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The White House is prepping for a huge solar storm that could kick us back into the Dark Ages
Post Date: 2015-11-06 23:23:34 by Tatarewicz
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NASA/ ScienceAlert For our electronic way of life, the Sun is a formidable foe, and the White House is taking protective action against it. On October 29, the White House’s National Science and Technology Council released its strategic plan to prepare for an extreme space weather event that could destroy satellites, spacecraft, and vital telecommunications systems. Many of these electrical systems depend on each other, which is a recipe for disaster. “These critical infrastructures make up a diverse, complex, interdependent system of systems in which a failure of one could cascade to another,” the Council reported in the plan. A $US2 trillion gamble Every second, the Sun ...
The Next Generation of Surveillance: “Everything That Is A Moving Object Is Being Automatically Tracked”
Post Date: 2015-11-06 09:40:48 by Neo TryingtoWarnYou
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The Next Generation of Surveillance: “Everything That Is A Moving Object Is Being Automatically Tracked” The following video highlights one of the scariest surveillance technologies you’ve ever seen. With Congress having recently authorized 30,000 drones www.thedailysheeple.com/a...ll-be-watching-you_022012 to patrol America’s skies by 2015, this technology will soon become available to law enforcement officials all over the country. It’s creator, Yiannis Antoniades, says that it’s the next generation of surveillance and as you’ll see, it’s capabilities are so advanced that it can actively scan an area encompassing 15 square miles – about the ...
Five-year-old savant from LA who displays signs of being telepathic
Post Date: 2015-11-06 02:58:31 by Tatarewicz
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MailOnLine... Five-year-old savant from LA who displays signs of being telepathic - and is already learning seven languages - is being studied by scientists after his mother filmed him 'reciting numbers written in secret' Ramses Sanguino, aged five, was filmed seemingly displaying telepathy He correctly recounted numbers that were written down 'out of eyesight' Videos were posted online and attracted the attention of a neuroscientist Ramses is now part of a cutting-edge telepathy study by Dr Diane Powell His mother insists the footage of her autistic son's 'talents' is not trickery A five-year-old savant who is apparently displaying signs of telepathy is being ...
This is what happened to Mars' water.
Post Date: 2015-11-05 21:53:56 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... We finally have an understanding of how Mars transformed from a once habitable, Earth-like planet into the dry world we see today. NASA researchers have just announced that Mars' once rich atmosphere was stripped away by solar winds in the early days of the Solar System, causing the planet to dry out. Solar winds blast out from the Sun at around a million miles per hour (about 1.6 million km/h), and fortunately Earth is protected from these by our magnetic field. But although Mars used to have a magnetic field, it lost it as its planet cooled down billions of years ago, and that allowed the ions in its atmosphere to effectively be blown away. Scientists were able to ...
Watch: The best explanation of string theory we've seen
Post Date: 2015-11-05 02:50:31 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... When it comes to physics, there are some pretty complicated ideas out there, but one of the most confusing is string theory, which involves the existence of extra dimensions, tiny strings within atoms and, well, a whole lot else we don't really understand. But in this 2005 TED talk, theoretical physicist Brian Greene, author of New York Times bestsellers The Fabric of the Cosmos and The Hidden Reality, explains the basics. And to date it's still the best explanation we've ever seen. In addition to his work as a science communicator, Greene is also a researcher at Cornell University in the US, where he works on superstring theory, which is an attempt to come up ...
Air and water show inside a 2,400-square-foot home
Post Date: 2015-11-04 07:13:04 by BTP Holdings
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Air and water show inside a 2,400-square-foot home Usually when we hear of someone building a house that’s completely off the grid, it’s a cabin or small home tucked away on a mountain with not a whole lot of civilization around it. Enter the “Urban Frontier House.” That’s what longtime Billings, Montana, resident Randy Hafer calls the 2,400-square-foot home that he and his wife are building on the city’s north side. It’s located on the corner of North 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue North, where their 23-foot high wind turbine is situated. The house will not only be disconnected from the electrical power grid, but also from the city’s water and ...
