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Exoplanets: First ever pictures - sensational!

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:58:29 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

This is incredible: For the first time, ever, astronomers have captured an optical image of a planet orbiting a star like our own.

And that’s not all: we also have a second picture showing TWO planets orbiting a second star!

(Calm down. Breathe, breathe.)

The first picture is from Hubble. Ready? Here it is:

Do you see it? That tiny spark, that wee blip of light? It may not look like much, but it is in fact a normal planet orbiting a normal star, 250 trillion kilometers from Earth.

The planet itself is just that small dot, almost lost in the noise from the star and the light from the ring.

But it’s there, and it’s real. Images taken almost two years apart show that the planet is moving with the star, and is consistent with it orbiting Fomalhaut at a distance of about 18 billion km (11 billion miles)

The planet is unnamed, and is simply called Fomalhaut b.

This is huge news.

And it gets even huger. Because there’s more:

That image is the first to directly show two planets orbiting another star

WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO A CONSERVATIVE

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:47:17 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: Well, I went into the Conservapedia site and it seems the top ten questions on the mind of your average right-wing, Limbaugh hugging, Fox Noise viewing, Ann Coulter nonsense reading, conservative has changed somewhat. AND THE WINNER IS ... HOMOSEXUALITY etc... hmmmm, I wonder why that is? (Really, are they searching for enlightenment or ammunition... it's your guess...)
CLICK THIS LINK TO SEE THE VIDEO:
http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com/2007/11/conservapedia-see-what-is-on-mind-of.html

Clip Source: thinkingblue.blogspot.com

This is rich... Have you ever heard of Conservapedia? Conservatives have an answer to Wikipedia, it's called Conservapedia. On The Young Turks show, host, Cenk Uygur, Asks "I wonder what they (conservatives) have on their minds?"

Watch the video above, it will give you a peek into the mind of the average right-wing, Limbaugh hugging, Fox Noise viewing, Ann Coulter nonsense reading, conservative. No surprises here but it still is amazing as to their fixed mental attitude and how they interpret what is important in life.

Homosexuality‎ [2,009,006]

Main Page‎ [1,970,091]

Homosexuality and Hepatitis‎ [518,568]

Homosexuality and Parasites‎ [479,445]

Gay Bowel Syndrome‎ [445,157]

Homosexuality and Promiscuity‎ [422,824]

Homosexual Couples and Domestic Violence‎ [374,661]

Homosexuality and Gonorrhea‎ [332,357]

Homosexuality and Anal Cancer‎ [295,129]

Homosexuality and Mental Health‎ [294,548]

AND THE WINNER IS ...

HOMOSEXUALITY etc... hmmmm, I wonder why that is?

Tags: conservative, conservapedia, homosexuality

Time to test time

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:09:53 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: “If it's true, it's Nobel-prize-winning stuff”

Karsten Danzmann
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

Clip Source: www.nature.com

Poets have long believed the passage of time to be unavoidable, inexorable and generally melancholic. Quantum mechanics says it is fuzzy, ticking along at minimum intervals within which the notion of time is meaningless. And Craig Hogan claims he can 'see' it — in the thus far unexplained noise of a gravitational-wave detector. "It's potentially the most transformative thing I've ever worked on," says Hogan, director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. "It's actually a possibility that we can access experimentally the minimum interval of time, which we thought was out of reach."

In a classical view of the world, space and time are smooth. The minimum scales at which, according to quantum mechanics, the smoothness breaks down — the Planck length and time — can be derived from other quantities, but they have not been tested experimentally, nor would they be, given their impossibly small size.

Tags: time, test time, particle physics, quantum mechanics

How To Tick People Off~B~

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:39:45 GMT

clipped by: shelcbell

Clip Source: artlung.com

Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way."

Staple pages in the middle of the page.

Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a croaking noise.

Honk and wave to strangers.

Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints at the cash register.

TYPE IN UPPERCASE.

type only in lowercase.

dont use any punctuation either

Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.

Repeat the following conversation a dozen times.
"DO YOU HEAR THAT?"
"What?"
"Never mind, it's gone now."

As much as possible, skip rather than walk.

Time to test time

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:25:49 GMT

clipped by: spherepet

Clip Source: www.nature.com

Time to test time

10 November 2008

Eric Hand

A new theory suggests that the essential fuzziness of time may be the limiting factor for a German gravitational-wave detector.

Hogan, director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. "It's actually a possibility that we can access experimentally the minimum interval of time, which we thought was out of reach

noise associated with this fundamental fuzziness should be prominent at GEO600, a joint British and German machine operating near Hannover, Germany

a verifiable quantum theory of gravity

Tags: time, quantum theory of gravity

Time to test time

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:47:21 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Yet if Hogan's ideas are right, noise associated with this fundamental fuzziness should be prominent at GEO600, a joint British and German machine operating near Hannover, Germany, that is searching for gravitational waves. These waves are thought to arise during events such as the massive cosmic collisions of black holes and neutron stars. Confirmation of the idea — which could come as experimental upgrades to GEO600 are put in place over the coming year — would be a big step towards a verifiable quantum theory of gravity, a long-sought unification of quantum mechanics (the physics of the very small) with general relativity (the physics of the very big). Hogan outlines his predictions in a paper published on 30 October in Physical Review D1.

