GeoSelim

Hunting for dinosaurs

Mega Geoscience New is my new blog series to catch up with the big news in geoscience, and keep up to date with achievement in my beloved science. 1 -  8 days till Curiosity Rover landing on Mars. The Science of Curiosity: Seeking Signs of Past Mars Habitability, Unlike previous

Programming language is an artificial language that is used to write programs in order to control the behavior of a computer.

قسم العلماء العلوم الطبيعية إلي ثمانية فروع رئيسية هي الكمياء، والفيزياء، والفلك، وعلوم الأرض (الجيولوجيا)، والأحياء، وعلم الجو، وعلم دراسة المحيطات والبحار، وعلم المادة، وبينهما علوم مشتركة ويتفرع منها علوم دقيقة. أي أن الجيولوجيا أو علم الأرض أحد الفروع الرئيسية للعلوم الطبيعية. في مصر بلغ القصور أن تدرس الجيولوجيا للقسم الأدبي في المرحلة الثانوية الذي يؤهل لكليات اللغة العربية والدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية ولا تدرس للقسم العلمي الذي يؤهل لدراسة الجيولوجيا في كليات العلوم! حيث المرحلة الثانوية في مصر هي المؤهلة للدراسات الجامعية. ومما زاد الطين بلة أن الطلبة الذين درسوا الجيولوجيا بالقسم الأدبي لا يستطيعون أن يلتحقوا بكلية العلوم ليدرسوا علم الجيولوجيا! وبلغ قصر النظر التخطيطي بواضعي المناهج الذي يظهر وكأنه خيانة واضحة للوطن والشعب، بأن يجعلوها مادة إختيارية لطلبة القسم الأدبي وبالطبع لا يختارها إلا قليل القليل من طلبة الأدبيات الذين لن يستفيدوا شيئاً من دراستها عند إلتحاقهم بالجامعة. قصر النظر التخطيطي جعل الشعب يجهل كيفية إستخراج ثرواته من باطن أرضه مثل البترول والغاز وا...

Our funny crew showing broken carbide bit after a troubles while drilling in a hard dolomite in North Sinai, Egypt in a mission to reach the Nubian aquifer. http://youtu.be/KhTy0UoVa40 Drilling on earth have a lot of problem, I wonder what kind of machines and equipment we need to drill on the Mars in case of exploring for groundwater? :) http://youtu.be/6sk5IuIjr1E

Three school children visit a dusty library to research the story of 'The Dark Ages'. What they find changes their world view dramatically as ingenious inventors and pioneers of science and culture are vividly brought to life. I always be sad when people speak about this period in a bad way! I know it was 'The Dark Ages' but in the northern part of the world only "Europe" not in the the southern part "Arab Region". I found this video helpful to convince the world that Muslims were the world leaders in science and technology, but changing is the only constant. Discover The Muslim Heritage In Our World -   1001 Inventions   is a global educational initiative that promotes awareness of the scientific and cultural achievements of Muslim civilization, during the thousand year period from the 7th century on wards, and how those contributions helped build the foundations of our modern world.

"Whereas non-scientific (and potentially dangerous) thinking starts with a premise and then looks for things that support it, scientific thinking constantly tries to disprove itself. That alone makes all the difference in the world." Derren Brown

I watched amazing documentary film about Mega structures: Black gold fields on National Geographic Channel Abu Dhabi . Extraction of the petroleum deposit in Canada required Mega structures. Oil sands will be the future of the oil industry. Shell challenge Syncrude in better production, but Shell system for extraction oil from sands uses large amount of water, producing waste water. Officially they use this water for planting wood, but the trees required long time to grow and use this large amount of the waste water. what make me blog this post is Shell environmental engineer opinion: look at the bright side! we are cleaning the sand from the oil, we cleaning the environment from the dirty oil!! هياكل عملاقة: حقل الذهب الأسود

Colors on Geologic Time Scale or on Geologic Maps form a problem to all geologists around the world, there are many standards  in color. I'll not speak about the history of colors or the culture behind the difference in colors, Geologic maps rely on color to symbolize the different ages of rocks. same area can be mapped in different colors, and you can use one or two reference to geologic time scale. USGS have standards and BGS have another standards, it's not the problem of 'Colors' and 'Colours' . When biologists made one DNA standards, they work on  the Human Genome Project to mapping the Human genome , the complete code of the human genome is one of the best science achievements. All Geologists need one standard for the geological time scale, or for Geologic Maps whatever it's source (origin) or it's culture. one standard is important for many scientific reasons.

What if Global Warming not resulting by excess of Co2 level? What if the sun become more energize? I think global

I have some personal reasons to blog about Geoscience and my career and I want to share my reasons with scientists and science student to encourage them to start blogging about science. Why I'm blogging?