Details on the film and the screening here.
Hat tip: Ana.
Daily Archives: March 3, 2010
First Annual Upchucky Awards Announced!!!
Which creationist was the most nauseating?
From the NCSE:
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Diversity in Science Carnival #7: Black History Month – Broadening STEM Participation at every level at Urban Science Adventures.
Question of the day: What’s more important to you: Getting the best personal healthcare coverage, or adequate universal coverage for everyone? (go comment and possibly win a USB drive thingie!)
More Moon Water
scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon’s north pole. NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter. Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it’s estimated there could be at least 1.3 trillion pounds (600 million metric tons) of water ice.
The Mini-SAR has imaged many of the permanently shadowed regions that exist at both poles of the Moons. These dark areas are extremely cold and it has been hypothesized that volatile material, including water ice, could be present in quantity here. The main science object of the Mini-SAR experiment is to map and characterize any deposits that exist.