Rare-Earth Metal Found in Atantic Ocean

While looking for deep-sea animals, a German research vessel, SONNE, discovered large lumps of rare-earth metals in the deep trench between Africa and South America according to officials from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research. It is the largest deposit of manganese nodules known to exist in the Atlantic Ocean.

Nils Brenke, CeNak photo ... globules scattered on ocean floor

So far, the largest deposits known is in the Pacific Ocean, according to Colin Devey in a press release, lead scientist on the expedition. The globes of rare-earth metal range in size from golf balls to bowling balls.

According to Popular Science:

Manganese nodules grow incredibly slowly, at the rate of mere millimeters over the course of a million years. They are also a potential source of the rare earth elements that companies use to manufacture high-tech electronics, like smart phones. Last summer the UN's International Seabed Authority issued the first deep sea exploration permits, allowing companies to start actively looking for places to mine nodules and other sources of rare earth elements from the ocean floor. The start of exploration raises a lot of questions about the economic and environmental costs of deep sea mining.

Another science news report … Earth May Have Been Teeming with Life a Billion Years Earlier Than Once Thought.

Dead Zones: A Threat to Aquatic Life

Scientists and politicians have been spending funds on the alleged climate change phenomenon, formerly called “global warming” by alarmists like Al Gore, a politician with no degree in science, but has made money, a documentary film award, and Nobel Prize for his effort. Gore and several financiers have also made plans on how to make money on the scientific consensus. The mainstream media has been a willing accomplice in the fleecing program.

Climate has its fluctuations, as history reveals in recurring ice ages and warming periods. But those same alarmists would have the people believe, and too many do, that politicians and scientists they ensure funding, can solve the problem with a political campaign and draconian legislation that does nothing but suck up funds in an already alarming deficit.

The media, those politicians and their accomplice “scientists” have downplayed a dangerous factor on the oceans (and some freshwater lakes) called dead zones.

I am not referring to the 1983 film based upon Stephen King's novel, The Dead Zone; but a real-life dangerous situation caused by human pollution.

Philo T. Farnsworth

We use it at least once per day. Some homes have more than one. It became a status symbol in the early 1950s. People have been entertained and informed for generations since. The inventor's first name was used by actor Clint Eastwood in the film, Every Which Way But Loose – by accident or on purpose. It is television.

However, I bet few know who invented the technological marvel that changed the world, for better or worse. His name is Philo T. Farnsworth. Unfortunately, he did not get historical attention until recently. Indeed, encyclopedia, under the entry electronic television, will read:

Vladimir Zworykin invented the Ionoscope for RCA in 1923 …

Weird Science: Is the Hoverboard Here?

AP … Remember the hoverboard featured in the film Back To The Future II? Well, it has come to be a reality in Los Gatos, California. Mattel is selling the futuristic 'skating' board, but its just a replica; but a disappointment to customers and sales. It hovers, but you cannot use it like a skateboard. But take heart, skateboarders, the dream is becoming a reality.

Ever-Changing Earth and Its General History

Recently, Wisconsin geologists, both amateurs and professionals, calling themselves crater hunters, have been examining the evidence of craters of meteorite explosions upon earth's surface which was prevalent over other areas in North America back when Wisconsin and western Russia once shared the space south of the equator. It has been estimated that the rate of falling meteors were up to 100 times more than the rate today and with falling space rocks the size of a football field, hitting the planet every 10,000 years. The ancient bombardment occurred during the Ordovician Period.

Earth's geological history in terms of continental drift stretches out over a thousand million years with marked results in 500 million year intervals. Maps that depict these ages and drifts are an estimation. Each 500 million year interval was followed by about 100 million years of geological episodes called rifting as continents broke apart due to erosion and other natural phenomenon.

Weird Science: True Stories - Trivia

Kidney Transplants: Modern medicine and surgical techniques have made kidney transplant surgery a success. What many do not know is that during the kidney transplant procedure, the non-working kidney is usually not removed – unless leaving it there would cause problems. Instead, the doctors will place the new kidney in your pelvis and then redirect the arteries and veins to that kidney.