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The World's Biggest Telescope
Post Date: 2007-12-18 13:19:44 by Alan Chapman
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About half the size of a football field and 21 stories tall, the largest optical telescope ever constructed will use almost 1,000 mirrors to hunt for exoplanets — and maybe even unlock the secrets of spacetime. How to Capture the Cosmos 1. Collect the Light Starlight hits the 138-foot-wide parabolic PRIMARY MIRROR—an array of 984 hexagonal panels, each one 330 pounds, 4.8 feet in diameter and two inches thick. The panels are so heavy that gravity actually causes them to shift very slightly as the scope moves, so three actuators under each panel flex 10 times per second to keep the mirror properly aligned. The light bounces up to the 20-foot-wide MIRROR A. 2. Reflect ItMIRROR A ...
Breaking News: Science validates key Mayan Calendar premise
Post Date: 2007-12-18 13:07:31 by gengis gandhi
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Breaking News: Science validates key Mayan Calendar premise by Irvthom Page 1 of 1 page(s) http://www.opednews.com Tell A Friend Fresh this week, in the New York Times and hundreds of media outlets across the country, is the reported discovery that human evolution has accelerated far more swiftly over the last 40,000 years than had ever been realized. This not only contradicts earlier assumptions that our physical/mental evolution supposedly stabilized that long ago, but it validates the underlying basis of the Mayan Calendar, a radically different way of understanding time that has only recently come to be understood — and is still outside the mainstream framework of such ...
The Alternative PC for the Masses (Under $200 PC??)
Post Date: 2007-12-17 21:21:33 by tom007
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The Alternative PC for the Masses Everex, a longtime personal computer vendor, has unveiled its latest PC featuring Ubuntu Linux-based open-source productivity software and Google-based Web 2.0 applications, for a mere $191.99 Discover what the world is talking about. The latest Everex computer caters to the demands of a new generation of users. With popular applications from Google, Mozilla, Skype, OpenOffice.org and more, you'll find one of the most simple, powerful, fun and intuitive computing experiences available. Surf the web, email friends and family or play the latest DVDs. Everex makes it easy for everyone with the gPC (Everex and its products, the gPC and gOS, are not ...
Galaxy blasts neighbor with deadly beam of energy
Post Date: 2007-12-17 17:02:33 by aristeides
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Galaxy blasts neighbor with deadly beam of energy By Dave Mosher, SPACE.com Posted 1h 39m ago For the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy. The "death star galaxy," as NASA astronomers called it, could obliterate the atmospheres of planets but also trigger the birth of stars in the wake of its destructive beam. Fortunately, the cosmic violence is a safe distance from our own neck of the cosmos. "We've seen many jets produced by black holes, but this is the first time we've seen one punch into another galaxy like we're seeing here," said Dan Evans, astronomer at the ...
amazing pics of cancer tumor elimination
Post Date: 2007-12-17 13:43:29 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.howibeatcancer.com/
Small group of US experts insist global warming not man-made
Post Date: 2007-12-16 20:09:47 by richard9151
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Sun Dec 16, 3:58 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - A small group of US experts stubbornly insist that, contrary to what the vast majority of their colleagues believe, humans may not be responsible for the warming of the planet Earth. These experts believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon, and they point to reams of data they say supports their assertions. These conclusions are in sharp contradiction to those of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reached its conclusions using largely similar data. The UN body of about 3,000 experts, including several renown US scientists, jointly won the award with former US vice president Al Gore for their ...
The Heroic Scientist Who Tried To Stop GM Insanity
Post Date: 2007-12-16 19:53:26 by robin
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The Heroic Scientist Who Tried To Stop GM Insanity 12-15-7 How Monsanto, Clinton & Blair Blocked GM Truth World Renowned Scientist Lost His Job When He Warned About GE Foods The GM Potato Controversy - A Case With Disturbing Implications For Present Day Science By Dr. Arpad Pusztai 12-15-7 Two years after the release of the first GM plant, the FLAVR-SAVR tomato in the USA in 1995, there was still not a single publication in peer-reviewed journals probing into the safety of GM foods. As this was of public and scientific concerns..the Scottish Office Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Department (SOAEFD, as it was called then) called for research proposals to investigate the ...
Which computer do you think is the best? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-12-14 18:38:55 by WTF?
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Do you like Linux, Windows or Mac? Of these choices, which version do you prefer? Advice/Opinions appreciated, thank you.
Shock at $85k mobile phone bill
Post Date: 2007-12-14 02:49:05 by wudidiz
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Shock at $85k mobile phone bill A Canadian man has been shocked to receive a mobile phone bill for nearly $85,000 (£41,000). Piotr Staniaszek thought he could use his new phone as a modem for his computer under his $10 unlimited mobile browser plan from Bell Mobility. He downloaded high-definition movies and other large files unaware that this incurred massive extra charges. Bell Mobility has since lowered the bill to $3,243, but Mr Staniaszek says he intends to fight the charges anyway. 'Nobody told me' The 22-year-old oil-field worker from Calgary said he thought a first bill for $65,000 in November was a mistake. When he spoke to Bell Mobility he was informed the ...
