SpaceX has delayed its February 7 launch of Dragon to ISS
SpaceX has delayed its February 7 launch of Dragon to ISS.
Year: 2012
Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into a dormant volcano in Oregon this summer to demonstrate a new way to generate electricity.
Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into a dormant volcano in Oregon this summer to demonstrate a new way to generate electricity.
The irony I glean from this article is this: Pumping water underground to produce energy from geothermal sources (a source liked by the environmental movement) is good. However, pumping water underground to produce energy from gas or oil (energy sources hated by the environmental movement) is bad. And yet, what difference really is there between either effort?
Occupy Wall Street Thugs Confiscate Man’s Home
Thugs: Occupy Wall Street has stolen a man’s home.
The real property owner is livid because he could be raising his two little girls, Imani, 3, and Kwazha, 10, in the two-story home instead of in a meager, two-bedroom rental in Brownsville while he tries to sort out his mortgage nightmare. … “[OWS] told me not to talk to them [reporters] because they [OWS] had an offer for me,” he said.
At a second meeting after the press conference, however, organizers said they would not pay him for the house. At that point, he told them to leave. Inside the house the walls are knocked down and all of his belongings, including a stove, refrigerator and bedroom furniture, have been moved to the basement.
Seattle salts its streets
Congress ended its least-productive year in modern history after passing 80 bills — fewer than during any other session since year-end records began being kept in 1947.
Good news! Congress has just ended its least-productive year in modern history, passing only 80 bills, less than any other session since these records began being kept in 1947.
Scientists have found that the structure of Titan’s atmosphere appears to change daily and seasonally, much like the Earth’s.
Scientists have found that the structure of Titan’s atmosphere appears to change daily and seasonally, much like the Earth’s.
“The most interesting point is that their model shows the presence of two different boundaries, the lower one caused by the daily heating and cooling of the surface – and varying in height during the day – and the higher one caused by the seasonal change in global air circulation,” commented Paulo Penteado from the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. According to [Benjamin Charnay from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris], this link between the lower atmosphere’s layers and the moon’s daily and seasonal cycle has never been seen on another moon or planet besides the Earth.
One caveat: the results are based upon a computer climate model. Though this model was tweaked based on actual data, that data remains slim and incomplete.
Volunteers wanted to search for exoplanets
Want to find your very own exoplanet? Volunteers wanted!
Fauré – Pie Jesu
An evening pause:
Phobos-Grunt has crashed into the Pacific Ocean
No harm done: Phobos-Grunt has crashed into the Pacific Ocean, west of Chile.
Phobos-Grunt due to crash to Earth anytime in the next ten hours
Updated and bumped. An updated prediction from Aerospace now calls for Phobos-Grunt to come down sometime between 9 and 3 pm (Eastern). This puts the U.S. now out of danger, though Europe, South America, Africa, Australia, and the southern half of Asia all remain in the spacecraft’s path.
Watch your heads! Phobos-Grunt is due to crash to Earth anytime in the next ten hours. And unfortunately, this new prediction has it flying over both North America and much of Europe and Africa during that time period.
Six Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters
It real does pay to learn math when you are in school: Six small math errors that caused huge disasters.
NASA to mothball two wind tunnels at Langley
NASA to mothball two wind tunnels at Langley.
But NASA can spend millions to build Langley a new conference center and cafeteria. Am I crazy or is there something really wrong here?