Bag, lost in space , burned in the atmosphere in 10-15 days

Kit, which last week lost in space American Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, in 10-15 days burned in the atmosphere. Told journalists the German expert center aeronautics and astronautics Volker Sobik. As reported by news agency, he directs the department "piloted space flights, which also challenges the International Space Station (ISS).

Currently, the lost bulky object, which is estimated to cost 100 thousand dollars, is located at a distance of approximately 300 kilometers from the surface of the blue planet. " When the bag, weighing several kilograms, will go down in the atmosphere, it breaks out, making the effect of "shooting star".

In the event of a collision with the spacecraft bag can cause them considerable destruction, said Volker Sobik. However, the ISS is not the danger it represents. "Kit has long left the ISS orbit" - encouraged by the expert, adding that she has "download" in the space of about 28 thousand kilometers.

Recall of EVA on 18 November to work on clearing a turning module of ISS. She accidentally released from the hand bag, which immediately ", unwittingly became a temporary satellite of Earth.

Now the bag can still be seen from Earth even through very large binoculars. For this, you just know the exact time when it will fly over certain areas. It will move to the southern sky from west to east. As reported by the eve of The Times, Friday bag can be seen in the sky 77 degrees.

Among the most famous loss in space: three lunar rover NASA and the two ball to play golf on the moon, and the lander Beagle-2 - on Mars.

Drinking tea with chopsticks in microgravity

A animist temple at the heart of Paris

Finally

a little Zen in this world of raw! At the time of the crash, the Guimet Museum offers a haven of tranquility to meditate on our plight to be oblivious of the nature and simple things. The Paris institution dedicated to Asian art has indeed been able to bring much decorative features of the sanctuary of Konpa-san. It is a feat never yet these fragile walls and sliding screens were out of the archipelago. Here, they have been raised by ensembles, as faithfully as possible. And these are pieces that are reconstructed with the soil, straw tatami rice perfectly braided. Empty spaces but not cleaned in the traditional manner. Beautiful and peaceful world ...

So the museum is it just this authentic Shinto shrine (anime) love between mountains and sea on the island of Shikoku. The pilgrimage to Konpa-san is one of the most popular country of the Rising Sun for over a millennium, and now four million visitors each year climb the 785 steps leading to his sacred heart.

< p> Artists wise and refined

At the museum, a curious less effort to do so. He entered directly into the spaces. Pass room cranes that tigers, room seven wise to that of Mount Fuji, willow, iris, spring ... Most of the decorations date from the eighteenth century. Nobody knows which set of panels is the most beautiful. Is it that all decorated with two hundred painted a flower with a deep sense of harmony of colors but also of modern botany? Is this the tigers, whose strange allure of big cats players in the middle of rocks and bamboo is because the monks who represented had never seen? Only after travelers they imagined these cats symbols of the West in ancient Chinese cosmology. Is it also on a gold background, the white- cranes, elegant waders supposed establish the link between earth and heaven, and who say the balance of the world? They were designed by Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), sometimes because we know the names of these artists wise and refined.

Note also the Guimet Museum in parallel presentation of paintings by Yuichi Takahashi (1828 -- 1894), one of the first artists to use in Japan - was in the 1860s - oil painting and chosen as the favorite theme of still life. Finally, we note the presence of contemporary works, as Kyoji Takubo. They prove that Konpa-san is still living its golden age as this floral mural of 4 25 m is also delicate and monumental than the old ones. Artist loving sacred Takubo Kyoji has worked in France, in the chapel of Saint-Vigor-des-Monts, near Falaise, Normandy. He decorated with lush vegetation on the trees. His painting seems to proliferate, through the windows, outside of the place. A successful example of this art global presiding always the creation of temples and gardens in Japan.

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A NASA probe finds huge glacier beneath the surface of Mars

In the future when the first astronauts Mars and establish a human colony on the Red Planet, may obtain water from the huge glaciers that existed under its surface. This is clear from the dramatic discovery that has just published a team of U.S. scientists in the journal Science.

Probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of NASA has detected glaciers covering an area of tens of thousands of square miles and stretching from the mountains Martian with a thickness in some cases of about 800 meters.

"This is a very important discovery because it not only established the existence of water on Mars but covers the necessity of the liquid element that will have future interplanetary missions," says Ali Safaeinili, scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ) Of NASA.

"The finding is also important because the water of these glaciers are located in low latitudes of the planet, away from the poles, and in some cases to only about three meters deep," he said.

Because the water is one of the essential ingredients for life as we know it on Earth, the existence of large reserves of frozen liquid is an encouraging sign for scientists looking for life beyond our planet, according says the study published by 'Science'.

The first signs of water on Mars were detected four years ago by the vehicles' Spirit 'and' Opportunity 'and confirmed later by the' Phoenix ', a third vehicle for NASA.

"Without doubt these glaciers represent the largest pool of water on Mars in non-polar regions. Only one of those before us is three times more extensive than the city of Los Angeles (California) ... and there are many more," indicates John Holt, of the School of Geosciences, University of Texas and author of the report.

In addition

"are a window into an environment that was very different from what is now Mars," adds Holt.

Testing multiple

The discovery made by the radar of the probe MRO cleared a mystery that had emerged in the 1970s when NASA's Viking probes detected that came rolling foothills of the mountains. One theory suggested that it was rock flows lubricated by the ice. However, Holt said it resembled much of the huge glaciers also detected under a rock in Antarctica and for the study of which had been used radar.

"And on Earth, these masses of ice hidden in Antarctica preserve the record of ancient organisms and the history of past climate," said James Head, scientist at Brown University.

Solving the puzzle was provided by the radar of the probe from NASA, which indicated that these configurations topographical contain enormous quantities of ice.

According to the report of 'Science', the evidence of the presence of frozen water are many. The radar echoes received by the orbiter pass through the material and bounce back from a deep inner surface without a significant loss of strength, as where there is water with a relatively thin layer that covers them.

Moreover, the speed of radio waves passing through the layer is tuned to a composition of frozen water, said the report.

Glaciers in the study which focused on are located in the region of the Hellas Basin in the Martian southern hemisphere, but the radar also detected similar formations in the northern hemisphere.

"There is an even greater volume of frozen water in the reservoirs in the north," said Jeffrey Plaut, JPL scientist.

Holt explained that the presence of glaciers in low latitudes in both hemispheres could be explained by a change that has suffered at some point the rotational axis of Mars, which pushed water from the poles to those places.

LIGHTS, Gallimard Jeunesse, my discoveries

In the collection? My findings? Gallimard youth, a collective work is proposed around? a new theme:? Light?.
It must be said that the collection shines with its neat layout, dynamic and informative course. It starts with a rhyme: I see you
Can you see me
With the light
It is Then between a symbolization of the day and night, a summary is proposed: light I know! The sun-and light-shadow-For-Life Festivals and Light electric light-d-Enlightenment? Aurtefois-light and sight. So the young reader will discover many aspects of light and its role in our daily lives, not to mention the? Importance of natural light to our planet. Experiences, Thursday flaps, while the incentive? Child to active reading. Excellent book presentation remarkable. A small criticism, however: l? Ecological aspect is barely sketched. But we are still in? Wonder of the light that comes from heaven, fire and the ...? Bulb. A recommendation from 5 years [SIZE = 14] [SIZE = 14]

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Protect your skin from the sun, even in winter

The appearance of wrinkles, spots and other signs of aging are accelerated by skin exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun, especially in winter. For this reason, "in addition to applying a cream at night and restorative sunscreen in the morning, it would be appropriate to make use of oral ," said Salvador Gonzalez, a dermatology professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University (Boston) and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, USA).

