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The 10 most amazing unexplained artifacts
Post Date: 2010-10-04 04:32:46 by wudidiz
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Every once in a while archaeologists (and sometimes regular Joes) make some remarkable discoveries. Stunned, they are often unable to explain what it is they’ve found, how it came into existence, or ascertain its value. This is a comprehensive list of such artifacts; artifacts that many believe should have never existed given the discerned age/period of their creation. The London hammer – a tool older than history In June 1936 (or 1934 according to some accounts), Max Hahn and his wife Emma were on a walk when they noticed a rock with wood protruding from its core. They decided to take the oddity home and later cracked it open with a hammer and a chisel. Ironically, what they ...
Arctic transformed at hands of climate change
Post Date: 2010-10-03 11:23:07 by buckeroo
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On 19 May 1845, Sir John Franklin set sail from the Thames River, England searching for the famed, long sought Northwest Passage: a northern sea route across the Canadian Arctic from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This passage had been a quest by explorers for centuries as a shorter route to the orient. There were 129 men in his two ships, the Erebus and the Terror. In addition to the necessary provisions for up to a three year voyage, the ships carried all of the silverware, china and crystal that the officers of the Royal Navy were accustomed to. They were last glimpsed by some whalers near Greenland on June 25, 1845, and then they disappeared. Captain Franklin was an experienced Arctic ...
Chainlessbicycle
Post Date: 2010-10-03 04:11:45 by Tatarewicz
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ntroducing Stringbike: the bike with no chain (w/ Video) September 22, 2010 by Lin Edwards Introducing Stringbike: the bike with no chain (w/ Video) Enlarge (PhysOrg.com) -- Hungarian bicycle designers have unveiled their new Stringbike in Padova, Italy. The design replaces the traditional chain with a symmetrical rope and pulley system, which they say is more efficient, makes for a more comfortable ride, and provides improved maneuverability around winding streets. The new system is more complex than a chain and gears and consists of a rope and pulley on each side of the bike. The rotation of the pedals forces arms at each side to swing forward and backward on its shaft. When moving ...
[The new "Al Gore":] Bin Laden addresses climate change
Post Date: 2010-10-02 13:18:02 by buckeroo
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Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaeda network, has expressed concern about global climate change and the recent flooding in Pakistan, in an audiotape posted on the internet, which would be his first public remarks in six months, a monitoring group has said. "The number of victims caused by climate change is very big... bigger than the victims of wars," said the voice, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified and was made available by SITE Intelligence Group, which released the recording on Friday. The tape would be the first time Bin Laden has spoken publicly since March 25. It was not clear when the tape was made, but Bin Laden congratulated Muslims on the ...
Green Activists Blow Up Children
Post Date: 2010-10-01 21:48:35 by Armadillo
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Poster Comment:More Climate Change Propaganda. The Global Warming crowd and other leftests would love to be able to do that. Killing opposition is so much easier than honest debate.
Why Are Climategate Charlatans Still Free?
Post Date: 2010-10-01 06:27:41 by Ada
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If I had engaged in activities that involved fleecing the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom of billions in public funds in the name of “climate research”, and it was found that I had manipulated the data to advance the “global warming” hoax, wouldn’t I be facing charges of fraud? Or if the universities for which I worked had benefited from receiving those public funds had conducted hearings that exonerated me, wouldn’t those institutions be considered accessories to the alleged crime? This is the case today for the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England and Pennsylvania State University in America. If the CRU ...
Knot in the ribbon at the edge of the solar system 'unties'
Post Date: 2010-09-30 14:35:21 by gengis gandhi
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Knot in the ribbon at the edge of the solar system 'unties' September 30, 2010 The unusual "knot" in the bright, narrow ribbon of neutral atoms emanating in from the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space appears to have "untied," according to a paper published online in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Ads by Google Barracuda Spam Firewall - 50,000 customers worldwide. No Per User Fees. Free Eval! - www.barracudanetworks.com Researchers believe the ribbon, first revealed in maps produced by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, forms in response to interactions between interstellar space and the heliosphere, the ...
Cool Pronunciation Site
Post Date: 2010-09-29 16:23:45 by Lod
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Check the URL. Just heard on Katherine Albrecht's gcnlive show.
UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens
Post Date: 2010-09-26 09:06:57 by gengis gandhi
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UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens From: NewsCore September 26, 2010 10:19AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth’s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting. Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN's little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire. She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more ...
