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• please take a moment and.....
  by arteology

  ....view my wife in life and art andrea’s new gallery here at redbubble, her creations are passionate spiritual and unique, andrea curren…

  ....view my wife in life and art andrea’s new gallery here at redbubble, her creations are passionate spiritual and unique, andrea currently is residing in south brazil and runs our studio down there where we work together on all kinds of projects including these days animations for the cellphone market…..thank you for taking the time, arteology http://www.redbubble.com/people/dream

• HUMAN IN SPACE on eARTh
  by H( )( )K STUDIO

  Life is made of power and light , matter, gas and all forms of star stuff. We are humans in space and time on Earth. We see what …

  Life is made of power and light , matter, gas and all forms of star stuff. We are humans in space and time on Earth. We see what we see, we analyze what we see in a split second. The feeling thing works as an operating system. We are the example of a gene pool that stretches back to the beginng of time itself. Enjoy the fascinations along the way. I Do! Art makes up 3/5ths of our only homes name. eARTh! / Who ever named it did well indeed to include what is important. If your into art your into a big reason were all here I think Don’t you?

• Space - New Frontiers!
  by littleredplanet

  High resolution images taken of Space are grand and majestic. However, few people have exposure to them. Occasionally I’ll develop a conc…

  High resolution images taken of Space are grand and majestic. However, few people have exposure to them. Occasionally I’ll develop a concept to utilize these powerful images in my work. I do this for my own gratification but also to hopefully encourage more people to develop an appreciation and desire to learn more about objects in our heavens. I’ll upload a few more of my images to my portfolio over the next few days as time permits. You can also check them out at my website littlerdplanet.com Take the time to check out high quality sites like the Astronomy Picture of the Day (I use this as my home page). I am also a founding member of Marsdrive, a non-profit organization registered in Australia and the USA. I firmly believe that we all have an obligation to advocate with our peers and with the governments of the day to aggressively pursue space exploration and alternative living environments. What is MarsDrive? MarsDrive is a unique group dedicated to building large scale public support by bringing together all of the required individuals, groups and resources to enable near term human missions to Mars. We see our role as one of being a leverage force working with and among all of the diverse players who may at some point fund and commit to sending humans to Mars. Going to Mars is already proving to be one of the most complex and near impossible feats that humanity has ever engaged in. That is why there is a need for a central organizing force that also has a focus on raising public support and awareness. Without wide scale public support current and future space missions will continue to rely upon government agencies and wealthy investors and as we have seen government programs can and do get cancelled and wealthy investors are hard to find, especially considering the level of risk involved in space missions. We want to see a future where space missions and eventual settlement of new worlds like Mars are the result of wide scale public support and involvement not just limited to government agencies or underfunded private space companies. Unless our political and financial leaders see robust levels of interest and support for such ideas as sending people to Mars they will always be reluctant to commit their own resources and the human drive into space will continue to move at a snails pace. MarsDrive is therefore dedicated to reaching the public in fresh and original ways that work as opposed to trying old methods that only appeal to a small demographic or current space advocates. We also advocate that the first and most logical priority for advancing the cause of humans to Mars is for us to engage in activities focused on overcoming the transport barriers that currently exist. Even if we solved all of the technical problems and could bring the costs down to an acceptable level and even if the risks were minimal, without wide public support human missions to Mars will be very slow in coming, if at all. At MarsDrive we mean it when we say that we want to see near term human Mars missions, and for us that means within the next 20 years. If we wait for a government mission that 20 years could become 30, 40 or more. Plus if all we do is rely upon government missions this will exclude the public from being involved in Mars exploration and settlement beyond being mere spectators, and as we have seen public interest is already in decline. The benefits of such missions will bypass our generation if we do nothing about it. To bring forward these missions and to remove the roadblocks of technical, financial and public support solutions we and others have embarked upon this journey now. How can any small group realistically hope to achieve Mars? No small group could ever accomplish such a task on their own. We all know that this sort of project is on a massive scale and will require thousands of skilled individuals, cutting edge technologies and billions of dollars. Such projects are usually led by government agencies but with Mars we have a unique opportunity to speed up the process. MarsDrive does not itself need to raise billions through unrealistic schemes but instead to build ourselves into an efficient, streamlined and unifying body so that we can fulfill the aims we are striving for. So when you support us you are not supporting a group with unrealistic or impractical goals. Our aim is for Mars, but our eyes are firmly set on being practical, realistic and doing what is achievable NOW. You can check out the FAQ on the MarsDrive website for more details. cheers / dale

