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What If the Biggest Solar Storm on Record Happened Today?
Post Date: 2011-03-06 12:14:18 by Original_Intent
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The night lights of the U.S. Gulf Coast shine below the International Space Station in October 2010. Photograph courtesy NASA timerCount('primary_photo'); A 2002 coronal mass ejection. Image courtesy SDO/NASA Richard A. Lovett for National Geographic News Published March 2, 2011 On February 14 the sun erupted with the largest solar flare seen in four years—big enough to interfere with radio communications and GPS signals for airplanes on long-distance flights.As solar storms go, the Valentine's Day flare was actually modest. But the burst of activity is only the start of the upcoming solar maximum, ...
Alien life found on a meteorite (again).
Post Date: 2011-03-05 23:39:19 by Armadillo
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Though it may be hard to swallow, Hoover is convinced that his findings reveal fossil evidence of bacterial life within such meteorites, the remains of living organisms from their parent bodies -- comets, moons and other astral bodies. By extension, the findings suggest we are not alone in the universe, he said. ... In what he calls “a very simple process,” Dr. Hoover fractured the meteorite stones under a sterile environment before examining the freshly broken surface with the standard tools of the scientist: a scanning-electron microscope and a field emission electron-scanning microscope, which allowed him to search the stone’s surface for evidence of fossilized remains. He ...
Eyeball-controlled computer
Post Date: 2011-03-04 04:17:22 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Controlling your laptop just with your eyeballs is no longer a dream as an eye-controlled laptop was unveiled Wednesday at the CeBIT technology fair, according to AFP reports. The cutting-edge laptop, jointly developed by Swedish company Tobii Technology and Lenovo, is the first in the world to offer optical control. Tobii originally created its eye-tracking technology for the individuals unable to speak or write, and then expanded the use to hospitals, vehicle safety, gaming, and now personal computing. With two infrared lights and an extremely sophisticated optical sensor, the laptop can determine precisely where users, including those who wear glasses, ...
Scientists solve sunspots disappearance mystery
Post Date: 2011-03-04 04:08:33 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhuanet) -- A team of U.S. researchers have found the answer to why sunspots disappeared during 2008-2009, according to an article published in "Nature" on Thursday. The researchers used the space telescope to gather the information on sunspots, solar flares and magnetic fields at north and south poles of the sun, which helped the computer to build a model and aided researchers simulate the activities on sun’s surface over 2,000 years. After an analysis on the computer model, the researchers concluded the disappearance of sunspots was tightly linked with the unusually weak magnetic fields on the sun. This finding not only solved a mystery that trapped ...
Important Laws Of Climate Change
Post Date: 2011-03-03 15:57:14 by Original_Intent
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Important Laws Of Climate Change Posted on March 2, 2011 by stevengoddard Cold weather is not climateThe US occupies a tiny fraction of the earth’s surfaceHot weather in Moscow is representative of the planetIf the present refuses to get warmer, adjust it upwardsIf the present refuses to get warmer, the past must become cooler GISS can always squeeze an extra 0.01 degrees out when marketing needs itCold is just another manifestation of heatWhatever the weather is, the climate models predicted itGovernment funding is pure. Imaginary oil money is dirtyAll coral atolls were exactly 130 meters above sea level at the end of the last ice age, and are about to drown nowSea ...
A Day Made of Glass - Corning
Post Date: 2011-03-03 13:54:06 by Lod
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Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS) & the All-Digital TV Broadcast Signal: Connection?
Post Date: 2011-03-03 11:35:18 by CadetD
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Ever since first hearing of it last spring, I’ve had a deepening sense of foreboding – an unnamed dread of the upcoming shift to an all-digital television broadcast signal, scheduled to occur in February 2009. Now, I believe, that nameless dread may have a name, after all. The Department of Defense calls it Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), and it also goes by the name of S-quad or Squad. In the private sector, the technology goes by the name of Silent Subliminal Presentation System and the technology has also been released to certain corporate vendors who have attached catchy brand names like BrainSpeak Silent Subliminals to their own SSSS-based products. Whatever you call ...
5 Amazing Things Invented by Donald Duck (Seriously)
Post Date: 2011-03-02 13:54:20 by freepatriot32
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We're guessing you haven't thought about Donald Duck even once today. Sure, Disney's cartoon ducks are some of the most iconic characters around -- Uncle Scrooge, his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, and of course, their half-naked uncle with anger control issues, Donald. But it's not like they're relevant to your life at all. Oh, you couldn't be more wrong. For the last 50 years, these ducks have been busy changing the goddamn world, and it continues right to this moment. Seriously. #5.Scrooge McDuck Did Inception First Inception was the biggest film release in a long time, and audiences and critics alike gushed over how original it was. It pioneered such innovative ...
