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Physics & conscious thought Wed nite on C2C
Post Date: 2010-11-05 04:53:47 by Tatarewicz
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Author/engineer Mike Bara is Geo Noory's guest next Wednesday night. www.mikebara.com/
Great news: UN Agrees Moratorium on Geoengineering Experiments!!
Post Date: 2010-10-29 01:05:43 by wudidiz
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To everyone who has supported the HOME Campaign, uploaded their image to the photo petition, written to CBD delegates and spread the word – congratulations to you! This is a huge and important step forward in protecting our home planet from the threat of geoengineering experiments.See news release below from the ETC Group who are at the negotiations in Nagoya:News Release 29 October 2010www.etcgroup.org Geoengineering Moratorium at UN Ministerial in JapanRisky Climate Techno-fixes Blocked NAGOYA, Japan – In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will close its tenth biennial meeting with a de facto moratorium on ...
Water on the Moon: a Billion Gallons
Post Date: 2010-10-25 13:44:38 by gengis gandhi
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Water on the Moon: a Billion Gallons Scientists Say LCROSS Moon Mission Found Enough Ice in Crater to Fill 1,500 Olympic Pools 76 comments By NED POTTER Oct 21, 2010 PrintRSSFONT SIZE:SHARE:EmailTwitterFacebookMore Water on the moon? Scientists used to think it was as dry as, well, lunar dust. But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole. That's enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater. If there is ice there, it probably exists in other places on the moon as well. They ...
Universe is unfolding
Post Date: 2010-10-24 03:17:22 by Tatarewicz
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CERN Scientists Eye Parallel Universe Breakthrough GENEVA (Reuters) - Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope that next year they will turn up the first proofs of the existence of concepts long dear to science-fiction writers such as hidden worlds and extra dimensions. And as their Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva moves into high gear, they are talking increasingly of the "New Physics" on the horizon that could totally change current views of the universe and how it works. "Parallel universes, unknown forms... Full Story at LINK comments: View: First to Last According to M-theory there are 11 dimensions that make up the universe, ten actual ...
Boosting battery stocks
Post Date: 2010-10-23 23:30:38 by Tatarewicz
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Behind the Battery Stocks The Only Thing Hotter than China By Nick Hodge Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 CRTP!!!!!!! That's the instant message I got from publisher Brian Hicks last week, just as the stock went ballistic. The ticker is that of China Ritar Power (NASDAQ: CRTP), a Shenzhen-based maker of nano-gel and lead acid batteries. And if you know anything about the current energy market, you're aware of these truisms: 1. China is hot. 2. Batteries are hotter. You see, batteries are the linchpin of the energy revolution that's afoot. Wind needs batteries... Solar needs batteries... And, above all, hybrids and electric vehicles need batteries — lots of them. ...
Obesity related to exposure to light at night
Post Date: 2010-10-23 06:06:06 by Tatarewicz
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Persistent exposure to light at night may lead to weight gain, even without changing physical activity or eating more food, according to new research in mice. Researchers found that mice exposed to a relatively dim light at night over eight weeks had a body mass gain that was about 50 percent more than other mice that lived in a standard light-dark cycle. "Although there were no differences in activity levels or daily consumption of food, the mice that lived with light at night were getting fatter than the others," said Laura Fonken, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in neuroscience at Ohio State University. The study appears this week in the online early edition ...
Lunar Impact Uncovered More Than Just Moon Water
Post Date: 2010-10-22 06:41:54 by gengis gandhi
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pics at link Lunar Impact Uncovered More Than Just Moon Water Play Audio Download Audio Join Mailing List Oct. 21, 2010: Nearly a year after announcing the discovery of water molecules on the moon, scientists have revealed new data uncovered by NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO—and it's more than just water. An artist's concept of LCROSS approaching the moon in Oct. 2009. [more] The missions found evidence that lunar soil within shadowy craters is rich in useful materials. Moreover, the moon appears to be chemically active and has a full-fledged water cycle. Scientists also confirmed that 'moon ...
Blacks, whites and Asians have different ancestors – and did not come from Africa, claims scientist
Post Date: 2010-10-21 04:10:51 by X-15
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Geographer claims the races evolved from different ancestors. A public claim by a fellow of the prestigious Royal Geographic Society that humans did not all come from Africa — and that blacks, whites and Asians have different ancestors — has been dismissed by world experts as “dangerous”, “wrong” and “racist”. In a paper widely trumpeted and due for release in book form, Akhil Bakshi, the leader of a recent major scientific expedition supported by India’s prime minister, claims that “Negroid”, “Caucasian” and “Mongoloid” peoples are not only separate races but separate species, having evolved on different ...
