[scifinoir2] Fw: Japan's asteroid mission, Deep Impact and Dolphins' use of tools
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cool science stuff! Japan's asteroid mission, Deep Impact and Dolphins' use of tools URLs for three articles in MSNBC and CNN Japan asteroid encounter http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8131678/ Deep Impact http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/06/07/deep.impact/index.html Dolphins http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/06/06/dolphin.learning.ap/index.html Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/rkgkPB/UOnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] NYTimes.com: After 2,000 Years, a Seed From Ancient Judea Sprouts
This page was sent to you by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A really special date! Fascinating! INTERNATIONAL / MIDDLE EAST | June 12, 2005 After 2,000 Years, a Seed From Ancient Judea Sprouts By STEVEN ERLANGER Israeli doctors and scientists have succeeded in germinating a date seed nearly 2,000 years old. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/international/middleeast/12palm.html?ex=111924en=9af4d2e6a6487130ei=5070emc=eta1 - Advertisement -- /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight Pictures \ Watch the teaser trailer now for ROLL BOUNCE - in theaters September 23 In the late 70s when roller skating was a way of life, X (Bow Wow) and his pals ruled supreme. But when the doors of their local skating rink close, it marks the end of an era and the beginning of another that sees the boys venture into foreign territory - uptownÂ’s Sweetwater Roller Rink, complete with its over-the-top skaters and beautiful girls. http://www.foxsearchlight.com/rollbounce/index_nyt.html - Advertisement -- 0 -- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NYTimes.com 500 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/pkgkPB/SOnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [scifinoir2] DARK ENERGY CHILLS OUR GALACTIC NEIGHBORHOOD
He did a good job...catchy! Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hey Astro: I'm glad you like the name. My husband came up with it. Tracey -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 6:01 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] DARK ENERGY CHILLS OUR GALACTIC NEIGHBORHOOD Kewl! Marin, Keith, you catch this? Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote:Hi Amy: thanks for posting this. Since I renamed our web site Dark Energy Cafe, i had been researching it. Tracey -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Amy Harlib Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 1:35 PM To: Mike Sargent Subject: [scifinoir2] DARK ENERGY CHILLS OUR GALACTIC NEIGHBORHOOD [EMAIL PROTECTED] This article appeared in Scientific American, May 2005 Too Cold for Comfort DARK ENERGY CHILLS OUR GALACTIC NEIGHBORHOOD BY GEORGE MUSSER When you first meet dark energy, it seems so charming. An alluring stranger, outsider to the Standard Model of particle physics, it entered astronomers' lives a decade ago and won their hearts by fixing all kinds of problems, such as discrepancies in the age of the universe and the cosmic census of matter. Cosmic expansion has got its groove back: once thought to be winding down, it is actually speeding up. But astronomers have come to realize that dark energy has a dark side. The cold grip of its repulsive gravity is strangling the formation of large cosmic structures. And now observers see it prowling the neighborhood of our own Milky Way. You dont need to go so far to find dark energy, says Andrea Macci of the University of Zurich. Dark energy is also around us. Up until recently, those seeking the exotica of the universe, dark matter as well as dark energy, focused on the very largest scales (galaxy clusters and up) and on comparatively small ones (a single galaxy). But in between is a poorly studied cosmic mesoscale. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which in turn is part of the Local Volume, about 30 million lightyears in radius. We and the rest of our gaggle are flocking en masse at 600 kilometers per second, lured by the Virgo Cluster of galaxies and other outside masses. Tracking relative motions within the volume, though, is tough; it requires distance and velocity measurements of high precision. Early efforts by Allan R. Sandage of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, Calif., and others in the 1970s, confirmed in recent years, hinted that stuff is moving abnormally slowly on average, somewhere around 75 kilometers per second. Simulations predict that galaxies, pulled together by gravity, should buzz around at closer to 500 kilometers per second. By analogy with a gas of slow-moving molecules, the Local Volume is cold. Another way to think of the problem is in terms of cosmic expansion. Theory predicts that you'd have to go out hundreds of millions of light-years, where matter is spread randomly rather than finely structured, before the overall expansion should outgun localized motions. Yet in the Local Volume, you have to go out only about five million light-years. One explanation, championed by Igor Karachentsev of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is that galaxies and their individual cocoons of dark matter swim in a sea of dark matter. The sea would mute the density contrasts and hence the gravitational forces that drive galactic motions. The only trouble is that matter, whether dark or visible, should not spread out into a sea. It should clod. So others have looked to dark energy. Its gravitational repulsion would offset galaxies gravitational attraction, thereby deadening their motion. In and near the Milky Way, attraction wins, but beyond a certain distance, repulsion does. As Arthur Chernin of Moscow University and his colleagues calculated in 2000, this distance is five million light-years, exactly where galactic motions deviate from standard predictions. The initial calculations actually only halved the galactic velocities, which is not enough. But the new full-up simulations by Maccis group indicate that dark energy works after all. If and only if you include dark energy, there is a very good agreement, Macci says. This is why we state that we have found the signature of dark energy. Not everyone agrees. In 1999 Rien van de Weygaert of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Yehuda Hoffman of Hebrew University in Jerusalem argued that the Local Volume is caught in a cosmic tug-of- war between surrounding galaxy clusters. This, too, would pull galaxies apart, offsetting their own gravity. To decide whether this mechanism or dark energy is more important, astronomers have to compare the Local Volume with similar regions. If those not caught in a
