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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 161826 04-11-2013 08:25 PM

Scientists are often paid liars like doctors and lawyers, including Einstein who never invented anything. Newton's laws on planetary movements and gravity are observed fact set aside to promote the Jesuit's big bangism nonsense thru Einstein relativity theories.

Big Problems with the Big Bang Theory
with Dr. Jason Lisle
http://youtu.be/gs_PXxBAnsM
http://youtu.be/_Rh4NkGKTBk
http://youtu.be/614p6H7evpY
http://youtu.be/g73iuRlfl8E

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LoP Guest Wrote:

Scientists are often paid liars like doctors and lawyers, including Einstein who never invented anything. Newton's laws on planetary movements and gravity are observed fact set aside to promote the Jesuit's big bangism nonsense thru Einstein relativity theories.

Big Problems with the Big Bang Theory
with Dr. Jason Lisle
http://youtu.be/gs_PXxBAnsM
http://youtu.be/_Rh4NkGKTBk
http://youtu.be/614p6H7evpY
http://youtu.be/g73iuRlfl8E

Yet another creationist with crackpot theories:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jason_Lisle

**•REC** · (This post was last modified: 04-12-2013 12:58 PM by •REC.)

Ape-like fossils show hints of human ancestry

The two-million-year-old remains of a novel hominin discovered in August 2008 are an odd blend of features seen both in early humans and in the australopithecines presumed to have preceded them. A battery of six studies published today in Science scrutinizes the fossils of Australopithecus sediba from head to heel and yields unprecedented insight into how the creature walked, chewed and moved. Together, the studies suggest that this hominin was close to the family tree of early humans — although it remains controversial whether it was one of our direct ancestors.

For instance, whereas the creature’s arms are ape-like, its hands and wrists are remarkably like those of humans. And although the hominin’s pelvis is shaped like a modern human's, its torso included a narrow upper rib cage like those found in apes.

One of the six studies focused on Au. sediba’s teeth1, comparing 22 different aspects across hundreds of teeth from several other species of australopithecines and thousands of early human teeth. Tooth similarities among the species are more likely to signify common ancestry than independent evolution towards a beneficial design.

One of the most telling analyses in the set of studies relates to Au. sediba’s legs, and how the creature might have walked2. For biomechanical models to adequately reconstruct a creature’s stride and gait, researchers need to provide anatomical data about five body parts: the heel, ankle, knee, hip and lower back, says Jeremy DeSilva, a functional morphologist at Boston University in Massachusetts. “With Au. sediba, we have all five, and the anatomy is flat-out different from what we see in other australopithecines,” he notes

His team’s models show that Au. sediba would have walked very differently than modern humans.

Au. sediba’s mode of walking was probably a compromise, enabling it to shamble across grasslands from one patch of woodland to another and then clamber around within trees once it reached the forest.

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http://www.nature.com/news/ape-like-foss...ry-1.12788

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 04-14-2013 04:34 PM **Posts: 20,468**

NASA plans to capture an asteroid and set it into orbit around the moon

NASA wants to identify an asteroid in deep space, figure out a way to capture the spinning and hard-to-grab orb, nudge it into our planetary region, and then set it into orbit around the moon, the agency announced Wednesday.

The capture would be performed robotically, and the relocated asteroid would become a destination for astronauts to explore—and, possibly, for space entrepreneurs to mine.

Planning for the effort has just begun, and Bolden said teams will meet over the summer to work out how to select the right asteroid, how to get a spacecraft to it, and how to tow it many millions of miles to our moon.

As envisioned in a new NASA video (below), the asteroid would be caught and then surrounded by a large, flexible covering that will be towed by a spacecraft with two large solar arrays.

In a presentation, NASA associate administrator Robert Lightfoot laid out the agency's timeline for the mission: target selection in 2016, asteroid capture in 2019, and the first astronaut visits to the relocated rock in 2021.

As explained by Paul Dimotakis, one of the Keck scientists who worked on the project, the physics of the endeavor requires NASA to target a relatively small asteroid of 500 to 1,000 tons.

Finding the right asteroid to capture will not be easy, Dimotakis said. Because of the limited size and nudging or towing power of the capsule that will be sent to the asteroid, the rock itself cannot be more than 1,000 tons.

What's more, it needs to be on a trajectory that would take it close to the Earth and moon even without a tow. The capture spacecraft, Dimotakis said, would not have enough power and fuel to dramatically change the direction of an asteroid of 500 to 1,000 tons.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...gn=Content

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This amazing animation shows NASA's plans to capture an asteroid and move it into the moon's orbit.

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 166392 04-30-2013 12:39 PM **Posts: 20,468**

Frozen in time, cracks reveal earthquake history

Northern Chile's Atacama Desert is an earthquake scientist's dream – the hyper-arid plain keeps a visible record of cracks caused by a million year's worth of earthquakes.

Using GPS data and analysis of surface cracks frozen in time, Cornell researchers have created a million-year record of several thousand "great" earthquakes – magnitude 8 or more – that have occurred in northern Chile, one of the world's most earthquake-prone places.

Using GPS data and analysis of surface cracks frozen in time, Cornell researchers have created a million-year record of several thousand "great" earthquakes – magnitude 8 or more – that have occurred in northern Chile, one of the world's most earthquake-prone places.

Their work has not only defined the size of the area's average rupture, but also has shown that widely used earthquake modeling may not account for when the crust sometimes deforms permanently, rather than snapping back to its original position.

Typical earthquake modeling follows the elastic rebound theory, which assumes that energy accumulates in the rocks on either sides of a fault line via slow deformation, and an earthquake is the result of a sudden "rebound" – like a stress ball suddenly springing to its normal shape after years of slow squeeze. The rebound theory contends that the earth soon locks back to that original squeezed shape, until it slips again.

The Cornell researchers have concluded that up to 10 percent of the surface of South America that overlies the subduction zone, which is responsible for the great earthquakes and runs along the western coast of the continent through much of Chile, has actually deformed permanently due to earthquakes. If that's the case in other places too, elastic rebound theory-based earthquake modeling might be too simple, Allmendinger said.

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-frozen-reve...y.html#jCp