Posted in Announcements on Feb 28th, 2006
[Month in Review]February has been another busy one here at Anthonares.net! Early in the month I moved the blog from Blogger over to Wordpress software and haven’t regretted it for a second. Daily readership continues to grow, which I’m glad to see means that more comments are coming in. Nothing sustains a […]
Posted in Informative Articles on Feb 27th, 2006
[Energy, Engineering, Fusion, Lasers, National Ignition Facility, NIF, Nuclear Weapons, Science]
When fully operational, the US Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) will focus 192 of the most powerful lasers ever constructed onto a target no larger than a BB. The lasers will combine to produce 2 MJ of energy in a split second–a […]
Posted in In The News on Feb 25th, 2006
[Astronomy, Science, Space, Terrestrial Planet Finder, TPF]Paul Gilster at Centauri Dreams writes about a potential replacement for Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C) that would be “faster, better, and cheaper.” The basic idea is that the Coronagraph part of the TPF-C would be an independent, free-flying “Occulter” that would be combined with the upcoming James […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Feb 25th, 2006
[Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, moons, Planetary Science, Pluto, Science, Space]The image on the right is an artist’s conception of the view of the Pluto/Charon system from the surface of P2, one of Pluto’s recently discovered moons (credit: NASA). While we’ve known for a month or so that Pluto has two “new” moons the paper […]
Posted in Informative Articles, Opinion on Feb 23rd, 2006
[Michigan State University, Nuclear Physics, Physics, Rare Isotope Accelerator, Science]I have been happily attending Michigan State University since the fall of 1999. It has awarded me undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Astrophysics, and is now hosting and funding my studies in the hydrological geosciences. Based in East Lansing, Michigan, MSU is only […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Feb 21st, 2006
[Antarctica, Climate Change, Glaciers, Global Warming, Greenland, Science]Over geologic time, sea level depends on the relative balance of the water stored in ice versus that stored in the oceans. Most of the Earth’s ice is stored near its poles where global warming has had the greatest effect thus far, and is projected to be […]
Posted in Informative Articles on Feb 19th, 2006
[Education, Geography, Geosciences, GIS, Google Earth, Google Placemarks, Mapping, NASA, World Wind]Mapping has finally come to the masses, and its name is Google Earth. Last June, Google released a software capable of quickly displaying satellite, aerial image, and map data for the entire globe. Since then, Google Earth has been used to aid […]
Posted in Opinion on Feb 17th, 2006
[Alt.Space, LiftPort, Mars Society, Space, Space Elevator, Space Exploration]Fans of the Space Elevator (a great Wikipedia entry) concept may be aware of the company LiftPort whose stated goal is to build an elevator to geosynchronous orbit by April 12th, 2018 (they have a counter on their website). LiftPort recently achieved a milestone in development […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Feb 15th, 2006
[Materialism, Science, VOC, Volatile Organic Compounds, Wine]While out to dinner last night (Valentine’s Day) a quick glance about revealed that more than half of the people in the restaurant were drinking wine. Some red, others white. But I’m sure that very few of them were thinking about what makes that wine so distinctive […]
Posted in Announcements on Feb 15th, 2006
[Blog Carnival, Blogs, Tangled Bank]For those of you who have not yet run into the wonderful science blog carnival that is Tangled Bank, check out issue #47 presented by Kete Were. This is also the second issue of Tangled Bank that features Anthonares.net content (#46 did two weeks ago, as well). The diversity […]
