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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Will computers kill gun control?
Post Date: 2013-01-25 09:28:50 by Ada
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3-D printing technology could make efforts to curb weapons impossible. Do-it- yourself techies are cool with that (Credit: 0833379753, defpicture via Shutterstock/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock) “How’s that national conversation going?” sneers Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, an organization dedicated to making it easy for anyone to 3-D print their own gun. It’s the opening line of a video showcasing Defense Distributed’s successful employment of a 3-D printer to manufacture a plastic high-capacity ammo clip for an AR-15 rifle. Wilson is namechecking Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s call for a “new conversation” on gun control in ...
Whatever Happened to Global Warming?
Post Date: 2013-01-24 15:04:10 by scrapper2
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Are you freezing? Join the crowd. Arctic air is sweeping across Canada. Snow and ice are wreaking havoc on Britain. Russians are dying from the cold. And Germans are sneaking into forests to cut down trees because their fuel bills are so high. Hey! Whatever happened to global warming? That’s a naive question, of course. Everybody knows there’s little or no connection between daily weather events and climate change (except when there’s a heat wave, a hurricane or some other natural disaster, in which case global warming is invariably to blame). Experts will tell you that our bitter winter weather proves nothing about climate change – that the world is still warming up ...
Captain Kirk’s Predecessor: Star Trek Was RAND Corporation Predictive Programming
Post Date: 2013-01-24 07:39:58 by Ada
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In a rare and recently unearthed interview from 1965, the actor who preceded William Shatner as first captain of the Enterprise, stated that the series was based on the RAND Corporation’s “projection of things to come”. Actor Jeffrey Hunter, who played captain Christopher Pike in the Star Trek pilot “The Cage” told a Hollywood columnist in January of ’65 that he hoped the pilot- episode would be picked up as a series because he was intrigued by the fact that the series was based on the RAND corporation’s “projection of things to come.” “We should know within several weeks whether the show has been sold.”, Hunter stated almost half a ...
DNA study traces ancestry of Native Americans to Beijing
Post Date: 2013-01-23 08:13:53 by Ada
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Present-day Asians and Native Americans are descended from a group of people who were already in China 40,000 years ago, according to an analysis of fossil DNA published this week. The genetic analysis showed that the early modern humans in Beijing had already diverged genetically from the ancestors of modern-day Europeans. The researchers took nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from a leg bone found in the Tianyuan Cave in China in 2003. Using this, they reconstructed the genetic profile of the leg’s owner, a person who lived at a very interesting time in the history of modern humans, the researchers said in a statement Monday. “This individual lived during an important ...
School of Law Professor Speaks on Chemtrails
Post Date: 2013-01-22 17:44:04 by CadetD
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Do Animals in Chernobyl’s Fallout Zone Glow?
Post Date: 2013-01-21 11:28:47 by Ada
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The scientific debate about Europe’s unlikeliest wildlife sanctuary. Valentina Sachepok darted ahead while I chased her through a forest in the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A camera crew followed us; they were shooting a documentary about the babushkas of Chernobyl. The 1986 disaster forced the permanent evacuation of 300,000 people, but a smattering of women still live semi-legally in their old homes. Sachepok, a retired nurse in her 60s with tufts of gray hair peering from under a maroon kerchief, didn’t walk but trotted, sprinting abruptly while the rest of us scrambled to keep up. After collecting fat yellow mushrooms from a clump of moss, ...
Charges Dropped Against Cancer Doctor Burzynski
Post Date: 2013-01-21 11:28:10 by noone222
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Poster Comment:If you haven't seen this video and know someone with cancer please tell them about it.
China unveils top 10 sci-tech news events of 2012
Post Date: 2013-01-20 00:55:02 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, or the country's elite think-tank duo, unveiled on Saturday top 10 news events of domestic science and technology progress for the year 2012. Selected via a vote by academicians from both organizations, the 10 news events are as follows: -- Three Chinese astronauts on June 24 successfully completed a manual docking between the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, the first such attempt in China's history of space exploration. -- China's manned submersible, the Jiaolong, set a new national dive record after reaching more than 7,000 meters below sea level ...
