At the end of 2018 is Caspar Henderson's book of barely imaginable beings, which describes some somewhat bizarre but really existing creatures, such as the thorny devil, the sea butterfly or the water bear. “A bestiary of the twenty-first century,” reads the original title, but that will soon be very similar to that of the twentieth century: the Book on the beings imagination, published by Jorge Luis Borges in 1967, because soon all those animals will no longer exist. The issue, however, is much more alarming: within a few decades about 75% of living species will disappear from the Earth. In other words: the sixth mass extinction is underway. Already five times in 540 million years – the majority of the living beings disappeared from the planet: the last time 65 million years ago, in the most famous episode in the collective imagination is linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs, although involved also many species of plants, primitive fish, and bacteria. A mass extinction is a biotic transition that has a relatively short Geological duration, in which the Earth's ecosystem undergoes a profound change and due to causes of different origin is linked to the increase in the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere and in the oceans. According to the forecasts of Daniel Rothman – the geophysical nature of the Mit in Boston, who has compared the carbon cycle in the periods in which they occurred the other mass extinctions – some years there is a increase in values that trigger the process of extinction, by 2100 it will reach its apex and will take about ten thousand years to find a new balance. The most dramatic aspect is that for the first time in billions of years, human beings are causing the abnormal increase in carbon concentration. According to a recent Wwf study, in the last 40 years man has eliminated 60% of other living species and statistics go hand in hand with the increase in Co2. This is the biggest biodiversity crisis since we have existed: we lose three thousand species every year, three every hour, with an extinction rate a hundred times higher than normal, according to Science Advance. As if that were not enough, about 30% of vertebrates are decreasing in number of individuals and in geographical expansion. 
According to the Iucn (International Union for Conservation of Nature), which cyclically draws up the Red List of species at risk, a quarter of mammals and an eighth of birds are now at risk of extinction. We currently know about two million animal and plant species, but it is estimated that in the deep ocean or tropical forests there are tens of millions more unknown and endangered species. The sixth mass extinction is called an Extinction of the Holocene, the geological era that started around 11700 years ago, that the last few decades, according to a thesis shared by almost the entire scientific community, has given way to a new phase, that of the Anthropocene, the geological era in which human activities are significantly changing and irreversible territorial structures, ecosystems and the climate on planet Earth. One of the main causes that have triggered the mass extinction, there is of course the global warming, where the data every day are the most alarming: the last five years have progressively been the warmest ever recorded (and will always be worse), and in 2018, the oceans have reached record temperatures, and of course the ice cap in Antarctica melts with a speed six times faster than forty years ago, according to a report released by the journal Pnas (Proceedings of the national academy of sciences) more or less the same day in which Japan surrendered himself to the international agreements to restore the hunting of whales (which, however, in the meantime, continue to die full of plastic in the stomach: an end and a more disturbing danger that we do, we human beings). Data that can no longer be called alarming, but it would be fair to consider apocalyptic, also come from statistics on meat consumption, the abuse of which has been closely linked to gas emissions and the increase in the greenhouse effect. Speaking of consequences that only appear to seem more futile, because of global warming, we may soon find ourselves even without beer or coffee. For more than a decade we have been talking about the progressive disappearance of butterflies or bees, and recently also about catastrophic data and the very serious consequences related to the disappearance of many species of insects, which show how the extinction is ongoing every minute that passes, in every habitat. Probably many of us will live long enough to see the disappearing species of animals or insects that were not at risk until a few years ago and that we have studied in school or seen in the cartoons: why, if it was not clear, unlike all the other mammals, the amount of humans on Earth continues to grow. And by doing so, we'll be alone, a fate far worse than extinction. On the website of the IPCC (International Panel of Climate Change ) are available the latest reports related to the expected effects of the temperature increase of 1.5 °C

It is an old psychology test, very basic, but useful because it allows us to understand a mechanism of the human mind. Looking at the cartoons below you can see both an old and a young girl try to frame them. Well you have seen something that is not there. However, the mind has seen what it wanted to see, in fact someone sees the old woman first and someone sees the young girl first. Each mind is in its own right. Particularly stressful situations can occur in flight, so even an expert pilot can see in a cloud with an unusual shape a UFO, a light moving still exchanging it for a UFO when, instead, it is the refraction that alters the perception of the position or still see some on-board command in the correct position even if it is not (unfortunately it has already happened) and these illusions can make us smile, but they can cause catastrophic effects depending on the context in which we find ourselves. The National Transportation Safety Board has worked several times because of these illusions.

