ESAPLANET hunter The European space agency announced on 19  February that it will launch a space-based observatory to hunt for planets around nearly one  million stars outside the Solar system.
The Plato (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission (pictured) will launch in 2024. It will use an array of 34 Â telescopes
and cameras to search for Earth-sized planets and super-Earths at distances from their parent star that would allow them to be habitable.
The aim is to study possible conditions for planet formation and the emergence of life.
The Numi Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance (NOVA) experiment also hopes to shed light on why the Universe has more matter than antimatter.
Xinhua/Xinhua Press/Corbisrover resurrected China s first Moon rover, Yutu (Jade Rabbit, pictured), may yet be saved.
China is only the third country in the world to land on the Moon, after the United states and the former Soviet union.
Tests of the network s first four satellites showed that the system could accurately determine positions across the planet.
which will eventually consist of 30 Â satellites. The system is planned as a rival to the US-owned Global Positioning System,
The miniature craft, containing 100 Â tiny satellites, is owned by schoolchildren and space enthusiasts. The Kicksat mission was funded by the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter. go. nature. com/gzd6ni
Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemicthe virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic probably sprang from North american domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.
Contrasto/eyevineitalian space head  The president of the Italian Space agency resigned on 7  February following allegations of bribery and corruption.
at the European space agency s European Space Astronomy Centre near Madrid. The mission plans to land a rover on the red planet in 2018. go. nature. com/i5n5r2
Water returns to arid Colorado river deltaone of North america s most iconic rivers is about to undergo an unprecedented experiment in ecological engineering.
The satellite was built by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and the data it will collect could aid the accuracy of forecasts of severe weather, estimates of freshwater supplies and projections of climate change.
We need to learn to leave the animals alone and deal with the fact that we are sharing this planet with them.
We act like we own the planet and are letting them exist out of the kindness of our hearts.
or sleep under the stars on the ground in the middle of a popular National Forest campground in a place known to be trafficked highly by humans as well as wildlife?
I ended up at the Rawah Lakes just west of Fort Collins. The sun just went down.
and wildlife officials construct a documentary aired on PBS Animal Planet Discovery and the like telling the TRUTH about wolves conservation
Earth will continue to rotate about the sun and change as it has for billions of years.
What happens if a small meteor explodes over that natural reserve? It doesn't need to be a global killer
and more known for covering space robots green energy and futuristic gadgets you might mistake for props in a science fiction movie.
Science denial is just something we have to deal with like moon hoaxers birthers and truthers.
Frosttty If you read two article you will find the cycles of the sun effect global warming with the alignment of the planetsand the cycles of Earths polar flip reduce magnetic field allowing more solar radiation to create cloud cover warms the planet. http://www
If you read two article you will find the cycles of the sun effect global warming with the alignment of the planets
and the cycles of Earths polar flip reduce magnetic field allowing more solar radiation to create cloud cover warms the planet.
Can I Buy The Moon? Can I buy the moon? For now at least the moon is like the sea:
everyone can use it but no one can own it. In 1967 the U s. and the Soviet union negotiated the Outer space Treaty
which states that no nation can own a piece of the moon or an asteroid.
You have a right to go up and take the lunar soil but you don't have any right to draw a square on the surface of the moon
and say'That square is mine'says Stephen E. Doyle a retired lawyer who served as NASA's Deputy Director of Internal Affairs.
If the Space Settlement Institute which lobbies for private industry to develop land on other planets has its way new laws will allow space colonists to stake moon claims
and start a colony. Alan Wasser the Space Settlement Institute's chairman says that a private company should build a spaceline similar to an airline between the Earth and moon.
And because a corporation is not a nation the Outer space Treaty would not apply. Corporations have settled new worlds before.
The London Company was a joint stock enterprise that established the Jamestown Settlement in 1607providing transportation to pioneers in return for seven years of labor in America where they cultivated tobacco and other crops for the company's profit.
and the promise of profits based on it is a necessary incentive to invest in space settlement.
He is lobbying for legislation that would commit the U s. government to honor future moon claims.
But anyone can buy a deed to land on the moon right now. The Lunar Registry (Earth's leading lunar real-estate agency) sells such deeds on its website for about $20 an acre.
Doyle says that future moon settlers could look to the Antarctic Treaty which designates the continent as a scientific preserve
Anybody who understands the implications of imposing a national law on celestial bodies Doyle says understands we are better to treat it like Antarctica
and extend them to outer space. Have a science question you've always wondered about? Send an email to fyi@popsci. comthis article originally appeared on Popularscience. com September 1 2011. yeah agreed...
lets go mine the stars...i think treating the moon like the Antartic is a terrible idea
I think the Manhattan scenario is much mroe ideal. If there becomes a valuable commodity (ie.
