THE BARONESS: THE SEARCH FOR NICA, THE REBELLIOUS ROTHSCHILD BY HANNAH ROTHSCHILD (Virago £20) By Christopher Hudson PUBLISHED: 12:16 EST, 17 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:16 EST, 17 May 2012 The Lady and the Monk: Nica Rothschild with Thelonious Monk Hannah Rothschild first met her notorious Great Aunt Nica in a seedy New York basement [...]
New search for life among Jupiter’s ice moons
May 18, 2012
Home » Science New search for life among Jupiter’s ice moons By Aidan Claire 17 May 2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a €1.1 billion unmanned mission to the ice moons of the planet Jupiter. A robotic spacecraft, named the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE), is set to launch in 2022 and arrive [...]
Larger-than-life Alaskans search for paydirt on ‘Goldfathers’ – Fairbanks Daily News
May 18, 2012
slideshow slideshow slideshow FAIRBANKS – Growing up, one of Lauren Reeves’ jobs was to teach tourists how to pan for gold. Today, although she has relocated to New York City where she models, hosts a fashion show and can be seen on the comedy circuit, including appearances on “Saturday Night Live,” “Jimmy Fallon,” as well [...]
San Jose man fights for life as family criticizes time lapse before roadside …
May 18, 2012
The prognosis for Michael Sanchez Jr. remains tenuous after the crash victim survived seven days in a thicket off a South San Jose freeway. Relatives kept vigil Thursday over the 25-year-old San Jose man — on life support at a local hospital — as one of them told a television station she doesn’t understand why [...]
Alien "Super Earth" Discovered
May 18, 2012
Alien “Super Earth” Discovered May 17, 2012; 6:00 AM ET NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a “super-Earth” planet beyond our solar system for the first time. While the planet is inhabitable, the detection is a historic step toward the eventual search for signs of life on other planets. The planet, called [...]
‘Battleship’: Big Boats, Blasts and Bloat
May 18, 2012
Universal Studios Taylor Kitsch, taking a call and trying to save planet Earth in the big-budget ‘Battleship.’ There comes a time in “Battleship,” a board game gone megabudget-ballistic, when the fate of our planet has seemingly been sealed by an attack from outer space. “We’re looking at an extinction-level event,” an astronomer declares, and it’s [...]
Bacteria ‘Good Bet’ For Alien Life
May 18, 2012
Scientists Discover Bacteria Living In 86 Million-Year-Old Clay (CNN) — Forget the bug-eyed green aliens with advanced technology. Life on other planets may exist in forms too tiny to see, if mysterious tiny organisms like those found under our oceans live elsewhere. Scientists have discovered bacteria living in 86 million-year-old red clay under the ocean [...]
Science Versus Fiction: SETI’s Seth Shostak on Battleship
May 18, 2012
An alien ships rises from the sea in Battleship.Photo: ILM/Universal Pictures Within the first five minutes of Battleship, we learn that contact has been made with Planet G, a rocky planet that actually exists in the constellation Libra. In real life, scientists have labeled the planet in the Gliese 581 system a “Goldilocks zone,” meaning [...]
Composite of a Series of Images Taken From Space Aboard the Station
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Space station hardware in the foreground includes the Mini-Research Module (MRM1, center) and a Russian Progress vehicle docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment (right). Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the photographic techniques used to achieve the images: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then 'stack' them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 47 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite. Image Credit: NASA
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This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Space station hardware in the foreground includes the Mini-Research Module (MRM1, center) and a Russian Progress vehicle docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment (right). Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the photographic techniques used to achieve the images: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then 'stack' them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 47 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite. Image Credit: NASA
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Retired Mayport Navy captain kept things ship-shape on the set of ‘Battleship’ – Florida Times
May 17, 2012
If the Earth is ever attacked by vicious space aliens, Rick Hoffman figures he should probably come out of retirement and take them on. He grins. After all, when it comes to battling nasty E.T.s, “I am the most experienced Navy captain there is,” he said. Hoffman, 58, a retired captain from Jacksonville Beach, spent [...]
Slime, space aliens, Shatner to fulfill thrill-seekers
May 17, 2012
By Terry Mikesell The Columbus Dispatch Thursday May 17, 2012 9:26 AM Enlarge Image SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code, part of the 24 Hour Science Fiction Marathon Bruce Bartoo must love science fiction.Why else would the self-proclaimed “host organism” produce the annual 24-hour science-fiction marathon beginning Saturday at the Drexel Theater? “It’s the [...]
Bacteria ‘good bet’ for alien life
May 17, 2012
(CNN) – Forget the bug-eyed green aliens with advanced technology. Life on other planets may exist in forms too tiny to see, if mysterious tiny organisms like those found under our oceans live elsewhere. Scientists have discovered bacteria living in 86 million-year-old red clay under the ocean floor, cut off from sunlight and all other [...]
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