You need to take care in Tassie waters

Dragon over Edinburgh

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Greek islanders who have been on the frontline of the refugee crisis are to be nominated for the Nobel peace prize with the support of their national government.

Of the 900,000 refugees who entered Europe last year most were received –scared, soaked and travelling in rickety boats – by those who live on the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.

The islanders, including fishermen who gave up their work to rescue people from the sea, are in line to be honoured with one of the world’s most esteemed awards. Eminent academics from the universities of Oxford, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell and Copenhagen are drafting a submission in favour of awarding the prize to the people of Lesbos, Kos, Chíos, Samos, Rhodes and Leros.

Sign the petition at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/nobel_prize_greek_islanders_21/?pv=73&rc=fb

It was a near thing!

Το καλοκαίρι - δε φεύγει απ’το μυαλό

This is what I found on our beach!

Not my cat, Mavros, as some of you will know, he is black!  And some may have guessed!

Kaboom: Russia has an unsubtle plan about how to deflect asteroidsKaboom: Russia has an unsubtle plan about how to deflect asteroids

Could Russia's plan to 'nuke' doomsday asteroids save the world from apocalypse?

Russia is working on a scheme to save humanity from asteroids by blasting them with nuclear weapons.

This is seen as a better option than simply blowing them to smithereens - a tactic which could end up showering Earth with radioactive comets.   Oh yes, I remember that bit!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/could-russias-plan-nuke-doomsday-7197313

Stargazing

British television with a brand new project – Pulsar Hunters. We need your help to discover unknown pulsars. These are the dense, fast-spinning cores of dead stars. Get involved in the biggest Zooniverse event of the year at www.pulsarhunters.org.

As the neutron star spins, beams of radio waves from its magnetic poles sweep across our line of sight so it flashes like a cosmic lighthouse. Radio telescopes can be used to detect this very regular 'tick-tock' of a spinning pulsar. But discovering new pulsars is like finding a needle in a haystack. We must search for their faint, repeating signals hidden among terrestrial radio interference from devices like mobile phones, radars and telecommunications equipment.

Have they tried throwing stones?

So, I'm being facetious!  NASA has set up an asteroid defense team to protect the Earth from potentially threatening celestial bodies that could strike our planet, damage our environment and even wipe us out, the US Government’s space agency announced last week.

http://marketbusinessnews.com/asteroid-defence-team-do-protect-earth-set-up-by-nasa/120417

So I didn't like it looked like a potato! (See below)

Stones of strata

This morning I found all three of these stones.  The top one is better than this, {I know, looks a bit like a potato!} but the other two are quite good I think.  I was wondering whether to photograph them or what, when I remembered that I had scanned Karagiozi when I first found him and it turned out well.  - Today's Find (Actually it was the day before I started the new blog, but I wanted to be dramatic.)

Probably more from Eastbourne, but I like the colours and patterns.

Bits of Eastbourne Pier still washing up at Hastings! [?]

Work of wind and waves.

Artwork! Found on the beach, as is.

Happy New Year - decorations washed up from under the deep sea party last night.

Planet Earth could be at higher risk of a space rock impact

Centaur, or giant, comets Earth are likely to fall apart into dust and massive fragments that will flood the inner solar system with cometary debris and would make inevitable impacts on Earth.

And the answer?  Fling the stones that put the stars to flight!

I hope you saw it too!

On Christmas Day, there will be a full moon, the first since 1977.

This full moon, the last one for 2015, is called a Full Cold Moon because it happens during the start of winter.

A full moon on Christmas won't happen again until 2034.

Comforting? I think not, but interesting

Star Wars: How to build a Death Star, according to Nasa

On an asteroid you have 'all the building blocks you would need to build your family Death Star'
"It could provide the metals. You have organic compounds, you have water - all the building blocks you would need to build your family Death Star,"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/star-wars-how-to-build-a-death-star-according-to-nasa-a6771466.html