• EARTH IS NOT VENUS with human help!
  by Dave Sandersfeld

  Venus ruined by greenhouse gases / / Inferno of carbon dioxide … Venus may have been partially covered with water before it became doom…

  Venus ruined by greenhouse gases / / Inferno of carbon dioxide … Venus may have been partially covered with water before it became doomed by global warming. / Photo: AP / • Copyright © 2007. The Sydney Morning Herald. / November 29, 2007 / / Inferno of carbon dioxide … Venus may have been partially covered with water before it became doomed by global warming. / Photo: AP / Latest related coverage / • Venus has frequent bursts of Earth-like lightning / Advertisement / Once styled as Earth’s twin, Venus was transformed from a haven for water to a fiery hell by an unstoppable greenhouse effect, according to an investigation by the first space probe to visit our closest neighbour in more than a decade. / Like peas in a cosmic pod, the second and third rocks from the sun came into being 4.5 billion years ago with nearly the same radius, mass, density and chemical composition. / But only one, Earth, developed an atmosphere conducive to life. / The other, named after the Roman goddess of love, is an inferno of carbon dioxide, its surface hot enough to melt steel. / The European Space Agency’s Venus Express, orbiting the planet since April 2006, seeks to explain this divergence. / Preliminary data from the probe reveal a Venus that is more Earth-like than once thought – but not in ways that are reassuring. / At first blush, the two worlds, 42 million kilometres apart at their closest points, could hardly be more different. / Earth’s temperature range has remained largely stable and its atmosphere has maintained a balance of gases – and this, with the precious water covering two-thirds of its surface, has allowed riotous biodiversity to flourish. / Venus’s atmosphere overwhelming comprises CO2 and a permanent blanket of clouds laced with sulphuric acid. Oxygen is nowhere to be found, nor is any water except in atmospheric traces. / Its surface, which hovers at 457 degrees, has a pressure equivalent to being a kilometre under the sea. / But this was not always so, says Hakan Svedhem, an ESA scientist and lead author of one of eight studies published in the British journal Nature on Wednesday. / Venus, he believes, may have been partially covered with water before it became doomed by global warming. / “Probably because Venus was closer to the sun, the atmosphere was a little bit warmer and you got more water very high up,” he said. / As water vapour is a greenhouse gas, this further trapped solar heat, causing the planet to heat up even more. So more surface water evaporated, and eventually dissipated into space. / It was a “positive feedback” – a vicious circle of self-reinforcing warming which eventually caused the planet to become bone dry. / Even today, Earth and Venus have roughly the same amount of CO2. But whereas most of Earth’s store remains locked up in the soil, rocks and oceans, on Venus the extreme heat pushed the gas into the air. / “You wound up with what we call a runaway greenhouse effect,” Svedhem said. / “It reminds us of pressing problems caused by similar physics on Earth.” / Venus Express, the first dedicated mission since the US Magellan Orbiter mapped the planet’s surface in the early 1990s, is equipped with an arsenal of sensors to peer through the dense clouds across the entire light spectrum. / One surprise already turned up by the 600-kilogram probe is a 30-40 degree variation between daytime and nighttime temperatures at an altitude of 60 kilometres. / At this height, violent winds three times stronger than hurricanes on Earth should even out differences, or so it had been thought. / There are many questions yet to be answered during the mission, which is scheduled to last until 2013. / One is whether there is lightning on Venus. Given the kind of clouds covering the planet, there simply should not be any, Andrew Ingersoll, a professor at Caltech University in Pasadena, California, said in a commentary, also published in Nature. / But Venus Express has detected “whistlers”, low-frequency electromagnetic waves that last a fraction of a second and are normally a sure sign of electrical discharges. / Another enigma: sometime within the past 700 to 900 million years, the planet seems to have lost its skin, its topography resculpted by some giant force. / “Venus has quite recently completely changed its surface,” said Svedhem. “Some event completely changed everything – this is a strange process we do not completely understand.” / AFP / / Inferno of carbon dioxide … Venus may have been partially covered with water before it became doomed by global warming. / Photo: AP