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The Environment

Diving for Ancient History, Scientists Discover New Species

By Posted on 2.23.2009 12 Comments
Until last December, no one had ever seen the bottom of the Tasman Fracture, a trench that drops more than four kilometers below the surface of the ocean. A group of Australian and American researchers recently spent a month hundreds of kilometers southwest of the Tasmanian coast, exploring the fracture's depths. Jess Adkins, a professor at Caltech and one of the project's lead scientists, remembers sitting in his control room and watching the underwater life on his monitors with a sense of awe.

4.26.2009 at 01:52pm - Comment by savetheanimals

Earth needs to be explored. I'm for exploring other planets, but i think we need to spend less on other planets and more on the one we are on right now. We are living on THIS planet, not Mars or the moon. This is the place we are spolsed to be, we know of no other planet like Earth. Right now it is raining here, it is so beautifull! But no one knows all about a storm, something that has been going on since the beginning, and now one knows!!!! So much can be learned on this planet, most everything here is not on any other planet we know of!! This planet is special, like no other. But that is not even the point. The main question, i think, is WHY should we spend more time studying the Earth then another planet. And i think that the answer, is to long to post here. There are, really, no limit of answers. Better medicin, better living for everyone, help save more lives, understand and help the animals better...and so on. But that is not really what is going to decide what we should be doing. What we have to do, is decide wether the reasons we want to explore the Earth, and the reasons we want to explore other planets, which ones are better. But that debate could go on forever. So there is not much we can do but for the people to try harder to get more reaserch done on Earth. The one and only special planet.
The Environment

Diving for Ancient History, Scientists Discover New Species

By Posted on 2.23.2009 12 Comments
Until last December, no one had ever seen the bottom of the Tasman Fracture, a trench that drops more than four kilometers below the surface of the ocean. A group of Australian and American researchers recently spent a month hundreds of kilometers southwest of the Tasmanian coast, exploring the fracture's depths. Jess Adkins, a professor at Caltech and one of the project's lead scientists, remembers sitting in his control room and watching the underwater life on his monitors with a sense of awe.

2.27.2009 at 02:49pm - Comment by savetheanimals

The ocean. The most beautiful place in the universe. Ok, i know that mars is AWSOME! And i agree. But i think we need to be spending more time on earth. The more time we DON'T study earth, the worse it's getting. Remember the indians, they get everything from good old earth. The Ancient Egyptians, they were the best doctors in the world at that time, and they, too, got everything from nature. I know, i know, "we have all of the technology, we don't need everything from plants." But we got all that we have now from plants and animals. And we still use extracts from plants for medicine. And it keeps getting proved, plants are better at almost everything; keeping you healthy, making you look younger, and so on. Now, what is this all leading up too? Think of all that we could find, and all that we could find out, just by looking into the ocean! The ocean, it covers 70% of the world we live on (sorry, earth not mars), and yet we know more about some planet, that we can't figure out wether there was water on it or not, then we do about the ocean! I guess you can tell what my vote is for.
The Environment

Green Gadgets? Not So Much

By Catherine Schwanke Posted on 2.25.2009 5 Comments
Bad news, tech lovers. IT is not so eco-friendly. According to University of Calgary researcher Richard Hawkins, digital technologies are not reducing our environmental footprint, but may in fact be turning us all into polluters. "It was once assumed that there was little or no material dimension to information technology, thus, it should be clean with minimal environmental impact," says Hawkins. "However, we are finding that reality is much more complicated."

2.27.2009 at 02:09pm - Comment by savetheanimals

This is a good argument. Does it, or does it not? I think that in some ways it does, and in some ways it doesn't. I think that you might be right fuji, maybe we do go around more because we know we won't miss anything. But what is really bad on the environment is all of the car engines, all of the factories, and all of that kind of stuff. If we want to be better on the environment, and we do, then we need to cut down on that kind of stuff. (I know that people are working on that). Are we worrying about the all the cell phones when we should be worring more about the factories? I'd love to hear your opinion.
Technology

Wingman

By Eric Hagerman Posted on 1.14.2009 29 Comments
The warm autumn sun has burned a hole in the morning haze and opened up the sky above the South Foreland Lighthouse, a historic beacon along the White Cliffs of Dover, England. It marks the narrowest point of the English Channel. You can't quite make out where the sea meets the coast of France, a tantalizing 22 miles distant, but a little surface gauze won't interfere with what's coming across the Channel today.

