A New Space Toliet Missing The Basic Touch
Astronauts on a space station designed for overseas travel have finally hooked up a new bit of technology. Their very own toilet, however there is a twist. The toilet is missing a basic touch; a door!
The curtain door originally designed to be placed over the area was delayed. Rather the people working on it have other work to finish nearby thus we are left with no door for privacy! The managers of the mission however have left obvious signs that the curtain door will be installed shortly; in order for them to continue on with the orbital function.
One of NASA’s space program managers, Kirk Shireman has noted that the toilet has yet to have the door placed; thus it is unable to be used just yet. However it works completely fine and the function of the toilet itself has no notable problems.
Now although the toilet was partially designed so space stations could take upon bigger crews; it also has another big reason in existing. It is part of a new system which collects different things from astronauts such as, sweat, pee and more. It is then recycled and can be used for pretty much anything. This can include bath water, drinking water and oxygen.
Shireman has noted that they have contemplated getting the door ready so the life support system can get the go ahead. The lines of having the toilet water run to the recycling part have already been put into place.
Some samples made of the recycled water in space were brought back down to Earth. They have apparently been thoroughly tested and are completely fine in tests made. However more tests still need to be made on whether a human is able to drink just yet.
Shireman tells us that they have already approved the water for showering and bathing use; but they still haven’t verified whether a human is able to consume the water. In February to March they also have plans to use the water as oxygen, that is being closely worked on.
Four Habitable Planets - Part 3
This is a continued post, part one can be found here and part two can be found here
Welcome to the third and final part of this three part series. Today I will go through the final world, as well as I will add the final part to it and a little extra information. Once again feel free to leave views on the post as they are always appreciated 
Water Worlds
These worlds would be basically entirely made of water. They would be the size of Earth roughly as well. There would be no boarders to stop the water overflowing like Earth has with rocks however. These planets can either be absolutely fabricated of baptize with aerial burden ice at the core, or they can accept bodies of aqueous baptize that are afar from a silicate amount by a blubbery band of aerial burden ice
One approach for life’s agent on Earth says amoebic actual calm in bank pools and again became concentrated by adhering to the apparent of rocks. Eventually, this aboriginal activity advance into the added ocean. Another approach for life’s agent is that the all-important allure occurred at hydrothermal agitable vents. On baptize worlds, however, these scenarios are impossible. Therefore, Bredehöft thinks activity is not acceptable to arise on such planets.
Summing It Up
Bredehöft came to a conclusion that planets similar to Earth would be best to look for life. He does however tell us that they will not necessarily cope any better to us due to conditions. For all we know, they could be an advanced race of humans! As it is only a matter of time before we can search other planets and moons for life; we will just need to stick to theories for now. Although good, they don’t stand up against much unless proof is found.
When asked what we are looking to find, Bredehöft said “something slimy”. 
I hope you all enjoyed the series of posts, have a great day
Four Habitable Planets - Part 2
This is a continued post, part 1 can be found here
Hey guys, back again with part two of this three part series. This will most likely be the shortest post of the lot, but tomorrows post will be the longest I would say. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the article and make some sense of it! As always views and comments are appreciated.
The third type of planet we explore are the icy worlds. These are the planets that have water underneath their surface, rather than above it. The moon of Jupiter, Europa is a perfect example of what is trying to be said here. However Europa is part the point in the solar system where ice can change to water. Apparently once it is past the certain point, it can no longer become water.
The acceptable appearance of accouter zones thinks of a bounded brilliant as actuality the prime activity source. Worlds like Europa however that are icy, added factors appear into play, such as the gravitational cull of additional planets. Worlds with aqueous baptize under icy layers could potentially be inhabited by simple bacilli admitting actuality far from the accepted accouter zone, so continued as activity is provided in some added way.
That concludes part two, part three will be up tomorrow!
Four Habitable Planets - Part 1
Now two mysteries that have faced scientists for years are; how are existence came about and other worlds that could possibly have life on. Now although so much research and thought has been put into these two topics; there is no certain answer just yet.
