Australia’s historic opal industry dying off By Brigid Andersen Updated March 22, 2012 01:40:41 Photo: Opal miner Branko Brankovic checks the conveyer at his opal mine in the Queensland outback town of Opalton. (Mick Tsikas: AAP) Map: Opalton 4735 As the mining boom roars on, a small, historic part of the industry has been forgotten. […]
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Geomagnetic Storm Watch
As the strongest Solar Radiation Storm (S3) since May, 2005 continues, the associated Earthward-directed Coronal Mass Ejection is expected to arrive about 1400 UT (9am EST) Jan 24. SWPC has issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch with G2 level storming likely and G3 level storming possible, with the storm continuing into Wednesday, Jan 25. All of […]
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How to Mend a Broken Bone
Question: Can you give me broken bone advice? Usage. Check with your doctor first; however, in most instances certain motions and impacts actually help speed bone growth. Vitamin D. Most Americans have a vitamin D deficiency. A simple blood screening can reveal your level. Chances are large you should be taking a D supplement. Vitamin […]
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Tagged advice, blood test, bone stinulator, broken bone, broken leg, deficiency, electronic stimulation, health, Medicine, sunlight, usage, Vitamin D, wellness
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Fires!
Smoke clouds the skies across northeastern China and southeastern Russia in this image taken on October 8, 2011, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Widespread fires are marked in red. The dry, windy weather of autumn created hazardous fire conditions in northeast China. On October 9, officials in Heilongjiang, the […]
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Fire!
Baptism By Fire
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Tagged baptism by fire, baptized, Bible, burning, covenant, Earth, Environment, fires, God, living creatures, phophecy
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Asteroid
This infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole Nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth. As WISE scanned the sky, capturing this mosaic of stitched-together frames, it happened to catch an asteroid in our solar system passing by. The asteroid, called 1719 Jens, […]
NASA Ocean Recovery
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — For the first time, NASA has released high-definition video taken during the retrieval of solid rocket booster segments from the Atlantic Ocean. The solid rocket boosters provided 144 million horsepower of thrust for the final launch of space shuttle Discovery on its STS-133 mission. After each shuttle launch, crew members of […]
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Enough Space To Feel Sick
WASHINGTON, DC — Recent research aboard the space shuttle is giving scientists a better understanding of how infectious disease occurs in space and could someday improve astronaut health and provide novel treatments for people on Earth. “With our space-based research efforts, including the International Space Station, we are not only continuing our human presence in […]
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Tagged better, disease, fight infections, health, infectious, scientists, space, space shuttle, therapies, vaccines, wellness
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Super Perigee Moon
The full moon is called a super perigee moon since it is at its closest to Earth in 2011. The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March 1993.
Japan Moves 8 Feet and Our Days Are Shortened
Scientists have reported the earthquake moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. “At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a […]
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Tagged Earth, earthquake, Japan, moved axis, shifted, shoreline, shorter day, tsnumai
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