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Not your Fathers John Deere tractor...
Post Date: 2010-05-20 20:18:54 by X-15
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Scots Scientist Unravels Dan Brown Mystery -Reinforces theory we live in simulated world -
Post Date: 2010-05-15 08:41:58 by gengis gandhi
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Scots Scientist Unravels Dan Brown Mystery Reinforces theory we live in simulated world The secret astronomical meaning of the ‘Lost Symbol’, featured in Dan Brown’s novel of the same name, has been discovered by a scientist from Glasgow, Scotland. David Cumming’s discovery unveils a hidden storehouse of astronomical information that relates to what Einstein called, “the greatest coincidence in the universe.” The discovery sheds new light on the origin of our sun, earth, and moon and supports recent scientific speculation about the nature of our universe. The ‘Lost Symbol’ in Dan Brown’s novel – a point within a circle – ...
NASA working on Voyager 2 data problem
Post Date: 2010-05-14 04:52:03 by gengis gandhi
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NASA working on Voyager 2 data problem By JOHN ANTCZAK (AP) – May 6, 2010 LOS ANGELES — Engineers are working to solve a problem with science data transmissions from the Voyager 2 spacecraft near the edge of the solar system, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Thursday. The spacecraft late last month began sending science data 8.6 billion miles to Earth in a changed format that mission managers could not decode. Engineers have since instructed Voyager 2 to only transmit data on its own health and status while they work on the problem. That engineering data is in a different format and is fine, said Ed Stone, the Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of ...
vid: The Secret Nasa Transmissions, the smoking gun (martyn stubbs)
Post Date: 2010-05-13 20:13:47 by gengis gandhi
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Stubbs was an employee at a candian tv station, and was sort of a space nerd....he had access to the sat. dishes, and would download all the raw NASA space shuttle feeds, before they put em on delay years later, btw.... anyway, he would review all this data, and because he had a developed eye from video editing, kept picking up all this weird shit he couldn't explain. so he finally compiled it all and edited it down to this series, the 'smoking gun' series as it is now called. EBE Award Winner! Best Film International UFO Congress Film Festival. On March 11, 2000, in front of an assembled audience of UFO enthusiasts and the media, evidence was presented that would appear ...
Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft
Post Date: 2010-05-13 16:45:02 by gengis gandhi
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Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft From: The Daily Telegraph May 12, 2010 2:35PM 3 comments Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and its Centaur booster rocket are on course to crash into the moon in this artist's illustration released October 9, 2009. On final approach, the shepherding spacecraft and Centaur will separate. The Centaur will be the primary impactor and will create a debris plume that will rise about 6.2 miles (10 km) above the lunar surface. Following four minutes behind, the shepherding spacecraft will fly through the debris plume, collect and relay data back to Earth before ...
Is Gulf oil rig disaster far worse than we're being told?
Post Date: 2010-05-12 19:02:31 by christine
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(NaturalNews) Reports about the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill have been largely underestimated, according to commentators, including Paul Noel, a Software Engineer for the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. He believes that the pocket of oil that's been hit is so powerful and under so much pressure that it may be virtually impossible to contain it. And Noel is not the only person questioning the scope of this disaster. A recent story from the Christian Science Monitor (CSM) reports that many independent scientists believe the leak is spewing far more than the 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, per day being reported by most media sources. They believe the leak could be ...
The Moral Life of Babies
Post Date: 2010-05-08 17:24:06 by Ada
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Not long ago, a team of researchers watched a 1-year-old boy take justice into his own hands. The boy had just seen a puppet show in which one puppet played with a ball while interacting with two other puppets. The center puppet would slide the ball to the puppet on the right, who would pass it back. And the center puppet would slide the ball to the puppet on the left . . . who would run away with it. Then the two puppets on the ends were brought down from the stage and set before the toddler. Each was placed next to a pile of treats. At this point, the toddler was asked to take a treat away from one puppet. Like most children in this situation, the boy took it from the pile of the ...
Gulf oil spill: Latest satellite photo shows Louisiana landfall
Post Date: 2010-05-07 04:27:03 by wudidiz
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Gulf oil spill: Latest satellite photo shows Louisiana landfall May 6, 2010 | 2:40 pm The latest map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the slick has slipped past the Chandeleur Islands -- where landfall was confirmed -- to inner islands and is heading toward the shores of St. Bernard Parish.Lower swampy reaches of the Mississippi River also have confirmed presence of oil, and a blob of the oil plume appears to be drifting west of the river's mouth, toward Port Fourchon in Lafourche Parish. Grand Isle State Park is in the vicinity of that break-off patch of oil. The island is the most popular of the state's barrier islands and is a ...
