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Purer water from “super sand”
Post Date: 2011-07-03 06:37:41 by Tatarewicz
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A low-cost coating applied to sand could provide a source of wide-scale water purification to people in developing countries, saving millions of lives every year. Sand, an abundant natural resource, has been used to clean polluted water for six millennia. Filtration using sand in its natural form is endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), as a water purification process. Now, a team led by Dr Mainak Majumder from the Monash Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, together with researchers from Rice University in Houston, have significantly enhanced the natural filtering properties of sand by coating it with a nanomaterial called graphite oxide (GO). The researchers ...
Stuxnext (HUNGRY BEAST)
Post Date: 2011-07-02 11:30:04 by Amandil
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Here's from another article by Gilad Atzmon: Stuxnet found in Japan in October 4. ... Stuxnet was in Japan last October, presumably still spreading and intended to wreck nuclear power plants. 5. Stuxnet targets the Siemens controller 6. Fukushima uses the Seimens controllers Stuxnet was designed interfere with! So now the difficulty the Fukushima nuclear plant operators faced in recovering control over their runaway reactors takes on a darker significance. Remember that the first problem following the quake was that the automated shutdown systems failed to operate at some of the reactors, because pumps failed and valves would not open even while running on batteries; the very ...
Mathematicians Want to Say Goodbye to Pi
Post Date: 2011-07-02 03:10:47 by Tatarewicz
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"I know it will be called blasphemy by some, but I believe that pi is wrong." That's the opening line of a watershed essay written in 2001 by mathematician Bob Palais of the University of Utah. In "Pi is Wrong!" Palais argued that, for thousands of years, humans have been focusing their attention and adulation on the wrong mathematical constant. Two times pi, not pi itself, is the truly sacred number of the circle, Palais contended. We should be celebrating and symbolizing the value that is equal to approximately 6.28 — the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius — and not to the 3.14'ish ratio of its circumference to its diameter (a ...
Government sues Apollo 14 astronaut over lunar camera (Dr. Edgar Mitchell)
Post Date: 2011-07-01 19:40:23 by wudidiz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government has sued a former NASA astronaut to recover a camera used to explore the moon's surface during the 1971 Apollo 14 mission after seeing it slated for sale in a New York auction. The lawsuit, filed in Miami federal court on Wednesday, accuses Edgar Mitchell of illegally possessing the camera and attempting to sell it for profit. In March, NASA learned that the British auction house Bonhams was planning to sell the camera at an upcoming Space History Sale, according to the suit. The item was labeled "Movie Camera from the Lunar Surface" and billed as one of two cameras from the Apollo 14's lunar module Antares. The lot description ...
Rain? Blame it on the Plane
Post Date: 2011-07-01 13:06:37 by Ada
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Aircraft may produce holes in clouds and cause an unusual phenomenon that results in increased rain or snowfall in the area immediately around the world's major airports, a new study suggests. Flying aircraft may punch holes in clouds and cause an increase in precipitation according to a new study. Kelsey Hubbard gets the details from WSJ's Gautam Naik. A flying plane "can freeze the water drops in a cloud and produce a ribbon of ice crystals" behind it, said Andrew Heymsfield, lead author of the paper, to be published in the journal Science on Friday, and a cloud physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. The icy ribbon may then expand ...
Invisibility carpet cloak can hide objects from visible light
Post Date: 2011-07-01 09:11:45 by gengis gandhi
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Invisibility carpet cloak can hide objects from visible light June 15, 2011 by Lisa Zyga articlecomments (22)text-to-speech share Enlarge When an input beam (black arrow) reflects off (a) a bump without a cloak, the bump causes a perturbation. When the beam reflects off (b) a bump covered by a cloak, the cloak masks the bump, and the reflected beam is reconstructed as if the bump did not exist. (c) Light after reflection from a flat mirror, a bump without a cloak, and a cloaked bump, at three different wavelengths. Image credit: Majid Gharghi, et al. ©2011 American Chemical Society (PhysOrg.com) -- Most of the invisibility cloaks that have been demonstrated to date conceal objects at ...
Strongest evidence yet indicates Enceladus hiding saltwater ocean
Post Date: 2011-07-01 08:15:51 by gengis gandhi
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Strongest evidence yet indicates Enceladus hiding saltwater ocean June 22, 2011 articlecomments (29)text-to-speech share Enlarge This image shows icy spray spewing from Saturn's moon, Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute (PhysOrg.com) -- Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, says a new international study led by the University of Heidelberg and involving the University of Colorado Boulder. Ads by Google Looking for a GM Vehicle? - Come See What Chevy Vehicles Have to Offer. Learn More Here. - ...
Asteroid hit will be catastrophic for India, US, China
Post Date: 2011-07-01 03:18:52 by Tatarewicz
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London : If an asteroid hits India, US or China, these countries will suffer a catastrophic loss of lives and be crippled beyond the possibility of any recovery, scientists have said. Countries that will be worst affected in the event of a strike also include Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Italy, Britain, Brazil and Nigeria, according to the Daily Mail. Even smaller countries like Sweden are in grave danger because of damage to their infrastructure. The list has been compiled by researchers from the University of Southampton using NEOimpactor, a software short for NASA's "NEO" or Near Earth Object programme. Looking at population loss, the US, China, Indonesia, India ...
