Pinball Wizard And Body Table King :: Oblate Spheroid

"Mr. Gary Stern, the last pinball machine magnate, is a wise-cracking, fast-talking 62-year-old with a shock of white hair, matching white frame glasses and a deep tan who eats jelly beans at his desk and...

Shasta’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence :: Oblate Spheroid

"Dotting a rocky plain north of Mount Lassen, 42 radio antennas are cocked like ears toward the sky, being readied for an expanded hunt for life beyond Earth. The Allen Telescope Array is slowly coming...

Peanut-Stars | New Discovery Of Double Star Systems :: Oblate Spheroid

"Peanut-Star System - In a repeating cycle, one star moves to the front and blocks our view of the other. From Earth, the star system brightens and dims, as we see light from two stars, then only one star. The...

Happy Anniversary "Oddball" Earth:: Oblate Spheroid

"False-color satellite image of Chimborazo (center, left), Carihuairazo (10km northwest of Chimborazo), Tungurahua (center, right with ash plume) and El Altar (bottom, right), Ecuador. Pale blue indicates snow/ice...

High Resolution NASA Radar … Maps The Moon :: Oblate Spheroid

"NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has recently released new high-resolution radar maps of the Moon's south pole. The mapping technique is unique in that it uses digital radar information gleaned from one array...

Meet “sQuba” - The Oblate Spheroid's First Submersible Electric Car :: Ob...

"An electric powered car … that swims! Three electric motors are located in the rear compartment of the Rinspeed “sQuba”. One provides propulsion on land, the other two drive the screws for underwater...

Want To Go Green?, Go Fly A Kite! :: Oblate Spheroid

"Kite Runner has a new definition. A movie by the same name recently was released in December 2007 and the term Kite Runner referred to the kite retrieving member of a kite flying team in Afghani culture that...

New Everest Records That Are NOT From The Highest Point On Earth ... :: Oblat...

".. a change in the MSM template is in order. As documented here at Oblate Spheroid, in a post at the end of March, Mount Everest is NOT the highest point on Earth … or to put it another way … the closest...

The Oblate Spheroid, An Earthworm's View - Fossil Forest Find

"Last week, geologists surveying a coalmine 250 feet below the current surface of the Earth's crust, came upon a preserved 300 million year old forest. Measuring over four-square miles in size, the discovery is...

Light Wavelength Analysis Nets Purple Earth

"Researchers here on the Oblate Spheroid, struggle to explain why microbial evidence throughout the Earth is varied yet so stratified. The answer may come from the fact that the evolution of microbe life on the...

"Oddball" Earth :: Oblate Spheroid

""Oddball" Earth An interesting fact was revealed in a highlight segment of the mornings news on ABC7, Los Angeles and that is - Mount Everest is NOT the tallest place on Earth, ie. the place on Earth that would...

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