Thursday, March 21, 2013

Inside Story - Catholic Church at a crossroads

As the Vatican announced Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the next pope we ask: how will he overcome the challenges ahead? Inside Story, with presenter Jane Dutton, discusses with guests: Francis Lucas, an executive secretary of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines; Michael Walsh, a papal historian and author of The Conclave: A sometimes Secret and Occasionally Bloody History; and Jack Valero, the director of Catholic Voices.

Friday, March 15, 2013

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Japan holds memorial for tsunami victims

Japan has observed a moment of silence to remember the nearly 19,000 people who died in the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck two years ago.

At a memorial service in Tokyo attended by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, attendees stood in silence at 2:46pm, the precise moment the 9.0-magnitude quake struck off northern Japan on March 11, 2011. The earthquake was the strongest recorded in Japan's history and unleashed a towering wave that wiped out entire coastal communities.

Walls of water 13 metres high smashed into Tokyo Electric Power Co's (Tepco) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, knocking out its main power supply, destroying backup generators and crippling the cooling system. Three reactors melted down in the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986.

The triple calamities stunned a nation that had thought itself prepared for disasters and been taught to believe that nuclear power, which supplied nearly 30 percent of electricity at the time, was clean, safe and cheap.

A panel of experts commissioned by parliament to probe the nuclear crisis dubbed it a man-made disaster resulting from "collusion" among the government, regulators and the plant operator.

All told, some 300,000 people remain displaced by the disaster two years later, and virtually no rebuilding has begun.

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At a memorial service in Tokyo attended by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, attendees stood in silence at 2:46pm, the precise moment the 9.0-magnitude quake struck off northern Japan on March 11, 2011. The earthquake was the strongest recorded in Japan's history and unleashed a towering wave that wiped out entire coastal communities.

Walls of water 13 metres high smashed into Tokyo Electric Power Co's (Tepco) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, knocking out its main power supply, destroying backup generators and crippling the cooling system. Three reactors melted down in the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986.

The triple calamities stunned a nation that had thought itself prepared for disasters and been taught to believe that nuclear power, which supplied nearly 30 percent of electricity at the time, was clean, safe and cheap.

A panel of experts commissioned by parliament to probe the nuclear crisis dubbed it a man-made disaster resulting from "collusion" among the government, regulators and the plant operator.

All told, some 300,000 people remain displaced by the disaster two years later, and virtually no rebuilding has begun.

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Mars Underground [HD] Japan Landing In 2024 Robert Zubrin JAXA Space Program Mars Gas Hopper Plane Transorbital Railroad MELOS

"This film captures the spirit of Mars pioneers who refuse to let their dreams be put on hold by a slumbering space program. Their passionate urge to walk the soil of an alien world is infectious and inspirational. This film is the manifesto of the new space revolution." James Cameron

The Mars Underground - Pioneers for the Next World

Leading aerospace engineer and Mars Society President Dr. Robert Zubrin has a dream. He wants to get humans to the planet Mars in the next ten years.

Now, with the advent of a revolutionary plan, Mars Direct, Dr. Zubrin shows how we can use present day technology and natural resources on Mars to make human settlement possible. But can he win over the skeptics at NASA and the wider world?

The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary that follows Dr. Zubrin and his team as they try to bring this incredible dream to life. Through spellbinding animation, the film takes us on a daring first journey to the Red Planet and envisions a future Mars teeming with life and terraformed into a blue world.

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Saturday, March 2, 2013

SPACE@NAVI-Kibo WEEKLY NEWS 第188号 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

「きぼう」日本実験棟で2008年8月から実験が行われていた「マランゴニ対流実験(
­第1テーマ)」が2月25日に無事終了しました。今回は代表研究者の西野耕一教授(横­浜国立大学大学院)のコメントを交えながらマランゴニ実験を振り返ります。また日本に­帰国した星出彰彦宇宙飛行士の記者会見やミッション報告会の様子、若田光一宇宙飛行士­の最新情報などもご紹介します。

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宇宙ステーション補給機「こうのとり」シンポジウム開催
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On 1 October 2003, three organizations were merged to form the new JAXA: Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (or ISAS), the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL), and National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). JAXA was formed as an Independent Administrative Institution administered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).[5]
Before the merger, ISAS was responsible for space and planetary research, while NAL was focused on aviation research. NASDA, which was founded on 1 October 1969, had developed rockets, satellites, and also built the Japanese Experiment Module. The old NASDA headquarters were located at the current site of the Tanegashima Space Center, on Tanegashima Island, 115 kilometers south of Kyūshū. NASDA also trained Japanese astronauts, who flew with the US Space Shuttles.[6]
In 2012 new legislation extended JAXA's remit from peaceful purposes only to include some military space development, such as missile early warning systems. Political control of JAXA passed from MEXT to the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office through a new Space Strategy Office.
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