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Catch The Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower This Weekend

Terry Morgan — Sat, 04 May 2013 18:00:41 +0000

Get ready for a great spring meteor shower. The Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower promises 10 to 20 meteors an hour under ideal conditions. The Eta Aquarids run from May 4th through 6th, but peak in the pre dawn hours of the 5th. The Eta Aquarids aren’t considered one of the more spectacular showers, but if [...]

Catch The Lyrid Meteor Shower Tonight

Terry Morgan — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:46:55 +0000

With partly cloudy skies and an overnight low of 40, we could have a great night for meteor watching. The Lyrid Meteor Shower promises 10 to 20 meteors an hour with incredible surges of up to 100. The Lyrids runs from April 16th through the 25th this year, but peaks tonight. Lyrid meteors, April’s shooting [...]

Stephen Hawking Says Mankind Can't Survive on Earth More Than Another 1,000 Years

Wes Glinsmann — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:00:23 +0000

Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says the human race is doomed, unless we figure out how to leave Earth behind in the next 1,000 years. “We must continue to go into space for humanity,” Hawking said, during a recent speech at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “If you understand how the universe operates, you control it [...]

Voyager 1 Is Poised to Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before

Terry Morgan — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:50:16 +0000

The probe Voyager 1 is about to go where no one has gone before: beyond our solar system. The probe is heading toward the edge of the Heliosphere–the edge of our Sun’s influence–and head into interstellar space. Voyager 1 and it’s twin, Voyager 2, were launched a few weeks apart in 1977 and to this [...]

NASA Says "Pray" If An Asteroid Heads Our Way.

Brad Weiser — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:33:39 +0000

The head of NASA spoke at a Congressional hearing this week about protecting the Earth from asteroids. And he had some sobering things to say. First, an asteroid with a diameter of about six-tenths of a mile could wipe us all out. Two, 95% of the asteroids near Earth ARE that big. And three, if an [...]

Cutting Edge Prosthetic Gives 53 Year Old Father Both of his Hands Back

Terry Morgan — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:47:29 +0000

This video features 53 year old father Nigel Ackland and totally blows my mind. Ackland is demonstrating the Bebionic’s V3 prosthetic, which replaces the hand he lost in an accident six years earlier. The video features Ackland dealing cards, tying his shoes, walking his dog, and making tea which all sounds pretty mundane right? Not [...]

Scientists Say Life Is Possible on Jupiter's Europa Moon

Mike Adams — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:30:24 +0000

Scientists believe that the key to discovering extraterrestrial life could lie deep in the festering, underground oceans of Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa. New research suggests that if the salt water ocean beneath the surface of the frigid moon ever makes it's way to the surface, creating an intergalactic petri dish capable of producing a life-promoting environment.

Football Field-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Weekend

Mike Adams — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:26 +0000

A giant asteroid the size of a football field is scheduled to pass through Earth’s atmosphere over the weekend. Scientists say that the 330-foot-wide fiery rock will miss striking the Earth’s surface by nearly 600,000 miles - about three times the distance between our planet and the moon.

Reminder: Catch A Glimpse of Comet Pan-STARRS Starting Tonight

Terry Morgan — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:13:23 +0000

Although it looks as though the weather isn’t going to cooperate, Comet Pan-STARRS should become visible tonight shortly after sunset. Hopefully Magic Valley residents won’t miss this amazing astronomical event. Discovered in 2011, Comet Pan-STARRS was discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. It made its closest approach to the Earth last Wednesday, March 5th, [...]

Watch This Giant Real-Life Robot Dog Fling Cinderblocks Across the Room

Mike Moody — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:33:27 +0000

The mad scientists over at Boston Dynamics have created a four-legged dog-like robot they call BigDog robot. In this video released by BD earlier this week, you can see BigDog’s sole purpose, which, apparently, is to creep everyone out while flinging things across the room. Go technology! We’re calling the cops if this thing starts [...]

Crater From World's Third Largest Asteroid Found In Australia

Mike Adams — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:10:57 +0000

After witnessing some of the damage that a dinner table-sized meteor did last week after crashing into central Russia, imagine the magnitude of destruction that would have occurred if that flaming rock was the length of 18 football fields. Now stop imagining, because scientists say it happened. Scientists recently discovered the impact zone of a [...]

Millionaire Plans First Manned Mission to Mars for 2018

Mike Adams — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:30:06 +0000

An entrepreneur with more money than God has decided that he wants to be one of the first men to complete a mission to mars. And while this space crusader with deep pockets may have the cash flow to pull of such an ambitious undertaking, some believe that he may have spread himself too thin by announcing plans to get his journey underway by 2018.

Scientists Discover Green Jelly After Meteor Hits Russia

Mike Adams — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:30:42 +0000

Just days after a fiery meteor came crashing down on central Russia, scientists say they have now discovered a mysterious green jelly that may be some sort of space residue or “astral jelly,” a substance commonly associated with meteor showers.

I Saw Bigfoot Today! (Well, At Least His Footprint… Maybe)

Terry Morgan — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:57:36 +0000

I’m gonna drop a bomb on your world right now: I believe in a lot of crazy [censored], but I think Bigfoot is a load of bunk. Today our sister station, News Radio 1310 KLIX, hosted a Bigfoot Investigator on their popular morning talk show Top Story. The investigator was cool enough to lug in [...]

Pluto: Planet or Dwarf Planet?

Terry Morgan — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:30:32 +0000

On this day 83 years ago, American astronomer Percival Lowell discovered Pluto. The distant, frozen, tiny rocky planet quickly became the 9th planet of our solar system. It held this position for 76 years until it was demoted to “Dwarf Planet” in 2006. But I still consider Pluto the 9th planet of our solar system. [...]

Is Anyone Else Worried That We Didn't Know The Russian Meteor Was Coming?

Brad Weiser — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:49:54 +0000

Since we first heard about the Meteor that entered the atmosphere over Russia and shattered some 30 miles above ground, I’ve been doing some thinking. Why didn’t we see it coming? It seems that while scientists are watching the skies for potential collision threats, they’re not necessarily picking up on the little ones. The meteor that hit [...]

Fierce Space Storms Predicted to Cause Worldwide Hysteria … and Disrupt Social Networks

Mike Adams — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:03:05 +0000

The technological world could soon be brought to its knees by a series of pseudo-apocalyptic space storms that are predicted to sever the heads of the world’s communication centers, satellites, and public transportation systems.

Make Dry Ice At Home This Weekend

Terry Morgan — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:28:29 +0000

Snowed in? Here’s an easy weekend project that could potentially entertain you and the kids for hours: make your own dry ice! Dry Ice is pretty amazing stuff, but buying it at the store can be really expensive. One video blogger found a way to make his own at home that’s easy using nothing more [...]

Scientists Say That We Could Make Contact With Aliens Within 10 Years

Brad Weiser — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:48:17 +0000

According to scientists, at the rate space exploration is going, we’ll probably make contact with aliens within 10 years. Despite the fact that Steven Hawking warns us that a more intelligent species would be likely to invade, the biggest concern is that if we do find proof of alien life, it’s going to cause people to question [...]

Star 1000x Larger Than the Sun Set to Collide With Interstellar Wall and Oh God What is an Interstellar Wall?!

Mike Adams — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:00:04 +0000

Not only is the famed Betelgeuse star set to burn out the remainder of its astronomical life, but it is also on an immediate crash course with a ginormous interstellar wall. Thanks science, we were just saying earlier how we never wanted to sleep ever again! Thankfully, scientists say this collision will not happen in our [...]