Year: 2012
Another thousand exoplanets from Kepler
Kepler today released an updated catalog of candidate exoplanets observed during the space telescope’s first sixteen months of observations. In this release, they list more than a thousand new exoplanet candidates, almost two hundred of which are Earth-sized. Among the new exoplanet candidates, twenty-five are in the habitable zone!
Now for some details.
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Durable goods orders fall 4% in January, the worst drop in three years and four times what was expected.
The Obama recovery: Durable goods orders fell 4% in January, the worst drop in three years and four times more than expected.
Coming soon to your neighborhood: A surveillance camera that can fly to heights of almost 200 feet.
Coming soon to your neighborhood: A surveillance camera that can fly to heights of almost 200 feet.
According to Orbital Sciences’ CEO, problems in launchpad construction have been the primary reason the first launch of Antares rocket/Cygnus capsule has been delayed.
Fingers crossed: According to Orbital Sciences’ CEO, problems in launchpad construction have been the primary reason the first launch of Antares rocket/Cygnus capsule has been delayed.
“We hope to have the rocket motor in the spaceship later this year and start powered flight testing.”
Iran is developing techniques and technologies needed to turn weapons-grade uranium into an atomic bomb.
The day of reckoning looms: “Iran is developing techniques and technologies needed to turn weapons-grade uranium into an atomic bomb.”
Astronomers have discovered a five hundred foot wide asteroid that has a 1 in 600 chance of hitting the Earth in 2040.
Astronomers have discovered a five hundred foot wide asteroid that has a 1 in 600 chance of hitting the Earth in 2040.
“2011 AG5 is the object which currently has the highest chance of impacting the Earth … in 2040. However, we have only observed it for about half an orbit, thus the confidence in these calculations is still not very high,” said Detlef Koschny of the European Space Agency’s Solar System Missions Division in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Government officials threatened a church with fines and forced them to cease giving away free water during the Mardi Gras parade.
More government madness: Local officials threatened a church with fines and forced them to cease giving away free water during the Mardi Gras parade.
Charlie Puth & Emily Luther – Break Again
An evening pause:
New technology for astronomy
New evidence suggests that Stone Age hunters from Europe reached the New World ten thousand years before their Asian counterparts.
New evidence suggests that Stone Age hunters from Europe reached the New World ten thousand years before their Asian counterparts.
A remarkable series of several dozen European-style stone tools, dating back between 19,000 and 26,000 years, have been discovered at six locations along the US east coast. Three of the sites are on the Delmarva Peninsular in Maryland, discovered by archaeologist Dr Darrin Lowery of the University of Delaware. One is in Pennsylvania and another in Virginia. A sixth was discovered by scallop-dredging fishermen on the seabed 60 miles from the Virginian coast on what, in prehistoric times, would have been dry land. …
What’s more, chemical analysis carried out last year on a European-style stone knife found in Virginia back in 1971 revealed that it was made of French-originating flint.
None of this is really surprising. Once we humans became the creatures we are, it became second nature for us to spread out quickly across the globe. In the case of these first European settlers, however, they came in too small numbers, and were thus eventually overwhelmed by the later settlers coming from Asia.