A Mini "Big-Bang" at the LHC. First collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) NASA BIGGEST KEPT SECRET ABOUT 2012 - EARTH BECOMING A STAR. LHC, particle accelerator, CERN » Large Hadron Collider LHC, CERN particle accelerator.
A Beginner's Guide to Plate Tectonics. Some people think that the earth has always been the way it is, with many oceans and the seven continents, but it’s not true.
In fact, the continents used to be joined together in one giant continent. The name plate tectonics comes from the Latin phrases tectonicus, which means building. The theory of plate tectonics states that there are eight major plates and many minor plates in the earth’s lithosphere, which are constantly shifting (at about 50-100 mm per year). Space Science. A Cloaked Alien Spaceship Orbiting Mercury? While watching a coronal mass ejection traveling from the sun, one of NASA's solar observatories would appear to have discovered a massive alien spacecraft docked in orbit next to the tiny planet Mercury!
As described by YouTube user siniXster, who used the U.S. Navy's SECCHI website to gather the images and create a video of the extraordinary extraterrestrial encounter on Dec. 3, it is "definitely some sort of manufactured object. " "It's cylindrical on either side, has a shape in the middle … It definitely looks like a ship to me. Very obviously it's cloaked," he continued. Can Severe Weather Trigger Earthquakes? Extreme weather events may set off quakes and recognizing those patterns may help us better forecast tremors.
Cyclones, hurricanes and monsoons add stresses that can interact with the timing of tectonic stresses triggering earthquakes. Someday, scientists may be able to use weather patterns to help forecast the timing of impending earthquakes. Monsoons, hurricanes and other extreme weather events may trigger earthquakes when faults are ready to rumble. The new research presented this week at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco does not suggest that all earthquakes are caused by storms or that all storms cause quakes. Full lunar eclipse visible on Saturday. Top 5 REAL Cosmic Doomsday Events of 2011. Boson de Higgs. The Higgs boson and the LHC: at last, a clue to the universe? Boson de Higgs. What is a Higgs Boson? Possible Higgs boson signals, but we won't know for sure until next year.
This morning, the spokespeople for the two main detectors at the Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS and CMS, gave talks on their teams' latest results in the search for the Higgs boson.
As expected, the results were a bit ambiguous, as the signals that are consistent with the presence of the Higgs didn't rise much above two standard deviations away from background noise. Singularity-Emergence A.I. Building the Universe Inside a Supercomputer. As my grandfather once told me, to truly understand how something works, “you need to build it yourself.”
And he knew what he was talking about. The Complex Beauty of Solar System Navigation. So you want to fly to another planet?
Well, you'd better prepare for a roller-coaster ride. Last night I drove from a small village in the Cotswolds (UK) back to my home in Norfolk. The journey took a good three hours, sticking to the national speed limit at all times (of course) and, ignoring the rather torturous windy English lanes and city bypasses, I had to head in a general easterly direction.
Microsoft Kinect used to map asteroids, glaciers, other scary things. Hubble Discoveries - Dark Energy. No Doomsday Supernova in 2012, Says NASA. Really?
David Hewlett: Missing McKay, that Stargate: Atlantis movie and more! If David Hewlett cracked you up as Dr.
Rodney McKay on Stargate: Atlantis, wait'll you meet the REAL David Hewlett! We're thrilled that he's agreed to join us regularly here at Blastr to answer your questions and share whatever happens to be on his mind. Could Starships Use Cold Fusion Propulsion? Voyager 1 is now leaving solar system, making it the first manmade probe to enter interstellar space.
That's quite an achievement, and it only took 30+ years. But if we're going to get serious about boldly going where no man has gone before, and send humans beyond the solar system, we're gonna need a cheap and plentiful energy source to help us get there. Exactly how much energy are we talking about? Well, back in January, a paper appeared on the arXiv by Marc Millis, a former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, calculating the costs -- in terms of energy -- of a truly interstellar manned space mission. And it wasn't good news. A Cloaked Alien Spaceship Orbiting Mercury? UFOs Are Real. Nobel Peace Prize Honors Three Women. First Earth-Sized Planets Orbit Distant Star. The worlds are a part of a "jam-packed" star system called Kepler-20 where rocky and gaseous planets co-mingle.
Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f are the first confirmed "Earth-sized" exoplanets to be discovered. The worlds live in a five-planet star system, all of which orbit their star very closely.