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Lighting our way to darkness: Scientists warn of too much ‘artificial light’ on Earth
Post Date: 2017-11-23 07:34:46 by Tatarewicz
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RT... A new study conducted using satellite data shows that artificial lighting is growing brighter. The data suggest this is disrupting the order of ecological and human life, which previously depended on natural light sources such as the moon. The international study led by Christopher Kyba of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geoscience tracks what researchers are calling a negative trend that has implications for the health of human beings and the environment. The light pollution that humans are creating can affect living things, because they have evolved in accordance with the normal day-night cycle, according to the study. This is due to the fact that major sources of light during ...
Explosive volcanic eruptions triggered by cosmic rays: Volcano as a bubble chamber
Post Date: 2017-11-22 23:22:59 by Horse
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Volcanoes with silica-rich and highly viscous magma tend to produce violent explosive eruptions that result in disasters in local communities and that strongly affect the global environment. We examined the timing of 11 eruptive events that produced silica-rich magma from four volcanoes in Japan (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Usu, Myojin-sho, and Satsuma-Iwo- jima) over the past 306 years (from AD 1700 to AD 2005). Nine of the 11 events occurred during inactive phases of solar magnetic activity (solar minimum), which is well indexed by the group sunspot number. This strong association between eruption timing and the solar minimum is statistically significant to a confidence level of 96.7%. This ...
‘By the people, for the people’: Kim Dotcom to launch alternative internet
Post Date: 2017-11-22 10:15:20 by Ada
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Kim Dotcom, wanted in the US for alleged widespread illegal file sharing, has vowed to build an alternative internet to combat privacy and freedom problems online. The knowledge that government agencies have used the internet to spy on citizens, along with high-profile hacking scandals, has brought online privacy to the forefront of people’s minds. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom says he will help facilitate an unobstructed internet, free from prying eyes, through MegaNet, which will operate without IP addresses. The German entrepreneur is currently resisting extradition to the US from New Zealand over alleged copyright infringement. Kim Dotcom ✔ @KimDotcom I have been ...
Twitter hate speech police ready to punish users for sites they visit on the web
Post Date: 2017-11-22 08:32:35 by Ada
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Twitter begins monitoring user behavior from “off platform”. Hit with a serious case of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” coupled with a dose of “Russian Meddling Disease”, Twitter executives are ramping up their hate-speech surveillance to include not only the Twitter platform, but also monitoring sites visited by users outside the Twitter eco-system. Think twice before accepting Twitter’s cookie policy…you will be tracked and punished for sites you visit by the Twitter hate speech police. According to Zerohedge, in what amounts to a major shift in Twitter policy, Mashable’s Kerry Flynn reports that the company announced on Friday that it will ...
Game Over for Humans?
Post Date: 2017-11-22 08:02:03 by Ada
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An algorithm that learns, tabula rasa, superhuman proficiency in challenging domains. AlphaGo Zero after 36 hours It is usual to distinguish between biological and machine intelligence, and for good reason: organisms have interacted with the world for millennia and survived, machines are a recent human construction, and until recently there was no reason to consider them capable of intelligent behaviour. Computers changed the picture somewhat, but until very recently artificial intelligence has been tried, and proved disappointing. As computers and programs increased in power and speed a defensive trope developed: a computer will never write a poem/enjoy strawberries/understand the ...
London buses to be powered by coffee to reduce emission
Post Date: 2017-11-20 02:07:05 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- A coffee-based biofuel will be used to help power London's public buses from Monday in a bid to reduce transport emission, local media reported. Bio-bean, a London-based green-energy start-up, said it has produced enough coffee-derived biofuel to power one bus for a whole year, the BBC reported. The company collects waste coffee grounds mostly from London's coffee shops for processing, and tops the resulting coffee oil with a range of animal and vegetable oil. The final mix, consisting of 80 percent of diesel and 20 percent of biofuels, can reduce carbon emission from a bus journey by 10 percent to 15 percent, the AFP reported. The buses can be ...
