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  • Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet (smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e)

    04/21/2009 11:23:19 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 16 replies · 897+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/21/09 | Jennifer Quinn and Seth Borenstein - AP
    HATFIELD, England – In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place. European researchers said they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e, but realized that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habitable zone for potential life. ... An American expert called the discovery of the tiny planet "extraordinary."
  • How kangaroo burgers could save the planet (Are the family pets next?)

    01/04/2009 4:06:39 PM PST · by Libloather · 68 replies · 1,406+ views
    New Scientist ^ | 12/25/08 | Bijal Trivedi
    How kangaroo burgers could save the planet25 December 2008 by Bijal Trivedi COWS, sheep and goats may seem like innocent victims of humanity's appetite for meat, but when it comes to climate change they have a dark secret. Forget cars, planes or even power stations, some of the world's worst greenhouse gas emitters wander idly across rolling pastures chewing the cud, oblivious to the fact that their continuous belching (and to a lesser degree, farting) is warming the planet. Take New Zealand, where 34.2 million sheep, 9.7 million cattle, 1.4 million deer and 155,000 goats emit 48 per cent of...
  • Something else for Al Gore to worry about (Days are getting shorter? Pole reversal crisis?)

    12/19/2008 2:26:42 PM PST · by Libloather · 49 replies · 2,776+ views
    American Thinker ^ | 12/19/08 | Richard Strimple
    Something else for Al Gore to worry aboutDecember 19, 2008 letter to the editor I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but I have detected a new crisis that I have named "the daylight change crisis". I first noticed it sometime around the end of June this year. I started paying attention and created computer models and sure enough I was right! We are losing daylight at an astonishing rate. Each day we are losing approximately 2 minutes of day light and my computer models predict total darkness by next July. I have been able to detect this phenomenon...
  • Snow falling in New Orleans

    12/11/2008 6:47:16 AM PST · by TornadoAlley3 · 76 replies · 3,114+ views
    www.wxvt.com ^ | 12/11/08 | www.wxvt.com
    <p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Snow is falling in the New Orleans area.</p> <p>The National Weather Service says a mixture of sleet and snow is falling Thursday morning from Baton Rouge east across much of southeastern Louisiana.</p> <p>The winter weather closed some schools and created hazardous driving conditions.</p>
  • Hubble telescope finds carbon dioxide on distant planet

    12/09/2008 6:36:06 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 33 replies · 998+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 12/9/08 | AFP
    WASHINGTON (AFP) – NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of a distant planet, in a key step for finding extraterrestrial life, the space agency said Tuesday. Detecting organic compounds that can be a by-product of life processes on an Earth-like body could one day "provide the first evidence of life beyond our planet," NASA said in a statement. The discovery was made on a Jupiter-size planet 63 light years away from Earth that is too hot for life, and is all gas and liquid. "We're not closer to discovering life on...
  • Astronomers find a planet denser than lead

    10/06/2008 4:12:13 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 32 replies · 947+ views
    Bad Astronomy ^ | 10/6/08 | Phil Plait
    Planets circle the stars that dot the heavens. Before 1995, we couldn’t have said that with any certainty. Now we know of more than 300 planets orbiting distant stars, and we have a fleet of telescopes looking for them. The ultimate goal is to find another Earth orbiting a star like the Sun, but the quest on the way to that Holy Grail has yielded some strange benchmarks. CoRoT-exo3b, a dense planet orbiting another star COROT-exo-3b compared to Jupiter Meet the planet COROT-exo-3b. It orbits a star slightly larger, hotter, and brighter than the Sun. The star is not an...
  • Britons face carbon spotchecks-It's the price of 'one planet living'[UK]

    09/27/2008 8:33:30 AM PDT · by BGHater · 8 replies · 452+ views
    The Register ^ | 26 Sep 2008 | Andrew Orlowski
    Britons should be subjected to random carbon spotchecks and intensive surveillance of their diets, transport and waste disposal habits, says the Government's architecture and design quango in a new report today. The word "monitoring" occurs 19 times in the 32-page publication by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). If the proposals in the report What Makes An Eco Town?are implemented few aspects of life will go unrecorded. CABE says the strict monitoring is needed to ensure the carbon footprint of the eco-town dwellers remains at one-third of the British average, which is the requirement for what's called...
  • First photo of planet around alien star

