Minecraft Hermitcraft Modsauce #7 – Chisel blocks of Awesomeness! – Video

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Minecraft ModSauce Mod Pack - Today we #39;re going to mess around with some new blocks to build a hermit town base for our space station. Enjoy! This Hermitcraft ModSauce Mod Pack will be available...

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LIVE: Expedition 40 depart from International Space Station (ISS) – Video

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LIVE: Expedition 40 depart from International Space Station (ISS)
Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA and Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will end almost six months on the orbiting...

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NASA Research Helps Unravel Mysteries Of The Venusian Atmosphere

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Underscoring the vast differences between Earth and its neighbor Venus, new research shows a glimpse of giant holes in the electrically charged layer of the Venusian atmosphere, called the ionosphere. The observations point to a more complicated magnetic environment than previously thought which in turn helps us better understand this neighboring, rocky planet.

Planet Venus, with its thick atmosphere made of carbon dioxide, its parched surface, and pressures so high that landers are crushed within a few hours, offers scientists a chance to study a planet very foreign to our own. These mysterious holes provide additional clues to understanding Venuss atmosphere, how the planet interacts with the constant onslaught of solar wind from the sun, and perhaps even whats lurking deep in its core.

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This work all started with a mystery from 1978, said Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who is first author of a paper on this work in the Journal of Geophysical Research. When Pioneer Venus Orbiter moved into orbit around Venus, it noticed something very, very weird a hole in the planets ionosphere. It was a region where the density just dropped out, and no one has seen another one of these things for 30 years.

Until now.

Collinson set out to search for signatures of these holes in data from the European Space Agencys Venus Express. Venus Express, launched in 2006, is currently in a 24-hour orbit around the poles of Venus. This orbit places it in much higher altitudes than that of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter, so Collinson wasnt sure whether hed spot any markers of these mysterious holes. But even at those heights the same holes were spotted, thus showing that the holes extended much further into the atmosphere than had been previously known.

The observations also suggested the holes are more common than realized. Pioneer Venus Orbiter only saw the holes at a time of great solar activity, known as solar maximum. The Venus Express data, however, shows the holes can form during solar minimum as well.

Interpreting what is happening in Venuss ionosphere requires understanding how Venus interacts with its environment in space. This environment is dominated by a stream of electrons and protons a charged, heated gas called plasma which zoom out from the sun. As this solar wind travels it carries along embedded magnetic fields, which can affect charged particles and other magnetic fields they encounter along the way. Earth is largely protected from this radiation by its own strong magnetic field, but Venus has no such protection.

What Venus does have, however, is an ionosphere, a layer of the atmosphere filled with charged particles. The Venusian ionosphere is bombarded on the sun-side of the planet by the solar wind. Consequently, the ionosphere, like air flowing past a golf ball in flight, is shaped to be a thin boundary in front of the planet and to extend into a long comet-like tail behind. As the solar wind plows into the ionosphere, it piles up like a big plasma traffic jam, creating a thin magnetosphere around Venus a much smaller magnetic environment than the one around Earth.

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NASA prepares Orion for deep-space test flight

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The Orion capsule sits on top of the service module as it is moved from the Operations & Checkout Building to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Photo by Reuters

"This is a pretty historic moment for us," Scott Wilson, NASA's Orion production operations manager, told reporters as workers prepared to move the capsule to a fueling depot. "This marks the end of the assembly process for the spacecraft."

An unmanned version of the gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, which has been under construction for three years, is due to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket on December 4 from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

United Launch Alliance is jointly owned by Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co.

In December Orion will be flown to an altitude of about 5800km from Earth, 14 times farther away than the International Space Station.

The capsule will then careen back toward the planet, slamming into the atmosphere at 32,000kmh. At that speed, Orion's thermal protection system should heat up to about 2000degC, proving the shield can protect astronauts returning from the moon and other deep-space destinations.

