F.O.G.

Trinka , are you still around these parts ?

Cool weather bringing back memories

Holy Cow...Gabe!!! Good to see you!!!
Good to see everyone!!!

Hello FOG Family

I haven't been much around lately and if, only lurking. Sadly I read about shad, he was a lovely man and I liked him very much.

I am hearing about so many people passing on, and in my family...well... my grandparents and my mother will all 3 leave this world very soon :(.

With the world going mad, winter coming and people dear to me passing on it makes me wonder what is to come...

Blessings and much Love to all of you

Last Edited by °Lucy° on 10/22/2016 06:46 PM

Don't have much to say right now..

Wishing you all the best.

ok gabe, why is the planet still showing anomalies everywhere for all these hours? did something finally reach us?

...

anyone still here?

Watching Japan...where is everyone? Point me to where you all hang out nowadays?

Nerd

A few are on Simple's quake thread:

Thread: Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated (Page 7140)

I am still here, keeping and eye on everyone else who might be lurking

Thanks Splinter!

Hey there CG!.

[link to www.spacedaily.com]

Cash crunch for anti-Armageddon asteroid mission
By Pascale MOLLARD-CHENEBENOIT
Paris (AFP) Jan 25, 2017

A mission to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid moon to alter its trajectory, a possible dry-run for an exercise in saving the Earth from Armageddon, has run into a cash crunch.

The proposed joint European-US mission, which sounds like it could form the plot for a sci-fi Hollywood blockbuster, has been dubbed AIDA (Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment).

In 2022, the idea is to launch a 600-kilogramme (1,300-pound) NASA spacecraft at Didymos, an asteroid some 13 million kilometres (eight million miles) from Earth, after a two-year self-guided journey through space.

The craft will crash into the 800 metre-wide Didymos' tiny satellite, Didymoon, at a speed of about six kilometres (3.7 miles) per second.

The aim would be to "redirect" the 160-metre moon -- the first time humans would have altered the course of a Solar System body.

Nerd

The moon is older than scientists thought
by Staff Writers
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2017

A UCLA-led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought. The findings - based on an analysis of minerals from the moon called zircons that were brought back to Earth by the Apollo 14 mission in 1971 - are published Jan. 11 in the journal Science Advances.

[link to www.moondaily.com]

Hi Nerd...how have you been?

Strange times indeed, hope you have been keeping well.

Hi CabinGirl- Been up and down, things are moving forward. Hows life treating you?

Objective: To deflect asteroids, thus preventing their collision with Earth
by Staff Writers
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 27, 2017

An international project, led by Spain's National Research Council, (CSIC) provides information on the effects a projectile impact would have on an asteroid. The aim of the project is to work out how an asteroid might be deflected so as not to collide with the Earth. The research, published in The Astrophysical Journal, focuses on the study of the asteroid Chelyabinsk, which exploded over Russian skies in 2013 after passing through the atmosphere.

The probability that a kilometre-sized asteroid could have devastating consequences after impact with the Earth is statistically small. What is more frequent, and repeatedly discovered, is that objects a few tens of meters across reach the Earth's atmosphere.

[link to www.spacedaily.com]

Nerd

New space weather model helps simulate magnetic structure of solar storms
by Lina Tran for GSFC News
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2017

The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth - the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through - can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic energy and plasma, a hot gas of electrically charged particles, out into space. The magnetic field of these solar eruptions are difficult to predict and can interact with Earth's magnetic fields, causing space weather effects.

A new tool called EEGGL - short for the Eruptive Event Generator (Gibson and Low) and pronounced "eagle" - helps map out the paths of these magnetically structured clouds, called coronal mass ejections or CMEs, before they reach Earth. EEGGL is part of a much larger new model of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, and interplanetary space, developed by a team at the University of Michigan.

[link to www.spacedaily.com]

Ancient, scary and alien-looking specimen forms a rarity in the insect world - a new order
by Staff Writers
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jan 27, 2017

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, almost-alien and "E.T.-like" appearance and features so unusual that it has been placed in its own scientific "order" - an incredibly rare event.