Helium 3 or whatever it is there will be significant interest in the moon and then maybe asteriods in the belt for metal and material. having a lucrative reason for space is the only way we will start to colonize it.
Anyone want to start a venture? Bull crap. If you can go there and defend it.
U s. and the Soviet union negotiated the Outer space Treaty...I would guess countries like Japan China India
and have their ideas of the recourses of the moon. It should be really interesting as more countries venture
and establish themselves in space. The GOLD RUSH will be on! so to speak. With this logic the moon will have a Jamestown effect more than an Antartic one.
There are people who truly desire to live on an extraterrestrial world or in space. For this they would definitely wish to lay claim to land
and control it. If comapnies buy land it will be to the benefit of those companies
This will in turn cause the formation a of moon based sovereignty or sovereignties that no longer adhere to the global authority of Earth.
Treating the moon like Antartica would denote that people only go there to work and not to live.
While the moon is a harsh environment (like the arctic) it is also the first base ground for expanding human civilization due to the increased number of humans in existence (we all eventually will not be able to fit on this one world.
That's why eventually the moon will be its own sovereignty (in due time) along with whatever other worlds we populate.
Coming soon to a planet near you. Avatar or Warhammer 40k anyone?@@Wolff Laarcencivilization is imperialism.
The Fact that there is not a governing body on the moon telling you buy land from it pretty much makes it where you dont have to buy land on it.
It is not the world's land it's the moon's. The only reason the idea that we would have to buy such land is to claim that land for a nation.
If I went to the moon and had the affordability to do so to colonize it
The moon colony would become its own nation and maybe it would become allies with the world's most importantly the most resourceful.
Boka we are civilized a little more than playing firsties with the moon. There should have to be established some sort of public area before any land can be handed out for private use.
I doubt there will be lot of demand for outdoor space...at firstfrom the movie RIDICK YOU CAN KEEP
Since living in space has not really truly been established. I think if you can plot you acre
or more on the moon and live there say 1 year it s your land.
FOR a cheap 5$ an acre price I can sell you any plot of land on the moon you desire!!
If you visit the moon and come back to earth you can't own it. But if you send a robot to mine the surface
@trout007 Sir there is no life on the moon as I sure you know. If a human lives there for say 1 year;
Really 1 year on the moon. That would truly be an accomplishment yes. In the history of settling the west barb wire came later and many a homestead had no such wire but simple stakes in the ground.
Luckily the cattle are not a consideration for the land of the moon. I think the real goal would be to mine Helium3 if possible.
But if the homesteaders find water somewhere in the depths of the moon too I feel water found on the moon would be worth like gold
. i think i would rather buy land underwater lol faster to get to cheaper to get done lots of unused space
I'm setting up a nice little vacation spot on the moon. Any takers? I wonder if other readers found this article amusing
I would love to own a piece of the moon! Its seems as I step out of the shower and pass the mirror
Do you know why the crack in your moon goes up and down. Well if it went side ways as a child you would go Blub-de-blub-de-blug all the way down the slide...
But if the homesteaders find water somewhere in the depths of the moon too I feel water found on the moon would be worth like gold...
I have heard in other science articles of water being trapped in the minerals of the moon.
if the conditions pressure and maybe having some depth in the ground of the moon there could be a underground lake of sorts trapped pool of water.
Part of the point of the article is about use of land of the moon and the descussion of ownership.
Some scientist have suggested in theory that life could have been brought to earth via its falling asteroids. I have also read that in the early days of the earth being formed it had smaller companion in orbit around the sun
and in one of these cycles these two objects collided and made the earth and the moon.
Upon inspection of the material of the moon it seems its material is identical to the surface minerals to the earth.
So taking all this into consideration perhaps in the depth of the moon deep down in its mineral stricter is contained a pool of trapped water protected from the vacuum of the space.
This pool trapped water being also in the depths of the moon is fluid in nature
and also because of the depth pressure and gravity of the moon it is warm water.
Combine that the moon is made of the same material as the earth and has been around for billions of years.
If there existed a pool of water in the depths of the moon it also possible it may contain life in it.
Now go 100 years into the future when extreme many countries of our earth are working in space and on the moon.
Take a country of the same leadership as say the leaders of North korea. This country is very successful in technology
and wants to establish a business and base on the moon. The take a very advance satellite and find a gigantic pool of water deep in the moon.
So the make a base station on the moon and begin drilling to tap this water.
The leaders of this country first goal are greed of and they just want to exploit the recourses they find on the moon.
So they drill to the lake and quickly start making good use of this water.
The workers of the moon eventually come back home to earth and spread across the earth these new bacteria.
