Diz a Mitologia Urbana que é uma mensagem de despedida...

Empty spaces - what are we living for
Abandoned places - I guess we know the score
On and on, does anybody know what we are looking for...
Another hero, another mindless crime
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime
Hold the line, does anybody want to take it anymore
The show must go on,
The show must go on
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on.
Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance
Another heartache, another failed romance
On and on, does anybody know what we are living for?
I guess I'm learning, I must be warmer now
I'll soon be turning, round the corner now
Outside the dawn is breaking
But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free
The show must go on
The show must go on
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly - my friends
The show must go on
The show must go on
I'll face it with a grin
I'm never giving in
On - with the show -
I'll top the bill, I'll overkill
I have to find the will to carry on
On with the -
On with the show -
The show must go on...

Sem bateria....

Já experimentaram desligar o telemovel 1 dia inteiro...

imaginem que nao teriam bateria...

experimentem....

Vao ver que descobrem que nao faz tanta falta assim...

Férias....

Puebla de Sanabria ou Donaña?

www.lagodesanabria.com

www.mma.es/parques/lared/donana/

The Damage You've Done

Well i wish i had a dollar
For every piece of my broken heart
I wish i had a nickel
For every shred of my shattered life

I'd be a millionaire
But it would not repair
The damage you've done to me

Baby, i wish i had a penny
For every cent i've spent on you
You'd call that breakin' even, wouldn't you baby?
I do whatever i had to do

I'd be a millionaire
But it would not repair
The damage you've done to me

Honey there's no reason for me to hold a grudge
Money isn't everything, but it's a lot to me
And i know sure as there's feathers on a chicken
One day i'll get back every dollar you stole

I'd be a millionaire
But it would not repair
The damage you've done to me

I'd be a millionaire
But it would not repair
The damage you've done to me

Tipico delas.....

Episódio 23 do Lost.. 3ªserie...

Jack, o protagonista, apos um aparatoso acidente de viação (nao interessa os Pormenores), está no Hospital Combalido...

A ex mulher, a quem ele tem tentado contactar sem sucesso, aparece com um ar muito preocupado e grávida do novo namorado/marido... (há..outra coisa, percebe se que é de noite...)

Após aqueles momentos de tensão inicial, etc etc.. Ela, pergunta lhe se esta bem, se precisa de alguma coisa, etc..

Ele responde lhe.. "Estou sem carro.. Dás me boleia para casa?"

Resposta dela??????

"Não. Não acho que seja apropriado..."

Eles andem aí.. (sim Andem foi de proposito...)

Nove casos de condução sob influência de estupefacientes e psicotrópicos, foi este o balanço da operação “Viver 2007” que arrancou na madrugada de anteontem em todo o território nacional, incluindo as ilhas.

A iniciativa envolveu 1.423 militares da GNR e 542 da PSP, tendo a operação resultado também em 110 detenções por crime, como excesso de álcool ou desobediência.

No caso de o teste, efectuado com um aparelho de despistagem (Oatec-3) e que demora 5 a 10 minutos, acusar positivo a drogas, o condutor será encaminhado para uma análise sanguínea, deixando em aberto a possível detecção de medicamentos.

Os tranquilizantes, por exemplo, podem acusar no teste rápido, que só é obrigatório caso o condutor esteja envolvido num acidente ou caso revele indícios do consumo de drogas, seja ele comportamental ou físico.

Multas

Sendo indiferente o espaço temporal entre a realização do teste e o consumo da substância, o que distinguirá a pena a aplicar será o resultado da análise sanguínea. As coimas variam entre 500 e 2.500 euros, e a inibição de conduzir poderão ir de 2 meses a 2 anos.

Os automobilistas apanhados não serão automaticamente impedidos de conduzir.

Coisas Estranhas.....

A Loja M24 na estação do Oriente... encerra das 10 da noite as 7 da manha....

Devia Chamar-se M15

Sabedoria tradicional.....

"Todo o burro come palha, é preciso é saber dar-lha."

Estranho.....

O calor faz nos dizer coisas que as pessoas nao verificam com as acções do dia a dia....


Ou entao é o ar da praia....

Amigos....

Para 2 amigos (que provavelmente nem vao ler isto...)

Obrigado por serem assim...

Por me terem ouvido...

Por estarem desse lado...

Agora é que ja temos motivos para andar de cabeça no ar...

A rare meteor shower predicted to hit Earth on 1 September should give astronomers only their second chance to study an ancient comet's crust. It could also help them develop a warning system against an otherwise insidious threat – a comet aimed at Earth from the dark fringes of the solar system.

September's shower, called the alpha Aurigids, has only been seen three times before, in 1935, 1986 and 1994. The reason for this elusiveness is the shower's unusual origin.

Most meteor showers are caused by short-period comets, dirty iceballs that loop around the inner solar system on orbits lasting less than 200 years, shedding debris each time they approach the Sun's heat. This debris builds up into a broad band along the comet's orbit. Every year, when we pass through, it burns up in the atmosphere and appears as shooting stars.

