and is the seventh in ESA's fleet of Earth Explorer satellites of which three are currently in orbit.
and had donated gondolas by the Republic of Venice manned by gondoliers. As The french government moved into Versailles
A wide crest of hair on the tip of its head and a unique call that has been described by researchers as a honk-bark.
What's the worst thing you can do to a boat? Put it in the water.
Once a boat enters the water microorganisms begin accumulating on its surfaces creating a significant amount of drag and a big mess.
but for giant container ships the drag created by microorganisms in particular single-celled silica-shelled organisms called diatoms results in a significant amount of fuel loss every year.
A molasses pipeline in Honolulu Harbor Hawaii last week was pumping the syrupy substance onto a ship
when a ship hit by a rogue wave dumped a container full of them overboard. The beloved blocks have bobbed now through the Northwest Passage to the shores of Alaska one scientist calculates.
But on piers shipworms typically eat enough wood underwater to make them structurally unstable within a year he said.
Since warm seawater flows beneath the ice shelf (the part of the glacier that floats on the ocean) scientists have known that the Pine Island Glacier was melting from below.
Almost all cars trucks ships trains and airplanes run on gasoline or diesel fuels. Manufacturing and other industries contribute about 20 percent of U s. greenhouse gas emissions followed by residential and commercial sources (11 percent) and agriculture (8 percent.
On Monday (Sept. 9) a pipeline from a molasses tank near Honolulu Harbor was loading the heavy sweet liquid onto a ship when a leak in the pipeline dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of the sticky
and the Solomon islands hitched a ride to Guam on military transport ships shortly after WORLD WAR II. Though poisonous the invasive specie's venom isn't lethal to humans.
when aquatic ecologistcarlos de la Rosa was sailing on a slow quiet boat down the Puerto Viejo River in northeastern Costa rica with researchers students
For centuries fibres were used to make ropes sails cloth and paper while the seeds were used for protein-rich food and feed.
With such real-time information the agent could quickly radio-pinpoint directions to a local patrol boat enabling its officers to prevent illegal fishing
Steve gathered sticks and soft bark to line the nest while Rachel prepared the nest for her eggs according to representatives from explore. org.
and a large bony sail#fin on its back that was used probably for thermoregulation. Despite its lizard-like appearance recent discoveries have concluded that Dimetrodon skulls jaws
Second there will be gaps of roughly 26 months between supply ship arrivals which means that settlers will have to store some food for two-plus years before a new shipment arrives.
which had left Egypt by boat on November 24 2009 eventually arriving at an organic sprout producer near Hamburg on February 10 2011.
Earlier this summer park officials recovered a drone that had crashed near a marina in Yellowstone Lake Bartlett said.
When approached by boats the crocs splashed into the water below to escape. Climbing Aussie crocodiles were more likely to be small or juvenile;
and they even mounted it onto a boat to collect images of a section of the Rio Negro the Amazon's largest tributary Google explained on one of its Outreach pages.
As it slips into the ocean the glacier's ice shelf#the part that floats on water
I got befriended by this couple on the ferry ride over and by the time I reached the other side
We found the earliest evidence for a parasite that causes Schistosomiasis in humans said study co-author Dr. Piers Mitchell a biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge in England.
These ridges far from Antarctic research stations could only be reached by air in this case a helicopter launched from the icebreaker R/V Polarstern.
Ice shelves are the portions of glaciers that float on the water. Collapse of modern ice shelves shows that glaciers thin speed up
Meanwhile a massive tsunami floods the harbor sending a ship careering through the city's streets.
The movie also depicts a giant tsunami surging into Pompeii's harbor carrying a ship through the streets on a torrent of water.
but there is no evidence it was powerful enough to bring ships into the city. City of Pompeii The film's depiction of the city of Pompeii was fairly impressive according to Sarah Yeomans an archaeologist at USC who has spent much of her life studying the city
These worldwide floats reached their most comprehensive levels beginning about 2005. Other records from floats ships
and buoys filled in the timeline since 1970. But the millions of data points don't conclusively prove that the North Atlantic ocean is devouring heat.