A man by the name of Jan Hendrik Bredehöft has come along with a few ideas relating to whether planets can be habitable. I will bring this story to you in three parts, this being the first one. Expect the others to be posted over the next few days. This research will definitely help scientists in their search as this can narrow things down; as well as provide places to send out programs to bring back pictures of different planets.
Earth Like Worlds
Firstly, Earth Like Worlds were brought up. Well all planets like this a habitable; thus they are under control in the search. Planets like this would need to be able to handle complex life; have oxygen, a liquid base of water, normal climate and of course livable temperatures.
Mars Like Worlds
The second and last one I will have in this post were suggested to be worlds such as Mars and Venus. These worlds were once like Earth but have since changed. Mars became very dry and little to no water can be found on it. Due to the greenhouse effect Venus became too hot for anything to live on!
But Bredehöft believes there is still a possibility these planets could be habitable. He believes over time, living things would have got used to the conditions and eventually been able to exist and live a normal life. He says that the Earth has gone through so much in past times yet survived it, why wouldn’t other living things on other planets do the same? He makes a strong point in saying that once life is established it is very hard to destroy or kill off.
Methane Levels Take An Upward Spiral
After seven years of no apparent increase, methane levels have steadily begun to rise. If you believe in the Global Warming controversy, this may just be something that is speeding it up. Dr Paul Fraser from the CSIRO says that studies done of 12 stations have shown an increase in methane levels.
Fraser notes - after seven years of little to no growth, methane levels have now shown signs of rising to what we saw in the early 1990s. A chief research scientist made a claim that the methane levels shown, are perhaps going to cause a spurring in global warming. He says, if methane levels continue to grow at this rate, it will be the second most important greenhouse gas to control, after CO2.
Fraser adds methane is accountable for around 20% of all greenhouse gases. It is twenty times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Seeing as it is a greenhouse gas, it comes from places like natural wet habitats, some fires, mines and some gases.
Emissions accept been counterbalanced over the accomplished decade by accustomed sinks that blot the gas and through blaze into the atmosphere. Fraser says sources of methane accept been growing with arising of close wetlands for agronomical use and added deposit ammunition use. However, the abolition of accustomed close wetlands removes an important bore from the aerial equation.
Yahoo Now Shows Ads In IM Services!
Well, being a webmaster I like to stay on the webmaster/online technology niche. This story really caught my eye, reason being is I use it a lot to get in touch with clients. Well, anyone that uses Yahoo Messenger would know they have pretty much always had ads in the buddy search part of the program. But now, they have also begun testing their ad services in the chat windows themselves!
Now one example of these ads is a credit card offer; Mastercard is the main one. It appears just above the text where you are chatting; to be honest it does get a little annoying. Apparently the ads are part of a campaign that was started in August and finishes at the end of this month; December.
From what I have heard, the two main reasons Yahoo has implemented this in their chat service is:
- It is just a test and they want to see whether it does any well.
- As Yahoo Messenger is a free service, they want to make sure it is profitable. No ads means they are just providing free software and get nothing in return; except users of course.
Also, Yahoo has mentioned that there are no public plans released as to what they will do with the results. They commented that they will take care of the results and apply appropriate action dependent on them.
The ads are known to only show once per day per user. The ads disappear as you scroll up the page/continue on with your conversation. Also, the ads are only being shown in Yahoo Messenger 7 and up.
Wordpress 2.7 - Download Frenzy!
Alright, well this is a little different from what I have been posting about. This is more on the webmaster side of things but hey, I’ll post it anyway! The new version of Wordpress, was released a few days back. Wordpress 2.7 has seen a frenzy of people downloading and installing it! In fact; within the first 20 hours of it going live, it had already had over 100,000 downloads. Imagine the owner had a dollar for every download
Now for those who are not in the webmaster niche, Wordpress is a program which you can install on a site and turn it into a blog. A blog is what you are reading right now; the difference between a blog and a site is a blog is updated more. Anyhow, back on track the current amount of times Wordpress 2.7 has been downloaded is now 370,738! Pretty damn good aye? Did I mention it updates every 20 seconds or so, and by the looks of it, the download rate continues to grow!
