Neptune discovered 161 years ago today

In case you had any nagging questions about Neptune...here you go!

'Hobbit' wrists 'were primitive'

More evidence to suggest that the "Hobbits" found in Indonesia are a distinct race from Homo Sapiens...

Very cool.

More and more mythology gets proven to be in some basis of fact every day...

Maybe giants next????

NASA probe may have found Martian caves

Very cool.

Implications of this can shape our next missions to Mars (manned and unmanned).

Irish defence forces eyed UFOs for 37 years

Pretty cool article...

At some point the US should just let everyone know what it doesn't know.

Unidentified doesn't have to mean alien...it can mean exactly what the definition stands for...

Eyes Can't Resist Beautiful People

That's what I said!

Peruvians get sick from apparent meteorite crater

All this talk about bird flu and it might just be a meteorite that starts a pandemic!

interesting story

ROBOT MAKER BUILDS ARTIFICIAL BOY

Yet another great post over at Musings of a Whiskey Rebel.

Cool stuff!

Hopefully they won't be made in China!

Getting Oxygen from a rock...

no real article here...just a thought.

I was watching the science channel ...and the discussion was a "breathtaking" commentary on how to get oxygen from a rock and the difficulty of such...

My first thought was the producers of the show should just interview Hillary Clinton...she can extract every last tax dollar from her constiuents in NY with scientific precision...she can definitely add insight into extracting every last bit out of something...

hehehehehe...I make myself laugh...I guess that is all that matters! RIGHT?????

Gifted research parrot Alex found dead

bummer

Study: Wrong fish used to save species

Duh!

More taxpayer dollars at work...

at least it's a better mistake than flying Nukes across the country...

Leonardo's painting technique secrets uncovered

Sometimes I love science...this is very cool.

Apparently da Vinci mixed his colors right on the canvas...

Russia plans manned Moon mission by 2025

I think this is an important step for a multitude of reasons...

1st...the human race needs this, no matter who it is that gets there.
and 2nd...another "Space Race" will only help drive the US to do what it should have done years ago...

I just don't understand why the US and Russia (among others) don't just expand the lessons learned while working together on the International Space Station into moon colonization...through in China, England, Japan and India and we may be able to get there in 10 years instead of 20

Orchids date to time of the dinos

they have been around for an estimated 84-76MM years...I guess that means they made it through the Dino extinction and comet impact 65MM years ago.

very cool

'Spider-man' suit secret revealed

Very cool.

Science can be an amazing thing...

As many of you know...this spring I had 14" maple trees growing out of my gutters because I was afraid of heights and wouldn't get up on the ladder...

So...I may not be the first to buy one of these suits....but it's still pretty cool

Time Travel Machine Outlined

yesterday I posted about artificial life...today about time travel...

While the idea is very cool...(I mean who wouldn't want to be able to take their kid back in time to see a T-Rex????)...it's exactly like the artificial life post...

I simply don't trust the scientists (or others) not to exploit the technology...

Rare dead star found near Earth

cool article...

The do say that the dead star is in the earth's neighborhood, but they don't know which street.

they have a relatively large range of distances. Somewhere between 250 and 1000 light years away...

FYI - a light-year is approximately 6.3 Trillion miles

Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years

As you can tell from many of my posts...I love science and technology...

But this article is scary for so many reasons...

I simply don't trust all scientists to do things for the common good...someone will do something that is either stupic, insane, motivated by greed, because they are forced to or a combination of the above, that will really screw things up for the rest of us...

Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch

What a great article!

It is definitely an interesting theory and well worth the read...

Today there are some very popular games where people use simulated characters to do real life things. For example, Lord of the Rings online, World of Warcraft (8million players!!!), the Sims...

People spend real money to buy "fake" money and necessities in these games...

Is it a stretch???

Calif. squirrels heat tails for defense

Squirrels heat their tails to distract heat sensing rattlesnakes...and rattlesnakes only.

They don't do it when confronted by other snakes that don't use heat to find their prey.

Amazing bit of evolution there...

Scan sees brain activity in 2nd vegetative patient

an interesting article about using a standard MRI to detect brain activity in vegatative patients.

Not much hope for a cure, but anything is a start