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Tectonic Plate Splits in Two Raising Risks for West Coast
Post Date: 2018-10-27 10:46:23 by Ada
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Recent studies have revealed that the massive earthquake which struck Mexico actually split a tectonic plate in two. This has done more than just shaken the ground. It has also shaken up the geologist community for this may even introduce a greater risk to California. That quake took place on September 7th, 2017, and was a magnitude 8.2 earthquake that struck southern Mexico. Earthquakes are common events around the world in different degrees. However, this powerful event wasn’t any run-of-the-mill tremor. It actually split the tectonic plate itself. Normally, earthquakes take place where two tectonic plates meet. They constantly move around Earth’s surface, either grinding ...
Why China Can Do AI More Quickly and Effectively Than the US
Post Date: 2018-10-27 01:30:17 by Tatarewicz
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Wired... When Enrico Fermi decided to leave Benito Mussolini’s Italy and emigrate to the United States, he changed the global balance of power. After arriving in the US, Fermi led the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago and played an indispensable role in the Manhattan Project, which led to the end of World War II in the Pacific and laid the groundwork for a new world order and America’s prominent role. So it is not surprising that some Americans think the same should be true with AI. Emigrant AI researchers like Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Ng, and Fei-Fei Li are the Enrico Fermis of AI and should secure an ...
Iranian Nano Scientists Produce Biodiesel from Chicken Fat
Post Date: 2018-10-26 02:07:05 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian nanotechnology researchers at Islamic Azad University of Bushehr used nano-calcium oxide catalyst to produce biodiesel from chicken fat and improve the fuel properties via blending with diesel. "In this research, biodiesel was produced using chicken fat in the presence of calcium oxide nano-catalyst. To do so, the effect of various parameters like temperature, reaction time, catalyst amount and methanol to oil ratio was investigated on the biodiesel production," Hossein Esmayeeli, one of the researchers, said on Wednesday. The results showed that the best conditions for biodiesel production were obtained in the temperature of 65 °C, methanol to ...
It’s Official: Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age
Post Date: 2018-10-24 09:28:02 by Ada
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It’s not a shock that Postmodernism has taken hold of subjects such as Literature or Social Anthropology. The more subjective the subject is, the easier it is for ideology to infiltrate it. But surely quantitative science—like genetics and physics—will survive as a fortress of logic? Wrong. An article this week in The New York Times interviewed “woke” geneticists, whose findings manifestly show that race and psychological racial differences are biological, revealing them clutching at the most desperate reasons why their research doesn’t prove what it clearly does. [Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed), By Amy Harmon, The ...
Using Sun's Heat for Cheap Renewable Electricity
Post Date: 2018-10-22 23:35:39 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Scientists have developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power -- as heat energy -- more efficient in generating electricity. Solar power accounts for less than 2 percent of U.S. electricity but could make up more than that if the cost of electricity generation and energy storage for use on cloudy days and at nighttime were cheaper. A Purdue University-led team developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power -- as heat energy -- more efficient in generating electricity. The innovation is an important step for putting solar heat-to-electricity generation in direct cost competition ...
Manned flight around Moon considered
Post Date: 2018-10-20 15:20:41 by BTP Holdings
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Manned flight around Moon considered By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News 11 October 2010 Image caption It was on the Apollo 8 mission that the famous "Earthrise" image was acquired The possibility of using the space station as a launching point to fly a manned mission around the Moon is to be studied by the station partners. Letters discussing the concept have been exchanged between the Russian, European and US space agencies. The Moon flight would be reminiscent of the 1968 Apollo 8 mission which snapped the famous "Earthrise" photograph. The agencies want the station to become more than just a high-flying platform for doing experiments in ...
Chinese City May Get Artificial Moon
Post Date: 2018-10-20 06:53:32 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... An aerospace executive in China has announced plans to launch a satellite which would serve as an artificial moon designed to illuminate a city at night. The unorthodox idea was reportedly revealed by Wu Chunfeng, who heads one of the main contractors for the Chinese space agency, at a conference last week. According to him, the faux moon will hover over the city of Chengdu emitting a "dusk-like glow" which would eliminate the need for street lights. Advertisement The illumination from the satellite, he said, will be adjustable and could cover an area of land ranging from five to fifty miles in diameter. While the idea may sound fanciful to some, Chungfeng appears to be ...
High School Geography Test - 90% FAIL!
Post Date: 2018-10-18 21:44:12 by BTP Holdings
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Can You Pass this Basic High School Geography Test that 90% of adults FAILED? Find out now in under 5 minutes! This geography test was taken from a local high school and we chose 7 questions to take from it. Next, we gave the 7 questions to a group of adults and a group of high schoolers. Shockingly, only ~10% of the adults were able to pass this exam while 87% of the high schoolers who took it were able to pass! For further information, comment below or PM me! Fact of the Day! - A tiger's legs are so powerful that it will remain standing even after death!