Clip Source: www.nature.com

Poets have long believed the passage of time to be unavoidable, inexorable and generally melancholic.

Quantum mechanics says it is fuzzy, ticking along at minimum intervals within which the notion of time is meaningless.

And Craig Hogan claims he can 'see' it — in the thus far unexplained noise of a gravitational-wave detector. "It's potentially the most transformative thing I've ever worked on," says Hogan, director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

"It's actually a possibility that we can access experimentally the minimum interval of time, which we thought was out of reach."

In a classical view of the world, space and time are smooth.

The minimum scales at which, according to quantum mechanics, the smoothness breaks down — the Planck length and time — can be derived from other quantities, but they have not been tested experimentally, nor would they be, given their impossibly small size.

Tags: physics, time, quantum gravity

The Greenest Notebook Computers Of 2008

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:24:59 GMT

clipped by: A53GG4

Clip Source: www.metaefficient.com

The Greenest Notebook Computers Of 2008

Here’s a short survey of the greenest ones available:

Lenovo Thinkpad X300

Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300 is the company’s first EPEAT Gold certified notebook — only 15 notebooks have achieved this rating to date

ASUS Eee PC

Eee 1000

It’s

equipped with the ASUS “Super Hybrid Engine” for automatic detection and adjustments of CPU frequency, voltage, and LCD brightness to minimize system noise and power consumption, saving up to 15% power consumption.

Toshiba Portégé R500-S5007V

Toshiba’s Portégé R500-S5007V is one of the world’s lightest laptop computers and also one of the greenest.

Apple MacBook Air

The MacBook Air is one of Apple’s greenest computers. The Air’s display was the first from Apple to be mercury and arsenic-free.

HP 2710p Tablet Computer

One of HP’s few green notebooks, the 2710p Tablet PC is an energy efficient machine with great battery life.

The 27010p is EPEAT Gold certified, and it also meets Energy Star 4.0 and RoHS specifications.

Tags: green

20mph streets benefit all

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:11:48 GMT

clipped by: jimbo1000

Clip Source: cpr-ca.blogspot.com

Cycle For Pulmonory Relief

Riding a bicycle, without fumes, noise, dust, scares, splash, speed, loud music, inversion layers, irritated eyes, or distracted drivers, is CPR for a dying planet.

18 mph streets benefit all. They would also encourage more walking and bicycling. Instead of waiting for separate paths people would see fit to use the road. People are scared to use the streets for bicycling and walking because hostile traffic makes it preferable to be surrounded by steel. Presently over-designed streets would be simple and cheap to reuse; streets space can be allocated for other modes at 18mph.

We consistently get urban speeds wrong in the U.S. In Germany, the land where speed is supposedly worshipped, the speed-limit free sections of the autobahn are contrasted by a mandatory, heavily enforced 30 KPH (that’s 18 mph, folks) limit in residential areas.

The fact that this story was picked up by health reporters is an encouraging sidenote.

Tags: 20mph, cycling

10 things cats think about

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:06:22 GMT

clipped by: pcmkrfn

Clip Source: bitsandpieces.us

1. I could have sworn I heard the can opener.

2. Is there something I’m not getting when humans make noise with their mouths?

3. Why doesn’t the government do something about dogs?

4. I wonder if Morris really liked 9-Lives, or did he have an ulterior motive?

5. Hmmm … If dogs serve humans, and humans serve cats, why can’t we cats ever get these stupid dogs to do anything for us?

6. This looks like a good spot for a nap.

7. Hey, no kidding, I’m sure that’s the can opener.

8. Would humans have built a vast and complex civilization of their own if we cats handn’t given them a reason to invent sofas and can openers in the first place?

9. If there’s a God, how can He allow neutering/spaying?

10. If that really was the can opener, I’ll play finicky just to let them know who’s boss!

The sound of space: Scientists reveal 'music' made by stars

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:54:42 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "The star pulsations were about 25 per cent weaker than predicted, suggesting scientists may need to refine their theories of stellar evolution.
A number of scientists are working out what the sounds from stars tell us about processes occurring inside stars"'It's not easy,
'It's like listening to the sound of a musical instrument and then trying to reconstruct the shape of the instrument'.

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

The sound of space: Scientists reveal 'music' made by stars

It was said that in space noone can hear you scream, but scientists have managed to record and listen to the sound of three stars similar to our Sun.

Outerspace is not a total vacuum but is extremely diffuse with only around one particle per cubic centimetre. Noise can therefore travel from distant galaxies but would be inaudible to our ears without extra help.

A team used light curves collected over 60 days from France's Corot space telescope to pick up the celestial sound, which has given them vital information about processes deep within the cosmic bodies.

Writing in the journal Science, they discovered each star's sound had a regular repeating pattern, which indicated the entire entity is pulsating.