Prompt Global Strike Likely Hypersonic Glider, Not ICBM
Post Date: 2011-03-01 22:51:35 by Phant2000
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Looks like its official, the Air Force won’t be using any type of ICBM to carry conventional warheads around the world at record speed to carry out the Prompt Global Strike mission. There have been lots of questions about how the service would achieve it’s plan hit high value targets on almost any spot on the globe within hours or minutes of a strike being ordered. One option was the notion of a conventional ICBM. A problem with that idea was that a lot of people worried an ICBM launch would be confused as a nuclear first strike. Not something you want to have happen. Now it seems the Air Force has ruled that out. According to Defense News: The U.S. Defense Department’s ...
G-mail glitch
Post Date: 2011-02-28 23:31:49 by Tatarewicz
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Thousands of Gmail users have been left with empty inboxes after their accounts were accidentally wiped clean. As well as missing e-mails, many reported that their contacts had also disappeared. Google, which operates Gmail, said that a small percentage of its users had been affected. Some accounts have already been restored, suggesting the data was not permanently deleted. In a statement, Google said: "This is affecting less than .08% of our Gmail user base, and we've already fixed the problem for some individuals." The company said that engineers were working to restore service. Google does not release official figures for the number of Gmail accounts, however it is ...
New Pathogen Found in Roundup Ready GM Crops Causes Spontaneous Abortions and Infertility in Livestock?
Post Date: 2011-02-28 05:02:23 by Kamala
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New Pathogen Found in Roundup Ready GM Crops Causes Spontaneous Abortions and Infertility in Livestock? February 24th, 2011 Via: Institute of Science in Society: An open letter appeared on the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance founded and run by Judith McGeary to save family farms in the US [1, 2]. The letter, written by Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, warns of a pathogen “new to science” discovered by “a team of senior plant and animal scientists”. Huber says it should be treated as an “emergency’’, as it could result in “a collapse of US soy and corn export markets and significant ...
Iran's Miraculous "Electric-Hydro Car"
Post Date: 2011-02-25 04:16:09 by Tatarewicz
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With a fair share of the Middle East in turmoil at the moment, Iran's President Ahmadinejad found time to not only condemn the use of violence by the Qaddafi regime in Libya against peaceful protesters -- something his own government resorted to not that long ago -- but to also check out the country's new "electric-hydro" car. The typically sparse news report coming out of Tehran claimed it has a top speed of 180 km per hour and can travel 500 km "with every instance of recharging." Even more impressive -- and totally confusing -- is its 140 watts per hour energy consumption, while weighing 350 kg (771 lbs). Recharge time is either a breakthrough time of between ...
Expect bad weather from the sun
Post Date: 2011-02-22 06:18:25 by Tatarewicz
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Space weather could pose serious problems here on Earth in the coming years, the chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Saturday (Feb. 19). A severe solar storm has the potential to take down telecommunications and power grids, and the country needs to work on being better prepared, said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lubchenco is also the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. "This is not a matter of if, it's simply a matter of when and how big," Lubchenco said of the potential for a dangerous solar flare. "We have every ...
Action needed to assure new technology can be wiretapped, FBI says
Post Date: 2011-02-21 21:37:17 by Dakmar
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Washington (CNN) -- Rapid advances in communications are eroding police departments' abilities to conduct wiretaps, and Congress needs to take steps to ensure that new telephone, computer and wireless systems are designed to allow lawful police access, FBI and police officials told Congress Thursday. But other witnesses cautioned that any such move could stifle innovation, place U.S. technology companies at a competitive disadvantage and unintentionally create systems vulnerable to hackers, criminals and terrorists. At issue is the diminished capability of law enforcement agencies to conduct quick wiretaps in an age of Twitter accounts, Facebook and MySpace pages, BlackBerrys, ...
Nervous system manipulation via TV monitors
Post Date: 2011-02-21 04:47:04 by Tatarewicz
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Farm Wars The TV and your computer monitor can be used to manipulate your nervous system. Here is the proof. Read it and weep: Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors US Patent #6,506,148 “SUMMARY: Computer monitors and TV monitors can be made to emit weak low-frequency electromagnetic fields merely by pulsing the intensity of displayed images. Experiments have shown that the 1/2 Hz sensory resonance can be excited in this manner in a subject near the monitor. The 2.4 Hz sensory resonance can also be excited in this fashion. Hence, a TV monitor or computer monitor can be used to manipulate the nervous system of nearby people.” “It is thus ...
Scientists: Sun's approaching 'Grand Cooling" assures new Ice Age
Post Date: 2011-02-20 16:14:37 by Original_Intent
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Scientists: Sun's approaching 'Grand Cooling" assures new Ice Age February 18, 2011 NASA and the ESA agree, and so does the Russian space agency, Roscosmos—the sun is headed for a Grand Solar Minimum and a Grand Cooling will commence.The aptly named Grand Cooling is exactly what it implies: the sun is going to cool. That cooling will also cool off the Earth. It will last from 30 to 50 years.What exactly does global cooling mean? Well for one, Al Gore was sure wrong! The Earth isn't going to warm, it's going to get colder. Much colder. So cold a little or full-blown Ice Age will ensue. As a matter of fact, some scientists claim we're ...