New gun goes on sale that turns ANYONE into a sharpshooter able to hit a target almost one mile away
Post Date: 2013-01-13 19:33:06 by James Deffenbach
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A controversial new Wi-Fi-enabled 'smart-gun' equipped with a computerized scope that enables anyone to become a master marksman goes on sale at the beginning of next week. Boasting three on-board processors and a precision guided firing system, the TrackingPoint rifle evaluates environmental factors such as wind speed and calculates the positions of moving targets with a claimed accuracy of almost a mile for novices. Compensating for human error, looking through the futuristic laser rangefinder sight resembles the view a pilot has in a jet fighter cockpit and turns conventional bolt action rifles into deadly snipers - albeit at a cost of $17,000. The $17,000 TrackingPoint ...
NASA U-turn Admits Global Warming Bias on Sun’s Key Role
Post Date: 2013-01-09 21:05:16 by farmfriend
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NASA U-turn Admits Global Warming Bias on Sun’s Key Role In one of the biggest body blows to climate alarmism comes an astonishing new u-turn from NASA. In essence, the prestigious American space agency has admitted it has been shackled for decades into toeing a political line over man-made global warming so as to play down key solar factors. The astonishing NASA announcement comes in the wake of a compelling new study just published titled, “The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate.” One of the participants, Greg Kopp of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, overturned mainstream climate science thinking by ...
Science gets colder than absolute zero
Post Date: 2013-01-04 23:18:17 by Ferret
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When an object is heated, its atoms can move with different levels of energy, from low to high. With positive temperatures (blue), atoms more likely occupy low-energy states than high-energy states, while the opposite is true for negative temperatures (red). (LMU / MPQ Munich) Absolute zero is often thought to be the coldest temperature possible. But now researchers show they can achieve even lower temperatures for a strange realm of "negative temperatures." Oddly, another way to look at these negative temperatures is to consider them hotter than infinity, researchers added. This unusual advance could lead to new engines that could technically be more than 100 percent ...
Scientists develop simpler test for counterfeit whiskey
Post Date: 2013-01-02 02:27:20 by farmfriend
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Scientists develop simpler test for counterfeit whiskey Phil Taylor 01-Jan-2013 Researchers in Brazil have shown that an analytical technique known as Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) can be a powerful tool for differentiating genuine whiskey from counterfeits. Using the highly-sensitive technique, the Brazilian scientists were able to correctly distinguish between fake and authentic samples of whiskey provided by the Brazilian Drinks Association (ABAPE). The technology has also been deployed in the analysis of wines and other spirits - including Brazil's national liquor Cachaca - and the latest study suggests is can also be deployed to screen ...
Global Warming? Not a snowball's chance in hell
Post Date: 2012-12-26 08:19:09 by Ada
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By "global warming", I mean, of course the kind of runaway, unprecedented, catastrophic warming which George Monbiot et al have been bleating on about for the last two or three decades. And by "not a snowball's chance in hell", I mean, that the likelihood of such a thing occurring is now roughly on a par with Elvis being discovered alive and well and living in Bolivia and ready to rush record a new album just in time for Christmas. (Cue: a stampede to the record stores by Michael Mann, Al Gore, the Prince of Wales, Tim Flannery, and the rest of the climate fool gang). How can we be so sure? Because this is what the weight of evidence tells us – as Matt Ridley ...
Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation (Excellent presentation!) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-12-22 02:30:01 by James Deffenbach
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NEW TECHNOLOGY (AMAZING) (now if the truck would just drive itself)
Post Date: 2012-12-17 20:25:24 by farmfriend
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Meet Ikey Doherty, the creator of SolusOS
Post Date: 2012-12-17 09:36:18 by James Deffenbach
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Well, before we start, I should cover who exactly “me” is. My name is Ikey Doherty, and I'm the founder of the SolusOS Linux Distribution. I'm a software developer, but that wasn't always the case Origins I'm Irish, 23, and I live in the UK. Originally, I was a builder. Moved around a lot when I was younger so I've seen pretty much every part of the UK & Ireland. Go back a couple years the recession caught the country in a vice-grip, so the building trade went bye-bye. From.. Builder.. to Dev? Logical move, right? Well, lets go back a little bit first. Whilst in secondary school I had developed quite a passion for computers. Never was I content though. ...
