NASA GETTING A BREAK?
Looks like it could happen in terms
of budgeting. NASA released a 17.7
billion spending plan for 2014. It
continues ongoing space exploration, and the funding to start the mission to
capture a small asteroid and have astronauts on it exploring by 2025.
What would make this nice is that it
would be returning the budget, minus around 50 million, to what it was back in
2012. It’s only about 1 billion more than 2013, but it’s a start at getting
them funded properly again.
This budget also sets aside 78
million toward the asteroid capture and towing mission, as well as a few other
pretty cool concepts they are working on. One of these is the technology for
solar electric propulsion and laser communications. The funding will also cover
the mars research, and the ISS, as well as increased support of the private
space taxi operations.
In my view, that budget needs to be
higher. A lot higher.
A HUNGRY LITTLE HOLE
Astronomers have found a first. A
black hole has apparently been having lunch at the expense of a giant rogue
planet. However, it didn't even eat its entire meal. Just stripped off about
10% of it, and left the rest floating along. For now. The denser core is still
left. They figure it was a planet similar to Jupiter, or possibly a brown
dwarf.
This is happening 47 million LY’s
away in galaxy NGC 4845. Now this galaxy has been quiet for at least the last
20 – 30 years.
And later this year, our own black
hole here in the Milky Way is scheduled to make contact with a massive gas
cloud several times the size of earth. Just one more reason we need to get it
in gear, and figure out warp drive, or something to go and see stuff when it is
actually happening, and not seeing it thousands of years later. I would love to
go and watch that cloud, but fact is, it is already over, and has been for
quite some time.
They also figure that events like
this happen every few years in the galaxies around us. The site has a real cool video as well of this. Well worth watching and dreaming about being there in person to watch it.
IO SEEMS TO BE CONFUSED
Here is why. Jupiter’s moon IO,
apparently doesn’t realize that volcanoes are supposed to follow along certain
lines.
The major volcanic activity is 30 to
60 degrees off of where they think it should be. So basically, our
understanding of IO in particular, is way off. Which frankly I think is a very
good thing. It means we have more to learn there as well, a lot more. As the
author Christopher Hamilton says, “Our understanding of tidal heat production and
its relationship to surface volcanism is incomplete."
IO is the most volcanically active
body in our solar system, at 25 times that of Earth. Some of the plumes of the
volcanic activity there are 250 miles above the moon, and it’s surface is
reformed around every million years or so.
You would expect the volcanic
activity to be above the hottest points, but instead they lay to the east of
the hottest spots. This is a very interesting article, as it shows that no
matter what we think, we still have so much to learn that it is frankly to me,
an endless quest of learning. Which is basically how I view life in the first
place.
Why this is, is a mystery. It could
be that IO is spinning faster than what was thought is one of the theories to
this. As for the other theories, you’ll have to read the article. The study was
first published in January, and just now showing up on space.com. It should
have been there in January when it was first published in my opinion.
EARTH AT 100 PIXELS, AND PLANETS IN
PLACE OF THE MOON.
I am combining these two together as
they are two different places, but both consist basically of pictures.
The
first one shows the distance of Earth to Mars in terms of pixels, and is really
cool to see. Just click the downward arrow, and watch how far we really are
from Mars.
The second one shows what the
planets would look like if they were in the place of the moon in orbit around
Earth. However, they made one mistake there.
They
didn’t include my little planet in this. Yes, the rebellion here will never
end. Pluto is a bloody planet. If not by size, then by a tradition that is
rooted so deep, it needs to be a planet regardless. Give me a ship so I can
start to colonize the little girl, and I’ll make it a planet again.
Okay, off the rebellion now. It is actually a pretty cool thing to see,
what with the size of Jupiter as our moon. Frankly, that would be just
terrifying in some ways. But the desert highway, with the planets as a moon is
just too much to pass up. You owe it to yourself to take a look at these. I’ll
include the Jupiter pic here, but the rest you have to go see for yourselves.
First link is to the distance from Earth, and the second is to the planets as our moon.
NO KRYPTONITE?
The new Superman movie, “Man Of
Steel”, will not have any kryptonite in it. Apparently they figured that Zod
was enough of a problem. There are also some other changes that are theorized
to be happening as well. Now here I get lost as I wasn’t involved in comics at
this time, but sounds slightly interesting to me even. Apparently they are going
with a concept of Kal-el being special even on Krypton.
Something about him being the first
naturally born child of parents having sex in over a thousand years. So in
other words, the Kryptonian’s are once again proven to be far more advanced
than those of us here. But I am personally still not convinced that Russell Crow
can be Jor-el in any way. But who knows, maybe. And I don’t care what anyone
says, he still doesn’t look like Kal-el to me. If I just look at the face,
maybe. But I’m already not happy with the uniform in any way. Supes is the one
character, out of DC, or Marvel, that doesn’t need updated. And I’m Marvel all
the way. But supes is to be the light for all others to follow. Just not happy
with the darker superman. Yet. I will reserve my judgment until I see it. But
not being a Nolan fan myself, in any way shape or form. which I am sure will
get me hated out here, I don’t hold high hopes for this, at least in my eyes.
Anyway, here’s the link to check it
out for yourselves.
THE TERMINATORS HAVE ARRIVED, RUN FOR
YOUR LIVES
LOL. Okay folks, relax here. This
time, once again, I have to turn on my own people. I’m a conspiracy nut from
way back. But now we are getting silly beyond belief again. And believe it or
not, this actually fits to this site. So
sit back, prepare to laugh, and enjoy.
The government is building a robotic
termination army, at least according to the first link i will give on this.
The PETMAN. A robot designed by the
DOD to test suits used for biological, chemical, and nuclear. In other words, a
machine designed to test new suits for our military personnel. And it sweats as
well. It had better, as I can tell you from personal experience, that what we
were using in the 80’s, well, sucked. Hotter than the surface of mercury if the
sun was shining and the temperature was over 35.
And of course according to this
site, they will become self-aware, and then take over the Earth and wipe out
humanity. Yeah, okay.
Look people, what better way to test
a suit and measure how it responds to sweat, movement, etc than to use it on a
robotic unit to test it for miles and miles on end of walking. Let me tell you,
back in the 80’s, those bloody things were not only uncomfortable as hell, but
once you started sweating, you suffered even more, believe it. Anyway, check
out the two sites and make up your own mind. I’m a survivalist, and a
conspiracy theorist, and even I can’t buy into this one. I just can’t. I’d love
to, if even for just the fun of it, but they have us already having SKYNET
based on drones, and terminators based on a testing unit for freaking clothing.
So basically, using a set of drones, to carry a load in what is essentially a
net, adds up to the sci-fi SKYNET. Sometimes, I am just seriously embarrassed
by the conspiracy people, and this is really one of those times. To create an
army of terminator units would take secrecy beyond belief, and someone would
talk. Not a bad idea I admit, as it would keep our people out of harm’s way,
but let’s get real here. Anyway, here
are the two links. The first one to the conspiracy out there site, and the
second that tells what it really is.
So I hope you all enjoy this week’s
rundown, and sorry for missing last week. Lets just say I had a system failure
and leave it at that, to avoid the cussing that would come along if I explained
it. And yeah, it really was a stupid system failure. One I ordered the part for
to update and improve, without knowing that mine was already bad. See you all
next week folks. And who knows, maybe by then we’ll have the conspiracy proof
of the lizards controlling us like we have proof this week of terminators
coming.
Sometimes my people just embarrass the feck out of me.
