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UK: Prisoners to be Chipped Like Dogs
Post Date: 2008-01-14 15:16:44 by ghostdogtxn
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Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-01-14 10:27:14 by robin
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Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica Sheets Melting in an Area Once Thought to Be Unaffected by Global Warming By Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 14, 2008; A01 Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates. While the overall loss is a tiny fraction of the miles-deep ice that covers much of Antarctica, scientists said the new finding is important because the continent holds about 90 percent of Earth's ice, and until now, large-scale ice loss there had ...
North Atlantic warming tied to natural variability; but global warming may be at play elsewhere
Post Date: 2008-01-14 04:46:06 by farmfriend
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Contact: Monte Basgall monte.basgall@duke.edu 919-681-8057 Duke University North Atlantic warming tied to natural variability; but global warming may be at play elsewhere DURHAM, N.C. – A Duke University-led analysis of available records shows that while the North Atlantic Ocean’s surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000, the change was not uniform. In fact, the subpolar regions cooled at the same time that subtropical and tropical waters warmed. This striking pattern can be explained largely by the influence of a natural and cyclical wind circulation pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), wrote authors of a study published Thursday, Jan. 3, in ...
The Keys to the Chemtrails
Post Date: 2008-01-14 01:43:52 by wudidiz
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The Keys to the Chemtrails by ANONYMOUS These keys are not new. They've been out there in various forms for over a year now. They easily dispel cloud cover, radar shields, and other disinfo explanations, the former two being the most widely limited hangouts given to make us all go back to sleep. The most damning evidence is the very issue that has at its roots the most sinister: control and elimination. If we conclude, and we must, that the data does point to a singular direction (like the HIV data the conclusively proves AIDS is a CIA/WHO invention) then no matter how painful the truth must be, it still must be the truth. 1. Gulf War Illness. Look at the spray patterns over the ...
'Spare part heart' beats in lab
Post Date: 2008-01-13 14:54:05 by robin
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'Spare part heart' beats in lab A new heart was grown on a basic tissue scaffold The stripped-out shell of a heart has been made to work again - using brand new cells planted inside it. Scientists removed all the muscle cells in a rat heart, leaving just a "scaffold" of other tissues such as blood vessels and valves. When the University of Minnesota team added heart cells, they quickly grew and produced a pumping action. It is hoped the Nature Medicine study will ultimately mean human or animal hearts can be crafted for transplant. It opens a door to this notion that you can make any organ: kidney, liver, lung, pancreas - you ...
Glowing Pig Passes Genes to Piglets
Post Date: 2008-01-12 20:13:22 by robin
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BEIJING (Jan. 9) - A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported. Two of the 11 piglets glow fluorescent green from their snout, trotters, and tongue under ultraviolet light, according to Northeast Agricultural University, located in the city of Harbin. Weird Science In the Real World 1 of 5 Scientists in China say two of 11 piglets born to a cloned sow whose genes were altered to make it glow green under ultraviolet light have inherited the trait from their mother. Researchers hope the technology behind ...
CES Video: Gadget of the day (mp3 & taser in one gadget)
Post Date: 2008-01-12 18:52:50 by robin
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CES Video: Gadget of the day You know what a bother it is to carry both your MP3 music player and your Taser gun? Worry no more. Today at CES, Taser International introduced the Taser MPH -- the first combination hand-held music player and Taser. The player, which has a 1-GB capacity that can hold about 150 songs, is embedded in a holster that slips on your belt. Feel the need to zap someone and you can unholster the Taser, use the built-in laser pointer to aim, and blam -- a couple of darts carrying 50,000 volts hits your victim. And you don't have to miss a beat. The Taser MPH is not just a gadget, it's a fashion statement. The company is releasing it in several ...
Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way
Post Date: 2008-01-12 17:49:35 by robin
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Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News, Austin The cosmic cloud is heading for us at more than 240km/s A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way, astronomers have announced. Smith's Cloud, as it is known, may set off spectacular fireworks when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years. It contains enough hydrogen to make a million stars like the Sun, say experts, and its leading edge is already hitting gas from our galaxy. When it does hit, the cloud could indeed set off a new burst of star formation in the Milky Way. Details of the work, by a ...
