Saturday, 13 December 2014

Geminid meteor shower


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 Geminid meteor shower

14 December, 2014, USA, USA NEWS CORP

It's the most wonderful time of the year -- for spotting a Geminid meteor! The 2014 Geminid meteor shower is forecast to be a lively meteor shower with great views in the skies over Earth. The week of Dec. 8 is a good window for Geminid-watching, but the night of Dec. 13-14 is the anticipated peak. Best viewing will be in dark sky locations, away from city lights.
Geminids are pieces of debris from an object called 3200 Phaethon. Long thought to be an asteroid, Phaethon is now classified as an extinct comet. Basically it is the rocky skeleton of a comet that lost its ice after too many close encounters with the sun. Earth runs into a stream of debris from 3200 Phaethon every year in mid-December, causing meteors to fly from the constellation Gemini. When the Geminids first appeared in the early 19th century, shortly before the U.S. Civil War, the shower was weak and attracted little attention. There was no hint that it would ever become a major display. 
On Dec. 13, Cooke and a team of astronomers from Marshall Space Flight Center will host an overnight NASA web chat from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. CST, answering questions about the Geminid meteor shower. The Geminids are expected to peak just before dawn on Dec. 14, with a predicted peak rate of 100 to 120 meteors per hour.


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Mexico is sinking day by day

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Mexico is sinking day by day

14 December, 2014, Mexico, USA NEWS CORP

The Journal of Geography and Geology expressed its concerns over climate change. Many parts are sinking day by day. The Journal of Geography and Geology says In near future geographical boundaries of coastal cities are likely to be changed. Radar images from the Sentinel-1A satellite show ground movement in Mexico City, with some areas sinking up to 2.5 cm/month!




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Rosetta ESA


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Rosetta ESA

14 December, 2014, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, USA NEWS CORP

Rosetta launched in 2004 and arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014. It is the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet, escort it as it orbits the Sun, and deploy a lander to its surface. Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI. The Journal of Geography and Geology expected the occurrence of water beyond the earth. ESA’s Rosetta Mission has found the water vapour from its target comet to be significantly different to that found on Earth. The discovery fuels the debate on the origin of our planet’s oceans









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Facebook says No to dislike button

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Facebook says No to dislike button

 13 December, 2014, California, USA NEWS CORP



Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has ruled out adding a ‘dislike’ button on Facebook “anytime soon.” The 30 year-old says there has been great demand and the social network is looking for ways users can “express a wider range of emotions.”
Facebook generates around 4.5 billion ‘likes’ a day according to the site’s official figures. However, there is no option to ‘dislike’ something at present. Zuckerberg says the company is mulling this, but it’s not something they’re going to rush. What I think is there are more sentiments that people want to express rather than just positivity. People share things that are sad or are tough cultural or social things and people tell us they are not comfortable pressing ‘like’ because ‘like’ is not the appropriate sentiment when someone lost a loved one or is talking about a difficult issue. “I think giving people the power to express more emotions would be powerful, but we need to find out the right way to do it, so that it is a force for good and not bad and demeaning the person out there,” Zuckerberg added. 
Fake likes Facebook's Like button has been criticised as being a method by which the social network collects data on its users' browsing habits.  The system has also come under fire due to a high volume of "fake likes" - when the popularity of a brand or piece of content is inflated artificially. On closer inspection, many of the "likes" appeared to come from accounts that were not real people. Hardly any of the "likes" originated from places like the UK or US - instead the majority originated in places such as the Philippines.  Facebook has initiated legal action against firms offering "fake likes" or other bogus business practices on the social network. Facebook's big concern is revenue.  "They need to keep their advertisers happy. 'dislike' button may harm advertisers.  'dislike' button will lead to online bullying.
YouTube, for instance, has a ‘dislike’ button users can press if something doesn’t appeal to them. However, such a mechanism could lead to bullying and numerous negative comments. “Some people have asked for a ‘dislike’ button because they want to say that thing isn't good. That's not something that we think is good for the world,” the Facebook CEO said. Zuckerberg hasn’t ruled out adding a ‘dislike’ in the future, saying, “we don’t have anything coming out soon, but it is an important area of discussion.”  However, for those too desperate to wait for a ‘dislike’ button, they can still add a thumbs-down sticker in the comments section.

