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...gravitational pull puts stresses on the moon, causing the fissures from which the plumes erupt. "Enceladus' orbit around Saturn is eccentric," Mitchell says. It's just enough off of circular that the effect of gravity on the moon is different from one point to another, and different from the planet's other moons. "That difference in the tug would be enough to cause the body to distort differently as it goes around Saturn." The friction created when sides of the tiger stripes are pulled apart or pushed together at different points during orbit may be creating the heat that ultimately...
...more cooperative approach in society. I hope that’s the case, because certainly when you look at the environmental problem we face, it’s very serious. In fact unless we make some fundamental changes we’re going to cook ourselves off the planet in the next hundred years. And that problem can only be addressed cooperatively. Our individualism, our libertarianism, our republican selfishness is not serving us well in terms of human governance...
...Davies wants offenders named and shamed, and the worst ones to be thrown in jail. But he says the Parliament shot itself in the foot by trying to keep the report secret. "It was utterly pathetic, naïve and hypocritical. You wonder what planet they grew up on," he says. "The European Parliament is doing good work. But in terms of recognition and acceptance by the wide European public, these incidents can only harm it. And that's a shame...
...engineer in New Zealand named Russell McMahon, who came up with a new design that makes better use of both the solar battery and the LEDs, allowing for a stronger, more dependable light. The result was a perfect example of wiki-innovation - people from opposite sides of the planet, who would have never met each other, coming together to find a solution through the power of the Internet. "There's no limit geographically to the power of problem solving like this," says Kevin Kimberlin, Spencer Trask's CEO. "We're in the first inning of a new renaissance...
...better and that threat is too grave to wait for perfect knowledge before addressing it." The declaration commends government action but makes no specific policy recommendations, such as a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. But, most importantly, given its target readership, it argues that stewardship of the planet is just as Biblical as the other causes that Baptists press in public, and that "when we destroy God's creation, it's similar to ripping pages from the Bible...