Orion is part of NASA's follow-up program to the now-retired space shuttles that will allow astronauts to travel beyond the International Space Station, which flies about 418km above Earth.

A test flight with crew aboard is set for 2021. NASA intends to use the rocket and Orion to fly astronauts to an asteroid that has been robotically relocated into a high orbit around the moon. Eventually, the U.S. space agency wants to fly a four-member crew to Mars.

NASA has been out of the human space launch business since the shuttle program ended in 2011.

The agency currently buys rides for space station crew members aboard Russian Soyuz capsules. A heated three-way competition to build a U.S.-based commercial space taxi is also under way. The contenders are privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, privately owned Sierra Nevada Corp and Boeing.

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MIRI: Parents are seeing red and calling for heads to roll over the leaked Science and English UPSR papers this year, saying so many innocent people have been affected.

SUPP assistant secretary-general Karambir Singh said he had received many complaints from parents who wanted justice to be done over what he regarded as sheer incompetence on the part of the relevant authority and distress to all those affected.

He said this when asked for comments on the leaked papers which forced the Education Ministry to reschedule the exam.

Parent are saying it is unfair as their children do not come across the leaked papers but are also affected, and they want whoever is responsible to be punished, he said.

The Education Ministry yesterday dropped the second bombshell in as many days with the announcement that Year 6 pupils would have to resit their UPSR English paper following another leak.

Second Education Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh said the leaks were discovered yesterday morning. Pupils sat for English Paper 1 which started at 10.30 am and ended at 11.20am while Paper 2 was from 12.20pm until 1.35pm.

This is the second UPSR paper leaked after the ministry yesterday said the Science paper which the students were due to sit this morning has been postponed to Sept 30 after it was also leaked.

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TV Picks: 'The Roosevelts,' 'Red Band Society' and more

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"The Roosevelts: An Intimate History." This seven-part, 14-hour chronicle of a family that helped shape not only American history but American identity is a stunning reminder of why Ken Burns, having revolutionized the documentary series, continues to be the best in the business.

Though focusing on the most famous members of the Roosevelt family -- Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor -- Burns and his team carefully construct a vivid context for their remarkable story. Both presidents were plagued by illness -- Teddy almost died during childhood and was a chronic asthmatic, Franklin was stricken with polio as a young man -- all three suffered loss and emerged from dysfunctionally high-status families with a determination to change the world.

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Which they absolutely did. Assembling his inevitably high-wattage team, Burns explains how and why. George Will heads a slew of insightful, articulate historians, Peter Coyote narrates, and host of A-listers lend their voices: Paul Giamatti to Teddy, Ed Herrman to Franklin (whom he played in the memorable "Franklin and Eleanor") and Meryl Streep to Eleanor. PBS, Sundays, 8 p.m.

"The Red Band Society." This new dramedy set in a pediatric hospital no doubt owes its existence to the return of fatal illness to the YA scene, where the children of those who sobbed their way through "Brian's Song," "Something for Joey" and "Sunshine" are now addicted to the works of John Green.

But the story, which derives from the successful Spanish series "Polsere Vermelles" created by cancer survivor Albert Espinosa, is adapted by creator Margaret Nagle's childhood experience of seeing her young brother going into a coma after a car accident.

There's also a surprisingly high "MASH" factor. The young patients here find many ways to fight the system and distract themselves from the reason of its existence (weed replacing Hawkeye's still). How it will sustain itself remains to be seen, but as anyone who has spent any time on a pediatric wing knows, it is indeed a world unto itself. Fox, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

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Kathleen at Lake Gibson Football Preview: Both Sides Remember Last Year's 5-OT Battle

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Published: Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 12, 2014 at 1:47 a.m.

LAKELAND | Lake Gibson would rather forget last year's game against Kathleen

LAKE GIBSON QUARTERBACKCasey Whitaker is third in the county in passing.

The Red Devils, on the other hand, built on the dramatic five-overtime 45-44 victory, went on to win the district title and beat their other city rival, Lakeland, to end the season.

