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Chinese want to capture an asteroid into Earth's orbit
Post Date: 2011-08-31 08:31:51 by Tatarewicz
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While most astronomers seem to be understandably worried about the best way to steer asteroids away from Earth, Chinese scientists are instead trying to figure out how they can capture nearby asteroids into Earth orbit. And then mine them. At first glance, nudging an asteroid closer to Earth seems like one of those "what could possible go wrong" scenarios that we generally try and avoid, and for good reason: large asteroid impacts are bad times. The Chinese, though, seem fairly optimistic that they could tweak the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid by just enough (a change in velocity of only about 1,300 feet-per-second or so) to get it to temporarily enter Earth orbit at about ...
Amazon might be ship up to 5 million tablets in Q4
Post Date: 2011-08-30 05:56:50 by Tatarewicz
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Book shop takes on fruity toymaker Analysts believe Amazon stands a good chance of threatening Apple's dominance in the tablet market when it introduces its first tablet later this year. Forrester expects Amazon to sell between three and five million units in Q4, which sounds impressive. Apple managed to sell just over three million iPads in the first quarter after launch. However, Forrester’s forecast relies on a $300 price, meaning that Amazon will offer tablets at a very competitive price. “Amazon’s willingness to sell hardware at a loss combined with the strength of its brand, content, cloud infrastructure, and commerce assets makes it the only credible iPad ...
Encouraging anti-hacking news from China
Post Date: 2011-08-30 05:24:57 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING - Starting on Thursday, hackers who broke into 20 or more computers will face jail terms of up to seven years, according to a new judicial interpretation issued jointly by the China's Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate. People who hack from 20 to 100 computers, or steal from 10 to 50 user names and passwords for online-payment or stock accounts, will get at least three years in prison. And those who hack even more computers or steal more passwords will face jail terms of up to seven years. The latest rule, an interpretation made to deal with online crimes, which were added to the Criminal Law in 2009, also applies to Chinese hackers who steal ...
Cell phones reduce sperm motility
Post Date: 2011-08-29 06:34:34 by Tatarewicz
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Did you know, that men who carry a cell phone in the front pocket of their jeans may be reducing their chances of having kids in the future? That’s because, according to research out of the Cleveland Clinic, a cell phone can emit damaging radiofrequency electromagnetic waves when exposed to the “boys next door”. In an experiment, scientists took semen samples and placed them in a jar one inch away from a cell phone for one hour (guess that would be a laboratory equivalent of having phone sex). The reproductive researchers realized that the sperm exposed to cell phone radio waves had significantly reduced their motility (they preferred to sit around and talk on the phone). So, ...
A Weather Newsgasm
Post Date: 2011-08-29 06:31:16 by Ada
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What major weather events and especially earthquakes tell us is that we live on planet Earth on its terms, not ours. Put another way, we don’t “control” the weather or climate and, despite decades of global warming lies, compared to the sun and oceans, we don’t even influence it. The best definition of the weather is “chaos.” It will do whatever it wants to do. By Friday on Fox News and other television news outlets, it was non-stop coverage of Hurricane Irene even though it was barely beginning to touch the North Carolina coast. If there is one thing the news media loves it is a really big potential disaster. By Saturday afternoon as Irene passed over ...
Biodiesel bike takes to the road
Post Date: 2011-08-28 03:22:23 by farmfriend
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Biodiesel bike takes to the road By LAUREN BOYER, Daily Record/Sunday News The Lancaster County Career and Technology Center instructor revved the engine of his custom-made chopper outside the Colonial Courthouse in York on Thursday. Instead of black smoke billowing from the exhaust pipe, it just smelled like fried food. "It smells like the fair - the York Fair," Lingle said with a laugh. "When people drive behind you, they want to know where that smell is coming from." A year ago, his students built the bike using a four-cylinder Volkswagen turbo engine that runs solely on biodiesel collected from school cafeteria cooking oils. Inclement weather stunted ...
Speed Comparison: GT vs. F1
Post Date: 2011-08-28 00:05:48 by X-15
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Poster Comment:24 Hours of LeMans classes versus Formula 1 on the same track (different race days) as a comparison. The F1 drivers are truly the top of the heap when it comes to driving skills.
Steve Jobs right up there with Edison and Ford
Post Date: 2011-08-27 04:50:58 by Tatarewicz
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In January, 2007, while unveiling the iPhone, Steve Jobs encapsulated how he ran Apple Inc. “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love,” Mr. Jobs told the assembled faithful at the annual Macworld gathering in San Francisco. “ ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple, since the very, very beginning. And we always will.” Mr. Jobs is the great industrialist of the modern era, whose 3 1/2 decades in the computing business has placed him in a pantheon of ambitious innovators. The celebrations of his career, as he retires as Apple CEO this week because of deteriorating health, ...
'Klaatu Barada Nikto!'
