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What to do in case of a… Zombie Invasion???

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Zombie Apocalypse Post Sends Hordes to CDC Blog

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Date: 19 May 2011 Time: 01:53 PM ET
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Zombies, the brain-craving, shambling undead, are a pop culture phenomenon.
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First there was “Dawn of the Dead.” Then there was “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” (Quirk Books, 2009). Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are jumping on the zombie bandwagon.

Yes, that CDC. A post on the health agency’s blog titled “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” went viral this week, causing the blog’s servers to temporarily crash. The blog normally gets 1,000 to 3,000 hits per day, said CDC spokesperson Dave Daigle. Before the page went down on Wednesday (May 18), the post had garnered 30,000 hits. As of Thursday morning, 55,000 people had clicked on the post.

“We did not anticipate this type of reaction,” Daigle told LiveScience.

to read more go to:   http://www.livescience.com/14240-cdc-zombie-apocalypse.html

 

Mammatus Clouds over Minnesota

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MAMMATUS OVER MINNESOTA: On May 10th, a severe storm captured national attention when it dumped golf-ball-sized hail on a Minnesota Twins baseball game. “I missed the hail,” reports John Rogers of New Hope, Minnesota, “but I got a nice view of the clouds that formed after the storm passed.” He snapped this picture in waning twilight at 8:30 pm local time:

These are mammatus clouds. Named for their resemblance to a cow’s underbelly, they sometimes appear at the end of severe thunderstorms when the thundercloud is breaking up. Researchers have called them an “intriguing enigma,” because no one knows exactly how and why they form. The clouds are fairly common but often go unnoticed because potential observers have been chased indoors by the rain. If you are one of them, dash outside when the downpour stops; you could witness a beautiful mystery in the sky.

 

Sun-Diving Comet

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SUNDIVING COMET: A comet just discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov is diving past the sun today, and it will probably not survive. Click here to view a movie of the death plunge recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory–and check back for updates in the hours ahead.

Cosmic Ray Hot Spots

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Strange cosmic ray hotspots stalk southern skies

Cosmic rays crashing into the Earth over the South Pole appear to be coming from particular locations, rather than being distributed uniformly across the sky. Similar cosmic ray “hotspots” have been seen in the northern skies too, yet we know of no source close enough to produce this pattern.

“We don’t know where they are coming from,” says Stefan Westerhoff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Westerhoff and colleagues used the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole to create the most comprehensive map to date of the arrival direction of cosmic rays in the southern skies. IceCube detects muons produced by neutrinos striking ice, but it also detects muons created by cosmic rays hitting Earth’s atmosphere. These cosmic ray muons can be used to figure out the direction of the original cosmic ray particle.

to read more go to:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20436-strange-cosmic-ray-hotspots-stalk-southern-skies.html

 

3D Satellite View of Storms

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Satellite Captures 3-D View of Violent Storms that Ravaged the US on April 27-28

by NANCY ATKINSON on APRIL 28, 2011

A simulated 3-D flyby of the TRMM satellite around severe storms on Aprill 28, 2011. Credit: NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce

NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured 3-D images of severe thunderstorms that were spawning tornadoes over the eastern United States on April 28, detecting massive thunderstorms and very heavy rainfall. Tornadoes associated with this extremely unstable weather left at least 202 dead across the Eastern U.S, with injuries numbering over a thousand.

To read the rest of the article and view the other images, go to:

http://www.universetoday.com/85244/satellite-captures-3-d-view-of-violent-storms-that-ravaged-the-us-on-april-27-28/

 

Mystery of Tattoos of Altai Princess

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Tattoos of Princess of Altai conceal mankind’s biggest mysteries

05.04.2011

43923.jpegIn 1993, archeologists found the mummified body of a young woman on Ukok Plateau in Russia’s Altai region. The plateau is located in the area of Russia’s border on Mongolia. The mummy of the woman with a tattoo on her shoulder became known as the Princess of Altai. Scientists from Novosibirsk say that the cause of the woman’s death, who died 2,500 years ago, is still shrouded a mystery.

Scientists conducted the MRI examination of the mummy in June 2010. It was the first time, when a mummified body was studied with the help of an MRI scanner in Russia. Experts continue to study the photos which they received as a result of the procedure. According to Andrei Letyagin, the chairman of the MRI Center of the Siberian department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the final results of the research will be exposed in May-June of the current year.

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Altai Aborigines say that the mummy is their progenitor. They call her Princess Kadyn, or Kydyn. The tattoo on her arm conceals very important information for mankind. The time to read the information has not come yet, Aborigines say. They also believe that the woman was a priestess and that she passed away voluntarily to protect the Earth from evil spirits.

Native residents also say that scientists troubled her remains and angered the powerful gods. An earthquake occurred in the region soon after the mummy was discovered. The locals urged the scientists to put the mummy back in the burial hill to avoid new disasters. Rumor has it that the number of wildfires and storms started growing after the mummy was removed from her chamber.

to read the full article go to:    http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/05-04-2011/117452-Princess_of_Altai-0/

Earth’s Companion Asteroid

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Earth Has A Companion Asteroid With a Weird Orbit

by NANCY ATKINSON on APRIL 6, 2011

In this graphic of a horseshoe orbit from NASA, Horseshoe orbits follow contour lines that enclose Lagrange points L3, L4 & L5. Credit: NASA

There are plenty of near-Earth asteroids out there, but this latest one studied by two researchers at Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland is extremely rare in that it has a weird, horseshoe-shaped orbit. Not that Asteroid 2010 SO16 does an about-face and turns around in mid-orbit — no, the asteroid always orbits the Sun in the same direction. But because of its unique orbital path and the gravitational effects from both the Earth and the Sun, it goes through a cycle of catching up with the Earth and falling behind, so that from our perspective here on Earth, its movement relative to both the Sun and the Earth traces a shape like the outline of a horseshoe: it appears to approach, then shift orbit, and go farther away without ever passing Earth.

This asteroid was discovered on September 17, 2010 by the WISE Earth-orbiting observatory.

tro read more go to:    http://www.universetoday.com/84652/earth-has-a-companion-asteroid-with-a-weird-orbit/