HENRY FORD MADE A HEMP CAR IN 1941, BUT NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT IT
Post Date: 2017-11-19 13:40:57 by Horse
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As much as we like to think biodiesel is a modern breakthroughs, biofuel really isn’t a new development at all. In the 1941 the first prototype car made from and fueled by hemp was constructed by Henry Ford. 70% of the cars body was made of industrial hemp and resin binder along with other cellulose fibres. Back in the 20th century marijuana was forbidden in order to suppress the inexpensive hemp fuel and fibre production, so that profits could be made by using petrol, all for tiny groups of people who wanted control and money. They knew that using hemp would withdraw our economic system and enable the majority of the population to return to wealth and power. Marijuana and hemp ...
Japanese SELENE (Kaguya) Lunar Mission Spots Apollo 15 Landing Site (Images)
Post Date: 2017-11-19 10:47:23 by BTP Holdings
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Japanese SELENE (Kaguya) Lunar Mission Spots Apollo 15 Landing Site (Images) Article written: 16 Jul , 2008 Updated: 24 Dec , 2015 by Ian O'Neill [/caption] The Japanese lunar mission SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer), also known as “Kaguya” has imaged the “halo” left behind in the lunar surface from Apollo 15’s lunar module engine exhaust plume. This is the first time a mission after the Apollo Program has detected such a feature. Apollo 15 landed on the Moon in 1971 in a region called Mare Imbrium, and SELENE’s Terrain Camera (TC) is continuing to reconstruct a 3D view of the region in unprecedented high-resolution. The Hadley Rille, ...
Inside the Gigafactory That Will Decide Tesla’s Fate
Post Date: 2017-11-18 08:48:55 by BTP Holdings
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Inside the Gigafactory That Will Decide Tesla’s Fate Elon Musk’s enormous, $5 billion factory is seriously ramping up production. By Dana Hull | May 6, 2016 To get to Tesla’s Gigafactory, you drive east from Reno, Nevada, turn into a sprawling industrial center, and make a left on Electric Avenue. The high desert landscape dwarfs everything, even the vast white building with the red stripe along the top. As you reach the gate with the security guard, the breadth of Tesla’s ambitions becomes clear. Even the name itself suggests more to come: Gigafactory 1. The lobby décor is classic Tesla: large windows, high ceilings, gleaming white floors, black leather ...
F-35 Strike Fighter Success: Real or Simulated?
Post Date: 2017-11-18 06:27:55 by Ada
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Amid bad news, Lockheed takes victory lap in the Beltway bubble. WASHINGTON — They call Washington a bubble. A la-la land. Home of the “Deep State.” A long-forgotten 1980’s television series, ‘Tales of the Darkside,’ once described “a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit” as our own world. Sounds a bit like Capitol Hill. Nowhere was that more evident than yesterday, as defense industry giant Lockheed Martin hosted an auspiciously-timed reception on the Hill to tout its multi-billion dollar F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, which as anyone reading in this space would know has been more than 16 years in development, and plagued by ...
NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space
Post Date: 2017-11-17 06:09:05 by BTP Holdings
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NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space Two donuts of seething radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen radiation belts, have been found to contain a nearly impenetrable barrier that prevents the fastest, most energetic electrons from reaching Earth. A cloud of cold, charged gas around Earth, called the plasmasphere and seen here in purple, interacts with the particles in Earth's radiation belts — shown in grey— to create an impenetrable barrier that blocks the fastest electrons from moving in closer to our planet. Credit: NASA/Goddard The Van Allen belts are a collection of charged particles, gathered in place by Earth’s magnetic ...
Internet's Future
Post Date: 2017-11-14 06:32:12 by Tatarewicz
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C2C...Moses Ma is a business visionary who has led a diverse professional life spanning academia, science, technology, philosophy and business. A legendary game designer who created two of the world’s bestselling computer games, he joined Lisa Garr (email) in the first half to discuss the future of the internet. Ma recalled visiting a Buddhist psychic in southeast Asia in the 1980s who told him that he visualized “millions of people connected by a machine.” Armed with this insight, Ma returned to the U.S. and eventually helped to create the Top Gun video game in 1987, and later, some of the first internet video games. Ma is now interested in the concept of block chain ...