Post Date: 2011-08-26 06:56:35 by Ada
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If you want to protect your life – and those of your children and grandchildren – you’d better memorize this phrase. It may save you from a threat apparently being voiced at NASA: an attack from another planet somewhere in the vastness of our universe. Why might such an assault be forthcoming? Because we humans have not heeded the warnings of Al Gore! Our carbon-based activities could spread their deadly influence to other planets which, for the sake of their own survival, might lead them to decide to destroy our planet. This would be done, of course, as an act of "preventive war," a proposition that has caused Boobus Americanus to embrace the Bush-Obama doctrine ...
Genetically modified bacteria fights infections
Post Date: 2011-08-26 05:51:43 by Tatarewicz
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Researchers in Singapore have succeeded in creating a laboratory bacterium, Escherichia coli, genetically engineered to combat hospital infections. The new bacterium was built from tools of synthetic biology. It is able to perceive and kill Pseudomonas aeruginosa, another bacterium responsible for pulmonary and gastrointestinal infections in hospitalized patients. In the experiment conducted in the laboratory, the E. Coli killed a culture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in just 18 hours. The study represents a step towards healing of infections caused by P. aeruginosa. It will still need to be tested on animals and humans. "It will still take a few more years so that the modified bacteria ...
Climate cycles linked to civil war, analysis shows
Post Date: 2011-08-26 03:29:32 by Tatarewicz
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Changes in the global climate that cut food production triggered one-fifth of civil conflicts between 1950 and 2004 El Nino and war : war between the SPLA and Sudan government Cyclical climatic changes such have been linked to civil conflict. A South Sudanese man works on his farm next to an anti-aircraft gun destroyed during the 1998 war. Photograph: Antony Njuguna/Reuters Cyclical climatic changes double the risk of civil wars, with analysis showing that 50 of 250 conflicts between 1950 and 2004 were triggered by the El Niño cycle, according to scientists. Researchers connected the climate phenomenon known as El Niño, which brings hot and dry conditions to tropical ...
Save Your Bookmarks, forever
Post Date: 2011-08-25 21:51:35 by Lod
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Technology Keeping Internet Freedom Ahead of Censorship
Post Date: 2011-08-25 11:10:05 by christine
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Efforts by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet may become irrelevant if the new technology being developed succeeds as expected. When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against the FCC last December, the FCC rewrote its rules to allow them to regulate the Internet anyway through the whitewash called “net neutrality.” Verizon immediately filed suit to overrule the new attempt, and a House subcommittee in March voted to invalidate the actions of the FCC. But the new rules remain in place until the issue is decided. All of which may be irrelevant as new technology, called Telex, is being developed as a “work-around” ...
3-D printing - a paradigm shift
Post Date: 2011-08-25 06:03:40 by Tatarewicz
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As the markets on Wall and Broad Streets continue to feed the bears with an ongoing downtrend, to the nation's entrepreneurs, it merely serves as background noise. The markets do of course matter in the grand scheme of things. But the creative classes continue to do what they have always done, pushing their dreams down the unknown roads. As with the steam engine and personal computers before them, occasionally an idea comes to light that promises to disrupt practically everything. They start small at first, usually on the fringes of the larger economy... But before long, they break through the realm of geeks to the consciousness of the broader markets. Bordering On the ...
Extra hard aluminum finally produced
Post Date: 2011-08-25 04:42:53 by Tatarewicz
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An international team of researchers including scientists from The Australian National University have created a new, super-dense version of aluminium that could lead to efficient production of new super-hard nanomaterials at a relatively low cost. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, the group has described how they discovered a way to produce body-centred-cubic aluminium, which is 40 per cent more dense. Super-hard aluminium was predicted to exist more than 30 years ago but has never before been observed. Professor Andrei Rode from the Laser Physics Centre at ANU said the state of any material depends on temperature and pressure. “For example, water turns into ice ...
Coriander Oil Could Tackle Food Poisoning and Drug-Resistant Infections
Post Date: 2011-08-25 02:46:48 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 24, 2011) — Coriander oil has been shown to be toxic to a broad range of harmful bacteria. Its use in foods and in clinical agents could prevent food-borne illnesses and even treat antibiotic-resistant infections, according to the authors of a study published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology. The researchers from the University of Beira Interior in Portugal tested coriander oil against 12 bacterial strains, including Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica, Bacillus cereus and meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Of the tested strains, all showed reduced growth, and most were killed, by solutions containing 1.6% coriander oil or less. Coriander ...
Bees Could Reveal Key to Dementia
Post Date: 2011-08-25 02:34:55 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 23, 2011) — Norwegian researcher Gro Amdam has succeeded in reversing the aging process in the bee brain -- findings which she believes may bring hope to people with dementia. "No one really believes that the fountain of youth exists," says Professor Amdam. "We accept that as we age, our health and mental acuity will decline. But recent findings indicate that aging doesn't have to be synonymous with going downhill." Professor Amdam's research subjects are bees, the workings of whose brain cells are surprisingly similar to ours, she explains. So when she finds the secrets behind what makes a bee brain tick, the knowledge may well apply ...
