Science Behind Things

Element 112 Discovered

A team of scientists in the German city, Darmstadt, led led by Sigurd Hofmann at the Helmholtz Center, first produced element 112 in 1996 by firing charged zinc atoms through a 120 meter (394 foot) long particle accelerator to hit a lead target.  The lead and zinc nuclei were fused together for a fraction of a second to form the nucleus of the new element, also known as Ununbium, which is Latin for 112.  The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) confirmed the discovery of 112 and has asked for an official name.

Creating new elements helped researchers to understand how nuclear power plants and atomic bombs function.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE55A34V20090611?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

(In)accurate Predictions

Weathermen say tomorrow will be sunny and beautiful in the mid 80’s.  No, wait.  Now they say it’ll be rainy all day, and in the 50’s.  Er, um…now they say there’s a 50% chance of rain and a 50% chance of sun, maybe.

Let’s move on to something else; one of my favorite topics: Astronomy (which, by the way, is not astrology).  Scientists say that Mercury might (or might not) collide with earth in one billion years.

I suggest we carefully consider the wisdom of listening to, and believing, those who routinely make inaccurate predictions regarding somewhat routine matters (i.e. the weather), and yet make outlandish predictions (i.e. global warming, planetary collisions, etc.)

Christianity, which is confirmed again and again by indisputable facts, makes predictions that should concern us all.  Even Jesus said to Nicodemus, “If you don’t believe Me when I tell you earthly things [testable with our scientific instruments], how will you believe Me when I tell you heavenly things?”  Jesus Christ is coming again, and we all need to be ready for His return.  That is a fact.

Source: Rush Limbaugh

Evolution is an Idea, like Gravity; and Nothing Really is Nothing

Amazing.  After about ten years of hearing from evolutionists that the universe is made up of mostly dark matter and dark energy, to cover up for their refusal to even consider the supernatural when it comes to trying to explain the structure and interaction of galaxies, religious philosophers who call themselves darwinian evolutionary scientists, are increasingly rejecting dark matter and dark energy, which have absolutely no evidence, but were invented to explain in more and more bizarre ways the behavior of the universe.  Now, interestingly, gravity is being reconsidered, after already having been modified three times for (1) velocities near the speed of light (Special Theory of Relativity), (2) objects near large masses with lots of gravity (General Relativity), and very, very small, yeah, verily, sub-atomic scales (Quantum Mechanics). Dark matter and dark energy don’t explain certain phenomena in the universe, and so the modification of Newton’s understanding of gravity is necessary according to some people.  So “Modified Newtonian Dynamics” (MOND) has been proposed.  I’ll be reporting on this new idea in the coming months, and get back to you.

US NIF laser Ready For Testing

Nif lasers will ignite a small hydrogen pellet

The world has been trying for almost 50 years to find clean, almost free energy, through nuclear fusion.  The U.S. National Ignition Facility in California is trying it out with the world’s most powerful collection of lasers, all 192 of them pointing inward toward a tiny pellet of a 150-microgram mix of deuterium and tritium, for 20 billionths (20/1,000,000,000) of a second, at about 500 trillion (500,000,000,000,000) watts, which is how much electricity is used by five trillion (5,000,000,000,000) 100-watt light bulbs.  100 million degrees Celsius is rerquired because the pressures here on earth are far lower than that of the core of the sun.

If scientists are successful, the hydrogen fuel wil be plentifully found in the earth’s oceans and lithium (unless politically correct extreme environmental groups forbid us from extracting the fuel, just as they won’t allow ‘unsightly’ wind mills to be built in California’s deserts, where no one but perceived-to-be-threatened turtles live).  But also, the science behind nuclear fusion might be wrong, since the core of the sun is the wrong size for nuclear fusion, but exactly the right size if the only source of power in the sun is gravitational collapse.  But since evolution is believed through blind faith, any evidence against evolution must be rejected by some.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7972865.stm

Orion Spacecraft Unveiled

Orion spacecraft unveiled to the public

The space shuttle is set for retirement next year.  AFter that, NASA plans to send astronauts in Orion to the International Space Station by 2015, the moon by 2015, and to Mars by the mid-2030s.  Orion is named after the bright constellation in honor of a mythological Greek hunter.  Although Orion is a lot smaller than the shuttle, and looks like the old 1960’s era Apollo spacecraft, it is larger (able to carry six astronauts rather than Apollo’s three) and safer.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE52T6XH20090330?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

Evolution, Masquerading as Science, Desperately Tries To Exclusively Force Its Way Into Texas Schools

The debate continues between Evolutionism and Creation Science in Texas, where evolutionists are desperately trying to label Creation Science as “non-science” supposedly lacking in evidence, while labeling their faith based religious philosophy of evolution as “science”, even though evolution continues to have gaping holes and no scientific support.

Evolutionists also continue to act as if they won in the 1926 “Scopes Trial” (State versus Scopes, Scopes versus State) in Tennessee.  But they lost.  They also continue to fiercely resist not only Creations Science, but also Intelligent Design (ID).  ID is so obvious in the universe and biology, and is routinely used in forensics and other areas of science, but labeled religion when it is used in biology or cosmology, which shows the heavy bias of supposedly unbiased scientists, who actually are unscientific.

