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FA18 extended view of Space Shuttle Endeavour's flyover Southern California
Post Date: 2012-10-08 19:20:52 by purplerose
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This was passed onto me by a friend of my late friend (both worked at TRW). It is a 15 minute video of the shuttle from Point Mugu to its landing at LAX. It makes two passes over LAX until it lands on the third time around. It passes by the Griffith Observatory, which was one of my favorite places to visit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVPNDhOWutk
CHEMTRAILS Exposed on Discovery Channel
Post Date: 2012-10-08 17:17:25 by farmfriend
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Could Lightning Strikes Be Used to Break Down Rubble Into Useful Components of Cement and Aggregate?
Post Date: 2012-10-07 23:56:44 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2012) — Every year several millions of tons of building rubble are produced. An efficient way of recycling concrete -- the building material of the 20th and 21st century -- does not yet exist. Researchers are working on new recycling methods, and with the aid of lightning bolts, they can break down the mixture of cement and aggregate into its components. Whether the Pantheon in Rome or the German concrete canoe regatta, whether ultra-light or decorative: concrete is unbelievably versatile and is the world's most widely used material -- next to water. It is made of cement, water and aggregate, a mixture of stone particles such as gravel or limestone grit in ...
Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find
Post Date: 2012-10-07 23:44:43 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2009) — Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to prove that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be generated. The findings are revolutionary since this means, on the one hand, that it will be much easier to find these sources of energy and, on the other hand, that they can be found all over the globe. “Using our research we can even say where oil could be found in Sweden,” says Vladimir Kutcherov, a professor at the Division of Energy Technology at KTH. Together with two research colleagues, Vladimir Kutcherov has simulated the process involving pressure and ...
Using Less Gas and Oil to Get Where You’re Going
Post Date: 2012-10-07 23:34:42 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2012) — A quick pit-stop at the gas station is enough to put a good dent in your wallet. New technology is set to lower the high cost of filling up your car, by enabling combustion engines to consume two to three percent less gas and signifi cantly less oil, while eliminating a step in engine production. An engine without oil will not survive for very long. Pistons need plenty of lubricant in order to be able to move within the cylindrical sleeves in the engine block. Two things are known to raise the resultant level of friction. The first is attributed to distortion of the cylindrical bore hole when the cylinder head is attached, which is known as static ...
Nicotine improves learning and memory
Post Date: 2012-10-07 23:09:31 by Tatarewicz
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Discovery of Gatekeeper Nerve Cells Explains the Effect of Nicotine On Learning and Memory ScienceDaily (Oct. 7, 2012) — Researchers at Uppsala University have, together with Brazilian collaborators, discovered a new group of nerve cells that regulate processes of learning and memory. These cells act as gatekeepers and carry a receptor for nicotine, which can explain our ability to remember and sort information. The discovery of the gatekeeper cells, which are part of a memory network together with several other nerve cells in the hippocampus, reveal new fundamental knowledge about learning and memory. The study is published today in Nature Neuroscience. The hippocampus is an area ...
C2C program recap
Post Date: 2012-10-07 00:14:06 by Tatarewicz
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October 4, 2012 Solar Cataclysms: On Wednesday's show, journalist and science consultant Lawrence E. Joseph discussed how fluctuations in the sun's behavior provoke shifts not only in the climate, but also in our personal lives. He explained why he believes it's time for human beings to stop taking the sun for granted by assuming it will shine with unwavering intensity until it burns out billions of years from now. A landmark report by the National Academy of Sciences called Severe Space Weather Events concluded that if a solar blast hit, such as the ones from 1859 or 1921, "up to 130 million Americans could be without electrical power for months, or years," he ...
Does anyone here recommend Windows 8 on a PC?
Post Date: 2012-10-06 19:56:49 by Lod
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Thanks for any input.
Scientists under Attack - MIRROR
Post Date: 2012-10-05 13:49:07 by abraxas
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Engineers Invent New Device That Could Increase Internet Download Speeds
Post Date: 2012-10-04 01:22:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2012) — A team of scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota has invented a unique microscale optical device that could greatly increase the speed of downloading information online and reduce the cost of Internet transmission. The device uses the force generated by light to flop a mechanical switch of light on and off at a very high speed. This development could lead to advances in computation and signal processing using light instead of electrical current with higher performance and lower power consumption. The research results were published October 2 in the online journal Nature Communications. "This device is similar to ...