Warning on stealthy Windows virus
Post Date: 2008-01-11 22:27:39 by robin
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Warning on stealthy Windows virus The creators of the virus are after bank logins and personal data Security experts are warning about a stealthy Windows virus that steals login details for online bank accounts. In the last month, the malicious program has racked up about 5,000 victims - most of whom are in Europe. Many are falling victim via booby-trapped websites that use vulnerabilities in Microsoft's browser to install the attack code. Experts say the virus is dangerous because it buries itself deep inside Windows to avoid detection. Old tricks The malicious program is a type of virus known as a rootkit and it tries to overwrite part of a ...
Biggest, baddest black hole ever
Post Date: 2008-01-10 19:23:19 by aristeides
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Biggest, baddest black hole ever 11 Jan 2008, 0000 hrs IST,AGENCIES AUSTIN (TEXAS): A black hole, 18 billion times more massive than the Sun, has been confirmed by researchers at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Wednesday thereby shattering the cosmic scales. Even though researchers suggested black holes up to this mass might exist in quasars, this is the first direct confirmation of such a behemoth, reports space.com. The hefty gravity well is six times more massive than the previous record and is orbited by a smaller black hole, which allowed the measurement of the giant’s mass. Black holes can’t be seen, but astronomers detect them by noting how other ...
Is your SUV Destroying the Universe?
Post Date: 2008-01-07 02:37:41 by farmfriend
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Is your SUV Destroying the Universe?
Supernovae data from the 1950’s to 2007 show trends very worrying for the fate of the whole universe.
The Magnitude (brightness) of observed explosions, after hovering for several decades around the 20 mark, has recently dropped to 15 (i.e. towards brighter supernovae).
Furthermore, the number of observed supernovae has been increasing at an exponential rate, again after many decades below 50 per year, to 95 in 1996 and a little less than 600 in 2007.
The fact that this is happening exactly as anthropogenic greenhouse-gases emissions are on the increase, cannot be just a coincidence. If this will not convince Governments about the ...
Br-r-r! Where did global warming go? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-01-06 20:34:22 by farmfriend
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Br-r-r! Where did global warming go? By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist / January 6, 2008 THE STARK headline appeared just over a year ago. "2007 to be 'warmest on record,' " BBC News reported on Jan. 4, 2007. Citing experts in the British government's Meteorological Office, the story announced that "the world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007," surpassing the all-time high reached in 1998. But a funny thing happened on the way to the planetary hot flash: Much of the planet grew bitterly cold. In South America, for example, the start of winter last year was one of the coldest ever observed. According to Eugenio Hackbart, chief ...
Human Genetic Variation: Science's 'Breakthrough Of The Year'
Post Date: 2008-01-05 02:15:05 by Tauzero
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Human Genetic Variation: Science's 'Breakthrough Of The Year' ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2007) — In 2007, researchers were dazzled by the degree to which genomes differ from one human to another and began to understand the role of these variations in disease and personal traits. Science and its publisher, AAAS, the nonprofit science society, recognize "Human Genetic Variation" as the Breakthrough of the Year, and identify nine other of the year's most significant scientific accomplishments. "For years we've been hearing about how similar people are to one another and even to other apes," said Robert Coontz, deputy news editor for physical sciences ...
Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change
Post Date: 2008-01-04 20:40:47 by farmfriend
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Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change January 2, 2008 Today, the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida announces that it has confirmed the recent web announcement of NASA solar physicists that there are substantial changes occurring in the sun’s surface. The SSRC has further researched these changes and has concluded they will bring about the next climate change to one of a long lasting cold era. Today, Director of the SSRC, John Casey has reaffirmed earlier research he led that independently discovered the sun’s changes are the result of a family of cycles that bring about climate shifts from cold climate to warm and back again. ...
If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything
Post Date: 2008-01-02 17:48:37 by Ninpo
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If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything Posted June 26, 2007 | 07:23 AM (EST) Read More: Al Gore , Breaking Politics News stumbleupon :If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything digg: If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything reddit: If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything del.icio.us: If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything Oddly, if the goal is to slam Al Gore, it often seems as if standards of serious discussion suddenly vanish. Even scientific information -- which you'd think people would be inclined to wield cautiously -- gets treated as if it's putty. That was on full display with ...
Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore
Post Date: 2008-01-02 17:41:52 by Ninpo
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Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) will unveil two 60-second TV ads focusing on what it calls “global warming alarmism and the call by some environmental groups and politicians to reduce fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions.” The ad, which will be aired in more than a dozen cities across the country, is being released just a week before the May 24th opening (in LA and NYC) of Al Gore’s new movie on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. Who is CEI? The Washington Post explains: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which widely publicizes its belief that the earth is not warming cataclysmically because of the burning ...
