Singing Insects of North America How to use SINASome features of SINACopyrights (ours and others)Contributing to SINARecent contributions to SINAOther acknowledgementsReferencesAbout Singing Insects of North America How to use SINA. Important: Portions of Singing Insects of North America [SINA] will take about two more years to complete. In the meanwhile, the parts that are complete or in progress are open for use. To determine the status of any of the five major divisions of SINA click on one of the navigation buttons at the top of this page. To determine if an insect is a cricket, katydid, or cicada Go to this page ("Home") and click on How to recognize crickets, katydids, and cicadas. To identify an unknown cricket, katydid, or cicada Go to the division dealing with Crickets, Katydids, or Cicadas and click on the Keys button. To learn about a species of cricket, katydid, or cicada for which you know the name Go to the division dealing with Crickets, Katydids, or Cicadas and click on the List of Species button. Image views
WhatBird | identify birds | bird identification guide | north america MYRMECOS - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Moon Mars Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune Pluto(we still love you) That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Pretty empty out here. Here comes our first planet... As it turns out, things are pretty far apart. We’ll be coming up on a new planet soon. Most of space is just space. Halfway home. Destination: Mars! It would take about seven months to travel this distance in a spaceship. Sit back and relax. When are we gonna be there? Seriously. This is where we might at least see some asteroids to wake us up. I spy, with my little eye... something black. If you were on a road trip, driving at 75mi/hr, it would have taken you over 500 years to get here from earth. All these distances are just averages, mind you. If you plan it right, you can actually move relatively quickly between planets. Pretty close to Jupiter now. Sorry. Lots of time to think out here... Pop the champagne! We're always trying to come up with metaphors for big numbers.
Entomology at Texas A&M University - Home Is Star Trek Science Fiction or a Look Into the Future? By John P. Millis, Ph.D One of the most popular science fiction series of all time is Star Trek. In it, future inhabitants of Earth take off on quests to the far reaches of the galaxy. Well, it turns out that the technologies used in films like Star Trek have varying levels of real science behind them. Occasionally, the technology will be in agreement with our understanding of physics, but is highly improbable to ever exist for various reasons. So let's look at each of these broad categories and see where the technologies fall. continue reading below our video Play Video