Super-Dogs Genetically Engineered By Scientists
Post Date: 2015-11-04 06:06:42 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... Scientists confirm they have created genetically engineered super-dogs that are stronger and faster than the average mutt. Chinese scientists have confirmed that they have genetically engineered a new form of man's best friend. The new-improved beagles, named Hercules and Tiangou, have "more muscles and are expected to have stronger running ability, which is good for hunting, police (military) applications," Liangxue Lai , a biology researcher, at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, told MIT Technology Review. They engineered the super-pups by editing out a key gene, myostatin, doubling the dogs' muscle mass, the scientists said. The Chinese ...
Researchers create lithium-air battery that could be 10x more powerful than lithium-ion
Post Date: 2015-11-03 22:54:31 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A new lithium-air battery created by researchers at the University of Cambridge points the way to the ultimate battery packs of the future, its makers say. With a very high energy density, more than 90 percent efficiency and the capability for more than 2,000 recharge cycles, the new test battery could prove an important stepping stone in the development of this essential technology. If you're getting tired of announcements about breakthroughs in battery technology, that's understandable: as they're so essential to modern life, many teams of scientists are busy working on the problem around the clock, but it's an incredibly complex area of chemistry. Any ...
2 degrees, flies planes, author, works at NASA. His age? 17
Post Date: 2015-11-02 06:55:06 by BTP Holdings
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2 degrees, flies planes, author, works at NASA. His age? 17 Associated Press By COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press 3 hrs ago A Delta plane taxis for takeoff past a Northwest plane at Portland International Airport in Portland, Ore. Delta jet with engine trouble lands safely in Oregon This Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, photo courtesy of Facebook.com/Slater Moore Photography and newportwhales.com, shows an entangled humpback whale off the Southern California coast, during a whale watching trip in Long Beach. Calif. Rescuers will try again Saturday, Oct. 31, to remove more than 100 feet of fishing line from an entangled humpback whale that has been moving south along the ...
Could This Engineer’s Discovery Destroy Climate Change Argument?
Post Date: 2015-11-01 18:51:23 by BTP Holdings
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Could This Engineer’s Discovery Destroy Climate Change Argument? October 13th, 2015 A mathmatical discovery by an Australian electrical engineer and former climate modeller could totally destroy the premise that man-made ‘climate change’ is real. Dr. David Evans has six degrees in applied mathematiccs and used to work for the Australian government’s Greenhouse Office. He analyzed the architecture of the basic climate model which underpins all so-called ‘climate science.’ He discovered that while the underlying physics of the model is correct, it had been applied incorrectly. Dr. Evans corrected two errors and the new corrected model finds the ...
Russian Media Take Climate Cue From Skeptical Putin
Post Date: 2015-11-01 18:47:59 by Ada
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MOSCOW — Wildfires crackled across Siberia this summer, turning skies ochre and sending up enough smoke from burning pines to blot out satellite views of the 400-mile-long Lake Baikal. To many climate scientists, the worsening fires are a consequence of Siberia getting hotter, the carbon unleashed from its burning forests and tundra only adding to man-made fossil fuel emissions. Siberia's wildfire season has lengthened in recent years and the 2015 blazes were among the biggest yet, caking the lake, the "Pearl of Siberia", in ash and scorching the surrounding permafrost. But the Russian public heard little mention of climate change, because media coverage across ...
Instagram Joins Trend of Social Media Surveillance
Post Date: 2015-11-01 17:48:33 by BTP Holdings
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Instagram Joins Trend of Social Media Surveillance TOPICS: Joe Wright Surveillance. October 31, 2015 By Joe Wright A whole host of reasons are being given to justify the increased surveillance and data mining of social media: terrorism, suicide prevention, precrime detection of violence and other illegal acts … and now teenage alcohol abuse. Pattern recognition is at the heart of data mining for both public organizations and private companies. The Feds tried to get Congress to sign on to required reporting of “suspicious activity” in social media with the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2016, but that provision was ultimately rejected. However, the voluntary two-way ...