Thousands of scientists issue bleak 'second notice' to humanity
Post Date: 2017-11-14 05:45:43 by BTP Holdings
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Thousands of scientists issue bleak 'second notice' to humanity The Washington Post Sarah Kaplan 13 hrs ago © Provided by WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post Planet Earth (NASA) In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire “warning to humanity.” They said humans had pushed Earth's ecosystems to their breaking point and were well on the way to ruining the planet. The letter listed environmental impacts like they were biblical plagues — stratospheric ozone depletion, air and water pollution, the collapse of fisheries and loss of soil productivity, deforestation, species loss and catastrophic global climate ...
Boston Dynamics' SpotMini robot dog looked right at us, and it was downright creepy
Post Date: 2017-11-14 00:13:05 by Horse
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Boston Dynamics is the mad robot scientist of our waking dreams. Every few years, they unveil a new robot horror...er...innovation that straddles the fine line between "so realistic its incredible" and the uncanny valley. Its latest robot dog, the SpotMini, which the company casually introduced with this new video, is easily Boston Dynamics most finished looking robot. The company offers no explanation for four-legged, all yellow creation besides an enigmatic "Coming Soon." What we can tell you is that this little guy appears to have more personality than all its predecessors. In the video, it effortlessly trots on screen and then pauses to consider the viewer. ...
Secretive Government Labs Hiding $19 Trillion Idea
Post Date: 2017-11-13 07:08:34 by BTP Holdings
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Secretive Government Labs Hiding $19 Trillion Idea By: Mike Klesta NASA just announced something spectacular. And it’s making scientists and investors freak out! To a packed room at a gathering of experts from around the world, NASA revealed the biggest technological advancement of our lifetimes – what they are calling the “next electricity”! But it’s what they are going to do with this technology that has scientists drooling and investors seeing green. A lot of green. In fact, Cisco predicted that the market for this technology is a $19 trillion opportunity. That’s 3 times the value of all the gold that has EVER been mined on Earth! And that’s ...
Watch a giant crab mercilessly attack a full-grown bird and fuel your nightmares
Post Date: 2017-11-11 10:50:45 by BTP Holdings
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Watch a giant crab mercilessly attack a full-grown bird and fuel your nightmares Mike Wehner, BGR News • November 10, 2017 Crab and arthropods in general are often pretty creepy all on their own, but when you see one ruthlessly murdering (and eating!) a creature you would never expect, they get even more frightening. A newly-captured video of an island-dwelling giant crab brutalizing an innocent sea bird is probably one of the most disturbing thing you’ll see in quite some time, so enjoy, and do your best not to have nightmares. The creepy-crawly here is a coconut crab, so named because their size and remarkable pinching force allows them to slice open tasty coconuts and feast ...
Rooftop solar farms of 99 square meters to pay for themselves in 8 years
Post Date: 2017-11-08 08:21:14 by Tatarewicz
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TaipeiTimes...Executive Yuan is to implement a program subsidizing residential rooftop solar panels. From 2018 to 2020, the government will provide full subsidies for planning costs and 40 percent of installation costs. Minister of Economic Affairs Shen Jong-chin has said the green energy rooftop program will be promoted through three approaches: Firstly starting from households and then expanding the program into the community, toward the goal of creating green energy cities; secondly, beginning with remote rural areas and Aboriginal tribal areas and state-run power plants; and thirdly by encouraging major industrial energy users to install solar panels to supply a certain percentage of ...
NASA Has More Evidence Volcanic Activity Is Heating Up Antarctica’s Ice Sheet
Post Date: 2017-11-07 17:27:55 by Ada
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Ancient underground streams of heated rock, called a mantle plume, might be an explanation for the instability of Antarctica’s western ice sheet, according to a new NASA study. Scientists have been debating whether or not mantle plume heat contributes to western Antarctica’s instability. Some recent studies provided evidence this might be the case, but even this study’s authors were skeptical. “I thought it was crazy,” Hélène Seroussi, the study’s co-author and scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a release. “I didn’t see how we could have that amount of heat and still have ice on top of it,” Seroussi said ...
Charging ahead: why Shell sees a future of electric, hydrogen and LNG
Post Date: 2017-11-05 21:12:36 by BTP Holdings
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Charging ahead: why Shell sees a future of electric, hydrogen and LNG Published on October 18, 2017 Sinead Lynch Follow Sinead Lynch UK Country Chair at Shell I’ve been Shell’s UK Country Chair for just over a year. When it comes to the future of transport, it has certainly been a year of headlines. In July, Volvo announced all cars launched after 2019 would be electric or hybrid, a day before the French government said that sales of sole petrol and diesel vehicles would be outlawed by 2040. The UK announced similar measures weeks later. At Shell, meanwhile, we have seen changes across the business, from continual improvements in how we drive efficiencies, to the ...
