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An Interesting Reference On Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
Post Date: 2010-10-18 02:36:23 by Original_Intent
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I ran into this tonight doing some general reading and research and I thought that it was such a useful and handy tool that there might be others on 4um who would find this fun, and possibly useful. What the site is, is a series of 3D maps of our stellar neighborhood and expanding outward as far as looking at local universal neighborhood out to a scale of 14 billion light years or the universe as we know it today. It is a lot of fun and easy to use. It also has a good cross indexed glossary for looking up all of the most common astronomic terms used on the website. Here is a sample: In December 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at a blank area of the sky in Ursa Major for ten ...
Author of World in 2050 on C2C Sat night
Post Date: 2010-10-16 04:34:42 by Tatarewicz
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Geographer Laurence Smith of UCLA, author of the World in 2050, sees a major northward shift in populations over the next four decades. www.geog.ucla.edu/people/...97&display_one=1&modify=1
First Manned Glide Flight for SpaceShipTwo on 10/10/10
Post Date: 2010-10-14 00:08:45 by X-15
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October 10, 2010 — VSS Enterprise, SpaceShipTwo, made its first manned free flight above the California high desert Sunday, October 10 (10/10/10), Virgin Galactic announced. The space ship, which had been on four previous captive-carry flights attached to the WhiteKnightTwo mothership, was released from 45,000 ft. altitude and for the ensuing 11 minutes glided safely to the Mojave Air and Spaceport. The flight crew, Scaled Composites pilot Pete Siebold and co-pilot Mike Alsbury, achieved the two main goals of the flight; to carry out a clean release of the spaceship from its mothership, and for the pilots to free fly and glide back and land at Mojave. Siebold commented, “The VSS ...
What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths
Post Date: 2010-10-12 11:43:39 by Original_Intent
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FORTUNE -- Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the world's honeybees. The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- in which disoriented honeybees die far from their hives -- has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately seeking the cause. After all, the honeybee, nature's ultimate utility player, pollinates a third of all the food we eat and contributes an estimated $15 billion in annual agriculture revenue to the U.S. economy. The long list of possible suspects has included pests, viruses, fungi, and also pesticides, particularly so-called neonicotinoids, a class of neurotoxins that kills insects by ...
All Dogs Descended from Wolves
Post Date: 2010-10-11 11:12:52 by Turtle
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The current consensus among biologists and archaeologists is that the dating of first domestication is indeterminate.[4][21] There is conclusive evidence that dogs genetically diverged from their wolf ancestors at least 15,000 years ago,[22][23][24] but some believe domestication to have occurred earlier.[4] It is not known whether humans domesticated the wolf as such to initiate dog's divergence from its ancestors, or whether dog's evolutionary path had already taken a different course prior to domestication. The latter view has gained proponents, such as biologists Raymond and Lorna Coppinger;[5] they theorize that some wolves gathered around the campsites of the paleolithical man ...
War for Artifacts?
Post Date: 2010-10-10 22:02:00 by Flintlock
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Poster Comment:Skip to about 2:14 Why would we loot the National Museum of Iraq? There was something there they didn't want us to see or know. It was another inside job. Praise Jeebus!
Upcoming shows on C2C
Post Date: 2010-10-10 01:45:49 by Tatarewicz
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Interesting discussion on CoastToCoastAm Tuesday night when Noory hosts Dr. Lee Bauman, author of Matter to Mind to Conscioussness. www.baumannbooks.com/
Graphene developers win Nobel Prize
Post Date: 2010-10-09 03:32:03 by Tatarewicz
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Alan Boyle writes:What's graphene, and why is its development worth a Nobel Prize? In just a few years you might be riding in it, tapping on it as you use your iPhone 9, or watching 3-D TV on a lightweight, big-screen panel made using graphene. But wait ... there's more: Sheets of graphene could also be tweaked to create electronic circuits that are mere molecules thick, or built into a new generation of body scanners for hospitals or airports. And it all basically started with a strip of Scotch tape. The researchers who shared the physics Nobel today, Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim of the University of Manchester, reported back in 2004 that they were able to demonstrate ...
Akamai Technologies employee accused of corporate espionage
Post Date: 2010-10-07 15:10:50 by TooConservative
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Akamai Technologies employee accused of corporate espionageGautham Nagesh - 10/07/10 12:33 PM ET An employee of Akamai Technologies was arrested by the FBI and charged Wednesday for, authorities allege, providing confidential business information to a person he believed was an agent of a foreign government.Elliot Doxer, 42, was charged with one count of wire fraud for allegedly sending an e-mail to a foreign consulate in Boston on June 22, 2006, stating he was willing to provide any confidential information he had access to in order to help that country. If convicted he could face a $250,000 fine and up to 20 years in prison.“I am a Jewish American who lives in Boston,’’ ...
