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Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts

Monday, December 20, 2010

Big Eye Theory [Today's News Poem, December 20, 2010]

Big Eye Theory [Today's News Poem, December 20, 2010]

You've been focused on bubbles—the rim of your coffee mug,
Rim of the toilet—you watch them, they merge and they burst for you.
The newer replacements subsume what was once your whole universe.
If you've grown inattentive because all the wonders distracted you;
Comfort yourself with the eye of the bubble, your navel, your camera.
For eye is the shape of the self, it's the sight of itself and encompasses
The whole self everlasting: an infinite self in an instant and incomplete
Moment of eye ever watching: a locus, a focus, a totem, a metaphor.

"To predict eruptions we can no longer focus on the magnetic fields of isolated active regions," says Title, "we have to know the surface magnetic field of practically the entire sun."
—Dr. Tony Phillips,| Credit: Science@NASA, Dec. 13, 2010
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/

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Thursday, December 02, 2010

Delicious Intelligence [Today's News Poem, December 2, 2010]

Delicious Intelligence [Today's News Poem, December 2, 2010]

We will pile up so many corpses, astronauts will only need to ascend them to get to space.
All meat will become identical and we will eat the dead with gusto.
We will bloat and this will give us escape velocity as the gas of our hype thrusts us to space.
All meteors, asteroids—planetary bodies will be seasoned with gusto.
We will search for intelligence; eating, expanding our bulk through the galaxy, in search of space.
All black holes will draw themselves closer and stick to their kindred with gusto.

"After days of speculation about an as-yet-unspecified development in the "search for evidence of extraterrestrial life," NASA does the big reveal at 2 p.m. ET today -- and you can watch it unfold in real time via streaming video and Twitter. "
—Alan Boyle, MSNBC, Cosmic Log, 4 hours ago as of 1:20pm PST
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/02/5567143-et-life-the-truth-will-be-out-there

"But now researchers have coaxed a microbe to build itself with arsenic in the place of phosphorus, an unprecedented substitution of one of the six essential ingredients of life. The bacterium appears to have incorporated a form of arsenic into its cellular machinery, and even its DNA, scientists report online Dec. 2 in Science."
—Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News, December 2, 2010, 2:37 pm December 2, 2010, 2:37 pm
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-arsenic-life-form/

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