Posts under ‘Science & Space’

Today I followed a link to this video which claims if you put acetone in your gas tank, you can almost double your gas mileage. This link explains why it works in a little more detail, and claims the acetone will not harm your engine in any way. They both agree on the mix: 2 [...]

Researchers at Purdue University have found a new process to generate hydrogen from an aluminum alloy that will make a safer and easier method for generating hydrogen to power small engines and, possibly down the road, motor vehicles. This solves the problems of distributing and storing hydrogen and even at current estimates can be a [...]

The NASA propellerheads are busying themselves with figuring out all the moral details of a trip to Mars and wasting a lot of time, meanwhile it appears up to half the red planet may have water ice hidden beneath the surface.
It amazes me how concerned they are about the little things. They can figure trajectories [...]

A couple weeks back I read about a scientist who theorizes there’s an alternating cycle of warming and cooling of the sun that corresponds with the ice ages and thaws of the Earth. He feels this same cycle may be responsible for global warming, and says he sees a similar warming on Mars. (Unfortunately I [...]

Scientists are about to send a robot to peer through a hole in the Earth’s crust. There’s a crack in the Atlantic Ocean’s floor that exposes the Earth’s mantle, something lava would normally have filled and sealed.
I expect the first pictures it sends back will look something like this:

A team of scientists have filed a patent for a possible cure for cancer.
In a few years, the title of Denis Leary’s first comedy album will be rendered invalid. But I don’t think he’ll be pissed, as he’ll be able to thaw out the Duke, get that case of whiskey, and drive down to Texas [...]

I think it’s great that guys like Virgin’s Richard Branson and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos are trying to put together some commercial space ventures, but I hate false announcements of big accomplishments.
Take today for example. Everyone’s making a big deal about the launch of Goddard, the new Blue Origin spacecraft for Bezos’s outfit. I was impressed [...]

I just read about a dead man.
Or at least a man who will no doubt be marked for death, as the Muslims don’t take kindly to authors or newspapers blaspheming their prophet. The man in question is Abbas Sadeghian, author of Sword and Seizure: Muhammad’s Epilepsy & Creation of Islam, which I first read about [...]

Maybe.
Scientists have found new evidence of small water flows on Mars as recently as five years ago, suggesting liquid water is trapped under the surface. This NPR article includes a photo of one of the flows in question.
Of course, everyone is already pestering them about what this could mean regarding life on Mars. The scientist [...]

Carbon globules that are possibly the primitive building blocks of life have been found in a meteorite that landed in a frozen Canadian lake in 2000, once again suggesting panspermia is a viable explanation for the beginnings of life on Earth.
It’s far from definitive proof, of course, but combined with previous instances, it’s hard to [...]