2.27.2009 at 01:42pm - Comment by savetheanimals

cowboy82 We need things like this to be made before we can have the same principle used in better products. It starts here, it ends when people run out of imagination. I don't want to seem like i'm attacking you. I just wanted to put that in the picture.
Technology

Wingman

By Eric Hagerman Posted on 1.14.2009 29 Comments
The warm autumn sun has burned a hole in the morning haze and opened up the sky above the South Foreland Lighthouse, a historic beacon along the White Cliffs of Dover, England. It marks the narrowest point of the English Channel. You can't quite make out where the sea meets the coast of France, a tantalizing 22 miles distant, but a little surface gauze won't interfere with what's coming across the Channel today.

2.12.2009 at 05:07pm - Comment by savetheanimals

This is a very cool machine!! I would love to have one, after they fix the problems. If you look at history, most of everything that has changed the world was made by people, not government own buisnesses. So, :) why NASA would have 100 people working on it and it still take them 30 years to get it ALMOST right is because it's a government project! :)
Cars

Zero to 1,000 in 40 Seconds

By Mike Spinelli Posted on 10.23.2008 13 Comments
Back in 1997, RAF wing commander Andy Green proved breaking the sound barrier on land wouldn't destroy the universe. Now, a successor to the ThrustSSC, the jet car Green piloted a decade ago on Nevada's Black Rock Desert, is in the works. Target: 1,000 mph.

10.23.2008 at 02:15pm - Comment by savetheanimals

That would be sooo cool!! As for your question akrembug, i don't know. But you might get some ideas if you go to wikipedia. Look up car, and rocket. Hope this somewhat helps.
The Environment

Wolf Hunts Already

By Posted on 4.9.2008 20 Comments
Ranchers and conservationists have long been at odds over how to manage the populations of predators at the top of the food chain. Now that wolves have been recently delisted from the Federal Endangered Species Act, state governments in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming are wasting no time organizing hunts to reduce the animals' numbers, citing increased attacks on cattle as the reason for the culls. Conservationists are planning to respond with lawsuits against the federal government to attempt to bring the wolves back on the endangered list.

9.20.2008 at 04:54pm - Comment by savetheanimals

I like to hunt Deer, Turkey, mainly what we eat and that are not going to be endangered anytime soon (wish none of them where.) Not getting stalked would def help. lol. What i've found is that if there is wild game for them to hunt they pretty much leave people alone.
The Environment

Wolf Hunts Already

By Posted on 4.9.2008 20 Comments
Ranchers and conservationists have long been at odds over how to manage the populations of predators at the top of the food chain. Now that wolves have been recently delisted from the Federal Endangered Species Act, state governments in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming are wasting no time organizing hunts to reduce the animals' numbers, citing increased attacks on cattle as the reason for the culls. Conservationists are planning to respond with lawsuits against the federal government to attempt to bring the wolves back on the endangered list.

7.16.2008 at 03:48pm - Comment by savetheanimals

i love animals just as much as anyone else here. and i've spent my fair share of time with animals. and i've got a question, why do we hunt animals like wolves? who eats a wolf? we just hang their head up on the wall so we can say "See that wolf, i spent a week tracking it down and i shot it at one hundred yards!" why? i think that we can live too, just live with the animals!!! i belive we can hunt animals without killing all of them! i like to hunt! i like to put my wits against theirs. i think we can live with animals, remember, we're going into their home, not the other way!!!
The Environment

Drop the Rifle and Pick up the Bear Spray

By Posted on 3.26.2008 7 Comments
Brigham Young University bear biologist Thomas Smith says that guns aren't necessarily your best option when facing down one of the beasts. Smith and his team analyzed 20 years worth of incidents in Alaska, and found that the wilderness equivalent of pepper spray effectively deterred bears 92 percent of the time, whereas guns only did the trick one-third less often. (He studied polar bears, too, hence the picture, at left, of an unconscious mother and her cubs. And yes, he did get away before everyone woke up.)

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7.13.2008 at 11:16am - Comment by savetheanimals

i agree that bear spray is better then nothing! i'm not saying it's not, i know of a few people who are still alive because of bear spray. it works! i'd just rather have a good gun with me in bear country. i bring bear spray with me too. it's a good idea. i'd rather get the bear off me then kill it anyway. but i will have a gun with me most of the time in bear country.
The Environment

Wave Powered Boat Crosses Pacific Successfully

By Posted on 7.8.2008 5 Comments
It was all smooth sailing for seafaring extremist Ken-ichi Horie. That wasn’t exactly what he was hoping for when he set sail for Japan from Hawaii in the world’s most sophisticated wave-powered boat, named the Suntory Mermaid II.

7.13.2008 at 10:59am - Comment by savetheanimals

i love that we're finding ways to get around without hurting everything, but i think that he could've made it there sooner if he had used sails. and i think that we should use solar panels to get energy. there's alot of ways to power stuff without hurting eveything and everybody. and it would be cheaper too! now i kmow that sounds good to eveyone!!!