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7 March 2011

Christchurch Quake from Space

  Lyttelton Harbour was ground zero for the Christchurch earthquake. It’s an historic village with a big connection to Antarctica. Sir Robert Falcon Scott made his last stop here on the way to McMurdo Sound in 1910. They had a farewell party at the Mitre Hotel. As history notes, he died attempting the Pole. Remote sensing is amazing these days… Dan

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6 March 2011

NASA Scientist (Here in Huntsville!) Says He Sees Alien Fossils in Meteorite

Dr. Richard Hoover has submitted a paper to the Journal of Cosmology that is about to get the whole world talking! He looked at slices of three very rare meteorites using Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESM–a type of electron microscope) and saw what look like micro-fossils of Cyanobacteria. If these are indeed micro-fossils of bacteria, (as Hoover believes) they almost certainly didn’t come from Earth. (That will be the …

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4 March 2011

A Wonderful Illustration of Just how Thin Our Atmosphere Is

We live in a very, very shallow layer of life giving air. It only takes the space shuttle 2 short minutes to get into space. The rest of the engine burn time is just for getting higher and going fast enough to reach orbit. Look at the video below taken from a camera on the solid rocket booster. It separates from the shuttle at 2 minutes into the flight. When …

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Glory Not To Be- It Crashes into the Pacific.

The failure of the Glory launch today is not just bad news. It’s a catastrophe for earth science; Especially American earth science. The failure of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, (OCO-on the same type of launch vehicle) and now this are going to set back critical research into the the Earth’s energy balance severely. I went over to REAL CLIMATE written by NASA Climate Scientist Gavin Schmidt and he has a …

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3 March 2011

February Arctic Ice Ties 2005 for Lowest On Record

  The decline in Arctic sea ice continues. Image from NOAA-NSIDC. The National Snow Ice Data Center released updated ice data today and the decline continues. The average ice cover in February was 14.36 million sq. km. This ties with February 2005 for lowest recorded in the month. The ice over the last year has continued to track at, or below, the all time record low year in 2007. The …

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1 March 2011

What Obama and Congress Should Do for Science

Livescience.com/ouramazingplanet.com put this question to a wide variety of those in the science fields. It’s good reading, and you may see a familiar face. Just mouse the image below to read it.

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BBC News – Brian Cox: Science is not ‘dominated by old men’

BBC News – Brian Cox: Science is not ‘dominated by old men’.

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