Update: Scientists trustworthy? Apocalypse soon? "God machine" draws protest

Update science talkBlack hole scientists trustworthy ? Who has confidence in this scientists working on this "Nuclear" style project. What education do they have to tell the truth good or bad. Why so less TV...

End of the world due in six days

SCIENTISTS try to stop big bang experiment  as they say black holes created may destroy us within 50 years, starting Sept-10 " SCIENTISTS are trying to stop the most powerful experiment ever – saying the...

Siberian seabed has methane leak

Is a Seabed a fancy term for waterbed ? and if so are we talking flatulence during sleep ?Cows, landfills what's next the ocean ? Methane is silently leaking everywhere."Swedish researchers working on an international mission have confirmed that methane, a potent greenhouse...

Senator Bennett bet Romney, surprised that he's not McCain's choice

"Utah Republican Sen. Bob Bennett's prediction yesterday that John McCain would pick Mitt Romney as his running mate was dead wrong. But he lost no time in talking up the attributes of McCain's choice - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.     "While her appointment comes...

First light for space telescope

"A powerful Nasa space telescope launched in June has unveiled its first results - including an image of the sky viewed through "gamma-ray glasses". Nasa also revealed a new name; the Gamma-ray Large Area Space...

Sept. 11 Version of 'Space Invaders' Draws Fire at Video-Game Convention

Is this "art" or is it just tasteless, tacky, and insulting? There's bound to be an uproar over this use of 9/11 as "installation art."Was that uproar the purpose? This might have been just a way of getting attention."Attendees at the Leipzig Games Convention in eastern...

Faces of Bali - Goa Gajah

"Located in a steep valley just outside of Ubud near the town of Bedulu. Built at least 700 years ago, the cave was rediscovered in the 1920s and fully excavated 30 years later. Literally means ‘Elephant...

Celtic League - Offshore bolt holes compound problems for Africa

This from the Celtic League: 'OFFSHORE BOLT-HOLES' COMPOUND PROBLEMS FOR AFRICAThe Celtic League has written to the United Kingdom Foreign Officeasking if they (or any other United Kingdom government agency)...

Gianyar - The Mother of Ubud

"Gianyar Regency is located at central Bali , with Ubud as one of the district in Gianyar regency became a famoust tourist destination in the world. Until the fourteen century Bali was ruled Bali by the Warmadewa...

NASA Launches new GLAST Gamma-Ray Telescope

UPDATE: The solar arrays deployed successfully. Engineers are now running a series of tests to check out the telescope's systems.Original story follows.And we have--another successful liftoff! This time, an...

Nutria under the gun on the 17th Street Canal New Orleans

"Posted by Andrew Vanacore June 05, 2008 11:02PMA Jefferson Parish SWAT team has been called in to defend the 17th Street Canal.The threat? Nutria, the orange-toothed rodents that eat through marshlands and...

8 Year Old Girl Swallows 30 Magnets, Steel Balls

I find this story is very strange.  Why would an 8 year old swallow 30 steel balls thinking they were candy?  Does she have some disability that would make her think this?  I can't imagine why any 8...

Internet Full of 'Black Holes'

"By Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Staff WriterYou’re pounding the keyboard, double-clicking away, sighing and grumbling, but to no avail: That devilish little hourglass icon refuses to give way to the Web site you’re trying to reach. Most Internet users have encountered...

Woods eases into third round, Mickelson exits

""I played a lot better today, hit the ball well and even made a couple of putts early on," Woods told reporters."I never gave Arron a hole. He had to earn the holes and I didn`t make a bogey today. Match play is an animal that`s all about the moment, you`d better get off to...

The Seven Ages of Search

"We have all trodden on it, some of us still do, some give up hope along the way, while a few lay the floorboards for the rest to follow. It is a journey of no fixed entry point and peppered with rabbit holes of which there is no return."

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