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China To Build Tallest Skyscraper In 90 Days
A Chinese company is planning on constructing the world’s tallest building – with 220 floors – in just three months. Original post on sky.com Comments on reddit.com
Attention CNN: “unbiased reporting” does not mean giving equal weight to democratic facts and republican lies: Timmy Falcon
Huge Mars Rover Curiosity Lands on Red Planet Aug. 5 – Space.com
The huge Mars rover Curiosity is just one month away from an Aug. 5 landing on the Red Planet. Excitement is high for the biggest Mars rover landing in history. Original post on space.com Comments on reddit.com
Supernova Could Have Caused Mysterious “Red Crucifix” in the Sky in A.D. 774: Scientific American
An ancient text suggests that an eighth-century jump in carbon 14 levels in trees could be explained by a previously unrecognized supernova explosion Original post on scientificamerican.com Comments on reddit.com
Geoengineering would turn blue skies whiter – environment – 01 June 2012 – New Scientist
The skies might change colour if geoengineers inject light-scattering aerosols into the upper atmosphere to combat global warming Original post on newscientist.com Comments on reddit.com
Image of the Day: The Universe in Infrared
Our human window of vision on the Universe is incredibly limited, within a stunningly small range of wavelengths. With our eyes we see wavelengths between 0.00004 and 0.00008 of a centimeter (where, not so oddly, the Sun and stars emit… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
Cosmic Rays Zapping South Pole – “From the Neutron Star of the Vela Supernova?”
The stunning image above from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory is the Vela pulsar — the collapsed stellar core within the Vela supernova remnant. The Vela pulsar is a neutron star. More massive than the Sun, it has the density… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
Incredible image appears to show massive black hole in the sky – Mail Online
Rather than being a massive vacuum in the universe, the eerily dark ‘hole’ in this photograph is known to astronomers as a dark molecular cloud. Original post on dailymail.co.uk Comments on digg.com
The Sky Is on Fire! Your Complete Visual Guide to the Northern Lights – Rebecca J. Rosen – Technology – The Atlantic
Norway has been witness to a dazzling light show this week. Here, we get a chance to see it from afar. Original post on theatlantic.com Comments on digg.com
The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big-and we mean big-data
Data needs at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have driven the development of distributed file systems such as GFS and Dynamo. The decisions and trade-offs of each can explain a lot about why cloud services work the way they do—and why they sometimes don’t behave well at all. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on digg.com
Blackbirds Falling From Sky In Arkansas Again
(NewsCore) – Blackbirds are again falling from the skies over the same small US town where thousands of the creatures crashed to the ground last New Year’s Eve. Police on Saturday night rushed through an emergency ban on fireworks in a bid to avoid a repeat of last year’s bizarre events in the Arkansas town of Beebe, but local television station KTHV reported that nearly 100 dead birds have so far fallen from the skies. The first birds began plunging to the ground around 7:00pm Saturday night, according to police. Beebe was catapulted into world headlines last year when about 4,000 dead blackbirds rained down on the town on New Year’s Eve. Most scientists eventually agreed the birds died after they were spooked by fireworks and flew into buildings, trees and each other. More