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Methane emissions from cattle are 11% higher than estimated
Post Date: 2019-10-01 21:35:57 by BTP Holdings
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Methane emissions from cattle are 11% higher than estimated Bigger livestock in larger numbers in more regions has led to methane in the air climbing faster than predicted due to ‘out-of-date data’ Agence France-Presse Fri 29 Sep 2017 06.23 EDT Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 11.58 EST A sharp rise in methane pollution could jeopardise the goal of capping global warming below 2C. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian Emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from livestock are larger than previously thought, posing an additional challenge in the fight to curb global warming, scientists have said. Revised calculations of methane produced per head of cattle show that ...
Russian navy boat sinks in Arctic Sea after walrus attack: reports
Post Date: 2019-09-24 09:47:30 by Ada
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A Russian navy boat embarking on a research expedition in the Arctic Sea sunk after being attacked by a female walrus that was defending her young, according to reports Monday. The Altai, a tugboat operated by the Russian navy’s Northern Fleet, carried researchers from the Russian Geographical Society and other expedition participants into waters near a remote island chain called Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea, Ars Technica reported. DEAD SHARK 'PARADED' THROUGH TOWN AT BRITISH SEAFOOD FESTIVAL SPARKS DEBATE The boat dispatched a smaller inflatable landing craft in shallow waters off Wilczek Island to bring researchers ashore near Cape Heller. Before the boat could ...
Newly discovered comet likely an 'interstellar visitor,' NASA says
Post Date: 2019-09-14 10:19:09 by BTP Holdings
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Newly discovered comet likely an 'interstellar visitor,' NASA says 3 hrs ago The discovery of a new comet scientists believe to be an "interstellar object" has set the astronomy community abuzz. © Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Comet C/2019 Q4 as imaged by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii's Big Island on Sept. 10, 2019. If officially confirmed, the object would be only the second of its kind detected, according to a statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. The newly found comet, dubbed C/2019 Q4, was discovered by Gennady Borisov, a Crimean astronomer working out of an observatory in Nauchnij, ...
Russia Wants To Win Wars, Not Kill Civilians: Moscow's Latest Electromag Superweapon
Post Date: 2019-09-12 10:57:14 by Ada
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Russia continues surprising the West with new weapons. According to recent reports, Russian engineers develop a jammer missile called Alabuga. Rumor has it that this weapon will be able to completely neutralize enemy without even opening fire at its forces. This weapon produces a very strong radio electric impact, the power of which is comparable to the power of a nuclear explosion. The missile can literally disable all enemy weapons and military equipment, including missiles, missile defense systems, ships and tanks, as well as any type of air, sea and ground military hardware. The Alabuga missile causes all microcircuits to come out of order. In fact, the military hardware and ...
If only all our college students were as appreciative
Post Date: 2019-09-11 12:45:47 by Luke The Spook
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If only all our college students were as appreciative The main vice of Capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity; The main vice of Socialism is the even distribution of misery. This article was written by a college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. It's a short article but definitely worth a read. "College Student: My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices ...
Video: toxic air in cockpits is killing pilots, causing crashes
Post Date: 2019-09-08 14:31:58 by NeoconsNailed
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The 'asbestos of the airline industry' killing flyers | 60 Minutes Australia Click for Full Text! Poster Comment:Asbestos -- these planes must be a lot older than people have any idea. "Comments are disabled for this video" -- wonder what's with that. Are they working up to no comments allowed, period?
Bitcoin at 10
Post Date: 2019-09-08 08:29:45 by Ada
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A new book aims to chronicle the digital currency's ideological origins. Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency, by Finn Brunton, Princeton University Press, 272 pages, $26.95 As bitcoin turns 10, a new book aims to chronicle the digital currency's ideological origins. "The technology alone is not enough," Finn Brunton writes in Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency. "Even with good math, scientific discoveries, the free circulation of ideas, reliable hardware and running code, you need a desire, a vision, a dissatisfaction, a ...
China's lunar rover has found something weird on the moon's far side
Post Date: 2019-09-07 11:24:48 by BTP Holdings
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China's lunar rover has found something weird on the moon's far side Andrew Jones, Space.com 8/31/2019 China's Chang'e-4 lunar rover has discovered an unusually colored, "gel-like" substance during its exploration activities on the far side of the moon. © China Lunar Exploration Project) The mission's rover, Yutu-2, stumbled on that surprise during lunar day 8. The discovery prompted scientists on the mission to postpone other driving plans for the rover, and instead focus its instruments on trying to figure out what the strange material is. Day 8 started on July 25; Yutu-2 began navigating a path through an area littered with various small impact ...
From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets
Post Date: 2019-09-07 08:04:38 by Ada
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Frank Olson died in 1953, but, because of clandestine US government experiments, it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth. Glass shattered high above Seventh Avenue in Manhattan before dawn on a cold November morning in 1953. Seconds later, a body hit the sidewalk. Jimmy, the doorman at the Statler hotel, was momentarily stunned. Then he turned and ran into the hotel lobby. “We got a jumper!” he shouted. “We got a jumper!” The night manager peered up through the darkness at his hulking hotel. After a few moments, he picked out a curtain flapping through an open window. It turned out to be room 1018A. Two names were on the registration card: Frank ...