Europe Fears ‘The Big One’ After 140 Earthquakes Strike The French Alps In 40 Days
Post Date: 2017-10-31 07:00:12 by Ada
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In recent weeks, the locals living in the Maurienne part of Savoie in the French Alps have been getting used to being shaken awake at night. The region has been rocked by 140 earthquakes in a mere 40 days sparking fears that Europe may soon experience “the big one.” Sismalp, a French earthquake organization, has registered 140 minor tremors in the area in the last month or so. And with the strongest tremor being recorded 3.8 on the Richter scale, many are panicked that Europe’s “big one” could occur soon. While none of the earthquakes have been strong enough to cause any structural damage, they are starting to worry locals. Residents have been briefed about how ...
Rewriting history: Biblical eclipse sheds new light on pharaohs
Post Date: 2017-10-30 08:23:35 by Ada
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A mysterious event mentioned in the Bible was actually the oldest solar eclipse ever recorded, a new Cambridge study has found. The revelation may help to rewrite the dates of Egyptian pharaohs, including the famous Ramesses II. The celestial event described in the Old Testament Book of Joshua has been puzzling scholars for centuries. In the King James Bible, after Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan - a land which is now partly in modern Israel and Palestine - he prayed: “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.” “And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies,” the passage continued. Now, ...
Civilization Declared “A White Male Construct”
Post Date: 2017-10-30 08:00:41 by Ada
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A number of readers have turned out to be excellent research assistants. In response to my articles, “The American Left: RIP,” and the two follow-ups, “The Absurdities Mount” and “Goodbye Western Civilization,” readers have supplied the following. A white male professor of philosophy has discovered that in order to have an academic career in these days he must find “white privilege” everywhere. Professor John Caputo, according to this report, has found white male privilege in reason itself. Reason, says Professor Caputo, “is a white male Euro-Christian construction.” Since reason is white, reason is not neutral. It implies that what is ...
Kaspersky Software Caught Classified NSA Malware
Post Date: 2017-10-26 07:43:09 by Ada
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Russian Company Vilified Because Its Software Did Its Job Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab has been increasingly vilified in the US for acquiring classified US government programs. This hs led to a full ban on Kaspersky software on federal PCs, and several retails dropping the wildly popular program. Kaspersky Lab’s own internal investigation into the matter revealed that was indeed the case, in as much as its antivirus software “accidentally” swept up NSA malware and its adjoining source code during a 2014 malware scan, even though that malware was itself classified. This means, however, that the antivirus software was doing exactly what it was supposed to do, ...
ACCUSED OF SPYING, RUSSIAN SECURITY FIRM WILL SHOW ITS CODE AND OPERATIONS TO OUTSIDERS
Post Date: 2017-10-24 08:08:21 by Ada
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RESPONDING TO U.S. government suggestions that its antivirus software has been used for surveillance of customers, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab is launching what it’s calling a transparency initiative to allow independent third parties to review its source code and business practices and to assure the information security community that it can be trusted. The company plans to begin the code review before the end of the year and establish a process for conducting ongoing reviews, of both the updates it makes to software and the threat-detection rules it uses to detect malware and upload suspicious files from customer machines. The latter refers to signatures and so-called Yara rules, ...
The universe shouldn't exist, scientists say after finding bizarre behaviour of anti-matter
Post Date: 2017-10-24 07:20:37 by Ada
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We don't know why the universe isn't destroying itself Our universe shouldn't exist, scientists say. The most elite scientists in the world are still struggling to find why exactly our universe didn't destroy itself as soon as it came into existence. That's what science says should have happened – but it clearly hasn't, since you're here reading this, as far as we know. At the beginning of the universe, according to the standard model, there equal amounts of matter and anti-matter. The trouble with that is that they would each have annihilated each other, leaving none of the matter that surrounds us today. Nasa's most stunning pictures of space 30 ...
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