What Happens To Fish During A Hurricane
Post Date: 2018-10-18 18:35:28 by Horse
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Israel losing "iron dome" protection after downing of Russian plane
Post Date: 2018-10-18 07:33:47 by Tatarewicz
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The #Russian EW #Krasuha complex deployed in #Syria on October 14 caused a malfunction in the #Israeli Iron Defense system. This is the main defense of #Israel against the constant attacks of militants by unguided rockets. www.velykoross.ru/news/all/article_4553/?utm_s ….. Google translate: 10/16/2018 The Russian EW Krasuha complex deployed in Syria on October 14 caused a malfunction in the Israeli Iron Defense system. This is the main defense of Israel against the constant attacks of militants by unguided rockets. It is deployed not only on the country’s border with the Gaza Strip, but also around its major cities, ensuring reliability and a high degree of protection against ...
NONE Of This Makes Sense.. (See This Before it is Deleted 2018-2019)
Post Date: 2018-10-16 06:44:13 by BTP Holdings
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It Gets Better… Average White American Has DOUBLE THE AMOUNT of Native American DNA as Elizabeth Warren
Post Date: 2018-10-15 17:17:40 by Ada
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Elizabeth Warren claimed she was a minority “Native American” to get ahead in her career. Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren released a DNA study today that claims she is 1/512th Native American. The Fauxcahontas folly began to fall apart quickly when the Boston Globe had to make an embarrassing correction. The DNA test revealed that Elizabeth Warren is not 1/512 Native American, she’s 1/1,024. That’s 0.0009765625. Click for Full Text!
Official: Iran to Send Man into Space in Cooperation with Russia
Post Date: 2018-10-12 23:30:53 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran's National Space Center Manouchehr Manteqi announced on Tuesday the country plans to cooperate with Russia in sending men into space for the first time. "Because sending human being into space needs lots of expenses, and different countries use each other's possibilities, and at present, Russia's possibilities are almost complete, we have decided to do the mission in cooperation with Russia," Manteqi told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday. He also said that Iran ranked 11th in aerospace in the world, adding that the country stood 14th in 2016. Iran has previously sent Simorgh satellite and Pajouhesh explorer into the orbit in recent years. ...
The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it's too late
Post Date: 2018-10-12 06:01:26 by Tatarewicz
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WIRED The world's most popular fruit is facing extinction, and scientists are racing to use gene-editing to save it. To succeed, they'll need to overcome an even bigger problem: opposition to GMO crops During the summer of 1989, Randy Ploetz was in his laboratory just south of Miami, when he received a package from Taiwan. Ploetz, who had earned his doctorate in plant pathology five years earlier, was collecting banana diseases and regularly received mysterious packages containing pathogens pulled out of the soil from far-flung plantations. But gazing down his microscope, Ploetz realised this Taiwanese pathogen was unlike any banana disease he’d encountered before, so he sent ...
BBC Attacked for “Platforming Climate Denier” After Bringing Him on Mock and Insult Him
Post Date: 2018-10-10 09:02:46 by Ada
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Whereas it used to be that the leftist media had a solid strategy of bring on people they disagree with to mock and insult them, saying to the audience “look at how stupid and evil this bad person is,” they are increasingly being attacked for even allowing the opposition view to be heard at all, even in the context of a mocking attack. The BBC this week brought on former Trump advisor Myron Ebell on a propaganda show about the coming apocalypse that will occur if we don’t shut down all industry and give infinity free money to China and India. After an intense Al Gore-style montage of global apocalypse, the host introduced him as “Myron Evil,” and mocked and ...
Martin Armstrong: Solar Minimum Correlates with Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Post Date: 2018-10-09 13:36:11 by Horse
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QUESTION: I live in Indonesia. I am amazed that the entire world is not known on your door. I understand that your model puts everything together and provides a whole new perspective. Your warning that here in the Pacific Ring of Fire we should expect a trend of increasing volcanoes and earthquakes has been incredibly accurate. Why do government not listen? PO Related Posts: ANSWER: I am deeply sorry that so many people died this week. For those who are not aware, the Mount Soputan volcano in Indonesia erupted on Wednesday, throwing ash as high as 4,000 meters into the sky. This came just days after a major earthquake and tsunami then killed more than 1,400 people on the same island. ...