During the summer, ultraviolet radiation B (UVB) is the predominant and primarily responsible for sunburn and skin cancer. However, in winter, the decline in favor of UVB ultraviolet A (UVA), causing the aging of the skin. "The elastic fibers in the skin become insoluble, less collagen and this leads to the appearance of wrinkles and ultimately to accelerated aging of the skin," says the dermatologist.

UVA accounts for 95% of radiation reaching the earth and carry a high degree of penetration into the skin, so that, as well as cause , damages the cellular DNA and contributes to the development of skin cancer .

For this reason, be adequately protected both winter and summer is the golden rule to keep your skin in perfect health. To do this, apart from the usual advice of protection (clothing, sunglasses, sunscreen creams ...), there are some capsules of antioxidants that help prevent the harmful effects of radiation on the skin.

Oral capsules that protect the ultraviolet

"This is a complement to the usual sunscreen creams, as the latter have some limitations, such as the difficulty to extend them in a uniform and homogeneous in exposed areas and the inability to reach some areas like the eyelids" , Says Gonzalez, one of the authors of a review conducted on the latest developments in , published in the journal "Clinics in Dermatology '.

Addition of , sunburn and skin cancer, "Each year, approximately three million people have sight problems (cataracts, among others) by radiation, which demonstrates the need to incorporate measures for eyes, "according to the authors of the work. "These capsules, although they do not have a high protection factor, it fulfilled the role of solar screen."

beta-carotene, lycopene, vitamins with antioxidant capacity (E, C), green tea extract, extract polypodium , ... Some of the ingredients of food supplements which are sold as capsules to strengthen the mechanisms of (avoid sunburn and the formation of cancerous cells). Specifically, "the excerpt from polypodium is the only active ingredient that scientifically has demonstrated its effectiveness by mouth in ," says the professor.

These products are especially useful in "the teenagers of skin cancer patients in his medical records and clear-skinned people, those who have skin problems (melasma, for example, a disorder of the skin on the areas more exposed to the sun darken) or have undergone surgery or laser techniques, which must be protected throughout the year with a brighter screen aimed at UVA, "argues the expert.

According to the authors of this review, the best sunscreen meet four basic rules: the reduction of sun exposure, the usual measures of prevention (clothing, sunglasses ...), the use of protective creams and the oral with antioxidant properties.

Grow or not grow

Desaceleracin

Do you? Recession? Consolidated Crisis? The headlines in recent months have triggered the alarm about what some philosophers, economists and environmentalists revolutionaries considered a disaster waiting to happen. Do you really believe that we have is an unlimited growth potential in a limited world? This is the question that the drivers of this movement on the rise not new, so-called decline, launched into the air while responding loudly: it is not possible to continue to grow at this pace because there are not enough natural resources.

(Illustration: Akirant)

Since the eighteenth century has been transformed 45% of the territory on the planet. Today, cities occupy 2% of all continents and grow to 0.25% per annum. In the last century, the population has quadrupled and continues to grow by 1% each year and the energy and water consumption per person has increased by 20. Decrecentistas and scientists warn us: 'We have exceeded the carrying capacity of the Earth !.

And it is a disaster waiting to happen because it had already warned experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 70 when they prepared a report for the Club of Rome, and long before Mahatma Gandhi, and long before the same classical economists, such as John Stuart Mill or Joseph Schumpeter, who augured that the indefinite accumulation was not possible and it would come sooner or later the deadlock. But the economic euphoria of the second half of the twentieth century brought amnesia, and soon the world will forget their own limits.

The decrease

Theory is presented as an alternative, a third path to a happier world, that goes beyond sustainable development (which considers an oxymoron), but rather than propose a specific solution aims to break with the entrenched belief comparable, as its drivers, a religious faith that economic growth brings prosperity. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP), they say, is an indicator unrealistic because it does not take into account the value of natural resources, which should be integrated into the economy, nor the intangibles that do affect the economic flow (such as work domestic or deterioration of social life due to excessive work), nor the quality of life of people.

The system requires economic growth continued to remain.

The idea is that today we are not rich because we have more cars, but poorer because we have less Amazon jungle. In the words of French anthropologist and economist Serge LATOUCHE, one of the current guidelines of this movement, we live in "a dictatorship of the rate of growth 'that' force to the developed societies to live beyond any reasonable need." That is, the current economy can not survive without ceasing to grow, so any slowdown in growth poses a serious blow to its foundations, and their good health going to continue to grow exponentially. The indefinite accumulation of goods and services is, in fact, the engine of the current economic model. And it's not a matter of capitalism or socialism, they point out, since all known models until now have relied on growth.

LATOUCHE recalls the unhappiness that is causing the current model, with an increasing rate of suicides, anxiety, fear and need to be protected from the adverse effects of development. In fact, the exponential accumulation system that is holding today, according to him, which leads to the social disease called consumerism, which creates an illusory and greed makes us despise the objects that we still valid, but not new to those who do not want us and that the market offers us on a plate. A system that has come to its own contradiction, because the rapid pace of production of goods would be almost inversely proportional to the rate of loss of natural resources. "The wheel spins ever faster just to stay the same, or worse," says Ernest Garcia, professor of anthropology at the University of Valencia.

The decrease

Invited to voluntarily adopt a simpler lifestyle.

Therefore, more than ever, for , the goal is to break with the current trend and return the environment to the area of trade. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, father of the concept, was among the first to detect cracks in the economic system and warned that it was not in accordance with the laws of physics and biological weapons. Of these fissures, say its advocates, there are problems such as poverty. For them, something's wrong when the shares of a company rises to dismiss their employees en masse when wars or increase the GDP of some countries. "The machine will start to create goods and products is the same as systematically creates misery," said former Iranian diplomat Majid Rahnema. New indicators such as the ecological footprint is rising as more realistic alternatives aside the GDP.

What is the solution? The decrease is not about a slowdown or negative GDP growth, but to a lack of economic growth in favor of an increased welfare, accompanied by a falling population. The motto is "live better with less' ... But how? This is where the various theoretical forks. There are those that require giving up any technology, which portend the end of human civilization, which proposes a drastic reduction in the population or those who trust in the wisdom of man to make a gradual transition towards a true welfare society. "This is to maintain a certain standard of living. Slower, smaller, better, "says Ernest Garcia. In any case, the transition to the decrease may not arise in economic terms, recalls LATOUCHE.

Thus, there is no definite pattern, but suggestions of a future society based on cooperation, efficiency and respect for nature, where the right technology, such as renewable energy, we would keep many of the habits of life to which we are accustomed. "There is no question of returning to the caves," added the professor, for relief of many. But ... What is wrong with the caves?, He wondered LATOUCHE.

Negavatio

Factor 4

Disvalor

Downshift

Entropy

Green GDP

Negavatio

A proposal to calculate the energy saved.

In 1989, Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute in the United States, coined the term to refer to the unit of measurement for energy efficiency, or whatever it is, the energy saved. In a famous lecture in Montreal, Lovins criticized the enormous expense and useless that the U.S. took in providing electricity when it could do so much more cheaply and efficiently. Specifically, the concept of is to invest to make more efficient energy consumption rather than to generate more energy. The benefits would be for both the economy and the environment.

Lovins speculated about a possible market in which it could negotiate with these units.

Factor 4

We can be four times more efficient.

In 1972, a report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) commissioned by the Club of Rome left stunned the world by raising the unlimited growth was not possible in a world limited. Almost 15 years later, the Club of Rome commissioned a new report, this time written by A. Lovins, author of , and the U.S. von Weizsker, the Wuppertal Institute in Germany. The report stated that with the available technology could multiply by four efficiency and increase welfare by reducing by half the consumption of resources and conserving the rest. But efficiency is a dreaded rebound effect known as the Jevons paradox that makes the consumption of a resource increases with increasing efficiency.

