Different Directions

Different Directions

Archive for May, 2010

This is beautiful

Monday, May 31st, 2010

& peaceful.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have such clarity of sky in our neighborhoods?

Cotopaxi Volcano Time Lapse Movie

Meteor Party! David Levy’s Leonids

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Here’s a great little video and explanation about a meteor shower: The Leonids.

To get to the video, locate and click:
Meteor Party! David Levy’s Leonids

2010 World Cup – South Africa

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Here’s the Group we are in:

Group C
Team
England
USA
Algeria
Slovenia

To see the schedules, go here.

Aurora Gallery

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Solar activity continues to increase after a two-year solar minimum that ranks among the century’s deepest. The return of sunspots and a resurgent solar wind is good news for aurora watchers, who are seeing some of the best displays since ~2006.

by Tomppa Jurvanen, at Lappeenranta, Finland

Mystery fossil is ancestor of squid

Friday, May 28th, 2010

The ancestors of modern squid may have existed half a billion years ago – a lot earlier than previously thought.

In a new study, Canadian researchers identified a previously unclassifiable fossil that was long believed to belong perhaps to the shrimp family.

They called it Nectocaris pteryx – a small soft-bodied cephalopod with two tentacles rather than the eight or 10 seen in today’s octopuses.