The technique, called 'stellar seismology', helps to build an audio 'picture' of their surface texture and vibrations. The noise of each stellar body depends on their age, size and chemical composition.

Shocking inter -racial sex scenes

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:04:56 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii
clipper's remarks: Horny Toad

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

During the breeding season male frogs are compelled to grab moving objects and engage them in amplexus, the tight 'breeding clasp' that occurs either under the forelimbs (axillary amplexus) or around the waist (inguinal amplexus), depending on the species. Amplexus is assisted by roughened pads of tubercles or even small spikes on the male hand, wrist and/or forearm. If it's obvious that the moving object is not a female of the same species (because it feels wrong or makes an objectionable noise [as male frogs do when grabbed by other males]), the male lets go.

have been reported to grab goldfish, people's hands and, as you can see from this photo, members of other anuran species. Here, a male R. temporaria has engaged in amplexus with a Common toad Bufo bufo:

Tags: science

Cleese on Hannity

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:26:20 GMT

clipped by: oscarrob
clipper's remarks: I have always loved John Cleese. Smart and funny as hell. LOL

Clip Source: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

John Cleese Writes a Poem For Sean Hannity

It's a beautiful poem from the comedy icon of Monty Python fame that perfectly captures the essence of Sean Hannity.

Ode to Sean Hannity

by John Cleese

Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity

Tags: politics, humor, journalism, hannity, cleese

Survival in Suburbs

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:10:42 GMT

clipped by: rvnurse2b
clipper's remarks: very useful website filled with almost anything you could want to know about survival in or near the cities in difficult situation.

Clip Source: suburbansurvivalist.net

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Tags: survival, economics, money, food, living, family, end times

Turnbull says Rudd has insulted all Americans

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:35:21 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: The friend of corporations is learning to polit talk. (Bit like wanking to the noise of the hollow followers)
If anything was said it would have been in jest, which I'm positive many Americans would see that Rudd probably had to do that. Pity it leaked though. One reporter reassigned to the gardening section.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has insulted all Americans and US President George W Bush.

Earlier this week, a newspaper reported that in a telephone conversation about the global financial crisis, Mr Rudd had to tell Mr Bush what the G20 forum was.

US officials publicly denied the account of the conversation and Mr Rudd's office has also denied it, saying the G20 was the reason for the call.

But Mr Turnbull says Mr Rudd's office leaked inaccurate details about the phone conversation to the media and has been caught out.

"What he's done is offend every American," he said.

"Americans have a very great respect for the office of the President of the United States and Mr Rudd, for no reason at all, other than to make himself appear more knowledgeable than anybody else, in order to promote his own self-importance, he has insulted our most important ally."

Tags: politics

Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:32:48 GMT

clipped by: brightlight4
clipper's remarks: This is smuggling. This is illegal," says Jim Puckett, founder of the Basel Action Network, a group working to stop the dumping of toxic materials in poor countries that certifies ethical e-waste recyclers in the United States. "A lot of people are turning a blind eye here. And if somebody makes enough noise, they're afraid this is all going to dry up."

E-waste workers in Guiyu, China, where Pelley's team videotaped, put up with the dangerous conditions for the $8 a day the job pays. They use caustic chemicals and burn the plastic parts to get at the valuable components, often releasing toxins that they not only inhale, but release into the air, the ground and the water. Potable water must now be trucked into Guiyu and scientists have discovered that the city has the highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins in the world. Pregnancies in Guiyu are six times more likely to result in miscarriages, and seven out of 10 children there have too much lead in their blood.

Allen Hershkowitz

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste

When Pelley confronted him with evidence of the export, the owner of the Colorado recycling company denied filling the shipping container found on his lot and says his company would not sell scrap CRT monitors or television screens overseas.

But 60 Minutes learned that the company, and 42 other American firms just like it, were recently caught in a government sting. They all offered to break the law by selling such e-waste when solicited by a federal agent posing as a foreign importer.

E-waste workers in Guiyu, China, where Pelley's team videotaped, put up with the dangerous conditions for the $8 a day the job pays. They use caustic chemicals and burn the plastic parts to get at the valuable components, often releasing toxins that they not only inhale, but release into the air, the ground and the water.

This is illegal," says Jim Puckett, founder of the Basel Action Network, a group working to stop the dumping of toxic materials in poor countries

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Exoplanets: First ever pictures - sensational!

WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO A CONSERVATIVE

Time to test time

How To Tick People Off~B~

Time to test time

Time to test time

Time to test time

The Greenest Notebook Computers Of 2008

The Greenest Notebook Computers Of 2008

Lenovo Thinkpad X300

ASUS Eee PC

Toshiba Portégé R500-S5007V

Apple MacBook Air

HP 2710p Tablet Computer

20mph streets benefit all

Cycle For Pulmonory Relief

10 things cats think about

The sound of space: Scientists reveal 'music' made by stars

The sound of space: Scientists reveal 'music' made by stars

Shocking inter -racial sex scenes

Cleese on Hannity

John Cleese Writes a Poem For Sean Hannity

Survival in Suburbs

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Turnbull says Rudd has insulted all Americans

Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste

Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste