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Video: ISS Expedition 35 returning to Earth in a Soyuze capsule earlier this week (NASA). ... discussWell, then … A little honesty … to bad we don’t get more of that in politics. Speaking about things needed in politics … we can dream, eh? Space and fire. About the WDML. S ... discuss
This is the most detailed view yet obtained of the cosmic microwave background, the light that was released after the universe finally settled down enough for the first atoms to form and for light to ... discuss
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The Antares rocket clears the launch pad on its way to orbit. Credit: NASA/Bill IngallsSunday's launch of the Antares rocket, developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation, was a significant step toward a ... discuss
Shows design and purposeHas no design or purpose, completely chance ... discuss
Landing on Mars. Photo Credit: Wikipedia by Howard Rich: Exploration and discovery are among our most fundamental human characteristics — setting us apart from the animals and chronicling our ong ... discuss
Obviously, they will be branded heretics, personally denigrated, and said to be in the pay of Big Oil and Big Coal (Nature World News) The government is overreacting to a largely unreal threat of glob ... discuss
Asteroid retrieval mission concept: Image Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Lab More than two months overdue, the Obama Administration released its FY2014 budget proposal yesterday. The proposed budget i ... discuss
P. Chodas (NASA/JPL) (Click on image for enlarged view.)The topic of asteroids encountering the Earth have suddenly received plenty of media and public attention following Friday's explosion of a lar ... discuss
The International Space Station's DEXTRE robot grasps the RRM hardware during the key demonstration last Thursday, Jan. 24.(Image from TV downlink/credit: NASA)The latest project I worked on during my ... discuss
NASA, the nation and the world are observing this week the anniversaries of human losses in spaceflight: Apollo 1 (forty six years ago Sunday, January 27), Challenger (twenty seven years ago yesterday ... discuss
NASA, Artist concept by Denise Watt.Some of my friends in the space community announced a new asteroid mining venture, Deep Space Industries, Inc. The company plans to start launching small precursor ... discuss
Viñeta cómica que circula en la web.Uno de los observatorios astronómicos más antiguos del mundo es el del Vaticano. Actualmente está en funciones y en él trabajan un competente equipo de cient ... discuss
FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders article source: http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1062 There over 800 prison camps in the United States, ... discuss
Golden Spike Company illustration of how it would send people to the Moon using existing launch vehicles and proven technologies to reduce the cost of the trip. On the cusp of the fortieth anniversary ... discuss
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSSThis is a view of two of the trenches made by the 1.6-inch-wide (4-centimeter-wide) scoop on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity in October 2012 at a site called Rocknest. N ... discuss
What’s not to hate? Judge Jeanine Pirro has much to say about the terrorist attack at Benghazi, Libya, on 9/11/l2. >Government is not the solution to the problem; government IS the problem.WILL ... discuss
The liberals want Obama to postpone the election, using as an excuse the destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy in a part of the country that is dominated by liberals. Can it be done?Not legally ... discuss
Remember Watergate? Remember the non-stop media coverage? Where are the media on the Benghazi debacle? The more we learn about what happened (and didn't happen) at the embassy, the more we see that th ... discuss
IF HE'S NOT DEFEATED ON NOVEMBER 6TH, CONGRESS SHOULD START IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS -- rfh Note o'mam's priorities: February 17, 2010 >article source: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/02/nas ... discuss
JIMMY FALLON: NASA is warning that solar radiation could cause TV outages over the next week, or as Mitt Romney put it [crossing his fingers], 'Please happen during the debate. Please happen during th ... discuss
Voyager - The Interstellar Mission ... discuss
Storming Embassies, Killing Ambassadors, and ‘Smart’ Diplomacyby Victor Davis HansonNational Review OnlineThe attacks on the US embassy yesterday in Cairo and the storming of the American cons ... discuss
In 1219 the Shah of the Islamic Khwarezmid Empire (present day Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan), Ala ad-Din Muhammad had the ambassadors of Genghis Khan killed. This affront to diplomatic convention l ... discuss
So, d’ya have a good laborious day yesterday? Munch munch munch. Yikes. Sneeze. (yes I’m very very allergic to those) Liberal global energy policies and unintended consequences. A park t ... discuss
And this is the federal agency Obama wants to turn into a Muslims' relations group. ... discuss
Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, "..when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American." (quote source: RNC acceptance speech Th.30Aug12) /DIV> From: bebop/le ... discuss
Ronald Reagan taught us, "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." Barack Obama's ... discuss
From the e-mail newsletter sent to fans of MercatorNet, it's editor Michael Cook ponders the lessons learned this week from two different Armstrongs.Whenever we looked at the moon in this last couple ... discuss
Last year, astronomers reported the discovery of a pair of white dwarf stars orbiting one another at the astonishing pace of about 13 minutes per revolution. Now, a year of follow-up observations have ... discuss
NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probe (RBSP) satellites launched this morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to study the Earth Van Allen belt, which area torus-shaped area of highly-ch ... discuss
Credit: NASANeil Armstrong, who became the first human being to step onto another world, passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at age 82. Armstrong actually remembered the landing, where he skill ... discuss
Maybe you have read anything these days about the polar other 2012? Perhaps you have seen your blockbuster movie that The show biz industry put out last year called this year? If you are a minor famil ... discuss
Astronaut Neil Armstrong always modestly viewed himself, and preferred to be viewed by others, as the anchor man in a relay race. That race began in 1957. The Soviets had their own reasons for going t ... discuss
One Giant Leap for Mankind!With those words (accidently omiting the a before man), Neil Armstrong became the 1st human being to ever walk on the surface of the Moon. This past Saturday, Neil Armstrong ... discuss
We all had memories of Neil Armstrong that were re-kindled when hearing of his death. A place. A picture. An image. Barack Obama? He placed HIMSELF in it. Only a phuquing insecure man with n ... discuss
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Who could ever forget the words of Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon at 9:56pm (Houston time) July 20, 1969, as he poet ... discuss
What's it like to look up at the moon and know your footprints are there?Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, the first human being to step on its surface.Billions of people have live ... discuss
In a way it is fitting that I learned about Neil Armstrong's death while dropping off one of the Troglotykes (#2) at college. In addition to my father, there was no greater influence and ins ... discuss
One of our local heroes, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, has died at age 82 from complications of cardiac bypass surgery. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” is A ... discuss
The Summer of '69 "it was the best years of my life", as the song goes. a few months before I met my girlfriend and future wife. A time of war but a time of extraordinary achievements. A time when ... discuss
CINCINNATI (AP)—Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small s ... discuss
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of the Moon, has died today at age 82. Armstrong, together with fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, landed on the surface of the moon o ... discuss
From: ah Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 Subject: The Country of Texas Sabinal is lookin better all the time! I'll never forget those Fords in Tex ... discuss
Imprimis Free Subscription - Imprimis Archives From: Hillsdale College Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 Subject: July/August Imprimis: Economic Lessons from American History July/ ... discuss
A new study demonstrates a connection between the Earth’s surrounding magnetic field and the convection of material in the Earth’s mantle. The mantle is the plastic layer of heated rock surroundin ... discuss
“You can drown understanding in facts. Anyone who fails to perceive the mystery at work within the facts of nature or of history is just stuffing his head and his heart with a lot of things that ma ... discuss
WORLD’s weekly radio news magazine, The World and Everything in It now airs on more than 200 radio stations across the country. Be sure to check out our recently updated station list to find out whe ... discuss
A combination of three key changes leads mission controllers to believe that the Voyager 1 spacecraft is finally reaching the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space. Over the course ... discuss
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By: Staff (CNSNews.com) - As NASA's Curiosity roving laboratory was descending via parachute toward ... discuss
One of the first images from Curiosity after landing on Mars overnight. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) (left); Image of curiosity descending to the Martian surface under its parachute taken by the ... discuss
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As you can see in the video above, the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity landed safely on the surface of Mars late last night, touching down at 1:31 a.m. EDT. With a complex landing system, an ... discuss
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Update: Wheels down on Mars. Receiving images. Follow the progress of the mission with JPL. Early images from Gale Crater, Mars. Curiosity's wheel is clear in lower right corner of image on ... discuss
...you can feel proud to be part of humanity. Pretty neat. I wasn't expecting to get worked up over it but I did. MarsCuriosity. Good job NASA. ... discuss
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA's Curiosity rover is zooming toward Mars. 2 read more ... discuss
NASA today officially announced that SpaceX, Boeing and Sierra Nevada Corp. have won funding awards in the final development round of its commercial crew program, now called Commercial Crew Integrated ... discuss
by Michael Baruzzini If you live in a dark enough location, you may look up into the night sky and see the pale band of the Milky Way stretching from horizon to horizon. The Milky Way is our own gala ... discuss
Pamela Geller points out that in speaking on the Aurora murders, Barack Obama had no problem using the word "terrorize" ... However, when Islamist Nidal Hasan killed 13 of our serviceman in a ji ... discuss
Alam ng ating mga ninuno na TAO ang batang nasa sinapupunan.Sila'y mga sanggol, hindi "dugo" lamang. ... discuss
A week from Monday, on August 6th (or Aug. 5th, depending on your location), the Curiosity lander will be in the final stages of its trip to Mars and preparing for landing on the Red Planet’s su ... discuss
Lift high the cross. Arthur Blessitt is an evangelist best known for having carried a 12-foot cross around the world during his 44 years of ministry. Blessitt, who lives in the Denver area, did not ha ... discuss
Video: Science@NASA: A Taste of Solar Maximum. Solar maximum is still a year away. This month sky watchers got a taste of things to come when a powerful flare sparked Northern Lights over the United S ... discuss
Famed NASA astronaut Sally Ride has died at age 61. Ride was the first female American astronaut, launching into space aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. Ride was 61 years old and had been ... discuss
WASHINGTON (AP)—Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, has died. She was 61. NASA confirmed her death Monday afternoon and President Barack Obama called her a national hero. Her o ... discuss
A new study takes a closer look at the surface of the solar system’s second-largest moon, Titan, which is the largest moon orbiting Saturn, and which is also the only moon in the solar system ... discuss
Disabled car turned into motorcycle? Supposedly done by a Frenchman after his car broke down in the middle of a desert in Africa. Reminiscent of The Flight of the Phoenix. ### Family Dinners Don’ ... discuss
An asteroid will be flying by the Earth tomorrow (Sunday, July 22nd), and will approach our planet at a distance of 3.2 million miles at its closest. For comparison, that’s almost 14 times the d ... discuss
Several cigarette smokers pot apply it rarely or only fumes it at times and get no complications in quitting. Even so, folks cigarette smoking consistently, or for some time that want to end marijuana ... discuss
The surface of the Earth is obviously a wet place, especially compared with the other dry inner planets of the solar system. Nevertheless, the Earth still only contains about one percent water by mas ... discuss
NASAToday is the 4rdd anniversary of the Apollo 11 pioneering expedition to the lunar surface, the day human beings first made landfall on another world. Check out Rand Simberg's ceremonial commemorat ... discuss
Forty-three years ago today. Aldrin’s boot and bootprint in lunar soil, Apollo 11. Click for full-size. (NASA) ... discuss
SpaceX has released a “highlight reel” of its recent mission to the International Space Station. On May 25th, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule became the first private spacecraft to enter or ... discuss
Astronomy Picture of the Day hosts this remarkable image today, which they dub a “21st century” image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101. The Pinwheel Galaxy is notable for its beautifully clea ... discuss
Video: NASA The Expedition 32/33 crew consisting of the Soyuz commander cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Suni Williams, and JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide launched Saturday from Baikonur Cosmod ... discuss
by G. K. Chesterton A book has at one time come under my notice called ‘Terra Firma: the Earth not a Planet.’ The author was a Mr. D. Wardlaw Scott, and he quoted very seriously the opinio ... discuss
Sra Melinda GatesSe quer impedir que os pobres nasçam, não precisa de pedir dinheiro para comprar borrachas ou comprimidos...P.S.- Convinha também fazer um bocadinho o seu trabalho de casa. ... discuss
Good morning. Progressive anthropology/reporter investigates conservative evangelicals. Of risk and market distortions. Speaking of risk. On beauty. And Syria. It’s not about infrastructure ... discuss
Check your PC's/servers/Internet devices (MS, OSX, Android) for the 'DNS Changer Malware' at: http://www.dcwg.orgor https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using-rogue-DNS ... discuss
No, not Al Gore. Lovelock is a world-renowned scientist and environmentalist whose Gaia theory — that the Earth operates as a single, living organism — has had a profound impact on the development ... discuss
The previous post in this series is here. So, in yet another attempt to account for the fact, discussed previously here and here, that we see no evidence yet of alien life (let alone intelligent alien ... discuss
35 Years later - Interstellar Space in sight From FoxNews, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a new environment more than 11 billion miles from Earth, suggesting that the venerable prob ... discuss
James Lovelock has become a church of al gore heretic. He was once a guru to environmentalists, claiming climate change would kill billions of humans by the end of this century. But it seems Jame ... discuss
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. At the age of 91, Ray Bradbury, renowned author and Tea Partier, has passed on to the next life. Bradbury wrote science fict ... discuss
HT/Becky Communion on the Moon: July 20, 1969 Forty-two years ago two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exi ... discuss
SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is grappled by the International Space Station on Fri., May 25, 2012.Image Credit: NASAYesterday's successful splashdown and recovery of the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo cr ... discuss
Contact: Robyn Williams, WinePress Publishing, 360-802-9758, robyn@winepresspublishing.com ENUMCLAW, Wash., May 30, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- On June 27, 2011 a large asteroid buzzed past earth c ... discuss
Within the 2011 MTV television series, Friendzone, every episode depicted two vibrant, unmarried, best friends. Among the friends wanted to move out from the “friend zone” along with into ... discuss
This post was originally part of a Carnival of Homeschooling. I decided to pull out the History of Home Education in America part and make it a post of its own. I’m not a scholar, and this is ... discuss
President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated] Yes, he's historic, alright.• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government• Fir ... discuss
Get ready for the Super Moon!From the Los Angeles Times:According to NASA's calculations, 11:34 p.m. EDT Saturday is the moment when the moon will hit your eye like a big pizza pie, to paraphrase Dean ... discuss
The skeptics have a new convert: One of the fathers of Germany’s modern green movement, Professor Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a social democrat and green activist, decided to author a climate scie ... discuss
NASA, Artist concept by Denise Watt.After several days of increasingly detailed media reports, Planetary Resources today announced its asteroid prospecting and mining business ... discuss
NASA, Artist concept by Denise Watt.The Club of Rome’s “Limits to Growth” scenario that has had a profound impact on economic and social policies around the world is base ... discuss
Listen online to today’s broadcast of WORLD’s weekly radio news magazine, The World and Everything in It. Or download an mp3 file of the entire program or individual segments and take it ... discuss
Reverts. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reports that about half of Americans will switch religions at least once in their lives, and about 9 percent will return to the religion of their youth ... discuss
eing 747-100 jet carried the space shuttle Discovery via "piggyback" to its new home, at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles International Airport, located in the Virginia suburbs of the W ... discuss
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Rebellion at NASAHere's just one problem with global warming data related to temperature collection:NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, are collecting data from thousan ... discuss
agrees with über alarmist Hansen. The consensus is coming apart at the seams. In an unprecedented slap at NASA’s endorsement of global warming science, nearly 50 former astronauts and scientists- ... discuss
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…Fifty top astronauts, scientists and engineers at NASA have signed a letter asking the agency to cease its global warming buffoonery. The global warming emperor has no clothes, and people are f ... discuss
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Good morning. A discussion of modern heresy. An interesting observation, all theological heresies recapitulate as ecclesiastical errors. That is, errors of “what is God” recapitulate ... discuss
Astronauts and scientists at NASA rebel over global warming and write a scathing letter to NASA director Charles Bolden, Jr. saying Jim Hansen and NASA GISS are exemplifying the "wrong stuff": In an ... discuss
Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques Hat Tip: Judy W. Egan Jones Downgrades US Credit Rating Energy Department To Fund More Renewable Energy Projects 40th Straight Month of Deficits – who has been in charge f ... discuss
The hoaxsters' models continue to fail. Perhaps some of the journalists should read what a real scientist has to say about the hoax. During a fundraiser in Atlanta earlier this month, President Ob ... discuss
Alexander Tsiaras is Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of Scientific Visualization at Yale's Department of Medicine. He wrote algorithims and code for NASA to do virtual surgery in preparation ... discuss
03/12/2012 China (ChinaAid) Members Detained and Sent to Labor Camp as Chinese House Church Repeatedly Targeted for Persecution -A house church belonging to the China for Christ denomination has been ... discuss
m/watch?v=uhFj9IwfF-Y&fmt=18">www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFj9IwfF-Y SCRIPT FOR TODAY’S PJ NEWS BREAK WITH SCOTT OTT, FRESHLY-RIPPED FROM HIS TELEPROMPTER SCOTT OTT: It’s Monday, March ... discuss
I was kind of astonished at Obama's display of ignorance in his speech where he called people who disagreed with him flat-earthers. Let me tell you something. If some of these folks were around when ... discuss
This week’s episode of the Connected Kingdom Podcast has David talking about typology in the Bible; if that sounds dry, it’s because you don’t understand it well enough! Understandin ... discuss
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What Should A Singer Songwriter Do During The Last Year Of The World? Well…I don’t think that’ll happen for at least about 1007 years. But I’ve decided to line up some ambi ... discuss
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DIA 31 de Janeiro de 2012 – Terça-feiraA Cáritas de Portimão, a funcionar, neste momento, ao lado da Igreja do Colégio, junto ao jardim da Alameda, nestes tempos de crise, tem vindo a ser muito ... discuss
NASA thinking about an Earth-Moon-Libration Point 2 Well it’s not quite Space 1999, but pretty cool nonetheless, NASA is pressing forward on assessing the value of a “human-tended waypoint ... discuss
NASA discovers black hole with 20 million mile-per-hour winds - SlashGear mg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1926891106758008587-4306447051156713977?l=frtimmoy ... discuss
NASAToday is the fiftieth anniversary of John Glenn's pioneering orbital mission. NASA provides a multimedia presentation on the mission. A video marking the anniversary of this historic mission is li ... discuss
Quick Summary: 1. Evidently someone (the Hoaxster) called Heartland claiming to be a boardmember and got a secretary to email copies of board meeting documents. It appears 8 documents were sent. ... discuss
Hal G.P. Colebatch writes at The American Spectator: One point about the Obama Administration is significant but has been little remarked on -- the global failure of its foreign policies. These failu ... discuss
Oh, this isn’t good. Those Himalayan glaciers that were supposed to have disappeared by 2035 according to the IPCC (since retracted as nonsense), haven’t even shrunk in ten years. Fro ... discuss
Gingrich: GOP establishment cheap version of Democratic establishmentby Joy Lin, Fox News Election HQ, February 07, 2012article source: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/02/07/gingrich-gop- ... discuss
So… how’s that Facebook-led revolution in Egypt coming along? Richard Fernandez comments on the not only the issues directly affecting Egyptians, but the incompetence in the Obama administ ... discuss
Twenty-six years ago, on January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, disintegrating over the Atlantic Ocean off the course of central Florida. All seven of ... discuss
Mitt beats Newt and Rick in Florida. What did he get for $15.4 million? Ron Paul in single digits won’t rule out another option. Deficit tops $1 trillion: How will Obama stop interest payments f ... discuss
Debolt & DeregulationDemocrats have proposed a 1.1 billion dollar “jobs” bill for Washington State. Representative Richard Debolt (R – Chehalis) is offering his support at ... discuss
The New York Times takes a firm stance against slavery. The “Gray Lady”—as the authoritative “newspaper of record” was once known–wants everyone to know that she won’t tolerate backs ... discuss
It's been over a year since I wrote Stupid Letters, The Global Warming Scam, and Science? I Think Not! As you may recall, I've noted that the best predictor of Earth's climate is not CO2, but solar ac ... discuss
Wonder what the climate hoaxers will say to this. They better buy sweaters. Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing ... discuss
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The latest polling in Florida has Mitt Romney up big over Gingrich and other rivals. The NBC/Marist poll has Romney at 42-27 percent over Gingrich, with Santorum at 16, Paul at 11. The Miami Herald ... discuss
.OPINION SPACEMars Trip Postponed IndefinitelyIn 2003 we are probably further from Mars than ever beforeby Robert N. GoingAmsterdam - Mar 20, 2003So, I guess I won't be going to Mars after all. Ab ... discuss
NASAWhile campaigning for the Florida Primary vote, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced on January 25 some bold proposals for accelerating our nation's space activities. These include establi ... discuss
Blue Marble: See what NASA calls the 'most amazing high definition image of Earth' | News | National Post mg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/192689110675800858 ... discuss
NASA is observing the anniversaries of its human losses in spaceflight: Apollo 1 (forty five years ago tomorrow), Challenger (twenty six years ago Saturday), and Columbia (nine years ago next Wednesda ... discuss
I'm going out on a limb to say that even if he wins FL, Newt has peaked. I like the guy well enough. He fights, and I contemn the unlovely partisan habit of seeking purity and saviors in politicians. ... discuss
It seems, according to a Mr. Zimmer, that NASA has wasted $2.5 billion, because scientists can't define life. Last November, NASA launched Curiousity, a rover designed to look for life on Mars. Howeve ... discuss