There are about 1 million described species of insects, and millions more still to be discovered, but every species of insect on Earth has been placed in only 31 existing orders. Now there's one more.

[link to www.spacedaily.com]

Scientists unveil new form of matter: Time crystals
by Staff Writers
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2017

To most people, crystals mean diamond bling, semiprecious gems or perhaps the jagged amethyst or quartz crystals beloved by collectors. To Norman Yao, these inert crystals are the tip of the iceberg. If crystals have an atomic structure that repeats in space, like the carbon lattice of a diamond, why can't crystals also have a structure that repeats in time? That is, a time crystal?

[link to www.spacedaily.com]

Nerd

Quake-prone Pacific nations hold joint tsunami drills
by Staff Writers
Manila (AFP) Feb 15, 2017

Quake-prone countries around the Pacific Ocean Wednesday began a joint exercise testing their ability to deliver timely warnings of approaching tsunamis to tens of millions of people living along the coast.

The annual "Pacific Wave" exercise is taking place in a region where nearly eight in 10 of the world's tsunamis -- giant waves usually caused by underwater earthquakes -- occur, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation said.

Though no actual evacuations will be conducted during the three days of drills, civil defence offices will rehearse the relaying of tsunami warnings for large quakes off the coasts of Chile and Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.

The warnings will be sent to the participants by tsunami monitoring centres in Hawaii, Japan, and, for the first time, China.

"This is very important for us because it allows us to receive advance warnings of tsunamis long before they arrive," seismologist Rommel Grutas of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology told AFP in Manila.

[link to www.spacedaily.com]
Nerd

New study explains decade of glacial growth in New Zealand
by Brooks Hays
Victoria, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 15, 2017

Globally, glaciers have been on the retreat for several decades. Between 1983 and 2008, however, at least 58 New Zealand glaciers grew in size.

Scientists have struggled to explain their advance, but new analysis suggest a regional climate anomaly, a period of unusually cold temperatures, encouraged their growth.

"Glaciers advancing is very unusual -- especially in this period when the vast majority of glaciers worldwide shrank in size as a result of our warming world," Andrew Mackintosh, a climate scientist at Victoria University of Wellington's Antarctic Research Centre, said in a news release. "This anomaly hadn't been satisfactorily explained, so this physics-based study used computer models for the first time to look into it in detail."

[link to www.spacedaily.com]

Hey old friends at F.O.G. - I see a few of you still check in from time to time! Interesting posts, as always. I do hope you all are doing well and your lives are good!

Thanks mate- right back at ya!

Nerd

First trace of differences between matter and 'ordinary' antimatter
by Staff Writers
Cracow, Poland (SPX) Feb 24, 2017

The world around us is mainly constructed of baryons, particles composed of three quarks. Why are there no antibaryons, since just after the Big Bang, matter and antimatter came into being in exactly the same amounts? A lot points to the fact that after many decades of research, physicists are closer to the answer to this question. In the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment the first trace of the differences between baryons and antibaryons has just been encountered.

[link to www.spacedaily.com]

Nerd

Spitzer reveals largest batch of earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single star
by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017


NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.

The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All of these seven planets could have liquid water-key to life as we know it-under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.

[link to www.spacedaily.com]

Nerd

Origin of spooky meteor noises reappraised by researchers
by Staff Writers
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Feb 22, 2017

When a meteor is about to conk your neighborhood and gives fair warning by emitting sizzling, rustling and hissing sounds as it descends, you might think that the universe is being sporting.

But these auditory warnings, which do occur, seem contrary to the laws of physics if they are caused by the friction of the fast-moving meteor or asteroid plunging into Earth's atmosphere. Because sound travels far slower than light, the sounds should arrive several minutes after the meteor hits, rather than accompany or even precede it....

In an article published Feb. 1 in the journal Scientific Reports, the late Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Spalding reasoned that such intense light could suddenly heat the surface of objects many miles away, which in turn heats the surrounding air. This could create sounds near the observer.

[link to www.spacedaily.com]

Fascinating, thank you 88, you are a diligent poster here! Where'd everybody go? There were so many bright minds and sweet souls gathered here - so many of us drifted away!