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Look-out Mexicans!
Post Date: 2015-06-30 11:26:29 by Lod
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This is Fascinating
Post Date: 2015-06-29 10:05:35 by Katniss
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World’s first commercial jetpack will go on the market next year
Post Date: 2015-06-29 04:50:56 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Sci-fi fans who happen to have a spare AUD$150,000 lying around will be very happy to know that as early as next year, they could be flying away in their very own jetpack. New Zealand-based tech company, Martin Aircraft, has been testing its jetpack model since 2011, and has announced that it will be going on the market to select buyers in the second half of 2016. Known as the Martin Jetpack, the device runs using normal petrol and is powered by two huge fans that can blast a pilot weighing up to 120 kg into the air at speeds of 74 km/h. The jetpack can currently fly for around 30 minutes at a time. The frame is made from ultra-tough carbon fibre and aluminium, and ...
Scientists have built artificial neurons that fully mimic human brain cells
Post Date: 2015-06-29 04:42:03 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have built the world’s first artificial neuron that’s capable of mimicking the function of an organic brain cell - including the ability to translate chemical signals into electrical impulses, and communicate with other human cells. These artificial neurons are the size of a fingertip and contain no ‘living’ parts, but the team is working on shrinking them down so they can be implanted into humans. This could allow us to effectively replace damaged nerve cells and develop new treatments for neurological disorders, such as spinal cord injuries and Parkinson’s disease. "Our artificial neuron is made of conductive polymers and it ...
40 Interesting Science Facts
Post Date: 2015-06-27 10:04:22 by NeoconsNailed
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"36. The Queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth's land surface"
China Builds Top Secret Midget Submarine
Post Date: 2015-06-27 02:15:31 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Satellite imagery from October 2014 shows what appears to be a new midget submarine at China's Wuchang shipyard. The space snapshots captured by DigitalGlobe show the vessel berthed at the shipyard pier used for fitting out submarines. The midget submarine had left the pontoon by late November and by mid-January 2015, another submarine, probably a Type 041 Yuan-class boat, occupied the pier. According to imagery measurements, the midget submarine has an approximate length of 35 meters and beam of 4 meters, which suggests a surface displacement around 400-500 tons. The 127th Ordinance Institute, of the Central Northern University, China, handed over a new 125mm cannon to ...
Facebook acquaintance post today....
Post Date: 2015-06-26 21:55:12 by christine
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Today is so epic. I really can't believe it actually happened. I keep waiting for someone to say, syke! I can't believe this red-blooded, bible-thumping, prejudice, racist, intolerance, unforgiving, close-minded, fearful, conservative country really did it. 6/26/15. That's a date I won't forget. Wow, what a day. This is really, really something amazing. Thanks Obama. Poster Comment:So my friends, as I wrote on another thread. These are dangerous times for white heterosexuals--Christian or not. Imo, this post expresses hatred and intolerance though SHE could never be told.
Solar will become the globe's cheapest source of electricity by 2030
Post Date: 2015-06-26 16:38:06 by BTP Holdings
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Solar will become the globe's cheapest source of electricity by 2030, according to the Bloomberg report. Specifically, we're talking about utility-scale solar projects -- think giant arrays of panels, not the rooftop variety. Already since 2009, the cost of a typical solar project has fallen 59%. And as our Byron King reminded us earlier this month, buyers will snap up 50 million solar panels this year -- up from 20 million in 2010. "At that rate," Byron teases out the implications today, "solar industry experts predict that the solar industry alone will consume 100 million ounces of silver this year." Yep, silver. "Quality photovoltaic units require ...
China's WS-64 touted as first precision anti-ship rocket launcher
Post Date: 2015-06-26 00:12:11 by Tatarewicz
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Want.. China's WS-64 is the world's first precision-guided anti-ship missile rocket launcher system, reports Duowei News, a US-based Chinese political news outlet. The WS-64, which has been on display at recent military exhibitions around the world, is the latest addition to the Weishi or "Guardian" multiple rocket launcher systems developed by Sichuan Aerospace Industry Corporation, a subsidiary of the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's main aerospace contractor. The defining feature of the WS-64 is its ability to effectively strike different types of targets at high precision thanks to its composite inertial/GPS + broadband ...
Hailing From the Red Planet? Seeds of Life on Earth May Have Come From Mars
Post Date: 2015-06-25 22:01:06 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... The origins of life on Earth can be traced back to Mars, billions of years ago when the Red Planet was believed to have hosted a more habitable environment than ours. Some exploding asteroids discovered by NASA © NASA/JPL NASA Wants to Nuke Asteroids That Threaten to Destroy Earth Around 3.8 to 4 billion years ago, during the Late Heavy Bombardment period, both Earth and Mars were frequently pummeled by asteroids and comets, resulting in the exchange of debris between the two planets. Some astrobiologists believe that this is how life was transferred from Mars to Earth. "We might be able to find evidence of our own origin in the most unlikely place," Planetary ...