Lightning Bolts within Cells--A new nanoscale tool reveals strong electric fields inside cells.
Post Date: 2007-12-13 11:28:26 by gengis gandhi
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Lightning Bolts within Cells A new nanoscale tool reveals strong electric fields inside cells. Using novel voltage-sensitive nanoparticles, researchers have found electric fields inside cells as strong as those produced in lightning bolts. Previously, it has only been possible to measure electric fields across cell membranes, not within the main bulk of cells. It's not clear what causes these strong fields or what they might mean. But now that it's possible to measure them, researchers hope to learn about disease states such as cancer by studying these electric fields. University of Michigan researchers led by chemistry professor Raoul Kopelman encapsulated voltage-sensitive ...
Physics laws flawed (Dr Michael Murphy is part of a team that has, over recent years, uncovered surprising and controversial evidence suggesting the laws of physics may have been changing through cosmic time. ) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-12-13 11:26:08 by gengis gandhi
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Physics laws flawed E-mail to a Friend Monday, 10 December 2007 Swinburne University A Swinburne astrophysicist has leapt another hurdle in the path to proving that our fundamental theories of physics are not what they seem. Dr Michael Murphy is part of a team that has, over recent years, uncovered surprising and controversial evidence suggesting the laws of physics may have been changing through cosmic time. In this latest move, Murphy has debunked a study which claimed to disprove his findings. Murphy’s research into the laws of Nature goes back eight years, and concerns our understanding of electromagnetism, the force of nature that determines the sounds we hear, the light we ...
Mars rover finds signs of microbial life
Post Date: 2007-12-12 14:28:49 by gengis gandhi
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Mars rover finds signs of microbial life By Katie Franklin and agencies Last Updated: 2:41am GMT 12/12/2007 Nasa says its Mars rover Spirit has discovered "the best evidence yet" of a past habitable environment on the planet's surface. Nasa's Spirit rover found a patch of silica-rich soil in May Spirit unearthed a patch of silica-rich soil Spirit has been exploring a plateau called Home Plate, where it discovered silica-rich soil in May. Researchers are now trying to determine what produced the patch of nearly pure silica - the main ingredient of window glass. They believe the deposits came from an ancient hot-spring environment or an environment called a fumarole, ...
81 yr old atheist reverses position [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-12-12 13:15:28 by gengis gandhi
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The Scientific World Is Turning to God HARUN YAHYA "As people have certainly been influenced by me, I want to try and correct the enormous damage I may have done." (Anthony Flew) The newspapers these days are echoing with these regret-filled words by Anthony Flew, in his time a well-known atheist philosopher. The 81-year-old British professor of philosophy Flew chose to become an atheist at the age of 15, and first made a name for himself in the academic field with a paper published in 1950. In the 54 years that followed, he defended atheism as a teacher at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele and Reading, at many American and Canadian universities he visited, in ...
UNBELIEVEABLE
Post Date: 2007-12-11 20:24:38 by tom007
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Archaeologists find 2,000 year old Roman glue in Germany
Post Date: 2007-12-11 14:29:53 by aristeides
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Archaeologists find 2,000 year old Roman glue in Germany From our ANI Correspondent London, Dec 8: Archaeologists have reportedly found traces of a glue used by the Romans 2,000 years ago near the town of Xanten in Germany. It had lain on what was once the bed of the Rhine for at least 1,500 years. According to researchers at the Rhineland Historical Museum in Bonn, this ancient glue was used to mount silver laurel leaves on legionnaires' battle helmets, made of iron. Though the helmet lay on the river-bed for so long, its glue was not exposed to the destructive effects of the atmosphere, and therefore, did not lose its adhesive power. "Researchers came across the glue by ...
Huge'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth
Post Date: 2007-12-11 06:19:05 by Ada
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Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean. The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet’s deep mantle. The finding, made by Michael Wysession, a seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis, and his former graduate student Jesse Lawrence, now at the University of California, San Diego, will be detailed in a forthcoming monograph to be published by the American Geophysical Union. Looking down deep The pair analyzed more than 600,000 seismograms—records of waves generated by earthquakes traveling through the ...
CompUSA, Falling to Competition, to Shut Down After Holidays
Post Date: 2007-12-08 22:25:40 by tom007
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CompUSA, Falling to Competition, to Shut Down After Holidays By Joseph Galante Enlarge Image/Details Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- CompUSA, the computer retailer that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim owned since 2000, will shut its doors after 23 years, succumbing to competition from Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Restructuring firm Gordon Brothers Group LLC bought the chain for an undisclosed sum and will sell or close its 103 stores after the U.S. holidays, CompUSA said yesterday. The 67- year-old Slim, Latin America's richest man, failed to turn around CompUSA after investing more than $1.5 billion in the chain over eight years. ``An orderly and expedited wind-down and asset sale ...