Earth's magnetic field overdue a flip
Post Date: 2012-10-04 00:44:34 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, Oct. 3, 2012 (Reuters) — The discovery by NASA rover Curiosity of evidence that water once flowed on Mars - the most Earth-like planet in the solar system - should intensify interest in what the future could hold for mankind. The only thing stopping Earth having a lifeless environment like Mars is the magnetic field that shields us from deadly solar radiation and helps some animals migrate, and it may be a lot more fragile and febrile than one might think. Scientists say earth's magnetic field is weakening and could all but disappear in as little as 500 years as a precursor to flipping upside down. It has happened before - the geological record suggests the magnetic ...
Eltanin meteor may have led to Ice Age
Post Date: 2012-10-04 00:28:48 by Tatarewicz
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When a huge meteor collided with Earth about 2.5 million years ago in the southern Pacific Ocean it not only likely generated a massive tsunami but also may have plunged the world into the Ice Ages, a new study suggests. A team of Australian researchers says that because the Eltanin meteor – which was up to two kilometres across - crashed into deep water, most scientists have not adequately considered either its potential for immediate catastrophic impacts on coastlines around the Pacific rim or its capacity to destabilise the entire planet’s climate system. “This is the only known deep-ocean impact event on the planet and it’s largely been forgotten because ...
China bringing hi-tech jobs to America
Post Date: 2012-10-03 03:04:02 by Tatarewicz
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ONG KONG (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC maker, will open its first PC production plant in the United States with operations expected to begin in 2013. The Whitsett, North Carolina, facility will manufacture Think-branded laptop and desktop PCs, tablets and servers aimed at the U.S. market, Lenovo said in a statement late on Tuesday. Lenovo did not provide any investment figures but said it would create 115 jobs. Over the past two years, Lenovo has invested in new plants and manufacturing joint ventures in China, Brazil and now the United States to produce PCs and mobile Internet devices such as smartphones, it said. Shares of Lenovo, which analysts said is set to ...
63,000-Year-Old Modern Human Skull Found in Laos
Post Date: 2012-10-01 21:23:34 by farmfriend
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63,000-Year-Old Modern Human Skull Found in Laos Published: Aug 21st, 2012 Anthropology | By John Shanks According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest modern human fossil found in Southeast Asia. The skull pushes back the clock on modern human migration through the region by as much as 20,000 years and indicates that ancient humans out of Africa left the coast and inhabited diverse habitats much earlier than previously appreciated. The scientists, who found the skull in 2009, were likely the first to dig for ancient bones in Laos since the early 1900s, when a team found 16,000 ...
19 Signs That America Is Being Systematically Transformed Into a Giant Surveillance Grid
Post Date: 2012-09-28 08:56:37 by Ada
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You are being watched. The control freaks that hold power in the United States have become absolutely obsessed with surveillance. They are constantly attempting to convince the American people that we are all "safer" when virtually everything that we do is watched, monitored, tracked and recorded. Our country is being systematically transformed into a giant surveillance grid far more comprehensive than anything George Orwell ever dreamed of. If you still believe that there is such a thing as "privacy" in this day and age, you are being delusional. Every single piece of electronic communication is monitored and stored. In fact, they know that you are reading this article ...
Barnes & Noble unveils its first hi-definition tablets
Post Date: 2012-09-27 04:28:56 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc's first hi-definition tablets, unveiled on Wednesday, were well received by analysts who said the devices keep the bookseller in the fight with Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc and Google Inc - for now. The largest U.S. bookstore chain introduced a $199 7-inch Nook HD tablet that will go up against similar, recently launched products by Google and Amazon.com this holiday season. The company also unveiled a $269 9-inch Nook HD+ tablet that will compete with the Apple iPad. "The devices are in improvement in important ways over the previous generations of the Nook, and they one-up Amazon in some areas," Forrester Research analyst Sarah ...
Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ found by Nazis is from space
Post Date: 2012-09-27 02:13:37 by farmfriend
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Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ found by Nazis is from space 26 Sep 2012 | 17:39 BST | Posted by Daniel Cressey A Buddhist statue brought to Germany from Tibet by a Nazi-backed expedition has been confirmed as having an extraterrestrial origin. Known as the ‘iron man’, the 24-cm high sculpture may represent the god Vai[ravaṇa and was likely created from a piece of the Chinga meteorite that was strewn across the border region between Russia and Mongolia between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, according to Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart, and his colleagues. In a paper published in Metoritics & Planetary Science, the team reports their analysis of the iron, ...
California has become the third state to welcome driverless cars
Post Date: 2012-09-26 03:31:30 by Tatarewicz
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California has become the third state to welcome driverless cars with open arms. Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law today that officially legalized self-driving vehicles, following in the footsteps of Nevada and Florida. The signing event was held at the Google complex in Mountain View, Calif. where engineers have been working on driverless car concepts for years and employees routinely use them to commute to and from work. Such vehicles weren't technically illegal to operate before passage of the bill, but Google and others working on similar technology hope that by making their use explicitly legal it will clear up any confusion on the part of law enforcement and limit the ...
