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Comment Re:Disaster (Score 0) 353

by chibiace (#32502804) Attached to: US Confirms Underwater Oil Plume

because of the lack of interest from the general public to eat seafood from the area, as soon as the oxygen levels stabilize sea life will prosper and the fishery replenished.
this is of course the ramblings of a mad man which would like to see if a destroyed oil rig can run linux, but i much liked the story of BP buying search advertising.
NASA

Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan 227

Posted by Soulskill from the time-for-cassini-2 dept.
Calopteryx writes "New Scientist reports that in 2005, researchers predicted two potential signatures of life on Titan. Now, thanks to research done with the help of the Cassini spacecraft, both have been seen, although non-biological chemical reactions could also be behind the observations. NASA's writeup has further details: 'One key finding comes from a paper online now in the journal Icarus [abstract] that shows hydrogen molecules flowing down through Titan's atmosphere and disappearing at the surface. Another paper online now in the Journal of Geophysical Research maps hydrocarbons on the Titan surface and finds a lack of acetylene. This lack of acetylene is important because that chemical would likely be the best energy source for a methane-based life on Titan, said Chris McKay, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., who proposed a set of conditions necessary for this kind of methane-based life on Titan in 2005. One interpretation of the acetylene data is that the hydrocarbon is being consumed as food. But McKay said the flow of hydrogen is even more critical because all of their proposed mechanisms involved the consumption of hydrogen.'"
Earth

Giant Guatemalan 'Sinkhole' Is Worse Than We Thought 357

Posted by kdawson from the series-of-pipes dept.
reillymj writes "Despite hundreds of media reports to the contrary, Sam Bonis, a geologist whose life work has been studying Guatemalan geology, has plainly said that the dramatic 'sinkhole' in Guatemala City that opened over the weekend isn't a sinkhole at all. Instead, he called it a 'piping feature' and warned that because the country's capital city sits on a pile of loose volcanic ash, the over one million people living on top of the pile are in danger. 'I'd hate to have to be in the government right now,' Bonis, who worked for the Guatemalan government's Instituto Geografico Nacional for 16 years, said. 'There is an excellent potential for this to happen again. It could happen almost anywhere in the city.'"
Space

Impact On Jupiter Observed By Amateur Astronomers 53

Posted by kdawson from the mere-pimple dept.
Omomyid and other readers send in the news that the bright flash of an impact on Jupiter has been observed — and caught on film — by amateur astronomers. That WMV is from amateur Christopher Go. Here's Anthony Wesley's video (45 MB AVI; the site is already overloaded). In the larger video you can see the impact lasting for a couple of seconds, and a good deal of structure is visible. The amateurs report that no dark debris field developed around the impact site in the time before it rotated out of sight; this may indicate that the impactor burned up high in Jupiter's atmosphere. Soon professional astronomers, and possibly Hubble, will be on the job.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft launches Win7 for ARM compacts (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Johnson
Johnson writes: Microsoft yesterday launched its latest incarnation of Windows Embedded operating system aimed at tablet, media and portable PC's — Windows Embedded Compact 7. Windows Embedded CE is an operating system for Tablet PC's and other media/portable devices, that aren't suited to fully fledged PC's which often consume more resources and/or require high-powered processors.

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