Saturday, March 31, 2012

Featured- Camile Fontaine: Hawaiian Artist

This is one of my long lost friends from my youth. Camile went to art school on Hilton Head Island where I met her painting a seascape outside my villa.
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She took to me as a child to a father. She even called me Daddy as a nick name. I protected her and encouraged her to do what she loved. She hitch hiked across the country with me 'to experience it's natural beauty'. For 2500 miles she was fearless and relentless as we traveled as the hippies we were. She was wide eyed the whole time. I knew she would do well in life. When her time came she left me, her rambling, dancing long haired gnome behind(as she should have) and went back to what she called the most beautiful place in the world Kauai, Hawaii to paint and create. And what creations she has produced!
They are beautiful as is she.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Einstein Proved Right: Universe Expanding at EXACTLY the Speed He Predicted


Albert Einstein has been proved correct in his view of how the universe is expanding, according to a scientific study released today.

The new test of Einstein's view of the universe has proved him right with ‘incredible accuracy’ and is helping scientists to understand the mysterious acceleration of the universe.
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A team of cosmologists have announced at the National Astronomy Meeting being held at the University of Manchester the most accurate measurement ever made from when the expansion of the universe began to accelerate.
It means that the phenomenon can be explained using just Einstein's general theory of relativity and the cosmological constant - the simplest theoretical explanation for the acceleration of the universe.

Mega Millions: Daydreaming... I Won! Now What Should I do?


With Mega Millions 540+ million dollar jackpot up for grabs, many people are daydreaming about how to spend the money. But doing it the right way (protecting your riches, your identity and your sanity) takes some thought and planning.
Making sure you don't blow the nation's largest-ever lottery jackpot in just a couple of years means some advice is in order before the Mega Millions drawing Friday, especially if you are the lucky one to match the numbers.
#1. First and foremost sign the back of the ticket. That will stop anyone else from claiming your riches if you happen to drop it while you're jumping up and down. Then make a photocopy and lock it in a safe. At the very least, keep it where you know it's protected.
#2. Catch your breath and calculate your next few moves. Don't do anything you'll regret for the next 30 years, like calling your best friend or every one of your aunts, uncles and cousins. They'll find out soon enough and it doesn't take long to be overwhelmed by long-lost friends, charities and churches wanting to share your good fortune.
#3. After the nervous ride to the lottery office and having it verified the next step is to contact your lawyer. A financial planner would be a lot wiser than updating your Facebook status. Make sure it's someone you can trust and, it's hoped, dealt with before. If you don't have anyone in mind, ask a close family member or friend. Oklahoma City attorney Richard Craig, whose firm has represented a handful of lottery winners, says it's essential to assemble a team of financial managers, tax experts, accountants and bankers.
#4. Change your cell phone numbers and your e-mail address. It wouldn't be a bad idea to leave town for a few weeks until things settle down.

Here are some answers to some standard questions:
Q: How much will I pay in taxes?
A: This partly depends on where you live. Federal tax is 25 percent; then there's your state income tax. In Ohio, for example, that's another 6 percent. And you might need to pay a city tax depending on the local tax rules. So count on about a third of your winnings going to the government.
Q: Should I take the cash payout or annual payments?
A: This is the big question, and most people think taking the lump sum is the smart move. That's not always the case. Spreading the payments out protects you from becoming the latest lottery winner who's lost all their money. Nine out of ten winners go through their money in five years or less. Ultimately it is your choice; but, unless you are in your eighties take the annuities.
Although if invested properly, the lump sum option can be a good choice. There's more planning that you can use to reduce estate taxes and other financial incentives. Others, though, say that with annual payments, you are taxed on the money only as it comes in, so that will put you in a lower tax bracket rather than taking a big hit on getting a lump sum. And you still can shelter the money in tax-free investments and take advantage of tax law changes over the years.
Q: Should I keep it to myself and not tell anybody?
A: Absolutely. This will protect you from people who want you to invest in their business scheme or those who need cash in an emergency. Lottery winners are besieged by dozens of people and charities looking for help. There are people that scam and manipulate lottery winners for a living. Unless you understand that, you can become a victim very quickly.
Q: So how can I protect myself?
A: Again, it somewhat depends on where you live. In Ohio, you can form a trust to manage the money and keep your winnings a secret. In other states, you can form a trust but still be discovered through public records. And a few states require you to show up and receive your oversized check in front of a bunch of cameras, making it impossible to stay anonymous.
Q: Is it OK to splurge a little?
A: Sure, it's why you bought a ticket, right? Get it out of your system, but don't go overboard, remember that if there's a new Mercedes-Benz in the driveway, your neighbors will probably be able to figure out who won the jackpot.
Q: How much should I help my family and others?
A: It's certainly a natural desire to help relatives in need and take care of future generations. But use extreme caution when giving out your money. Jack Whittaker, a West Virginia contractor who won a nearly $315 million Powerball jackpot in 2002, quickly fell victim to scandals, lawsuits and personal setbacks. His foundation spent $23 million building two churches, and he's been involved in hundreds of legal actions. "If you win, just don't give any money away, because the more money you give away, the more they want you to give. And once you start giving it away, everybody will label you an easy touch and be right there after you. And that includes everybody," Whittaker said five years ago.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Space May be the Final Frontier, is it also a Cash Cow?