The Secret to Anti-Gravity REVEALED!
Post Date: 2010-10-07 09:41:33 by Horse
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Poster Comment:The editor of Popular Mechanics told Art Bell more than a decade ago that any substance such as, glass or steel. smelted in the zero gravity of outer space had entirely new properties. He said specifically that glass would become as strong as steel. Perhaps this would be the secret to the creation of a room temperature super conductor which might reduce the number of problems needed to solve for anti-gravity.
Dimensions of the universe(s)
Post Date: 2010-10-06 05:34:06 by Tatarewicz
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Alan Boyle writes:British physicist Stephen Hawking may claim that extra dimensions provide the key to understanding the "grand design" of the universe, but it's Chinese-American mathematician Shing-Tung Yau who actually figured out how those extra dimensions work. In his new book, "The Shape of Inner Space," Yau and his co-author, Steve Nadis, touch upon the work that led to the discovery of theoretical "Calabi-Yau spaces" — and the cosmic implications of multidimensional geometry. The typical representation of a Calabi-Yau space looks like twisted web of a crumpled-up piece of paper. There's something elegant about its look ...
3-D TV without glasses
Post Date: 2010-10-05 05:26:19 by Tatarewicz
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(RTTNews) - Japanese electronic devices maker Toshiba Corp. (TOSBF.PK: News , TOSYY.PK) Monday announced the introduction of the world's first LCD TVs that offer comprehensive 3D capabilities without any need for dedicated glasses. The company offers the new glasses-less 3D REGZA GL1 series in two models, 20GL1 with a 20-inch panel and 12GL1 with a 12-inch panel. Both TVs, which are specifically designed for personal use, will be available in Japan from December-end. According to the company, current 3D TV is based on active shutter glasses that deliver separate images to the left and right eyes. In response to the market's need for TVs that deliver the 3D experience without ...
Oil-drilling worms (eat oil) and brittlestar cities: taking stock of life in the oceans
Post Date: 2010-10-04 14:53:38 by hondo68
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What lives in the sea? That question has been the singular focus of the Census of Marine Life, an ambitious 10-year survey, launched in 2000, that is reporting its findings at a Royal Society symposium in London today. Of course, the project hasn’t catalogued all the life in the world’s oceans, but census has vastly increased our knowledge of the ocean biodiversity and filled in many gaps, its scientists say. Highlights profiled in last week's Nature news feature on the project include a tubeworm that drills for oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, a 'brittlestar city' with tens of millions of the creatures living in close quarters atop a seamount south of New ...
Coming solar storm
Post Date: 2010-10-04 06:04:38 by Tatarewicz
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In 2013, the Sun will destroy all means of communication on Earth 30.09.2010 41811.jpegA frightening forecast was published recently by experts of Space Agency NASA. According to American astronomers, in 2013, after years of hibernation, the Sun will wake up, and Earth will be threatened with unfortunate consequences. Widespread outbreaks on the hot star can lead to a global failure of satellite communications. As a result, the planet is awaiting chaos. In his report, Defense Secretary Liam Fox noted that the perfect electromagnetic storm will lead to a technogenic disaster on Earth. He reinforced his words with the recent statistics which indicates that the surface temperature of hot ...
The 10 most amazing unexplained artifacts
Post Date: 2010-10-04 04:32:46 by wudidiz
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Every once in a while archaeologists (and sometimes regular Joes) make some remarkable discoveries. Stunned, they are often unable to explain what it is they’ve found, how it came into existence, or ascertain its value. This is a comprehensive list of such artifacts; artifacts that many believe should have never existed given the discerned age/period of their creation. The London hammer – a tool older than history In June 1936 (or 1934 according to some accounts), Max Hahn and his wife Emma were on a walk when they noticed a rock with wood protruding from its core. They decided to take the oddity home and later cracked it open with a hammer and a chisel. Ironically, what they ...
Arctic transformed at hands of climate change
Post Date: 2010-10-03 11:23:07 by buckeroo
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On 19 May 1845, Sir John Franklin set sail from the Thames River, England searching for the famed, long sought Northwest Passage: a northern sea route across the Canadian Arctic from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This passage had been a quest by explorers for centuries as a shorter route to the orient. There were 129 men in his two ships, the Erebus and the Terror. In addition to the necessary provisions for up to a three year voyage, the ships carried all of the silverware, china and crystal that the officers of the Royal Navy were accustomed to. They were last glimpsed by some whalers near Greenland on June 25, 1845, and then they disappeared. Captain Franklin was an experienced Arctic ...
