This is totally unbelievable.......

...and yet, of course, it isn't, because we did it!

But still, am totally discombobulated.
(Ha, bet you didn't know I knew that word!)

Swarm of pebbles could safely deflect asteroids

FLINGING pebbles at an asteroid sounds like a fruitless task,
but a new calculation shows that  this could deflect an
Earthbound rock.

• New Scientist
• 05 May 2012
• Magazine issue 2863

He just grinned up at me.

Now I've noticed the other one, on his side.  For some reason reminds me of "two vast and trunkless legs of stone..."

This is freaky! Was it us? When we flung the stone that put the stars to flight?

Invisible dark matter is supposed to make up over 80 per cent of the universe's mass but a new survey of nearby stars and galaxies suggests our patch of the cosmos could be totally free of the stuff.

If the only matter in the Milky Way is the visible stuff like stars and planets, then stars at the edge are moving too quickly to be held by our galaxy's gravity.

In order to keep the stars on the fringes from flying away, there must be some additional mass creating the extra gravity needed to hold them.

Not quite sure what it means but....

Rare Moon mineral found in Australia

Updated January 06, 2012 01:09:56

RELATED STORY: Probes in orbit to map moon interior

A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than 1 billion years old.

Named after Apollo 11's 1969 landing site at the Sea of Tranquility, tranquillityite was one of three minerals first discovered in rocks from the Moon and the only one not to be found, in subsequent years, on Earth.

Australian scientist Birger Rasmussen said tranquillityite had "long been considered as the Moon's own mineral" until geologists discovered it, by chance, in rock from resources-rich Western Australia.

In search of secrets on the far side of the moon

Can't help wondering what effect this may have!

Lunar mystery ... both sides of the moon are shown in this undated image. Photo: AP/NASA TWO NASA spacecraft are slipping into orbit around the moon to try to answer persistent questions about Earth's celestial companion.

It wasn't me, promise! Water spout at Hastings

Remember! Remember!

I know, but I couldn't resist posting this, from a book I am reading. It is by Annie Brassey and called "Sunshine and Storm in the East"

"The sea was rushing up violently like an immense fountain jet, while from the cloud above, which was intensely black, an inverted cone came down to meet the sea. Another waterspout, farther off, looked like a long back trough, pouring down from the heavens above into the cone shaped fountain in the sea beneath"

[Alex, somewhere between Paxos and Corfu - is this near you? Though this happened in 1874!]

Umm - from Sandy

I know what Alex said about the blog and I understand why, but just wanted to share this. (May be my only contribution!)

THE green flares of the aurora australis seen on Saturday night were the brightest they have been in seven years, says Astronomical Society of Tasmania spokesman Bob Coghlan.

Mr Coghlan said the natural light show was caused by photon oxygen emissions in the Earth's upper atmosphere reacting against strong solar winds, causing an eerie green glow.

Aurora Australis lights up the night

The Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis

Hail and Farewell.

Dear Readers,

there are things afoot which make it difficult to keep up this blog currently. It is not dead, just in abeyance (it's an interregnum - Lexie)

I had hoped to score last minute English points with 'abeyance', but maybe Lexie will get them for 'interregnum'. (Joke)

Thank you for visiting,

Alex

Another delicate beauty.

A Thing of beauty is a joy forever

Join the dots!

A crab - but what sort?

Looks like a knight in armour going full tilt.

Underwater playground

My mind boggles - so I blog!

No one knows what dark matter is – astronomers merely detect its gravitational pull on normal matter..........

.....Earth's velocity relative to the surrounding sea of dark matter changes as the planet orbits the sun.

New Scientist

And I thought we'd put paid to all that! See The Stone Summons

What makes these odd low tide 'slugs'?

Bearing in mind this was originally an IT project.......

I read somewhere in passing that you could now add static pages to blogger. I decided to look into this (on the search for extra points maybe?) So I did a search and the first I don't know how many hits came up with completely clueless hits and laborious (marks for English usage?) instructions. So I was very glad when I eventually followed this link http://technicallyeasy.net/2010/04/how-to-create-pages-in-blogger/

And maybe, if I had been doing more blogging lately, I wouldn't even have needed that (not that I want to sound ungrateful.)

When you click on New Post you get options -

• New Post
• Edit Posts
• Edit Pages
• Click on Edit Pages, add your content and follow instructions/choices - Simples Lexie!

Tracy Island?

Heart Muscle?