Thanx, grandpa! :-)
The debate is finally over. Lunar scientists have detected water for certain near the north pole of the Moon, after the impact of a NASA projectile kicked up water vapour along with a plume of dust. But it's not just about the water, say the scientists, who found hints in the plume of other, more exotic molecules, ranging from organic hydrocarbons to mercury. Increasingly, the scientists are viewing the polar craters as the 'attics' of the Solar System, repositories for billions of years of history.
Strike one planet from the list of 400-odd found around stars in other solar systems: a proposed planet near a star some 6 parsecs from Earth may not exist after all.The finding is also a strike against a planet-seeking strategy called astrometry, which measures the side-to-side motion of a star on the sky to see whether any unseen bodies might be orbiting it. Ground-based astrometry has been used for more than a century, but none of the extrasolar planets it has detected has been verified in subsequent studies.
There are very few newspapers and news agencies which has online websites as good as one of New York Times. Reuters did pretty good job. It is truly international news agency. Find the site tour here
The WEF, despite its official sounding name, is really a Swiss NGO started and run by Klaus Schwab, a former business management professor at a small time college who managed to parlay an official sounding name and some plain old huckstering into a global movement propagating a free wheeling capitalism and by fostering boundless optimism on the ability of private sector managers to solve the world's problems.
Start an organization in Switzerland and way it becomes an international entity!?
Great stuff! I hope that next iPhone has a flexible camera
An astrophysicist looking at cool stars...