The Aurigids come from a comet that takes 2000 years to orbit the Sun. With such infrequent visits, Comet Kiess can't build up a broad dust band; it only generates a narrow trail of debris each time.

The showers happen when Earth passes through one of these dust trails in particular, which was thrown off by the comet in 83 BC. "It is only a very narrow trail, and it is only once in a while that it crosses Earth's path," says Peter Jenniskens of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, US.

He thinks the gravity of Jupiter and Saturn controls the path of the dust trail, waving it around like a garden hose, occasionally aiming it at Earth. Along with his colleague Jérémie Vaubaillon at Caltech, US, Jenniskens has calculated that the hose should be pointed at us again this year.

Hard crust

Several teams of astronomers will be watching the shower, both from the ground and from two aircraft following the Earth's shadow.

They are hoping to see fragments of the ancient crust of Comet Kiess. For 4.5 billion years before some gravitational accident nudged it towards the inner solar system, Kiess was drifting among a vast swarm of icy bodies called the Oort cloud lying far beyond the planets.

All that time, high-energy particles called cosmic rays bombarded the comet, and astronomers suspect that created a hard crust by blasting out some of its more volatile substances.

Only once before have astronomers knowingly seen a shower from a long-period comet, when Jenniskens predicted an appearance of the alpha Monocerotids in 1995. They penetrated unusually far into the atmosphere, suggesting that they were made of relatively tough material, perhaps from such a cosmic-ray-produced crust.

This time, astronomers will be looking at the spectral signature of evaporating meteors to test this theory. "Now we are better prepared, we can do more in-depth studies to understand the properties of the material," Jenniskens told New Scientist.

Contribute observations

He also wants to know whether meteor showers such as this could warn of planetary peril. At present, astronomers can only spot a long-period comet a few years before it arrives in the inner solar system, leaving little time to deflect it if it were pointed right at Earth.

But if it had visited the inner solar system before, the resulting meteor shower might be used to trace the comet's orbit and get a much earlier warning. The size and number of Aurigid meteors will tell the researchers how debris has spread along the orbit and how these showers evolve.

They are keen for amateurs to contribute their observations. "We're interested to know what is the brightest, biggest Aurigid," says Jenniskens. "Somebody is going to capture that, and it's probably not going to be us."

The best view of the meteors will be from the west coast of North America, before dawn on 1 September. Based on past showers, there should be up to 200 bright meteors visible per hour, and they may have an unusual blue-green colour.

The shower probably won't return for at least 50 years, according to Jenniskens' calculations. "It's a once in a lifetime event."

O papel da Dama de Honor...

Serviam de escudos para a noiva contra os maus espiritos... Tinham de se vestir de igual com a noiva e assim confundiam os espiritos malignos....

Is the Out of Africa Theory Out?

Tenho um amigo meu que vai ficar todo contente....

An examination of over 5,000 teeth from early human ancestors shows that many of the first Europeans probably came from Asia

By Nikhil Swaminathan

All the ancestors of contemporary Europeans apparently did not migrate out of Africa as previously believed. According to a new analysis of more than 5,000 teeth from long-perished members of the genus Homo and the closely related Australopithecus, many early settlers hailed from Asia.

Erik Trinkaus, a physical anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis (who was not involved in the study), says most evolutionary biologists and anthropologists believe there were three major waves of migration from Africa to Europe: the first occurring about two million to 1.5 million years ago during the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene epochs; a second during the mid Pleistocene, roughly one million to 500,000 years ago; and ending with the spread of modern humans, 50,000 to 30,000 years in the past.

The new findings, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, casts doubt on the second migration out of Africa. "[The researchers] are not denying that it happened," Trinkaus says, "just that it was less important than movement across Eurasia."

The study was led by Maria Martinón-Torres, a paleobiologist at the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain. The research team analyzed the choppers of human ancestors from the Pleistocene and late Pliocene epochs.

"Teeth are the best genetic marker that we have in the fossil record itself," Trinkaus says, because "they are as close as we can get to a reflection of the individual's genetic makeup." The reason: Tooth crowns are genetically determined—and thus reflect an individual's genotype—and are not affected by environmental stress during development.

Scientists found that teeth from African specimens were a different shape or morphology than those from Eurasian samples. The researchers wrote that teeth toward the front of the mouth from Eurasians had more "morphological robusticity," such as a triangular, shovel shape. Their back teeth were smaller and had smoother chewing surfaces; the rear teeth from African samples were larger and the chewing surfaces on them more pointy and jagged.

"The continuity of the 'Eurasian dental pattern' from the early Pleistocene until the appearance of upper Pleistocene Neandertals suggests that the evolutionary courses of the Eurasian and the African continents were relatively independent for a long period and that the impact of Asia in the colonization of Europe was stronger than that of Africa," the researchers wrote in the new report. "This finding does not necessarily imply that there was no genetic flow between continents, but emphasizes that this interchange could have been both ways."