The idea of who owns the moon and how it is exploited also sets the ideas of Mars
and any other recourse we find in the skyã¢Â# This really does affect the entire human race on earth. $20 an acre is way too cheap.
I imagine Astroboy enjoys science and the stars though; probably have lots of energy as well. I'm 98%sure the moon landings were faked.
They could not get there in the 60's because the technology did not exist to shield astronauts from the solar wind.
We might be able to go to the moon one day soon technology has increased vastly since the 60's especially force field tech.@
when they said they sent humans to orbit the moon. Everything on the moon the rovers the flag the mirror could have been placed there by probes.
although no earth based telescopes have observed them) I repeat the Apollo missions were the only missions to leave LEO (low earth orbit).
They can t the radiation in space is DEADLY. Not just the Van allen belts the Van allen belts protects us from the sun
. As soon as you leave the belts (which are deadly in themselves) you would be faced with the deadly solar wind.
and cannot go to the moon. But in the future space travel to the moon and mars will be possible.
With the invention of a working force field (electromagnetic) also bladders filled with water or slush in the structure of spacecraft to reduce the impact of the solar wind.
This is the future of space crafthttp://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Nautilus-XNOW compare that with the pod that was sent not to the moon.
That s why we will be able to travel to the moon in the future and why they couldn t do it in the 60 saight Aldron
And we DID in fact land on the moon the proof is in the retroreflectors that we can use on a regular basis to measure (with extreme precision) with lasers the distance between Earth and the moon.
But you have to realize that the heliosphere of our sun is gigantic. And in order for a solar wind to be deadly it requires whats called a coronal mass ejection
and while these happen quite frequently on the sun's surface the biggest ones that have the ability to do damage to us here as far away as we are On earth do not happen all the time.
if it was more of our satellites would have been raped on their way out of our magnetosphere.
if only one or 2 nations poseess the capability for advanced space flight and precious resources are discovered.
#How NASA Is Developing Fresh Space Saladearly in the history of the U s. space program space ice cream caught the imagination of American youngsters.
Now NASA and other researchers are developing a different kind of space food space-grown vegetables
Modern Farmer has a feature today covering ongoing research into growing edible plants in space.
There's a NASA effort to send romaine lettuce planters to the International Space station programs investigating crop production in Mars-like environments
Such space-farmed produce could save on the weight of the supplies astronauts need to bring with them;
Modern Farmer Just needs a space rabbit and a space Elmer Fudd lol. I read The High Frontier:
Human Colonies in Space by Gerald O'neill (Very Good Book) and it had talked about using Rabbits in space as the prime candidate for meat.
but represents a point in space instead of on a two-dimensional screen.)Group a million or so voxels together
Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.
and take the parking space. After all you can't be rude to a machine can you?
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since satellites began tracking the storms in 1967 he notes in an e-mail. We're also at a 10-year low in tornado activity.
I will trust the NOAA NASA every national science organization on the planet and every institute of higher learning on the planet for info.
and need to own up to the damage we are causing the planet and the consequences we are leaving to future generations (much more than just climate change)..
Danish studycopenhagen (AFP)--The earth's climate has been affected significantly by the planet's magnetic field according to a Danish study published Monday that could challenge the notion that human emissions are responsible for global warming.
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought.
In a book to be published this week they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet.
High levels of cloud cover blankets the Earth and reflects radiated heat from the Sun back out into space causing the planet to cool.
Henrik Svensmark a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre who led the team behind the research believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere.
and indeed there's evidence to suggest the planet may be in the early stages of a pole reversal right now.
According to John Tarduno professor of geophysics at the University of Rochester a strong magnetic field helps protect Earth from blasts of radiation from the sun. Coronal mass ejections (CMES) occasionally occur on the Sun
Even now solar storms can damage satellites cause power outages and interrupt radio communications. These kinds of negative influences clearly will increase
or other planet-wide disasters occurred as geoscientists can testify to from fossil and other records said Alan Thompson head of geomagnetism at The british Geological Survey.
http://www. mnn. com/earth-matters/space/stories/should-we-be worried-about-earths-magnetic-poles-reversing...
The planet's magnetic field is showing signs of wanting to make a gigantic somersault so that magnetic north heads towards Antarctica
and protects us from the sun's charged particles and cosmic rays by focusing them towards the poles.
There is a growing body of evidence that the sun's highly charged particles batter the upper atmosphere so hard that some of the assault filters down into the atmosphere around us influencing the wind atmospheric pressure and temperature.
