Photo, above: Curiosity rover a year later. This is a self-portrait mosaic made from brand new images taken by the MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager), the high-resolution camera located on the turret at the end of MSL’s robotic arm. The arm was moved for each of the 55 images in this mosaic, so the arm...
Photo, above: Pittsburgh VA hospital. See Hour 1, Block C, Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review & Pirates fan, and Lara M Brown, political analyst and author, on Too Tired to Care about VA Scandal? An unknown number of U.S. military veterans are dead within 30 days of contracting...
Photo, above: An image from a NASA animation showing 'tides' on Titan raised by Saturn's gravity, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The fact that Titan gets squeezed and stretched depending on its orbit around Saturn suggests the presence of an ocean beneath its surface, a recent study has...
Photo, above: Tinian. This is where US forces staged saturation bombing of Japan, and assembled and launched the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It's also where napalm was first used in warfare. It's lush and totally peaceful; has beautiful landscapes, rocky cliffs and coves, and close-in...
Photo, above: Oranges. See: Hour 2, Block B, Amy Harmon, NYT, on the race to save the orange by altering its DNA. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 2 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague, Barron's Washington, in re: Low Pay Clouds Job Growth The U.S. labor market's long, slow...
Photo, above: Russian faces on building-high posers all around Egypt. CAIRO, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - In the days of political confrontation between the Islamists and supporters of the army in Egypt Russian President Vladimir Putin is gaining popularity quickly among Egyptian citizens, just falling...
Photo, above: Faster than light/FTL. See: Hour 1, Block C, Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show; Richard Obousy, President of Icarus Intergalactic; & at Baylor University. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday 31 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist...
Photo, above: The Idaho Department of Lands approved two permits to Alta Mesa Services to drill for oil and gas in Payette County. The permits, issued June 11 and June 27, were for two separate sites. . . . The new sites are north of New Plymouth. The state will allow Alta Mesa to drill to 5,800...
Photo, above: The globe of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, is seen illuminated outside Geneva, Switzerland. See: Hour 4, Block D, Danny Hakim, NYT, in re: Faster Than the Speed of Light? JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 29 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn,...
Photo, above: Rafik and Lina Hariri. See: Hour 1, Block A, Michele Dunne, vice president and director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council; the distinguished and much-beloved Hariri was assassinated on 14 February 2005, when explosives equivalent to around 1800 kg...