NASASome key planners in NASA and industry are looking at some unconventional ways to enable NASA to again move out beyond Earth orbit in spite of constrained budgets."In the current budget environmen ... discuss
From time to time, I’ll be mining the archives around here. I’m digging up my blog’s best posts from the past. I’m hoping these reruns will still serve my readers. TodayR ... discuss
O projecto de lei de alteração da regulação da procriação medicamente assistida apresentado pelo Bloco de Esquerda, e actualmente em discussão, pretende garantir o acesso a essa técnica a mulh ... discuss
Ozark Guru: Hang to your hat or whatever as you read the following. The temptation will be to issue some form of an expletive or to event upchuck. But as we would say in the military, "Fine now w ... discuss
President Obama’s decision in 2010 to cut NASA’s budget and abandon the Constellation program, established by the Bush administration, which was charged with returning Americans to the moo ... discuss
Using a precision formation-flying technique, the twin GRAIL spacecraft will map the moon's gravity field, as depicted in this artist's rendering. Image credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechThe NASA GRAIL mission, ... discuss
As usual, thanks to Wikipedia for refreshing my recollection on important events of 2011. I trust my readers overseas forgive and indulge my concentration on what is of interest primarily in the ... discuss
Given the premise that good fiction must ring true to life, Robert Knight, writing in The Washington Times, has taken the time to sketch out a few plot elements on what might happen if a man who hates ... discuss
Image Credit: NASA/Carla CioffiA Soyuz spacecraft was launched today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying three more crew members to the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS will ... discuss
Scientists with NASA's Kepler mission today announced the confirmation of the discovery of two Earth-sized planets around another star. However, the two exoplanets are too close to their sun to be hos ... discuss
I will start with a disclaimer: I am a huge Ron Paul supporter. I supported him in 2008 from the start. I have supported him all this campaign season. I even have documented evidence for anyone who do ... discuss
NASA, Artist concept by Denise WattIn a curious exchange in last night's GOP presidential debate, Mitt Romney attacked Newt Gingrich's previously stated position favoring the enabling of a lunar minin ... discuss
A few basic facts: The planet has been named Kepler 22b, after the space telescope used to find it. It orbits a star that’s slightly smaller and dimmer than the Sun, but at a distance somewhat ... discuss
“Man dies shopping on Black Friday. Unfazed shoppers walk around, step over body.” That was a Drudge Report headline on Friday, and other media headlined stories of customers fighting over items, ... discuss
Photo Credit: NASAThe Curiosity/Mars Science Laboratory was launched yesterday. Curiosity is the most sophisticated robotic probe ever sent to Mars to look for evidence of conditions favorable for the ... discuss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyljukBE70Image-maker, Alexander Tsiaras, has worked as an associate professor of medicine and a chief of scientific visualization at Yale University.He has partic ... discuss
The comparisons between Barack Obama and Franklin D. Roosevelt began even before our 44th president had taken the oath. In late 2008, TIME magazine portrayed president-elect Obama as FDR on its cover. ... discuss
Contact: Paul Hutchins, 407-506-9000 ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 2, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- Discoveries made by NASA in 2004 appear to confirm the Genesis account of planet formation to be scientifical ... discuss
Over the weekend, I was on my search to find All Saints Day costumes for the kiddos, as at their Catholic School, they celebrate All Saints and not today, Halloween. So I have done my Hallowee ... discuss
My friend Steve – who really should be writing this blog instead of me – had this to say about the Pontifical Commission’s note: What I take as one of the points of the document is that t ... discuss
Discoveries made by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Telescopes in 2004 appear to confirm the Genesis account of planet formation to be scientifically accurate. Contact: Paul Hutchins, 407-506-9000 ORLAND ... discuss
-- Today is the anniversary of my admission to the bar. I swore my attorney oath before the state supreme court and federal district bench thirteen years ago today.-- Would that Catholics were a ... discuss
From the Washington Post: George de Wrzalinski, GSA librarian and Polish emigre George de Wrzalinski, a retired General Services Administration librarian and the scion of an aristocratic Polish family ... discuss
From the Washington Post: George de Wrzalinski, GSA librarian and Polish emigre George de Wrzalinski, a retired General Services Administration librarian and the scion of an aristocratic Polish family ... discuss
Frontispiece of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius1610 (Starry Messenger) Why care about the manuscript that launched Galileo to fame? Because it is a landmark in the history of science and Christianity. Th ... discuss
