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Sweden's biogas train to run in India
Post Date: 2005-06-28 21:40:51 by DeaconBenjamin
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Swedish makers of the world's first biogas train hope to market it in India, where vast stretches of rail tracks use diesel engines in the absence of electricity. Biogas train "Amanda" has been jointly developed by Tekniska Verk, a Swedish biogas company, and Swedish railways subsidiary EuroMaint. "Sweden has something special for India," Lars-Goran Olsson, sales director of EuroMaint, said on Amanda's recent maiden trip in Linkoping. The prototype will go into regular service later this summer between Linkoping and Vastervik, about 160 kilometre. Later, it will extend services to the port city of Kalmar (260 kilometre). Gradually, as more trains are readied, the ...
Superwave Theory Predictions and their Subsequent Verification-(global warming, 2012 shift, ancient lore)
Post Date: 2005-06-28 17:22:43 by gengis gandhi
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this is some really cool stuff. this scientist back in 83 came up with a theory of galactic superwave, and then decipehred a bunch of ancient zodiac, etc which he claims is a time capsule message referring to this occurence. The mayan date of 2012 is explained below. When this massive influx of energy occurs, then what...transformed in the twinkling of an eye? Archeoastronomy - prevailing concept (1979): At the time of this prediction, ancient historians, cultural anthropologists and scholars of esoteric traditions did not suspect that ancient myth makers knew the location of the Galactic center or that they had associated this part of the sky with the cataclysmic cycles described in ...
Boffins create zombie dogs
Post Date: 2005-06-28 15:14:29 by Eoghan
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SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution. The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock. ...
World: France Chosen To Host Experimental Fusion Reactor Project
Post Date: 2005-06-28 14:52:56 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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World: France Chosen To Host Experimental Fusion Reactor Project By Breffni O'Rourke France has been chosen to host a multibillion-dollar experimental nuclear-fusion reactor. The decision was made today in Moscow by representatives of six parties involved in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project -- Russia, Japan, the United States, the European Union, China, and South Korea. The project is expected to cost up to $13 billion to develop. Nuclear fusion is a process that is being seen as mankind's bright new hope for boundless sources of clean energy. Some environmentalists doubt the true benefits of fusion, however. Prague, 28 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- French President ...
Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time
Post Date: 2005-06-28 09:10:59 by crack monkey
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Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time By DENNIS OVERBYE There was a conference for time travelers at M.I.T. earlier this spring. I'm still hoping to attend, and although the odds are slim, they are apparently not zero despite the efforts and hopes of deterministically minded physicists who would like to eliminate the possibility of your creating a paradox by going back in time and killing your grandfather. "No law of physics that we know of prohibits time travel," said Dr. J. Richard Gott, a Princeton astrophysicist. Dr. Gott, author of the 2001 book "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time," is one of a ...
Space Ring Could Shade Earth and Stop Global Warming
Post Date: 2005-06-27 15:22:21 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Space Ring Could Shade Earth and Stop Global Warming By Robert Roy Britt Senior Writer posted: 27 June 2005 02:14 pm ET A wild idea to combat global warming suggests creating an artificial ring of small particles or spacecrafts around Earth to shade the tropics and moderate climate extremes. There would be side effects, proponents admit. An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example. And the price tag would knock the socks off even a big-budget agency like NASA: $6 trillion to $200 trillion for the particle approach. Deploying tiny spacecraft would come at a relative bargain: a mere $500 billion tops. But the idea, ...
Toxic or magic? Nation needs a fresh look at nuclear power
Post Date: 2005-06-27 13:27:39 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Toxic or magic? Nation needs a fresh look at nuclear power Jun. 27, 2005 12:00 AM The nuclear option is back. The real one. Nuclear power has been on the back burner in U.S. energy policy for years, with no new plants in more than a quarter century. But global climate change and rising demands for energy are compelling reasons to reconsider our nuclear options. Developing countries, with China in the lead, are showing an insatiable appetite for electricity. Meanwhile, the "greenhouse gases" emitted by traditional power generation are big contributors to global warming. Conservation and alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind power, should be leading strategies ...