Unfortunately the massive array of ocean temperature measurements by Argo floats has only been made after the early 2000s just
In A d. 208 after the death of general Liu Biao he took command of a fleet of ships on the Han River
but it has also been seen on ships and even within airplanes.</</p><p>Full Story:<
In Myanmar illegal logging also brings with it a raft of socioeconomic problems. Loggers undertake long and dangerous scouting expeditions into the forest
but of elite crews of ships Lehner said. A pharaoh named Sahure had images in his valley temple (part of his pyramid complex) of troops near the king's ship of state he noted.
Lehner's suspicions that the galleries were meant for troops were reinforced in 2012 when the archaeologists discovered a broken hippo hip.
It harbors hundreds of mummies buried in large wooden coffins that resembled upside-down boats which were covered then with cowhide that sealed the coffins from the air.
#Floating Islands of Rock Tracked in Pacific A computer model could help track rafts of floating rock in the ocean perhaps giving scientists a way to warn ship captains to stay away.
Pumice is so light it can float. The floating rock can occasionally cause problems. Island or undersea volcanoes can create massive amounts of pumice in a single eruption resulting in huge rafts of rock that can float hundreds of miles.
After the enormous eruption of Krakatoa in 1884 pumice rafts clogged harbors in Indonesia. Ships today are at risk too said study researcher Martin Jutzeler a volcanologist at the University of Southampton in the United kingdom. Water intakes on ships can become damaged by pumice stalling the engine Jutzeler told Live Science.
In Photos: A Floating'Island'of Rocks An undersea eruption gave Jutzeler and his colleagues a rare opportunity to track rafts from a known source
and to use ocean models to see if computers could predict where pumice will float.
The researchers used moderate-resolution satellite imagery as well as reports from ship captains and airline pilots to track a pumice raft from the Havre Seamount a submarine volcano in the southwest Pacific near New zealand.
The volcano erupted in 2012 creating a raft of pumice measuring 155 square miles (400 square kilometers) in a single day.
It was the first concrete evidence that deep-sea volcanoes not just shallow ones can create pumice rafts Jutzeler
and his colleagues wrote Wednesday (April 23) in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers used an ocean model called the Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean (NEMO)
which pulls together information on currents and wind from 1988 to 2010 to see if they could match a simulated pumice raft with the Havre floating island.
They found that using the model they could create near-real-time forecasts of where the pumice
but nothing exists for these rafts Jutzeler said. We really feel that something should be done.
and terrestrial eruptions of island volcanoes could also send rafts of pumice into the sea.
But there is little understanding of how pumice rafts and their associated ash eventually sink to the seafloor
Next year Jutzeler and his colleagues will use submersibles to explore the products of volcanic eruptions he said.
what didn't make it into the raft and fell down to the seafloor Jutzeler said.
#Origins of Mysterious World trade center Ship Revealed In July 2010 amid the gargantuan rebuilding effort at the site of the World trade center in Lower Manhattan construction workers halted the backhoes
and parking complex excavators found the mangled skeleton of a long-forgotten wooden ship. Now a new report finds that tree rings in those waterlogged ribs show the vessel was built likely in 1773 or soon after in a small shipyard near Philadelphia.
What's more the ship was made perhaps from the same kind of white oak trees used to build parts of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence
and U s. Constitution were signed according to the study published this month in the journal Tree-Ring Research.
See Photos of the Ship and Its Tree Rings Archaeologists had been on-site throughout the excavation of the World trade center's Vehicular Security Center.
when the 32-foot-long (9. 75 m) partial hull of the ship emerged from the dirt.
The team established that the trees used to build the ship some of which had lived to be more than 100 years old were mostly cut down around 1773.
Martin-Benito and his colleagues at Columbia's Tree Ring Lab narrowed their search to trees in the eastern United states thanks to the keel of the ship which contained hickory a tree found only in eastern North america and Eastern asia.
Secrets of the Deep The ship's signature pattern most closely matched with the rings found in old living trees
whether the ship sank accidently or if it was submerged purposely to become part of a landfill used to bulk up Lower Manhattan's coastline.
