Science fiction becomes science fact with each passing day!

Moon Puts On Its Best Show of the Year Tonight 01/29/10

Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, starlike object.
http://www.aolnews.com/science/artic...-2010/19337938

thats pretty damn cool!

I oppose the speculation of this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/bl...universe/print

NASA unveils new images of the sun

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/21/sol...ex.html?hpt=C1

^^^ seriously, I could tell my days were going by faster.... DAMN!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36967785...m/ET?gt1=43001

halleys comet. meteor showers are cool. they're gonna destroy your world one day...

some neat space photos.

http://io9.com/5602078/behold-the-be...-year/gallery/

Happy Birthday Neil Armstrong

who go belligerently drunk at my grandparents wedding anniversary in 1969 a month before the lunar landing..

E. coli engineered to make convenient 'drop-in' biofuel

* 19:00 29 July 2010 by Helen Knight
* For similar stories, visit the Energy and Fuels Topic Guide

Genetically modified bacteria that munch on sugar to produce refinable fuels could bring down the cost of switching to cleaner energy.

Although many biodiesels produced from crops and cooking fat can be fed directly into car and truck engines, they are not suitable for existing refineries and pipelines, and so require a separate distribution network. Efforts to produce "drop-in" biofuels that can use the existing fuel infrastructure have so far involved prohibitively expensive chemical conversion steps, says Steve del Cardayre at biofuel developer LS9, based in San Francisco.

Organisms such as cyanobacteria could be the answer. It has been known for years that some naturally produce alkanes – the primary hydrocarbon component of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel and thus a potential drop-in biofuel – through photosynthesis. If you could identify the genes responsible it would be possible to manipulate bacteria that may be more suited to industrial production to produce alkanes, says del Cardayre. "People have looked for these genes for over 20 years," he says.
Alkane sequencing

So a team led by Andreas Schirmer at LS9 compared the genomes of 10 cyanobacteria of various strains known to produce alkanes with one type of bacterium that does not. When the team subtracted the genome of the non-producing strain from those of the producing strains, they were left with a shortlist of 17 genes found only in the alkane producers.

The functions of some of the genes were already understood, leaving two prime suspects for a role in alkane production. So the team then inserted them into a new host, a strain of Escherichia coli – chosen because it breeds readily in laboratory conditions and so is a good candidate for industrial-scale processes. As hoped, they found that the re-engineered bacterium began making enzymes that produced alkanes.

"We have a one-step process to make alkane" in an industrial process, says Schirmer. "Basically, in goes the feedstock – sugar – and out comes the vehicle-ready fuel. It's really simple," he adds.

The bacteria can be grown on any sugar, including those produced from second-generation cellulose-based sources such as grasses and plant waste, which do not compete for land with food crops.

The team have so far produced roughly 10 litres of alkane in a 1000-litre pilot fermentation tank at the company's laboratories, and are now attempting to increase the yield in the hope of scaling up to a larger demonstration plant in a couple of years. Once the technology is fully developed, the company expects the alkane to cost around $50 per barrel, says del Cardayre.

Journal reference: Science, DOI:10.1126/science.1187936

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I heard about this, I think it was in the form of ice.

This is pretty awesome to me, as it is practically in my back yard! :)

More than 1,450 fossilized creatures -- all of them about a million years older than those found at Los Angeles' La Brea Tar Pits -- have been discovered at a 28-acre Southern California Edison excavation site in San Timoteo Canyon...

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/s...1.2bc5f26.html

"Switching off a single gene in mice unlocks a part of their brain that is otherwise inactive, boosting learning and memory. The same gene seems to serve a similar purpose in humans, creating hope that humans could enjoy similar benefits."


http://io9.com/5642246/deleting-a-ge...ybe-humans-too

massive find of fossils including a relative of the saber toothed tiger:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11383757

i have a massive soft spot for amy manizer

doesn't look that soft...

baad boom tcha!
nicely played!!!

!!!
astronomers found a potentially habitable planet?

http://gizmodo.com/5651768/this-may-...irst-new-earth

i think you mean "class M" planet-- ha!

I want to go to there.

you too, huh?

and yes, I resorted to taking pictures of my television long ago.

o, my aching proboscis.





ps: I was just told "hey! don't dump me for amy mainzer".
pps: I am sending my resume to JPL soon (true story)
ppps: my girl is hotter and smarter than the good (read:fine) dokter.

Watching local Channel2 news on Sept28 they quickly announced that the American Government has been working with Alien life here on Earth as long as 60 years ago. The Anchor man said Aliens have attempted to regulate nuclear weapons across the world before we blow each other up completely. Apparently, this was taking place right after WW2. Yah, the news man said it in less then about 15seconds and of course he made no further comments on it. Finally something in an actual local news broadcast.

^ lol

my Dad was talkin' about this stuff a while ago too. somethin' about developing technology from it.

my delightful ol' grandpa told me about this after he heard it on the radio.

Nobel prize for physics goes to Manchester University scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov used a block of carbon and some Scotch tape to create graphene, a new material with extraordinary properties.

