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POPSif we had no moon thought this looked interesting too- lets watch it shall we?- am going to go check this doc out now.............
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POPSMoon Survives Unprovoked Attack! In defense of science. Still worry that we allow rubbish to litter the moon. To prove there is water. So, don't we have enough brands of bottled water already? Maybe so that astronauts can stop off and have a shower on their 10 thousand year journey to the nearest exoplanet which may support life.
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POPSLaw Enforcement Agents Raid Part of Terrorism Probe
Navy Seals Kill Wanted Terrorist in Somali Raid Monday, September 14, 2009 Navy Seals from US Special Operations Forces conducted a raid in southern Somalia on Monday that killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, one of 4 co-conspirators wanted in the 2002 bombing of an Israel owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, two senior U.S. military officials told Fox News. Ten days ago President Obama signed the Execute Order for Nabhan, who since 2006 was on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists. He was also wanted for the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Kenya in 1998. They called it operation Celestial Balance: at least two AH-6 Little Bird helicopters deployed from one of two U.S. Navy vessels near Somalia's coast strafed a vehicle Nabhan was using to go back and forth between meetings. Intelligence operatives had been monitoring Sabhan prior to the attack. The helicopters passed once, firing on the vehicle, and then circled back around to retrieve the body so they could . . .
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POPSThe New North Star The skies above Grants Pass are much more clear than in the Metro Portland area. So much so, that a person is able to get a time lapse picture as lovely as this one. Fact is, most of the state has nice air. But the Willamette River valley is just a long vertical string of towns and polluted areas. Unfortunately that's because it's where most of the human population is. But, there's no way I don't love my state.
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POPSIch Bin Ein Plutonian! There may be a lot of residual sympathy for the little guy. The fight would come to a crest when the candidates start comparing themselves to Pluto as the "underdog" Pluto's a dog. Get it? From there, the story could tangent off to anywhere. Is exclusion of Kuiper Belt objects akin to a prejudice? And if so, is it more like racism or sexism? If it's more like a rock then a planet, was it intelligently designed? Should we subject all celestial bodies to some sort of standardized testing system? Should it be the next destination after the Chinese beat us to Mars? Most importantly, what does Oprah think?<<
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POPSTop 10 Most Important Supernovae "No celestial event stresses the universe's gulfs of distance and time more than a supernova. These dying stars can burn as bright as a billion suns, outshining whole galaxies and releasing the very energy and materials required to give birth to new cosmic bodies."
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POPSShould We Have Spent $600mil on This? NASA only spent $18mil on educational aspects for our children's future recruitment and related sources. I like it, don't get me wrong, but the question still remains are we spending more on space than we are for the good of our own celestial home? i.e. Earth
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POPS13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time [BOOK]
In the past, similar "anomalies" have revolutionized our world, like in the sixteenth century, when a set of celestial anomalies led Copernicus to realize that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse, and in the 1770s, when two chemists discovered oxygen because of experimental results that defied all the theories of the day. And so, if history is any precedent, we should look to today’s inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. In 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense , Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet thirteen modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The chapter on free will (and why it probably doesn't exist) is fascinating, with MASSIVE social implications for an entire justice system built on the premise of personal responsibility for our actions. A highly interesting book that will make you think. "Science starts to get interesting when things don’t make sense. "
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POPSMachu Picchu, Peru Whatever its origins, the Inca turned the site into a small (5 square miles) but extraordinary city. Invisible from below and completely self-contained, surrounded by agricultural terraces sufficient to feed the population, and watered by natural springs, Machu Picchu seems to have been utilized by the Inca as a secret ceremonial city. Two thousand feet above the rumbling Urubamba river, the cloud shrouded ruins have palaces, baths, temples, storage rooms and some 150 houses, all in a remarkable state of preservation. These structures, carved from the gray granite of the mountain top are wonders of both architectural and aesthetic genius. Many of the building blocks weigh 50 tons or more yet are so precisely sculpted and fitted together with such exactitude that the mortarless joints will not permit the insertion of even a thin knife blade. Little is known of the social or religious use of the site during Inca times.
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POPSPhilosophy 101 Cool site, but I would like to see many other "thinkers" in there. Fortunately, they are looking for suggestions. What do YOU think?
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