Jul 15, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Investors.com: Now, here's some real Obama outsourcing. This morning, Kazakhstan time, the next mission to the International Space Station successfully blasted off carrying the usual trio -- a Russian commander, an astronaut from the international community and an American in a seat rented by NASA since the retirement of the last U.S. space ...
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Jul 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(Reuters) - Another day of scorching temperatures blanketed the United States from Iowa to the East Coast on Saturday, but forecasters said some of the areas hit hardest by the prolonged heat wave would soon get relief. More than two dozen people have died, including a four-month old Indiana girl who police say was left in ...
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Jul 2, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Associated Press, GENEVA: Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought "God particle" answering fundamental questions about the universe almost certainly does exist. But after decades of work and billions of dollars spent, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, ...
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Jun 9, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
As Obama has killed our space program because it brings honor, glory, success, as well as scientific and technological advancements to the country that might keep it the world leader in those and other areas...and in this instance, "Tang" will be the astronaut, not the drink... BEIJING (AP) — China will launch three astronauts this month ...
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Jun 5, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ABC News: Look! Up in the sky! This afternoon and evening, U.S. time, we earthlings will be treated to a transit of Venus -- the heavens aligning so that the small black disc of the planet Venus marches slowly across the face of the sun. The transit begins at 6:09 p.m. EDT and lasts about ...
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May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
In this photo provided by SpaceX, the Dragon spacecraft floats on the surface of the Pacific Ocean about 500 miles off Mexico's Baja California on Thursday, May 31, 2012 after its mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/SpaceX, Michael Altenhofen) Excerpted from Space: The world's first commercial space cargo ship dove through Earth's atmosphere and ...
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May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) -- Virgin Galactic says it expects to make rocket-powered test flights of its passenger spaceship later this year. The company said Wednesday its spaceship builder partner has been granted an experimental permit from the Federal Aviation Administration - a move that will allow it to proceed with powered flights. No timetable has been set ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Live Science: On Saturday in Miami, a naked, "zombielike" man viciously attacked a homeless man, biting off and eating much of his face. Police shot and killed the 31-year-old attacker, Rudy Eugene, who, according to some news outlets, may have been high on "bath salts" at the time of his cannibalistic attack. These soothing-sounding substances are ...
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May 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
DRESDEN, Germany – A German 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago. Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported. The Indian-born teen said he ...
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Apr 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
“An enlargement of the object makes the enormously large UFO look like a ship straight out of a Hollywood movie.” Daily Mail: A strange object flying close to the sun looks unnervingly like a huge, metallic 'mothership' familiar from Hollywood blockbusters. The picture was released by Nasa's sun-watching Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, known as SOHO - and ...
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Apr 22, 2012 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Yet another new survey shows that Republican supporters know more about politics and political history than Democrats. On eight of 13 questions about politics, Republicans outscored Democrats by an average of 18 percentage points, according to a new Pew survey “Partisan Differences in Knowledge.” The Pew survey adds to a wave of ...
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Apr 18, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Christian Science Monitor: Antidrug activists are concerned by the rising use of manmade drugs known as synthetic marijuana, which purport to be a legal way to a herbal high but are actually dangerous chemical concoctions that are banned in many states. The drugs, often sold in gas station and convenience stories under names like “K-2” ...
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Apr 12, 2012 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Bloomberg: A spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. is “almost certainly” man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a study. Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey said that for the three decades until 2000, seismic events in the ...
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Apr 6, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
The Daily Mail - A new invention - funded by Bill Gates - aims to turn used toilet water into drinking water. Manchester University’s Sarah Haigh is an expert in nanotechnology - the science of manipulating atoms in matter - and says, it could make waste water from toilets safe to drink. The innovation - which has ...
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Apr 5, 2012 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Herald Sun: WHILE many believed it to be an April Fool's Day joke, Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia has been testing mind-bending psychotronic guns that can effectively turn people into zombies. The futuristic weapons - which attack their victims' central nervous system - are being developed by scientists and could be used ...
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Apr 4, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Google Project Glass Website: We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do. ...
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Apr 1, 2012 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
A NASA spacecraft captured images of a tornado on the sun, spinning at 186,000 miles an hour and heating up to 3.5 million degrees. Scott Pelley reports.
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