Dexters' Arena!: CLOUD OF DUST

Dexters' Arena!: CLOUD OF DUST: Africa, The fertile land for men in clerical shirts with dog collars, Men who lived in a hut devoid of the sun, They stand on the alt...

CLOUD OF DUST

Africa,

The fertile land for men in clerical shirts with dog collars,

Men who lived in a hut devoid of the sun,

They stand on the altar painted with mud and thus proclaim

“Thus says my pocket, thou shall be filled.”

The colour that beholds beauty;

But this colour term to have blinded the lifeless people,

Those who stand and wait for the sky to fall,

The sky that is held by men who have soiled their hands with blood;

Men who stand to show their gift of the gab.

Africa,

A safe land for men, who hide in the invincible cloak of wickedness,

And speak peace under the sun,

Peace that is very far from their darkened heart.

The landing space for men that have sold their stars to their masters,

Controlling their appearance and shining.

For the sake of an unseen reward,

They trumpet down the walls of our country,

And litter the grave yard with the pieces of our brothers.

To such men I ask “where have your conscience gone?”

Africa,

The sun that determines the brightness of the moon;

You strive for the star,

Yet it seems to be deeming away from you,

Bringing the dark clouds to your eyes,

And leaving us to kiss the thorns with our feet –

Look up, and never look down.

Flood the land, but do not flood the people.

Hide your raindrops from the thirsty scavengers,

Whose missions are to separate the roots from the soil,

To brown the green,

And to storm the calmness of the sea;

Let the land fertilize them all.

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UPCOMING COMETS AND MARS SPACECRAFT

Two comets will buzz Mars over the course of the next year, prompting excitement as well as some concern that cometary particles could hit the spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet and exploring its surface.

Three operational spacecraft currently circle Mars: NASA's Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), as well as Europe's Mars Express. NASA also has two functioning rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity, on the ground on Mars. All of these spacecraft will have ringside seats as Comet ISON cruises by Mars this year, followed by Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) in 2014.
The MRO spacecraft has been on the lookout for Comet ISON, said Richard Zurek, MRO project scientist and chief scientist in the Mars Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. On Aug. 20, MRO looked for Comet ISON, which experts say could put on a dazzling sky show here on Earth shortly after the icy wanderer zips a scant 724,000 miles (1.16 million kilometers) above the surface of the sun on Nov. 28. During last month's observation by MRO, ISON was 1 astronomical unit (AU) from Mars and 2.5 AU from the sun. (One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun — about 93 million miles, or 1.5 million km.) Given ISON's distance from the sun, the comet should have crossed the solar system's "snow line" by that time, Zurek told SPACE.com. At the snow line, many comets brighten as ice more rapidly sublimes into gas due to increasing solar radiation. "The MRO instruments did not see anything," Zurek said, and evidence suggests the instruments "were pointed accurately. Thus, the current conclusion is that the comet had not brightened quite enough to be seen at that range with the MRO instruments." Comet ISON's current luminosity is a topic of much discussion among astronomers and skywatchers alike. The icy wanderer was branded a "comet of the century" candidate almost immediately after its discovery in September 2012, but recent observations suggest that it's not brightening as much as expected or hoped on its trek toward the sun.

More observations ahead MRO will look at ISON again, Zurek said, with observations scheduled for Sept. 29, Oct. 1 and Oct. 2 (when the comet will be closest to Mars). At those times, ISON will be roughly 14 times closer and will likely be relatively easy to detect. (Comet of the Century? Sun-Grazing Comet ISON Explained (Infographic)) "At the closest passage distance, there is no concern that cometary particles from ISON will affect the orbiters or Mars," he said. NASA's 1-ton Curiosity rover and its smaller, older cousin, Opportunity, will also image ISON from the Martian surface later this month, Zurek said. However, those plans are still being formulated. The spacecraft in orbit around Mars and on the planet will give scientists a better chance of investigating Comet ISON, though that is not their primary function, said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. "Mars has a better view than Earth does right now," Meyer said. However, it is "challenging for orbital and landed assets as they are not really designed to do this sort of thing. They are supposed to be looking at Mars." Meyer spoke via Skype Aug. 25 during a New Media Practitioners Professional Development Workshop on the upcoming launch of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution orbiter (or Maven for short). The workshop took place at the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).

Culled from Discovery News

NEW SPECIES OF LEGLESS LIZARDS FOUND AT LAX

A bustling airport would hardly seem the place to find a new species of reclusive animal, but a team of California biologists recently found a shy new species of legless lizard living at the end of a runway at Los Angeles International Airport. What’s more, the same team discovered three additional new species of these distinctive, snake-like lizards that are also living in some inhospitable-sounding places for wildlife: at a vacant lot in downtown Bakersfield, among oil derricks in the lower San Joaquin Valley and on the margins of the Mojave desert.

VOICES FROM WITHIN;THE FRIGHT OF FLIGHT

i have a dream,
but with it comes a fear,
of enjoying so much the fantacy,
and yet watch it slip away,

i have so great a desire,
but along comes this fear,
that what i crave so dear,
may be too wrong or right,

THE SOUL-INSPIRING STORY

Far away the shouts of strive,
In my ear it dives.
Then I know the sins of the Forefathers beset on the cloud.
Tried to doubt,
But fear of the things the land will vomit gang.
Yet, none can move me from my Father’s land.

Far below the storms of life,
For the war of attrition rise,
Men in battle long to fight the spirits of the sand;

Do you feel pinned down on your bed after waking up or just going to sleep?

Do you feel pinned down on your bed after just waking up or going to sleep? it is a condition known as the sleep paralysis or the old hag syndrome. You cant move or scream, and sometimes this paralysis is accompanied with the feeling that someone or something is in the room. Sleeping paralysis or the old hag syndrome is one of the most horrifying experiences in life which can occur at anytime of the day, because of the helpless and incapacitated state it throws the victim into.

Who's Faster? Bolt or Farah.

Jamaican super-sprinter Usain Bolt has accepted a challenge from British long-distance champ Mo Farah for a charity race later this summer at a distance somewhere in between the two runner's strengths. Who would win?

Microprocessor Powered By Wine

Sep 19, 2013 06:39PM
Alyssa Danigelis

Pour a tall one for super-efficient computer chips. Literally. Device engineers at Intel have created a microprocessor that powers up from a single glass of red wine.

Supercharged! Battery Power for the Future

The silicon microprocessor was demonstrated recently during a talk (video) by Genevieve Bell at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. “If we want to have mobile technology that doesn’t burden us down, that knows us, it turns out we’re going to need really, really low power,” she said.

The system was made in Intel Labs as part of an internal project to redefine what low power really means. While the demo was intentionally short on details, the engineer explained that it’s a bit like that school project where you power an LED with DIY lemon batteries (video) but instead of lemons, they used wine — this being California after all.

I AM CHRISTIAN,poem

Author:

Chibuzor Franklyn Ogamba, Nigeria

Who says am not christian,
my inner desire is materialism,
i worship wealth,pride,success,
with God as a means,

THE ARENA IS OPEN!!!!

Okay dexterous ladies and gentlemen, we would like first and foremost to welcome you to the ARENA! Throughout our journey together, we, your hosts, hope that we have a smooth ride and that you enjoy it all the way. We are FRANK and MICHAEL, FM for short, and we are undergrads. Michael is a student of Petroleum Engineering at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri and Frank is a student of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Lagos, both in Nigeria.