New Little Ice Age
Post Date: 2008-01-02 17:08:16 by farmfriend
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New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming? by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt † Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity Klammerfelsweg 5, 93449 Waldmünchen, Germany mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Frau Landscheidt http://bourabai.narod.ru/landscheidt/ Gedenkseite mit weiteren Artikeln Abstract: Analysis of the sun's varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that contrary to the IPCC's speculation about man-made global warming as high as 5.8° C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected. It is shown that minima in the 80 to 90-year Gleissberg cycle of solar activity, ...
Next-Generation Photovoltaics: Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells
Post Date: 2008-01-02 10:29:24 by Liberty_Zippo
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Nanocrystalline photovoltaic devices have become viable contenders for large-scale future solar-energy-conversion systems. Solar cells that copy nature’s very own energy-conversion process could constitute the next generation of green energy-generating sources. Based on photosynthesis, in which plants transform the sun’s rays into stored energy, mesoscopic injection solar cells offer credible and attractive alternatives to solid-state p-n junction devices (explained below). These relatively new nanocrystalline photovoltaic devices, which were invented in the early 1990s, promise viable solutions to future large-scale solar-energy conversion issues on the bases of cost, ...
Mars rovers find new evidence of 'habitable niche'; perilous third winter approaches
Post Date: 2008-01-02 03:07:40 by farmfriend
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Mars rovers find new evidence of 'habitable niche'; perilous third winter approaches By Lauren Gold Inch by power-conserving inch, drivers on Earth have moved the Mars rover Spirit to a spot where it has its best chance at surviving a third Martian winter -- and where it will celebrate its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since bouncing down on Mars for a projected 90-day mission in January 2004. Meanwhile, researchers are considering the implications of what Cornell's Steve Squyres, principal investigator for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, calls "one of the most significant" mission discoveries to date: silica-rich deposits uncovered in May by ...
Another good reason not to fly: NASA gives glimpse of air safety survey
Post Date: 2007-12-31 21:14:55 by richard9151
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2 hours, 22 minutes ago NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public over concerns it would upset travelers and hurt airline profits. The data reflects hundreds of cases where pilots flew too close to other planes, plunged from altitude or landed at airports without clearance. NASA published the findings — contained in 16,208 pages — but did not provide a roadmap to understand them, making it cumbersome for any thorough analysis by outsiders. Released on New Year's Eve, the unprecedented research conducted over nearly four years relates to safety problems identified by some 25,000 ...
Sacred Weeds: Amanita Muscaria, Video
Post Date: 2007-12-31 14:10:29 by gengis gandhi
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8999968493586165660
Violin Playing Robot
Post Date: 2007-12-31 13:23:16 by robin
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Violin Playing Robot Uploaded: 17 December 2007 Violin Playing Robot Toyota Motor Corp. Continuing the evolution of their trumpet playing robot, Toyota Motor Corp. has developed their Violin Playing Robot which now has more precise manual dexterity making it able to perform fine motions and Toyota hopes to apply this robot to a variety of uses as well as playing the violin With easy bipedal motion, the Violin Playing Robot can run as well as stabilize itself when knocked off balance and can jump due to its improved ankle joints. It has 17 joints with special sensors to make fine motions possible such as vibrato, a change of the note through slightly varying the finger position. ...
Science vs Faith Flowchart
Post Date: 2007-12-30 18:07:13 by Split
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Has global warming stopped?
Post Date: 2007-12-29 23:09:36 by farmfriend
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Has global warming stopped? David Whitehouse 'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001' Global warming stopped? Surely not. What heresy is this? Haven’t we been told that the science of global warming is settled beyond doubt and that all that’s left to the so-called sceptics is the odd errant glacier that refuses to melt? Aren’t we told that if we don’t act now rising temperatures will render most of the surface of the Earth uninhabitable within our lifetimes? But as we digest these apocalyptic comments, read the recent IPCC’s Synthesis report that says climate change could become ...
Tens of millions of birds disappearing across North America
Post Date: 2007-12-29 17:01:26 by robin
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Tens of millions of birds disappearing across North America CBC’s The National reports that tens of millions of birds are disappearing across North America. The following video is from CBC’s The National, broadcast on December 28, 2007 Posted December 29th, 2007 at 9:51 am By Michael Aivaz
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