A little needed from Neil. please? What's a tinyurl?
Post Date: 2005-06-26 13:34:13 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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This is driving me crazy Neil. I hope you have an answer. The following url: http://tinyurl.com/b5gpr takes me here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Standard+Oil+Co%22+%2BHitler a search for "Standard Oil Co" +Hitler how did it do that?
Property control a U.N. dream
Post Date: 2005-06-26 00:03:27 by timetobuildaboat
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Property control a U.N. dream Henry Lamb | June 25 2005 John Prescott, deputy prime minister, told the House of Commons that 10,000 homes would be demolished in a $2 billion program to create "sustainable communities." This massive "Pathfinder" program has been adopted to transform the UK into sustainable communities, a major step toward compliance with goal seven of the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals and further implementation of the U.N.'s Agenda 21. A similar program is under way in the United States, but proponents are careful to deny that the U.N. has any influence or involvement. The facts tell a different story. In 1976, the United Nations Conference on ...
US Tries Desperately
To Dismiss AIDS
Origin Lawsuit
Post Date: 2005-06-22 00:13:30 by Coral Snake
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US Tries Desperately To Dismiss AIDS Origin Lawsuit 6-21-5 SAN DIEGO -- Federal Judge Sabraw has ordered an open court oral argument for Friday, June 24, 2005 at 1:30p.m.to hear arguments by the United States to support a motion to dismiss the AIDS ORIGIN lawsuit of Dr. Boyd Ed Graves. Dr. Graves AIDS ORIGIN research and his nearly eight years of continuous legal action against the United States for the creation, production and proliferation of HIV/AIDS has been receiving critical acclaim from scientists and medical doctors from all over the world. "I am hopeful," said Graves, "that the Federal Court will deny the United States motion to dismiss and allow this issue to ...
Massive Deformation Detected In North American Intraplate, Earthquakes Increasing In New Madrid Fault Zone
Post Date: 2005-06-21 00:45:16 by Dude Lebowski
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Russian scientists are reporting today that Russian space satellites are detecting what appears to be a massive ‘deformation’ in the North American Intraplate due to the continued buildup of stresses on the North American Plate in the New Madrid Fault Zone Region, and as we have previously reported about in our June 15th report titled "North American Intraplate Collapsing Heralding New Madrid Fault Zone Cataclysm as Rare Major ‘Triplet’ Earthquakes Occur in the Americas" and wherein we had stated; “Russian Scientists are reporting today that the rare Earthquake Triplet Events occurring over the last 36 hours in Chile (7.8 Magnitude Event), Alaska (6.9 ...
Brazilians buck rising gas prices with innovative fuel
Post Date: 2005-06-20 19:49:00 by boonie rat
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Brazilians buck rising gas prices with innovative fuel Marla Dickerson Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2005 10:27 AM SAO PAULO, Brazil -- While Americans fume at high gasoline prices, Carolina Rossini is the essence of Brazilian cool at the pump. Like tens of thousands of her countrymen, she is running her zippy red Fiat on pure ethanol extracted from Brazilian sugar cane. On a recent morning in Brazil's largest city, the clear liquid was selling for less than half the price of gasoline, a sweet deal for the 26-year-old lawyer. "You save money and you don't pollute as much," said Rossini, who paid about $18 to fill her nearly empty tank. "And it's a good thing that the product ...
Solar-sailing era begins in space
Post Date: 2005-06-19 19:44:52 by DeaconBenjamin
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Like many a sailing voyage, Louis Friedman's "cruise" began in a saltwater harbor. But his tiny craft's destination is unlike anything a wind-whipped sailor has ever experienced. Tuesday, Cosmos-1 is slated for launch from a Russian ballistic-missile submarine beneath the Barents Sea. If all goes well, the craft will unfurl its reflective sails 528 miles above earth to become the first spacecraft to harness the gentle nudge of sunlight for propulsion. The $4 million mission, spearheaded by the nonprofit Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif., and privately funded, is designed to demonstrate that solar sails can play a key role for space travel within the solar system. But first, ...