Incoming Cosmic Rays Hit Record High
Post Date: 2010-10-20 09:07:12 by gengis gandhi
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Incoming Cosmic Rays Hit Record High By Lisa Grossman October 19, 2010 | 12:11 pm | Categories: Space The Earth was pummeled with record-setting levels of cosmic rays in 2009. Measurements from NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and other spacecraft found that more high-energy particles from galactic space penetrated the inner solar system in the last few years than at any other time since the beginning of the space age. The spike is almost certainly due to several weird aspects of the most recent solar minimum, and could be the start of a new normal for cosmic ray levels. “It’s sort of like everything’s working in the same direction right now, to allow ...
Hubble Deep Field: The Most Imp. Image Ever Taken (Redux)
Post Date: 2010-10-19 15:08:09 by christine
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Odds of Life on Newfound Earth-Size Planet '100 Percent,' Astronomer Says
Post Date: 2010-10-19 03:28:22 by farmfriend
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Odds of Life on Newfound Earth-Size Planet '100 Percent,' Astronomer Says By Jeanna Bryner This story was updated at 8:58 p.m. ET. An Earth-size planet has been spotted orbiting a nearby star at a distance that would makes it not too hot and not too cold comfortable enough for life to exist, researchers announced today (Sept. 29). If confirmed, the exoplanet, named Gliese 581g, would be the first Earth-like world found residing in a star's habitable zone a region where a planet's temperature could sustain liquid water on its surface. [ Illustration of planet Gliese 581g.] And the planet's discoverers are optimistic about the prospects for finding life there. ...
An Interesting Reference On Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
Post Date: 2010-10-18 02:36:23 by Original_Intent
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I ran into this tonight doing some general reading and research and I thought that it was such a useful and handy tool that there might be others on 4um who would find this fun, and possibly useful. What the site is, is a series of 3D maps of our stellar neighborhood and expanding outward as far as looking at local universal neighborhood out to a scale of 14 billion light years or the universe as we know it today. It is a lot of fun and easy to use. It also has a good cross indexed glossary for looking up all of the most common astronomic terms used on the website. Here is a sample: In December 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at a blank area of the sky in Ursa Major for ten ...
Author of World in 2050 on C2C Sat night
Post Date: 2010-10-16 04:34:42 by Tatarewicz
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Geographer Laurence Smith of UCLA, author of the World in 2050, sees a major northward shift in populations over the next four decades. www.geog.ucla.edu/people/...97&display_one=1&modify=1
First Manned Glide Flight for SpaceShipTwo on 10/10/10
Post Date: 2010-10-14 00:08:45 by X-15
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October 10, 2010 — VSS Enterprise, SpaceShipTwo, made its first manned free flight above the California high desert Sunday, October 10 (10/10/10), Virgin Galactic announced. The space ship, which had been on four previous captive-carry flights attached to the WhiteKnightTwo mothership, was released from 45,000 ft. altitude and for the ensuing 11 minutes glided safely to the Mojave Air and Spaceport. The flight crew, Scaled Composites pilot Pete Siebold and co-pilot Mike Alsbury, achieved the two main goals of the flight; to carry out a clean release of the spaceship from its mothership, and for the pilots to free fly and glide back and land at Mojave. Siebold commented, “The VSS ...
What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths
Post Date: 2010-10-12 11:43:39 by Original_Intent
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FORTUNE -- Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the world's honeybees. The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- in which disoriented honeybees die far from their hives -- has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately seeking the cause. After all, the honeybee, nature's ultimate utility player, pollinates a third of all the food we eat and contributes an estimated $15 billion in annual agriculture revenue to the U.S. economy. The long list of possible suspects has included pests, viruses, fungi, and also pesticides, particularly so-called neonicotinoids, a class of neurotoxins that kills insects by ...
All Dogs Descended from Wolves
Post Date: 2010-10-11 11:12:52 by Turtle
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The current consensus among biologists and archaeologists is that the dating of first domestication is indeterminate.[4][21] There is conclusive evidence that dogs genetically diverged from their wolf ancestors at least 15,000 years ago,[22][23][24] but some believe domestication to have occurred earlier.[4] It is not known whether humans domesticated the wolf as such to initiate dog's divergence from its ancestors, or whether dog's evolutionary path had already taken a different course prior to domestication. The latter view has gained proponents, such as biologists Raymond and Lorna Coppinger;[5] they theorize that some wolves gathered around the campsites of the paleolithical man ...
War for Artifacts?
Post Date: 2010-10-10 22:02:00 by Flintlock
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Poster Comment:Skip to about 2:14 Why would we loot the National Museum of Iraq? There was something there they didn't want us to see or know. It was another inside job. Praise Jeebus!