Putin Trolls Trump, Offers to Sell Technology Which Has Made Most of US Military Obsolete
Post Date: 2019-09-06 09:16:40 by Ada
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This is some high class trolling by Russia's President Vladimir Putin: Putin said he offered U.S. President Donald Trump in a recent phone call the chance to buy one of the hypersonic nuclear weapons Moscow is developing. He said Trump spurned the offer and replied that Washington was making its own. Hypersonic weapons fly faster than Mach 5 or five times the speed of sound. Their high speed leaves little warning time for the target. There are currently no practical defenses against them. While the U.S. spent an enormous amount on developing large aircraft carriers, 'stealth' airplanes and useless missile defenses, Russia spent much less to developed weapons that can ...
Americans have become children — demanding, dependent and needy
Post Date: 2019-09-05 20:57:12 by Ada
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As a population, it’s exotic to the point of extinction, vanishing in plain sight: the American adult. As a trend, this has been gestating for at least the past decade, from Judd Apatow’s glorified man-babies to Lena Dunham’s ostensibly grown “Girls” to the acceptance of “adulting” into the lexicon. But it truly, alarmingly calcified this summer. Take prime-time TV. This summer was awash in game shows, major stars — including Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Kimmel, Rob Lowe, Ellen DeGeneres, Alec Baldwin, Tiffany Haddish, Elizabeth Banks, Duane “The Rock” Johnson, Melissa McCarthy (recent Oscar nominee) and Jamie Foxx (Oscar winner) — ...
Prominent Yale Professor Explains How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Doesn’t Match The Science
Post Date: 2019-08-29 08:27:45 by Ada
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Science never ceases to question. When a theory is taught as an unquestionable fact, it should be quite obvious that something is wrong. Today, science isn’t really science, and this is not only true for topics such as evolution, it’s true in many areas where science is used for an agenda by powerful and corrupt forces. Health sciences are a great example. As Bud Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said, “The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents ...
You won’t believe what target President Trump picked for a nuclear strike
Post Date: 2019-08-26 20:44:43 by BTP Holdings
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You won’t believe what target President Trump picked for a nuclear strike One of the biggest blockbuster stories of the Trump administration broke over the weekend. The Fake News Media was jumping for joy. And you won’t believe what target President Trump picked for a nuclear strike. On Sunday Axios’ Jonathan Swan reported that in the first year of Trump’s Presidency Trump supposedly asked his advisors if it was possible to bomb the eye of the hurricane to keep it from striking the American coast. This is not a new idea. Scientists have suggested the strategy as far back as the 1950s. Axios reports: Behind the scenes: During one hurricane briefing at the White ...
Nolte: Martha’s Vineyard Home Proves Obama Knows Global Warming’s a Hoax
Post Date: 2019-08-25 08:54:26 by Ada
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Barack and Michelle Obama are proving with the purchase of a $15 million home on Martha’s Vineyard that they know Global Warming is a hoax. Do you want to know the very last thing a true believer in Global Warming would ever do…? Move to an island and invest $15 million in a home with a — no joke — ocean view. But… According to various news reports, Barry and Michelle are doing exactly that, and I do mean exactly that… Here’s a photo of the estate, all 7,000 square feet of the mansion and the surrounding property… You see all that blue stuff off to the right…? That’s the Atlantic Ocean, y’all… Now, some might see an awful lot ...
George Gilder: Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future
Post Date: 2019-08-24 14:46:12 by BTP Holdings
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Recorded on August 28, 2018 Is blockchain the technology of the future? George Gilder, author of Life After Google, argues that bitcoin and blockchain technology is revolutionizing the Internet. He sits down with Peter Robinson to discuss technology, cloud computing, big data, and the growing role of blockchain in innovating new technologies. Gilder argues that cloud computing, while it was the hot new technology ten years ago, has reached its limits as the physical limitations of big data storage centers maxes out. Improvements in parsing big data are incremental at this point, and it’s time for the next big technology to take its place. Gilder points to blockchain as the ...
5 things the media won't tell you about the Amazon fires
Post Date: 2019-08-23 19:00:06 by Ada
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Traditional and social media have gone crazy covering the Amazon fires this week, and the images and video like those we shared are compelling. But there's a lot of misinformation out there, and there is some good news: It may not be as bad as some in the media are reporting. This is serious stuff! We need to stick to the science. Here are five things that the media (which rarely gets it right on science) aren't telling you: The Earth is burning, but it always has been. Thousands of fires are continually burning across the Earth every day of every year, and they always have. They have an animation of the last 20 years of this data. You won't see much of a change, except ...
