It sounds like a Buck Rogers plot, or a rave remix of Pink Floyd, but it’s the very latest news from our very nearest astronomical neighbor.  The Japanese SELENE mission (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer) has probed the far side of the moon in unprecedented detail.  The effects will be felt in lunar research for years, but the first headline you’ll hear about is the negative gravity disturbance rings. More here: Dark Side Of The Moon: Do Gravity Disturbances Prove the "Giant [...]

It sounds like a Buck Rogers plot, or a rave remix of Pink Floyd, but it’s the very latest news from our very nearest astronomical neighbor. The Japanese SELENE mission (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer) has probed the far side of the moon in unprecedented detail.  The effects will be felt in lunar research for years, but the first headline you’ll hear about is the negative gravity disturbance rings. Now that definitely sounds like something Electra, Queen of the Lunar Amazon [...]

International Space Station astronauts tested a technology to defend the planet, but don’t get your hopes up about the ISS transforming into an incredible Voltronian space robot: the alien invaders we’re defending against are us. Astronauts Steve Swanson and Richard Arnold were scanned for unwanted life-forms before and after a spacewalk, using a brand new Lab-On-a-Chip Applications Development (LOCAD) Q-tip.  Your q-tips might only excavate unspeakable emissions from your orifices, [...]

One of my childhood icons was Eric Hoffer, my father’s favorite philosopher, migrant worker, longshoreman on the docks of The Embarcadero, and author the the bestselling True Beliver . Fast forward to today: in the swirl of Wall Street scandal and economic crisis a new advocate for America’s underclass and the dignity of real work has emerged: “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe. Rowe reminds us that we are our own best resource Read more from the original source: "Dirty Jobs" [...]

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