College Cautions Educators About Sexual Orientation in Youth
Post Date: 2010-05-06 22:25:49 by X-15
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Physicians Caution Educators on Dealing with Sexual Orientation and Gender Confusion The American College of Pediatricians cautions educators about the management of students experiencing same-sex attraction or exhibiting symptoms of gender confusion. These concerns are outlined in a letter and fact sheet sent by College president Thomas Benton, MD, to all 14, 800 school district superintendents in the U.S. Dr. Benton also alerts them to a new Web resource, FactsAboutYouth.com, which was created by a coalition of health professionals to provide factual information to educators, parents, and students about sexual development. “As pediatricians, our primary interest is in the ...
NASA team cites new evidence that meteorites from Mars contain ancient fossils (Washington Post)
Post Date: 2010-05-06 16:57:37 by gengis gandhi
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NASA team cites new evidence that meteorites from Mars contain ancient fossils "Biomorphs" found on meteorites traced to Mars have been proposed as evidence that life has existed on the Red Planet. (Nasa Photos) Enlarge Photo Network News X PROFILE View More Activity TOOLBOX Resize Print E-mail Yahoo! Buzz Reprints COMMENT 21 Comments | View All » POST A COMMENT You must be logged in to leave a comment. Log in | Register Why Do I Have to Log In Again? Discussion Policy WHO'S BLOGGING » Links to this article By Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 4, 2010 LEAGUE CITY, TEX. -- NASA's Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old ...
Resurrected mammoth blood very cool
Post Date: 2010-05-06 12:15:59 by X-15
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A team of international researchers has brought the primary component of mammoth blood back to life using ancient DNA preserved in bones from Siberian specimens 25,000 to 43,000 years old. Studies of recreated mammoth haemoglobin, published today (Monday 3 May) in Nature Genetics, reveal special evolutionary adaptations that allowed the mammoth to cool its extremities down in harsh Arctic conditions to minimise heat loss. "It has been remarkable to bring a complex protein from an extinct species, such as the mammoth, back to life," says Professor Alan Cooper, Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide, where the mammoth haemoglobin ...
Hurricane Could Push Spilled Gulf Oil Into New Orleans
Post Date: 2010-05-05 15:40:41 by tom007
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Hurricane Could Push Spilled Gulf Oil Into New Orleans Main Content A satellite image of Hurricane Ivan. Powerful Hurricane Ivan makes landfall along the U.S Gulf Coast in 2004. Image courtesy NOAA Christine Dell'Amore in Slidell and St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana National Geographic News Published May 5, 2010 Inside the National Weather Service office in Slidell, Louisiana (map), data screens are showing clear skies over the Gulf of Mexico. But lead forecaster Robert Ricks, who's coordinating 12-hour emergency shifts to provide information to people combating the Gulf oil spill, knows not to drop his guard. "Just when you think everything's fine—that's ...
Ripping Blue Book a new one (“UFOs and Nukes.”)
Post Date: 2010-05-02 18:55:10 by gengis gandhi
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Ripping Blue Book a new one by Billy Cox In November 2007, a dozen pilots, ex-military and civilian, all with top-drawer credentials, from as far away as Iran and Chile, convened at the National Press Club in Washington to urge the U.S. to launch a long-overdue public research project into UFOs. After an extremely limited news-cycle convulsion, the event tapered off into oblivion because the media were still busy chortling over Dennis Kuncinich’s reluctant UFO eyewitness confession on national TV. Kucinich, UFOs, unicorns, sea serpents, pull my finger — whatever. So Robert Hastings knows what he’s up against. And he’s gone ahead and booked the National Press Club, ...
Cold fusion experimentally confirmed
Post Date: 2010-05-01 17:54:51 by gengis gandhi
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EE Times: Latest News Cold fusion experimentally confirmed R. Colin Johnson EE Times (03/23/2009 8:43 PM EDT) PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Navy researchers claimed to have experimentally confirmed cold fusion in a presentation at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting. "We have compelling evidence that fusion reactions are occurring" at room temperature, said Pamela Mosier-Boss, a scientist with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (San Diego). The results are "the first scientific report of highly energetic neutrons from low-energy nuclear reactions," she added. Cold fusion was first reported in 1989 by researchers Martin Fleischmann and Stanley ...