ZBLAN is an heavy-metal glass fiber has lower transmission losses than other common fiber optics, very important for quantum networks, but it is difficult to make due to gravity-causing imperfections to its structure. MIS (Made in Space) produced a 3D printer now on board for ISS (International Space Station) will colaborate with Thorlab to make ZBLAN in micro-gravity. https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Out-of-This-World_Fiber_Optics/a61271 https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Out-of-This-World_Fiber_Optics/a61271

All life forms on Earth are made up of molecules whose supporting structure is always made up of carbon atoms. But in the context of exobiology, the science that studies how life has evolved on our planet and how it could develop in other places in the universe, forms of life based on other elements have been hypothesized.What seems the best alternative to carbon is silicon (the main component of sand). But the silicon atom could not form the long chains that instead characterize carbon-based life; in addition, the compounds formed by silicon with hydrogen (a key element for life) dissolve in water. Phosphorus and nitrogen seem more interesting, but they would work well only in a world with decidedly alien characteristics. In an ammonia atmosphere, for example, plants based on phosphorus and nitrogen could emit hydrogen instead of oxygen. And the corresponding animals could breathe it and burn the sugars by emitting phosphorus and nitrogen. Other elements have also been analyzed: arsenic, chlorine, sulfur. But due to their scarcity and their high reactivity, they do not seem to be able to form stable enough complex molecules. What exobiological forms do we think of meeting?

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day you fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine, stayng home to watch the rain you are young and life is long and there is the time to kill today an then one day you find ten years have got behind you no one told you when to run, you miss the starting gun . And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking and racing around to come up behind you again the sun is the same in the relative way , but you 're older shorter of breath and one day closer to death. every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbed lines hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way the time is gone the song is over thought I'd something more to say Pink Floyd 1973 March 1

Hey! Asgardians! There is a small app to install on your smartphones to stay up to date on what's happening up there at the ISS (and all you can admire). Some examples 1) Japan sea; 2)The last launch of Sojuz ( 2020 April 09) to carrie part of new crew of ISS; 3) Northern Europe; 4) Sunrise on Austral continent. 5) Northern America a look to aurora borealis. His name ISS LIVE now. Look on Play store

The planet we live on is dynamic, impetuous and often destructive. But it is also a planet that knows how to give natural spectacles to the limit of the incredible. The sky is then a color palette and the base of the artist who creates imaginative shapes. Clouds are a science or rather a part of science called meteorology and the play of temperature and humidity of the air, the particular currents of that specific place give us panoramas that remain etched in the mind of those present at the show.

A fundamental aspect to life outside our biosphere is feeding as we do to feed the engines of our ship so we have to feed the engine of our organism.Already on Earth hydroponic crops are conducted in properly lit and heated greenhouses these already allow us to have vegetables all year round not taking into account the seasonal cycle. The Selected Seeds are therefore important; we do not speak therefore of sterilized seeds for commercial use that oblige the grower to buy seeds for each harvest. Let's talk about naturally active seedlings.Studies on the behavior of seedlings in space were conducted and gave rise to the first harvest of space salad and the first flowering of flowers in 2017. So the seeds in space work. Look, instead, that still requires attention is the complete cycle of plant life (sowing, growth, flowering, pollination, formation of the fruit, fall to the ground, maceration of the fruit with the seeds and resumption of the cycle). Where is the cycle particularly sensitive? In pollination, if gamma rays or solar eruptions increase their intensity in the pollination phase this, being the genetic patrimony of the plant can interact modifying or becoming sterile .The greenhouses in which to grow our plants are already a reality. The growth of plants in a gravity-free environment is a fact. The closure of the plant cycle with natural method is still missing . On Mars to give an example, it would be harmful to use soil since soil lacks the organic content characteristic of Earth's soil . The soil is sterile affected by the continuous emission of gamma and ultraviolet rays of the sun the atmosphere is composed only of the heaviest gases such as carbon dioxide (95%) and extremely rarefied (0.7 / 0.9 KPa). At the moment, a greenhouse in space appears more feasible than one on a planet like Mars almost totally devoid of water, atmosphere, and whose malleability to life we do not yet know enough. In space it still remains to develop safely the phase of pollination by natural methods air transport in the motions of internal ventilation of the space station or spaceship that is. Seeds are fundamental but they are the basis from which to start because a bag of seeds is like the tank of a car; once the seeds are finished ? We're left without it ... gasoline. Let's refine this part of the plant cycle, the pollination in space and make it safe and we'll have the basis to make a generational Spaceship, A Space Station, a base on Mars self-sufficient . Another step to the stars.

