Hundreds of Possible Alien Planets Discovered By NASA Spacecraft
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft hunting for Earth-like planets around other stars has found 706 candidates for potential alien worlds while gazing at more than 156,000 stars packed into a single patch of the sky.
If all 706 of these objects pass the stringent follow-up tests to determine if they are actually planets, and not false alarms, they could nearly triple the current number of known extrasolar planets. They were announced as part of a huge release of data from the mission’s first 43 days by NASA’s Kepler science team this week.
Nice photo series – Giant Ichneumon Wasp – Megarhyssa macrurus, Female wasps ovipositing (laying eggs)
Live adult wasps photographed in the wild at Winfield and Lisle, Illinois, USA.
While nearly all of the rats fed normal chow developed tumors rapidly, only about two-thirds of the berry-supplemented rats did. Overall, these rats had about half as many tumors as the others, the researchers report in the June Pharmaceutical Research.
Top 10 Ridiculous Oil-Spill Quotes From Congress
6. Pete Olson (R-Texas) on moratorium, 6/15 press conference: “This is a kneejerk reaction by the administration to address a problem that doesn’t exist.”
4. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.), 6/15, at an Energy and Commerce hearing: argued that the treatment of oil executives has been “disrespectful.”
The rest are at the link.
Utah Oil Spill: Chevron Vows To Pay
Some of the spilled oil traveled in the creek through Salt Lake City to the Jordan River, which drains into the Great Salt Lake.
Gulf Spill Shuts Down Nation’s Oldest Oyster Shuckers
While half of Louisiana’s oyster beds are free from contamination and open to harvesting — indeed, despite the spill, for the most part gulf seafood is safe and plentiful — the fields that P&J built its business on are off-limits.
It’s possible they could reopen their shucking business. They are selling oysters, pre-shucked from Alabama.
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