Chinese scientists fuel dreams of solar-powered space flight
Post Date: 2015-06-25 00:52:55 by Tatarewicz
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Want... A team of Chinese scientists believe they could one day develop a fuel-free spacecraft that would be able fly through deep space using only light from the sun. Led by chemistry professor Chen Yongsheng and physics professor Tian Jianguo from Nankai University in Tianjin, the team theorizes that such a spacecraft would be made from the wonder material graphene, an atomic-scale honeycomb lattice made of carbon atoms. First produced and isolated in a laboratory in 2003, graphene is 200 times stronger than steel by weight and conducts heat and electricity extremely well. These flat sheets of carbon just one atom thick are said to be able to turn light into action, which could form ...
Low Light Pistol, Apache Camoflage, & Civilian Lagal Body Armor
Post Date: 2015-06-23 16:44:54 by BTP Holdings
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I wanted to send out a quick note to let you know that the June issue of the Journal of Tactics and Preparedness is ready to go AND let you know how you can get a free deck of Urban Survival Cards when you join today! If you’re a member, you can read it now by going >here< If you’re not a member, you should be. If you're not familiar with the journal, it is unlike any other preparedness or tactical site or publication in existence. Every issue has detailed how-to articles from current and former members of US Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, MARSOC, and/or AFSOC that you can start using immediately. This isn't ivory tower theoretical stuff...it's do-it-now ...
Meet the new, ethically made smartphone that you can fix/upgrade yourself
Post Date: 2015-06-23 06:28:59 by Tatarewicz
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Science Alert... A Dutch electronics company has developed a new smartphone that’s free from the questionable mining and manufacturing practices that tech giants like Apple and Samsung have found themselves mired in for years. And they say you can fix and upgrade them yourself, which means they’ll last a whole lot longer than your typical iPhone. Having already sold 60,000 Fairphones over the past two years, manufacturer Bas van Abel plans to release a second iteration this year that improves on the life of the device, and is built using fair-trade materials including tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold ('3TG' collectively). Smartphones are awesome, but boy, do they ...
Battery Startup Announces New Low-Cost Lithium Ion Breakthrough
Post Date: 2015-06-23 04:37:19 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... A battery developer and manufacturer has unveiled the first prototypes of its new lithium ion battery, which it says will reduce the cost of materials and manufacturing and potentially enable the low-cost product to be used to store energy as part of the power grid, and in electric cars. On Monday, Massachusetts-based 24M announced a new battery design which reduces the cost of the battery by 50 percent, and improves efficiency by removing more than 80 percent of the 'inactive,' non-charge-storing materials in conventional lithium oil batteries. "We’re reinventing the lithium ion battery," Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang, chief scientist and co-founder of 24M, and ...
Ten photos of 3D printed bridges, buildings and other supersized structures
Post Date: 2015-06-22 13:59:00 by Horse
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If you thought 3D printers were only good for building tiny plastic toys then you're mostly right, especially when it comes to desktop models. However, there are people using the technology to realize grander designs, to create bridges and even buildings. Here are 10 projects promising to make 3D printing bigger and better. Bridges A Dutch start-up, MX3D, plans to use robotic arms to weld layer upon layer of molten steel together into a steel bridge across a canal in Amsterdam. MX3D hopes to begin work on building the bridge, using the process seen in an artist's impression above, in September.
Starfish find could lead to 'fountain of youth’
Post Date: 2015-06-22 02:33:54 by Tatarewicz
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thelocal.se... Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have discovered that starfish which reproduce through cloning age much more slowly than those which reproduce sexually. This reason for this anomaly has been located in the starfishes' telomeres. Telomeres are lengths of DNA found at the ends of chromosomes. They protect genetic data, make it possible for cells to divide, and hold some secrets to how humans age and develop cancer. Each time a cell divides the telomeres shorten in length. As they shorten so we age, says Helen Nilsson Sköld, of the University of Gothenburg, one of the researchers behind the study. Starfish, unlike us humans, can reproduce both through ...
BYD gets complaints about electric car battery life
Post Date: 2015-06-21 21:31:38 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Chinese automaker and rechargeable battery manufacturer BYD Company has recently received consumer complaints about insufficient endurance of batteries for one of its electric vehicle models, according to a report from the Beijing-based Legal Weekly. The problematic batteries are from its BYD Qin model, a second-generation Dual-Mode, plug-in hybrid compact electric sedan with an all-electric range of 70 kilometers and a hybrid electric powertrain that is said to be able to extend the car's total range to a distance similar to that of a conventional gasoline-powered vehicle, the report said. Ten out of the 25 complaints against BYD filed by owners between June 24, 2014 and ...
