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Antimatter produced by lightning
Post Date: 2011-01-11 08:04:44 by Tatarewicz
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A space telescope has accidentally spotted thunderstorms on Earth producing beams of antimatter. Such storms have long been known to give rise to fleeting sparks of light called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. But results from the Fermi telescope show they also give out streams of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons. The surprise result was presented by researchers at the American Astronomical Society meeting in the US. It deepens a mystery about terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGFs - sparks of light that are estimated to occur 500 times a day in thunderstorms on Earth. They are a complex interplay of light and matter whose origin is poorly understood. Thunderstorms ...
Earth-like planet found in galaxy
Post Date: 2011-01-11 07:38:35 by Tatarewicz
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Astronomers have discovered the smallest planet outside our Solar System, and the first that is undoubtedly rocky like Earth. Measurements of unprecedented precision have shown that the planet, Kepler 10b, has a diameter 1.4 times that of Earth, and a mass 4.6 times higher. However, because it orbits its host star so closely, the planet could not harbour life. The discovery has been hailed as "among the most profound in human history". The result was announced at the 217th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, US, by Nasa's Kepler team. The Kepler space telescope, designed to look for the signs of far-flung planets, first spotted the planet 560 ...
Adobe Powers San Jose Headquarters with Bloom Energy
Post Date: 2011-01-11 01:53:21 by angK
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Adobe Powers San Jose Headquarters with Bloom Energy Fuel Cells Largest “Bloom Box” Installation to Date Will Generate 30 Percent of Adobe HQ Electricity Needs, Promote Sustainability SAN JOSE, Calif., — Sept. 28, 2010 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Bloom Energy Corporation http://(www.BloomEnergy.com) today announced completion of the largest commercial Bloom Energy fuel cell installation to date, designed to supply approximately one-third of the electricity required by Adobe’s downtown San Jose headquarters. A total of 12 Bloom Energy Servers – also known as Bloom boxes – have been installed on the 5th floor of Adobe’s West Tower at ...
Future Of Food For 9 Billion? Edible Insects Proposed To Replace Meat; EU Investigates Bug Farming for Protein
Post Date: 2011-01-08 10:24:36 by CadetD
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Do you prefer the grasshopper to the ants? What kind of grubs do you have? How about some fried lice? The future of chatter over the dinner table? Insects produce much smaller quantities of greenhouse gases per kilogram of meat than cattle and pigs. This is the conclusion of scientists at Wageningen University who have joined forces with government and industry to investigate whether the rearing of insects could contribute to more sustainable protein production. Insect meat could therefore form an alternative to more conventional types of meat. Greenhouse gas production by insects Cattle farming worldwide is a major producer of greenhouse gases. For the assessment of the sustainability ...
(One of psychology’s most respected) Journal’s Paper on ESP Expected to Prompt Outrage
Post Date: 2011-01-06 15:20:23 by gengis gandhi
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Journal’s Paper on ESP Expected to Prompt Outrage By BENEDICT CAREY Published: January 5, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS (431) SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT SINGLE PAGE REPRINTS SHARE One of psychology’s most respected journals has agreed to publish a paper presenting what its author describes as strong evidence for extrasensory perception, the ability to sense future events. Enlarge This Image Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times Work by Daryl J. Bem on extrasensory perception is scheduled to be published this year. RSS Feed Get Science News From The New York Times » Readers' Comments Share your thoughts. Post a Comment » Read All Comments (431) » The ...
Google Ads tracking me everywhere I go.
Post Date: 2011-01-06 13:33:42 by Critter
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A month ago, I searched for and purchased two pounds of rye flour online, from a site called My Spice Sage or something like that. I had checked every local market, supermarket, and came up empty. Lately, I have noticed that every site I go to which uses Google Ads is showing me ads for My Spice Sage. At first I was thinking, wow, this spice place is spending a fortune on google ads, they're everywhere, but just now I remembered my flour purchase, and I seemed to remember that name. I clicked on an ad and went to their site, and sure enough, I was able to log in their and see my past order. Somewhere in google ad universe, they must have my IP recorded and are targeting ads to me base ...
Ion generator experiment claimed to bring rain to desert
Post Date: 2011-01-06 04:52:06 by Tatarewicz
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For centuries people living in the Middle East have dreamed of turning the sandy desert into land fit for growing crops with fresh water on tap. Now that holy grail is a step closer after scientists employed by the ruler of Abu Dhabi claim to have generated a series of downpours. Fifty rainstorms were created last year in the state's eastern Al Ain region using technology designed to control the weather. Dry as dust: The sand dunes of the United Arab Emirates, which sees no rain at all for months. Now a secret project has brought storms to Abu Dhabi Dry as dust: The sand dunes of the United Arab Emirates, which sees no rain at all for months. Now a secret project has brought storms ...
