These Baby Animals Are Just the Sweetest Thing. |
| Babies are cute, whether they are little humans or little animals, naked or furry. Let’s take a journey into the animal kingdom and find their greatest treasure – their young ones. |
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Forget the swans, this year babies are a-swimming.
Infants just a few months old have been photographed diving underwater in their Christmas outfits. With no armbands in sight, they grin for the camera and swim unaided towards their festive toys.
The adorable pictures have been produced for the holiday season by a swimming school for infants.
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Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts send greetings and talk a little about their own Christmas Day in space.
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA offered their thoughts and best wishes to the world for the Christmas holiday during downlink messages from the orbital complex on December 17. Wilmore has been aboard the research lab since late September and will remain in orbit until mid-March 2015. Virts arrived at the station in late November and will stay until mid-May 2015.
SOURCE:::: http://www.earthsky.org
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An Australian photographer has captured incredible close-up images of penguins leaping out of the freezing ocean.
The colony of penguins was jumping for joy on leaving the water to warm up on the ice after hunting for food.
Photographer and marine scientist Frederique Olivier got his camera within a few feet of the flightless birds as they appeared to soar out of the ocean.
Mr Olivier, a marine scientist, got his camera within a few feet of the flightless birds as they appeared to soar out of the ocean
‘The penguins didn’t pay much attention to me’ and were sometimes friendly towards humans, says Frederique Olivier
After jumping out of the water, the wide-eyed Adelie penguins throw their wings behind them and kick their feet to get a good landing.
They pull excited faces and flick their tails behind them as they make it onto dry but cold land.
After jumping out of the water, the wide-eyed Adelie penguins throw their wings behind them and kick their feet to get a good landing
The aquatic birds pull excited faces and flick their tails behind them as they make it onto dry but cold land
Frederique Olivier said he felt humble while photographing the penguins because they ‘are incredibly adapted’ to the frigid environment
Frederique, 38, said: ‘You have to be incredibly patient to get the images of the right behaviour in the right light.
‘And you also have to cope with the temperature and winds as I gets down to minus-30 in the Antarctic winter.’
He was able to get close to the penguins as they weren’t bothered by his presence.
The adult penguins ‘are all about breeding and raising chicks in the colony’, so Mr Olivier had to be very careful not to disturb them
The colony of penguins was jumping for joy on leaving the ice-cold water to warm up on the ice after hunting for food
Frederique Olivier, 38, said he had to be ‘incredibly patient’ to capture the stunning images of the ‘flying’ penguins in the right light
He added: ‘The penguins didn’t pay much attention to me – their mood varies and sometimes they are friendly but it is all about breeding and raising chicks in the colony.
‘They make you feel humble because they are incredibly adapted to the environment that they are in, whereas it is a challenge for us to survive.
‘It’s sometimes hard for them too so we have to be very careful not to disturb them.’
SOURCE:::: By CHRIS KITCHING FOR MAILONLINE in http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2886084/Penguins-fly-Australian-photographer-captures-incredible-snapshots-flightless-birds-leaping-freezing-water.html#ixzz3Mpj5dI32
A NASA satellite has captured a colourful photo of Christmas Island in the Southern Indian Ocean from space.
Christmas Island, an Australian Territory, is a coral atoll (a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands made up of coral) in the northern Line Islands.
When NASA’s Aqua satellite flew over Christmas Island on November 11, 2014, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer took a visible picture of the small atoll.
The island is only 135 square kilometres in area and has a tropical equatorial climate with a wet season that runs from December to April.
Although an Australian Territory, Christmas Island is located 2,600 km north-west of Perth, Western Australia.
The island is famous for land dwelling red crab which scramble to the sea each November to release eggs.
Two guys were fishing down by the Ohio River on different sides of the riverbank at night. Guy number one was catching a whole bunch of fish for his family, but guy number two hadn’t caught any and was frustrated and called out to guy number one “How come you’ve been catching all them there fish and I ain’t caught a single one?”
Guy number one replied, ” I don’t know…. why don’t ya come on over here?”
“I don’t know…. I don’t see a bridge, and their aint no boat, and I don’t swim to well”
Guy number one picks up his flashlight, turns it on, and replies, ” Why don’t you walk across this here beam off light?”
Guy number two was outraged and replied “do you think am stupid? When I get half way you’ll turn it off!!!”
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The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:28 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This flare is classified as an X1.8-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc.
> Video: Holiday Lights on the Sun
Image Credit: NASA/SDO
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From America to Australia in Under 6 Hours
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| Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) just greenlighted the next stage of modern transportation – the hypersonic flight. The ESA has approved a new round of funding to project LAPCAT (Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies). |
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| Ignoring its funny name, the new plane will fly at mach 5.0 speeds (that’s five times the speed of sound!), using liquid hydrogen engines. The planes will be able to travel from England to Australia in four hours, carry 300 passengers and even fly to space in just 15 minutes.
The new kind of engine is being developed by the British company Reaction Engines, who is said to invest over 60 million GBP in the development, and are going to start builing a full-scale prototype engine. |
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| Current jet engines require that airplanes carry liquid oxygen as a coolant because in speeds beyond mach 3.0 the engines cannot use external oxygen for cooling. The new type of engine can use external oxygen freely, allowing it to cool down its engines from over 1,000°c (1,832°f) to -150°c (-328°f) in a fraction of a second. |
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| Experts are hailing this development as the biggest advancement in aviation since the invention of the jet engine. The cost of a single plane is estimated to be a whopping $1.1 Billion and will have no windows. |
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The Long-term Advanced Propulsion Concept and Technologies (LAPCAT) was developed by British company Reaction Engines Limited (REL) and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). The 139-meter long hypersonic plane has four liquid hydrogen-powered Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) engines and can carry up to 300 passengers.
It can travel up to 6,100 kilometer per hour – five times faster than the Airbus A380. By using liquid hydrogen as fuel instead of fossil fuel it is also greener and would only produce water vapor and nitrous oxide instead of carbon emissions. SOURCE: Research and Technology Agency, Reaction Engines Limited (REL), Transport Research & Innovation Portal
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If you think that the winter where you live is cold, the people in the village of Oymyakon, Russia will have a good chuckle at your expense. Located in the heart of Siberian, Oymyakon is considered to be the coldest inhabitable place in the world. With a temperature record of −90°f (−67°c) back in 1933, and an average of −60°f (−50°c) in January, it’s easy to see why.
When Amos Chappel, a photographer from New-Zealand, travelled to this frozen location, he brought back incredible pictures depicting the daily lives of the 500 inhabitants of this extraordinary village.
The local market in Yakutsk
A coal-burning plant provides the locals with heating
To keep his cows warm, a local farmer built them a special barn.
The village sign: Oymyakon – “Pole of Cold”
Some of the images were taken in nearby Yakutsk – the coldest city in the world.
For more of Amos’ work, visit his website: amoschapplephoto.com
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Just 100 years ago, getting from America to Europe was a voyage that took several days by ocean liners. With the invention of airplanes, that travel time was significantly shortened to under 24 hours. At the apex of the era of transatlantic flight, the Concorde was able to fly 100 passengers at mach 2.0 speeds from New York to London in just over 3.5 hours.
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