Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting skydive of 23 miles has been postponed until Sunday due to weather concerns.
Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting skydive of 23 miles has been postponed until Sunday due to weather concerns.
Year: 2012
A super Earth, made of diamonds
A super Earth, made of diamonds.
Astronomers also thought 55 Cancri e contained a substantial amount of super-heated water, based on the assumption that its chemical makeup was similar to Earth’s, Madhusudhan said. But the new research suggests the planet has no water at all, and appears to be composed primarily of carbon (as graphite and diamond), iron, silicon carbide, and, possibly, some silicates. The study estimates that at least a third of the planet’s mass — the equivalent of about three Earth masses — could be diamond. “By contrast, Earth’s interior is rich in oxygen, but extremely poor in carbon — less than a part in thousand by mass,” says co-author and Yale geophysicist Kanani Lee.
Singer Sarah Brightman has purchased a ticket to fly to ISS in a Soyuz capsule.It’s official: Singer Sarah Brightman has purchased a ticket to fly to ISS in a Soyuz capsule.
It’s official: Singer Sarah Brightman has purchased a ticket to fly to ISS in a Soyuz capsule.
A new survey of 13,575 physicians had found that doctors are fleeing the field.
Finding out what’s in it: A new survey of 13,575 physicians had found that doctors are fleeing the field.
The survey also found that over the next one to three years, more than 50 percent of physicians will cut back on patients seen, work part-time, switch to concierge medicine, retire, or take other steps likely to reduce patient access.
But don’t worry, “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period.” Not!
Mayumana – four man hand dance
An evening pause:
“The end of the media’s infatuation with Obama may be the greatest casualty of the debate.”
“The end of the media’s infatuation with Obama may be the greatest casualty of the debate.”
This analysis is fascinating, as it notes a significant shift in the press’s normally lapdog Democratic Party spin effort to a much more hostile approach. If this is true, that the leftwing press has decided to stop protecting this administration, than Obama and the Democrats have no chance come election day.
The astronauts on ISS have opened the hatch to Dragon one day early.
The astronauts on ISS have opened the hatch to Dragon one day early.
A gallery of planetary nebula.
Ten incredible rock pillar landscapes.
Conspiratorial Media Incest
The long list of links — social and political — that this article outlines between the Democratic Party and the journalists that dominate the media is downright appalling. No wonder they can’t report objectively. Too many of them have been activists trying to get Democrats elected.
Science vs religion
The anthropologist who led the research into the Kennewick Man skeleton found in the Columbia Valley presented his research to Indian tribal leaders yesterday.
First the science:
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An Obama campaign staffer has been caught on video helping a voter vote twice.
Vote early and often! An Obama campaign staffer has been caught on video helping a voter vote twice.
And it appears that this isn’t an isolated event, with more videos to come.
“There is no statistical case to be made for a global temperature increase in the past 15 years.”
“There is no statistical case to be made for a global temperature increase in the past 15 years.”
The database is the one created by the Met Office in Great Britain. Also this:
None of these adjustments are, considering the errors of measurement, statistically significant, but they do affect the ranking of years, which is important if the associated errors are not considered, as is often the case in the media. The overall conclusion is that global temperature datasets are fluid and change from month to month, and this must be taken into account in any analysis. It would be nice to have explanations for such changes.[emphasis mine]
Because of the unexplained adjustments, 1998 is no longer the hottest year on record, a “fact” trumpeted loudly by global warming scientists for more than a decade.
At 9:04 am (Eastern) the Dragon capsule completed a hard docking with ISS.
At 9:04 am (Eastern) the Dragon capsule successfully completed a hard docking with ISS.
Heavenly Appeals
An evening pause:
Two Baptist-affiliated colleges today sued the Obama administration over its contraceptive mandate.
We’ve only just begun. Two Baptist-affiliated colleges today sued the Obama administration over its contraceptive mandate.
There are now 33 separate lawsuits over this odious attempt under Obamacare to impose contraceptives on those who do not believe it moral to use them.
A dying woman, refused a private screening at a TSA checkpoint, was patted down in public and forced to remove her bandages.
Does this make you feel safer? A dying woman, refused a private screening at a TSA checkpoint, was patted down in public and forced to remove her bandages.
They also destroyed some of her medicine. Worse, she called ahead to make sure she was doing everything correctly in order to get past the TSA thugs as easily as possible. Obviously, it didn’t work.
Has Voyager 1 already left the solar system?
Has Voyager 1 already left the solar system?
New data from the spacecraft indicate that the historic moment of its exit from the solar system might have come and gone two months ago. Scientists are crunching one more set of numbers to find out for sure.
Curiosity takes its first scoop
Curiosity takes its first scoop.
The very tiny bright object spotted on the ground nearby has ironically turned out to be more intriguing to the science team than the dirt in the scoop.
To avoid the cost of Obamacare, companies are reducing their full time stuff and switching as many employees to part-time as possible.
Finding out what’s in it: To avoid the cost of Obamacare, companies are reducing their full time staff and switching as many employees to part-time as possible.
It is very simple. The regulatory cost of Obamacare is so high companies are doing anything they can to avoid it. It is for this reason that they stopped hiring almost the instant the law was passed, and are now scrambling to find other ways to survive outside its influence.