Category Archives: Cosmos

How Many Exoplanets Now?!

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Adam

xkcd: Exoplanets Just how many exoplanets are now known? Oodles. Topping 500 this week with 400 more odd promised over the next year from “Kepler” and who knows how many being watched prior to the discoverers going public… Exoplanet Encyclopedia

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Cassini Equinox Mission: Chasma Crescent

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Adam

Cassini Equinox Mission: Chasma Crescent. Tethys sports this gorgeous chasm… …awesome. Such strange new worlds out there.

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Human/Bacteria Hybrid Emortals

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Adam

Found in nature’s freezer, the secret of living to 140 | Mail Online. Certain bacteria and/or their by-products when injected into mice & flies (standard lab-animal models for such studies) extend their healthy life-spans by almost double. Thus the headline … Continue reading →

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E-Eyes on the Cosmos

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Adam

New Horizons, the fastest launched probe, is shooting towards a close encounter with Pluto and its three moons on July 14, 2015. As NH will get ~50 metre resolution we can work out the baseline for an interferometer to achieve … Continue reading →

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Complexity, Creativity & Randomness

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Adam

Random Reality § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. Marcus Chown discusses the information content of the Universe – what has pumped “information” into what began as a very simple world? Chown points out that ‘random’ sequences require more information to describe than ‘ordered’ & … Continue reading →

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Prospects for Oxygen-Breathers in Europa

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Adam

An MSNBC news-bite covering a recent study by Richard Greenberg, long time Europa researcher, which quantifies the delivery of oxygen, produced by photolysis of surfaces ices, to the ocean beneath. The ocean seems to be highly oxygenated and, Greenberg estimates, … Continue reading →

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I Dream of the City

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Adam

I dream of a City, but not like any we know in our Time. This City is more like a forest – of crystal columns, thinking inscrutable thoughts. But the City is powerful – it reaches across all Times, drawing … Continue reading →

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The Night Land (II)

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Adam

Part (I) William Hope Hodgson’s “The Night Land” is a perfect example of fin de cicle, end of the World, style writing from the end of the old naive belief in progress and bellicose sabre-rattling that had marked progressive thought … Continue reading →

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Paul March discusses his work on Mach Effect

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Adam

Talk-Polywell.org :: View topic – Mach Effect progress. The Mach Effect is a propellantless propulsion concept developed from the physics of gravity by Prof. James Woodward, now being investigated experimentally by him and Paul March, an experimental physicist. Paul is … Continue reading →

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Jupiter lost a cloud stripe IV

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Adam

Ah… this is apparently a regular occurance on Jupiter… Jupiter has lost a belt! …By Emily Lakdawalla …referencing Astro Bob here… Jupiter loses one of its belts …who tells us the following… So here’s the surprise. That bad boy south … Continue reading →

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