The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel

Will Climate Change & Eco-migration Lead to Increased Warfare?

A few years ago the Pentagon-sponsored report, Abrupt Climate Change Scenario warned of the need to strengthen US defenses against "unwanted starving immigrants" from the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. In January 2007, the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root won a contract from the US government to augment existing immigration detention and removal facilities "in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the US."

Scientists Find that Low Self-Esteem & Materialism Goes Hand in Hand

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”

~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk

A Galaxy classic...with a recession going full force, we thought this feature might help ease the pain.

Has Cultural Evolution Replaced Biology?

Now, after some three billion years, the Darwinian era is over. The epoch of species competition came to an end about 10 thousand years ago when a single species, Homo sapiens, began to dominate and reorganize the . Since that time, cultural evolution has replaced biological evolution as the driving force of change.

Freeman Dyson  -professor emeritus of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study

2001 -A Galaxy Classic

Galapagos Goats Exterminated: Capricide on a Pacific Island

If you've ever wanted a job as a professional goat-murderer, sorry, but you've missed your chance.  Now please stay far away from us and try to get some help.  A team of conservationists have successfully exterminated the invasive Galapagos goats on Santiago, completing a four year campaign of capricide on the Pacific island.

The Galapagos goats (or as they were known back then, "just goats") were introduced in the 1920's and they immediately begin eating so much, so hard, that they didn't just threaten the island's species - they threatened the island itself.  Without the plants to hold the soil together erosion accelerated, or put another way, these things eat so hard that the ground goes away.

The Daily Flash: Eco, Space, Science (30/09)

Aging Mars rover’s glitches puzzle NASA

Will We See A Solar Powered White House?

Evolution: The next 200 years

Our Unknown Solar System

Perfect Space Storm Could be Catastrophic on Earth

Astronomers get a sizzling weather report from a distant planet

Saturn's Moon Titan Mimics Earth's Tropics

No, it's not science fiction: If space travelers ever visit Saturn's largest moon, they will find a tropical world where temperatures plunge to minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit, methane rains from the sky and dunes of ice or tar cover the planet's most arid regions -a cold mirror image of Earth's tropical climate, according to scientists at the University of Chicago.

 

Greenhouse Gas Probing Satellite to Measure Global Warming

While thousands of people spout hot air about whether there's any such thing as global warming, Japanese space-scientists have launched a satellite to accurately measure it.  That's why they're awesome space-scientists while the others are busy misspelling their angry comments.  The Ibuki satellite has successfully deployed its solar panels and is all set to watch us for the next five years.

2009 BD- Scary Asteroid Space Stalker

Don't look now, but we're being followed.  You can't miss him - he's ten meters tall, made of rock, and goes by the snappy name of 2009 BD.  Oh, and he's hanging six hundred thousand kilometers above your head.

Missing Link Ancestor of Whales Discovered

Fossil remains found in the Kashmir region of India suggest the fox-sized mammal deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago is the long-sought land-based ancestor of the planet's cetaceans: whales, dolphins and porpoises.