There are tons of cash to be made from mining the solar system!
In his latest book, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier, Neil deGrasse Tyson contends that America’s golden age of space exploration in the 1960s fostered a culture of innovation that helped propel its leading edge economy. While the spinoff tech industries that NASA has directly or indirectly touched are impressive in their own right, Dr. Tyson believes the greatest value of space exploration lies in its capacity to inspire a nation to embrace science. This mindset drives an economic engine of innovation that creates high-skilled jobs as opposed to an economy that merely outsources cheap labor.
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Dr. Tyson has written ten books, including New York Times bestseller Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, and The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet, chronicling his experience at the center of the controversy over Pluto’s planetary status. The PBS/NOVA documentary “The Pluto Files”, based on the book, premiered in March 2010. His book Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, co-written with Donald Goldsmith, is the companion book to the PBS-NOVA 4-part mini-series Origins, in which Dr. Tyson served as on-camera host. Dr. Tyson is currently working on a 21st century reboot of Carl Sagan’s landmark television series COSMOS, to air in 13 episodes on the FOX network in 2013.

Lack of Winner Drives Mega Millions to Near Half a Billion Dollars

Four Hundred Seventy-Six Million to be Exact.
The winning numbers for the $356 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot, the third-largest prize in the game's history, were 9, 19, 34, 44, 51 and Mega Ball 24, but they did not produce a winner, officials said.
The lack of winner on Tuesday night's drawing means the estimated jackpot will grow to an estimated $476 million for a drawing Friday, according to the offical Mega Millions website.

The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot were estimated at about 1 in 176 million, according to lottery officials.
The largest Mega Millions jackpot ever won was $390 million in March 2007, according to Mega Millions.
The winner is selected through five balls drawn from a set of balls numbered one through 56, and one ball is drawn from a set numbered one through 46.

Funny Words to Pronounce...

Funny Words to Pronounce...

My Dad's favorite word to say was 'texturize' he said it was like jazzercise for the tongue. Then he'd say that 'jazzercise' was also a funny word to say.
My favorite funny word is 'titillating' Yes, I know this post smacks of  a 'Beavis & Butthead' mentality, but what the hell...even a space geek like me should occasionally laugh at himself!
 We are all only human.
I know there are hundreds of words out there that are a little more challenging to pronounce or just tickle the funny bone. Here are some words that I consider those kind of words.
Alabaster
Alka-Seltzer
Any word with 'ass' in it ...as in asterisk, asteroid or assassin
Bombastic
Brazier
Cantankerous
Cunnilingus
Any word with 'cock' in it...as in peacock, cockle berry or cockeyed
Diabolic
Dandelion
Diarrhea
Any words with ‘dict’ in it like dictate, Dictaphone, or predict
Enigmatic
Escargot
Exacerbate
Function
Flambé
Epaulette
Googolplex
Guillotine
Hyperbolic
Jackalope
Klingon
Lackluster
Mnemonics
Nicaragua
Octopuses
Preposterous
Any word with 'puss' in it like Octopus, platypus or pussywillow
Quartz
Equine
Requiem
Rumple
Scraggly
Syrup
Any word with 'shit' in it like Lipshitz, Shih Tzu or Snakeshit
Testosterone
Any word with 'tit' in it like titillating (of course), titular or tit (there's a little bird called a 'tit')
Unguentine
Unilateral
Volvo
Voila
Whippoorwill
Wisterias
Xanadu
Xavier
Zingy
Zygote

What is your favorite funny word to say?

