Freshly Discovered Earth-Like Planet Orbiting Nearby Star Could Be the First Truly Habitable Exoplanet
Posted by admin in Space on 30. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Gliese 581 Digital Sky Survey/ESO A couple of math geeks recently calculated that the discovery of the first “habitable” exoplanet would be announced in May of next year — but a few stargazers from UC Santa Cruz and their colleagues simply couldn’t wait that long. In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, the astronomers [...]
The End of Time is Nigh (in a Cosmic Sense, Anyhow)
Posted by admin in Science on 29. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
The End of Time Ticking off the seconds until the end of time, some 3.7 billion years from now. The universe has only about 3.7 billion years in which to settle its affairs. At least, that’s the new assertion from a group of physicists who say that there is a 50 percent chance that [...]
Former Air Force Officers Claim UFOs Visited Bases, Tampered With Nukes
Posted by admin in Space on 29. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
UFOs They’re out there, say a handful of former Air Force officers. The truth is out there, and yesterday a group of retired Air Force officers gathered the media and a handful of well-wishers at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to reveal what they say is a government cover-up of [...]
Long Theorized, Hawking Radiation Has Now Been Observed For The First Time
Posted by admin in Space on 28. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Black Hole In Front Of The Milky Way More than 30 years after Stephen Hawking predicted the existence of radiation emitted by black holes, physicists say they’ve finally observed the phenomenon for themselves, not in the heavens, but down here on Earth. The universe is filled with particle/antiparticle pairs that form and almost immediately mutually [...]
Japanese company hopes use submarines to subdue incoming typhoons
Posted by admin in Science on 28. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Could submarines be used to stop typhoons? We usually accept it as a given that we can’t change the weather. When it comes to extreme situations like hurricanes or earthquakes, such disasters are labeled "acts of god" because we generally feel helpless to in the face of nature’s wrath. But recently an ambitious Japanese manufacturing [...]
