THE NEW RED PLANET!?
Every new photo and fact about Pluto makes things more exciting.. more intense.. more mysterious..
Now this from NASA .. the water ice red. The skies blue..
Tag: science
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Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS
Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS
Billy Joel sang that he once believed in causes too and had a pointless point of view..
And then magnets came along.
If we are to believe this study that even a British rag called ‘bizarre’ then we will have to conclude this:
Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurones in the brains of volunteers.
TMS, which is used to treat depression, involves placing a large electromagnetic coil against the scalp which creates electric currents that stimulate nerve cells in the region of the brain involved in mood control.
Researchers found the technique radically altered religious perceptions and prejudice.
Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers.
How long until the Republican and Democratic campaign committees begin employing magnet power at conventions or rallies?
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How’s this for a headline from a reputable mainstream source of science information: “Has Kepler Discovered an Alien Megastructure? “
All of this from DISCOVERY:
A star, named KIC 8462852, has been found with a highly curious transit signal. In a paper submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers, including citizen scientists from the Planet Hunters crowdsourcing program, report: “Over the duration of the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregularly shaped, aperiodic dips in flux down to below the 20 percent level.”
The research paper is thorough, describing the phenomenon, pointing out that this star is unique – we’ve seen nothing like it. Kepler has collected data on this star steadily for four years. It’s not instrumental error. Kepler isn’t seeing things; the signal is real.
“We’d never seen anything like this star,” Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoctorate researcher at Yale University and lead author, told The Atlantic. “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”
‘Alien megastructure’ sounds like a headline purely meant to stir up interest.. And I am interested.
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How’s this for a headline from a reputable mainstream source of science information: “Has Kepler Discovered an Alien Megastructure? “
All of this from DISCOVERY:
A star, named KIC 8462852, has been found with a highly curious transit signal. In a paper submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers, including citizen scientists from the Planet Hunters crowdsourcing program, report: “Over the duration of the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregularly shaped, aperiodic dips in flux down to below the 20 percent level.”
The research paper is thorough, describing the phenomenon, pointing out that this star is unique – we’ve seen nothing like it. Kepler has collected data on this star steadily for four years. It’s not instrumental error. Kepler isn’t seeing things; the signal is real.
“We’d never seen anything like this star,” Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoctorate researcher at Yale University and lead author, told The Atlantic. “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”
‘Alien megastructure’ sounds like a headline purely meant to stir up interest.. And I am interested.
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Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
And Tyson’s cool STAR TALK tie..
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Great, great video..
This is one of the best lessons I have seen if someone wants to understand quantum physics or quantum mechanics.
A watch worth watching..
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Just when you thought it was Armageddon, someone comes around and ruins it for you
Just when you thought it was Armageddon, someone comes around and ruins it for you
Call them the anti Debbie Downers.. a group has released findings that they say conclusively shows natural disasters are at a 10-year-low. But South Carolina flooding? But California drought? But.. But … The executive summary from AON said that 2014 was a below average year for catastrophe.. That doesn’t mean awful stuff did not happen, but on a pure number, it was less than other years when…
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Just when you thought it was Armageddon, someone comes around and ruins it for you
Call them the anti Debbie Downers.. a group has released findings that they say conclusively shows natural disasters are at a 10-year-low.
But South Carolina flooding?
But California drought?
But..But …
The executive summary from AON said that 2014 was a below average year for catastrophe..
That doesn’t mean awful stuff did not happen, but on a pure number, it was less than other years when compared..
When United States citizens armed with Bibles proclaim that the end times are near because of US disasters, it’s interesting to look at the most high profile and expensive 2014 events: The US only made two of the ten, with May storms and a yearlong drought being the costliest..
Another fact the report points out on page 10: The population of the world is soaring.. and with it, a migration of people to locations that see natural disasters on a more regular basis. Or at least bad weather..
Get this: 44% of the world’s citizens (that’s a lot, 3.2 billion) live within 95 miles of a coastline. That’s more than the entire population of the world in 1950.
I noticed something that happened when this report was issued. Numerous anti-global warming sites like Climate Depot and others began linking news about this report and focused squarely on the ten-year-low 2014 saw, disaster wise. But there’s more news they should have paid attention to–important facts that they chose to ignore because, as usual, people see headlines and neglect to read actual reports. Imagine! the information age! and we only read headlines..
Page 12 of the report details that 2014 was a continuation of the trend of much above normal global temperatures .. As a matter of fact, 2014 was the warmest year on record!
The rest of the report is a good read.
The old fashioned me actually printed it out and will study it through. IT was prepared a bit ago, but as said before, other anti-global warming sites alerted me to it by only writing up quick posts about it now.
The devil is always in the details.
So while Armageddon may look a bit off because of the lower than average disasters, it’s hard to imagine further problems aren’t in the future when you see warming like we are and the endless barrage of temperature increases–coupled with 3.2 billion people within 95 miles of a coastline that may vanish eventually..
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Pale blue dot number 2?
Shocking news from the outer limits of space.. As though we couldn’t be more shocked by Pluto, we are. The news this time: The distant non planet planet dwarf planet has skies and icecaps that are similar to earth itself.. NASA’s own website showcased the amazing photos beamed back to planet Earth by NEW HORIZONS. In the attached article, NASA writes, “Who would have expected a blue sky in the…
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THE CHURCH OF JUSTIN BIEBER’S FIRST FORAY INTO THE MYSTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RATIONAL FOR GOD
THE CHURCH OF JUSTIN BIEBER’S FIRST FORAY INTO THE MYSTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RATIONAL FOR GOD
He clearly opposes the big bang theory:
“I’m the type of dude who always wants to figure it out. Science makes a lot of sense. Then I start thinking — wait, the ‘big bang’. For a ‘big bang’ to create all this is more wild to think about than thinking about there being a God. Imagine putting a bunch of gold into a box, shaking up the box, and out comes a Rolex. It’s so preposterous once people start saying it.”