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

NASA’s $450 Million Messenger Probe Achieves Orbit Around Mercury

Messenger probe has achieved orbit around Mercury; a tricky feat never before attempted.
Mercury; the overheated, under appreciated runt of the solar system is finally getting some attention.
Now, after poring over 100,000 images and reams of other Messenger probe data, space scientists have achieved consensus: Mercury is one weird world.
It is radically unlike the other rocky bodies of our solar system — Venus, Mars, Earth, the moon, and the moons of other planets. Its core is too big; its surface too scrunched. It looks shriveled, like a liposuction patient left with too much skin. It contains too much iron. Its internal structure is confounding. Its magnetic field is out of whack, asymmetrical. And its surface is strange, a jagged, ragged landscape of soaring escarpments, snaking faults, half-buried “ghost craters,” dead volcanoes and mysterious pit-marked “hollows.”
Messenger probe orbiting Mercury
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Perpetualation: From the Poetry Page


Perpetualation

When I was young I played, I explored.
And never thought of my life in front of me.
Nothing went wrong, troubles ignored;
A youngster’s lack of strife, innocence can be.

Then I awoke a teen, confused; a man a boy.
Treated like a child, expectations of an adult.
Seeking love I was green, abused, every adolescent’s story.
Emotions slightly wild, longings hastened as a result.

Went straight from high school to military, then married.
My youth cut short, now eighteen and a father.
Oh, my child was so cool! My maturity harried.
Child and home is my resort, no hating, nor a bother.

Family and children we all grew, together, a single unit.
I worked and earned, we all consumed; daily we struggled.
Mostly happy then, passing through, still never wanting to quit.
Inner discontent lurked, not concerned. It’s forever, I assumed. My mind boggled.

Now living alone, support and visitation, experience adult pain.
Limbo in my life, anticipation, dreams of happy grandchildren.
My kids have grown, new happy expectation, I’ll be loved again.
Tied to my ex-wife, proliferation, beaming with her chagrin.

Silently, to myself and no to one else, I mantra;
“I am the one!
No matter that you like it,
Or dig it! Or can live with it!
Because…
I am the one that caused all this!”

Rogue Worlds Known as Hypervelocity Planets Cruise Cosmos at Nearly 50 Million Kilometers an Hour.

  Planets thrown free of thier parent star are among the fastest objects in outer space. They are numerous as well. It is thought that there are many more planets in the galaxy than there are stars falling short in numbers only to asteroids, comets, and primal dust&gasses. 
The search for the existence of hypervelocity planets began after the discovery of hypervelocity stars seven years ago.
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics say their findings indicate that hypervelocity planets do exist, and they are produced the same way as hypervelocity stars - a too-close encounter with the gravity of a galaxy’s central supermassive black hole.

artist's conception of hypervelosity planet zooming free through cosmos
While hypervelocity stars have been clocked moving at nearly 2.5 million kilometers per hour, even the slowest hypervelocity planet flies several times faster.  The study's co-authors say most hypervelocity planets streak through interstellar space at 11 to 16 million kilometers per hour, but ideal conditions can produce much higher speeds - up to 48 million kilometers per hour, or a small percentage of the speed of light.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Submarine Space Probe to Frozen Ocean Europa, Moon of Jupiter

Sending a submarine to the bottom of the ocean on Jupiter's icy moon Europa is the most exciting potential mission in planetary science. Europa's seafloor may well be capable of supporting life as we know it today.
This is the holy grail of planetary exploration right here!

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Cross section of Europa
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Europa in center

Tracing My Ancestry:11 Generations from Null, Workman, Cox to Graham

I am an American and for being so I was surprised that I could trace my ancestry all the way back to early 1700 Europe. America is a 'melting pot' of the old country, we are intermixed and intermingled by definition. Being able to trace my roots came easier than I thought because of the computer and the instant information age we live in. Here are eleven generations running through my mother and her mother's father and his father, and his father's father and so forth .
I will start with a pic of my grand daughter Rosie. 

