Martian Civilizations (Soundtrack: Cubase 7, Korg Kronos, Spectrasonics Atmosphere) – Video

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Pictures Courtesy of NASA - Music by Jambodhi - Film Score by Jambodhi - Sci Fi Sound track. Cubase 7, Korg KronosX 88, Spectrasonics Atmosphere, Roland JV-1080, Korg 01R/W Martian Civilizations (Soundtrack: Cubase 7 + Korg Kronos) For 1St Album Jambodhi CD on Amazon http://www.amazon.com For 1St Album Jambodhi CD on iTunes: itunes.apple.com Kronos 88 workstation. For Great Keyboard - http://www.amazon.comFrom:JambodhiViews:7 0ratingsTime:03:53More inMusic

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As a vital information pipeline for space-based research and exploration ambitions, the TDRS constellation fulfills NASA #39;s broadest communication demands. Now into it #39;s fourth operational decade, the TDRS legacy continues to be communications excellence. The addition of the third generation of spacecraft will replenish the constellation and ensure that the critical lifeline of space-to-ground communication support will be available for many years to come. This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Like our videos? Subscribe to NASA #39;s Goddard Shorts HD podcast: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Or find us on Twitter: twitter.comFrom:NASAexplorerViews:230 33ratingsTime:04:10More inScience Technology

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NASA sounds ‘all clear’ for potential 2040 2011 AG5 asteroid impact

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Here's a little Christmas present to the people of the Earth from NASA: Near-Earth asteroid 2011 AG5, which initially set off some alarms about a potential impact in the year 2040, has just been removed from their Earth Impact Risks list.

When astronomers discovered 2011 AG5 on January 8th last year, they used subsequent observations of the asteroid to plot its path around the Sun. With a period of only about 1.7 years, the asteroid moved quickly enough that they were able to put together a good first estimate of its orbit, but with a wide margin of error what they called the "region of uncertainty".The alarm was raised when their simulations showed that Earth was going to pass through that region of uncertainty on February 8th, 2040, making an impact with the asteroid a possibility.

The probability of the impact was calculated to be only one in 500, which ranked it as a "1" on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, meaning that there was very little chance of impact. However, when we're talking about the chances of a 140 metre-wide hunk of rock slamming into the Earth, causing the equivalent of a 100 megaton bomb exploding at whatever unfortunate location takes the hit, it is worth it to investigate any possibility of impact. Some even came up with potential deflection missions, should the threat be confirmed.

Astronomers Dave Tholen, Marco Micheli,Richard Wainscoat and Garrett Elliott, all from the University of Hawaii, answered the call for more observations by tracking the asteroid using both the Gemini 8-metre telescope and the University of Hawaii 2.2-metre telescope, both atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The images they captured in October of this year added more data to 2011 AG5's orbit, narrowing the region of uncertainty significantly, and prompting NASA officials to sound the "all clear" and remove the asteroid from their Earth Impact Risks List.

(NASA image of 2011 AG5's orbit)

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Tracking And Data Relay Spacecraft Scheduled For Jan. 29 Launch NASA's newest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, known as TDRS-K, has arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for launch January 29. TDRS-K arrived aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 from the Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems assembly facility in El Segundo, CA.

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NASA Launches Telescope-Toting Balloon from Antarctica on Christmas

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A giant helium balloon is slowly drifting above Antarctica, about 22 miles (36 kilometers) up. Launched on Tuesday (Dec. 25) from the National Science Foundation's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) facility on Earth's southernmost continent, it carries a sensitive telescope that measures submillimeter light waves from stellar nurseries in our Milky Way.

"Christmas launch!" wroteofficials with NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, which oversees the agency's balloon research program, in a Twitter post yesterday. "BLAST launched today from McMurdo Station, Antarctica."

This is the fifth and final mission for BLAST, short for the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, and mission designers hope it will reveal why so few stars are born in our galaxy.

On Dec. 12, BLAST was still in one of the two giant Payload Assembly Buildings at the LDB facility, a short distance from the U.S. research center McMurdo Station. Principal investigator Mark Devlin of the University of Pennsylvania and a group of graduate students were mounting a giant sunshade on the telescope, to ensure that the ultra-cold detectors won't heat up during the flight.