Doug Casey: Exception Among Equities
Post Date: 2010-09-24 06:54:14 by Ada
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As the world sinks deeper into what he calls the Greater Depression, Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey sees default on the U.S. national debt as inevitable – albeit probably in the guise of currency destruction. He anticipates further contraction in real estate, particularly on the commercial front. As long as stocks remain overpriced, he'll shy away from equities – except perhaps in favored sectors, such as gold. In fact, in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Doug posits that gold juniors might "go up by an order of magnitude or more, even while most other stocks are going down." The Gold Report: Doug, at a recent conference you said that the U.S. ...
I'd love to baptise ET, says Vatican's stargazer
Post Date: 2010-09-19 11:09:24 by gengis gandhi
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I'd love to baptise ET, says Vatican's stargazer By DAVID DERBYSHIRE Last updated at 9:16 PM on 17th September 2010 Comments (104) Add to My Stories The Pope's Astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, says that intelligent life elsewhere is probable, but believes that we are unlikely ever to encounter it Intelligent aliens may be living among the stars and are likely to have souls, a senior Vatican scientist said yesterday. The Pope's astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, said he would be happy to 'baptise an al ien' - but admitted that the chances of communicating with life outside the Earth were low. Speaking at the British Science Festival in Birmingham, Dr Consolmagno also ...
Storing wind and solar energy in gravel silos
Post Date: 2010-09-17 05:15:22 by Tatarewicz
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www.guardian.co.uk/enviro...-renewable-energy-storage Giant gravel batteries could make renewable energy more reliable Wind and solar power are often criticised for being too intermittent, but Cambridge researchers could change that offshore wind power An offshore windfarm near Prestatyn, north Wales. Photograph: Christopher Thomond Newly designed giant gravel batteries could be the solution to the on-off nature of wind turbines and solar panels. By storing energy when the wind stops blowing or the sun stops shining, it is hoped the new technology will boost to renewable energy and blunt a persistent criticism of the technology - that the power from it is intermittent. Electricity ...
Why You Can't Trust Robots
Post Date: 2010-09-14 06:30:20 by Ada
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A robot capable of deceit has been developed by American military researchers. A new program enables a robot to detect whether another robot is susceptible to lies, and to use its gullibility against it by telling lies, researchers claim. The robot could be capable of deceiving humans in a similar way, according to the scientists, based at the Georgia Institute of Technology. * People are suspicious of foreigners because they do not trust their accents, research claims The breakthrough could lead to military advances through the development of robots which can disarm bombs and carry wounded servicemen from danger. Its understanding of the concept of deception would enable the robot ...
Hemp homes are cutting edge of green building [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-13 20:32:27 by Ferret
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In Asheville, N.C., Anthony Brenner holds a handful of industrial hemp shiv, left, and a block of the finished hardened product after the shiv is mixed with hydraulic lime. He designed a home with thick hemp walls that was completed this summer and is currently working on another one that will use hemp on interior walls. Hemp is turning a new leaf. The plant fiber, used to make the sails that took Christopher Columbus' ships to the New World, is now a building material. The hemp home was built for $133 per square foot, not including land and excavation costs, at the top of a mountain. In Asheville, N.C., a home built with thick hemp walls was completed this summer and two more are ...
Lloyd Pye: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Human Origins)
Post Date: 2010-09-12 12:32:56 by gengis gandhi
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Lloyd Pye: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Human Origins) [nYx64] from nYx on Veehd.
NJ Tea Party Activists Target Cap and Trade Climate Program
Post Date: 2010-09-09 20:50:10 by Dakmar
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Hundreds of self-described Tea Party activists took to the streets of Lower Manhattan Wednesday, and they weren't protesting the planned mosque and cultural center near Ground Zero. These activists are opposed to northeastern states' efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Nancy Cagliostro came into Manhattan from her home in Holmdel, New Jersey in a bus rented by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity. Cagliostro believes there's an alliance between environmentalists and Wall Street to make bankers rich through a secretive auction to limit carbon dioxide emissions. "It's the Goldman Sachses and the Morgan Stanleys all ...
Development of Tiny Thorium Reactors Could Wean the World Off Oil In Just Five Years
Post Date: 2010-09-01 07:03:27 by Ada
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Thorium One ton of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 tons of uranium and 3.5 million tons of coal, according to the former director of CERN. via Telegraph An abundant metal with vast energy potential could quickly wean the world off oil, if only Western political leaders would muster the will to do it, a UK newspaper says today. The Telegraph makes the case for thorium reactors as the key to a fossil-fuel-free world within five years, and puts the ball firmly in President Barack Obama's court. Thorium, named for the Norse god of thunder, is much more abundant than uranium and has 200 times that metal's energy potential. Thorium is also a more efficient fuel source -- ...