Planetary mystery object may trigger earthquakes
Post Date: 2011-01-05 07:45:42 by Tatarewicz
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A new report circulating in the Kremlin today authored by Doctor-Scientist Alexander Stepanov of St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory warns that the massive dark Jupiter-sized object lurking at our solar system’s outer edge appears to have “accelerated” its movement towards our Earth. When “coupled” with the Total Lunar Eclipse of December 20/21, Dr. Stepanov suggests, the likelihood of an 8.0 magnitude or higher earthquake striking our Planet December 11th to January 8th, 2011, is a “near certainty”. The massive dark Jupiter-sized object being mentioned in this report coincides with the research planetary scientist John Matese of the ...
China Boasts Breakthrough in Nuclear Technology
Post Date: 2011-01-04 14:03:58 by ghostdogtxn
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Arctic ice melt may promote cross-breeding, further imperiling endangered animals
Post Date: 2011-01-04 11:21:48 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Arctic ice melt may promote cross-breeding, further imperiling endangered animals Mating between different species could lead to the extinction of many Arctic animals, because hybrid offspring are often less hardy, scientists say. By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times December 16, 2010 As the world heats up and polar ice melts, different types of bears, whales and seals could meet and mate — but these unions may be far from happy, researchers said Wednesday. In fact, interspecies sex brought on by the melting Arctic ice could lead to the extinction of many endangered Arctic animals, the scientists said in an article published in the journal Nature. At least 22 species are at risk of ...
Rense & Moret - Google's Sinister DNA Plans
Post Date: 2011-01-03 16:12:18 by Itistoolate
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Have scientists discovered how to create downpours in the desert?
Post Date: 2011-01-03 14:07:28 by Ada
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Technology created 50 rainstorms in Abu Dhabi's Al Ain region last year For centuries people living in the Middle East have dreamed of turning the sandy desert into land fit for growing crops with fresh water on tap. Now that holy grail is a step closer after scientists employed by the ruler of Abu Dhabi claim to have generated a series of downpours. Fifty rainstorms were created last year in the state's eastern Al Ain region using technology designed to control the weather. Dry as dust: The sand dunes of the United Arab Emirates, which sees no rain at all for months. Now a secret project has brought storms to Abu Dhabi Plan: Scientists are attempting to make clouds in the desert ...
China's program to eclipse US patent filings
Post Date: 2011-01-02 05:46:38 by Tatarewicz
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AS a national strategy, China is trying to build an economy that relies on innovation rather than imitation. Clearly, its leaders recognize that being the world’s low-cost workshop for assembling the breakthrough products designed elsewhere — think iPads and a host of other high-tech goods — has its limits. So can China become a prodigious inventor? The answer, in truth, will play out over decades — and go a long way toward determining not only China’s future, but also the shape of the global economy. Clues to the Chinese approach emerge from a recent government document containing goals for drastically increasing the nation’s production of patents. It ...
10 Modern Methods of Mind Control
Post Date: 2010-12-31 11:17:39 by Bill D Berger
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December 31, 2010 The more one researches mind control, the more one will come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. For as long as man has pursued power over the masses, mind control has been orchestrated by those who study human behavior in order to bend large populations to the will of a small “elite” group. Today, we have entered a perilous phase where mind control has taken on a physical, scientific dimension that threatens to become a permanent state if we do not become aware of the tools at the disposal of the technocratic dictatorship ...
Galaxies Beyond Human Comprehension
Post Date: 2010-12-28 16:34:01 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef0148c703c456970c-pi Galaxies Beyond Human Comprehension Thousands of galaxies crowd into this Herschel image of the distant Universe. Each dot is an entire galaxy containing billions of stars. For more than a decade, astronomers have puzzled over strangely bright galaxies in the distant Universe. These ‘luminous infrared galaxies’ appear to be creating stars at such phenomenal rates that they defy conventional theories of galaxy formation. ESA’s Herschel infrared space observatory, with its ability for very sensitive mapping over wide areas, has seen thousands of these galaxies and pinpointed their locations, showing for ...
Strange emissions by sun are suddenly mutating matter…
Post Date: 2010-12-26 09:57:09 by gengis gandhi
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Terrifying scientific discovery: Strange emissions by sun are suddenly mutating matter… POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2010 BY ROCKINGJUDE BY TERRENCE AYM The angry sun For months mounting fear has driven researchers to wring their hands over the approaching solar storms. Some have predicted devastating solar tsunamis that could wipe away our advanced technology, others voiced dire warnings that violent explosions on the surface of the sun could reach out to Earth, breach our magnetic field, and expose billions to high intensity X-rays and other deadly forms of cancer-causing radiation. Now evidence has surfaced that something potentially more dangerous is happening deep within the hidden ...
Half Past Human, Cliff High: Intervallo
Post Date: 2010-12-26 09:55:40 by gengis gandhi
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Home Intervallo..... with respect, let us begin... During this intervallo, you may leave the play, ever so briefly, for pie and drinks. We caution against excessive poison intake (alcohol) during this holiday 'season', given that we know what is coming in the next act of the play and that all attendees will require every bit of consciousness that they may be able to muster. Further there is the issue of the dampening of the higher level vibrations caused by alcohol consumption, which forces the alcohol afflicted consciousness to take refuge in the r-complex (or reptilian part) of the brain as any higher brain activity is quashed. This year, 2010 (year not over, please note), ...