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Xi Jinping says Nanjing Massacre undeniable on 77th anniversary

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13 December, 2014, China, USA NEWS CORP
Xi Jinping October 2013 (cropped).jpgNANJING, China. Xi Jinping said Saturday that no one can deny the Nanjing Massacre, as China for the first time held a national day of remembrance for the Japanese military rampage that Beijing says killed 300,000 people. A crowd of 10,000 people attended a ceremony in Nanjing to mark the 77th anniversary of the massacre, including ageing survivors some in their 90s of the Japanese invasion of the eastern city on December 13, 1937. The crowds sang China’s national anthem at the ceremony broadcast live on national television, followed by a moment of silence, as a siren symbolising grief blared and the Chinese flag flew at half-mast under clear skies. “Anyone who tries to deny the massacre will not be allowed by history, the souls of the 300,000 deceased victims, 1.3 billion Chinese people and all people loving peace and justice in the world,” Xi Jinping said in a speech at the ceremony, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. Later 3,000 doves symbolising peace were released into the skies in memory of the victims, according to Xinhua.
In February, China’s National People’s Congress, the country’s Communist Party-controlled legislature, made the anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre an official day of remembrance along with September 3 to mark the country’s victory against Japan in 1945 as tensions with Japan over a maritime territorial dispute and rows over history intensified. The move tens the relations between Japan and China. It clearly seems a political move. The “Rape of Nanking” is an exceptionally sensitive issue in the often-tense relations between Japan and China, with Beijing charging that Tokyo has failed to atone for the atrocity. The Chinese state continues to persecute and deny basic humans rights to the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. The Japanese military invaded China in the 1930s and the two countries fought a full-scale war from 1937 to 1945 that ended with Japan’s defeat in World War II. China says 300,000 people died in a six-week spree of killing, rape and destruction after the Japanese military entered Nanjing, although some respected foreign academics put the number lower. The Chinese state murdered thousands of its own citizens during the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. China historian Jonathan Spence, for example, estimates that 42,000 soldiers and citizens were killed and 20,000 women raped, many of whom later died. But no respected historians dispute that a massacre took place. NHK denied a massacre in Nanjing, reportedly dismissing accounts of it as "propaganda". Japan’s position on Nanjing is that “the killing of a large number of noncombatants, looting and other acts occurred”, though adds “it is difficult to determine” the correct number of victims. Japan and the People’s Republic of China established diplomatic relations in 1972. But ties have been strained by a territorial dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea and nationalist views and actions by Japanese politicians, including visits to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates Japan’s war dead including convicted war criminals from World War II. Last month, however, Xi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who leads his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in national elections on Sunday, held a strained first formal summit in Beijing on the sidelines of the annual APEC meeting hosted by China in a bid to improve bilateral relations.



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Landslide in central Indonesia kills 8 and left at least 100 missing

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Landslide in central Indonesia kills 8 and left at least 100 missing 

13 December, 2014, Indonesia, USA NEWS CORP


'It has been raining non-stop for two days, and that is the reason this huge chunk of mountain came down - a whole village has been wiped away,' a local reporter said. Heavy rains in recent days triggered a rush of mud, rocks and trees from the mountains overlooking Java's Banjarnegra District on Friday evening. The landslide buried at least 105 houses in and near Sampang village. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said on Saturday that more than 100 houses had been buried in the large landslide that took place in a hilly district in the province of Central Java. In recent years, floods and landslides have repeatedly battered Indonesia, which is a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains. During Indonesia’s annual rainy season, which peaks between December and February, the country is prone to flooding, exacerbated by clogged rivers and sewers. Satellite data appears to show parts of central Java have received about 200 millimeters (7.9 inches) of rain so far this month. That would be roughly the amount that the area gets on average the entire month of December. The Journal of Geography and Geology confirmed the incident and stressed upon improved disaster management at right time.

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