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President Bush Sets “New Course for America’s Space Program”

On January 14, 2004, President George Bush announced "new course for America's space program" at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D. C. Image courtesy NASA.
On January 14, 2004, President George Bush announced "new course for America's space program" at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D. C. Image courtesy NASA.

January 14, 2004  Washington, D. C. - At NASA's headquarters this afternoon, President George Bush was greeted by NASA Director Sean O'Keefe and Astronaut Mike Foale, who spoke from the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting Earth.

President Bush began, "Today we set a new course for America's space program. We will give NASA a new focus. We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe to gain a new foothold on the moon and prepare for new journeys beyond Earth. ... We will expand human presence across our solar system."

 

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Updated: SARS and Bird Flu Back in Asia

SARS – Health officials in the southern province of Guangdong, China, are reporting a SARS patient, a 32-year-old TV producer who has a coronavirus similar to viruses found in civet cats that are eaten by the Chinese. In addition, two other suspected SARS cases are being investigated, bringing China’s current SARS total to three. Consequently, the Guangdong Health Bureau announced that 10,000 civet cats in the Guangdong markets would be killed to reduce the chance that SARS will spread again in the human population as it did in the 2002-2003 epidemic that killed about 800 people worldwide.Click for report.

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Part 1 – Is Dark Matter the “Heavy Shadow” of Visible Matter?

Graphic depicting visible matter worlds above the blue rectangle and bigger, heavier "shadow," or partner, particles below the blue rectangle that are not seen in the visible matter worlds. Supersymmetry theory in physics postulates that every particle we observe has a massive "shadow-partner" particle. No supersymmetric particle has yet been seen. Image courtesy CERN, Switzerland.
Graphic depicting visible matter worlds above the blue rectangle and bigger, heavier "shadow," or partner, particles below the blue rectangle that are not seen in the visible matter worlds. Supersymmetry theory in physics postulates that every particle we observe has a massive "shadow-partner" particle. No supersymmetric particle has yet been seen. Image courtesy CERN, Switzerland.

January 13, 2004  Ann Arbor, Michigan - In February 2001, the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, Long Island, New York, announced that physicists there had made a new measurement of what is called, "the muon anomalous magnetic moment." The number looks like this:

 

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Strange Unidentified Aerial Objects in Indiana and Pennsylvania

January 10, 2004  Huntington, Indiana - On Sunday, January 4, 2004, The Herald-Press in Huntington, Indiana, published a front page story with the headline, "The Object of Their Vexation" and secondary headline, "The day after Christmas (December 26, 2003), three Huntington law officers saw something moving through the sky over the city in broad daylight (around 2:30-2:45 p.m.) - but they can't explain what it was."

Front page story © 2004 by The Herald-Press, Huntington, Indiana, on Sunday, January 4, 2004.
Front page story © 2004 by The Herald-Press, Huntington, Indiana, on Sunday, January 4, 2004.

 

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Robotic “Geologists” on Mars

 

Panoramic view inside the Gusev crater that surrounds NASA's Spirit lander and its robotic rover. NASA has received 73 percent of a 360-degree crater view. Image courtesy NASA and JPL.
Panoramic view inside the Gusev crater that surrounds NASA's Spirit lander and its robotic rover. NASA has received 73 percent of a 360-degree crater view. Image courtesy NASA and JPL.

January 9, 2004  Ithaca, New York - As the New Year of 2004 gets underway, the Bush Administration announced this week that the President will soon propose a plan to send a manned American mission to Mars and to the moon.

 

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Mysterious Ice Circle in Michigan

Mysterious ice circle discovered on December 28, 2003, by Vaughn Hobe at Mud Lake in Horton, Michigan, about fifteen miles south of Jackson. Investigators Jeffrey Wilson and Ted Robertson investigated on January 1, 2004. Photograph © 2004 by Todd Lemire, Michigan MUFON.
Mysterious ice circle discovered on December 28, 2003, by Vaughn Hobe at Mud Lake in Horton, Michigan, about fifteen miles south of Jackson. Investigators Jeffrey Wilson and Ted Robertson investigated on January 1, 2004. Photograph © 2004 by Todd Lemire, Michigan MUFON.
Horton, Michigan, in Liberty Township is about fifteen miles south of Jackson where the odd Mud Lake ice circle was discovered December 28, 2003, by Horton Resident, Vaughn Hobe.
Horton, Michigan, in Liberty Township is about fifteen miles south of Jackson where the odd Mud Lake ice circle was discovered December 28, 2003, by Horton Resident, Vaughn Hobe.

January 3, 2004  Horton, Michigan – Vaughn Hobe was getting ready for bed and shutting off lights in his Horton, Michigan, home around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 18. As he walked through his dining room and looked out the back windows, he could see “the most incredibly brilliant light.”

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Earth’s Speeded Rotation Puzzles Scientists

Photograph of Earth by NASA.
Photograph of Earth by NASA.

January 2, 2004  Boulder, Colorado - In 1949, the U. S. Bureau of Standards produced the world's first atomic clock which counted the rates of vibration in cesium atoms. Then in 1972, the world adopted an international time keeping system based on atomic clocks. That's when it became necessary to synchronize the resonance of the cesium atom and earth time as measured by the earth's spin. After 1972, the Bureau of Standards had to insert what are called 'leap seconds' into the atomic time keeping system because the earth's rotation slowed a little bit each year.

 

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