naturalfeature:pacific ocean

Australia’s Defence White Paper and the US “pivot” to Asia - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/10/pers-m10.html

Australia’s Defence White Paper and the US “pivot” to Asia
10 May 2013

The 2013 Defence White Paper, which defines the Australian government’s strategic military orientation, codifies its unconditional support for the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia. The document asserts that “the relationship between the United States and China will determine the outlook for our region”, over the coming decades, and foreshadows that Australia will serve as the military adjunct and physical base for US efforts to dominate the entire “Indo-Pacific”. It stresses the importance of collaboration with the US, as well as states such as India, in controlling the key maritime trade passages between

#asie_pacifique #australie #géostratégie_américaine #asie #géopolitique

No escape from narcos for Mexican beauty queen
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_22653302/no-escape-from-narcos-mexican-beauty-queen

If you had asked her that February weekend, the new Sinaloa Woman would have said the future she’d chosen was clear: a calendar of pageants as far away as China, a chance to compete for the coveted Miss Sinaloa title, and then, Miss Mexico.

But Susy, as she was called, had chosen another path at the crossroads of power and beauty in a state known for drug lords and pageant queens. It was a fateful choice.

In November, Susy died like a mobster’s moll, carrying an AK-47 assault rifle into a spray of gunfire from Mexican soldiers. Hit below the neck, she dropped into a dirt field and bled to death, her carotid artery severed.

#mexique

L’auteur de ces photos a eu l’idée d’explorer le sous-sol d’un « datacenter » Internet et a trouvé, sur les murs, les témoignages d’un ancien locataire...

http://cabel.me/2012/12/19/the-basement

#histoire

World’s biggest #geoengineering experiment ’violates’ UN rules | the guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering

A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July, a Guardian investigation can reveal.

Lawyers, environmentalists and civil society groups are calling it a “blatant violation” of two international moratoria and the news is likely to spark outrage at a United Nations environmental summit taking place in India this week.

#géoingénierie #climat #nations_unies

RFC 6693 : Probabilistic Routing Protocol for Intermittently Connected Networks

Les protocoles traditionnels de #routage (comme, mettons, OSPF) sont conçus dans l’idée que les machines sont connectées et joignables en permanence, sauf rares pannes. Mais il existe des réseaux où cette hypothèse ne se vérifie pas. Par exemple, dans l’espace, il est fréquent que la communication soit l’exception plutôt que la règle. Comment router dans ces conditions ? Ce nouveau #RFC propose un mécanisme de routage adapté à des connexions intermittente, #Prophet.

http://www.bortzmeyer.org/6693.html

China’s Jiaolong submersible plunges below 7,000 metres | Nature
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/06/chinas-jiaolong-submersible-plunges-below-7000-metres.html

#sous-marin #chine

Un ponton emporté par le tsunami au Japon s’échoue dans l’Oregon
http://www.lemonde.fr/japon/article/2012/06/07/un-ponton-emporte-par-le-tsunami-au-japon-s-echoue-dans-l-oregon_1714021_149

Un énorme ponton de 20 mètres de long qui s’était détaché lors du tsunami qui a frappé le Japon l’an dernier s’est échoué mardi sur une place de l’Oregon, à environ 160 km au sud-ouest de Portland. Le consulat japonais a confirmé mercredi l’origine du ponton. L’Etat de l’Oregon travaille avec d’autres Etats de la côte ouest et le gouvernement fédéral à l’évacuation des débris.

http://s1.lemde.fr/image/2012/06/07/540x270/1713978_3_eab0_le-ponton-repere-lundi-face-aux-cotes-de_87c306eacb12f3770a3e3c365fd49b25.jpg

Deep sea creatures may be hitchhiking on scientific gear : Nature News Blog
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/deep-sea-creatures-may-be-hitchhiking-on-scientific-gear.html

Research submersibles are cleaned after every mission, but it was widely assumed that the radical changes in pressure and temperature as they surfaced from the depths would kill any animals that were missed, says Voight. If that is not the case, researchers may have been inadvertently contaminating sites as they move a limited number of research vessels around multiple deep-sea sites.

#science #recherche #contamination
cette histoire me fait penser à celle du lac #vostok

Fukushima radiation moving in seawater across Pacific Ocean, according to consulting company | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com
http://www.straight.com/article-638451/vancouver/fukushima-radiation-moving-seawater-across-pacific-ocean-according-consult
#japon #nucléaire

What should be done about plastic bags?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17027990

Every year 800,000 tons of so-called single-use plastic bags are used in the European Union - the average EU citizen used 191 of them in 2010, the Commission says, and only 6% were recycled.

More than four billion bags are thrown away each year.

#sacs_plastique #environnement

What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth ? - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74mhQyuyELQ&feature=player_embedded

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, El Salvador, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line), a satellite (55sec) and the stars of our galaxy.

NASA says satellite collision ’imminent’ - Americas - Al Jazeera English
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/2011/09/20119244626984967.html

The US space agency, NASA, says the fall to Earth of its six-tonne UARS satellite could occur at any moment, showering debris over a still unknown part of the planet.

The defunct satellite about the size of a bus was expected to hit the US or Canada between 03:45 and 04:45 GMT on Saturday.

#it_has_begun

British nuclear test veterans take cancer claims to supreme court | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/28/nuclear-bomb-test-veterans-at-supreme-court

Veterans of Britain’s 1950s nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean and Australia who claim their cancers and illnesses were caused by radiation have defeated Ministry of Defence attempts to have the case thrown out of court.

#nucléaire #militaire #santé
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