The list of ethanol-free gas stations in the U.S. and Canada
Post Date: 2011-06-30 18:18:29 by X-15
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Welcome to the definitive list of stations that sell ethanol-free gasoline in the U.S. and Canada! It's growing fast! The POI file is fixed! It should load into your Garmin without error. If you buy ethanol-free gas, and your station isn't listed here, please add it now! (State-by-state labeling requirements are listed at fuel-testers.com.) Please remove stations that no longer sell pure gas, even if you didn't post them! Update or remove a station by clicking details->update this station on the station's listing. Users maintain this database themselves. Don't post a comment — add or remove the station yourself. Thanks! We currently have 3484 stations entered ...
Nature's Mind: the Quantum Hologram Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D.
Post Date: 2011-06-30 04:30:08 by wudidiz
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Nature's Mind: the Quantum Hologram Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D. Institute of Noetic Sciences, PO Box 540037, Lake Worth, FL, 33454 Fax: 1-561-641-5242, e-mail edgarmitchell@msn.com Abstract This paper presents a hypothesis for integrating into the scientific framework phenomena of consciousness which frequently have been considered beyond scientific description. Intuition, telepathy, clairvoyance and many similar information phenomena seem to be easily explained by means of the nonlocal quantum hologram. It is further postulated that from the point of view of evolution, quantum nonlocality is the basis from which self-organizing cosmological processes have produced ...
Regulators aware for years of understated seismic risks to nuclear plants
Post Date: 2011-06-29 22:01:23 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Regulators aware for years of understated seismic risks to nuclear plants Nearly six years before an earthquake ravaged Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, U.S. regulators came to a sobering realization: seismic risks to nuclear plants in the eastern two-thirds of the country were greater than had been suspected, and engineers might have to rethink reactor designs. Thus began a little-noticed risk assessment process with far-reaching implications despite its innocuous-sounding name: Generic Issue 199. The process, which was supposed to have been finished nearly a year ago, is still under way. It is unclear when it will be completed.GI-199, as it is known, was triggered by ...
LoL - My Husband Directed The Fake Moon Landing Says Stanley Kubrick's Widow. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-06-29 14:00:48 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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My Husband Directed The Fake Moon Landing Says Stanley Kubrick's Widow. THE MOON LANDING HOAX…. “In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to ...
Neutrino Transformation Could Help Explain Mystery of Matter
Post Date: 2011-06-29 05:18:23 by Tatarewicz
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Two research teams have found new evidence of transformations in elusive elementary particles called neutrinos. The findings may finally help explain why the universe didn’t vanish shortly after its birth. “These results are just the beginning of the story for neutrinos,” said physicist Robert Plunkett of Fermilab in Chicago. “They could lead to clues … and tell us why there’s now far more matter than antimatter.” Most neutrinos are emitted by the sun, and are so small and ghostly that billions pass through our bodies every second. Most go right through Earth without hitting anything. But some human-built devices — slabs of iron and plastic, big ...
Corning sets up research center on Chinese mainland
Post Date: 2011-06-29 01:56:04 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, June 29(Xinhuanet) --Corning Inc started its first joint venture laboratory on the Chinese mainland on Tuesday in partnership with a well-known ceramics institute in Shanghai. "The joint research facility is aimed at exploring technologies to support the development of future Corning products that will address needs in China and worldwide," said Mark Newhouse, chief technology officer of Corning Asia. The opening of the new laboratory, which came only several months after Newhouse took his position early this year, is indicative of Corning's determination to possess more technology and business-development resources in Asia. The joint lab, a result of long-term ...
NEW CAR ENGINE SENDS SHOCK WAVES THROUGH AUTO INDUSTRY
Post Date: 2011-06-28 13:50:22 by gengis gandhi
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NEW CAR ENGINE SENDS SHOCK WAVES THROUGH AUTO INDUSTRY Analysis by Nic Halverson Wed Apr 6, 2011 10:10 AM ET (91) Comments | Leave a Comment Print Email facebook share 161 Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine. However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially ...
IMF - International Mafia Federation - Gerald Celente & Max Keiser - pt 1/2 - International Monetary Fund At A Glance
Post Date: 2011-06-28 06:52:00 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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They're either raping a person, or raping a country .. In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Gerald Celente from TrendsReaserch.com. He talks about how IMF does business. They go to desperate countries and lend them money and as for repayment they tell the host country to tax their people. Later they demand more money so they go after public properties and services (Bridges, Highways, Water Supply ...) of that country. In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Gerald Celente from TrendsReaserch.com. He talks about how IMF does business. They go to desperate countries and lend them money and as for repayment they tell the host country to tax their people. ...
Lytro camera allows focus correction after picture taken
Post Date: 2011-06-28 04:03:02 by Tatarewicz
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Have you ever taken a picture that would have been great if only it were in focus? Of course you have. So have we, countless times. But those days may soon be past all of us with the introduction of Lytro, an entirely new kind of camera that allows users to completely change the focus of a picture after the shutter clicks. And, according to AllThingsD, this next-generation camera will be available before the end of the year. The secret behind the Lytro camera is a new type of sensor that gathers much more information about the light coming into the camera than the sensors found on all other types of digital cameras. Rather than record a finite amount of information about the light in a ...