    09/15/2008 4:41:30 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 29 replies · 192+ views
    Skymania ^ | 9/15/08 | Paul Sutherland
    Astronomers believe they have taken the first amazing photo of a planet around another star like the Sun. The alien world shows up as a tiny orange disk in the image captured by Canadian scientists with a giant telescope in Hawaii. Previous pictures of so-called extrasolar planets orbiting other stars have been painted by artists. The new world was spotted 500 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius, the scorpion. Astronomers were puzzled by its distance from its parent star which is 330 times further than we are from the sun. But they carried out detective work with...
  • PROJECT "SAUCER"

    09/05/2008 5:00:20 PM PDT · by Kevin J waldroup · 1 replies · 322+ views
    NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION Washington 25, D. C. MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESS NO. M 26 - 49 IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 27, 1949 RE 6700 Ext. 3201 The following report is a digest of preliminary studies made by the Air Material Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, on "Flying Saucers." PROJECT "SAUCER" On Tuesday, June 24, 1947, a Boise, Idaho businessman named Kenneth Arnold looked from his private plane and spotted a chain of nine saucer-like objects playing tag with the jagged peaks of Washington's Mt. Ranier at what he described as a "fantastic speed." Arnold's report set off...
  • Astronomers Find a New "Minor Planet" near Neptune

    08/18/2008 12:16:43 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 24 replies · 234+ views
    Universe Today ^ | 8/18/08 | Nancy Atkinson
    Orbit of solar system object SQ372 (blue) compared with the orbits of Neptune Pluto and Sedna (white, green, red). Credit: N. Kaib. Astronomers announced today that a new "minor planet" with an unusual orbit has been found just two billion miles from Earth, closer than Neptune. Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers detected a small, comet-like object called 2006 SQ372, which is likely made of rock and ice. However, its orbit never brings it close enough to the sun for it to develop a tail. Its unusual orbit is an ellipse that is four times longer than it...
  • New Dwarf Planet!

    07/20/2008 10:55:33 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 44 replies · 149+ views
    CCSSC.org ^ | 7/14/08
    Image credit: compiled from NASA public images At times, people still express bemusement, or confusion, that Pluto was reclassified as a "dwarf planet", after having been considered a full-fledged planet for the better part of a century. One thing I always point out to them is that we're discovering more and more roughly Pluto-sized bodies. If we call them all planets, the list of planets would rapidly grow unmanageable! (Do you want to memorize the names of 20 planets? How about 80?) Today the list just got bumped up by one. Meet Makemake, the first body in our solar...
  • Save the Planet! Tax Newspapers! (And yes, Alaska governor Sarah Palin is a babe...)

    06/24/2008 8:07:32 PM PDT · by Libloather · 12 replies · 631+ views
    Rush Limbaugh .com ^ | 6/24/08 | The Maha
    Save the Planet! Tax Newspapers!June 24, 2008 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Audio sound bite time, Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, was on KTVA channel 11 last night responding to Democrats drilling in ANWR. PALIN: I want to make sure that we're not just talking about the need to develop, to ramp up development, offshore and in ANWR, but we're asking them now, "What's your plan? If not domestic supplies being tapped into with offshore and with ANWR, then, Congress, what is your plan?" RUSH: Amen! Here is a female Republican who is willing to gut it up. She sent Dingy...
  • ABC website tells kids when they should die

    AN ABC website has been accused of portraying farmers and forestry workers as evil and telling kids how much carbon they can produce before they die.
  • Warmer Planet May Mean Fewer Atlantic Hurricanes

