Apollo 11 Saturn Booster Rockets to be Salvaged from Bottom of Atlantic



It’s been over 40 years since man first walked on the moon thanks to the brave astronauts of Apollo 11.  Now, an important artifact of the race for space has been discovered some 14,000 feet below the surface of the earth.  Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is planning to find and recover the F-1 rocket engines that powered Apollo 11′s Saturn V rocket into space, with the hopes that the Apollo 11 equipment will find a good home in a museum.

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“We don’t know yet what condition these engines might be in,” wrote Bezos, who watched the moon landing when he was 5 years old.  ”They hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more than 40 years.  On the other hand, they’re made of tough stuff, so we’ll see.”

Bezos has stayed quiet about just how he found the Apollo 11 rocket booster parts, and he’s doubly quiet about who will be paying to bring the 19-foot rocket parts to the surface, only saying that private funds (probably his own private funds) will be bringing them to the surface and that he will be using sonar to find the pieces he’s looking for among the hundreds of NASA artifacts littering the ocean floor near Florida.  The equipment is technically NASA property, but odds are NASA will allow the pieces to go to a museum rather than force Bezos to turn them over to Cape Canaveral staff.

'Long Island Medium' renewed: Is Theresa Caputo Real or Fake?

For those who haven’t seen the series, Theresa Caputo is a vivacious personality who says she’s connecting clients and everyday folks she runs into with the spirits of their deceased relatives.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly she said, "I’ve seen spirits since the age of four. I thought it was normal until I hit my teenage years and sharing things with my friends and they said ‘that’s not normal.’ In my family it was normal, but to my friends it wasn’t."
"When I was younger I used to actually see images and hear things. As I got older and shut down, it had changed. Because it was frightening to see people standing there who actually weren’t there. So now it’s just like knowing it, it’s like second nature."
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 I would say to skeptics, just have the experience. I had somebody say on my Twitter account, ‘You’re so full of blah blah.’ I said, ‘That’s great, I value your opinion, but why don’t we do a reading on air and then see what you think before you start passing judgement.’

The Goldilocks Zone: The Search for Earth Like Planets

 When looking at the cosmos astronomers are not only discovering multitudes of gas giants winking out their parent stars, they have also discovered many extradinary solar systems from the extremely exotic to simple and small.Recent finds include planets with double suns, massive "super-Earths" and "hot Jupiters," and a miniature solar system.As the numbers mount, it seems to be just a matter of time before Kepler finds what astronomers are really looking for: an Earth-like planet orbiting its star in the "Goldilocks zone" – that is, at just the right distance for liquid water and life.

This would be the jackpot in the search for extra terrestrial life.

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Kepler has already located a few Earth-sized planets, but they are too close for comfort to their parent stars. These recent finds have heightened the sense that a big discovery is just around the corner.

But finding a Goldilocks planet is just the first step. Getting to know it is much more difficult.

The problem is that, in the cosmic scheme of things, Earth-sized planets are relatively small, and the ones Kepler is finding are staggeringly far away. Most are hundreds, or even thousands, of light years away from Earth. Almost completely hidden by the glare of their parent stars, these distant pinpricks are very difficult to study.

One new mission under consideration by NASA, named FINESSE, is a fingerprint specialist. Short for "Fast INfrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer," FINESSE would measure the spectra of stars and their planets in two situations: once when the planet is in view, and again when the planet is hiding out behind its star. In this way, FINESSE can separate the planet's dim light from the stellar glare and reveal the composition of the planet's atmosphere.

Bald and Beautiful Barbie Doll for the Childhood Cancer Patient

When a young cancer patient lost her hair, she told her parents that she did not feel like a princess anymore. The parent of another child, who had cancer and was being treated at the same hospital asked her close friend, who just so happened to be the CEO of Mattel, to make a one-off doll for the little girl.

Her plight inspired a Facebook campaign called "Beautiful and Bald Barbie! Let's see if we can get it made." Well it looks like her prayers have been answered. After receiving more than 150,000 "likes" in less than four months, Mattel announced that it will create the bald dolls.

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The bald Barbie dolls will not be sold in stores, because Mattel says it does not want to profit from them. Instead, the dolls will be distributed throughout the U.S. and Canada to hospitals treating children for cancer. The Barbies will be outfitted with hats, scarves, and wigs that can be interchanged for different looks.