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23 March 2009
Earth Hour This Saturday
This coming Saturday at 8:30pm local time, millions of people will turn off their lights for an hour. It’s called Earth Hour. The idea is to get people thinking about our planet. We waste a tremendous amount of energy everyday. If incandescent bulbs were outlawed tomorrow, you could shut down several coal fired power plants immediately! They will be phased out starting in 2014, and they already have been in my house. (Saved …
28 February 2009
Scientific Facts That Are Not True
I have wanted to write this post for some time now. It is basically a list of things you know are true, but aren’t. You may very well know most of them, but I’d wager there will be at least one that you are surprised about. Fact: The hottest layer of the atmosphere is the Mesosphere. Not really true, if you use the average Joe’s definition of hot! Temps. in …
12 February 2009
A Cosmic Point One Zero and Birthday Wishes to Darwin
The Hubble telescope is back, up and running, To celebrate, NASA released a cool picture. The galaxies here are 400 million light years away. They look like the number .10 no?? So what happened is thought to be this. The galaxy on the left passed through the blue ringed galaxy on the right. This caused the ring to develop and knocked the center of the blue galaxy off to the …
8 February 2009
A Weekend To Remember
I love Science and History. So a weekend to do both is not something I would pass up easily. Living here in Huntsville, in North Alabama, means that I am surrounded by some of the top Earth Scientists in the World. The International Space Station was at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. My next door neighbor was one of the German rocket scientists brought over by Werner Von Braun. …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.