Thursday, June 14, 2007

 

Daily Update 06/14/2007

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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do. Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.

My Favorite Featured Story
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Since 1991, planetary scientists have floated the idea that Mars once harbored vast oceans that covered roughly one-third of the planet. Two long shore-like lips of rock in the planet's northern hemisphere were thought to be the best evidence, but experts argued that they were too "hilly" to describe the smooth edges of ancient oceans.

The view just changed dramatically with a surprisingly simple breakthrough.

The once-flat shorelines were disfigured by a massive toppling over of the planet, scientists announced today. The warping of the Martian rock has hidden clear evidence of the oceans, which in any case have been gone for at least 2 billion years.

"This really confirms that there was an ocean on Mars," said Mark Richards, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Berkeley and co-author of the study, which is detailed in the June 14 issue of the journal Nature.

Twin shores

Two major shorelines exist on Mars, each thousands of miles long--one remaining from the older Arabia Ocean, and another from the younger Deuteronilus Ocean, said study co-author Taylor Perron of UC Berkeley.

"The Arabia would have contained two to three times the volume of water than in the ice that covers Antarctica," Perron told SPACE.com.

Somewhere along the way to toppling over 50 degrees to the north, Mars probably lost some of its water, leaving the Deuteronilus Ocean's shoreline exposed. "The volume of water was too large to simply evaporate into space, so we think there is still some subterranean reservoirs on Mars," Perron said.

The remaining sea would have been located in the same lowland plain as the Arabia Ocean, but almost 40 degrees to the north.

Unstable spin

As a planet spins, the heaviest things tend to shift towards the equator, where they are most stable. Earth, too, has a bulge at its equator. The volcanic Tharsis region of Mars, a vast raised area along Mars' equator, is evidence for how this works.

"This is the reason why this discovery packs extra punch," Perron said. More than a billion years ago, he explained, something happened in the way mass was distributed on Mars to cause the imbalanced portion to shift toward the equator-and allow the vast shores of the Martian oceans to warp.

"We found evidence of the path the shift would have to have occurred, and it matches with the deformation of the shorelines," Perron said.

Elastic surface

Near the equator, the surface of a planet stays in a relatively flattened bulge under the pressure of centripetal forces. But outside of the equator, the rock behaves elastically and often bunches up, like the surface of a deflating balloon. Perron and his team reasoned that the oceanic shorelines were once near the equator, but warped into hilly up-and-down elevations of rock as they move towards the north with the tilting planet.

"On planets like Mars and Earth that have an outer shell ... that behaves elastically, the solid surface will deform," Richards said.

By calculating the deformation, which occurs in a predictable way, the planetary research team found the ridges had to have once been flat, like ocean shorelines.

"This is a beautiful result that Taylor [Perron] got," Richards said. "The mere fact that you can explain a good fraction of the information about the shorelines with such a simple model is just amazing. It's something I never would have guessed at the outset."

Perron and his colleagues aren't certain what caused the toppling of the planet, but they think forces beneath the surface are to blame. "There could have been a massive change in the distribution of mantle," Perron said, "which would have caused the planet to shift into its current position."

Images: Mars Waterworld Imagined Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth Video: All Eyes on Mars Original Story: Mystery Solved: Mars Had Large Oceans
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My Favorite Story Trash News Story
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TMZ has confirmed that Paris Hilton was shipped back to the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood last night -- the same jail where she allegedly teetered on the verge of a mental breakdown. Authorities decided she was OK to leave the medical ward at Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles.

Sources tell TMZ that Hilton has been doing much better with the proper meds, and we're told that there has been pressure on the Sheriff's Department to move her back to the Lynwood jail when the medical facility was no longer necessary. We're told that now Hilton has been deemed "medically stable."

What remains to be seen is if the medicines Hilton was taking will continue to be properly administered .

A rep for the L.A. County Sheriff tells TMZ that Paris was taken from the correctional treatment center at Twin Towers "late last night" and was transported back to Lynwood. The last time she did time at Lynwood, she was in a solitary cell in a special needs unit.

The Sheriff's Department has scheduled a press conference for 8:00 AM PDT. TMZ has learned that the news conference at 8:00 AM will last all of 30 seconds and won't address any further issues.

UPDATE: A Sheriff's rep tells TMZ that Paris will be in the medical clinic at Lynwood until they are sure she will remain medically stable. After that, Paris will move to the same cell she was in before she left the facility.

UPDATE: We're told that Hilton was transferred last night around 11:00 PM.

My Favorite Press Release Today
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Everest Poker has announced the winners of the most recent round of poker tournaments in the Everest Poker Japan Cup. The Everest Poker Japan Cup is a series of online and live freeroll poker tournaments held exclusively for Japanese poker players. The final tournament will be held on Tinian Island.

"We've been really impressed with the response from our Japanese players, many of whom are playing live poker for the first time ever," said Jonathan May, Everest Poker property manager. "These free tournaments give everyone the chance to show off the skills they've developed."

These free tournaments give everyone the chance to show off the skills they've developed.
The winner of the May 12 live qualifier at Duke uses the screen name of AD1 when playing at Everest Poker. He's been playing online poker for ten months and plans to use the grand prize as an opportunity to visit other countries, if he wins. Namazu7 was the winner of the online qualifier held on May 17. An avid golfer and casino game-player, namazu7 plans on using the grand prize to take a company trip. The winner of the May 10 second chance tournament, alternative0, has been playing for 8 months. If they win, plan to use the grand prize money as a buy-in for WSOP 2008.

"The Everest Poker Japan Cup has brought together a wide variety of players," added May. "We look forward to seeing how everyone performs in this and other Japanese events."

The Everest Poker Japan Cup continues through Auguest More information about the Everest Poker Japan Cup can be found at http://www.everestpoker.com/promo/tournament/JapanCup . To register for the online qualifier, players simply log into their Everest Poker account, click on the Multi Table tournament tab, select the online tournament in which they wish to participate in and register. Players who do not win their live event tournaments will be eligible to play in a special monthly "second chance" tournament. Details on participating at these special tournaments will only be available at the live tournaments.

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My Weather: Kansas City
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Today: Partly cloudy. High 88F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph.

Tonight: Clear to partly cloudy. Low 67F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph.

Tomorrow: Except for a few afternoon clouds, mainly sunny. Hot. High around 90F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.

Tomorrow night: Clear to partly cloudy. Low 67F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday: A few clouds. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.

Sunday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s and lows in the low 70s.

Monday: Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the mid 60s.

My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
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Quickie:
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Overview:
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