Stephen Hawking

After issuing a statement about the existence of horrendous extraterrestrials, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking re-create the controversy.

No longer care about being branded ‘mad scientist’, Hawking again issued a second theory which is also surprising.

Preparing for his appearance in a documentary on the Discovery, Stephen Hawking’s Universe, which aired next week, May 9, 2010, he confessed to believe humans can explore the time.

Humans, according to Hawking, can crawl up to millions of years into the future to fill out and start again the civilization of Planet Earth that has been destroyed.

Someday, Hawking said, there will be exploration of outer space plane that could fly faster than the speed of light. One day of exploration in space equal to one year on Earth. Continue Reading

earthquake

The ASEAN region is located at the intersection of three major tectonic plates namely Eurasian, Indo-Australian and the Pacific plates, and one minor plate, Philippine plate. This condition generates thousands of earthquake every year most of which are potentially destructive. In recent years, several big earthquakes occurred in some parts of
ASEAN countries which caused considerable damage to
buildings and other structures, landslides in mountainous regions, ground subsidence and ground rupture. These big earthquakes have also caused major fatalities. What makes an earthquake more devastating is the fact that it may generate tsunami with up to 10 meter high waves which add to the extent of the damage, especially in areas along the coast.

To monitor earthquake activities, and to help mitigate the effects of earthquake disasters, most countries in ASEAN have established their National Seismological Centres (NSCs). While NSCs in some countries are quite modern, others are still in the process of upgrading. Ideally each of the upgraded NSC should have a real time monitoring system and other facilities for rapid dissemination of earthquake information. Continue Reading

1000 mph Car

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Strapped into a custom built seat, Andy Green prepares for the ride of his life. The pancake-flat desert stretches out for miles ahead. The computer indicates all systems are normal. He eases off the brakes and puts his foot down on the throttle. The jet engine roars into life. In precisely 42.5 seconds he’ll be travelling 1000 mph. In a car.

“It’s almost impossible to tell the difference between going supersonic in a car and in an aircraft,” says Green. He is the only person on Earth who can say that from personal experience. Green was a fighter pilot for the UK Royal Air Force for 20 years, and he is also the fastest man on wheels. In 1997, driving a vehicle called ThrustSSC, he set the world land speed record of 763 miles per hour, becoming the first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car (761 mph under standard conditions). Now, together with the Bloodhound SSC design team, he’s attempting to do it all over again, and then some. Continue Reading

2012

Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Tom McCarthy
(Columbia, 2009) Rated: PG-13
US theatrical release date: 13 November 2009 (General release)
UK theatrical release date: 1 April 2009 (General release)

The first word of the end of the world comes from India. In 2009, sweating and fretting, Dr. Satnam Tsurutani (Jimi Mistry) calls his friend Adrian (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who drops everything and rushes right over from the United States.  Startled by the data rolling over Satnam’s basement monitors—along with the buckets of ice cooling hardworking assistants’ hot feet—Adrian then rushes right back to DC, where he bum-rushes a fancy-dress fundraiser to get spread the news to White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt). Declaring himself the “deputy geologist” at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Adrian gets in, breathless, and hands over a pile of papers. One glance, and Carl is ready to rush as well, meaning that he takes Adrian right on over to meet President Wilson (Danny Glover). Continue Reading

saber aurora

Researchers have developed a new way to measure Earth’s aurora and are using the technique to learn more about a region of the ionosphere that plays a key role in satellite and radio communications during geomagnetic disturbances.

Shortly after NASA’s Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) mission began routine operation in 2002, a solar-geomagnetic storm blasted the ionosphere and lit up sensors on the orbiting instrument in a way that researchers did not expect to see.

SABER provided a glimpse of a strong, nighttime infrared radiation emission by positively charged nitric oxide – a measurement that hadn’t been made globally before but provided an excellent opportunity to study auroral events in the E-region of the ionosphere. The region is one of three ionized layers that make up the far reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. It turned out that SABER is well-suited to measure Earth’s aurora, that phenomenon of solar winds clashing with the planet’s magnetic field. Scientists at NASA’s Langley Research Center are now trying to build on that discovery to improve a model of the ionosphere and take further measurements. Continue Reading

Inggris,
Para peneliti Eropa mengklaim telah menemukan dua planet yang mirip dengan bumi. Planet Gliese 581e memiliki ukuran mirip bumi, sementara planet lainnya, Gliese 581d memiliki kemiripan karakter dengan bumi sehingga kemungkinan besar dapat ditempati mahluk hidup. Kedua planet ini terletak di konstelasi Libra.

Penemuan planet berbatu mirip bumi di lokasi yang memungkinkan makhluk hidup berkembang ini merupakan tonggak penelitian eksoplanet,” kata Michel Mayor, peneliti astrofisika asal Universitas Jenewa, Swiss, saat melakukan presentasi di Universitas Hertfosrdhire, Inggris, Selasa 21 April 2009.

Planet Gliese 581e berukuran 1,9 kali besar bumi. Selama ini, planet yang ditemukan di luar tata surya matahari rata-rata berukuran sebesar planet Yupiter. Gliese 581e terletak di dekat bintang Gliese sehingga terlalu panas untuk ditinggali. Continue Reading