"The detectors are cooled to 0.3 degrees aboven absolute zero, using liquid helium," said Devlin. "If they were any warmer, they wouldn't be able to register the faint submillimeter radiation of cold interstellar dust clouds at just 30 degrees above absolute zero."

Star mystery

After test flights in 2003 in New Mexico and in 2005 in Sweden, BLAST's third flight, in 2006 from Antarctica, was a "mind-boggling" success, Devlin said. The instrument revealed beyond doubt that in most distant galaxies, new stars are born at a prolific rate. By measuring the star formation rate in galaxies more than 7 billion light-years away, the researchers determined that over half of the stars in the uuniverse were born within the first 5 billion years after the Big Bang.

"But there's an unsolved problem," added co-principal investifator Barth Netterfield of the University of Toronto, Canada, who was assisting the BLAST team with the launch preparations. "BLAST found lots of so-called dark cores in our own Milky Way dense clouds of cold dust that are supposed to be stars-in-the-making. Based on the number of dark cores, you would expect our galaxy to spawn dozens of new stars each year on average. Yet, the galactic star formation rate is only some four solar masses per year."

So why is the stellar birth rate in our Milky Way so low? Astronomers can think of two ways in which a dense cloud of dust is prevented from further contracting into a star: turbulence in the dust, or the collapse-impeding effects of magnetic fields. On its new mission, BLAST should find out which process is to blame. [Images: Life at Antarctica's Concordia Station]

The idea is straightforward: magnetic fields tend to align electrically charged, elongated dust particles. If dust particles have a preferred orientation, they will slightly polarize the submillimeter radiation from the cloud. Using polarimeters, BLAST can detect if the radiation is indeed polarized, and if it is, determine the direction of the magnetic field. "If there's no polarization present," said Netterfield, "turbulence must be the reason" why so few dark cores collapse into new stars.

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Mr. Odd Plays Deus Ex (The Original) – E17 – Escaping the Majestic 12 Facility with Paul and Migeul – Video

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Horton hears a Who. A deeply political book, maybe not so much the movie... Yet, I watched that after finishing shovelling thought about the tiny flashes =) now I #39;m watching one of MaxBliss #39;s videos on Nanotechnology!From:FlyingAxbladeViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:52More inScience Technology

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Does Humanity Have a Future? (Interlude) – Video

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What was different in the 20th century? Certainly, the technologies underlying the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) - nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) - were powerful, and the weapons an enormous threat. But building nuclear weapons required, at least for a time, access to both rare - indeed, effectively unavailable - raw materials and highly protected information; biological and chemical weapons programs also tended to require large-scale activities. The 21st-century technologies - genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (GNR) - are so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses. Most dangerously, for the first time, these accidents and abuses are widely within the reach of individuals or small groups. They will not require large facilities or rare raw materials. Knowledge alone will enable the use of them. Thus we have the possibility not just of weapons of mass destruction but of knowledge-enabled mass destruction (KMD), this destructiveness hugely amplified by the power of self-replication. I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals. Bill Joy, Why the Future Doesn #39;t Need UsFrom:DerivedEnergyViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:44More inEducation

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Claudine M. Sylvester, MD, FACOG, is co-founder of Women #39;s First Health Center, LLC in West Orange, New Jersey. The practice was founded in 2006 with doctors who trained together at St. Barnabas Hospital. Dr. Sylvester specializes in a number of fields, including high-risk obstetrics, infertility issues, treatment of minimally invasive surgery and fibroids, and treatment of adolescents. Dr. Sylvester also serves as the Chief of the Obstetrics and Gynecology department at St. Barnabas Hospital. She has a number of educational posts as well, including a professor position at St. George #39;s University School of Medicine and a clinical teaching position at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey #39;s medical student clerkship program.From:Doc FinderViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:33More inScience Technology

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James V. Dunne, MB, FRCP(C), is currently on staff at St. Paul #39;s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the University of British Columbia #39;s Department of Medicine, and specializes in rheumatology. Scleroderma and fibromyalgia are also among Dr. Dunne #39;s clinical interests; he is a contributor to the book The Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Clinical Case Definition for Practitioners. He has also been published in the American Journal of Rheumatology, and other peer-reviewed journal. Dr. Dunne has the unique distinction of studying in four countries: Ireland, England, The United States (fellowship), and Canada.From:Doc FinderViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:45More inScience Technology

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