Rolls Royce to display electric prototype
Post Date: 2011-02-20 01:55:21 by Tatarewicz
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Luxury car maker Rolls-Royce is to unveil an electric version of its Phantom flagship model at next month's Geneva motor show. The experimental car will not go into production but the company will use it to gauge customers' opinions. Chief executive Torsten Muller-Otvos said the firm was "seeking clarity on which alternative technologies may be suitable [in our] cars in the future". Parent company BMW is exploring a range of hybrid and all-electric solutions. And Mr Muller-Otvos is keen to explore a wide range of developments. "I must be convinced that any alternative drive-train we choose for the future delivers an authentic Rolls-Royce experience," he ...
Plastics-to-fuel converter for the home
Post Date: 2011-02-20 01:43:44 by Tatarewicz
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- Plastic bags help you carry your groceries home, they make excellent liners for smaller-sized trash cans, and now they can help you to heat your home. A Japanese inventor has found a way to convert plastic grocery bags, bottles and caps into usable petroleum. Plastic bags are, of course, made from petroleum to begin with, but it is not the same kind of petroleum that is used in fuel. In order to turn home waste into home power the machine heats up the waste plastic and traps the vapors created in a system of pipes and water chambers. Finally, the machine condenses the vapors into crude oil, that can be used for heating on the home level. New invention can turn your plastic bags into ...
Exponential growth moving into medicine
Post Date: 2011-02-18 00:03:05 by Tatarewicz
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Physicist Albert Bartlett once said, “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” He's dead on. His insight can shed some serious light on the human condition and improve the condition of your portfolio. In 1877, when Edison recited “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for his first phonograph, who would've thought we'd ever tweet on iPhoExponential Curvenes? When the Wright Brothers made their first flight in 1900, who would've thought we'd be able to fly to the moon? And when the Army unveiled the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) in 1946, surely no one thought there would soon be a ...
Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA
Post Date: 2011-02-17 22:21:06 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – A powerful solar eruption that triggered a huge geomagnetic storm has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and satellite communication in the next days, NASA said. A strong wave of charged plasma particles emanating from the Jupiter-sized sun spot, the most powerful seen in four years, has already disrupted [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]radio [COLOR=#366388 ! important]communication[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] in southern China. The Class X flash -- the largest such category -- erupted at 0156 GMT Tuesday, according to the US space agency. "X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events ...
Livingston & Penn, updated early 2011
Post Date: 2011-02-17 12:00:00 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Computer manufacture stressful on Chinese
Post Date: 2011-02-17 02:15:57 by Tatarewicz
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Apple sent Timothy D. Cook, its chief operating officer, to China last year to review the operations of a principal manufacturing partner after nearly a dozen suicides by factory employees raised concerns about working conditions. In a report on suppliers that it publishes annually, Apple said that Mr. Cook and a team of independent suicide prevention experts conducted a review of Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen in June and made a series of recommendations for changes in August. Mr. Cook and the team also reviewed changes that Foxconn had put in place, which included “hiring a large number of psychological counselors, establishing a 24-hour care center and even attaching large ...
Putting poppies in the gas tank
Post Date: 2011-02-17 01:23:25 by Tatarewicz
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Putting Poppies in the Gas Tank Published on 02-14-2011 Source: The Atlantic Back in the fall of 2008, Michael Bester and a business partner, both Army veterans doing contract work in Afghanistan, hit on the equivalent of the counterinsurgency’s trifecta: a way to improve the lives of ordinary Afghans, eliminate the illegal opium trade, and take the Taliban’s money. “We had been in villages where children were dying because they didn’t have proper medicine, because they didn’t have refrigerators,” Bester told me. Light up the villages, and perhaps you could empower Afghans to resist the Taliban. And the fuel? Most any feedstock would work, but one compelling ...
Dronedarone Controls Rate and Rhythm in Atrial Fibrillation
Post Date: 2011-02-17 00:14:30 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Feb 15 - The multi-channel-blocking drug dronedarone (Multaq) has rate- and rhythm-controlling properties that benefit patients with atrial fibrillation, according to findings published in the February 4th online issue of the American Journal of Cardiology. "Our findings confirm the antiarrhythmic effect of dronedarone, in terms of maintaining sinus rhythm and slowing the heart rate during atrial fibrillation," Dr. Richard L. Page from University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, told Reuters Health by email. The trial was sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis, and all investigators were either paid consultants or employees of ...
Human activity spurs heavy rain and snowfall
Post Date: 2011-02-16 22:26:10 by Tatarewicz
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An increase in heavy precipitation that has afflicted many countries is at least partly a consequence of human influence on the atmosphere, climate scientists reported in a new study. In the first major paper of its kind, the researchers used elaborate computer programs that simulate the climate to analyze whether the rise in severe rainstorms, heavy snowfalls and similar events could be explained by natural variability in the atmosphere. They found that it could not, and that the increase made sense only when the computers factored in the effects of greenhouse gases released by human activities like the burning of fossil fuels. As reflected in previous studies, the likelihood of extreme ...
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