2: Her mother Angie Cox/Graham

3: Me

My Mother
4: LuLu Workman/Cox/Sizemore
my father Carlos Cox

LuLu's mother&father
5:Grandmother Iva Null/Hicks/Workman
and Grandfather Gilbert Workman

Iva's mother
6: Great Grandmother Josephine (Beanie) Null

Beanie's father
7: My great-great grandfather was John H. Null born 1854 in Va.
John's father
8: My great-great-great grandfather was Henry Null born 1822 in Va.
Henry's father
9: My great-great-great-great grandfather was Phillip Null Jr. born 1790 in Va.
Phillip Jr.'s father
10: My great-great-great-great-great grandfather was my Honored ancestor Captain Phillip Null Sr. born 1752 in Va.
A Revolutionary soldier Capt. Null served under Geo.Washington and supposedly crossed the Delaware w/Washington and fought in the battle of Trenton.
Phillip Sr.'s father
11: My great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was John H. Null died 1765. He immigrated to the British colonies in America from Alsace-Loraine France.

Doomsday: 2012 Noah's Ark Spaceship Located in Pic de Bugarach Mountain

A unique stone mountain called Pic de Bugarach looms over a French commune with a population of just 200 . The mountian is being touted as a modern Noah's Ark.  A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village. When doomsday arrives – supposedly less than nine months from now these believers will be spared by alien intervention.They believe that when apocalypse strikes on 21 December this year, the aliens waiting in their spacecraft inside Pic de Bugarach will save all the humans near by and beam them off to the next age. According to them, extraterrestrials are quietly waiting in a massive cavity beneath the rock for the world to end, at which point they will leave, taking, it is hoped, a lucky few humans with them.
peaceful commune invaded buy doomsday criers
Historic village of Bugarach in the Aude and the Pic de Bugarach
 The 2012 apocalypse is believed to be the end of a certain world and the beginning of another. A new spiritual world. The year 2012 is the end of a cycle of suffering. Bugarach is one of the major chakras of the earth, a place devoted to welcoming the energies of tomorrow.
Upwards of 100,000 people are thought to be planning a trip to the mountain, 30 miles west of Perpignan, in time for 21 December, and opportunistic entrepreneurs are shamelessly cashing in on the phenomenon. While American travel agents have been offering special, one-way deals to witness the end of the world, a neighbouring village, Saint-Paul de Fenouillet, has produced a wine to celebrate the occasion.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Jazzy Music, Saxaphones, Sexy Vocals, I Love Me Some SADE!

I don't want to hold you up with a lot of praddle- click, kick back, and get ready to be moved by some of the best vocals in pop music.
This music is so smooth it can cure a headache
Click on video
Sweetest Taboo

Paradise

Is It a Crime

Your Love Is King

Hang On to Your Love

Keep Looking


Want to hear more Sade?

Private Space Company Based in Hawthorne, California Prepare to Launch Capsule to ISS on April 30

An unmanned capsule will be the first of a new fleet of commercial spacecraft being developed to deliver cargo to the station in the wake of the space shuttle retirement last year. The Dragon capsule will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
If SpaceX's April test flight goes smoothly, another Dragon capsule will make the first official cargo delivery run in August. 
In addition to the California company, NASA has awarded a contract to Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Va., under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) programme.
Orbital's Cygnus vehicle could make its first launch to the space station on Sept 1, with a docking on Sept 6th. 
The companies hope to eventually upgrade its capsules and rocket systems to carry people to orbit, including NASA crews to the space station.
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International Space Station

Friday, March 23, 2012

VISTA's Galactic Mosaic

On a crisp clear night the sky is magnificent with galactic star display. The Milky Way galaxy is a stunning band of star light dotted colors slashing across the black background of the universe.The galaxy we live in dominates the night. From our vantage point out here on one of the spiral arms we see most of the 50,000 light year wide swirling disk before us.
Here is a side on view of the Milky Way looking toward the spiral center.
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It is sometimes hard to believe that the universe is anything else but that turning wheel of 200 billion stars.
But now turn your gaze 180 degrees and look out of the galaxy into the depths of the expanding universe; one sees very little. Only a few stars that share the this spiral arm with our sun and a very few smudgy spots of light on the pitch black.
Well, if you had a strong enough telescope array and enough endurance like the ESO's VISTA telescope that is located at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile you would see this.
This is a panoramic photograph of our local galaxy clusters stretching billions of light years into the cosmos. There are more galaxies in this view than stars in the Milky Way galaxy, we just need extra sensitive equipment to capture it.

