2012-11-21, 16:51 | Link #1382 |
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Mars Rover Makes Discovery For "the History Books," but NASA Is Keeping It a
Secret For Now: "Curiosity is living up to its name. The NASA rover currently wheeling itself around Mars has apparently sent back some very interesting data from the Red Planet in the form of a soil sample that shows ... well, something. From the sounds of it, something big. But for now at least, that's all anyone is willing to say. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are keeping their lips sealed for the time being while they run additional tests to make sure the discovery holds up. That, however, hasn't stopped one of the mission's leaders from speculating loudly that it'll be one that rewrites at least some of what we know about the universe." See: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...discovery.html |
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2012-11-21, 22:45 | Link #1386 |
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Perhaps something more simple. Fossils. Proof of life having existed off the Earth (at least at one time).
Or the fun one....Oil (or insert very valuable substance here). Enough to warrent say, as Rush for land claims and settlers/squatters. All the space program and commerce needs is proper (profitable) motivation to get the colonization of Mars started. (And I've heard a lot of speculation into what it on Mars already since hearing about this about three hours ago).
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2012-11-22, 08:50 | Link #1387 |
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Probably a Coca-Cola bottle, whose unintended presence led to infighting within the aboriginal Martian civilization and...eventually led to their complete extinction.
Kudos to whoever picks up the reference. ^_O ... ... ...Nah. Most likely, it'll be some sort of rock made of matter not yet detected - like some sort of granite/basalt that can only form under very specific geological circumstances or whatever...thus "shedding some light on phenomena/processes never before observed on the red planet oh my gasp need to send astronauts there NAO". I don't think we'll be seeing winged whale fossils anytime soon.
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2012-11-22, 23:13 | Link #1389 |
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People that dispute evolution theory can huff and puff all they want, Single Gene Is the Difference Between Humans and Apes
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2012-11-23, 02:56 | Link #1390 |
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Nasa hasn't anything if SAM (Sample on Mars, one of the Curiosity's labs and apparently the one involved in the recent buzz) is really the lab that made the discovery.
One of the frenchman working on it (CNES, the french "NASA" provided some of the tools for it and is still managing them) confirmed that while SAM was working correctly, it hadn't found anything yet and didn't understand what was going on at NASA. Last edited by Rahan; 2012-11-23 at 03:11. |
2012-11-23, 18:21 | Link #1391 |
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Scientists: Galapagos tortoise can be revived:
"Lonesome George, the late reptile prince of the Galapagos Islands, may be dead, but scientists now say he may not be the last giant tortoise of his species after all. Researchers say they may be able to resurrect the Pinta Island subspecies by launching a cross-breeding program with 17 other tortoises found to contain genetic material similar to that of Lonesome George, who died June 24 at the Pacific Ocean archipelago off Ecuador's coast after repeated failed efforts to reproduce. Edwin Naula, director of the Galapagos National Park, said in a telephone interview on Thursday that the probability is high it can be accomplished. "It would be the first time that a species was recovered after having been declared extinct," Naula said." See: http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-gal...210419762.html |
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2012-11-25, 17:53 | Link #1393 |
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Mars Cave-Exploration Mission Entices Scientists:
"NASA is mapping out a strategy to return bits of rock and soil from the Martian surface to Earth, but the most intriguing Red Planet samples lie in underground caverns, some scientists say." See: http://news.yahoo.com/mars-cave-expl...130757453.html |
2012-11-25, 18:42 | Link #1394 |
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Why 'slow light' might just save the Internet:
"If we want to keep expanding the performance and the reach of the Internet, we need an inflection point: otherwise, its electricity consumption will become catastrophic." See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11...itute_physics/ |
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Pack your bags: Pioneer wants 80,000 of us to colonize Mars
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2012-11-27, 05:53 | Link #1398 | |
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SpaceX founder unveils plan to send 80,000 people to Mars
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2012-11-28, 13:05 | Link #1399 |
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"NASA has conducted tests of a nuclear reactor intended to generate electricity in
space for the first time since 1965, offering hope that humanity may now belatedly get serious about building proper, powerful spaceships of the sort long envisaged in science fiction. The space agency has just announced the tests, conducted by engineers from NASA's Goddard centre in conjunction with Department of Energy boffins from the Los Alamos national lab. The effort made use of an experimental reactor named "Flattop" and was inauspiciously dubbed Demonstration Using Flattop Fissions (DUFF)." See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11...engine_trials/ |
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