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Nasa warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation
Post Date: 2010-06-17 11:46:15 by Ada
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Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”, Nasa has warned. National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years. Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. In a new warning, Nasa said the super ...
What's wrong with the sun?
Post Date: 2010-06-16 15:20:22 by Original_Intent
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SUNSPOTS come and go, but recently they have mostly gone. For centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surface emerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months. Thanks to their efforts, we know that sunspot numbers ebb and flow in cycles lasting about 11 years. But for the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise. "This is solar behaviour we haven't seen in living memory," says David Hathaway, a physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The sun is under ...
The Neanderthal in You
Post Date: 2010-06-16 12:25:40 by Turtle
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The idea has been kicking around for a number of years that modern humans may have picked up some valuable genes by mating with Neanderthals (kind of like Clan of the Cave Bear, that really odd series of romance novels set in caveman days that were huge bestsellers a generation ago). A new study supports that theory. John Hawks has the background. The idea is that if Neanderthals were off evolving by themselves in the frigid North for a few hundred thousand years, they likely would have developed some well-honed genes for dealing with the difficulties of life outside the tropics. The fastest way for modern humans migrating out of the tropics to acquire traits optimized for surviving ...
"There was no big bang!" Say Several Leading Cosmologists
Post Date: 2010-06-14 11:08:26 by abraxas
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"There was no big bang!" Say Several Leading Cosmologists "What banged?" Sean Carroll, CalTech -Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology & Physics Several of the worlds leading astrophysicists believe there was no Big Bang that brought the universe and time into existence. Before the Big Bang, the standard theory assumes, there was no space, just nothing. Einstein merged the universe into a single entity: not space, not time, but spacetime. Proponents of branes propose that we are trapped in a thin membrane of space-time embedded in a much larger cosmos from which neither light nor energy -except gravity- can escape or enter and that that "dark matter" ...
Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment
Post Date: 2010-06-13 06:49:38 by Ada
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It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control. What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell The Public About The Gulf What you are about to read, is what the scientists in the United States are not allowed to tell you in great fear of the Obama administration. They are under the threat of severe repercussions to the max.. Scientists confirming these findings cannot be named due to the above, but what they believe, they want to be known by all. Take a U. S. map, lay it flat and measure inland just the minimum 50 miles of total destruction all around ...
Kevin Costner could have cleaned up Exxon Valdez spill in one week
Post Date: 2010-06-11 22:08:32 by Mind_Virus
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June 9, 2010, 5:17 pm Kevin Costner Does a Star Turn on the Hill By YEGANEH JUNE TORBATI Kevin Costner prepared to testify at the House Science and Technology Energy and Environment Subcommittee on the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in Washington. Tucked at the end of a witness list otherwise filled with doctors, engineers, scientists, and disaster-response specialists testifying before a House committee today about the Gulf oil spill, one name stood out: Kevin Costner. The movie star came to Washington, not, as he put it, because he “heard a voice in a cornfield,” referring to the 1989 film “Field of Dreams,” in which he starred. Rather he was there ...
Global Warming Science: A Cross Examination
Post Date: 2010-06-11 00:10:57 by Original_Intent
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Global Warming Science: A Cross Examination Monday, 07 June 2010 08:18 Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post E-mail Print PDF A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fails to stand up to scrutiny. The cross-examination, carried out by Jason Scott Johnston, Professor and Director of the Program on Law, Environment and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, found that “on virtually every major issue in climate change science, the [reports of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] and other ...
Making microbes produce biofuels
Post Date: 2010-06-10 07:29:16 by Tatarewicz
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The footage of oil that continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico is a stark reminder that the United States' reliance on liquid fuel has consequences. A substantial portion of this fuel powers vehicles: In 2008, 97 percent of energy consumed for transportation in the U.S. was supplied by liquid fuel—much of which was made from oil imported from foreign countries. Photosynthetic plant and algae-derived biofuels are additional sources of fuel (think ethanol and biodiesel) but today's technologies are less than 1 percent efficient at converting sunlight into energy we can use. Organisms use several other ways besides photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into energy, but so ...