    05/18/2008 8:01:22 PM PDT · by blam · 40 replies · 106+ views
    National Geographic Channel ^ | 5-18-2008 | Mason Inman
    Warmer planet may mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes NewScientist.com news service Mason Inman Contrary to the widespread view that a warming world will bring more hurricanes, a controversial new study suggests the number of cyclones could actually drop in the North Atlantic. Hurricanes have become a lightning rod for arguments over what global warming might have in store. Most researchers agree that, since 1950, the number of hurricanes forming over the Atlantic has increased, and that since at least since 1980, they have become fiercer. Many studies have blamed the increase in Atlantic hurricanes on increasing sea-surface temperatures, which fuel the...
  • Hollywood To Shut Down To Save Planet

    05/12/2008 7:36:23 PM PDT · by writer33 · 48 replies · 106+ views
    Counterjab.com ^ | May 13, 2008 | Chris Davis
    Hollywood—In what could only be referred to as a historic event, Hollywood is shutting down its doors to save “Mother Earth.” The move comes after years of trying to reach an unsympathetic Bush administration, and decades of attempts at inculcating the American populous. The historic decision—based largely on the overwhelming evidence of the plight of polar bears, spotted owls and tropical insects—has forced the inevitable activist outcome, an outcome designed to promote a greener planet. Over the last year, article after article has emerged, detailing the destruction to the planet via one species or another. The evidence has only fallen...
  • Earth Day Tips (We can save the planet but not work out a flat tax?)

    04/22/2008 4:40:36 PM PDT · by Libloather · 11 replies · 135+ views
    Earth Day TipsTuesday, Apr 22, 2008 @05:45pm CST Experts say Earth Day should be more than a once-a-year observance. Anne Reichman with Earth911 says it's a good time to examine your lifestyle and find ways to conserve. She says the average American generates about 4.3 pounds of garbage every day. Reichman says this number can be reduced drastically if everyone makes an effort to cut back. She says bringing your own coffee cup or water bottle to reuse at work and starting a recycling program at home or at the office are good places to start. Reichman also recommends having...
  • Smallest extrasolar planet discovered (30 light years from earth): Spanish researchers

    04/10/2008 9:50:52 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 11 replies · 383+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 4/10/08 | AFP
    MADRID (AFP) - Spanish astronomers Wednesday announced the discovery of the smallest planet discovered to date outside the solar system, located 30 light years from earth. The planet, "GJ 436T", was detected through a new technique which "will allow us to discover in less than 10 years the first planet resembling earth in terms of mass and orbit," said Ignasi Ribas of Spain's CSIC scientific research institute. It was discovered by a team led by Ribas through its gravitational pull on other planets already discovered around the same star in the constellation of Leo. "GJ 436T" has a mass five...
  • The temperature of the planet is dropping like a stone...(They should have checked with Al first)

    04/09/2008 11:52:32 AM PDT · by LJayne · 103 replies · 174+ views
    Spectator ^ | 4/9/08 | Melanie Phillips
    All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASAGISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously. A compiled list of all the sources can be seen...The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years.
  • Battlefield Earth

    01/31/2008 9:41:19 AM PST · by forkinsocket · 25 replies · 104+ views
    Foreign Policy ^ | January 2008 | Jamais Cascio
    It may sound like science fiction, but it’s only a matter of time before the world’s militaries learn to wield the planet itself as a weapon. Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. Such innovations remain critical, and yet disruptions to the Earth’s climate could overwhelm these relatively slow, incremental changes in how we live. As reports of faster-than-expected climate changes mount, a growing number of experts worry that we might ultimately be forced to try something quite radical: geoengineering. Geoengineering involves humans...
  • Planet Mercury is shrinking, volcanic

    01/30/2008 2:39:31 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 18 replies · 114+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/30/08 | Seth Borenstein - ap
    WASHINGTON - The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider. Some of the 1,213 photos taken by NASA's Messenger probe and unveiled Wednesday help support the case that ancient volcanoes dot Mercury and that it is shrinking as it gets older, forming wrinkle-like ridges. But other images are surprising and puzzling. The spidery shape captured in a photo is "unlike anything we've seen anywhere in the solar system," said mission chief scientist Sean Solomon of the Carnegie Institution of...