So when the two teams meet at 7:30 tonight at Virgil Ramage Stadium, it won't be your ordinary non-district game. It might not even be your ordinary rivalry game.

Both teams are undefeated at 2-0, yet neither team has truly been tested in the regular season. Both had tough Kickoff Classic losses Lake Gibson to Lakeland and Kathleen to Lake Wales.

The similarities end there.

Lake Gibson heads into tonight's game with its offense clicking in all phases, leading the county in rushing offense, total offense and scoring offense. Quarterback Casey Whitaker is third in the county with 342 yards passing and is tied for first with four touchdown passes.

For Kathleen, having to contend with a high-powered Lake Gibson passing game isn't new, as Trey Congdon was one of the top passers in the county last year. But Thomas Boles, who has rushed for 368 yards in two games, gives the Braves a bigger running threat than last year.

"We feel a little better than we did in the spring (about the offense)," Lake Gibson coach Keith DeMyer said. "We're getting better every week."

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Montana turtle ban sparks Texas rescue mission

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Heres a national issue in which Montana has raced out in front of the pack: turtles.

State Fish Wildlife and Park officials have concluded there is no room under the Big Sky for red-eared slider turtles, the kind that have been popular in pet shops for decades. Turns out the turtles willingness to eat just about anything makes it highly competitive with native species when owners with buyers remorse release the hard-shelled pet into the wild.

Red-eared sliders are on the list of the 100 most invasive species in the world, said Allison Begley of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Theyre omnivores. They eat anything, and they adapt to any habitat.

Red-eared sliders, which get their name from the red markings on the sides of their heads, have been found in Riverfront Park in Billings, the Lee Metcalf Wilderness and Spring Meadow State Park in Helena, according to FWP. The turtles often get dumped in the fall by owners with second thoughts about keeping a turtle around in a basement or garage during the winter.

Now that the reptiles are verboten, animal advocates like Dave Pauli, a Humane Society wildlife capture and field project specialist, are concerned even more turtles will be released.

But Pauli has a plan. Hes going to load up a trailer with as many red-eared sliders as Montanans will offer and drive the turtles to a Texas lake, where the turtles are native.

The unique thing about his project, besides giving people the opportunity to turn in turtles, is that it gives a bunch of the turtles the chance to be released into a large lake in Texas, Burro Lake.

The lake is on a wildlife sanctuary created for relocated Grand Canyon burros. Paulis trip is no pedal-to-the-metal exercise. Turtles take time. The ones Pauli receives will spend weeks in large ponds in Montana getting used to catching food, diving deep and swimming beyond the glass walls of an aquarium.

A turtle that has lived in shallow water in a short glass tank doesnt know how to manage the sink-or-swim pond life. Pauli said the animals will be tested to see which are fit for release and which continue to need looking after.

Thursday, Pauli was working with a red-eared slider that was swimming the length of a pool 25 feet long. That turtle will be joined by other turtles submitted during the one-time, red-eared slider turtle turn-in program.

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In a stunning and completely new view of the solar system, an astronaut and a geologist team up to investigate, through parallel views made possible by cutting-edge space technology, how the earth can help science unravel the mysteries of the heavens.

Noted planetary geologist Ellen Stofan and veteran astronaut Tom Jones pair images of Earthmany captured by space shuttle and space station crewmemberswith astonishing scenes of alien surfaces beamed home by NASA's far-ranging robotic probes.

This comprehensive new portrait of the solar system brings to light an array of important features never seen until todayand it highlights, for the first time, the similarities and contrasts between Earth and its neighbors in space.

Anecdotal stories from space flights and exploratory missions make Planetology an absorbing read and an informative resource. The book's unique concept draws intriguing comparisons across multiple physical processes, and its dynamic design offers a fresh approach to the study of space.

"Jones provided a preview of his forthcoming book...which blends imagery of Earth and other celestial bodies to show the similarities and contrasts in climate and geology."msnbc Cosmic Blog

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