First they came for the bots: US academics make case for 1984-style silencing of any dissent
Post Date: 2019-08-21 10:57:40 by Ada
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With the "Russian meddling" theory of Trump's victory on life support heading into 2020, US academic researchers have heeded the patriotic call and put forth a new definition of "disinformation" that includes inconvenient truths. Social media platforms must expand their definitions of "coordinated inauthentic behavior" beyond the usual bots-and-trolls model to include conversations about topics harmful to the state if they hope to curb the spread of disinformation on their platforms, a trio of University of Washington researchers insist in a paper released ahead of the 2019 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. To help in this quest, the ...
This huge telescope could lead us to alien life. First it has to get off the ground.
Post Date: 2019-08-18 15:54:12 by BTP Holdings
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This huge telescope could lead us to alien life. First it has to get off the ground. Jason Davis 3 hrs ago a group of people on a boat: Protesters hold an opposition vigil against the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope at Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii on July 19, 2019. 1/3 SLIDES © Bruce Asato Protesters hold an opposition vigil against the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope at Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii on July 19, 2019. A colossal telescope with the potential to revolutionize astronomy and discover extraterrestrial life is set for construction atop a dormant volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. But protesters have blocked the road to the ...
Scientists stunned after spotting record-shattering supernova
Post Date: 2019-08-17 10:11:17 by BTP Holdings
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Scientists stunned after spotting record-shattering supernova Mike Wehner 9 hrs ago Democrats torch Trump failures on rural digital divide U.S. backs F-16 sale to Taiwan, draws warning from China Scientists have a pretty good handle on the life cycle of various stars. They know the types of stars that are likely to die in fiery supernova blasts, and they know that not all supernova are created equal. © Provided by Penske Media Corporation space Still, space has many untold secrets, and a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal reveals that scientists had their understanding of supernova thrown into question after observing an explosion so massive that they initially ...
Break down styrofoam in days -- with superworms
Post Date: 2019-08-15 18:34:23 by NeoconsNailed
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A paper came out recently showing the common mealworms could eat, survive on and break down styrofoam. I decided to test this with a different species to see if this is something more insects could do. And sure enough they can! Could be a great way to deal with our plastics, feed them to the bugs! Social media links: Facebook: www.facebook.com/thethoughtem.. . Website: www.thethoughtemporium.com/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/thethoughte.. . Twitter: @TTEchironex Category Science & Technology Poster Comment:You can hear their little mandibles crunching away ;) I just hope this is practical on a large scale -- getting even 1/10 of the nonwhites in Amurrica to separate their trash? Not ...
US government shuts down military lab studying Ebola and plague over fears deadly bugs are escaping via wastewater
Post Date: 2019-08-08 08:23:41 by Ada
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Scientists at Fort Detrick, Maryland, study Ebola, the plague, and rabbit fever The CDC issued a cease-and-desist notice last month citing a number of safety concerns They said decontamination practices are not sufficient, and staff are not being retrained often enough The US government has shut down all research at the nation's top biological warfare lab amid fears deadly microbes could leak into the water supply. Scientists at Fort Detrick, Maryland, study Ebola, the plague (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) and rabbit fever (caused by the bacterium tularemia). But last month US health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a ...
Scientists Say They Created A Human-Monkey Hybrid In A Lab
Post Date: 2019-08-05 14:22:53 by Horse
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Scientists in China claim to have created the world’s first human-monkey hybrid. The research team is actually from Spain, but they conducted their study in China to avoid regulations against this type of experimentation. Last week, Japanese scientists made the shocking announcement that they were planning on creating human-rodent hybrid embryos for the purpose of growing organs for transplants. However, it would seem that other researchers have already made some serious progress in creating human-animal hybrids, going so far as to create a human-monkey. These experiments are also seeking to develop ways of growing human organs for transplant.
Can plastic roads help save the planet? BBC News
Post Date: 2019-08-03 15:10:30 by BTP Holdings
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Engineer Toby McCartney explains how his Scottish start-up MacRebur is persuading councils to use local waste plastic to build roads. Two English councils have already started building roads this way. A smartphone film for BBC World Hacks by Dougal Shaw.. Poster Comment:Pot hole patch. Yeeee!
Why The United States Is Turning To Recycling Robots
Post Date: 2019-08-01 18:34:06 by BTP Holdings
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For decades, the United States and other wealthy countries have been dependent on China to buy and process almost half of the world’s plastic waste. Now, stricter recycling standards in China mean its cheaper for some US cities to simply send recyclables to the dump rather than pay a higher fee to process them. That’s why a number of researchers and tech companies are working on robots to make US recycling more efficient.
Earth's rotation is slowing - and it could cause major earthquakes
Post Date: 2019-07-29 02:37:00 by Tatarewicz
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pmf... Earth’s rotation is slowing - and it could cause major earthquakes Earth's rotation is slowing down as the Moon moves farther away from the planet - and scientists believe it could cause major earthquakes. Earth's rotation is slowing as our planet uses energy to keep the tidal bulge ahead of the Moon's orbit. The Moon's gravity keeps Earth's rotation in check, and to do this the lunar satellite's orbit must be slightly ahead of Earth's. As the Moon attempts to regulate Earth's rotation and slow it down, the Moon moves slowly away. According to Matthew Funke, solar system ambassador for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who wrote on Q+A ...
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