Now, how on Earth could one program/software get so many people downloading it? Simple, it is probably the best you can get and; it’s completely free! Below are some more reasons why people choose to download Wordpress:
- It is extremely easy to use, in fact I would probably say it is easier then some of the big programs designed to be written in. You can insert images, videos, bold text, all with ease and grace 
- Now, it is also very, very easy to install. I know lazy people that take the option of using Fantastico. This program installs it at the push of a button. However, I am incredibly smart in I have never learned how to use it 
- So I use the manual installation method; pretty easy and only takes a few minutes. In fact most of the time taken is waiting for the files to upload via FTP.
- The amount of plugins, widgets and themes you can install is incredible. You can literally grab a hundred plugins, upload and activate them just clicking “activate”. The themes are just as easy to install. A great thing about newer versions is they also allow you to edit themes a lot faster. Rather then having to open files, reupload and so on.
That is all for now, see you all back tomorrow!
Merry Christmas!
Hey guys,
I just wanted to wish you all a very belated Merry Christmas! I was away for yesterday’s post so unfortunately I couldn’t put anything new up on the site. Anyway, I hope you all had a great Christmas as I did and I hope your New Year is just as good. Getting sunny down in Australia so looks very nice to go to the beach soon.
Anyhow, hope you all had fun and were safe!
Bye!
The “CrapWrap” - Christmas Future?
December 24, 2008 by admin
Filed under Future Of Technology
Are you a guy? Now, I am looking for the answer of “yes” otherwise you can move on. To be honest, you can keep reading even if you aren’t. Now, if you are a guy; you would know just how hard it gets come Christmas time. Especially if you are assigned the job of wrapping presents. Even wrapping a present for your wife, girlfriend and son on takes time and is pretty difficult due to the normal nature of us men.
Having to get the paper; cut it straightly and then wrap it all up nicely - really is annoying even thinking about it! - Well this story does actually have a point. As you would know, women like the nice fancy stuff in other words: bows, nice wrapping paper, ribbons and so on. Considering we cannot be bothered; a new revolution has arisen!
You can get all that nasty boring stuff done for you for a small charge. The future of Christmas is here; no more taking time out of your busy schedule wasting time wrapping presents. FireBox is now offering a new service called CrapWrap to help you get this all done! They have literally paid 20 of there finest truck divers and warehouse workers to wrap presents; did I mention they are using nothing but little care, wrapping paper and brown duct tape.
The cost of this great service? An amazing $9 for this awesome work. Imagine that; all the free time you could have spare from not having to work on wrapping presents. They will also make sure to do the worst job possible for you, they will make a mess of it. Oh, and it doesn’t matter whether it is a DVD, sewing machine or even a microwave they will wrap it!
Be on of the 500+ that have already chosen to side with this offer.
Facebook Members On Strike Protest!
A Facebook strike has been announced. Tonight over 1 million Facebook users will go offline; trying to prove there point of just how much they hate the new design! The strike has only been scheduled for tonight and will only be for a total of 24 hours as it looks so far.
Boris Kelevra a Frech Resident created the idea and the group, it is “The Facebook Blackout – The 1st Blackout Episode 1″. On the front page of the group, there is a message written along the lines of Facebook not really caring about their members and so on. He also adds that he wants others to invite friends to the group, as well as something about getting at Facebook if the idea works out.
A total of 4 million users declined the offer, shows just how active these members are. However a total of 1.4 million have decided to take it up and will be going for it! It will start off with Australia at 6PM and then move on to the international countries. Boris has told his group members to get distracted and not come back to Facebook. Go out, have fun, have s*x!
It will be interesting to see how it all goes down - I’ll keep you all updated!