NASA | Satellite Tracks Saharan Dust to Amazon in 3-D

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 24 Φεβ 2015

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For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rainforest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish.

The new dust transport estimates were derived from data collected by a lidar instrument on NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation, or CALIPSO, satellite from 2007 though 2013.

An average of 27.7 million tons of dust per year – enough to fill 104,980 semi trucks – fall to the surface over the Amazon basin. The phosphorus portion, an estimated 22,000 tons per year, is about the same amount as that lost from rain and flooding. The finding is part of a bigger research effort to understand the role of dust and aerosols in the environment and on local and global climate.

Defending Fighter Jets From Electro-Magnetic Interference

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 24 Φεβ 2015

Catalyst: Aircraft Electromagnetic Interference – In extreme cases, bombs and other weapons could be unintentionally discharged due to electromagnetic interference.

Weird, Tiny Comet Survives Solar 'Death Dive', Brightens | Video

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 24 Φεβ 2015

"Unofficial orbit solution puts this comet at ~4 solar radii on Feb. 19th (2015). That's insanely close," according to the Naval Research Lab's Karl Battam. Comets of this size seldom survive such a close encounter. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) discovered this object. -- Revisit Comet ISON's Death Dive - Video: http://goo.gl/rgpmrY

70 hurt in gas explosion in Honduras

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 24 Φεβ 2015

At least 70 people have been injured after a gas cylinder exploded in a busy marketplace in Honduras. . Report by Sarah Kerr.

Bolivia floods force hundreds to evacuate

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Hundreds of families are evacuated from towns in northern Bolivia as flooding affects the region. Report by Andrea Lilly

WATCH: Islamic State releases a new video of Kurds in cages moments before their murder

Any day, another savage Islamic video. (Video thanks to American Infidel)

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Before interviewing six of the prisoners, a Kurdish Islamic State fighter told Kurdish Muslims that the Islamic State does not seek to harm them, but only the “disbelieving secularists” among the Kurds. Non-practicing Muslims would be slaughtered. Tell us again, Mr. President, how this war is not Islamic.

“This is a message is to the Kurdish Muslim people. We say to you that our war is not against you but it is against the disbelieving secularists from among the Kurds, because they drive you to the fire with disbelief and atheism.”

According to the tenets of Islam, pure Islam, a non-practicing Muslim, a secular Muslim is an apostate punishable by death. This is authentic Islam. The President’s denial of reality will only further serve the enemy’s goals to expand and conquer.

“Islamic State releases a new video from Kirkuk parading Peshmerga forces in cages,” The Telegraph, February 22, 2015
The video appears to show caged Kurdish fighters interviewed in the moments before their deaths

Tcaptives, in orange jumpsuits with their heads lowered, are led to cages in a square surrounded by concrete walls and masked IS fighters carrying pistols

Islamic State militants have released a new video which appears to show caged Kurdish fighters being interviewed in the moments before their deaths.

With a microphone pushed through the bars of their cage, each man quietly repeats talking points about the righteousness of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (Isil) brutal campaign through the Middle East and North Africa.

At one point, the nine-minute propaganda film shows more than a dozen prisoners being paraded through crowded streets of northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk, with black-clad militants hanging to the cages and pumping their fists.

The video purports to show captured Kurdish peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages

SITE reports:

The Kirkuk provincial division of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq released a video of parading 21 Kurdish Peshmerga elements in cages through streets, and interviewing some of them, where they warn their colleagues to stop fighting the IS. The 9 minute, 18 second video, entitled, “And Heal the Breasts of a Believing People,” was distributed on Twitter on February 21, 2015. The title is similar to that given to the production in which the IS burned alive Jordanian pilot Mu’adh al-Kasasibah. The al-Malhama Brigade, a pro-Islamic State (IS) jihadi media group, had distributed on February 13 a video containing similar scenes of the parading of caged Peshmerga, but recorded from a different angle. The IS video does not show the execution of the men, but during the scene in which fighters stand behind each captive, the screen flashes and shows the beheading of the 21 Egyptian Christians by an IS division in Libya.

Before interviewing six of the captives, a Kurdish IS fighter told Kurdish Muslims that the group does not seek to harm them, but the “disbelieving secularists” among the Kurds. He stated: “This is a message is to the Kurdish Muslim people. We say to you that our war is not against you but it is against the disbelieving secularists from among the Kurds, because they drive you to the fire with disbelief and atheism. We want to extract you from worshiping the worshipers to worshiping the Lord of the worshipers. From here, we say to you, O Peshmerga, leave your work, otherwise your destiny will be same as those: either in the cage or under the ground.”

Kepler-186 f podría ser habitable / Kepler-186f an alien habitable exopl...

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 22 Φεβ 2015

Kepler-186f es un exoplaneta que orbita una estrella enana roja.
Se encuentra a 490 años luz de la Tierra y es el primer planeta del tamaño de la Tierra que ha sido descubierto en la zona habitable de una estrella.
El observatorio espacial Kepler de la NASA lo detectó usando el método de tránsito, junto con cuatro planetas adicionales que orbitan la estrella mucho más cerca.
¿Será habitable este exoplaneta? o más aún, si es habitable, ¿estará habitado?

Turkish troops pass smouldering Kobane to save shrine

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 22 Φεβ 2015

Hundreds of Turkish soldiers were sent into northern Syria to move an Ottoman tomb -- which was given to Turkey in 1921. Damascus says it was informed, but did not give its permission. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Istanbul.