Vapour Trail ~ Encyclopedia Britannica
Post Date: 2012-12-10 18:03:13 by wudidiz
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"the resulting ice-crystal plume may last for several hours"...??????? 30 years ago the definition did not include that. Why does it now?
Good-bye Ubuntu Linux. A good distribution runs aground. Big time. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-12-10 02:52:34 by Pinguinite
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I started using Ubuntu Linux when Mandriva, my current favored linux distribution, no longer installed on a new computer some 5 years ago. It was great then and I've never hesitated to recommend it for its ease of use and well maintained distribution of Linux. That changed with their 11.10 release which did away with the KDE desktop and forced everyone to use their new Unity interface apparently designed for use with notepads. Apparently, mouse desktop users are a thing of the past now. But forcing a linux user to use one interface is pretty much anti-linux philosophy. Even so, after the support cycle ended recently for the pre-11.10 versions, I was forced to upgrade into the ...
Text messages direct to your contact lens
Post Date: 2012-12-08 13:42:56 by scrapper2
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New technology that will allow information, such as text messages from a mobile phone, to be projected onto a contact lens worn in the human eye has been developed by Belgian researchers. Ghent University's centre of microsystems technology has developed a spherical curved LCD display which can be embedded in contact lenses and handle projected images using wireless technology. "Now that we have established the basic technology, we can start working towards real applications, possibly available in only a few years," said Professor Herbert De Smet. Unlike previous contact lens displays, which are limited to a few small pixels to make up an image, the new technology allows ...
Become an Instant Hacker
Post Date: 2012-12-06 10:39:51 by James Deffenbach
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Poster Comment:I would do the caps lock and get access denied a time or two before I hit alt and got access granted.
Cigar-Shaped UFO in Pike County, Kentucky October 16, 2012
Post Date: 2012-12-05 01:29:56 by FormerLurker
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Poster Comment:Found that this is not the only video of this sighting. It's definitely something.
New government mandated ethanol blend (E15) damages engines says AAA
Post Date: 2012-12-01 19:32:16 by X-15
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Is this a government operation, or what? The AAA says the Environmental Protection Agency and gasoline retailers should halt the sale of E15, a new ethanol blend that could damage millions of vehicles and void car warranties. AAA, which issued its warning today, says just 12 million of more than 240 million cars, trucks and SUVs now in use have manufacturers' approval for E15. Flex-fuel vehicles, 2012 and newer General Motors vehicles, 2013 Fords and 2001 and later model Porsches are the exceptions, according to AAA, the nation's largest motorist group, with 53.5 million members. "It is clear that millions of Americans are unfamiliar with E15, which means there is a strong ...
My Favorite Lubes (Vaseline excluded)
Post Date: 2012-11-29 21:01:49 by Lod
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shop.militecusa.com/main.sc Militec-1 - the only lube recommended by Ronnie Barrett for his equipment. boeshield.com/ - developed by Boeing for superior lubrication and rust prevention. restorationproduct.com - an amazing topical product.
LED Replacements for 100-Watt Light Bulbs Hit Stores
Post Date: 2012-11-28 19:45:05 by scrapper2
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sorry to see 100-watt bulbs disappear from stores because they were energy hogs? You can now get LED bulbs that roughly match the 100-watters for size and brightness, but use far less energy. Until recently, your only alternative was a compact fluorescent bulb, which has several drawbacks compared with light-emitting diodes. Most people see the light quality as less pleasing, and the bulbs contain a small amount of mercury that’s released if the glass breaks. LEDs, by contrast, don’t contain any volatile, hazardous substances and are durable. They also last longer. Osram Sylvania, a division of Germany’s Siemens AG, said Monday that it’s shipping ...
Easiest Way I Have Found to Download Videos
Post Date: 2012-11-25 11:57:33 by James Deffenbach
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My Firefox Download Helper, or whatever the thing is called, wasn't working for me so I searched for another program or whatever to download them, something that wasn't too technical and would be easy enough even for me to understand. There is a bash script you can use (I guess, never tried it) but I did find a simple way. Here it is: Re: HowTo: Download YouTube videos (the easy way) Here is a simple way also: Find the video you want to download...let's say this one here:http://youtube.com/watch?v=2BCoZiSbGtY You don't need to watch it or anything...then in the address bar on top of ANY browser put kiss in front of the youtube...so the address will be ...
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