Moment of truth nears for nuclear waste time bomb
Post Date: 2015-06-21 03:55:38 by Tatarewicz
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - More than half a century after the world's first commercial nuclear plant went into operation in the United States, the industry may finally be nearing a way to store radioactive waste underground permanently. The world has 270,000 tonnes of used fuel stockpiled, much of it under water in ponds at nuclear power stations, adding to the urgency of finding a permanent storage solution for material that can remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years. Finland and Sweden hope to be the first countries in the world to be able to put the most dangerous high-level waste (HLW) into underground storage in the next decade, using a new technology to encase fuel rods and ...
Fujian woman fatally electrocuted while charging iPhone 6
Post Date: 2015-06-20 20:34:55 by Tatarewicz
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Want... A woman in Jinjiang in China's southeast Fujian province is believed to have been fatally electrocuted when charging an iPhone 6 smartphone with a iPad charger, reports the online news portal of Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po. The 24-year-old woman was found on the floor in the house of her boyfriend's mother on June 9. Her feet were charred black and her hands were scarred, characteristic of a powerful electric shock. The charger had turned black. The smartphone and charger were sent back to Apple for further examination. Local police said the cause of death cannot be confirmed until the authorities receive the family's consent to conduct an autopsy, the report said. ...
Could we one day control the path of lightning?
Post Date: 2015-06-20 06:41:31 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Lightning dart across the sky in a flash. And even though we can use lightning rods to increase the probability of it striking at a specific location, its exact path remains unpredictable. At a smaller scale, discharges between two electrodes behave in the same manner, streaking through space to create electric arcs where only the start and end points are fixed. How then can we control the current so that it follows a predetermined path? Professor Roberto Morandotti and his colleagues have discovered a way to guide electric discharges--and even steer them around obstacles--through the clever use of lasers. This scientific breakthrough was published on June 19, 2015, in ...
Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist
Post Date: 2015-06-20 05:07:08 by Tatarewicz
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http://(PhysOrg.com) -- Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change. COMSOL Multiphysics Product Booklet See the latest in simulation and application design. Complimentary access. http://www.comsol.com Corporate sponsor program Fenner, who is emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, said homo sapiens will not be able to survive the population explosion and “unbridled consumption,” and will become extinct, perhaps within a century, along with many other ...
Saudi FM: Saudi Arabia to Turn to Russian Expertise in Nuclear Energy
Post Date: 2015-06-19 23:49:14 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Saudi Arabia plans to turn to Russia’s expertise in building several power-generating nuclear reactors, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told RT Arabic. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir © AFP 2015/ Paul J. RICHARDS Saudi FM: Russia, Saudi Arabia Can Tackle Challenges Through Cooperation According to al-Jubeir, Russia has a big potential in nuclear field and has developed a range of advanced nuclear technologies. “It is natural that Saudi Arabia aims to turn to the Russian expertise in this field. We have plans to build a power-generating nuclear reactor in Saudi Arabia. It is possible that we will build 16 reactors… Anyway, there ...
Parkinson's Brain-Zapper
Post Date: 2015-06-19 11:29:38 by Lod
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This new technology lets you change the channel with your mind
Post Date: 2015-06-19 08:00:48 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The BBC is testing a new type of headset that can read a user’s brainwaves and use their brain activity to change the channel. Developed with London-based technology group, This Place, the headset has so far been tested by 10 BBC staff in their homes, using a customised version of BBC's iPlayer platform. All 10 were reportedly able to turn on iPlayer and select specific shows using nothing but their thoughts. "It was much easier for some than it was for others, but they all managed to get it to work," Cyrus Saihan, head of business development for the BBC Digital, wrote in a blog post. The technology works by having iPlayer cycle through a bunch of TV ...
Forever Young? Silicon Valley Billionaires Invest in Eternal Life Research
Post Date: 2015-06-19 05:58:31 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Silicon Valley’s tech giants have already changed the way we live, from how we watch our television shows to the way we communicate with each other. But now, they want to do much more – they want to extend human life altogether. Or at least theirs. Death may be inevitable, but for Silicon Valley’s giants, it is just a problem, and one they are very determined to solve. And why not? With already very lavish lifestyles, it’s understandable why people like PayPal founder Peter Thiel, who is worth upwards of $2 billion, would want to keep on kicking as long as he can. Thiel, who has described death as the "great enemy" of humankind, has already doled ...
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