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Darwin’s Secret Island: A Model of How Human Exploration Could Transform Mars

Tom McFay — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island, one of a number of volcanic islands in the middle of the South Atlantic, located 1,600km (1,000 miles) from the coast of Africa and 2,250km (1,400 miles) from South America was a barren volcanic…

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Darwin’s Secret Island: A Model of How Human Exploration Could Transform Mars

"The Universe Exists Because of Spontaneous Creation" -Stephen Hawking

Tom McFay — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:48:00 +0000

In “The Grand Design,” Stephen Hawking and Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow suggest that physics and metaphysics (and religion) are merging. The grand design which we have taken for granted since Newton is more complex than anything we ever dreamed of….

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"The Universe Exists Because of Spontaneous Creation" -Stephen Hawking

EcoAlert: Will Earth Mirror the Fate of Easter Island?

Tom McFay — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:14:00 +0000

“We’ll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island.” Frank Fenner, virologist Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction…

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Image of the Day: 3.8 Billion Year-Old Impact Crater on Moon’s South Pole

Tom McFay — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:10:00 +0000

A new geologic map of the moon’s Schrodinger basin paints an instant, camouflage-colored portrait of the lunar surface after a huge object struck the moon, revealing a patchwork of material, including the peak ring (inner brown ring), recent volcanic activity…

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Image of the Day: 3.8 Billion Year-Old Impact Crater on Moon’s South Pole

From the X Files Dept: China -"The UFO Capital of Planet Earth"

Tom McFay — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:08:00 +0000

Yet another UFO sighting has been reported in Eastern China on August 31st in the southwestern Haiyan County of Zhejiang Province. The object sightedwas very bright, according to eyewitnesses. It was visible for at least three hours. It drew the…

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The Nemesis Conjecture: Is an Unseen Binary Companion of the Sun Sending Comets Towards Earth?

Tom McFay — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:20:00 +0000

Some scientists believe that something could be hidden beyond the edge of our solar system a distance of about 50,000 to 100,000 AU (about 1-2 light years), somewhat beyond the Oort cloud. Named “Nemesis” or “The Death Star,” this undetected…

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Image of the Day: NASA Space Time-Lapse of Earth

Tom McFay — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:14:00 +0000

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Image of the Day: NASA Space Time-Lapse of Earth

EcoAlert: Road Will Cut Off Main Serengeti Wildlife Migration Route

Tom McFay — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:10:00 +0000

A new form of gridlock may be coming to the Serengenti. The Tanzania government plans to build a commercial road in the north of Serengeti National Park, cutting through the annual migratory route of two million wildebeest and zebra severing…

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NASA’s History Captured In Awesome Photograph Collection

Tom McFay — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:08:00 +0000

As a teaser, we’ve showcased the Gossamer Penguin, an experimental solar-powered aircraft cruising above a dry lakebed at NASA Dryden’s Flight Research Center in July 1979 -one of many strange, woot images of NASA’s early days. The images come from…

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The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (9/02)

Tom McFay — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:04:00 +0000

New Technique Finds Gaseous Metals in Exoplanet Atmospheres A previously undetected element has been found in the atmospheres of two different extrasolar planets. Using a new technique at a new telescope, two separate groups of exoplanet scientists have discovered potassium…