I pray for eyes to be opened, and eyes to see the simple and obvious truth that Creation Science is evidence based, and not a shot in the dark like Darwinian evolutionism is.

Science Behind the Threat of China to the USA in Space

In the 1960’s, the United States of America and the former Soviet Union put men into space.  In October, 2003, China became the third country to put a man in space with its own rocket.

Now, China ’s “State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense”, (that’s right, defense, as in military) is using bidding from her domestic universities, institutes and other “qualified” institutions to help construct important components of her moon exploration spacecraft.  China’s aerospace program is run secretively and has close links to the country’s military.  China intends to move into space, and eventually put an unmanned buggy on the moon by 2012, to become a technologically powerful country.

But what is China’s true intentions?  Read the words of conservative writer Phil Valentine to find out the scary truth:

Valentine goes to state that “large quantities of Chinese-manufactured ammunition were discovered in the Tora Bora cave hideouts of Osama Bin Liden[2]. … Furthermore, Chinese ‘advisors’ were found among the dead, alongside Taliban forces, after the October 2001 bombing of Afghanistan. … The Hindustan Times reported that same month that ‘China is still assisting the Taliban in the war against the United States.  Chinese dealings with Osama bin Laden date back to 1998, when U.S forces bombed an al-Qaida network camp in retaliation for the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa.  A few of the cruise missiles fired were found unexploded.  China bought them from bib Liden for several million dollars, thus setting up a relationship that apparently continued beyond September 11. [3]  Still, the United States maintained its trade relationship with these brutal killers, despite President Bush’s promise that we would retaliate against anyone who aided or harbored terrorists.  His words were drowned out by the shrill cry of greed and the deafening silence of the mainstream press.[4]”  [My emphasis]

In conclusion, and most frighteningly, Valentine says,

I am praying for my country, the United States, and that our leadership and citizens will see the desperate need to end trade with China, and rebuild our military against this great country’s enemies who will not stop until they destroy us.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE51O1PZ20090225?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

Kepler Spacecraft to Look For Earth-Like Planets

NASA plans to launch a spacecraft, named Kepler, in a few days on Thursday, on March 5.  The mission of the spacecraft is to spend 3-1/2 years looking with its world’s-largest-cameras-to-go-into-space at 100,000+ sun-like stars, which is far more than the current 300 that have been sampled, and try to find life.  The spacecraft is scheduled to launch atop a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.  Kepler will be looking for rocky planets, similar to earth, orbiting very close to the stars, not too close and not too far away.  In other words, Kepler is to look where liquid water can exist, and evidences of the undirected forces of “evolution” (which, by the way, has never been observed, including in the fossil record on this planet around this star know as the sun).

William Borucki, from NASA’s Ames Research Center, located at Moffett Field in California, believes that Kepler will find as many as fifty such habitable planets.  Kepler might, but it won’t find any with life, just as no life has been found in “habitable” environments on Mars and the clouds of Jupiter.  Evolution is not observed, because evolution doesn’t exist.  There is ample evidence, on the other hand, for a personal God to have created all things, including each kind of life on earth.  That is not the blind faith that Richard Dawkins attributes to Christians, but rather it is reality based on much evidence.  It will be nice to see some wonderful new planets orbiting nearby stars, but that will be all it is, with several more reasons to praise God for His amazing universe.

Source:http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE51I6OA20090220?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

Little Girl Saved With Super Glue On Her Brain

That is not a typo.

17-month old Ella-Grace Honeyman, born in Britain with “Vein of Galen Malformation” (which causes really small holes to appear in the brain’s primary blood vessels, and which affects only about 250 people throughout the entire world), has had her young life saved with medical superglue, having her faulty capillaries plugged with organic, sterile glue.  The first operation took place in France, but the followup operation had to take place in the more distant United Stated after the French surgeon tragically died after the first operation.  Most of Ella-Grace’s damaged capillaries are repaired, but a few more need to be taken care of.  But the immediate danger and constant headaches are over for the little girl.

She had just months to live when those operations took place.  Now she can live a normal life.  Praise God.

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1087800/Toddler-saved-pioneering-op-uses-medical-superglue-plug-holes-brain.html

Spectacular Grapefruit Sized Meteorite Lands in Canada

Around 5:30 PM Mountain Time (7:30 PM Eastern Time), a brilliant meteor flashed down from the sky, glowing yellow, red, green, white and blue before it struck the ground near central Saskatchewan, hundreds of miles north of the U.S./Canadian border.

Everyone is okay, and no little green men stepped out and demanded to be taken to the Canadian leader, but people were shaken up by the loud noise and bright light of the unexpected visitor.

As spectacular as that was, the return of the Lord will be far greater, and seen by all, even those Roman Centurions who pierced Him to the cross 2,000 years ago.  In the meantime, what a delight it is to see such displays!

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Source: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/11/it-came-from-ou.html