http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/impact/ en-us Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:21:38 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370018/posts Debate about the impact of the $787 billion stimulus continued this week. “Thanks largely to the Recovery Act,” Larry Summers argued, “we have walked a substantial distance back from the economic abyss and are on the path toward economic recovery.” Yet the latest data from the Department of Commerce continue to show that only an insubstantial part of this distance was due to the stimulus. The table shows the latest Department of Commerce estimates of the contributions of consumption, investment, net exports, and government spending to the improvement in GDP growth from the first to second quarter. Growth improved by... The Wall Street Pit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370018/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:21:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2339539/posts William K. Hartmann painted this conception of an asteroid impact on Mars. Similar explosions formed many of craters that international space probes have observed on the red planet. Hartmann, co-founder of the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, is an internationally recognized expert on impact cratering and the evolution of planetary surfaces. Among his many contributions to the field, the Meteoritical Society is honoring his discovery of the Moon's giant Orientale impact basin, a discovery he made as a graduate student in 1962 under the direction of space sciences pioneer Gerard Kuiper. The society also is recognizing his development of a... Happy News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2339539/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:10:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338009/posts As you may have guessed, rising unemployment accounts for many home foreclosures. That's turning many people from homeowners to renters. Judy Heller and her husband spent 24 years in their Rochester home, raising their kids. But they're moving out soon. "It's too expensive, we can't afford to stay here and my husband had looked for a job around Rochester but most of them are minimum wage, and you can't survive on minimum wage now," Says Heller. They're moving to an apartment in the Twin Cities, where her husband's found a job. Down sizing means living in a smaller place, and... KAALTV.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338009/posts#comment Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:12:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297150/posts This image shows a large impact shown on the bottom left on Jupiter's south polar region captured on July 20, 2009, by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Credit: NASA/JPL/Infrared Telescope Facility As we reported yesterday, an amateur astronomer snapped evidence of an impact on Jupiter. Now, NASA has confirmed the black spot on the giant gas planet is in fact an impact and not just a weather-related disturbance. And Anthony Wesley has now made the biggest observation of his life. "It still feels very surreal right now," he told Universe Today. "I guess it will take... Universe Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297150/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:40:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2293029/posts 2007 VK184Earth Impact Risk Summary Torino Scale (maximum) 1 Palermo Scale (maximum) -1.83 Palermo Scale (cumulative) -1.82 Impact Probability (cumulative) 3.4e-04 Number of Potential Impacts 4 Vimpact 19.19 km/s Vinfinity 15.63 km/s H 22.0 Diameter 0.130 km Mass 3.3e+09 kg Energy 1.5e+02 MT all above are mean values weighted by impact probability Analysis based on101 observations spanning 60.013 days(2007-Nov-12.13904 to 2008-Jan-11.15189) Orbit diagram and elements available here. NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2293029/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:58:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277177/posts WASHINGTON, June 22, 2009 – Defense Department officials are working aggressively to reduce the impact of multiple deployments on the children of military families. “The department recognizes that these multiple, long-term deployments are really tough on families,” said Barbara Thompson, director of the Pentagon’s Office of Family Policy/Children and Youth. Deployments since fighting began in Iraq and Afghanistan have affected nearly 2 million military children, and about 234,000 of those children currently have at least one parent deployed, according to a 2007 Defense Manpower Data Center report. Surveys of active-duty and reserve-component spouses in 2008 included questions regarding military children.... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277177/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:38:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2236876/posts Ever wish you got something really painful on camera, right at the moment of impact? Well these people managed. These have all got to hurt. More pics on site Funny & Interesting E-mail Forwards http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2236876/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:47:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2215405/posts When an asteroid was spotted heading towards our planet last October, researchers rushed to document a cosmic impact from start to finish for the first time. Roberta Kwok tells the tale.Around midnight on 6 October 2008, a white dot flitted across the screen of Richard Kowalski's computer at an observatory atop Mount Lemmon in Arizona. Kowalski had seen hundreds of such dots during three and a half years of scanning telescope images for asteroids that might hit Earth or come close. He followed the object through the night and submitted the coordinates, as usual, to the Minor Planet Center in... Nature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2215405/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:07:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2160316/posts It's a classic image from every youngster's science textbook: a cutaway image of Earth's interior. The brown crust is paper-thin; the warm mantle orange, the seething liquid of the outer core yellow, and at the center the core, a ball of solid, red-hot iron. Now a new theory aims to rewrite it all by proposing the seemingly impossible: Earth has not one but two inner cores. The idea stems from an ancient, cataclysmic collision that scientists believe occurred when a Mars-sized object hit Earth about 4.45 billion years ago. The young Earth was still so hot that it was mostly... Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2160316/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:20:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128236/posts Researchers are launching a $21 million study to determine the impacts of a warming climate on Nevada and its precious water supply. The five-year project ... --snip-- Nick Lancaster, a desert geomorphologist at DRI and project investigator, said the study will try to pinpoint effects on people and ecosystems. --snip-- Plans call for monitoring stations to be established in north-central Nevada and southern Nevada. The stations would monitor aspects of climate change at different elevations and landscapes. Temperatures, wind speed, precipitation, solar radiation and soil moisture would be measured. Instruments attached to trees will measure their growth, while webcams will... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128236/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 23:29:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2087113/posts Scientific Scenario Of A Comet's Impact With Earth And The "Wormwood Star" Prophecy by Marshall Beeber An Introduction In the First Century AD, the Apostle John wrote an apocalyptic book called "Revelation" in which he described among many "end-time" events the collision of a star called Wormwood with Earth. Revelation states: Rev. 8:10-11: The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people... The Messianic Literary Corner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2087113/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:24:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065456/posts INDEPENDENT RESEARCH debunks one of the Democratic Party's favorite talking points about the global consequences of the war in Iraq. Armed with government statistics showing a big increase in terrorist attacks since 2002, Democrats routinely assert that President Bush ignited a firestorm of terrorism throughout the Muslim world when he sent troops into Iraq. The claim and the statistics are used to illustrate what Democrats see as the foolishness of the president's belief that toppling Saddam Hussein's regime would reduce instability in the Middle East and eliminate a major potential source of terrorism. A survey released in May by a... Alabama Press-Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065456/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2054162/posts Scientists are to sail to the mid-Atlantic to examine a massive "open wound" on the Earth's surface. Dr Chris MacLeod, from Cardiff University, said the Earth's crust appeared to be missing across an area of several thousand square kilometres. The hole in the crust is midway between the Cape Verde Islands and the Caribbean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The team will survey the area, up to 5km (3 miles) under the surface, from ocean research vessel RRS James Cook. The ship is on its inaugural voyage after being named in February. Dr MacLeod said the hole in the Earth's crust... BBCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2054162/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:42:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039577/posts Russian scientists in bid to solve Tunguska Event Last Updated: 1:18AM BST 02/07/2008 Russian scientists will this week attempt to solve the mystery of a giant explosion 100 years ago that turned night to day across western Europe and flattened a large swathe of Siberia. Trees lay strewn across the Siberian countryside, in 1953, 45 years after an 'unexplained explosion' near Tunguska, Russia A century after reindeer herdsmen saw a column of light that shone with the intensity of the Sun moving across the Siberian dawn sky, the Tunguska Event remains one of the modern era's most abiding scientific riddles.... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039577/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 03:55:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2007406/posts With the premiere of Ben Stein’s new movie, Expelled, many people are pondering the long-term impact of Darwinism on society. We touched base with two experts on the subject. Arguing that Darwinism has had a largely positive impact on society is Michael Ruse (MR), the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. Arguing that Darwinism has had a largely negative impact on society is Richard Weikart (RW), Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Set this up for the layman. What is Darwinism? Is it science? Is it a social theory? A philosophy? MR:... The Stanford Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2007406/posts#comment Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:07:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992049/posts 'Biggest UK space impact found' By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News The impact occurred about 1.2 billion years ago. Evidence of the biggest meteorite ever to hit the British Isles has been found by a team of scientists. Researchers from the universities of Oxford and Aberdeen think a large object hit north-west Scotland about 1.2 billion years ago. The space rock struck the ground near the present-day town of Ullapool, they report in Geology journal. The scientists found what they believe to be debris which was flung out when the impact crater was formed. "If there had been human... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992049/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:16:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973784/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudden, tremendous gushes of water from underground most likely carved out unusual fan-shaped geological formations with steps like a staircase long ago on the surface of Mars, scientists said on Wednesday. The Martian surface boasts perhaps 200 large basins that have formations resembling fans. About 10 of them are terraced, with what looks like steps into the basin. Since they were first seen three years ago, scientists have debated how these formations, some of them 9 miles wide, were created. Dutch and U.S. researchers simulated on Earth on a vastly smaller scale the conditions that might have... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973784/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1974650/posts (Dog owners eat your heart out: doesn't work with dogs!)New study says they (cat owners) are less likely to die of heart attack or stroke Cat owners are less likely to die of a heart attack or stroke than people who, well, don't own cats, a new study suggests. The study, by researchers at the University of Minnesota, found that felineless people were 30 percent to 40 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than those with cats. Charloette Observer , Minneapolis Star Tribune, etc. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1974650/posts#comment Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:25:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968050/posts Gay marriage amendment may impact presidential race Sunday, February 10, 2008 The issue on whether to ban same-sex marriages is expected draw more conservatives to the polls.STATE (Bay News 9) -- An amendment on the ballot in November could impact the presidential election. The amendment would ban same-sex marriages. It defines marriage as a legal union of only one man and one woman. Like Amendment 1 on property tax reform did earlier this month, Amendment 2 is expected to draw a high number of voters to the polls. "It will become a big issue as it relates to turnout," said... Bay News 9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968050/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:00:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952319/posts WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2008 – If Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates approves a proposal to send 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan, it could have a significant impact on operations in the country, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today. Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, answers a question from local media during a Pentagon news briefing Jan. 11, 2008. Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Molly A. Burgess, USN  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen said during a Pentagon news conference that the proposal is... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952319/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:49:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951083/posts PASADENA, Calif. - Scientists tracking an asteroid approaching Mars say that an impact with the Red Planet has become less likely. Refined estimates of the asteroid's orbit were made using new observations from a telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain, according to the Near-Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The impact probability fell to 2.5 percent, the NEO office said in Jan. 8 update posted on the NEO Web site. The miss distance was holding steady at about 30,000 kilometers, or 18,600 miles. The asteroid, dubbed 2007 WD5, was discovered in late November by the NASA-funded... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951083/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:32:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947979/posts Possible Mars impact highlights risk to Earth 00:01 04 January 2008 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga Asteroid 2007 WD5's orbit takes it from just outside Earth's orbit through Mars's orbit to the asteroid belt (Illustration: JPL/NASA)Tools An asteroid hurtling towards Mars has a 1 in 28 chance of walloping the Red Planet, according to the latest calculations. The rock's discovery just a couple of months before a possible impact begs the question of what would happen if it were instead headed for Earth – the only option, astronomers say, would be to evacuate any inhabited areas it might hit. The... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947979/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 00:38:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1947788/posts Additional position observations for asteroid 2007 WD5 taken on December 29 through January 2 have been used to improve the accuracy of the asteroid's orbit. As a result, the range of possible paths past Mars has narrowed by a factor of 3 and the most likely path has moved a little farther away from the planet, causing the Mars impact probability to decrease slightly to 3.6% (about one chance in 28). The new positional observations were made using the 2.4 meter telescope at New Mexico Tech's Magdalena Ridge Observatory and reported by astronomer Bill Ryan. It seems likely that as... MarsDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1947788/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:25:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1929042/posts Moons like the Earth's - which are formed in catastrophic collisions - are extremely rare in the Universe, a study by US astronomers suggests. The Moon was created when an object as big as the planet Mars smacked into the Earth billions of years ago. The impact hurled debris into orbit, some of which eventually consolidated to form our Moon. The Astrophysical Journal reports that just 5-10% of planetary systems in the Universe have moons created this way. BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1929042/posts#comment Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:12:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909992/posts WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2007 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today expressed concern over the state of U.S.-Turkey relations, a day after Congress passed a symbolic measure that considers Turkey guilty of waging a genocide campaign against Armenians in World War I. Despite appeals from President Bush and other top U.S. officials to reject the measure, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday voted 27 to 21 in favor of a nonbinding resolution that characterized the mass killings of some 1.5 million Armenians, which began in 1915, as genocide. “This is a very sensitive subject for a close... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909992/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:37:51 GMT