Proxima mission begins
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky blasted into space this evening from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:20 GMT. Their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft is now safely heading towards the International Space Station for docking on Saturday. After the spectacular launch that propelled the astronauts 1640 km in less than 10 minutes, the trio will now spend two days catching up with the International Space Station that orbits Eart..>> view originalGlobal Warming Melts Polar Ice To Record Lows As Temperatures Rise Under Climate Change Effects
They are quite literally poles apart but both the North Pole and the South Pole have something unfortunate in common at the moment: They are both seeing the lowest levels of sea ice since modern record-keeping began.News about the Arctic sea ice being at its lowest level ever for this time of the year — it hits its minimum in September and starts to build up again in October as the six-monthlong polar winter sets in — came a few days ago. Temperatures near North Pole are said to be 36 degrees hi..>> view originalWhale spotted in Hudson River for third time in less than a week
Eagle-eyed water watchers spotted a whale in the Hudson River off the Holland Tunnel Sunday, marking the third time in less than a week the bunker-hungry mammal has surfaced in the city's waterways. The Coast Guard warned maritime vessels to watch ...>> view originalScience Channel Scraps 'Punkin Chunkin' Special After Woman Badly Injured in Accident
Jim Dietz/AP/REX/Shutterstock Science Channel has scrapped its plan for a three-hour “Punkin Chunkin” special on Nov. 26 after an accident during the event earlier this month in Delaware left a woman in critical condition. “Punkin Chunkin” is a competitive event organized by the World Championship Punkin Chunkin Association in which teams compete to hurl pumpkins long distances with the use of elaborate homemade mechanical launchers. This year was to mark the event’s return to TV with a new ..>> view originalWhy Does The Earth Pull On One Side Of The Moon More? Is The Moon Lopsided?
Stephen Hawking: Humans won't live another 1000 years on Earth
The world’s most celebrated physicist and cosmologist issued a call for humans to “continue to go into space for the future of humanity.”“I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet,” Stephen Hawking said while delivering a lecture on the universe and the origins of humans at the Oxford Union debating society on Monday, according to the British newspaper The Independent. Despite the dire warning, Hawking also tried to sound a hopeful note about th..>> view originalGlobal Trumpism Seen Harming Efforts to Reduce Climate Pollution
Populism is drawing momentum from environmentalism in the U.S. and Europe, threatening the world’s effort to rein in climate change.Donald Trump’s election in the U.S., the U.K. Independence Party and Marine Le Pen’s ascent in France all represent a break with political leaders who made the environment a priority. All three are skeptical climate change is happening and are resistant to international projects like the United Nations global warming talks.Envoys from more than 190 countries gather..>> view originalIs EmDrive Real? NASA Paper On 'Impossible' Propulsion System Passes Peer Review
Can you drive a car by getting on the front seat and pushing the windshield? The answer, as anyone familiar with high-school level physics would tell you, is no. Newton’s third law of motion — for every action has an equal and opposite reaction — explicitly prohibits this.However, after months of rumors, speculation and criticism, a peer-reviewed study published last week in the Journal of Propulsion and Power claims to have shown a propulsion system that, to all appearances violates this cardin..>> view original
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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