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 14 Oct 2004 @ 16:56
Another huge step for education, is the ability to have easy access for anyone at any age. Here it is, the future, now you can homeschool your kids, and yourself. You don't have a Highschool deploma? Get one here :}
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 6 Oct 2004 @ 05:51
Very intresting discovery about Ed's magnetic magic.
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Coral Castle site.
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Info from Coast to Coast am web site.
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16 Sep 2004 @ 05:06
Scientists don't even understand how it happened in less than 150 years. I often wonder what would happen, if a disaster happens to whipe out humans in a city like Los Angeles. There is so many plant Nurserys, and botanical gardens there. Well this story tells about a baren island, that got planted up and became a rain forest.
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 9 Sep 2004 @ 17:30
Now here is a cost effective aircraft, fairly simple design, it can carry more payload than a copter it's size, on top of being quieter and capable of vertical take offs. Really great for fire fighting.
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21 Aug 2004 @ 06:55
Antarctic craters reveal asteroid strike
Paul Brown
Thursday August 19, 2004
The Guardian
Scientists using satellites have mapped huge craters under the Antarctic ice sheet caused by an asteroid as big as the one believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago.
Professor Frans van der Hoeven, from Delft University in the Netherlands, told the conference that the evidence showed that an asteroid measuring between three and seven miles across had broken up in the atmosphere and five large pieces had hit the Earth, creating multiple craters over an area measuring 1,300 by 2,400 miles.
The effect would have been to melt all the ice in the path of the pieces, as well as the crust underneath. The biggest single strike caused a hole in the ice sheet roughly 200 by 200 miles, which would have melted about 1% of the ice sheet, raising water levels worldwide by 60cm (2ft).
But the climatic conditions were different at the time of the strike - about 780,000 years ago - from when the asteroid that is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck Yucatan in Mexico.
That impact created dust storms and fires that, by blocking out the sun, cooled the Earth's atmosphere so much that the dinosaurs could not survive. The Antarctica strike occurred during an ice age, so even tidal waves would have been weakened to mere ripples by the calming effect of icebergs on the ocean.
Prof Van der Hoeven first realised that there may have been a giant asteroid strike in the Antarctic while on an expedition across the continent in 1960 when he noticed severe anomalies in the gravity from the rocks below, indicating a crater. By coincidence another scientist had concluded that a giant event must have occurred around 780,000 years ago somewhere in the southern hemisphere, probably Antarctica.
But it was not until this year, when two satellites operating above Antarctica began to map the anomalies in the gravity, that the scale of the crater emerged. The mapping showed that the holes in the rock created by the strike had refilled with a mixture of ice, rock and other debris far less dense. This material, called breccia, shows where and how deep the craters are.
Prof Van der Hoeven said: "The extraordinary thing about this meteor strike is that it appeared to do so little damage. Unlike the dinosaur strike there is no telltale layer of dust that demonstrates the history of the event. It may have damaged things and wiped out species but there is no sign of it."
One thing that did happen at exactly the same time was the reversing of the Earth's magnetic field. There is no other explanation as to why this took place and Prof Van der Hoeven believes it was caused by the impact.
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