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This view shows some highlights from the widest deep view of the sky ever taken using infrared light. The observations were made using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.
CREDIT: ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU


NASA: "We Now Know How to Cause a Supernova" - Explosion Billions of Times Larger Than Nuclear Weapon

An exploding star known as a Type Ia supernova plays a vital role in our understanding of the universe. Now X-ray and ultraviolet data from NASA's Swift satellite are helping researchers understand more about them. NASA, for reasons that the agency has chosen not to share, is quite interested in just exactly what it takes to set off a Type Ia supernova. Officials at the US space agency say they have uncovered the secrets of the supernova. Scientists say new data from the Swift orbiting telescope have revealed exactly what leads to Type Ia supernovas.
Could this lead to a new and more powerful weapon?
Maybe not today, but in the future it could!
Should we be worried?
No.
The only problem is that humanity could only cause the explosion once, the collateral damage would wipe out the whole solar system including the Oort comet cloud!
So, I wouldn't miss sleep over this one. 
Remnants of  RCW 86 supernova
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Jupiter and Venus: Spring of 2012's Celestial Dance in Western Sky

Right after dark go outside on the patio and look just above the western horizon. See those two stars that seem out of place and a little brighter than most? Of those two, the brighter on the left is Venus and the smaller, dimmer point of light is Jupiter. They are lining up in the sky 450 million miles apart from each other. Notice that they do not sparkle as much as the fixed stars in the sky, this is one way to identify a planet against a star field. Venus is the smaller planet, but it is brighter because of its near proximity to Earth whereas Jupiter being 1300 times larger than Venus is 16 times further away from us. 
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Jupiter on Left and Venus on Right
In this photo from nearest to furthest away; stargazer, stratus clouds, Venus, Sun(setting under horizon), Jupiter, Galactic star field.

Video Goes Viral: Man Flies Like Bird...Real or Faked?

Watch this man fly using artificial bird wings. This looks so real at first I was amazed. But, the more I watch it the more I doubt it.Check it out and decide for yourself.
Man Flies Like Bird

OK, now that you've seen the video here is the scientific analysis of the video.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Hillary Clinton Announces Support for New $500,000 Search for Amelia Earhart

As we are all taught in elementary school the disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century. The public mind has always wondered about what did happen to this brave,talented, groundbreaking and record setting superstar of the early 1900's.
At an event in Washington to celebrate Earhart's legacy, Clinton and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood met with a group of scientists from  the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, which is launching a new search for the wreckage of Earhart's plane in June. Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937, during a flight from New Guinea to Howland Island in the South Pacific. Their plane never arrived. 
Secretary of State Clinton has announced the State Department's support for the new search to solve the mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart. Earhart's plane went missing over the the South Pacific nearly 75 years ago.

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Amelia Earhart was America's sweetheart. We have never really gotten over the loss of this wonderful lady that represented the 'coming of age' for women all over America.
Over 75 years of relentless public and private investigations has led to more clues and better equipent, making yet another search feasable and desirous.

 Here are more links to stories and pictures about the new search.



Tuesday, March 20, 2012

NASA: That is Not the 'Death Star' Refueling from the Sun...Then What Is It?

Is this more proof that there is a conspiracy to hide the truth about an alien presence in our solar system? 
Pictures of last week's 'Sunsflare' captures this strange orb 'anchored' above the visible surface of the sun in photos from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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Conspiracy theories claim mysterious planet-sized 'Death Star' has been captured on video as it 'refuels' at the surface of the sun.
What is it really? 
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NASA scientists say,"It's a solar 'prominence' or 'filament' - a feature extending out from the sun which forms over the course of a day, and can extend hundreds of thousands of miles into space.
Filaments appear to be dark because they're cooler in relation to what's in the background. When you look at it from the edge of the sun, what you see is this spherical object and you're actually looking down the tunnel.'

Price of Meteorites: Why Searching for Space Rocks has Become Popular

Are you interested in metal detecting for Meteorites?
Well, you're not alone; interest in this activity has risen over the years because of the increasing awareness of these space rocks. Due to public concern over asteroid strikes and the study of past strikes, craters and hammer falls. 
Today, space rocks are readily available from many different outlets and the quarterly Meteorite magazine caters to the space rock enthusiast, as does the monthly online publication Meteorite Times and the Meteorite Mailing List.

Curious as to how much you'll pay for a small sample?

