Another Sleepless Night...
But that's the way it's supposed to be, for now. I watched Intinct starring Anothony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr. which premiered in 1999. It was one of the better movies that I've seen in a long time. I don't necessarily agree with all of it's conclusions, but it is a brilliant look into the mind of a man who has grown tired of modern dominance. Keep an eye out for my review, coming soon. One of these days, I'm going to get a chance to watch the other movies that y'all have already seen. I don't think I'm gonna get a chance to go to church tomorrow, but we'll see. I'm gonna have to have some other way to keep the ol' light burnin'. In other news...
An Associated Press release reports that talks between the European Union and Iran did in fact reach an impasse yesterday. Due to this development, Iran has announced that they will begin reactivating parts of their nuclear program. Iran's top negotiator with the EU on nuclear issues was quoted as saying, "It's unlikely that uranium enrichment...which takes place in Natanz will be resumed, but it's likely that some activities at Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility will restart next week." Uranium enrichment is a process by which a particular isotope of uranium (U-235) is seperated from the most common isotope of uranium (U-238). The two methods that are used are gas diffusion and gas centrifuge. Gas diffusion is osmosis on the atomic scale. A porous membrane is used that U-235 will permeate more easily than U-238 will, because U-238 is a bigger atom. Gas centrifuge uses exactly the same principal as blood seperation. The gas is spun in a centrifuge so that the lighter isotope (U-235) will stay in the center while the heavier isotope (U238) is pulled to the sides. Both processes are done in multiple stages and never fully seperate the two isotopes, but nuclear reactor fuel has to have a concentration of U-235 that is above 5%, but it is naturally no more than 0.711% of the uranium that is mined. Think about trying to seperate cars by how many milligrams they weigh...
Read the whole report here: FoxNews Article - Iran
An Associated Press release reports that Jennifer Wilbanks, who was reported missing when she didn't return home from her evening jog only four day before her wedding, has returned home safe a sound. She initially called a police dispatcher to report that she had been abducted and dropped off in Albequerque, New Mexico, but only hours later told her fiancee that she had become nervous about the wedding and needed some time to herself. Her family was a little embarrased but not critical of the runaway bride. Her uncle, Mike Satterfield, said, "Jennifer had some issues the family was not aware of. We're looking forward to loving her and talking to her about these issues." The pastor who was supposed to have married the couple today also pointed out that they had prayed before in the hope that she had simply gotten cold feet, and now they don't have to worry about her being hurt. The owner of a local eatery that had supported the searchers, however, expressed resentment at the "selfishness" of the "self-centered act" and called it "terrible." I love you, Sweetheart, but don't get any ideas ;-)
Read the whole report here: FoxNews Article - Runaway Bride
An Associate Press release reports that an international group of astronomers claim to have the first direct view of a planet outside of our solar system. The picture appartently shows a planet that is reported as being 5 times the size of Jupiter, orbiting a red dwarf star and has been appropriately named 2M1207b. This claim has been made before by other astronomers, but age-old politics in the scientific community have left those claims unconfirmed. The planet is 225-230 light-years away from Earth in a star cluster called TW Hydrae or the Water Snake. While Benjamin Zuckerman, an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was part of the team said, "I'm more than 99 percent confident," Lynne Hillenbrand, an assistant professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, said the findings were intriguing, but cautioned against calling the object a planet. "The claim of an object being a planet is subject to one's definition of planet and there are different camps on what that definition is," Hillenbrand said. That's cool and all, but why don't they look for one that we can populate when we run out of room for rutabagas or garbage...
Read the whole report here: FoxNews Article - 2M1207b
More information and a better piture: The European Southern Observatory
Anyway, more later, I have to go sleep now.
An Associated Press release reports that talks between the European Union and Iran did in fact reach an impasse yesterday. Due to this development, Iran has announced that they will begin reactivating parts of their nuclear program. Iran's top negotiator with the EU on nuclear issues was quoted as saying, "It's unlikely that uranium enrichment...which takes place in Natanz will be resumed, but it's likely that some activities at Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility will restart next week." Uranium enrichment is a process by which a particular isotope of uranium (U-235) is seperated from the most common isotope of uranium (U-238). The two methods that are used are gas diffusion and gas centrifuge. Gas diffusion is osmosis on the atomic scale. A porous membrane is used that U-235 will permeate more easily than U-238 will, because U-238 is a bigger atom. Gas centrifuge uses exactly the same principal as blood seperation. The gas is spun in a centrifuge so that the lighter isotope (U-235) will stay in the center while the heavier isotope (U238) is pulled to the sides. Both processes are done in multiple stages and never fully seperate the two isotopes, but nuclear reactor fuel has to have a concentration of U-235 that is above 5%, but it is naturally no more than 0.711% of the uranium that is mined. Think about trying to seperate cars by how many milligrams they weigh...
Read the whole report here: FoxNews Article - Iran
An Associated Press release reports that Jennifer Wilbanks, who was reported missing when she didn't return home from her evening jog only four day before her wedding, has returned home safe a sound. She initially called a police dispatcher to report that she had been abducted and dropped off in Albequerque, New Mexico, but only hours later told her fiancee that she had become nervous about the wedding and needed some time to herself. Her family was a little embarrased but not critical of the runaway bride. Her uncle, Mike Satterfield, said, "Jennifer had some issues the family was not aware of. We're looking forward to loving her and talking to her about these issues." The pastor who was supposed to have married the couple today also pointed out that they had prayed before in the hope that she had simply gotten cold feet, and now they don't have to worry about her being hurt. The owner of a local eatery that had supported the searchers, however, expressed resentment at the "selfishness" of the "self-centered act" and called it "terrible." I love you, Sweetheart, but don't get any ideas ;-)
Read the whole report here: FoxNews Article - Runaway Bride
An Associate Press release reports that an international group of astronomers claim to have the first direct view of a planet outside of our solar system. The picture appartently shows a planet that is reported as being 5 times the size of Jupiter, orbiting a red dwarf star and has been appropriately named 2M1207b. This claim has been made before by other astronomers, but age-old politics in the scientific community have left those claims unconfirmed. The planet is 225-230 light-years away from Earth in a star cluster called TW Hydrae or the Water Snake. While Benjamin Zuckerman, an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was part of the team said, "I'm more than 99 percent confident," Lynne Hillenbrand, an assistant professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, said the findings were intriguing, but cautioned against calling the object a planet. "The claim of an object being a planet is subject to one's definition of planet and there are different camps on what that definition is," Hillenbrand said. That's cool and all, but why don't they look for one that we can populate when we run out of room for rutabagas or garbage...
Read the whole report here: FoxNews Article - 2M1207b
More information and a better piture: The European Southern Observatory
Anyway, more later, I have to go sleep now.
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