Divining the News (DTN)

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yashango:
February 23, 2009

Sometimes it’s just really hard to kill a bug.

According to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, a mosquito managed to live 18 months clinging to the outside of the International Space Station, without any food, being bombarded by radiation and enduring fluctuating temperatures ranging from minus 230 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.

“We brought him back to Earth. He is alive, and his feet are moving,” Anatoly Grigoryev of the Russian Academy of Sciences told RIA Novosti.

The buzzing bug was part of a larger experiment in which bacteria, barley seeds, small crustaceans and larval insects were placed in a container strapped to the exterior of the space station, which orbits in zero gravity about 200 miles above the surface of the Earth.

From the RIA Novosti report, it wasn’t clear if the insect which may in fact be a non-biting midge rather than a mosquito was placed in the container in the larval or the adult stage.

A European Space Agency experiment last fall found that primitive animals called tardigrades, also known as water bears, survived an even harsher exposure to space, including full vacuum and direct solar ultraviolet blasts. Moreover, several of the surviving tardigrades were able to normally reproduce.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,498784,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/space

Source

Hat Tip James aka adap2k’s

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.

Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.

When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe.

Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.

Here’s what I mean…

Many more pictures at Source:

http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/08/11/amazing-pictures-of-color-striped-icebergs-in-antarctic.html

HatTip rense

High quality here

TipotheHat whatreallyhappened

See the full size pictures and full explanations here:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html

Icebreaker Louis Saint Laurent in Resolute Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada	A whale swims off the Valdes peninsula, Argentina.
Road interrupted by a sand dune, Nile Valley, Egypt	Town of Koh Pannyi, Phand Nga bay, Thailand
Village in the Rheris Valley, Er Rachidia region, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco	Iraqi tank graveyard in the desert near Al Jahrah, Kuwait
Tree of life, Tsavo national park, Kenya	Mountainous countryside near Maelifellssandur, Myrdalsjökull Region, Iceland
Worker resting on bales of cotton, Thonakaha, Korhogo, Ivory Coast

Tipothehat: http://voy.com/64855/