Rose's Pub

Year of the cat

http://youtu.be/cqZc7ZQURMs
Al Stewart

Grandpa Tell Me Bout The Good Old Days: The Judds

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Jessi Colter - I'm Not Lisa with Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Whiskey lullaby

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

When you say nothing at all

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

If you love somebody set them free

http://youtu.be/Ql2RcwNY5Eo
Sting

Young Hearts Run Free

http://youtu.be/DlXKfFPx7po
Candi Staton

The Living Years

http://youtu.be/eMYz0CU_PPU
Mike & The Mechanics

One of the best inspirational videos ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

LITTLE MICHAEL JACKSON (12year-old Turkish Boy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Light from Alien Super-Earth Seen for 1st Time


Light from an alien "super-Earth" twice the size of our own Earth has been detected by a NASA space telescope for the first time in what astronomers are calling a historic achievement.

NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope spotted light from the alien planet 55 Cancri e, which orbits a star 41 light-years from Earth. A day on the extrasolar planet lasts just 18 hours.

The planet 55 Cancri e was first discovered in 2004 and is not a habitable world. Instead, it is known as a super-Earth because of its size: The world is about twice the width of Earth and is super-dense, with about eight times the mass of Earth.

But until now, scientists have never managed to detect the infrared light from the super-Earth world.

"Spitzer has amazed us yet again," said Spitzer program scientist Bill Danch of NASA headquarters in Washington in a statement today (May 8). "The spacecraft is pioneering the study of atmospheres of distant planets and paving the way for NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to apply a similar technique on potentially habitable planets."


Spitzer first detected infrared light from an alien planet in 2005. But that world was "hot Jupiter," a gas giant planet much larger than 55 Cancri e that orbited extremely close to its parent star. While other telescopes have performed similar feats since then, Spitzer's view of the 55 Cancri e is the first time the light from a rocky super-Earth type planet has been seen, researchers said.

Since the discovery of 55 Cancri e, astronomers have pinned down increasingly strange features about the planet. The researchers already knew it was part of an alien solar system containing five exoplanets centered on the star 55 Cancri in the constellation Cancer (The Crab).

But 55 Cancri e stood out because it is ultra-dense and orbits extremely close to its parent star; about 26 times closer than the distance between Mercury and our own sun.

The new Spitzer observations revealed that the star-facing side of 55 Cancri e is extremely hot, with temperatures reaching up to 3,140 degrees Fahrenheit (1,726 degrees Celsius). The planet is likely a dark world that lacks the substantial atmosphere needed to warm its nighttime side, researchers said.

And to top it all off, the planet is oozing.

Past observations of the planet by the Spitzer Space Telescope have suggested that one-fifth of 55 Cancri e is made up of lighter elements, including water. But the extreme temperatures and pressures on 55 Cancri e would create what scientists call a "supercritical fluid" state.

Supercritical fluids can be imagined as a gas in a liquid state, which can occur under extreme pressures and temperatures. On Earth, water can become a supercritical fluid inside some steam engines.

The previous studies of 55 Cancri e were performed by analyzing how the light from its parent star changed as the planet passed in front of it, a technique known as the "transit method." In the new study, astronomers used the Spitzer Space Telescope to determine the infrared light from 55 Cancri e itself.

Spitzer's new look at 55 Cancri e is consistent with supercritical-fluid waterworld theory. The planet is likely a rocky world covered with water in a supercritical fluid state and topped off with a steam blanket, researchers said.

"It could be very similar to Neptune, if you pulled Neptune in toward our sun and watched its atmosphere boil away," said the study's principal investigator Michaël Gillon of Université de Liège in Belgium. The lead author is Brice-Olivier Demory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

The research is detailed in the Astrophysical Journal.

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NASA's $770 million Spitzer Space Telescope launched in 2003 and is currently in an extended mission to study the universe in infrared light. During that extended mission, telescope engineers modified several settings on the observatory to optimize its alien planet vision, NASA officials said.

The space agency's next major infrared space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope slated to launch in 2018, could potentially reveal even more details about 55 Cancri e and other similar super-Earth planets.

"When we conceived of Spitzer more than 40 years ago, exoplanets hadn't even been discovered," said Michael Werner, Spitzer project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Because Spitzer was built very well, it's been able to adapt to this new field and make historic advances such as this."

Vorenus wrote:

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NASA's $770 million Spitzer Space Telescope launched in 2003 and is currently in an extended mission to study the universe in infrared light. During that extended mission, telescope engineers modified several settings on the observatory to optimize its alien planet vision, NASA officials said.
The space agency's next major infrared space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope slated to launch in 2018, could potentially reveal even more details about 55 Cancri e and other similar super-Earth planets.
"When we conceived of Spitzer more than 40 years ago, exoplanets hadn't even been discovered," said Michael Werner, Spitzer project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Because Spitzer was built very well, it's been able to adapt to this new field and make historic advances such as this."

It is so sad to know that somewhere on this planet a child is starving to death and will not live to know how much money we as a people spent to discover that there is no life anywhere in our universe that we could possibly help, even if we wanted to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

More than a Name on a Wall
Statler Brothers

Is there such a thing as a good troll? That is such a contradiction. I mean we all know the bad trolls,(e.g. Vorenus nasty isnt), but is there such a thing as a good one, a harmless one, a nice one, or do you feel as i do that none can be trusted?

I suppose the only safe thing is to continue to post the truth (we all know trolls hate that the most) and when one does find a nest of trolls to call on Topix to delete delete delete the den of debauchery and thus purge evil.

Let the truth be posted. Viva the truth.

TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS
[Doctor Who /Torchwood]

http://youtu.be/B3Cn5rZgw40

STYX
BBC Productions

"Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"
http://youtu.be/rd3rA89VhtA
Otis Redding
Sandy Lake - Video
Calumet, Michigan

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Paint it Black
Stones

http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Sympathy For he Devil
Stones again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Good Brother John
Jim Ed Brown

heres one for all who hate each other for the color of thier skin.
And for those who are above all of that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Ride Captian Ride
Blues Image

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

The worm song
Just for you Judgie!!
:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

The Wino and I Know
Jimmy Buffett

Luv ya anyways Judgie!!
:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

How about a slow song?

They Dont Dance Like Carmen No More
J. Buffett