NASA scientists for the first time have calculated that the Red Planet held more water than the Arctic Ocean. Using powerful telescopes to measure signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere, they estimated that in its youth, the planet would have probably had an ocean more than a mile deep covering almost half of its northern hemisphere.
Based on their calculations, the scientists estimate that Mars has lost 87 percent of its ancient ocean to space and that the remaining 13 percent is likely stored in the polar ice caps.
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Finally, a study which may lay to rest some of the lingering fallacies about penis size and alleviate the woes shared by many men worldwide. According to new research, the average erect penis length is just over 13 centimeters, or around 5 inches. Furthermore, there’s no strong association between foot size and penis length, so women can stop judging men by the size of their shoes. You can read the entire study in BJU International.
The average flaccid penis was found to be 9.16 cm (3.61 inches) long, whereas the average erect penis is 13.12 cm (5.16 inches) in length. In terms of girth, the average circumference of a flaccid penis turned out to be 9.31 cm (3.66 inches), and 11.66 cm (4.59 inches) for an erect one. Furthermore, those at extreme ends of the spectrum were found to be much less common. For example, only 5 men out of every 100 have an erect penis longer than 16 cm (6.3 inches).
For years, drug makers have feared the onslaught of competition from “biosimilars,” the generic version of drugs that are made by living organisms. That moment came last week when the FDA approved Novartis’s Zarxio, a near copy of Amgen’s blood cancer drug Neupogen and the first biosimilar in the US.
Opens the door for biological replacements for the traditional chemical pharmaceuticals at a much cheaper cost, and with only short patent life in the US. Potential for massive savings in healthcare, and only possible through Obamacare, which eliminated the legal blockade against them.
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That would make all the stuff in the ground up north pretty much worthless.
Free energy would likely put the world into the largest recession ever recorded. Every single person that works in any energy related field would be out of a job. Not just Oil but everything, every step of the way.
It would have to be implemented very slowly.
The switching costs from a hydrocarbon economy to a fusion economy will be massive. Someone needs to build all those reactors, vehicle recharging stations, replace the world's entire fleet of hydrocarbon-based transportation. In other words it's a huge opportunity that will generate a large amount of economic activity. But you're right, those benefits will be at the expense of economies that depend on oil.
The switching costs from a hydrocarbon economy to a fusion economy will be massive. Someone needs to build all those reactors, vehicle recharging stations, replace the world's entire fleet of hydrocarbon-based transportation. In other words it's a huge opportunity that will generate a large amount of economic activity. But you're right, those benefits will be at the expense of economies that depend on oil.
Fusion would be great and likely will but it's hard to build all those reactors when there isn't a viable fusion system even on a small scale at this time. It's only been in the last year or so where any experiments have shown a net increase in energy (and I think it is only one group in a US national lab who used lasers....in a multi-billion dollar facility). And it hasn't been much. And that is only a start. To actually make the fuel and what not is not trivial. Fusion has a long, long ways to go.
There is ITER but if you talk to people involved in that project on an honest one-to-one level you'll get the impression that the very real chance exists that it will be a colossal failure and embarrassment to the community. Well fail even harder than it has so far. It is perhaps the worst fusion system to go forward with in the first place and the billions on billions of dollars that is likely to be wasted (continue to be wasted) is going to have a serious back lash.
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There will be "strong indications" of alien life within a decade and "definite evidence" of it within 20 to 30 years, NASA's chief scientist has said.
"We know where to look. We know how to look," Ellen Stofan said during a panel discussion Tuesday on NASA's search for alien life and habitable worlds. "In most cases, we have the technology, and we're on a path to implementing it."
But she was quick to add: "We are not talking about little green men. We are talking about little microbes."
There will be "strong indications" of alien life within a decade and "definite evidence" of it within 20 to 30 years, NASA's chief scientist has said.
"We know where to look. We know how to look," Ellen Stofan said during a panel discussion Tuesday on NASA's search for alien life and habitable worlds. "In most cases, we have the technology, and we're on a path to implementing it."
But she was quick to add: "We are not talking about little green men. We are talking about little microbes."
I think far less than 20-30 years, Nasa now estimates 40 "billion"(billion is a lot by the way) earth like planets in our Milky way galaxy alone, when the James Webb is launched in a few years with a ability to actually read spectrums of light from an exoplanet... It may just find life faster than we could ever imagine.