Meteorite prices vary from one source to another but the numbers quoted here are typical of retail values in today’s marketplace. Unclassified stone chondrites picked up by nomads wandering in the Sahara Deserts are readily available for about $0.50/gram. Attractive stones from the Gao-Guenie witnessed fall (Burkina Faso, Africa, March 5, 1960) can be purchased for about $1.50/gram and a top quality one-kilogram specimen of the Campo del Cielo iron meteorite from Chaco Province, Argentina can be yours for about $400.
 Pallasites are stony-iron meteorites packed with olivine (the gemstone peridot) and are particularly desirable when cut and polished because of the alluring color and translucency of the crystals they contain. Prepared slices of stable pallasites such as Imilac (Chile), Glorieta Mountain (New Mexico, USA) and Esquel (Argentina) are prized for their colorful gemstones and long-term stability, and will fetch between $20 and $40/gram. Meteorites are heavy, so a quality slice the size of a small dinner plate is worth thousands of dollars.

And on the high end of the scale:
  Unusual types such as the diogenite Tatahouine (fell June 27, 1931, Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia). A prime specimen will easily fetch $50/gram while rare examples of lunar and Martian meteorites may sell for $1,000/gram or more — almost forty times the current price of gold!

So that's why the interest! It all comes down to remunerativeness.
The average cost of a metal detecter is $155.00
Metal detecting forum.

Story here on 'Meteorwritings' by
Geoffrey Nodkin, One of the Meteorite Men on Science Channel
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By the way; here are a few prices(as of this posting) of things we humans consider extremely valuable.
Gold-1,651.33 an ounce
Rhodium-1,442.00 an ounce
Platinum-1,187.00 an ounce
Iridium-420.00 an ounce
Osmium-380.00 an ounce
Palladium-263.00 an ounce
Rhenium-75.00 an ounce
Silver-32.36 an ounce
Indium-15.00 an ounce





Monday, March 19, 2012

Space: The Private Industry- First Space Porn Movie? "No Way!" Says Virgin Galactic

Here are three suprising stories about the privatization of the space industry. I wish I was young and just starting college; I would be directing my goals toward leaving the planet! Could there be a more daring and exciting goal to set for one's future?

Here is the story about the first private shuttle to the International Space Station.
Spacex and NASA set space station launch
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There are hundreds of private citizens that have purchased tickets and plan on taking a 'space tour'.
Ashton Kutcher to be 500th customer to go to space
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The adult entertainment industry has expressed interest. Virgin Galactic says it turned down a $1 million proposal for a “sex-in-space” movie.
Hundreds line up for rides on first commercial space fight 
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Top Five You Tube Viral Videos of All Time


Number One:
 Seen more than 170 million times since its posting in May 2007, "Charlie Bit My Finger" was never meant to be anything more than a family flick. But the Internet's hive mind saw something it liked and catapulted the clip, which depicts a laughing British baby gnawing on the finger of his crying brother, past "Evolution of Dance" as YouTube's views champ by the fall of 2009.


Number Two:
Inspirational comedian Jud Laipply does it all in this 6-min. dance sequence. Moving seamlessly between eras, Laipply has been viewed more than 138 million times for a reason — his video triggers nostalgia in the happiest of ways. We can all remember, begrudgingly or not, mimicking Vanilla Ice or the cast of Grease at one time or another, though maybe not with Laipply's infectious enthusiasm.

Number Three:
More than 57 million people have seen 7-year-old David DeVore's backseat trip from the dentist's office after oral surgery. The medication seems to have left David in a higher state of consciousness: he spouts lines like "You have four eyes" and "Is this gonna be forever?"
After The Dentist


Number Four:
"Here It Goes Again" — perhaps better known as "that treadmill video" — grew big enough to even get acknowledgement from the Grammys. The band took home the trophy for Best Short-Form Music Video in 2007 for the clip, which featured an elaborately choreographed routine performed on moving treadmills (a dance that, perhaps equally impressively, was shot in a single take).
 Here It Goes Again


Number Five:
The trick goes like this: you are sent an e-mail or instant message with a link to something seemingly cool. But when you click, all you get is singer Rick Astley's 1987 video for "Never Gonna Give You Up." Huh? The bait and switch originated on the online forum 4Chan, when a user promised a video-game trailer and instead led readers to Astley's '80s-tastic track. The trick, dubbed Rickrolling, spread like wildfire in 2008; Astley, clearly in on the joke, even performed his signature song during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade that year.