Teaching old robots new tricks: Machines swap knowledge about how to complete a task despite being hundreds of miles apart
Post Date: 2015-10-31 11:34:14 by Horse
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Roboticists trained a research robots to perform a range of simple tasks These included picking up mugs from a table and placing them on bowls The instructions were stored in a central database known as RoboBrain A robot called Baxter 325 miles (523km) used this information to work out how to perform the same task in a different setting Humans, monkeys and even birds are able to share knowledge and skills, and now robots can too. A machine called Baxter has taken instructions of how to complete a simple task from a robot 325 miles (523km) away and used them to carry out the same job. This is significant because Baxter and the training robot were designed differently and Baxter had to ...
Stellarator:world's largest nuclear-fusion machine
Post Date: 2015-10-31 05:51:11 by Tatarewicz
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(Science Magazine on YouTube) For more than 60 years, scientists have dreamed of a clean, inexhaustible energy source in the form of nuclear fusion. And they're still dreaming. But thanks to the efforts of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, experts hope that might soon change. Last year, after 1.1 million construction hours, the institute completed the world's largest nuclear-fusion machine of its kind, called a stellarator. The machine, which has a diameter of 52 feet, is called the W7-X. And after more than a year of tests, engineers are finally ready to fire up the $1.1 billion machine for the first time. It could happen before the end of this month, Science ...
This new jet concept could take you from London to New York in 30 minutes
Post Date: 2015-10-31 01:07:59 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert.... A Canadian engineer has come up with a new concept for a four-winged scramjet that could carry 75 passengers at speeds of up to Mach 10 - which is 10 times the speed of sound and five times faster than Concorde. That means the proposed Skreemr jet could cross the Atlantic in just half an hour. Unfortunately, the design is purely conceptual and the designers admit that it's unlikely to ever be realised, due to the current limitations of scramjet technology. But it's still a pretty cool glimpse into what we could one day achieve with air travel. As most science lovers will know, scramjet systems work by combusting liquid using oxygen taken from the atmosphere ...
NASA releases images of enormous 8,000-year-old patterns
Post Date: 2015-10-30 18:08:00 by Ada
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New satellite images from NASA have revealed unusual, massive patterns on the Earth’s surface. The geometric shapes are located in Kazakhstan, and are estimated to be up to 8,000 years old. The massive earthwork patterns called the Steppe Geoglyphs were originally discovered by a Kazakh economist when he was browsing Google Earth in 2007. When browsing through an otherwise empty Central Asian landscape, Dimitriy Dey found intriguing markings in the soil. But the study of these mysterious constructs is ramping up, and even NASA has taken an interest. Two weeks ago, the space agency released clear satellite photographs of the figures from about 430 miles in the sky. “I’ve ...
Project Loon is set to circle the planet with Internet balloons in 2016
Post Date: 2015-10-30 08:26:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Google’s Project Loon is a massively ambitious plan to provide Internet connectivity to areas of the planet that don’t already enjoy good access to the web. How? Via a huge fleet of helium balloons that hang in the stratosphere 20 kilometres above the surface, assembling to form a high-tech communication network that beams the web to the surface. And the undertaking is only getting more ambitious, with the company announcing this week that it plans to circle the planet with a ring of Project Loon balloons that will provide a perpetual data service for those living underneath its path. It sounds like science fiction, but this isn’t some faraway ethereal ...
Honda just unveiled its new hydrogen-powered car
Post Date: 2015-10-29 04:56:14 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Just when everyone’s getting all excited about electric cars usurping their fossil fuel-guzzling counterparts, Honda has announced that its hydrogen-powered cars will go on sale in Japan as early as March 2016, with launches in Europe and the US to follow. The five-seated sedan, called the FCV Clarity, can travel 700 km (434 miles) on a single charge. It’s been priced at 7.66 million yen, or US$62,807, which puts it just in the affordability range for the average consumer, the Japanese automaker saying it expects to sell far more than the 72 units it sold of its previous-generation model, the FCX Clarity. "We want this car to be the trigger for the ...
