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Mars Orbiter Animation

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 198 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread, Science, Technology at June 10th, 2010 - 10:30 pm

Mars Express consists of two parts, the Mars Express Orbiter and the Beagle 2, a lander designed to perform exobiology and geochemistry research. Although the lander failed to land safely on the Martian surface, the Orbiter has been successfully performing scientific measurements since early 2004, namely, high-resolution imaging and mineralogical mapping of the surface, radar sounding of the subsurface structure down to the permafrost, precise determination of the atmospheric circulation and composition, and study of the interaction of the atmosphere with the interplanetary medium.

Due to the valuable science return and the highly flexible mission profile, Mars Express has been granted four mission extensions, the latest until December 31, 2012.

.Gif animation found here, description & links from here, and a post-radio show  Overnight Open Thread is here.

Paleocheesecake

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 261 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Evolution, History, Humor, Open thread, World at June 5th, 2010 - 11:00 pm

Now really. Which silhouette is hotter?

Despite what the modern mind might think, The Ancients weren’t oblivious to the power of suggestive images. Lacking cameras or other modern recording equipment, they made many such representations of female anatomy (such as the one above left). Undoubtedly they knew that straw, sand or mud images wouldn’t last.

The only difference between The Ancients and us is that developing such images took weeks instead of mere seconds. On the other hand, their images lasted thousands of years, and they’re STILL hawt, in a paleolithic kinda way.

One can only imagine the surprise when Bhugah took Mokrhah aside to show him his stone equivalent of teh pron. “Dude! Check it out! Looks just like that slut from the Ptkusu clan across the wash! Give it back to me in an hour.” Of course, Bhugah never got it back, and was forced to hunt down and kill Mokrhah for being a profligate neolithic wanker.

Hell, they were just teenage boys with a tad too much time on their hands, and each likely died of an errant fleabite infection at the old age of 23, long before serious diseases were invented. But their rock-porn survived.

Fertility goddesses? Nah. Those were wanking stones.

Next stop: Overnight Open Thread.

The Sun

by coldwarrior ( 80 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Open thread, Science, Weather at May 26th, 2010 - 7:00 pm

We have this thing called the ‘Sun’ that is about 8 light minutes away…

Space Weather

I will have photos of the Sun as it wakes up again for the 11 year cycle…it will, eventually…

Only morons, cheats and liars still believe in Man-Made Global Warming

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 199 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Environmentalism at May 21st, 2010 - 4:00 pm

Here’s a great article about the human-caused global warming hoax, perpetuated by the likes of morons such as Algore and a certain 58 yr. old comic book reading, tricycle riding, washed-up ukulele playing, pony-tailed douchebag (whom shall remain nameless to avoid embarrassing her) from yesterday’s London Daily Telegraph…

By James Delingpole

Well of course I would write a headline like that having just spent the last three days in Chicago at the Heartland Institute’s 4th International Conference on Climate Change. This is the event the cackling, cloak-wearing, be-fanged AGW-denying community attends every year to glorify in their own evil. And naturally, in the wake of Climategate, a mood of uproarious triumphalism has prevailed as distinguished skeptical scientists, economists, and policymakers from around the world – Pat Michaels, Richard Lindzen, Ian Plimer, Bob Carter, Fred Singer.. you name them, they’re here – have gathered to dance on the smoldering ashes of the mythical beast ManBearPig.

Except we shouldn’t use that word “skeptic” any more. Richard Lindzen – Godfather of Climate Realism – told us so in one of the keynote addresses.

“Skepticism implies doubts about a plausible proposition,” he said. “Current global warming alarmism hardly represents a plausible proposition.” Not least, he pointed out, because the various activist scientists, greenies and government institutions pushing AGW theory have failed to “improve their case over 20 years.” So paper thin are the AGW movement’s arguments that pretty much the only defences left to them are desperate techniques like the appeal to authority (“the Royal Society believes in AGW and the Royal Society is, like, really old and distinguished, so AGW must be true”) and cheap slurs.

Read the rest here