Two-Thirds of the World's New Solar Panels Were Installed in Europe in 2011
Post Date: 2012-09-25 03:46:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2012) — Europe accounted for two thirds of the world-wide newly installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity in 2011, with 18.5 GW. Its overall PV capacity totalled 52 GW. The yearly electricity produced by PV could power a country with the electricity demand of Austria, which corresponds to 2% of the EU's electricity needs. These are some of the highlights of the 2012 Photovoltaics Status Report published September 24 by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. The study summarises and evaluates the current activities regarding manufacturing, policies and market implementation world-wide. Over the past ten years, the PV industry grew in Europe by an ...
Two Cheers for Heresy on Global Warming
Post Date: 2012-09-24 07:04:31 by Ada
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Climate change is a cycle—of faddish opinions, I first encountered the strong case for global warming in the early 1970s in an Isaac Asimov science column. As an elementary school student, I merely nodded my head, assumed that America’s political leadership would address the danger, and moved on to an explanation of quarks. Even in those days, the subject was hardly new. The Asimov column had originally run in the late 1950s, before I was even born, and the possibility that burning fossil fuels might raise the Earth’s temperature via the “Greenhouse Effect” had already been around for many decades, going back to the late 19th century. Whether it occurred in the ...
Apple Could Be Worth $1 Trillion Within a Year
Post Date: 2012-09-24 01:45:01 by Tatarewicz
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Apple is currently worth something like zillion dollars (read: $656 billion) and it has no signs of slowing down. The question , when are they going to reach the unreachable summit? When is Apple going to break the trillion dollar ceiling? RELATED: According to Bilton, analysts and investors think a reasonable assumption given the current trends is that Apple will crack the $1 trillion plateau on April 9, 2015, at around 11 a.m., which seems strangely specific all things considered. But, Bilton warns, there are other analysts (read: more fun analysts) who think Apple could do it within the year. Yep, they think Apple could do it by August 16, 2013. No specific time was given. RELATED: ...
Cyber Securiity - a trillion dollar industry
Post Date: 2012-09-23 05:30:39 by Tatarewicz
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For our edutainment today we’re sniffing out the solution to the latest teaser ad from the Oxford Club — Steve McDonald, one of their analysts, spins a long story about cybersecurity that reminds us of several other past ditigal security teasers. Not that there’s anything wrong with that — this is, by all accounts, one of the “great” growth industries — nations, companies and individuals are continuing to be targeted by everything from everyday spam to identity theft to actual cyber “break ins” and online theft of confidential or strategic information and malicious wounding attacks to take down systems. This much is pretty clear to anyone ...
BG-12 Reduces Relapses, Disease Activity in MS
Post Date: 2012-09-20 02:00:51 by Tatarewicz
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September 19, 2012 — Full results of two phase 3 trials evaluating the effect of oral BG-12 (dimethyl fumarate, Biogen Idec) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) show the investigational agent reduced relapse rates, disease activity on imaging, and, in 1 trial, progression of disability. Full results of the Determination of the Efficacy and safety of oral Fumarate IN rElapsing-remitting MS (DEFINE) trial, and the Comparator and an Oral Fumarate in RRMS (CONFIRM) trial, are published in the September 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Both trials were funded by Biogen Idec. Gadolinium-enhancing lesions were also reduced significantly, as were new or enlarging ...
GPS shoes help you find your way home
Post Date: 2012-09-20 00:15:25 by Tatarewicz
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In the classic "Wizard of Oz" scene, Dorothy clicks the heels of her ruby slippers together saying, "There's no place like home. There's no place like home." This was the inspiration for British designer Dominic Wilcox's new GPS shoes that will actually help you find your way back home. The shoes are currently in the prototype stage, thanks to a commission by the Global Footprint project and some help from his friends at Stamp Shoes. Each shoe works wirelessly with the other to indicate GPS direction and proximity to the final destination. Programming your home location is as easy as plotting a point in the included software, then sending the info — ...
Northern chill produces Arctic ozone hole
Post Date: 2012-09-19 11:17:05 by farmfriend
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Northern chill produces Arctic ozone hole Genelle Weule ABC A prolonged cold spell in the northern hemisphere has caused the largest recorded drop in ozone over the Arctic, a new international study has found. While the area has seen severe depletion of ozone levels in the past, this is the first time it has occurred at such a magnitude to be considered an ozone hole, says study co-author Dr Michelle Santee from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Ozone depletion was about twice that in both 1996 and 2005 - and those were the previous record setting Arctic ozone loss years," says Santee. The findings, gathered from NASA satellite measurements of polar stratosphere cloud ...
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