RE: [scifinoir2] Don't forget The Batman and Justice League
Been lurking mostly, looking for you and Martin... Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Yeah, same here! Where you been hiding?! -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 18:12 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Don't forget The Batman and Justice League KEITH! Long time no type... Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:New eps of both series are on Cartoon Network (or at least I never saw The Batman). Good shows. I originally panned The Batman, but it's grown on me. Love the atmosphere. Justice League Unlimited continues to impress, if for no other reason than all the new characters they introduce. Tonight is Captain Marvel, which ought to be good. And there's a great running storyline about the US government plotting against the JL. They fear the League's power, bolstered in part by the arrival of the evil Justice Lords from another dimension ,and the recent realization that the JL satellite has a weapon on it. Amanda Waller and company have been quite conniving in the things they've done to get an edge over the League, including recently breaking into the satellite and stealing an Olympian suit of armor. Good stuff [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. - Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing more. Check it out! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] _ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] MacGyver Boss Dies
I remember reading about Elcar's encroaching blindness several years ago. At the time he blamed himself for not having gotten regular eye checkups which could have caught the glaucoma in the early stages. As this article mentions, he was indeed one of those ubiquitous actors that showed up on a host of TV shows and movies, the consummate character. You know, with the slow demise of TV movies (at least on the major networks) and the growth of reality shows, I wonder if opportunities for character actors like Elcar and the late Sid Haig are vanishing? I just know that I seem to notice fewer of those ubiquitous appearances by actors nowadays MacGyver Boss Dies By Joal Ryan When Dana Elcar began to lose his eyesight during the fourth season of MacGyver, the actor became as resourceful as the TV show's gadget-handy titular hero, suggesting that his character be allowed to grow blind with him. Elcar, the familiar prime-time face who enjoyed his longest run as MacGyver's boss Pete Thornton on the 1986-1992 adventure series, died Monday in a Ventura, California, hospital of complications from pneumonia, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 77. Taking up Elcar's invitation, producers wrote in vision problems for Thornton, solving a dilemma for his portrayer. In a speech to the 1991 convention of the National Federation of the Blind, Elcar said that with glaucoma fast robbing him of sight he told MacGyver executive producer Steve Downing that something had to be done. We have to make Pete Thornton have the same qualities, the same visual abilities that I have, or we're going to run into trouble, Elcar said, recounting the conversation. I can no longer jump out of helicopters. I can't run down hill at night at a fast pace over logs. It simply will not work. The next day, the actor said, Downing called back. And that was that. The 1991 season closer, Hind-Sight, saw Elcar's character undergo surgery for glaucoma. Before becoming a can-do symbol for the vision-impaired, Elcar simply was a busy actor. Though never a leading man, his sturdy, compact build made him the perfect authority figure to a host of exasperating charges in the 1970s and 1980s. He was Richard Dean Anderson's Phoenix Foundation superior on MacGyver, Robert Blake's original lieutenant on Baretta and Robert Conrad's commanding officer on Baa Baa Black Sheep. In network TV's golden age of the episodic drama, Elcar was ubiquitous. The Internet Movie Database lists 109 guest-starring credits. The Rockford Files, B.J. and the Bear, Eight Is Enough, Knight Rider, Hart to Hart, Hardcastle and McCormick, The A-Team, Trapper John, M.D.--Elcar did them all, and more. Elcar stood in for the late Edward Platt to play--what else?-- Don Adams' boss in the 1980 Get Smart movie, The Nude Bomb. Other big-screen credits included The Sting and 2010. Born Oct. 10, 1927, in Ferndale, Michigan, Elcar was inspired to go into acting at age 13 after watching Citizen Kane over and over and over again at an all-night movie theater, his son, Dane Elcar, told the Times. Elcar's career would go on to span TV's bargain-basement beginnings--a 1954 soap opera, A Time to Live, that aired in 15-minute-long installments--to its big-money prime--a 2002 episode of ER, included. Even an industry veteran like Elcar, though, worried about what impending blindness would do to his career. You hear a lot of things about Hollywood, about how hard it is, how cold it is, how mean it is, he said in his 1991 address. And yet there were people [on MacGyver] who immediately responded and said, '...We want you on the program--you are good for the program.' Richard Dean Anderson did not disagree. At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, Anderson said of Elcar to the Times, he made things so easy for me. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/pkgkPB/SOnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