Oysters found fixed to the ship's hull suggest it at least languished in the water for some time before being buried by layers of trash and dirt.
Previous investigations found that the vessel's timbers had been damaged by burrowing holes of Lyrodus pedicellatus a type of shipworm typically found in high-salinity warm waters a sign that the ship at some point in its life made a trip to the Caribbean perhaps on a trading voyage.
Martin-Benito speculated that the infestation might have been one of the reasons the ship met its demise just 20
I don't know much about the life expectancy for boats but that doesn't seem like too long for something that would take so long to build Martin-Benito said.
#Sophisticated 600-Year-Old Canoe Discovered in New zealand Sophisticated oceangoing canoes and favorable winds may have helped early human settlers colonize New zealand a pair of new studies shows.
when intrepid voyagers arrived by boat through several journeys over some generations. A piece of that early heritage was revealed recently on a beach in New zealand
when a 600-year-old canoe with a turtle carved on its hull emerged from a sand dune after a harsh storm.
The researchers who examined the shipwreck say the vessel is more impressive than any other canoe previously linked to this period in New zealand.
Canoe on the coast The canoe was revealed near the sheltered Anaweka estuary on the northwestern end of New zealand's South Island.
The boat had carved interior ribs and clear evidence of repair and reuse. Carbon dating tests showed that the vessel was last caulked with wads of bark in 1400.
and together these vessels formed a double canoe (though the researchers haven't ruled out the possibility that the find could have been a single canoe with an outrigger).
If the ship was a double canoe it probably had a deck a shelter and a sail that was pitched forward much like the historic canoes of the Society islands (a group that includes Bora Bora and Tahiti) and the Southern Cook islands.
These island chains have been identified as likely Polynesian homelands of the Maori the group of indigenous people who settled New zealand.
The boat was sophisticated surprisingly more than the canoes described centuries later by the first Europeans to arrive in New zealand Johns told Live Science.
At the time of European contact the Maori were using dugout canoes which were hollowed out from single big trees with no internal frames.
In the smaller islands of Polynesia boat builders didn't have access to trees that were big enough to make an entire canoe;
The newly described canoe seems to represent a mix of that ancestral plank technology and an adaptation to the new resources on New zealand since the boat has hollowed some big-out portions
but also sophisticated internal ribs Johns and colleagues wrote. The turtle carving on the boat also seems to link back to the settlers'homeland.
Turtle designs are rare in pre-European carvings in New zealand but widespread in Polynesia where turtles were important in mythology
We show that the sailing canoe in its basic form would have been able to make these voyages purely through downwind sailing.
Goodwin added that a downwind journey from an island in central East Polynesia might take about two weeks in a sailing canoe.
We could probably do with having a fleet of 20 of these satellites, because the issue is so important,
points out that with his $5-million annual budget, he can monitor 84 spots, mostly in North america, via ground-based sites, aircraft, or ships.
Greenhouse-gas emissions for an automobile company's entire fleet would be limited to an average of 250 grams of carbon dioxide per mile,
Marina Silva, an environmental advocate who resigned as Brazil's environment minister last year amid internal opposition to her policies
The rocket ship, developed by aviation designer Burt Rutan and bankrolled by British billionaire Richard Branson,
which will recommend ways to manage ship-borne tourism to Antarctica. go. nature. com/cujgwi 10 december This year's Nobel science laureates receive their awards in Stockholm,
Synchrotrons and ships: The UK government has approved an earmarked £97. 4 million (US$148 million) to expand the country's Diamond synchrotron in Harwell, Oxfordshire;
In addition, on 30 march the country's Natural Environment Research Council announced that it had commissioned a £75-million replacement vessel for its ageing research ship, the RSS Discovery.
while a ship monitors the air off the coast and two electric vehicles zip about collecting samples upwind and downwind of selected sites.
Robot submarines are now being deployed to cap the well. See page 532 for more. Eye in the sky The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has made its first airborne observations
it's possible that we missed the boat by starting treatment at that age. The prevailing wisdom is that the IGF1 deficiency
if people expert in other areas were in the same boat, then that makes me wonder.