Disvalor

All that does not take into account the economy.

Was in 1968 when thinkers such as Ivan Illich first used this concept framed in a critique of the economics. The relates to losses that can not be calculated in economic terms. The German philosopher, known iconoclast, he as an example of the impossibility of estimating the economy since the loss that it represents an individual to the absence of feet in a world dominated by the car: "The economist has no means of assessing what is happening a person who loses the effective use of their feet because the car exerts a monopoly on the radical movement. " In the same vein, other authors criticize the inability of the economy to calculate the value of the factors that increase the well-being, as free time.

Downshift

A shift towards simplicity of life.

Take

Simplicity as a way of life is the theme of several of the movements that occur parallel to the decrease. One of them is downshifting (down our pace of life), very similar (and in fact have joined) to the Slow movement (apology for what paused). The lifestyle slow or downshifted supposed to work less and spend more time on welfare: to be with friends and family, eat slowly, to stroll and enjoy. The chances of achieving a downshift are higher in small towns (according to the Slow movement, with populations of no more than 60,000 inhabitants). It is about changing the schedule of values and priorities in a society that is dedicated to ten times more hours at work to children.

Entropy

What that tells us the theory of thermodynamics.

Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was the father of ecological economics or bio-economy, so we also had as a teacher by the theorists of decline. Georgescu was restated the validity of neoclassical economics-the-force it to be disconnected from the physical and biological. The big news of this revolutionary theory was to incorporate into the economy, the laws of thermodynamics. Specifically, Georgescu was based on entropy (second law of thermodynamics) to talk about the inevitable economic scarcity: all production represents a drop of energy. The growth was thus harm and paradoxical, because they are destined to end up with the resources needed precisely to grow.

Green GDP

In search of the indicator

More faithful to reality.

The failure of GDP as an indicator of living standards of a society has prompted several economists to think in a new meter that includes many other parameters, including the environment. One of the new indicators is the HANPP (Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production from Biomass), which measures the loss of biodiversity. But it also does not measure all aspects affecting the reality, so it was shuffled the notion of creating a green GDP index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) or the Genuine Progress Index (GPI). Perhaps the meter is the most widespread ecological footprint, which calculates the hectares that each person needs to satisfy his life, even to absorb the CO2 emitted.

Is Economic Growth good?

Insidermedicine in 60 - February 22, 2008

The rescue green

The fact is that I walked by a remote location to cure for the ills of the spirit came to me after listening to our ex-president Aznar said: "In these times of global cooling in the international economy and the threat of a new ice age in national economy, in one of those eco-climatic cycles that occur every time a socialist government comes to power in Spain, the flag of the apocalypse climate requires devoting hundreds of billions of euros " to causes "as scientifically questionable in its viability as being able to maintain the temperature of the planet Earth within a hundred years" (I quote verbatim, just in case) when I approached to look at a newspaper kiosk, a search of a book Self I did regain feeling.

Drew my attention, however, between books and magazines, the cover of the magazine Nesweek. It appears a green and white float under the heading (in English, of course): "The rescue green: why Obama, Brown, Sarkozy and other leaders driving a green solution to the economic crisis." Reading this article has no waste. I recommend it strongly.

As I am not well versed in these issues figured that this should be a Newsweek magazine sort of the new Communists, that our ex-president denounced with such forcefulness. However, a foreign friend explained my confusion and explained to me that this is a rather liberal magazine.

Irony aside, the fact is that world leaders are considering seriously the need to address the crisis driving the green economy. Are finding (it was about time) that the struggle for environmental protection is a source of employment and development of truth. And they are calling a "green rescue" of our economy.

A few days ago, the same United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, appealed to the same effect. In short, the world begins to see how out of the economic crisis must go hand in hand with solutions to the environmental crisis. At the end is going to be that environmentalists are going to be right. Wow.