Snakes declining at alarming rate, say scientists (first bees, then bats, now snakes)
Post Date: 2010-06-09 16:07:10 by abraxas
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Snakes declining at alarming rate, say scientists Study suspects sharp reduction in snake numbers in a variety of habitats in five countries is caused by habitat loss and prey. The widespread disappearance of snakes will be one impact of climate change that some people may find it hard to regret. But as vital predators in sensitive habitats such as rice fields, their decline will have wider ecological consequence, say scientists. The first major study of the problem, published today, will also be seen as another powerful sign of the worldwide destruction of the natural world, which is causing growing concern about the loss of vital services from rainfall to medicines. Scientists in ...
Half Past Human March 2010 Predictions Of Oil Disaster By Clif High 6-3-10
Post Date: 2010-06-05 15:20:52 by christine
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In light of the enormous environmental BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf Of Mexico, I've been going through the 'Shape of Things to Come' ALTA (Asymmetric Linguistic Trend Analysis) Report, published March 12, 2010 by the amazing Clif High...the wizard behind the Half Past Human research. The following are some remarkable and haunting excerpts from Clif's ALTA Report Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved by Clif High of www.halfpasthuman.com ... "The oceans are described as being not as before." "Disastrous summerproblems with oceanic convection currents." "the supporting aspect/attributes sets for the oceans being unlike their former selves." ...
Ice People and Sun People
Post Date: 2010-06-04 13:05:19 by Turtle
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Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries once declared that whites were “ice people” and blacks were “sun people.” Prof. Jeffries is not a man whose opinions I normally endorse: he is notorious for his hateful rants against the white race. His hatred goes so far that he has even exhorted blacks not to consume foods that are white in color! But his names for the two races are quite apt: it is true that whites evolved in a colder climate than blacks, and this is the reason for the differences between the two races. As for what those differences are, here again I disagree with Prof. Jeffries. Whereas he thinks that whites’ Ice Age past made them violent and cruel, the ...
Aggressive maneuvers for autonomous quadrotor flight.
Post Date: 2010-06-02 18:07:03 by wudidiz
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CAggressive maneuvers for autonomous quadrotor flight.
Poster Comment:They could make ones that carry people.
The Race to Zero Point Free Energy ( Documentary ZPE )
Post Date: 2010-06-02 14:52:40 by gengis gandhi
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Damage that Could Last for Decades
Post Date: 2010-06-02 13:28:08 by christine
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President Obama finally took ownership of the oil gusher in the Gulf yesterday. A National Commission on the BP oil spill has been formed by the White House and will be headed by former Senator Bob Graham of Florida and former EPA Administrator Bill Reilly. In prepared remarks, the President said the ongoing calamity off the coast of Louisiana, “. . .is now the greatest environmental disaster of its kind in our history. Their job, along with the other members of the commission, will be to thoroughly examine the spill and its causes, so that we never face such a catastrophe again.” (Click here for the complete remarks from the President.) There is no telling when the mile deep ...
Do you think Barry and his Kenyans could do this?
Post Date: 2010-06-01 13:01:05 by Itistoolate
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www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=RobaJKGMMiE
Oil Spill History
Post Date: 2010-05-31 20:02:22 by wudidiz
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Oil Spill History
3D View of a German Submarine
Post Date: 2010-05-30 18:06:19 by Itistoolate
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www.nonplused.org/panos/uss_pampanito/html/01.html scroll left right up down
Oil Spills at Sea: A World Crisis
Post Date: 2010-05-29 19:05:56 by christine
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The recent oil spills in the San Francisco Bay and in South Korea draw attention to the already exhausted problem of ocean pollution. Oil has a particularly damaging effect on marine life in the affected areas. A vast number of marine birds, fishes, and mammals, already facing dwindling numbers due to over fishing and preditation are now being killed by the damaging after affects of oil in their ocean habitat. Part of the reason why oil spills are so detrimental to the ocean environment is due to the fact that "most of the components of oil are insoluble in water and float on the surface" (Castro & Huber, 2007, p. 408). The floating oil slicks appear as a glistening rainbow on ...
Questions raised about 'Ardi' as man's ancestor
Post Date: 2010-05-29 02:07:05 by farmfriend
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Questions raised about 'Ardi' as man's ancestor By MALCOLM RITTER, AP NEW YORK — Last fall, a fossil skeleton named "Ardi" shook up the field of human evolution. Now, some scientists are raising doubts about what exactly the creature from Ethiopia was and what kind of landscape it inhabited. New critiques question whether Ardi really belongs on the human branch of the evolutionary tree, and whether it really lived in woodlands. That second question has implications for theories about what kind of environment spurred early human evolution. The new work is being published by the journal Science, which last year declared the original presentation of the 4.4 ...