Human-Animal Hybrids, Human Cloning And Bizarre Genetically Engineered Life Forms - Is This The Dark Future That We Are Destined For?
Post Date: 2011-06-27 22:50:30 by CadetD
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Are we headed for a dark future where "Watchers technology" is fully unleashed? Will it be a future where "man-made life" and bizarre human-animal hybrid creatures are free to roam and breed and spread across the face of the earth? Such notions would have once been too bizarre for most science fiction novels, but genetic engineering technology has advanced to such a degree today that it is really hard to say what "life" will look like on earth in the coming decades. At this point there are very few restrictions remaining on fields such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, synthetic biology, cloning and genetic modification. All over the world, scientists are ...
It hertz when you do that – power grid to stop regulating 60 Hz frequency
Post Date: 2011-06-27 17:38:08 by farmfriend
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It hertz when you do that – power grid to stop regulating 60 Hz frequency Posted on June 25, 2011 by Anthony Watts “Experiment” on the US power grid will change the way some clocks and other equipment function. Story submitted by Joe Ryan The AP has released an “exclusive” story concerning the nationwide “experiment” that will be conducted on the US power grid. The experiment will relieve the power providers from the duty of regulating the frequency of power on the line. Normally the power stations condition their power to a frequency of 60 cycles a second, a frequency that many old clocks use to maintain their time. With the new standard, ...
Small genetic mutation, big problem
Post Date: 2011-06-27 05:37:46 by Tatarewicz
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Think of the human genome as a book: a chromosome represents a chapter, a gene a sentence, a nucleotide a letter. It’s difficult to fathom that one small typo - a T replaced with an A, for instance - could obscure the meaning of an entire sentence. But this is precisely the cause of many genetic diseases. ANU PhD student Stephen Fairweather works on one such disease, Hartnup disorder, which is characterised by symptoms such as extreme sensitivity to sunlight, unsteady walking and mental disorder. These diverse symptoms are the result of a single letter change, or ‘mutation’, which prevents the body from absorbing the building blocks of proteins (amino acids) during ...
Cut Down On 'Carbs' To Reduce Body Fat, Study Authors Say
Post Date: 2011-06-26 12:10:42 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Cut Down On 'Carbs' To Reduce Body Fat, Study Authors Say A modest reduction in consumption of carbohydrate foods may promote loss of deep belly fat, even with little or no change in weight, a new study finds. Presentation of the study results will be Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. When paired with weight loss, consumption of a moderately reduced carbohydrate diet can help achieve a reduction of total body fat, according to principal author Barbara Gower, PhD, a professor of nutrition sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "These changes could help reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, stroke and coronary artery ...
Moving mirrors make light from nothing
Post Date: 2011-06-25 05:55:13 by Tatarewicz
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Researchers claim to have produced sought-after quantum effect. A team of physicists is claiming to have coaxed sparks from the vacuum of empty space1. If verified, the finding would be one of the most unusual experimental proofs of quantum mechanics in recent years and "a significant milestone", says John Pendry, a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the study. The researchers, based at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, will present their findings early next week at a workshop in Padua, Italy. They have already posted a paper on the popular pre-print server arXiv.org, but have declined to talk to reporters because ...
Japan supercomputer K beats rivals
Post Date: 2011-06-25 04:47:00 by Tatarewicz
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K – meaning 10 quadrillion – harnesses more power than the next five supercomputers combined After the indignity of seeing its economy overtaken by China's earlier this year, Japan has clawed back a little pride, beating its east Asian rival to produce the world's most powerful computer for the first time in seven years. The machine, nicknamed K – a play on the Japanese word kei, meaning 10 quadrillion, the number of operations per second it is designed to perform when it is completed next year – crushed the opposition when the latest rankings were announced at the International Supercomputing conference at Hamburg. It harnesses more power than the next five ...
DUMBING DOWN AMERICA - Press For Truth Presents: There's Something In The Water - SODIUM FLOURIDE
Post Date: 2011-06-24 09:35:41 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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The forced medication on the population through water fluoridation is a heated debate which is growing as more and more people learn about the dangers of Sodium Fluoride.For more information visit:http://www.fluoridealert.org/
NASA Scientist Accused of Using Celeb Status Among Environmental Groups to Enrich Himself
Post Date: 2011-06-23 01:26:41 by farmfriend
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NASA Scientist Accused of Using Celeb Status Among Environmental Groups to Enrich Himself By William Lajeunesse Published June 22, 2011 | FoxNews.com The NASA scientist who once claimed the Bush administration tried to "silence" his global warming claims is now accused of receiving more than $1.2 million from the very environmental organizations whose agenda he advocated. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C., a group claims NASA is withholding documents that show James Hansen failed to comply with ethics rules and financial disclosures regarding substantial compensation he earned outside his $180,000 taxpayer-paid position as director of the Goddard Institute for ...
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