Upcoming shows on C2C
Post Date: 2010-10-10 01:45:49 by Tatarewicz
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Interesting discussion on CoastToCoastAm Tuesday night when Noory hosts Dr. Lee Bauman, author of Matter to Mind to Conscioussness. www.baumannbooks.com/
Graphene developers win Nobel Prize
Post Date: 2010-10-09 03:32:03 by Tatarewicz
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Alan Boyle writes:What's graphene, and why is its development worth a Nobel Prize? In just a few years you might be riding in it, tapping on it as you use your iPhone 9, or watching 3-D TV on a lightweight, big-screen panel made using graphene. But wait ... there's more: Sheets of graphene could also be tweaked to create electronic circuits that are mere molecules thick, or built into a new generation of body scanners for hospitals or airports. And it all basically started with a strip of Scotch tape. The researchers who shared the physics Nobel today, Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim of the University of Manchester, reported back in 2004 that they were able to demonstrate ...
Akamai Technologies employee accused of corporate espionage
Post Date: 2010-10-07 15:10:50 by TooConservative
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Akamai Technologies employee accused of corporate espionageGautham Nagesh - 10/07/10 12:33 PM ET An employee of Akamai Technologies was arrested by the FBI and charged Wednesday for, authorities allege, providing confidential business information to a person he believed was an agent of a foreign government.Elliot Doxer, 42, was charged with one count of wire fraud for allegedly sending an e-mail to a foreign consulate in Boston on June 22, 2006, stating he was willing to provide any confidential information he had access to in order to help that country. If convicted he could face a $250,000 fine and up to 20 years in prison.“I am a Jewish American who lives in Boston,’’ ...
The Secret to Anti-Gravity REVEALED!
Post Date: 2010-10-07 09:41:33 by Horse
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Poster Comment:The editor of Popular Mechanics told Art Bell more than a decade ago that any substance such as, glass or steel. smelted in the zero gravity of outer space had entirely new properties. He said specifically that glass would become as strong as steel. Perhaps this would be the secret to the creation of a room temperature super conductor which might reduce the number of problems needed to solve for anti-gravity.
Dimensions of the universe(s)
Post Date: 2010-10-06 05:34:06 by Tatarewicz
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Alan Boyle writes:British physicist Stephen Hawking may claim that extra dimensions provide the key to understanding the "grand design" of the universe, but it's Chinese-American mathematician Shing-Tung Yau who actually figured out how those extra dimensions work. In his new book, "The Shape of Inner Space," Yau and his co-author, Steve Nadis, touch upon the work that led to the discovery of theoretical "Calabi-Yau spaces" — and the cosmic implications of multidimensional geometry. The typical representation of a Calabi-Yau space looks like twisted web of a crumpled-up piece of paper. There's something elegant about its look ...
3-D TV without glasses
Post Date: 2010-10-05 05:26:19 by Tatarewicz
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(RTTNews) - Japanese electronic devices maker Toshiba Corp. (TOSBF.PK: News , TOSYY.PK) Monday announced the introduction of the world's first LCD TVs that offer comprehensive 3D capabilities without any need for dedicated glasses. The company offers the new glasses-less 3D REGZA GL1 series in two models, 20GL1 with a 20-inch panel and 12GL1 with a 12-inch panel. Both TVs, which are specifically designed for personal use, will be available in Japan from December-end. According to the company, current 3D TV is based on active shutter glasses that deliver separate images to the left and right eyes. In response to the market's need for TVs that deliver the 3D experience without ...
Oil-drilling worms (eat oil) and brittlestar cities: taking stock of life in the oceans
Post Date: 2010-10-04 14:53:38 by hondo68
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What lives in the sea? That question has been the singular focus of the Census of Marine Life, an ambitious 10-year survey, launched in 2000, that is reporting its findings at a Royal Society symposium in London today. Of course, the project hasn’t catalogued all the life in the world’s oceans, but census has vastly increased our knowledge of the ocean biodiversity and filled in many gaps, its scientists say. Highlights profiled in last week's Nature news feature on the project include a tubeworm that drills for oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, a 'brittlestar city' with tens of millions of the creatures living in close quarters atop a seamount south of New ...
Coming solar storm
Post Date: 2010-10-04 06:04:38 by Tatarewicz
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In 2013, the Sun will destroy all means of communication on Earth 30.09.2010 41811.jpegA frightening forecast was published recently by experts of Space Agency NASA. According to American astronomers, in 2013, after years of hibernation, the Sun will wake up, and Earth will be threatened with unfortunate consequences. Widespread outbreaks on the hot star can lead to a global failure of satellite communications. As a result, the planet is awaiting chaos. In his report, Defense Secretary Liam Fox noted that the perfect electromagnetic storm will lead to a technogenic disaster on Earth. He reinforced his words with the recent statistics which indicates that the surface temperature of hot ...
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