Busted: rbST Milk Myth Machine is Revealed
Post Date: 2007-12-05 17:14:45 by angle
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Buckeye Dairy News If you believe the headlines of most major newspapers and magazines, the U.S. consumer is against the use of biotechnology in agriculture and prefers that his/her food be grown in a natural and organic fashion. Recently, a few milk purchasers and resellers, including the Kroger Company, used this argument in deciding to stop purchasing milk from farms that use recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST), a hormone produced by Monsanto using recombinant-DNA under the trade name of Posilac®. Perspective From the perspective of one who has spent over 25 years of his life working on improving dairy productivity and profitability by using modern management, nutrition, and ...
Rushing for the Lifeboats
Post Date: 2007-12-04 00:43:06 by Tauzero
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Rushing for the Lifeboats Jared Taylor, Special to AR News, December 3, 2007 William Saletan, national correspondent at the on-line magazine Slate, recently published a three-part series about the powerful evidence for the view that the average IQ difference between blacks and whites is caused at least partly by genes. (The series begins here.) Much of his data came from a first-rate summary by Philippe Rushton and Arthur Jensen that appeared in the June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. It was a surprise to find a reasonably objective treatment of IQ at a web site owned by the Washington Post, and we posted excerpts at AmRen.com. (See “Race, Genes, and Intelligence, ...
Mind Games; New on the Internet: a community of people who believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. They may be crazy, but the Pentagon has pursued a weapon that can do just that.
Post Date: 2007-12-03 21:34:40 by Jethro Tull
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From: The Washington Post Date: January 14, 2007 Author: Sharon Weinberger IF HARLAN GIRARD IS CRAZY, HE DOESN'T ACT THE PART. He is standing just where he said he would be, below the Philadelphia train station's World War II memorial -- a soaring statue of a winged angel embracing a fallen combatant, as if lifting him to heaven. Girard is wearing pressed khaki pants, expensive-looking leather loafers and a crisp blue button-down. He looks like a local businessman dressed for a casual Friday -- a local businessman with a wickedly dark sense of humor, which had become apparent when he said to look for him beneath "the angel sodomizing a dead soldier." At 70, he appears ...
Tasers: the next generation
Post Date: 2007-12-03 17:45:10 by TwentyTwelve
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TheStar.com | Technology | Tasers: the next generation Tasers: the next generation Consisting of stackable arrays of six “darts,” Taser’s Shockwave technology — which will likely go to market next year — will be used for military applications, says a company spokesperson, “not for a riot in Toronto.” Alarmed by recent incidents? Wait'll you see what the company is planning for 2008 Dec 02, 2007 04:30 AM Andrew Chung Staff Reporter The Taser is going wireless. Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing ...
Microwave Beam Stops Cars Dead
Post Date: 2007-12-03 17:42:16 by robin
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Microwave Beam Stops Cars Dead Tracy Staedter, Discovery News Nov. 29, 2007 -- The same microwave radiation that reheats pizza can be used to fry the electrical systems in cars, stopping them dead in their tracks. Emitted from a rooftop device, the radiation could be used by law enforcement officers to put an end to dangerous car chases or by military personnel as a non-lethal way of disabling vehicles that get too close for comfort. "The idea is to warn an automobile some distance away from a high-value target like a military barrack or a communication center. If they don't comply, you just zap them and it prevents them from coming closer," said James Tatoian, ...
Chimps beat humans in memory test
Post Date: 2007-12-03 16:19:58 by robin
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Chimps beat humans in memory test By Helen Briggs Science reporter, BBC News Counting test Number memory test Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests. Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists. The tasks involved remembering the location of numbers on a screen, and correctly recalling the sequence. The findings, published in Current Biology, suggest we may have under-estimated the intelligence of our closest living relatives. Until now, it had always been assumed that chimps ...
It Seems to Us: Absolute Zero
Post Date: 2007-12-03 14:11:11 by Tauzero
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It Seems to Us: Absolute Zero By David Sumner, K1ZZ December 1, 2007 “Sunspot-wise, we seem to be stuck in a trough between Solar Cycles 23 and 24. Lately the W1AW propagation bulletins have been reporting zero sunspots, day after day. The level of solar activity was low throughout 2006 and 2007 and is not expected to begin to pick up until around March 2008 -- months later than earlier predictions.” Many ARRL members are new to HF this year. If you are among them you may be a bit disappointed that the reality you have experienced has not met your expectations. We boast that radio amateurs can communicate anywhere in the world, but it's not an easy game for beginners when ...
Nigerian keyboard firm sues One Laptop per Child
Post Date: 2007-12-03 12:53:44 by Tauzero
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Nigerian keyboard firm sues One Laptop per Child No hugs and kisses for XO Laptop By Austin Modine The One Laptop Per Child foundation is being sued over its XO laptop keyboard design by the Nigerian-owned, Massachusetts-based firm, Lagos Analysis Corp. Lagos claims the non-profit illegally reverse-engineered their software drivers to make the OLPC keypad more accent mark friendly to foreign fingers. The initial copyright infringement suit has been filed in Nigeria, and the company plans to press further lawsuits in countries where the OLPC laptop is being vended. Lagos CEO Adé G. Oyegb5;la tells El Reg that the company's Konyin Multilingual Keyboard features four shift ...
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