Invention uses solar heat to produce hydrogen fuel from water
Post Date: 2010-12-26 04:37:08 by Tatarewicz
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A prototype solar device has been unveiled which mimics plant life, turning the Sun's energy into fuel. The machine uses the Sun's rays and a metal oxide called ceria to break down carbon dioxide or water into fuels which can be stored and transported. Conventional photovoltaic panels must use the electricity they generate in situ, and cannot deliver power at night. Details are published in the journal Science. The prototype, which was devised by researchers in the US and Switzerland, uses a quartz window and cavity to concentrate sunlight into a cylinder lined with cerium oxide, also known as ceria. Ceria has a natural propensity to exhale oxygen as it heats up and inhale it ...
Mysterious creature found in Nelson County (chupachingala?)
Post Date: 2010-12-24 08:25:58 by gengis gandhi
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Mysterious creature found in Nelson County Posted: Dec 23, 2010 12:11 AM EST Updated: Dec 23, 2010 9:33 PM EST Mark Cothren Sam Clites Click image to enlarge By Marisela Burgos - bio | email LEBANON JUNCTION, KY (WAVE) - Has a mythical creature made its way to Kentucky? Some people seem to think so, after a Nelson County man came across a creature with grayish, wrinkly skin and no fur. Mark Cothren shot and killed an animal on Dec. 18 because he said he feared what it was, since he did not recognize it. He said the animal walked from the woods onto his front yard around 3 p.m. Cothren lives on Mount Carmel Church Road in Lebanon Junction. "I was like: 'every animal has ...
Top 10 Inventions in human history
Post Date: 2010-12-24 06:03:55 by Tatarewicz
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Here's a survey that says a lot about the priorities of the 4,000 British adults, ages 18 to 85, who were asked by Tesco Mobile to rank the world's 100 most important inventions. Putting the wheel at No. 1 makes sense. Ditto the light bulb at No. 3 and penicillin at No. 7. But even Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs -- no stranger to hyperbole -- has never claimed that the iPhone is the eighth greatest invention of all time. You can probably find a few items on the list below that you would rank higher. Myself, I'm partial to hot water, soft toilet paper, and a roof over my head. Below: Tesco Mobile's list. 1. Wheel 2. Aeroplane 3. Light bulb 4. Internet 5. PCs 6. ...
World Weather WAY Out of Whack
Post Date: 2010-12-24 05:44:50 by Kamala
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World Weather WAY Out of Whack Tuesday, December 21, 2010 We are in the early stages of sudden climate change, and unless something unexpected prevents it, the next few years are likely to see dramatic changes in the weather on Planet Earth, changes at least as great as those that led to the Little Ice Age. Paradoxically, this is an effect of global warming. There is also a natural cycle involved, but we might have been able to delay it if we had not emitted so much carbon dixoide into the atmosphere. The political debate, especially in the US, has delayed the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions so long, though, that we have almost certainly run out of time. The global warming deniers ...
Best Laptops and Destops of 2010
Post Date: 2010-12-24 05:10:51 by Tatarewicz
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HP TechSmart 300 rated tops among Best Laptops and Desktops of 2010 by the (Chinese) Global Times Forum Team. Click for Full Text!
Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us
Post Date: 2010-12-22 14:09:20 by gengis gandhi
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Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News Click to play Click to play Professor Chris Stringer: "It's nothing short of sensational - we didn't know know how ancient people in China related to these other humans" Continue reading the main story Related stories DNA identifies new ancient human Neanderthal genes 'survive in us' Ancient family was cannibalised Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species. The ancient humans have been dubbed "Denisovans" after the caves in Siberia where their remains ...
China seeking world's top scientists
Post Date: 2010-12-22 09:05:16 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) Tuesday renewed its offer to fund overseas professionals who contribute to technology innovation projects for the country. The MST published instructions on how to apply for the government-run "Thousand Talents" funding program, which was unveiled in late 2008 to attract leading overseas professionals to work in China. Professionals with foreign doctoral degrees, aged up to 55, who had served as senior technology executives in world-renowned firms or professor-level experts at prestigious overseas universities or research institutes were eligible, said a statement from the ministry. The candidates ...
Colonizing Space: We Must Boldly Go
Post Date: 2010-12-21 23:43:45 by angK
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Colonizing Space: We Must Boldly Go by Robert J. Sawyer Op-Ed piece for The Ottawa Citizen, the largest-circulation newspaper in Canada's capital city, Tuesday, June 20, 2006. Copyright © 2006 by Robert J. Sawyer All Rights Reserved. We shouldn't need a genius to tell us it's folly to keep all our eggs in one basket. But that's exactly what the world's most-famous genius recently told an audience of 2,500 in Hong Kong. Speaking with the robotic voice of his speech synthesizer, Stephen Hawking said, "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or ...
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