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In a first for any U.S.-based pageant organization, the Miss Universe Organization has taken the unusual step of releasing topless photos of outgoing Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza to the media. Just how did pageant officials come to be in the business of releasing sexy photos instead of reacting to them?
Officials said Friday they have dropped an investigation into a beauty queen's claim that her evening gown was doused with pepper spray, citing a lack of evidence to support criminal charges.
Our use of ever-higher megapixel cameras, iPods with large hard drives and jumbo video files posted on YouTube is starting to crush us — digitally, that is.
The deeper astronomers gaze into the cosmos, the more they find it's a bizarre and violent universe. The research findings from this week's annual meeting of U.S. astronomers range from blue orphaned baby stars to menacing "rogue" black holes that roam our galaxy, devouring any planets unlucky enough to be within their limited reach.
After a flurry of accusations and skepticism, an exhaustive investigation has determined that someone did try to sabotage a beauty contestant's bid for the Miss Puerto Rico Universe by dousing her garments with pepper spray, police said Wednesday.
A security guard who was "playing around" backstage may have contaminated Miss Puerto Rico Universe's clothes and makeup brush with pepper spray, setting off allegations of sabotage, the island's police chief said Thursday.
Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.
A map of the cosmic microwave background made by NASA's WMAP satellite shows density fluctuations in the early universe – regions of higher density were slightly warmer than voids. Similar maps by Planck may reveal the existence and shape of extra spatial dimensions (Image: NASA/WMAP Science Team)
An astronaut removes the High Resolution Spectrograph to make way for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph during the second servicing mission in 1997. The telescope can hold four telephone-booth sized instruments and four piano-sized instruments (Image: NASA)
Some of the most distant galaxies ever seen appear in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field North, a portion of which is shown here. If a new servicing mission is approved, a new instrument called the Wide Field Camera 3 would spot galaxies even more distant, and therefore further back in time (Image: NASA/ESA/S Beckwith/HUDF team)
Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatoryAn unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.
By the agreement of a number of scientific research projects. Current theory and observations suggest that the universe is between 13.5 and 14 billion years old. The age of the earth is estimated at 4. 54 billion years. Recorded history of mankind only covers about 6000 years.
3 Silly Religious Beliefs Held By Non-Silly People I want to talk today about three specific religious beliefs.
WirelessTech Taking a Toll on Earth Science and AstronomyNearly lost amidst the breathless anticipation of all things wireless...is the potential impact these gadgets may have on scientific instruments that likewise need access to the electromagnetic spectrum.
Multiplying Universes: How Many is the Multiverse?HOW many universes are there? Cosmologists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin at Stanford University in California calculate that the number . . . of universes. . . may depend on the human brain.
Did the universe have a beginning? It is pretty well accepted in the scientific community that the universe had a beginning. Science has shown that the universe is made up of an untold number of clusters of galaxies.
3 Silly Religious Beliefs Held By Non-Silly People"You can't disprove religion." I'm seeing this trope a lot these days. "You can't disprove religion. At least -- not my religion."
Physicists Calculate Number of Universes in the MultiverseLinde and Vanchurin say that total amount of information that can be absorbed by one individual during a lifetime is about 10^16 bits. So a typical human brain can have 10^10^16 configurations and so could never disintguish more than that number of different universes.
Dark Flow RevealedAs if the universe weren't strange enough, scientists have recently discovered that entire galaxy clusters—the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of thousands of galaxies—are moving toward the same area.
LHC - Working From the Future to Thwart the Present...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.
Have you ever wondered what happens when you enter a black hole what happens? Every one has there theories. I would be thrilled to get some feedback from you. I think maybe it would lead to another universe perhaps, or another "area" in space.
Invisible Hand Ruling Dark Matter"The pattern that the data reveal is extremely odd. It's like finding a zoo of animals of all ages and sizes miraculously having identical, say, weight in their backbones or something.
Amazing Ring RipplesTwo shepherding moons continue to affect Saturn's F ring in this amazing image captured by Cassini. Pandora on the outside of the ring and Prometheus on the inside, periodically create what are called "streamer-channels," seen here in the F ring.
Astronauts could reach Mars in 2020s, panel saysHumans could orbit Mars in the 2020s, says a panel appointed by the White House – but only if NASA's budget is boosted.
I was watching The Universe on The History channel this evening and was, as usual, fascinated with the science behind it. It reminds me of the show Cosmos, which was done by a personal hero of mine, Dr Carl Sagan.
The Big Bang, simplifiedI loved this video. A good explanation of why people should not be talking about what happened "before" the big bang. Clarifies things nicely.
Big UFO MixHere is a 6 minute clip showing many ufo photos and footage. Many are without explanation but it's definately worth a view. Cheers, Lenny.
Hunting ET: Astrobiology and the quest for extraterrestrial life The discovery of life elsewhere in the Solar System would 'profoundly change our understanding of where we came from and our place in the cosmos', astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell told Sam Wong ahead of his public lecture on the subject this week
UFO sightings: The British X-files in fullWith 800 sightings reported between 1993 and 1996 it's reasonable to conclude that many of these have rational explanations (I'm not the type who believes that all reports are evidence).
Does the Universe Exist if We're Not Looking?The world seems to be putting itself together piece by piece on this damp gray morning along the coast of Maine.
UFO pictures from NASA serverI don't know what to think of these pics. They look strange but maybe they are experimental aircraft created by the powers that be. However, an interesting watch.
What is religion? Isn't is a belief or beliefs in dieties, a Diety or other unseen forces in a universe of our understanding according to perceptions? A good book i am reading is by Anthony Robbins called Unlimited Power.
Astronomy-- 3D Model of the Hubble Ultra Deep FieldThere are approximately 10,000 separate galaxies in this tiny little piece of sky.
The hunt for beer in spaceAustralians pride themselves on drinking beer just about anywhere and for any occasion - but what about in space? A Queensland astrochemist believes beer and the cosmos are more closely linked than we would have first thought.
Alan Ferguson videos UFOs in Northern TerritoryUFOs over the Northern Territory...these things certainly get around! With so many reports coming from so many places and people we have to acknowledge that something is going on.
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