Depositam-se Grande esperanças num "Hot Spot" denominado Piri-Piri

Se a Galp Só tem 5%, porque é que pode escolher os nomes??????

De acordo com o comunicado esta é a "décima segunda descoberta de petróleo no poço de pesquisa, designado por Colorau-1", feita pelo agrupamento que explora o Bloco 32 nas águas ultra-profundas do `offshore` de Angola e que é constituído pela Sonangol, Total, Marathon Oil, Exxon e Galp.

Esta descoberta "está localizada [...] aproximadamente a 16 quilómetros a nordeste da outra descoberta de Manjericão".

Durante os testes efectuados, o poço Colorau-1 produziu 2.130 barris de petróleo por dia, refere a empresa portuguesa no comunicado.

A Galp Energia acrescenta que estão em curso estudos técnicos complementares "para avaliar estes resultados prometedores, e estão igualmente programadas, e em curso, outras perfurações de pesquisa neste bloco".

Os trabalhos de exploração realizados ao longo dos últimos anos no Bloco 32, que deram origem às descobertas de Gindungo (2003), Canela e Cola (2004), Gengibre e Mostarda (2005), Salsa, Pimenta, Caril e Manjericão (2006), bem como "os resultados positivos obtidos" nos recentes poços de pesquisa, Louro-1 e Cominhos-1, "vieram confirmar o elevado potencial deste Bloco", refere a empresa portuguesa no comunicado.

Na exploração offshore em Angola, para além do Bloco 32, a Galp Energia está também presente no Bloco 33, no Bloco 14 e no Bloco 14K/A-IMI. Ainda em Angola, a Galp Energia detém uma participação de 20% no Bloco Cabinda Centro, localizado onshore.

A parceria que explora o Bloco 32 é constituída pela Sonangol (20 por cento), Total (operadora, 30 por cento), Marathon Oil (30 por cento), Exxon (15 por cento) e Galp (5 por cento).

As acções da Galp encerraram hoje na Euronext Lisboa a subir 0,97 por cento, para 10,4 euros.

Eu acho que ainda vamos acabar a fugir dos Dinossauros...

Reparem que "em principio..nao será perigosa para os seres humanos..."

An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers.

If confirmed, this means ancient bacteria and viruses will come back to life as ice melts due to global warming. This is nothing to worry about, say experts, because the process has been going on for billions of years and the bugs are unlikely to cause human disease.

Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, and his colleagues extracted DNA and bacteria from ice found between 3 and 5 metres beneath the surface of a glacier in the Beacon and Mullins valleys of Antarctica. The ice gets older as it flows down the valleys and the researchers took five samples that were between 100,000 and 8 million years old.

They then attempted to resuscitate the organisms in the oldest and the youngest samples. "We tried to grow them in media, and the young stuff grew really fast. We could plate them and isolate colonies," says Bidle. The cultures grown from organisms found in the 100,000-year-old ice doubled in size every 7 days on average.

Sluggish growth

Whereas the young ice contained a variety of microorganisms, the researchers found only one type of bacterium in the 8-million-year-old sample. It also grew in the laboratory but much more slowly, doubling only every 70 days.

By examining the average length of DNA fragments found in all the ice samples, the researchers determined that frozen DNA is progressively degraded as time passes. Its half life is 1.1 million years – that is, after 1.1 million years half the original DNA has been degraded.

The researchers believe the DNA is degraded by cosmic rays, which are particularly strong at the poles where the Earth's magnetic field is at its weakest.

Paul Falkowski of Rutgers University, who led the study, describes the ancient bacteria as small round cells that had been in a "suspended state of animation for 8 million years". He says the increasingly rapid flow of glaciers into the ocean as a result of global warming could release new organisms into the sea but he does not believe this is cause for concern because marine bacteria and viruses are typically far less harmful to human health than, for instance, those found on land.

Gene bank

Russell Vreeland of the Ancient Biomaterials Institute at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, US, agrees. "This has been happening probably for a long, long time. Ice freezes and melts, rocks sink and are eroded. Microbes have been involved with this process for almost 4 billion years," says Vreeland, who has resuscitated 250-million year-old bacteria found in salt crystals. "Earth acts as a gene bank for microbes."

Similarly, Falkowski and his colleagues describe the glaciers as "gene popsicles" containing DNA that can be acquired by existing organisms when it is thawed.

Vreeland says Falkowski has made a "fascinating discovery". But he says there is a chance the ancient bacteria are in fact very young. Ice, says Vreeland, is a very difficult material to work on without contaminating it. Falkowski's team treated their samples with 95 per cent ethanol and bleach, which Vreeland says are not effective sterilisers.

"I don't see anything wrong with an organism surviving this long but I wouldn’t use these techniques," he says.

If true, however, Falkowski's findings could considerably extend the record for the oldest DNA frozen in ice. Last month, a team of researchers led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark announced that they had recovered DNA from the Greenland ice sheet that was up to 800,000 years old (see Oldest frozen DNA reveals a greener Greenland).