NASA expects the craft to ferry astronauts, supplies and research materials to the International Space station when its shuttle fleet retires next year.
Drifting buoys 墉 increasingly used since 2000 墉 tend to report a cooler temperature relative to ships'measurements
Shuttles at rest The four remaining vehicles of the US Space shuttle fleet were assigned their final resting places on 12 april.
when the US fiscal year ends, said Pier Oddone, director of the lab, on 5 may. The US Department of energy had said in January that it would not fund the collider into 2012,
Ancient greek ships carried more than just wine: Nature Newsa DNA analysis of ancient storage jars suggests that Greek sailors traded a wide range of foods not just wine,
of the ancient world from sunken ships dating from the fifth to the third centuries BC.
Amphorae have been found in their thousands in wrecks all over the Mediterranean sea. Some of them contain residues of food,
He says the DNA approach offers great promise for advances in terms of analysing amphora contents from archaeologically documented wrecks,
where DNA data can be combined with other sources of information about a ship and its contents.
They say that the air-launch-to-orbit system (intended to carry both cargo and human payloads) would be cheaper and more flexible than the conventional launch-pad approach.
and Shell did not respond to Nature's questions. In the past decade growing concerns about climate change, rising energy consumption and dependence on foreign oil  have prompted countries
probably carried by pirates and whalers. Using DNA from museum specimens the researchers went on to show5,
Fermilab change Pier Oddone, the director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, announced on 2 august that he would step down from his post in July 2013.
and gas resources off the coast of Alaska have been abandoned following damage to oil containers on the spill-cleanup barge Arctic Challenger,
The flight puts NASA one step closer to having two US cargo carriers available to resupply the International Space station."
The past year has seen a raft of papers about the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on bees.
Deep-sea dive The film-maker James cameron is donating his deep-sea submersible to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,
Plastic wood is no green guaranteeishmael Tirado watches as his fellow construction workers rebuild the Steeplechase Pier, a central feature of New york s iconic Coney island boardwalk.
When the pier reopens this summer, visitors will encounter a shiny expanse of recycled plastic jutting out to sea on a platform of steel-reinforced concrete."
On a recent weekend, construction crews were busy replacing small sections of boardwalk near the Steeplechase Pier with fresh ip
A thousand years later, Greek and Phoenician merchants had begun shipping wine throughout the Mediterranean region, each in their own distinctively shaped jars called amphorae.
which ministry is in charge of inspection and monitoring of the cargo. Moreover, tackling invasive species often involves multiple ministries."
Having said that, I think the good ship Rothamsted is on a very good course
3 9 january 2014cold comfort Scientists, journalists and tourists were rescued from the Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy in the Antarctic on 2 Â January.
Chinese icebreaker Xue Long transferred the stranded passengers to an Australian icebreaker, but later reported that it,
A US icebreaker was dispatched on 5 Â January to assist the Russian and Chinese vessels.
following its arrival on board a Russian cargo vessel on 2 december. They also installed a multi-spectra camera,
and freight piling up at railroad depots and piers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.""Transmission between horses and humans seems to have been key to some epidemics
just as dogs and cats Do it's simple to reduce say a dog's vocalizations to bark
The most commonly heard red fox vocalizations are a quick series of barks and a scream-y variation on a howl.
The barks are a sort of ow-wow-wow-wow but very high-pitched almost yippy. It's commonly mistaken for an owl hooting.
That bark sequence is thought to be an identification system; studies indicate that foxes can tell each other apart by this call.
The bark and scream and very loud so they're often heard but most other fox vocalizations are quiet
which up close sounds like a cough but from afar sounds like a sharp bark and is used mostly by fox parents to alert youngsters to danger.
Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles
They must achieve a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025; autonomous technology could help them get there faster.
when exiting the store with a boat-load of groceries in the pouring rain. Automated Carsthis is a good project
I'm in the same boat as you GGENUA! I also like Starz advice. I definitely believe we should be encouraging people to purchase physical hard copies of all forms of literature.
We can`t let more people onto our boat called earth or else it will sink!
of annual magnetic north pole coordinates going back to the year 1590 derived from early measurements from ships logs to modern day techniques...
