The Enlightening Science Thread

It's dark in Bermuda, but the web cam is still operational, this is a live shot from the Port Bermuda Webcam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsKPEx3fgHU

This is also Port Bermuda; Be patient, sometimes the youtube embedded link shows conditions from earlier, restart to see live:

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EDIT: Video is now a 4hour segment from before Sunrise.

Current conditions as of 2014.10.17 2355 UTC : http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/TXKF.html
Wind from the ESE (120 degrees) at 74 MPH (64 KT) gusting to 96 MPH (83 KT)

National Hurricane Center

Gonzalo is expected to weaken, head towards England, and make landfall there sometime Tuesday as an extra tropic storm.

Hurricane Gonzalo: Britain to be hit by lashing rain gale force winds on TUESDAY | Nature | News | Daily Express

Main Search: https://www.google.com/search=gonzalo+england

Tuesday morning the 21st:

Oct. 17, 2014:
Waking up before sunrise is a good way to get a head start on the day. On Oct. 21st, waking up before sunrise could stop you in your tracks. Blame Halley’s Comet. Every year in mid-to-late October, Earth passes through a stream of dusty debris from Comet Halley, and the pre-dawn sky can light up with a pretty display of shooting stars.

Source: 2014 Orionid Meteor Shower - NASA Science

Thursday evening the 23rd:

Oct 17, 2014:
Sunsets are always pretty. One sunset this month could be out of this world. On Thursday, Oct. 23rd, the setting sun across eastern parts of the USA will be red, beautiful and … crescent-shaped. "It's a partial solar eclipse," explains longtime NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak. In other words, the New Moon is going to 'take a bite' out of the sun.

Source: Sunset Solar Eclipse - NASA Science

NASA's Eclipse Home Page for viewing times near your hometown.

   Warning

Even though it is a partial eclipse, DO NOT look directly at it, use dark filters made for viewing an eclipse or project an image through your telescope.

And an Insect I haven't seen in a long time; A Mantis, I was gardening off the gate of my truck when I spotted this Male:

If a male, a virgin right?

A Guy

A Guy said:

If a male, a virgin right?

A Guy

Ah...The joys of procreation.
You would be mostly correct Bill, this one still has its wits about itself.

Study reveals sugar-filled soda ages you just like smoking does

Before you crack that next can of soda, you might want to think again. The results are in on a study that followed 5,309 adults for 14 years to see what, if any effect drinking sugary soda had on aging. The study conducted by University of California professor Elissa Epel indicates that high sugar consumption may result in increased aging in the same way regular smoking does.

After analyzing the data, researchers found that people who drank one 8-oz serving per day (i.e. less than a standard 12-oz can) resulted in 1.9 years of additional aging. Consuming 20-oz each day caused about 4.6 extra years of aging, which the authors are keen to point out is the same seen in studies of smoking. Epel arrived at these estimates by tracking the length of telomeres in the participants’ cells.

A telomere is a region of repeating nucleic acid at the end of each chromosome (the white caps below) in the nucleus of your cells. It’s basically extra DNA that doesn’t code for anything and is attached to your important DNA–the stuff that codes for proteins needed to run your cells. The purpose of a telomere is to buffer your genes against loss from the dense environment inside the cell, and also when DNA is replicated. It really all comes down to cell division (mitosis), which is what keeps the biological machine going. You can probably guess how this relates to aging.

Source

A Guy

I guess that means I am living on borrowed time then.

A Guy

A Guy said:

Study reveals sugar-filled soda ages you just like smoking does

Luckily whisky has no sugar :).

Fallstreak Hole: Photographers capture rare cloud formation in Victoria's east - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Golden said:

Fallstreak Hole: Photographers capture rare cloud formation in Victoria's east - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A Guy