Asgardia will be an indipendent nation, if it will have indipendent energy resources to drive its digital infrastructure, services and making goods. Where the Sun is not available, Asgardia needs any energy resource availble by technology. Here the patent pending of the next generation of power cells, a solid state battery with graphene stratification is able to recharge itself with energy harvesting process. It can be used applied in e-mobility, but what will happen if serverfarms start to became sustainable no matter is the computing power?

Meteorite in the sky of North Italy. https://www.astronomitaly.com/blog/astronomy-pictures-and-news/bolide-luminoso-avvistato-sui-cieli-del-centro-nord-italia-era-un-meteorite

Talk about socializing honestly, talking about going to other planets, dreaming of new technologies, dreaming of civilly controlling the space we can reach. Talk about a fair world dream of a world full of smiles. Look inside ourselves and look for the island on which our soul lives. Watching TV and seeing long lines of trucks taking away lost islands because our Earth is sometimes loving mother and sometimes caustic stepmother. Learn, talk, build, build in ourselves and remember, always remember where we come from, taking care of it because lacking essential things the old man in us will not live and our caustic stepmother will show us other rows of trucks full of lost islands. We pay attention, we are Earthlings,Asgardian of the 3rd planet of the solar system, Albedo 0.39 and an invisible enemy that comes from the microcosm, to fight and win civilly with the weapons of conscience, of science.

Stellar Outpost of Lojano, Science Log, Asgardian Date 24 Aries 0004. A group of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Institutes of Health, University of Waterloo and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), has created an innovative three-phase neutron interferometer, capable of scanning inside meteorites and other porous materials such as gels and foams at the base of common consumer products. It could be tool for future research in space exploration and asteroid mining. https://avampostostellarelojano.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/scanner-ad-interferometria-neutronica-trifase/

A team of researchers of UCLA developed a new design of optical sensor based on graphene and nano-structured gold-titanim brush shaped plates. They demonstrate improvement of the response times by more than sevenorders of magnitude and an increase in bandwidths of one order of magnitude compared to those of higher-responsivity graphene photodetectors based on quantum dots and tunneling barriers. https://avampostostellarelojano.wordpress.com/2020/03/17/fotorivelatori-al-grafene-ad-alte-prestazioni/

It is part of a virus strain that affects both animals and humans (depending on the subgroup to which the virus to be referred belongs to. SARS, the simple cold, but also viral strains such as FIP belong to this unpleasant family which in cats is fatal, causing irreversible peritonitis and resistant to known drugs. In the last decades this family has expanded with mutations, such as the aforementioned SARS, Covid 19, or MERS new subgroup. CoviD 19 is a mutation of a virus that it infects other types of mammals belonging to the animal world. This mutation has surprised many experts and the seriousness of its effects derives from the lack of specific therapies for contrast and the high asymptomatic contagiousness. We are fighting a war against one of the smallest creatures of this world and at the moment has scared us, even beaten us up and made us lose precious friends and relatives. A lesson in humility, a lesson to remind us that the planet is alive and evolving.

Thus was presented this scourge that frightened humanity by forcing the individual to isolate himself from high contagiousness. A mortality similar to that of the flu (about 2%). Looking at today's data in Italy we are at 6.8% (21,157 infections and 1,441 deaths). It is a fact that makes one think for life in the exosphere. What to do if a virus or bacterium suddenly becomes aggressive both in space and on earth before astronauts leave. On earth it is relatively easy, there are sanitization protocols both in and out of those laboratories where viruses and bacteria are studied. Different is what can happen in space if a contagious avent occurs or if a bacterial or viral disease occurs after an incubation. A solution could be to provide a quarantine module, in which to isolate the sick on one side and on the other a safety module together with a ventilation of the remaining modules together with the extensive use of bactericidal lamps. Uninfected astronauts isolated in the safety form, pending completion of the sanitization procedure. 1 injection of disinfectant / bactericide aerosol 2 stand by as required 3 release of pure strong bactericidal oxygen 4 discharge of the mix into the space vacuum 5 restoration of the normal internal atmosphere This procedure request a lot of gas ad atmosphere but if is necessary...