#The Robotic Search For Lost WORLD WAR II Airmen Click here to see the galleryon a bright morning in Mid-march Pat Scannon stands on the deck of a 40-foot catamaran looking for an airplane hidden in the waters of Palau
Two technicians in a nearby Boston Whaler cradle a small torpedo-shaped craft then lower it into the water.
After the group found it Scannon hired a local guide to take him to other wreck sites where he eventually discovered the wing of A b-24.
They alerted the owner of a dive shop who passed photos of the wreck along to Bentprop.
if the features are purely biological like coral heads or actual wrecks. Moline pauses on an image with an oblong shape.
WORLD WAR II wrecks attract dive tourists and salvagers. The next morning at the coral-reef lab Terrill debriefs Scannon and the Bentprop group.
Reuter had used an archival map of observed plane crashes to mark Google earth layers with known wreck sites;
and wonders if it could be the pontoon of a floatplane. If that's intact it tells me it was speed a low impact perhaps ditching says Daniel O'brien a former skydiver
But existing ships that were moored still had antiaircraft. So for him to come in and land here it would have been to pick somebody up.
With the boat now directly over the plane the dive teams begin to suit up.
Eventually the team determines that the wreck has all the characteristics of a Kawanishi E15k1 Shiun code-named Norm by the Allies.
and a center pontoon that could be jettisoned during an attack. It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.
He launched his life raft and swam across the reef where a rescue aircraft swept down to pick him up.
Suzanne Finney an American archaeologist working with Palau's Bureau of Arts and Culture joins us for the 45-minute boat ride to the site of the Corsair.
With data from the robotic vehicles Palau can add downed aircraft to an inventory of the country's rich underwater sites something previously unattainable for an office that can barely afford to buy gas for a boat.
There are a lot of wrecks in water that's inaccessible to diving she says so you need remote-sensing equipment.
If it pans out it'll be a great archaeological tool to baseline a lot of these wrecks.
when for example patent interests allow the companies to deny the right to grow the rice already have their raft of reasons.
I know of at least one Level III NIJ hard plate armour that uses bed liner (polyurethane) to prevent shrapnel
the Roman Colosseum and aqueducts the Great Walls of China which I have on good account can be seen from space (one of a few really) Stonehenge the Hagia Sophia Petra Taj Mahal the Panama canal Machu Picchu
what is now Grand Staircase-Escalante National monument was a subtropical swampy section of Laramidia an island continent separated from the eastern part of North america by a seaway.
Humans could live in submarines in the deepest and warmest parts of the ocean but a more attractive option might be nuclear-or geothermal-powered habitats.
After the earth floats through space for a few million years maybe it could be captured by another solar system...
When it barked its implanted software translated the bark into words: Pet me! Half a week's salary but Cassie will love it.
I was 14 due to a 130mph motorcycle wreck by father caused and being nearly 40 now...
The two million cars added to the US automotive fleet each year require asphalting space equivalent to 400000 football fields paving over prime farmland.
That`s like calling a space probe a star ship. Of course the word stealth sells much better towards Washington politicians.
As improbable as it sounds scientists think early primates crossed the Atlantic ocean and landed on the shores of both continents tens of millions of years ago probably on some kind of vegetation raft.
which was part of a troupe of macaques released by some lunatic tour boat operator known as Colonel Tooey who thought the macaques would make for a better Jungle Cruise.
and South america besides the man made Panama canal? Why couldn't the monkeys just walk to North america like any other animal
In 1979 over 1400 animals were relocated to Morgan Island (Klopchin 2)..http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Morgan island south carolinamr. george---it mentioned that possibly primates possibly crossed the atlantic in some type of boat
and develop or wed have monkeys today in the united states. Can we blame global warming on those little North american monkeys in their monkey boats?
so that we can create an interstellar space ship to find and travel to another planet where we can thrive
or a colony ship to travel the cosmos and simply live in space whilst trying to find another place to live.
Whatever floats their boats. You think 9%is low? Try surveying the robots the percentage would be even lower!
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