Responsible Taxation

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Health Care

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Rhea’s Rings?

Are the blue patches evidence of a ring around Rhea? Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Universities Space Research Association/Lunar & Planetary Institute

Does Saturn’s second largest moon Rhea really have a ring?   A ring has never been actually seen, but there is a narrow 10 km wide band of bluish patches straddling the moon’s equator.

The picture above was produced by Dr. Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute using stereo topography from Cassini imaging data in 2008.

The idea is the bluish material is fresh ice exposed when debris from “the ring” struck the moon.

There was a close flyby of Rhea the day after this image was released.  Since I’m a skeptical sort,  I am waiting for that data.  If blue patches go all the way around the moon, they could be on to something.  Rhea is phase locked to Saturn the same way our moon is to Earth.  So it presents the same face towards the planet.  It would seem to me that if the blue patches go all the way around the moon, they aren’t simply the moon plowing through stray bits of debris from Saturn’s rings.

A moon with a ring….

See the original press release here.

Why did P&G invest in Navigenics?

I kept beating myself up, trying to figure out why the largest food/products company in the world put money in Navigenics. Was it for nutrigenomics? Was it for the captive audience to market products to?


Until today, when I read in American Medical news that Proctor and Gamble BOUGHT MDVIP in December of last year! Man how did I miss that one?

"Terms of P&G’s acquisition were not disclosed. It was made by P&G’s FutureWorks unit, a new-business generator that’s intended to connect the company with external partners and expand P&G’s scope beyond its core businesses into new channels."

So, P&G is looking for the whole enchilada in personalized medicine here.

Too bad, Navigenics' tests are currently not useful. But maybe someday they will be......

The Sherpa Says: Navigenics is not the target. MDVIP was, so don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise...

Airlines Could Be Flying on Renewable Biofuel in a Few Years

Like to fly? We’ll be able to fly in the future and not have a huge carbon footprint. SolveClimate reports that Airlines might be flying on Biofuel within 5 years!  That seems very optimistic to me, given the fact that jets use an immense amount of fuel. Where will we get all the plants?  Algae is one of the answers and a big reason this seems plausible.

“Just a few years ago, the idea of replacing kerosene-based jet fuel with renewable fuel from plants seemed out of the question. The cost of producing such alternative fuels dwarfed that of traditional jet A-grade fuel, and moving a severely carbon-intensive industry toward cleaner fuels would only happen if the economics worked out.

A 2008 spike in oil prices and a global economic slowdown later, and suddenly bio-jet fuel isn’t just back on the table, it might be in your airplane’s engines in the next four or five years.

“Generally speaking, three years ago I think many people felt that it was something on paper and it was a bit of a pipe dream,” said Steve Lott, the head of corporate communications for the airline industry group International Air Transport Association, or IATA. “The tests we’ve seen in the past two years or so have definitely moved the ball forward and accelerated the process forward toward certification.”

The tests Lott mentioned are a series of flights by various airlines around the world demonstrating the capability of so-called “drop-in” biofuels. These fuels, derived from second-generation biomass sources like algae and the jatropha plant, can power a jet engine with no modification to the engine or plane, saving the industry from the economic impossibility of upgrading the worldwide airplane fleet.”

Continental Airlines, for example, has already flown a demonstration flight using a 50-50 blend of kerosene and algae-based fuel in one engine of a Boeing 737, and Lott said there was even some indication that of the plane’s two engines the biofuel-powered one performed slightly better than the kerosene engine.. . . . “

Read More here.