Nov 27, 2007

SCIENCE!

Scientists find fossil of enormous bug
"British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion it would make the entire creature the biggest bug ever."

Human observation of dark energy may shorten the life span of the universe
"Dark energy, coupled with the fact that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, suggests that the Big Bang did not produce a zero-energy vacuum, but another metastable false vacuum. Using the analogy of a decaying radioactive atom where shifts in energy states occur at random, Professor Krauss says that "it is entirely possible [the energy state of the universe] could decay again, wiping the slate of our universe clean." In a nutshell, this would mean that we, and everything we know, would cease to exist."

A feat of Cuban science
10 years after the discovery and identification of the remains of Che and his comrades

12 Questions With... President of Creation Museum
But such death and disease (like cancer in dinosaur bones) could not be described by God as "very good" as He did when He finished the creation. Most of the fossil record is the graveyard of Noah's Flood.

Mad Science (a list of scientists gone wild)
What happens if you give an elephant LSD? Researchers solved this mystery on August 3, 1962, when Warren Thomas, director of Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City, fired a cartridge-syringe containing 297 milligrams of LSD into the rump of Tusko the elephant ... the researchers tried to revive him with a variety of antipsychotics, but about an hour later he was dead.

Fungus having sex on your head
Then they found out that not only does an icky fungus live on your head and cause dandruff - but it could be having sex. On your head. Right now.

Underwater Lake
As we descended from the south flank of the AC 601 mound, diving down into the central crater, an amazing scene slowly revealed itself below us. There at the bottom of this crater on the ocean floor, at a depth of approximately 2330 meters (7644 feet) was a “lake.” We were approaching the shoreline, the first feature to come into focus. It had a “swash zone and beach ridges” that mimicked features one could observe along the coastline of the northeastern Gulf’s Florida panhandle. more

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