10 things you need to know this morning in Australia
Good morning. 1. There aren’t many days when it’s bad to be Elon Musk, but today is one of them after he lost about $80 million to a spark: Worse, it wasn’t even Musk’s fault as the explosion was reportedly triggered by a “pad anomaly”. And even worserer, it was carrying Facebook’s first satellite, AMOS-6, as part of Mark Zuckerberg’s mission to bring the internet to the developing world. So Zuckerberg’s day was totally ruined too, because he was in Africa and no doubt would have loved to have..>> view originalForget Survivor. Try fake Mars instead
It looks quite sunny in Mars, doesn’t it? (Pic: Neil Scheibelhut/University of Hawaii at Manoa via AP)This week, as the rest of us carried about our business, a select group of people emerged from a bubble and entered the real world. No, I’m not talking about the Senate crossbench — they did the opposite — but rather six quasi-astronauts who have just spent a year in isolation on Mars.Or, as the locals like to call it, Hawaii.Hawaii and Mars. Yep, we totally see the resemblance. (Pic: News Corp ..>> view originalMigaloo the white whale spotted off Cairns
MIGALOO the white whale is believed to have been spotted off Cairns’ coast.Quicksilver Cruises says it is 95 per cent certain one of its vessels has sighted the famous humpback whale swimming between Cairns and Green Island just after 2pm.It is not yet known whether the whale, which regularly migrates to the Great Barrier Reef, is swimming north or south.Thousands of humpbacks annually migrate from Antarctica to breed in the warmer tropical waters.Migaloo was last spotted in the Whitsundays ab..>> view originalNASA found a mysterious ice volcano that's half the size of Mt. Everest on this former planet
For the first time, NASA scientists have found direct evidence of a mysterious form of icy volcanism on a former planet named Ceres, located in the asteroid belt. In the 1800s, Ceres was a small planet with big dreams. But that all changed later that century when scientists realized that there were huge differences between planets and the newly minted classification of “asteroids.” After five decades of planetdom, Ceres was demoted to lowly asteroid. If Ceres was going..>> view originalAs sea ice around Antarctica melts, the Southern Ocean is becoming fresher
For decades, scientists have puzzled over why the southernmost waters in the world were becoming less salty, and now it looks like we might have an answer. Scientists have found that the Southern Ocean – which surrounds Antarctica – has been experiencing an increase in sea ice, which is slowly drifting northwards. When this saltless sea ice melts back into the ocean and into warmer northern seas, it freshens the saltwater around it, reducing its salinity. According to a new study led by resear..>> view originalHas ANOTHER alien megastructure been found? Scientists left baffled by distant star
Some believed that there was a natural explanation as to why the light coming from the star dimmed, while others claimed that a Dyson Sphere was responsible.Experts theorised that an advanced alien race had constructed a megastructure around the star dubbed KIC 8462852, or more colloquially ‘Tabby’s star’ after its discoverer Tabetha Boyajian, to harness energy from their host star.However, experts have now discovered a new star known as EPIC 204278916 which has similar characteristics to Tabby’..>> view originalWe've Never Seen The Solar Wind Like This Before
GIF Image: Craig DeForest, SwRI/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Like an endless blaze roaring forth from the gates of hell, the solar wind is majestic, awe inspiring, and terrifying. The only proof you need that the Sun is the one and true master of our solar system is this never-before-seen view of a torrent of charged particles bursting out of our star’s corona.It’s a processed version of a series of images collected by NASA’s STEREO spacecraft, a pair of spac..>> view originalET ring back Russian telescope picks up mysterious radio signal
Is there anybody out there? The fundamental question is rebounding once again after a mysterious radio signal was picked up by a Russian telescope. The radio waves come from a star system 94 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers at Allen Telescope Array in California are taking a second look. the Allen Telescope Array in northern #California pic.twitter.com/POidbWMCpm— Hans Solo (@thandojo) August 31, 2016 This kind of signal might be generated by an alien civilization or resulted from som..>> view originalMinke whale rescued after beaching itself at Bicheno
Minke whale rescued after beaching itself at Bicheno on Tasmania's east coast Updated September 02, 2016 18:53:22 A minke whale stranded at Bicheno has been successfully rescued, swimming strongly away into deeper water.The whale was stranded near Diamond Island Beach on Tasmania's east coast.It was found about midday by 16-year-old Jesse Wise, who said the animal was "flipping around" between the rocks. "I was with my friend and we were going to go swimming and then I ..>> view original
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
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