Here's an amazing video by Brad Goodspeed showing what several planets would look like in our night sky if they orbited the Earth at the same distance as the moon.
I just wish he'd done Saturn so we could see what the rings would look like. Amazing work though, my hat's off to him.
An ion walks into a bar and says "I think I left an electron here last night." The bartender asks "Are you positive?"
A neutron walks into a bar and asks "How much for a beer?" The bartender sets the beer down and says, "For you, no charge!"
An electron walks into a bar, slumps down on the stool and starts moaning about how bad a day he has had. The bartender says, "Cheer up buddy. Stop being so negative."
From The Washington Times:
It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims.
Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and professor Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Mr. Jones talked to Mr. Mann about the "trick of adding in the real temps to each series ... to hide the decline [in temperature]."
Try to explain away "hide the decline" Mr. Scientist... I could use a good laugh!
This is what happens when the scientists are dependent on government grants for their livelihood. They will furnish whatver conclusion the political elite are seeking as long as the money keeps on coming.
The Telegraph has more on the rampant malfeasance of the so-called scientists, including:
Manipulation of evidence:
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.
Suppression of evidence:
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
The independent media (not so much the MSN/DNC Cabal) has dubbed this "Climategate". You gotta love that!
I will enjoy watching this global scam designed soley to advance socialism fall apart at the seams. I wonder if taxpayers can sue the "scientists" to recover grant money awarded under false pretenses?
UPDATE: Ian Murray at Pajamas Media has a great primer on the scandal.
UPDATE: News Busters reports that the MSN/DNC Cabal is trying to suppress this story. Only Fox News has covered it so far on television. Surprise surprise. It will be like the Acorn child prostitution thing... they'll eventually be dragged kicking and screming to the story, but they'll give the left a few days to come up with a cover story.
Not THE missing link I suppose, but certainly A missing link. From The Wall Street Journal:
In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.
Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today's lemurs in Madagascar.
Based on previously limited fossil evidence, one big debate had been whether the tarsidae or adapidae group gave rise to monkeys, apes and humans. The latest discovery bolsters the less common position that our ancient ape-like ancestor was an adapid, the believed precursor of lemurs.
It's always nice to see the boundaries of human understanding pushed back a bit. This is certainly a big deal for paleontologists.
More info at Revealing The Link.
Nasa has just release a set of stunning new images taken by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn, it's rings, and it's many moons. They are so detailed and so close up that you feel like you are right there looking out a porthole in your spaceship! Amazing.
A large asteroid (small moon?) rides along Saturn's ringplane in front of the cloud covered moon Titan.
A View of the moon Rhea against the backdrop of Saturn's immense ringplane.
Ripples in the ringplane caused by the gravity of a moon passing by.
Click here to see the other images in the set. Truly remarkable.
Juan Enriquez speaking at TED about the current economic crisis, the coming wave of technological advances and what it all means to the human race.
Breathtaking. Not the science part, but the part where he lectured all those college types who voted for Obama about how a real economy functions and what needs to happen in order to keep it functioning. And they applauded? Oh, the irony...
I also was not aware we'd made a heart from stem cells and that it started beating on it's own. Wild.
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