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Submission + - Third Enigmatic Filament in a Week

Submitted by pln2bz on Friday September 21, 2007 @03:30AM

pln2bz writes: This is three enigmatic filaments within five weeks. There was Today:Galaxy ESO 137-001 , This past Monday, 9/17: Magellanic Clouds, and August 15th: Mira. How much longer will it be before people start to realize that they are seeing wires? Do you require the entire circuit?

Submission + - '98 Quietly Loses Title as Warmest Year Ever in US 1

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pln2bz

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @10:45PM

pln2bz writes: "NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies is in the process of adjusting its United States temperature data, which could impact the worldwide temperature data. Four of the top 10 warmest years in the US are now from the 1930's: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only three of the top 10 are from the last 10 years: 1998, 2006 and 1999. Somewhat alarmingly, there has so far not been any announcement of the change."

Submission + - Victoria Crater's "Sand Dunes" will be Ful

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pln2bz

on Saturday June 30, 2007 @07:20PM

pln2bz writes: "If everything goes correctly for NASA in July, one of the Martian Rovers will descend into Victoria Crater and discover that the unusual features at the bottom are not sand dunes, as NASA believes, but are instead fulgarites — glassified sand resulting from a lightning strike. Although attempts will almost surely be made to explain this discovery as somehow validating the existence of water on Mars, the truth is that this finding will validate the Electric Universe model that says that many craters are the result of electric arcing between bodies in space. Although the credit for this prediction will go to Wallace Thornhill, who also accurately predicted nearly all of the results of the Deep Impact mission, few mainstream scientists will subsequently recognize his successful prediction and the Slashdot community will continue to ridicule EU Theory as if it never happened."

Submission + - Martian Dust Storms Are Armies of Dust Devils

Submitted by pln2bz on Friday May 11, 2007 @05:19PM

pln2bz writes: Detailed images of massive Martian Dust Storms demonstrate undeniable filaments that bear an uncanny resemblance to dust devils. Considering that previous images of dust devils demonstrated that some dust devils are so electrical that they contain lightning bolts at their centers and burn the ground as they move across it, this appears to support the notion that dust storms on Mars could have electrical causes.

Submission + - EU Theorists Respond to Tim Thompson

Submitted by pln2bz on Monday May 07, 2007 @08:33PM

pln2bz writes: This past weekend, Slashdot permitted an article that suggested that Electric Universe Theory might have some basis in reality, and a total meltdown on Slashdot's forum ensued. In the past, many Slashdot forum contributors have pointed to Tim Thompson's rebuttal to Don Scott's Electric Sun Hypothesis as a compelling argument against EU Theory. However, just this week, Don Scott has published his own response to Tim Thompson's rebuttal that everybody should take note of. Whether you like it or not, it doesn't appear that Electric Universe Theory is going away any time soon.

Submission + - Radical Transparency at NASA?!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @02:11AM

An anonymous reader writes: Aaron Rowe over at Wired has an article about a couple of young scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center working to open source the space program through software development and other ways to allow the public to participate in real NASA programs. According to Robert Schingler, the NASA CoLab project manager, "CoLab is building an infrastructure to encourage and facilitate direct participation from the talented and interested public..." Apparently, the group holds weekly meetings on their island in the popular online virtual world Second Life. This should be of real interest to Slashdotters. The article also notes that there will be a massive science and technology party at NASA Ames this Friday night open to the public. I don't know about you, but as my first opportunity to visit the inside of a NASA center, I'm sure going!

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