation: Does the Sun always rise in the same direction? No. As the seasons change, the direction toward the rising Sun will change, too. The Sun will always rise and set furthest to the south during the day of Winter Solstice, and furthest to the north during Summer Solstice. Today is Winter Solstice, the day of least sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere and of most sunlight in the Southern Hemisphere. In many countries, the Winter Solstice brings a change in season, as it is the first day of winter in the...

I don't know how many of you out there are into astronomy. I find it utterly fascinating. Here is a link that you might find interesting. I check it out every day. Let me know if you would like me to post the picture with comments every day and ping it to your space nuts. Thanks DG

Recent work on antarctic ice cores has now given us a good record of atmospheric composition over the last 650,00 years. The work shows that CO2 and other "greenhouse" gasses are now at their highest levels ever over that period. All the news stories are quoting scientists saying that this new information proves that human-emitted gasses are causing global warming. They're wrong. In fact, the core samples might just show the opposite. (Note: I'm working from secondary sources here as I can't bring myself to plink down the $10 to get the actual paper from Science. If I get more...

Quantum fluctuation. Inflation. Expansion. Strong nuclear interaction. Particle-antiparticle annihilation. Deuterium and helium production. Density perturbations. Recombination. Blackbody radiation. Local contraction. Cluster formation. Reionization? Violent relaxation. Virialization. Biased galaxy formation? Turbulent fragmentation. Contraction. Ionization. Compression. Opaque hydrogen. Massive star formation. Deuterium ignition. Hydrogen fusion. Hydrogen depletion. Core contraction. Envelope expansion. Helium fusion. Carbon, oxygen, and silicon fusion. Iron production. Implosion. Supernova explosion. Metals injection. Star formation. Supernova explosions. Star formation. Condensation. Planetesimal accretion. Planetary differentiation. Crust solidification. Volatile gas expulsion. Water condensation. Water dissociation. Ozone production. Ultraviolet absorption. Photosynthetic unicellular organisms. Oxidation. Mutation. Natural selection and evolution. Respiration. Cell differentiation. Sexual...

For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do - from "Space Oddity" by David Bowie It's amazing what we continue to learn from NASA's space program. Eileen Collins, commander of the latest Discovery shuttle mission, took time out of her busy schedule of wasting taxpayer dollars to make a few remarks on the condition of Earth as it appears from an altitude of 220 miles. Commander, what would you like to say to those of us who will never see things from your point of...

New Planet Discovered Beyond Pluto... Designated as 2003 EL61, the main object in the two-body system is 32 percent as massive as Pluto and is estimated to be about 70 percent of Pluto's diameter. Scientists have not given the planet a name - but since it shares major characteristics with a senator we all know: dwelling in darkness, way out in left field, frigid, may I suggest... ...Hillary?

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Thursday, June 23, 2005 TRUTH REVEALED: The New York Times is a Master at DeceptionA brilliant article by Sanjoy Mahajan in ZNET analyzes with crystalline clarity and exposes the shameless cover-up tactics used by The New York Times when dealing with the Downing Street Memos (minutes) and briefings. In Mahajan's words: The NYT articles -- masterpieces of delay, indirection, distraction, fake rebuttals, and elegant omission -- keep readers ignorant of the lies and the lying liars who tell them. No wonder so many Americans still support this gangster war. In Mahajan's article he first compares headlines from the British media...

Download Evidence for a Young World Abstract Here are fourteen natural phenomena which conflict with the evolutionary idea that the universe is billions of years old. The numbers listed below in bold print (usually in the millions of years) are often maximum possible ages set by each process, not the actual ages. Spiral galaxy NGC 1232 in constellation Eridanus. Photo: European Southern Observatory Here are fourteen natural phenomena which conflict with the evolutionary idea that the universe is billions of years old. The numbers listed below in bold print (usually in the millions of years) are often maximum possible ages...

She Wants To Be A Pioneer In Space. That is Maryam from Kuwait and the Excellent So I Want To Be An Astronaut Blog which details her Hopes, Dreams, Studies, and Desires of becoming the First Arab Female Astronaut or Cosmonaut, as well as her Admiration for another Space Pioneer, Famed Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalov. Excerpts: MG: When did your dreams start of becoming an Astronaut? Maryam: I always have such passion for space since I was little kid but I don't remember that I ever wished to be an astronaut. However, I remember the exact moment when it pops...