Chainlessbicycle
Post Date: 2010-10-03 04:11:45 by Tatarewicz
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ntroducing Stringbike: the bike with no chain (w/ Video) September 22, 2010 by Lin Edwards Introducing Stringbike: the bike with no chain (w/ Video) Enlarge (PhysOrg.com) -- Hungarian bicycle designers have unveiled their new Stringbike in Padova, Italy. The design replaces the traditional chain with a symmetrical rope and pulley system, which they say is more efficient, makes for a more comfortable ride, and provides improved maneuverability around winding streets. The new system is more complex than a chain and gears and consists of a rope and pulley on each side of the bike. The rotation of the pedals forces arms at each side to swing forward and backward on its shaft. When moving ...
[The new "Al Gore":] Bin Laden addresses climate change
Post Date: 2010-10-02 13:18:02 by buckeroo
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Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaeda network, has expressed concern about global climate change and the recent flooding in Pakistan, in an audiotape posted on the internet, which would be his first public remarks in six months, a monitoring group has said. "The number of victims caused by climate change is very big... bigger than the victims of wars," said the voice, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified and was made available by SITE Intelligence Group, which released the recording on Friday. The tape would be the first time Bin Laden has spoken publicly since March 25. It was not clear when the tape was made, but Bin Laden congratulated Muslims on the ...
Green Activists Blow Up Children
Post Date: 2010-10-01 21:48:35 by Armadillo
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Poster Comment:More Climate Change Propaganda. The Global Warming crowd and other leftests would love to be able to do that. Killing opposition is so much easier than honest debate.
Why Are Climategate Charlatans Still Free?
Post Date: 2010-10-01 06:27:41 by Ada
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If I had engaged in activities that involved fleecing the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom of billions in public funds in the name of “climate research”, and it was found that I had manipulated the data to advance the “global warming” hoax, wouldn’t I be facing charges of fraud? Or if the universities for which I worked had benefited from receiving those public funds had conducted hearings that exonerated me, wouldn’t those institutions be considered accessories to the alleged crime? This is the case today for the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England and Pennsylvania State University in America. If the CRU ...
Knot in the ribbon at the edge of the solar system 'unties'
Post Date: 2010-09-30 14:35:21 by gengis gandhi
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Knot in the ribbon at the edge of the solar system 'unties' September 30, 2010 The unusual "knot" in the bright, narrow ribbon of neutral atoms emanating in from the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space appears to have "untied," according to a paper published online in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Ads by Google Barracuda Spam Firewall - 50,000 customers worldwide. No Per User Fees. Free Eval! - www.barracudanetworks.com Researchers believe the ribbon, first revealed in maps produced by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, forms in response to interactions between interstellar space and the heliosphere, the ...
Cool Pronunciation Site
Post Date: 2010-09-29 16:23:45 by Lod
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Check the URL. Just heard on Katherine Albrecht's gcnlive show.
UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens
Post Date: 2010-09-26 09:06:57 by gengis gandhi
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UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens From: NewsCore September 26, 2010 10:19AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth’s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting. Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN's little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire. She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more ...
Doug Casey: Exception Among Equities
Post Date: 2010-09-24 06:54:14 by Ada
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As the world sinks deeper into what he calls the Greater Depression, Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey sees default on the U.S. national debt as inevitable – albeit probably in the guise of currency destruction. He anticipates further contraction in real estate, particularly on the commercial front. As long as stocks remain overpriced, he'll shy away from equities – except perhaps in favored sectors, such as gold. In fact, in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Doug posits that gold juniors might "go up by an order of magnitude or more, even while most other stocks are going down." The Gold Report: Doug, at a recent conference you said that the U.S. ...
I'd love to baptise ET, says Vatican's stargazer
Post Date: 2010-09-19 11:09:24 by gengis gandhi
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I'd love to baptise ET, says Vatican's stargazer By DAVID DERBYSHIRE Last updated at 9:16 PM on 17th September 2010 Comments (104) Add to My Stories The Pope's Astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, says that intelligent life elsewhere is probable, but believes that we are unlikely ever to encounter it Intelligent aliens may be living among the stars and are likely to have souls, a senior Vatican scientist said yesterday. The Pope's astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, said he would be happy to 'baptise an al ien' - but admitted that the chances of communicating with life outside the Earth were low. Speaking at the British Science Festival in Birmingham, Dr Consolmagno also ...
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