Silver, Gold Makes for Cheap, Flexible Touch Screens
Post Date: 2010-05-24 23:15:56 by DeaconBenjamin
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* Cheap, flexible, silver and gold touch screens could be "immediately" available for consumer electronic devices. * Since it is made on thin plastic, the screen would also be more durable than its glass counterparts. * The screens can be produced with the same machinery that prints newspapers. Cheap, flexible touch screens made with silver and gold nanowires could soon be rolling off the presses and into cell phones, computers and more. The same technology could even be used in solar panels. Writing in the journal ACS Nano, scientists from Stanford University say the new technology could be "immediately" used in consumer electronics. "It's a roll-to-roll ...
Guest Post: Cap and Trade Is a Gigantic Scam
Post Date: 2010-05-23 17:56:05 by DeaconBenjamin
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As I pointed out in December: James Hansen – the world’s leading climate scientist fighting against global warming – told Amy Goodman this morning that cap and trade not only won’t reduce emissions, it may actually increase them: The problem is that the emissions just go someplace else. That’s what happened after Kyoto, and that’s what would happen again, if—as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, they will be burned someplace. You know, the Europeans thought they actually reduced their emissions after Kyoto, but what happened was the products that had been made in their countries began to be made in other countries, which were burning the ...
Venter scientists create synthetic bacteria
Post Date: 2010-05-22 03:11:08 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists Create Synthetic Organism Wall Street Journal 2010-05-21 Heralding a potential new era in biology, scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, researchers at the private J. Craig Venter Institute announced Thursday. "We call it the first synthetic cell," said genomics pioneer Craig Venter, who oversaw the project. "These are very much real cells." Created at a cost of $40 million, this experimental one-cell organism, which can reproduce, opens the way to the manipulation of life on a previously unattainable scale, several researchers and ethics experts said. Scientists have been ...
Astronomers Do a Double Take: A "Truly Empty" Black Hole
Post Date: 2010-05-21 18:36:39 by Prefrontal Vortex
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May 12, 2010 6:29 PM Astronomers Do a Double Take: A "Truly Empty" Black Hole An orbiting space telescope, sent into the heavens one year ago by the European Space Agency, has found a dark spot near some young stars that astronomers believe is a hole in space. When the first pictures of a nebula that goes by the name of NGC 1999 were released in late 1999, astronomers reviewing the findings initially thought they were looking at images of a dense and dark patch of gas and dust that prevented visible light from passing through. But using the Herschel Space Observatory infrared space telescope" they have now concluded that the area was black because it was "truly ...
Lake sturgeon found to harbor parasite that causes STD in humans
Post Date: 2010-05-21 18:32:44 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Lake sturgeon found to harbor parasite that causes STD in humans BY Rosemary Black DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, May 12th 2010, 12:58 PM Researchers at Purdue University have discovered that the lake sturgeon genome contains genes that could harbor a protozoan parasite which causes STDs in humans. The genes were found almost by accident, when the scientists were trying to come up with a DNA-based test that would determine the sex of the sturgeon. At present, the only way to figure this out it to look at its internal sexual organs. While they were analyzing DNA from the sturgeon’s gonads, they found the trematode genes that did not originally belong to the sturgeon genome. ...
Attack of the Cyborg Insects
Post Date: 2010-05-21 06:26:13 by Ada
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The dangers of science in the service of the state In the course of promoting a conference on "Warring Futures: How Biotech and Robotics Are Transforming Today’s Military—and How That Will Change the Rest of Us," a May 24 conference in Washington, D.C.,co-sponsored by Slate, Arizona State University, and the New America Foundation (i.e. George Soros), ASU’s Brad Allenby averred: "Telepathic helmets. Grid-computing swarms of cyborg insects, some for surveillance, some with lethal stingers. New cognitive-enhancement drugs. (What? Adderall and Provigil aren’t good enough for you?) Lethal autonomous robots. Brain-chip-to-weapon platform control systems on a ...
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