Quotation – July 29, 2013

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Mark Twain

Blue Alien Planet Explained: Inside Hubble’s Exoplanet Color Discovery (Infographic)

by Karl Tate, Infographics Artist

Date: 11 July 2013 Time: 09:00 AM ET

Light from the planet HD 189733b was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and analyzed. Astronomers say that the giant planet has a deep-blue atmosphere, but conditions are in no way Earth-like.

via Space.com

Full Story: Strange Blue World: Alien Planet’s True Color Revealed, a First

 

Quotation – July 28, 2013

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Mark Twain

Quotation: July 25, 2013

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain

Huge Dinosaur Tail Discovered in Mexico

By Laura Poppick, Staff Writer   |   July 23, 2013 12:06pm ET  via LiveScience.com

This is the first intact dinosaur tail to be discovered in Mexico. Fifty vertebrate of have been uncovered so far. Credit: Mauricio Marat / INAH View full size image

A giant dinosaur tail has been uncovered in northern Mexico, paleontologists announced this week.

The well-preserved tail measures about 16 feet (5 meters) long, contains 50 vertebrae, and seems to have belonged to a hadrosaur — a duck-billed dino that lived about 72 million years ago. Hadrosaurs grew to be about 40 feet (12 m) long, so the tail would have taken up just under half the length of its body.

Buried within sedimentary rock in the desert region of Coahulia, this is the first intact dinosaur tail of this size to be discovered in Mexico, and only one of a handful that has been discovered around the world, according to a statement from the Mexican National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH). Back in 2008, archaeologists reported the discovery of another hadrosaur, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis,found in Coahulia. That specimen likely belonged to a juvenile dinosaur; even so it the youngster would have been 25 feet (7.5 m) in length, suggesting V. coahuilensis adults grew to a whopping 30 to 35 feet (9 to 10.5 m) long. [Gallery: Gorgeous Dinosaur Fossils]

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Quotation – July 20, 2013

I never write ‘metropolis’ for seven cents because I can get the same price for ‘city.’  I never write ‘policeman’ because I can get the same money for ‘cop.’

Mark Twain

Quotation – July 8, 2013

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Mark Twain

Quotation – July 4, 2013

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

Bertrand Russell

Quotation – July 3, 2013

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can’t sleep anyhow.

Mark Twain

Quotation – July 2, 2013

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Claude Bernard