F-35B - Taking STOVL to a New Level
Post Date: 2010-08-31 23:51:13 by X-15
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Poster Comment:Bringing short take off and vertical landing to a whole new level. The F-35B Joint Strike Fighter has advanced the technology of Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL). The F-35 true 5th Generation from every angle.
Why our agricultural empire will fall
Post Date: 2010-08-30 23:11:46 by DeaconBenjamin
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An expert tells us how our food system is repeating the history of doomed civilizations In an age of super-sized meals and obesity epidemics, food-shortage doomsday scenarios always seem a little surreal. Backed by half a century of agricultural abundance, it's easy to imagine that cheap food will permanently abound. But in a new book, "Empires of Food," academic Evan Fraser and journalist Andrew Rimas show us that we are not the first advanced civilization to have a hubristic, misplaced confidence that we'll always be fed. By tracing the rise and fall of a number of preindustrial empires, the authors show us just how much trouble we're in. The Romans, the ...
Research undermines human-chimp similarity.
Post Date: 2010-08-29 00:39:54 by Armadillo
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New Chromosome Research Undermines Human-Chimp Similarity Claims.by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D., & Brian Thomas, M.S. A recent high-profile article in the journal Nature released the results of a study with implications that shocked the scientific community because they contradict long-held claims of human-chimp DNA similarity.A previous Acts & Facts article showed that much of the research surrounding the often touted claims of 98 percent (or higher) DNA similarity between chimps and humans has been based on flawed and biased research.The problem is that the similarity has been uncertain because no one has performed an unbiased and comprehensive DNA similarity study until now. And the ...
'Minority Report' moves from reel into real life
Post Date: 2010-08-28 13:09:00 by X-15
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LONDON: In a chilling scenario that reminds you of Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller "Minority Report", law enforcers in the US will be relying on a software to predict who will commit crimes. The software may even be able to tell where, when and how the crime will be committed, just as it happened in the 2002 movie. The programme collates a range of variables then uses an algorithm to work out who is most certain to commit an offence, reports the Daily Mail. The software is likely to spark an outcry from civil rights groups over its unmistakable resemblance to the "Minority Report". In the movie, Tom Cruise heads a 'Precrime' unit which uses genetically ...
A Two-Tier Internet?
Post Date: 2010-08-27 16:08:50 by Eric Stratton
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A Two-Tier Internet? The Internet as you know it is in serious, serious danger. Some of the most powerful communications companies in the world have been involved in negotiations and have been making agreements that would throw net neutrality out the window and would move us toward a two-tier Internet. So exactly what would that mean? It would mean that the big corporate giants that have a virtual monopoly on other forms of media and entertainment would be able to buy access to the blazing fast "next generation" Internet that communications companies are developing and the rest of us (like this site for example) would be stuck on the decaying "gravel roads" of the old ...
Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with 'force of 100m bombs'
Post Date: 2010-08-27 15:31:40 by Ada
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Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs. Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid. Despite its rebuttal, NASA's been watching out for this storm since 2006 and reports from the US this week claim the storms could hit on that most Hollywood of disaster dates - 2012. Similar storms back in 1859 and ...
Electricity collected from the air could become the newest alternative energy source
Post Date: 2010-08-26 17:52:37 by gengis gandhi
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Electricity collected from the air could become the newest alternative energy source August 25, 2010 Electricity collected from the air could become the newest alternative energy source Powering homes with electricity collected from the air may be possible after scientists report solving a centuries old riddle about how moisture in the atmosphere becomes electrically charged. Credit: Martin Fischer Imagine devices that capture electricity from the air 53; much like solar cells capture sunlight 53; and using them to light a house or recharge an electric car. Imagine using similar panels on the rooftops of buildings to prevent lightning before it forms. Strange as it may sound, ...
Metabolic management of glioblastoma multiforme using standard therapy together with a restricted ketogenic diet: Case Report
Post Date: 2010-08-25 14:32:10 by gengis gandhi
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Metabolic management of glioblastoma multiforme using standard therapy together with a restricted ketogenic diet: Case Report Giulio Zuccoli1,5 , Norina Marcello2 , Anna Pisanello2 , Franco Servadei3 , Salvatore Vaccaro4 , Purna Mukherjee6 and Thomas N Seyfried6 1 Radiology Department, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio E. 42100, Italy 2 Neurology Department, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio E. 42100, Italy 3 Neurosurgery Department, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio E. 42100, Italy 4 Nutrition Department, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio E. 42100, Italy 5 Current address: Radiology Department University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, ...
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