Pakistan exports Chinese HJ-8 missile to 20 nations
Post Date: 2015-10-29 02:02:55 by Tatarewicz
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Want... With the help of Pakistan, China North Industries Corporation, better known as Norinco, has been able to export its HJ-8 anti-tank missiles to 20 countries around the world, Duowei News, a news outlet operated by overseas Chinese, reported on Oct. 21. Pakistan produces the HJ-8 under license from China, which helped the South Asian country build an independent production line to manufacture the anti-tank missile. In the late 1980s, China convinced the Pakistan Army, which had been using the American-built BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile, to purchase the Chinese-made HJ-8. Pakistan carried out tests pitting the HJ-8 against the TOW system to see which missile was more suited to its ...
Should you trust Mark Zuckerberg's FACEBOOK?
Post Date: 2015-10-27 14:50:28 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Morocco's about to launch the world's largest concentrated solar plant
Post Date: 2015-10-27 04:28:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Morocco is set to become one of the world's leading suppliers of solar energy, when the first phase of an ambitious concentrated solar plant kicks off next month. The Noor Solar Project, being built just outside the Saharan city of Ouarzazate, will help provide almost half the country's energy by 2020 when its four phases are scheduled to be finished, and it will also contain hydro and wind energy systems. But what's really exciting about the plant is that it will be able to provide renewable energy even after the Sun's gone down. Concentrated solar power involves using huge amounts of mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a small area, allowing the Sun's ...
Suppliers gear up for self-driving car revolution
Post Date: 2015-10-27 00:10:22 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Several high-end car brands have announced plans to invest in the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs), or self-driving cars, and begin selling thesm from 2016, Beijing's Economic Observer reports. In China, Xu Heyi, chair of Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC Group), announced recently that the company's first driverless car will debut at the Beijing Auto Show next year. In addition to the current trend towards electric vehicles, autonomous cars are also expected to play a major role in the evolution of the automobile industry, the report said, adding that a major concern is how long it will take for the public to get on board. Citing a report issued by the Boston ...
Earth is in grave danger of being hit by a catastrophic comet shower triggered by the sun, warn scientists
Post Date: 2015-10-26 09:48:48 by Ada
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The study found that we wrongly thought we were in a 'safe zone' Scientists discovered a correlation between extinction events on Earth to the path our solar system takes through crowded areas of the Milky Way The galactic disk of the Milky Way contains dense clumps of dark matter Researchers claim the dark matter can throw comets into planet's path Earth may be in great danger as the sun's path through the galaxy sends comet flying towards our planet, scientists have warned. Researchers have identified a 26 million-year cycle of meteor impacts that coincides with the timing of mass extinctions over the past 260 million years. The doomsday events are linked to the motion ...
Belgium to power 170 trains with wind energy
Post Date: 2015-10-26 02:17:11 by Tatarewicz
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BRUSSELS, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Belgium has inaugurated a project to power 170 trains by wind energy, with the first seven of 25 turbines entering service on Saturday, local media reported Sunday. Sudpresse newspaper group said turbines will be built along the main rail line from Leuven to Liege, generating enough power for every high-speed and local train using the line. The number of trains to be covered by the wind energy project represents about five percent of the country's total rail traffic, Belgian railtrack operator Infrabel said. Belgian broadcaster RTL reported that once all 25 turbines are operating, they are expected to produce 35,000 megawatt hours -- enough energy to ...
This clever new refrigerator keeps food cold without electricity
Post Date: 2015-10-26 00:37:49 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It’s easy to take that hulking great white beast of a machine in our kitchens for granted, but for the 1.3 billion people in the world who are living without electricity, a working refrigerator is not an option. So a team of students in Canada has invented a cooling device that not only works without any electricity whatsoever, it’s also cheap and portable, making it ideal for those in remote and rural areas who struggle to keep their produce fresh. "We thought it would be good to decrease the amount of food waste in the world, and we came up with this design because it's easy to build and the materials are relatively cheap," one of the students, ...
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