Mas info en El Universal.
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Desde hace tres años, oímos hablar sobre el fin de una era que supuestamente se producirá en diciembre de 2012. Más que un cambio de época, los más agoreros creen que el mundo llegará a su fin en apenas ochos meses.
Pero, ¿son sólo los más pesimistas quienes temen ser testigos directos del fin del mundo?
Lee el artículo completo en BBC Mundo.
Atlantic Hurricane Forecast: Storms Close to the Coast
AccuWeather’s 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecasts 12 named tropical storms, five named hurricanes and two major hurricanes. The 2012 hurricane forecast is near-normal for the Atlantic Basin.
(via jirowsky)
A movie, of course. Starring Keira Knightley and Steve Carrell.
Watch the trailer and read about it in Gawker.
A new company called Planetary Resources, with investors and advisers including the Google bosses Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and the Avatar director James Cameron, aims to mine valuable metals from the asteroids that routinely zoom past the Earth. Along with gold, platinum and other metals, the company hopes to find water, which could provide the raw material for rocket fuel, raising the possibility of fuel stations for passing deep-space rockets.
See it on The Guardian.
It may only be a matter of months before boy bands and teen actresses are replaced by robots - after a talking, singing fem-bot with 65 facial expressions wowed crowds in China.
Geminoid F can produce smiles and even enigmatic, quizzical expressions, using mechanical actuators underneath her rubber ‘skin’.
Her creator says his goal is to create a robot that can fool people into believing it’s a human being.
Complete article in the Daily Mail.
If you find people on Soulmates are poorly prepared for disaster, try hooking up with those serious about surviving an apocalypse
“Doomsday dating” really does exist: websites designed to match those with particular skills and resources for dealing with disaster, be it nuclear attack, extreme weather or economic collapse. Only in the US, perhaps, but with the petrol panics of last week (not to mention that “well from hell” off the coast of Scotland) maybe we could do with a version for dear old Blighty.
You no longer need a heartbeat to be alive. In a groundbreaking surgery last year, doctors William Cohn and Bud Frazier from the Texas Heart Institute in Houston replaced a dying man’s heart with twin turbines, resulting in a living person without a pulse.
Complete article and video in New Scientist.
Airlines and energy suppliers are on alert as the largest solar storm in five years threatens to disrupt flights and power lines.
Airlines and energy suppliers are on alert as the largest solar storm in five years heads toward Earth, threatening to disrupt flights and power lines.
More info on The Guardian.
A dodgy optical fibre connection may have skewed results that appeared to show neutrinos travelling faster than light.
When scientists in Italy announced last year that they had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than light, the world went into a frenzy. An experimental result that broke one of the most fundamental laws of physics, however, was always going to be implausible. And now scientists have homed in on what might have caused the sensational results: bad wiring.
Travelling faster than the speed of light goes against Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity. If it were possible, it would open up the troubling possibility of being able to send information back in time, blurring the line between past and present and wreaking havoc with the fundamental principle of cause and effect.
Complete article in The Guardian.
Has it?
(via misstph)
It appears that North America and Asia are on a collision course to link up as a single, unified supercontinent in the next hundred million years, according to new research from Yale geologists — but not in quite the same way other scientists have predicted. The findings are published in the journal Nature. Here’s a quick look at the dominant landmass of the distant future, “Amasia.”
Complete article in The Week.
Article in Spanish: Un súpercontinente se tragará al Mar Caribe in BBC Mundo.
Chevy, the Super Bowl and the end of the world.
By Chris Piascik.
