News and Opinion from the Bug!
Cue Dr. Who theme music please… Know any time-space synaesthetes? New Scientist is reporting on a fascinating study out of UCSD; New Scientist says “two per cent of readers may be surprised to discover that they are members of an elite group with the power to perceive the geography of time.” These individuals perceive months [...]
NASA has made a surprising discovery beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet. 600ft beneath the Ross Ice shelf, NASA has discovered a lone shrimp swimming about and clinging to a cable holding a bore-hole camera. Where life wasn’t expected, life was found. In the words of Dr. Ian Malcolm, “Life will find a way.”
I gotta big kick out this one. Over at Live Science, Benjamin Radford writes in his article on product secret recipes that he had planned to reveal the secret formula for Coke Classic until he received a threatening email: I had planned to reveal the whole Coke Classic formula, but as I prepared this column [...]
Manhattanhenge. It’s coming and it’s due to a solar alignment this weekend.
NASA/ESA reports hubble’s capture of a striking image from NGC 7049. The image resembles the crown of thorns placed atop Jesus’ head by Roman soldiers. In a press release, NASA/ESA reports: The NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of NGC 7049, a mysterious looking galaxy on the border between spiral and elliptical galaxies. [...]
Ian O’Neill at Universe Today believes North Korea’s launch of a Taepoding missile was a partial success. O’Neill writes, “The Taepoding-2 rocket didn’t make it into space at all, and rather than orbiting the Earth, the communications satellite now rests at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. However, this is a worrying development, the missile [...]
I was just thinking about that piece of Russian space junk that blazed a trail along the U.S. East Coast the other night. Is it possible to weaponize space junk? Could large rocket parts also have a secondary purpose? Would it be possible to install a guidance system to maneuver the object to hit a [...]
A Tunguska-sized asteroid passed within 72000 kilometers of Earth Monday. New Scientist says that is less than 1/5 the moon’s distance from Earth! The story reads like that baby just snuck up on us.
Two earthquakes have occurred under the Red Sea. The two earthquake were about six hours apart and their epicenters were in close proximity to each other: [ Here ] and [ Here ]. The magnitude of each earthquake was 4.5 and 4.8 respectively. The earthquakes occurred along a divergent plate boundary where the Arabian plate [...]
Scientists say the recent earthquake swarm in Yellowstone National Park is “not normal.” Many of these earthquakes are occurring under Yellowstone Lake. Saturday, 27 December, a 3.5 magnitude earthquake occurred under Yellowstone Lake. It’s hypocentral depth was set at 2.5 miles. It’s interesting to note that Yellowstone National Park rests in the caldera of an [...]
