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Posted in The Solar System on Nov 29th, 2004
Imagine yourself just floating around in your spaceship. You’ve got nothing better to do than look at objects like this for hours at a time. That sounds so good to me right now.
Titan is a beautiful object. Although only a "moon" of Saturn, it has more features than most "planets". Although I’m not too [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Nov 28th, 2004
First of all, kudos to MichaelRead for pointing me to this research.
A long succession of climate models has consistently suggested that CO2-induced global warming should be amplified in earth’s polar regions and that the first signs of man’s predicted impact on the world’s weather should thus be manifest there. Many people have consequently accepted [...]
Posted in Ecology on Nov 20th, 2004
2003 Status Report Shows U.S. Air Cleanest Ever Since 1970
Cynthia Bergman 202-564-9828 / bergman.cynthia@epa.gov
Total emissions of the six principal pollutants identified in the Clean Air Act dropped again in 2003, signaling that America’s air is the cleanest ever in three decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported today. Annual emissions statistics for the six [...]
Posted in Technology on Nov 18th, 2004
There’s the ad. The 2005 Accord Hybrid, More Power, Less Gas.
According to Honda:
Just how much can you expect to save with the Accord Hybrid? Good question. Well, with gas mileage of 29 city/37 highway mpg, there’s the potential to save considerably over your current vehicle. But rather than just let you guess your savings, we [...]
Posted in Technology on Nov 18th, 2004
The sleek Formula One-style car ran on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and was lubricated with sunflower oil.
Be sure to follow that link and read the entire story. It’s cool enough what this thing does, it’s even cooler what they had to do to make it safe enough to use.
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Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Earth on Nov 17th, 2004
Swarms of locusts obscure the Giza pyramids near Cairo, November 17, 2004. The pink locusts that swept through Cairo recalled the plague of biblical Egypt, flying high above tall towers and scaring pedestrians who stamped on them or ran for cover.
From The Bible:
Exodus 10:4 - Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, [...]
Posted in Technology on Nov 17th, 2004
For most of my life, that was a ray gun. It looked kind of like a real gun, but cuter. It did serious damage. Sometimes people would just fall down and die when you pointed it at them. Other times it would burn a whole straight through them, other times it [...]
Posted in Energy, Technology on Nov 17th, 2004
The solar dish is a joint project between Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) and the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories.
Based in New Mexico, the prototype contains 82 mirrors that focus the Sun’s rays, transmitting the heat energy to an engine filled with hydrogen. As the gas expands and contracts from heating and cooling, [...]
Posted in Travel on Nov 16th, 2004
NASA engineers scrutinizing hours of video from the International Space Station (ISS) have determined than an apparent dent in the orbital outpost was not the result of a micrometeorite strike. After a week of investigation, engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) believe a mystery dent in a panel attached to the space station’s [...]
Posted in Earth on Nov 15th, 2004
That’s the headine from Live Science.
Politicians in the nation’s capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the [...]