I love this photo of Astronauts working on a piece of the International Space Station.  It’s almost out of a Science Fiction film.
Question of the Day…
What’s the Land Mass they are floating above in this photo?

  +  = SAFE
From Faux News: 
Solar Storm May Ground Aircraft, Overload Power Grids
The severe geomagnetic storm bombarding the Earth on Thursday was expected to disrupt radio, television and cell-phone communications worldwide and could force airlines to reroute passenger flights that normally fly over the North Pole.
Power-grid operators will have to make sure their systems do […]

From Space.COM:
Scientists Spot ‘Tsunami’ on the Sun
A major flare on the Sun earlier this week generated what scientists are calling a solar tsunami.
The tsunami-like shock wave, formally called a Moreton wave, rolled across the hot surface, destroying two visible filaments of cool gas on opposite sides of the visible face of the Sun.
Astronomers using a […]

 
From The U.S. Dept of Energy:
New World Record Achieved in Solar Cell Technology
New Solar Cell Breaks the “40 Percent Efficient” Sunlight-to-Electricity Barrier
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alexander Karsner today announced that with DOE funding, a concentrator solar cell produced by Boeing-Spectrolab has recently achieved […]

From Wired.COM: 
Say Hello to the Goodbye Weapon
The crowd is getting ugly. Soldiers roll up in a Hummer. Suddenly, the whole right half of your body is screaming in agony. You feel like you’ve been dipped in molten lava. You almost faint from shock and pain, but instead you stumble backwards — and then start running. […]

 
From CNN.COM: 
NASA wants permanent moon base
HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — NASA’s plans for returning people to the moon — an objective called for by President Bush in 2004 — includes establishing a permanent outpost that would be used to prepare for a manned trip to Mars.
The moon base would be at either the north or south […]

 
See! I knew it!  I knew I wasn’t 40 yet.  whewww.
From CNN.COM:
Americans: 60’s are the new middle age
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Cosmetic surgery is altering not just how people look but how they feel by changing perceptions of middle age, a new study shows.
Global research group AC Nielsen surveyed people in 42 countries and found […]

From Seattle PI: 
Going for a blast into the real past
If the experiment works, a signal could be received before it’s sent
If his experiment with splitting photons actually works, says University of Washington physicist John Cramer, the next step will be to test for quantum “retrocausality.”
That’s science talk for saying he hopes to find evidence of a […]

From THE BBC:
Westerners ‘are more promiscuous’
People in western countries tend to have more sexual partners than those in the developing world, a study says.
Monogamy is dominant across the world, but multiple partners are more common in rich countries, according to the study published in the Lancet.
This was despite developing countries having higher rates of sexually […]

From CNN.COM: 
Scientists teleport two different objects
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Beaming people in Star Trek fashion is still in the realms of science fiction but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality.
Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over […]

When I first started watching this, I thought it was some kind of joke, I figured there were two guys wearing some dorky costume.
But then, I realized this is real, and the chills started to come over me.
Only a matter of time until the world of I ROBOT Becomes a reality, for better or […]

From SFGATE.COM: 
Entrepreneur backs research on anti-aging
Scientist says humans could live indefinitely
A controversial scientist who hopes to help humans live for thousands of years has received a multimillion-dollar grant from a Bay Area entrepreneur.
Peter A. Thiel, co-founder and former chief executive officer of the online payments system PayPal, announced Saturday he is pledging $3.5 million “to […]

   
                Winner                                   Loser
From MSNBC.COM: 
Evolution’s foes lose ground in Kansas
Darwin’s defenders increase their strength on Board of Education
TOPEKA, Kan. - Conservative Republicans who approved classroom standards that called evolution into question lost control of the state Board of Education in Tuesday’s primary election.
Five of the 10 seats on the board were up for […]

It’s time for Goofyblogs First Official Poll.
For those who saw the Star Trek .vs. Star Wars thread awhile back, you may have noticed there was a lot of debate as to who the hottest woman in Science Fiction was, so, what better poll to start off with than…
GOOFYBLOG’S HOTTEST BABES IN SCIENCE FICTION POLL (TV […]