Sometimes, when the wave conditions are just right, surfers might be able to ride for a good 20 or 30 seconds, a few hundred feet of heaven out on the open water. Surfers here in the Bay Area are waiting on “the call” for the Mavericks surf contest and the 25-foot waves that come with it.
But depending on where you are, if you catch the right kind of break in the right kind of natural setting, you can ride a wave for miles and miles. That’s what three surfers near the Cook Inlet in Girdwood, Alaska, experienced late last fall, as conditions were so ripe that they were able to catch a wave on the Turnagain Arm and ride the sucker for a good 45 minutes as the ripples carried them through some of the most scenic surfing environment in the United States.
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Have you noticed that Lockheed Martin, the giant weapons corporation, is shadowing you? No? Then you haven't been paying much attention. Let me put it this way: If you have a life, Lockheed Martin is likely a part of it. True, Lockheed Martin doesn't actually run the United States government, but sometimes it seems as if it might as well. After all, it received US$36 billion in government contracts in 2008 alone, more than any company in history. It now does work for more than two dozen government agencies from the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. It's involved in surveillance and information processing for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon, the Census Bureau, and the Postal Service. Oh, and Lockheed Martin has even helped train those friendly Transportation Security Administration agents who pat you down at the airport. Naturally, the company produces cluster bombs, designs nuclear weapons, and makes the F-35 Lightning (an overpriced, behind-schedule, underperforming combat aircraft that is slated to be bought by customers in more than a dozen countries) - and when it comes to weaponry, that's just the start of a long list. After a rogue wave injured more than a dozen spectators at last year’s Mavericks surf contest, onlookers have now been formally barred from lining up along the coast south of San Francisco to catch a glimpse of the world’s most prestigious surfing competition. Every year, tens of thousands of people hunker down along the sandy cliffs that dot the coastline, hoping to see the world’s best surfers come and try their craft on the waves of the Pacific. But more than a dozen people were injured last February when a rogue wave, measuring about 5 to 6 feet high, plowed over a jetty and rushed about 40 feet inland, sending several people to the hospital with injuries as severe as broken legs and arms. As America continues to grieve over the tragedy in Tucson that killed six and injured 19, the husband of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is issuing a call to action.
Captain Mark Kelly, Navy pilot and NASA astronaut, is asking communities to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by dedicating a few hours of service on the holiday. Kelly posted a letter on his wife's website thanking the public for all the prayers and good wishes his family has received and encouraged these communities to continue their powerful outpouring of support. Kelly also asked people to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "What united the victims of the tragedy on Saturday was service - they volunteered in church or at soup kitchens, worked in government, and tended to their communities," Kelly writes. "On behalf of Gabby and our family, I ask that you consider honoring their commitment to service by dedicating a few hours on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day." SEATTLE — This gorgeous new X-ray image of the nearby galaxy M82 shows a frantic burst of star formation that may have been triggered by a close encounter with a nearby galaxy.
M82 is “the prototypical starburst galaxy in the nearby universe,” said astronomer Roy Kilgard of Wesleyan University, who presented the new image in a press conference Thursday at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The galaxy lies just 12 million light-years from the Milky Way, and is the brightest galaxy in the sky in infrared wavelengths. The image above was captured by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory over the course of nearly two years. “It’s extraordinary. I’ve never seen detail like this in an X-ray image before,” Kilgard said. |
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