Iran to Orbit 3 New Home-Made Satellites
Post Date: 2018-10-07 23:13:10 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Morteza Barari announced on Sunday that three domestically-made satellites are ready to be launched. "Sharif University of Technology's Dousti satellite, the sensing-operational satellite of Amirkabir University and a communication satellite named Nahid are ready to launch," Barari said, addressing a meeting in Tehran. He also said that several other satellites are under construction, adding, "We have planned to build a sensing satellite with the precision of one meter by 2025." Iran in February 2017 unveiled two new home-made satellites of Nahid 1 and Amir Kabir as well as a space tug built for the first time ...
Video: Dwarf Planet Dubbed 'The Goblin' Discovered
Post Date: 2018-10-07 07:01:49 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... In the process of searching for signs of a massive planet thought to be lurking in our solar system, astronomers discovered a dwarf planet which they have dubbed 'The Goblin.' The rather diminutive object is believed to be around 186 miles wide and has an odd orbit that scientists suspect could be due to the influence of a larger celestial body colloquially known as 'Planet Nine.' The existence of this mysterious world, long the subject of speculation in paranormal and conspiracy circles, gained mainstream credibility back in 2014 when scientists theorized that movements of distant objects in the solar system were being caused by a massive and heretofore ...
New font Sans Forgetica designed to boost your memory
Post Date: 2018-10-06 02:13:51 by Tatarewicz
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During my early years at university, I was a terrible student. Uninterested, tired. Forgetful. It would have been handy to have a font specifically designed to help me alleviate the most pressing of those issues -- the fact that, going into a test, I'd have to write my lab notes over and over again, just to help me remember them. Enter Sans Forgetica. Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia have developed an entirely new font designed "using the principles of cognitive psychology" to help you better remember your study notes. The font is a sans serif style typeface, with two unusual features: It slants slightly left, which is a rarely ...
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Post Date: 2018-10-05 16:24:42 by Pinguinite
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Size illustrations at source. In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for compressing massive video files and formatting them for different devices. Its technology had helped stream the Olympic Games online, communicate with the International Space Station, and funnel drone footage to the Central Intelligence Agency. Elemental’s national security contracts weren’t the main reason for the proposed acquisition, but they fit nicely with Amazon’s government ...
What Cassini found as it plunged into Saturn a year ago
Post Date: 2018-10-04 21:02:52 by BTP Holdings
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What Cassini found as it plunged into Saturn a year ago By Ashley Strickland, CNN 5 hrs ago © NASA/JPL-Caltech A year after Cassini ended its 20-year mission to study Saturn, the last data the spacecraft recorded before plunging into the planet's atmosphere are revealing its long-held secrets. Cassini's sensors were recording until the last second during its "death dive," and all of the data were transmitted to NASA scientists on Earth before the spacecraft disintegrated. Over the past year, scientists have been analyzing the data. Saturn's magnetic field has long remained elusive, but Cassini's instruments allowed scientists to measure the planet's ...
Universe Aglow With Lyman-Alpha Emission
Post Date: 2018-10-03 04:59:30 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite sensitivity of MUSE allowed for direct observations of dim clouds of hydrogen glowing with Lyman-alpha emission in the early Universe -- revealing that almost the whole night sky is invisibly aglow. An unexpected abundance of Lyman-alpha emission in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) region was discovered by an international team of astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT. The discovered emission covers nearly the entire field of view -- leading the team ...
Plate Tectonics Active On Earth Since Beginning?
Post Date: 2018-10-02 03:58:18 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A new study suggests that plate tectonics -- a scientific theory that divides the earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous mantle rock -- could have been active from the planet's very beginning. The new findings defy previous beliefs that tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years. The paper, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has important implications in the fields of geochemistry and geophysics. For example, a better understanding of plate tectonics could help predict whether planets beyond our solar system could be hospitable to life. "Plate tectonics set up the conditions for life," said ...
Old Farmer's Almanac Winter Prediction For 2018 2019 Is Out Are You Ready
Post Date: 2018-10-01 21:21:12 by BTP Holdings
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Here it is folks. The Old Farmer's Almanac Winter prediction for 2018 2019 is out. Are you ready? Do you think it's accurate? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Poster Comment:Watch those wooly worms and see how much the squirrels are putting up for winter.
Nobel Laureate in Physics; "Global Warming is Pseudoscience"
Post Date: 2018-10-01 18:57:23 by BTP Holdings
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1000Frolly channel relies on your generosity and support to keep up the fight against the forces of pseudo-science. Please assist of you can; Patreon www.patreon.com/1000Frolly Professor Ivar Giaever, the 1973 Nobel Prizewinner for Physics trashes the global warming/climate change/extreme weather pseudoscientific clap-trap and tells Obama he is "Dead Wrong". This was the 2012 meeting of Nobel Laureates. The 2015 speech by Prof Giaever is here; www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCy_UOjEir0
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