2012: END OF THE 5TH SUN
Post Date: 2005-06-18 21:35:02 by timetobuildaboat
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Certain aspects of the interlocking Maya calendar system have filtered into public consciousness in the last decade and a half. One of them is the prediction that we will come to the end of a solar-planetary cycle in 2012. But what is this cycle exactly and why is it going to end on the winter solstice of that auspicious year? Is the world going to end as some people are forecasting? The Maya conceived of time and human history as moving in cycles, small and large. While we use a single calendar to keep track of our annual solar circuit and to mark all of the important days within a year, the Maya used a variety of calendars. The array included a 365-day solar calendar; a 260-day sacred ...
New model 'permits time travel'
Post Date: 2005-06-18 08:12:30 by gengis gandhi
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BBC NEWS New model 'permits time travel' By Julianna Kettlewell BBC News science reporter If you went back in time and met your teenage parents, you could not split them up and prevent your birth - even if you wanted to, a new quantum model has stated. Researchers speculate that time travel can occur within a kind of feedback loop where backwards movement is possible, but only in a way that is "complementary" to the present. In other words, you can pop back in time and have a look around, but you cannot do anything that will alter the present you left behind. The new model, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics, gets rid of the famous paradox surrounding time travel. ...
Now 88 Dead Scientists And Microbiologists
Post Date: 2005-06-17 07:36:13 by Zipporah
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While some of these deaths may be purely coincidental and seem to pose no connection, many of these deaths are highly suspicious and appear not to be random acts of violence. Many are just plain murders. If you see any incorrect dates or errors, please provide me with accurate information, Thank you! Peace, Mark Marconi Scientists Mystery In the 1980,s over two dozen science graduates and experts working for Marconi or Plessey Defence Systems died in mysterious circumstances, most appearing to be 'suicides.' The MOD denied these scientists had been involved in classified Star Wars Projects and that the deaths were in any way connected. Judge for yourself... March 1982 - Professor ...
The Battle for Your Mind-Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today
Post Date: 2005-06-10 10:20:52 by gengis gandhi
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Click on the blue ball at the end of each section [*] to return to the topic index. The Battle for Your Mind by Dick Sutphen Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today Reformatted for WWW display and distribution by Dynamic Living Media Special - Exposing the Moonies Summary Of Contents *Introduction *The Birth of Conversion: Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735. *The Three Brain Phases: The Pavlovian Explanation *How Revivalist Preachers Work *The "Voice Roll" Technique *The Build-up Process.: Inducing Altered States *Assured Continuation: Fleecing the Flock *Bonding by Fear and Suggestion *Testimony: Creating Community Spirit *Miracles *The ...
Surviving a lightning strike.
Post Date: 2005-06-09 20:06:57 by crack monkey
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Don't Stand By Me Surviving a lightning strike. By Joshua Foer Posted Monday, June 6, 2005, at 4:24 AM PT Jerry LeDoux is a guy you don't really want to interview, because interviewing him means having to be near him, and that's like planting yourself by a dartboard. The stone claw hanging from his neck attests to his grisly encounter with a bear's jaw at a roadside park in August 1990. (His wife, Bee, brandishes a photo album that documents the mauling before he's done telling the story.) The Purple Heart on his Navy Seals sniper hat testifies to the three bullets he took in Vietnam. The ugly black mark on his finger is evidence that he once air-nailed it to a floorboard. The scar on ...
Survey: Scientific Misbehavior Is Common
Post Date: 2005-06-08 17:21:04 by Don
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Survey: Scientific Misbehavior Is Common By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Wed Jun 8, 2:07 PM ET NEW YORK - It's not the stuff of headlines, like fraud. But more mundane misbehavior by scientists is common enough that it may pose an even greater threat to the integrity of science, a new report asserts. One-third of scientists surveyed said that within the previous three years, they'd engaged in at least one practice that would probably get them into trouble, the report said. Examples included circumventing minor aspects of rules for doing research on people and overlooking a colleague's use of flawed data or questionable interpretation of data. Such behaviors are "primarily ...