Justine’s Story - I think it is good for us to read stories like this every now and again, lest we forget the horror and devastation of abortion. “On the 23rd anniversary of her abortion, ... discuss
So predictable: A journal editor publishes a peer reviewed article going against the “consensus” on global warming. “The scientists” and media go ballistic. “Pressure&# ... discuss
The Watcher’s Council Hurricane Irene via NASA The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the akahshic records of cyberspace. The ... discuss
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From: FCW Daily Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 Subject: NASA seeks to ease comet strike fears NASA laughs off comet fears By FCW Staff, Aug 18, 2011 A comet that ... discuss
First and foremost, from Reuters, the Court of Appeals for the 11th circuit has ruled against the individual insurance purchase mandate component of Obamacare. Yes, former Speaker Pelosi, I’ ... discuss
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Photo Credit: Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- NASAThe NASA Juno spacecraft was launched today on its mission to orbit and investigate the planet Jupiter. ... discuss
A new experiment suggests that the Sun may play a bigger part than first though in climate change. But since this challenges the current orthodoxy, \"The chief of the world’s leading physics lab at ... discuss
The debate over global warming has intensified in recent weeks after peer-reviewed NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 showed the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be r ... discuss
I receive far more books than I could ever read and review. Even when I toss the ones that are very obviously not worth anyone’s time, a lot remain that I would like to read but simply cannot; t ... discuss
Astronomers Bania and Loren Anderson of the Astrophysical Laboratory of Marseille in France have discovered about 450 hidden stellar nurseries in the Milky Way using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telesco ... discuss
So the title of this article is a little sensationalist and, well, alarmist, but it does point to some very interesting research. Bottom line is that reality does not conform to the climate change com ... discuss
A few stories from the past day or so: From Fox News, a possible repeat of the Fort Hood horror may have been prevented, as AWOL PFc Naser Jason Abdo “has been arrested in connection with an ... discuss
Last week NASA announced that the Hubble telescope discovered a 4th Moon Around Pluto. The new moon is temporarily designated P4 (aka S/2011 P 1 or S/2011 (134340) 1). The moon was officially discover ... discuss
A.F. Branco: Tags: A.F. Branco, political cartoon, liberty, NASA, Obama, Obama lies, Space Shuttle, Statue of Liberty To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ... discuss
Spacewalker Mike Fossum rides on the International Space Station's robotic arm as he carries the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment. This the final scheduled spacewalk during a shuttle mission. Imag ... discuss
Shuttle Atlantis lofted into space today for the final launch of the Space Shuttle program. The launch drew one of the largest crowds in the history of the space program to the Central Florida Coast.T ... discuss
Photo credit: NASA/Troy CryderWell, we're finally here, the night before the final launch of the Space Shuttle (putting aside the strong chance of a postponement due to weather). I've spent much of my ... discuss
Two weeks ago, my son received what for him at the tender age of seven, is the epitome of joy, a birthday invitation from one of his best friends to one of his favorite places to celebrate. Every da ... discuss
NASA’s Spirit has completed its mission After operating for over 6 years, for what was supposed to be a 3 month mission, NASA has ceased attempting to communicate with the Mars Rover Spirit. Qui ... discuss
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (MetroCatholic) – Space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Sp ... discuss
Osama Bin Laden dead: Obama took 16 hours to make up his mind | Mail Online. The situation was presented to Obama on Thursday, but he said that he wanted to “sleep on it”. The decision was ... discuss
Last night I watched a National Geographic show called, "The Edge of the Universe" narrated by Alec Baldwin. He did a really good job despite the fact that I kept picturing him making a joke out of so ... discuss
The new President of the United States, the trim young John F. Kennedy, had promised to “get America moving again.” But barely three months into his term, the fat, bald, warty Nikita Khrushchev wa ... discuss
Another big breakthrough on the IPSC front: Skin cells from a patient with Parkinson’s–a variety caused by a genetic condition–have been turned into neural cells, and then studied as ... discuss
Here is a movie of a virtual flight over the planet Mars. During your flight you will see the Mars rover. My son-in-law helped develop the altimeter on the rover. This is really a spectacular fligh ... discuss
I keeping with the theme of "rainbows and moonbeams", here is a picture of another type of rainbow. They are calling it a fog bow. Here is the text from the web site I saw this on. Explanation: Wh ... discuss
