The Prefecture of Fukushima, Japan and the Total Mobility Project have announced the creation of a solar powered auto converted from a standard Mazda Roadster. The development of a practical solar powered car has been an international engineering goal for the last two decades. Primarily solar cars are only seen as engineering experiments and in […]
Ancient Russian Civilization Discovered
Published in January 16th, 2008
Posted by superdr in Ancient History
Reported at the end of last year, but missed pretty much everywhere, Russian archaeologists working in Kyrgyzstan have discovered the remains of, what must have been at its time, a thriving metropolis. Estimated to be from 2,500 years ago, were found at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul, in the Kyrgyz mountains.
The team which was […]
Russia Jumps on Board to Search for Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Published in January 14th, 2008
“Where there is an ocean, life could arise. In this respect, after Mars, the Europa satellite is probably the most intriguing place in the solar system.”
~Lev Zelyony, Head of the Russian Space Research Institute
A senior Russian researcher told Interfax News Agency that Moscow will
participate in a European mission to investigate Jupiter’s moon Europa
and search for […]
MIT Present the World’s First Carbon-Free, Stackable Rental Car
Published in January 13th, 2008
“We’re looking at urban personal mobility in a much more sustainable way than the private automobile provides.”
~ William Mitchell, director of Smart Cities research group
MIT researchers are hopeful that their new light, foldable, stackable electric vehicles will cut pollution, ease congestion, and eventually be incorporated into everyday transportation systems. The Smart Cities group at the […]
Reports Warn that Climate Change & Eco-migration Could Lead to Increased Warfare
Published in January 13th, 2008
A few years ago the Pentagon-sponsored report, Abrupt Climate Change Scenario warned of the need to strengthen US defenses against “unwanted starving immigrants” from the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. In January 2007, the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root won a contract from the US government to augment existing immigration detention and removal facilities […]
Is Modern Man in Evolution’s Fast Lane? -A Galaxy Classic
Published in January 12th, 2008
“We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago than they were different from Neanderthals.”
John Hawks -University of Wisconsin anthropologist
In a fascinating
discovery that counters a common theory that human evolution has slowed
to a crawl or even stopped in modern humans, a new study examining data
from an international genomics project describes the past 40,000 […]
Google Archeology: Satellite Imagery is Helping Us Discover the Past
Published in January 12th, 2008
History is a passion of many, myself included, and the natural corollary to history is archeology.
Aerial photography has been used since World War I where it was used to
spot enemy patrols and encampments. Since then aerial photos have been used to locate long lost archeological sites, waiting to be
rediscovered.
But satellite imagery takes it that one […]
Is Time Literally Slowing Down and Disappearing From the Universe?
Published in January 11th, 2008
Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our world, and will one day vanish completely. This radical new theory may explain a cosmological mystery that has baffled scientists for years.
Scientists previously […]
The Milky Way’s X Factor: Rogue, Planet Devouring Black Holes
Published in January 11th, 2008
Could the Milky Way really be full of rogue, planet devouring black holes? It looks that way. A recent simulation of black holes merger revealed that there could be literally hundreds of rogue black holes scattered across the Milky Way galaxy. Each one would weigh multiple thousand times the mass of the sun, so if […]
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