Genes blamed for fickle female orgasm
Post Date: 2005-06-08 10:23:19 by gengis gandhi
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Genes blamed for fickle female orgasm Is this the ultimate excuse for poor performance in bed? “Sorry, darling,” the man says, just before falling asleep. “It’s your genes.” According to a study published this week, up to 45% of the differences between women in their ability to reach orgasm can be explained by their genes. Despite decades of surveys and conjecture about the role of culture, upbringing and biology in female sexual function, from Freud in 1905 to the Hite report in 1976, this is the first study of the role of a woman’s genes. Its findings suggest there is an underlying biological basis to a woman’s ability to achieve orgasm. Whether that ...
Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush: WH sought advice from Exxon on Kyoto stance
Post Date: 2005-06-08 07:32:17 by Zipporah
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President's George Bush's decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil company, and other industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the Guardian. The documents, which emerged as Tony Blair visited the White House for discussions on climate change before next month's G8 meeting, reinforce widely-held suspicions of how close the company is to the administration and its role in helping to formulate US policy. In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking ...
The machine that can copy anything
Post Date: 2005-06-04 12:28:22 by Eoghan
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A revolutionary machine that can copy itself and manufacture everyday objects quickly and cheaply could transform industry in the developing world, according to its creator. The "self-replicating rapid prototyper," or "RepRap" is the brainchild of Dr. Adrian Bowyer, a senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Bath in the UK. It is based on rapid prototyping technology commonly used to manufacturer plastic components in industry from computer-generated blueprints -- effectively a form of 3D printer. But Bowyer told CNN the RepRap's ability to copy itself could put rapid prototyping technology within reach of the world's poorest communities by ...
Airbags associated with increased probability of death in accidents, study finds
Post Date: 2005-06-03 16:13:33 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Airbags associated with increased probability of death in accidents, study finds June 02, 2005 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that airbags installed in automobiles have saved some 10,000 lives as of January 2004. A just-released study by a statistician at the University of Georgia, however, casts doubt on that assertion. In fact, said UGA statistics professor Mary C. Meyer, a new analysis of existing data indicates that, controlling for other factors, airbags are actually associated with slightly increased probability of death in accidents. "NHTSA recorded 238 deaths due to airbags between 1990 and 2002, according to information about these ...
Bummed about your Google image? Get over it
Post Date: 2005-06-03 12:49:22 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Bummed about your Google image? Get over it By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM THE NEW YORK TIMES In the winter of 1996 -- back when I was a brunette who wore sensible shoes -- a photographer snapped my picture during a rehearsal for a college musical. The production mattered; eating and sleeping did not. The resulting portrait showed a pasty, gaunt girl being swallowed by a XXX-large T-shirt. The only thing more unfortunate than the photo is that nearly a decade after it was taken -- a decade in which I became a blonde and graduated to stilettos -- it is still the definitive image of me on the World Wide Web. It's the one that pops up every time my name is entered in a Google search. It even has ...
For Fruit Flies, Gene Shift Tilts Sex Orientation (Gay Fruit Flys)
Post Date: 2005-06-03 12:15:06 by crack monkey
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For Fruit Flies, Gene Shift Tilts Sex Orientation By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, International Herald Tribune When the genetically altered fruit fly was released into the observation chamber, it did what these breeders par excellence tend to do. It pursued a waiting virgin female. It gently tapped the girl with its leg, played her a song (using wings as instruments) and, only then, dared to lick her - all part of standard fruit fly seduction. The observing scientist looked with disbelief at the show, for the suitor in this case was not a male, but a female that researchers had artificially endowed with a single male-type gene. That one gene, the researchers are announcing today in the journal ...
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