The field is weakening with consequences of irradiation from the sun and deep space. But the reversal also means deep seated changes inside the earth with consequences of earthquakes in places not familiar with them and new volcanoes.
or just changes in the atmospheric environment. 1.)The sun cycles. 2.)The recent contribution by humans and the industrial revolution with the production of pollution of material and gases-CO2 and more. 3.)The extreme rare
I will trust the NOAA NASA every national science organization on the planet and every institute of higher learning on the planet for info.
the Sun flips it's pole every 11 years. It's about to happen now.
while the Suns is flipping and ours in flux ours could also change more rapidly than naturally occurs to match the Suns!
A small chance but possible. Let's hope! It is actually proven that the last field reversal happened in less than 200 years in a rapid flip that then reversed itself.
the Suns own dipole reversal becomes a major culprit! Some interesting Sun/Earth timing coincidences in the last flip. http://www. livescience. com/31795-earth-magnetic-field-reversal. htmldo not try
and bend the spoon. That is impossible. Only try and realize the truth-there is no spoon. lnwolf41
It might be cheaper and safer to launch these chemicals into outer space. If the containers were designed to leak slowly the poisons may dissipate enough to become harmless.
If they were launched to collide with the surface of the sun I would imagine that the vaporization would leave NO trace of the poisons or their delivery systems!
The wisdom in human selection is the greatest risk factor here. tmarti69 As the Earth is currently in the beginnings of a magnetic polar flip with a ongoing to zero reduction of magnetic field more wild life will be subject to the the sun comsic radays
if those people and that pond were on the moon. Reference: Humans Running In place on Water at Simulated Reduced Gravity Alberto E. Minetti Yuri P. Ivanenko Germana Cappellini Nadia Dominici Francesco Lacquaniti PLOS ONE
or POPSCI does not realize how many idiots there are on this planet. rainbowmakernot a joke cow tipping is an urban myth.
In other words the planet needs to rethink how it gets its meat. Brown is addressing the issue by supplying a near-perfect meat analogue
---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest t
#Follow A Queen bee On Her Maiden Mating Flightqueen honeybees mate just once in their lives within weeks of emerging as an adult from the little honeycomb cells in
and exposure to the sun so infants taking 1000 units'worth of Vitamin d supplements a day could easily exceed their daily limits.
I will stick to trusting every science organization on the planet that claim they have a handle on
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A graft within the space of the forest Echoviren is a space for contemplation of the landscape of the natural and our relationship with these constructs.
That is why lions (and every other carnivore on the planet) do just fine. You are what you eat and
however as worms tend to be an issue (as they are for most animal species including humans over most of the planet).
which our planet can replenish and have produced more waste than can be reabsorbed according to the Global Footprint Network a think tank based in the U s. Switzerland and Belgium.
Clearly we are not consuming the entire output of the planet-we are consuming previous output that has been stored (in the form of fossil fuels.
and increasing the output of the planet (in the same way that taking money from the bank
what we do to this planet when reach such large numbers. We deforest for everything from toilet paper to wood for infrastructure and
Maybe they guide a meteor into a major population without anyone knowing? Not a planet killer mind you maybe just a few small ones that are big enough to take a few billion.
I hate to think in these extremes but why must inflate our population to such a large number?
I do think a large majority of the 8. 3 Billion on this planet are in that category.
and their needs and not giving a shit about this planet. What wake up call will need we?@
and that the radiation and heat emanating from the star didn't kill you on your approach.
White dwarfs are extremely dense stars and their surface gravity is about 100000 times as strong as Earth's. You'd have to get your sample
which would be very hard to carve out without falling onto the star and getting flattened into a plasma Hammergren says.
But if you're desperate for a taste of star you don't need really to travel 8. 6 light-years your fridge is full of the stuff.
and everything around us were formed in the cores of stars and then belched out into the universe over billions of years.
Basically everything you eat was once part of a star. Might we recommend some star fruit? This article originally appeared in the November 2009 issue of Popular Science magazine. yall are ignorant. a white dwarf star could not be eat better yet held in a spoon. come back to
What if you're spoon is made of neutron star? then that would be an awsome spoon and
Of course the appropriate labelling would need to be applied to the star first. Conncentrate on real scientific articles that could actually affect us.
I'm not a geek) could have been a certain metal that reacted with neutron star to create the very dense metal you now have (god thats a mouthful) just hypothesizing that any of that was real of course (BTW that was very imaginative).
A nice hydrogen nebula salad would go down a lot better. Facts do not cease to exist
what is a dwarf star compared to a black hole? Please answer. Astounded 11/14/09 at 9: 26 amreally?
Of course the appropriate labelling would need to be applied to the star first. Conncentrate on real scientific articles that could actually affect us.
If drilling to the center of the Earth were as easy is putting 5 tons in the space of the area of a teaspoon...
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