Scorpion-shaped UFO seen in the skies over Los Cristianos, Spain [photos]
Post Date: 2011-08-24 10:10:09 by gengis gandhi
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Scorpion-shaped UFO seen in the skies over Los Cristianos, Spain [photos] Add a comment Tracey Parece, Unexplained Phenomena Examiner August 22, 2011 - Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. www.examiner.com/unexplai...onal/scorpion-shaped-ufo- seen-the-skies-over-los-cristianos-spain-photos#ixzz1Vx96c2w9 Share Print Email In one of the most unusual recent UFO sightings, a scorpion-shaped object was spotted in the skies above Los Cristianos, Spain on Saturday, August 21, 2011. Jamie O'Rourke saw the unidentified flying object near his home around 8:00am and managed to snap several photos before the object disappeared. An Internet search for scorpion-shaped kites did not reveal ...
New test to identify which (heart) patients should take statins
Post Date: 2011-08-24 01:18:12 by Tatarewicz
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Thousands of patients could be needlessly taking statins even though they are at low risk of suffering heart attacks or stroke, research suggests. Scientists say they have found a much better way to work out which people are in danger of developing heart problems. Half of the middle-aged adults they studied were found to have no coronary artery calcium, and only a handful of them went on to suffer a heart attack or a stroke. They say the findings have “important public health implications” and could mean large cost savings if the cholesterol-lowering drugs are prescribed only for those whose health would genuinely be improved by taking them. But other experts point out that ...
Awakening To Zero Point - Part 1 of 2
Post Date: 2011-08-23 03:35:59 by angK
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Poster Comment:No description available. The shift of the earth explained. Fascinating!
Global warming may result in colder north hemisphere
Post Date: 2011-08-23 01:53:43 by Tatarewicz
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An international team of researchers has confirmed the presence of a newly discovered deep-ocean circulation system off Iceland that could significantly influence the ocean's response to climate change. The North Icelandic Jet contributes to a key component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, also known as the “great ocean conveyor belt,” which is critically important for regulating Earth’s climate, the scientists say. As part of the planet's reciprocal relationship between ocean circulation and climate, this conveyor belt carries warm surface water from the tropical Atlantic toward the Arctic. In the process, the water warms the air in high ...
Human fertilization mechanism described
Post Date: 2011-08-22 06:18:02 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Researchers have discovered how a human egg captures an incoming sperm for fertilization, paving the way to help couples suffering from infertility, according to media reports on Monday. An international team of researchers found that a sugar chain known as the sialyl-lewis-x sequence (SLeX) makes the outer coat of the egg “sticky,” which has proven to be helpful in binding the egg and the sperm. As a result, this observation has filled in a huge gap in the understanding of fertility and provides hope for ultimately helping couples who currently cannot conceive. Scientists and doctors know that a sperm identifies an egg when proteins on the head ...
IBM develops first 'brain chips' capable of mimicking the process of human thought
Post Date: 2011-08-21 06:47:05 by Tatarewicz
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The chips can adapt to information that they weren't specifically programmed to expect They can potentially process real-world signals such as temperature, sound or motion and make sense of them The challenge in training a computer to behave like a human brain has tested the limits of science for decades. But researchers from IBM today said they have made a key step towards combining the two worlds. The U.S. technology firm has built two prototype chips that it says process data more like how humans digest information than the chips that currently power PCs and supercomputers. Looking to the future: IBM has developed two prototype chips it claims comes closer than ever to ...
Changing computer technology on C2C Wed. night
Post Date: 2011-08-21 06:27:56 by Tatarewicz
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Hacking & Technology Date: 08-23-11 Host: George Noory Guests: Kevin Mitnick The "most wanted" criminal of cyberspace at one time, Kevin Mitnick, will tell his story of how he turned from a renegade into respected security consultant, and how the world of computers and technology is changing into something few ever dreamed possible. Website(s): mitnicksecurity.com Book(s): Ghost in the Wires
Research explores potential outcomes of contact with aliens
Post Date: 2011-08-20 07:36:26 by Tatarewicz
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BOSTON, Aug. 19, 2011 (Reuters) — Contact with extraterrestrials could be beneficial or might destroy the human race, according to an analysis of possible outcomes of an alien encounter that even one author of the study described as unlikely. The scenarios are contained in a paper written by a trio of scientists dated in April and published in the journal Acta Astronautica that won media attention this week following an article published in a British newspaper. The collection of possible outcomes, should earthlings meet beings from elsewhere, ranges from beneficial to harmful, according to the paper by Seth Baum, a doctoral candidate, and Jacob Haqq-Misra and Shawn Domagal-Goldman, ...
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