Mars rover NASA's latest start their journey to the Red Planet. Curiosity, car-sized vehicle that had slid over the weekend and was to travel as far as 570 million kilometers from Earth to Mars.
If nothing gets in the way, it is estimated, giant robots valued at U.S. $ 2.5 billion or about Rp22, 7 trillion, it will arrive on Mars approximately 8.5 months later.
"We have started the journey," said Pete Theisinger, MSL Project Manager of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as quoted from Space, 28 November 2011. "The spacecraft is in good condition and is now heading towards Mars," he said.
The MSL's primary mission to Mars is to determine whether the planet is unable or once supported microbial life. This mission which started doing this myself since 2003 is planned to be deployed in 2009, however, NASA failed to meet deadlines.
But the success of the launch is just the first stage of a difficult mission which is expected to last at least two years of time on Earth. "We understand this is just the early stages of the mission. We still have to work hard in the next 8.5 months, "said Theisinger.
The plan, Curiosity will land on Mars in August 2012. However, the mission team members can not be relaxed to let vehicles weighing 1 ton to go alone to Mars. They should continue to monitor and make corrections direction. The team will also conduct a number of tests to ensure the 10 scientific instruments that are there work well.
Mayans never predicted the 'end' will occur on December 21, 2012. It is known from the discovery of the Mayan calendar and inscriptions contained in a stone inscription, found on the site Tortuguero, the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, Mexico.
But it turns out, the forecast 'doomsday' is not simply found the Mayan inscriptions on tablets of stone in Tortuguero. A similar prediction was found in an engraving (or perhaps relief) are made of brick, near the ruins of Comalcalco. The Comacalco is unique, because it rarely Mayan temple made of brick.
A spokesman for the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, Arturo Mendez, said the findings are also fragments of these inscriptions have been found since a few years ago. This object has also been investigated, but was not shown and only kept in the institute.
"Comalcalco Brick" is then discussed in a number of lively Internet forums. However, many doubt these findings refer to December 21 or December 23, 2012, as a day of 'doomsday'.
"Some have proposed it as another reference about 2012, but I'm still not sure," said David Stuart, an expert Maya epigraphy at the University of Texas, Austin, United States.
Stuart explains, it is a circle of bricks dating. "The combination of days and months that his position will be repeated every 52 years," said Stuart.
Dates in the brick, according to Stuart, it simultaneously with the final rotation Baktun to-13, based on the Mayan calendar. Rotation Baktun expected to last for 394 years, and number 13 is sacred number for the Maya.
Mayan calendar anticipated to begin in 3114 BC and ended on the 13th Baktun Rotation on December 21, 2012.
However, the calendar on the brick that may explain the Mayan calendar in the past. "There's no reason it can not be a date in the past, which explains some important events and historic Mayan Classical period. In fact, the glyph (inscription) reads like a third in the brick as a verb, 'he is (he / SHE / it) come ', "said Stuart.
"There is no explanation of the sentence that refers to the future (future tense), and according to my calendar this Comalcalco more historical rather than a prediction," continued Stuart.
Based on the inscriptions Tortuguero, there is an explanation of what will happen in 2012. One is the emergence of Yokte Bolon, who is the mysterious Mayan god, who had been associated with war and creation.
Although the inscription is not found to be perfect, the inscription was allegedly called the sentence: "He will come from the sky."
National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico and then say, 'Resurrection' in December 2012 is a misinterpretation of Western nations in reading the Mayan calendar. "Divination west has to twist cosmovision (cosmic vision) of past civilizations like the Mayans."
Prophecy 'doomsday' 2012 this was becoming popular, especially after the advent of the movie "2012". Major world disaster movie Roland Emmerich filmed this did take inspiration from the Mayan calendar.
The day after Thanksgiving or called by the name Black Friday is the day of the long-awaited United States citizen. Because, today held a massive discount at various shops are open from four o'clock in the morning.
Black Friday is also the first day of the Christmas shopping season ahead. Thousands of residents poured in shopping centers across the U.S.. Sales this year reached a record high compared to previous years. However, many shut down until the unfortunate incident occurred during the shopping process.
One of them was Walter Vance. 61-year-old customer was having a heart attack while hunting goods store discounts at Target, West Virginia, Sunday, November 27, 2011. Quoted from page Huffington Post, Vance's body lying on the floor being ignored by other customers. They are busy selecting the target item.
However, according to Vance's wife, six nurses who happened to be on site immediately gave first aid until paramedics arrived at her husband. Unfortunately, the lives of helpless Vance.
Meanwhile in Arizona, a grandfather named Jerald Allen Newman passed out with a face full of blood due to receive raw bogem security forces. As the Daily Mail published, Newman was beaten because of mistaken shoplifting a video game.
Though Newman took a video game to help his grandson who pinched the queue of visitors. Newman, who passed out covered in blood immediately got help from some of the visitors and the security forces.
In South Carolina, a woman named Tonia Robbins was in critical condition after being shot by two robbers who tried to rob her handbag. The shooting by the robbers also occurs in California and Iowa.
But wherever the location, the atmosphere of Black Friday this year marked the same thing: pushing, elbowing each other, screaming at each other, all for the sake of shopping. This year, the number of people who shopped on Black Friday was estimated at 152 million people, up 10 percent from a year earlier.
The number of sales on Black Friday this year recorded a record high of U.S. $ 52.4 billion (Rp477 trillion). This figure, according to CNN, an increase of 16 percent of profit last year was only U.S. $ 45 billion
