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Science Etcetera, Moonday 20080721

July 21st, 2008
  • Aaaaaggggghhhh!!! John Boehner (R-OH) claims there is no wildlife in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!!!
  • Japanese researchers have built a molecular motor, and it works like a hula hoop.

    • Rotary movement of a chromophore-modified alpha-cyclodextrin

    Rotary movement of a chromophore-modified alpha-cyclodextrin
    Credit: (C) Wiley-VCH 2008
  • Al Gore is challenging America to go 100% Carbon-Free in Ten Years.
  • Should we move polar bears to Antarctica? Similar proposals have been put forward concerning moving African wildlife to the American Great Plains.
  • October 2009, Russia will launch the Phobos-Grunt probe to study the Martian moons.
  • Orion spacecraft designers are calling for NASA workers to provide 30 liters of urine a day to test the craft, which will park in space for six-month stints as astronauts work on the Moon. They will also be using human cadavers to test the craft (this is standard practice in automobile tests).
  • A baby red spot on Jupiter found in May has been chewed up and spit back out by its large red spot.

    • Small red spot eaten by large red spot

    Small red spot eaten by large red spot
    Credit: NASA / ESA / NMSU / JPL
  • A possible Vitamin D deficiency link to Autism needs investigation.
  • More wit and wisdom from the Right. Dittohead proselytizer Michael Savage calls autism a “A fraud, a racket. … In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.”
  • Making Babies: The Next 30 Years published in Nature predicts 100-year-olds could be having children in the next three decades.
  • Hundreds of baby penguins have washed up dead in Brazil.
  • Melbourne Museum has posted a video of their recent giant squid dissection.
  • Animation of the Moon passing in front of the Earth as seen from the EPOXI spacecraft. This is what we look like to extraterrestrials.



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