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3D Printed Hovering Ornithopter

History of the World in 100 Seconds

A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Gareth Lloyd on Vimeo.

Solar Flare February 2011

NASA

Flea Jumps

Spring loaded feet. Wired

Solar Flare February 15, 2011

Mega solar flare footage. NASA

Cat Drinking Methodology

FAST LAPS from Science News on Vimeo.

Science News

Seahorse Shape Due to Stealth Attack Adaption

Amazing creatures and of course there's always a practical reason in nature why animals look they way they do. Wired

Awesome Flea with Loads of DNA

Wired

Birth of an Island

Here we go; a live birth.

Iridescent Patterns on Insect Wings

“They flash like little diamonds,” he said. Wired

Double Eclipse of Moon and Space Station Over Sun

Discovery

The Chupacabra Might Be a Hairless Raccoon

Paranormal

Wikipedia entry of the Chupacabra.

CNN video.

Mars Odyssey

Come next Wednesday, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at the Red Planet than any other spacecraft in history. If you're keeping score, the Odyssey entered Mars' orbit around Mars on Oct. 24, 2001. When it starts its 3,340th day on the job on Dec. 15, it will break the previous record for Martian career longevity record set by its predecessor, Mars Global Surveyor, which operated in orbit from Sept. 11, 1997, to Nov. 2, 2006. CBS

Military to Cut Fossil Fuel Use In Half by 2020

Who would have thunk? According to Ray Mabus, the Navy Secretary said he wants 50 percent of the power for the Navy and Marines to come from renewable energy sources by 2020. That figure includes energy for bases as well as fuel for cars...

The military this year has pushed rapidly forward. After a decade of waging wars in remote corners of the globe where fuel is not readily available, senior commanders have come to see overdependence on fossil fuel as a big liability, and renewable technologies — which have become more reliable and less expensive over the past few years — as providing a potential answer. 

The 150 Marines of Company I, Third Battalion, Fifth Marines, will be the first to take renewable technology into a battle zone, where the new equipment will replace diesel and kerosene-based fuels that would ordinarily generate power to run their encampment. 

NYT

Wow, Get Your Free Chocolate (Cacao) Genome Sequence Here

Cacao Genome Database

Science: Water on the Moon

Millions of tons of ice water on the moon. Wired

Science: Technological Tools are an Extension of Us

“The person and the various parts of their brain and the mouse and the monitor are so tightly intertwined that they’re just one thing,” said Anthony Chemero, a cognitive scientist at Franklin & Marshall College. "The tool isn’t separate from you. It’s part of you. The thing that does the thinking is bigger than your biological body,” he said. You’re so tightly coupled to the tools you use that they’re literally part of you as a thinking, behaving thing.”  Wired

Sci Fi: Still a Favorite - The USS Enterprise Captain's Chair

Be the envy of sci fi fans. Don't forget the Tricorder and Black Handle Phaser and a Captain Kirk Action Figure and Communicator and Tribble.

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Science: Spacecraft Cassini's Images of Saturn's Moon Enceladus

The Cassini spacecraft’s November flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus has revealed new features including at least 20 more icy plumes spewing from the moon’s southern pole.

New infrared science data gives scientists the highest resolution temperature map of one particular warm fissure called a “tiger stripe.” The moon’s four tiger stripes are fractures that spew a mix of ice particles, water vapor and organic compounds into space. They are a key clue for scientists trying to figure out if small moon harbors a liquid water ocean under its frosty surface. Now, scientists know that their temperatures can exceed 180 Kelvin (minus 135 degrees Fahrenheit).  Wired