Arousal systemsSee also: Sleep
Perhaps the most obvious aspect of the behavior of any animal is the daily cycle between sleeping and waking. Arousal and alertness are also modulated on a finer time scale, though, by an extensive network of brain areas.[76]
A key component of the arousal system is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a tiny part of the hypothalamus located directly above the point at which the optic nerves from the two eyes cross.[77] The SCN contains the body's central biological clock. Neurons there show activity levels that rise and fall with a period of about 24 hours, circadian rhythms: these activity fluctuations are driven by rhythmic changes in expression of a set of "clock genes". The SCN continues to keep time even if it is excised from the brain and placed in a dish of warm nutrient solution, but it ordinarily receives input from the optic nerves, through the retinohypothalamic tract (RHT), that allow daily light-dark cycles to calibrate the clock.

this is an good example of biostudy
look inside and talk about the biological clock and were it's located
and the information i found for me intersting is the attachment to the optic nerves
this give the insight of visual information or a informationstream that
is connected with that part of the brain
this also says
that we as a part of biology look at ourself from that piont of vieuw
it comes from inside of you

our growing biological insight is the way we grow up inside ourself
biology looks at biology
that our constand way of beeing inside
and this is not an easy language to communicate about

biology looks at biology

now less serouis
you can say that we can consider our biological clocks are old
and then you look around what our what time it is
and then you think what is looking for time
my biology
no, think i yust thoughtg that they were old
what is the time then
and then you look outside
and think that the outside world is gonna tell you what time it is
and then
you don't know anymore

^
this is what i'm thinking an microscopic scale evolution of a structure
in water
what i don't know is when these 'maybe' was formed together
in evolution of bacteria

visuals of universe as we can see today
gives the impression of
an unstable melting piont
or what is named the big bang

the visuals of a stable melting piont
where matter comes out of the big bang
would give a ordend patern of matter
as we see in structures

the things that humans see as structure and ordend

as we can see today that biomicro evolutions has a light energy transformation evolution

then in the macroscale universum is what we see
energy getting out in the form of matter and that is formed by

'maybe' different forces then we could think

the way the universe shapes
and name for example dark matter
can better named unknown matter
that can have for example it's own gravity laws in the universum
where this unstable melting piont takes place
and is taking place

a vieuw into the micro universe
and a vieuw into the macro universe
and sort of new looks and thoughts about it

antartica a timeless continent

a good example of time development
on the continent you have different research teams and most of them use the timeline from their country

a projection of time
it's not real
only or imagination
projects a scale to mesure time

in reality it's all particals from our solarsystem on it's way after the big bang

our only sort of time our natural systems have is 'the arousal system' i talk before a few posts up, formed by the outside cycle of seasons
if we travel in space we don't need this system

in scientific research there is a coordinated worldtime UCT
the discovery of the black hole Sagittarius A*

on a distance of 27.OOO lightyears our sun takes 230 million years to complete 1 journey around Sagittarius A*

and there is the universe on our doorstep
and what time is it now?

a. it's still the arousal system cycle time
b. you look on your pc-screen for the time
c. you learned it is yust an projection made, it's not real, it's only imagination

and what is on our doorstep now?

to be carefull with making studies

take this studie for example
an articel from EOS- magazine on fruitflies

-after fruitflies reached a population of around 500 species
they breed fast
the males turn on the males
a biological system to stop overpopulations ? looks like it

how to make studies of biology and look at it
and how, or what part, can you compare with the human species
without making the sort of mistake as the time projection
that is not real

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technolog.../new-nano.html

blacker then black
that's very needed for the capture of light
and better visual results

nasa is doing great

the next thing is i think something with clocks
atomclocks for precision in time mesuring in space
a computer that is connected with time data from space
and corrects and combines the time to see ahead here on earth

i think it's good when there comes an global space lab
designed with new nanotech
if it's get planned it will be read to start somewhere in mid 2011
some time later the mars rover leaves for a second mission
and then you can have a simultanious study from that info
in various labs around the world

http://io9.com/5715516/another-human...d-neanderthals

new humanoid species found that co existed with neaderthals n humans.

very intresting

from now i think if it's all obvious how to look at dna and yourself
in the future it can work like this
you want a baby
give in your dna > database looks for the most different dna that gives that mach > baby has back the track of rationally natural dna structure
to continue

^this 'idea' comes from a human brain that looks at nature with the thought
that different dna strengthens the structure of DNA
not specificly gives more survival chances
because that lives in evolution and takes some 1000 of years
to change something

what we all can do these days )

what was before or back in the days then was more dna that comes from
strong animal (alfa male)
on the journey into space
life on spaceships we won't find mamouts to hunt for
and there is a strickt birthcontrol
the humans must not do much
most of the actions are perpared programs guiding spaceships
through planets and places to explore
or start terraform on planets

that sounds all far but actually isn't
we stand really far in space observation and planet research
not always visable on this planet

for example
some in africa
there is a group of people and they still hunt with bows and spears (like 5000 years ago)
and they have water problems through climatechange

at the same time

above their heads there is a spacecenter
and there they have problems with water too
the recycling of the urine of astronauts (if you know there were some problems with the spacetoilet)

how to look at human time
that small group of people live like 5000 years ago
others live in timelessness of exploration

it still yust some ideas and looks on it
the real deal is ......
if you look long enough in space
you'll now it

(pionts finger in the air)
first things first
first good space toilets
and water from mars
ofcourse
he he

yust found out that there are
1.000.000 IVF baby's born

if people had adopted 1.000.000 orfans ....