Nasa: Evidence of Life on Mars
Post Date: 2010-04-29 07:50:51 by gengis gandhi
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Mystery ... scientists are already planning more missions to Mars By BRIAN COX Sun Professor TELL-tale signs of water on Mars are incredibly exciting because they make the discovery of alien life on our nearest neighbouring planet much more likely. On Earth, life exists in the most unexpected places. In the oceans, miles away from sunlight, living things thrive on a diet of rock and heat from volcanoes on the sea bed. In the darkest, most hostile caves, we find life forms that can eat poisonous gases and drip with sulphuric acid. ‘Gorilla’ seen in snap from Mars COULD this picture taken by Nasa be a giant silverback gorilla ... on MARS?! Space UFO baffles boffins NASA ...
NO TIME DILATION FOR DISTANT QUASARS?
Post Date: 2010-04-27 00:46:52 by Prefrontal Vortex
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NO TIME DILATION FOR DISTANT QUASARS? Analysis by Nicole Gugliucci | Fri Apr 16, 2010 01:39 AM ET Quasars, the massive, enigmatic and energetic centers of distant galaxies, have long fascinated us with their bizarre behaviors. Why do they pump out so much energy? Why do they produce the radiation that they do? How did they affect the early universe? A recent publication, however, finds the a lack of bizarre activity of quasars that is, well, bizarre. Mike Hawkins from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh searched for, and did not find evidence for, so-called time dilation in distant quasars. Time dilation is a counter-intuitive, yet actual, feature of Einstein's special relativity in ...
Colleague Says Anthrax Numbers Add Up to Unsolved Case
Post Date: 2010-04-25 20:30:24 by Ada
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A microbiologist who supervised the work of accused anthrax killer Bruce E. Ivins explained to a National Academy of Sciences panel Thursday why the arithmetic of growing anthrax didn't add up to Ivins' mailing deadly spores in fall 2001. "Impossible," said Dr. Henry S. Heine of a scenario in which Ivins, another civilian microbiologist working for the Army, allegedly prepared the anthrax spores at an Army lab at Fort Detrick. Heine told the 16-member panel that Ivins would have had to grow as many as 10 trillion spores, an astronomical amount that couldn't have gone unnoticed by his colleagues. According to FBI calculations, Ivins accomplished this working ...
Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking
Post Date: 2010-04-24 20:52:43 by gengis gandhi
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Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking Hawking has depicted what kinds of alien could be out there Jonathan Leake 5 COMMENTS RECOMMEND? (11) THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact. The suggestions come in a new documentary series in which Hawking, one of the world’s leading scientists, will set out his latest thinking on some of the universe’s greatest mysteries. Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts of ...
Nasa readies jumbo eye in the sky (Another IR Sensor)
Post Date: 2010-04-24 10:07:47 by gengis gandhi
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Nasa readies jumbo eye in the sky By Peter Bowes BBC News, Palmdale, California Nasa's jumbo eye in the sky The US space agency Nasa has unveiled a powerful new tool in its quest to unravel the mysteries of the Universe. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is a modified Boeing 747-SP aircraft known as Sofia. Developed in partnership with the German Aerospace Centre, DLR, the 'plane is the only flying astronomical observatory in the world. It carries a 2.7m telescope, and offers astronomers a unique opportunity to explore the cosmos. It can identify objects that emit radiation at infrared wavelengths, which are not visible to the human eye. Window on the Universe ...
LUCIFER allows astronomers to watch stars being born
Post Date: 2010-04-24 10:03:46 by gengis gandhi
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LUCIFER allows astronomers to watch stars being born The new instrument on the Large Binocular Telescope is a powerful tool that will gain spectacular insights into the universe — from the Milky Way to extremely distant galaxies Provided by University of Arizona, Tucson The first LUCIFER observations of star-forming regions are giving scientists an idea of the new instrument's enormous potential. This image depicts a stellar nursery in the Milky Way about 8,000 light-years from Earth. Such clouds are typically opaque to visible light. However, infrared light detected by LUCIFER can penetrate the dust. Arjan Bik [View Larger Image] April 23, 2010 A new instrument for the ...
hubble pics
Post Date: 2010-04-24 08:45:00 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/13/image/
Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery
Post Date: 2010-04-24 08:41:36 by christine
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NASA's best-recognized, longest-lived, and most prolific space observatory zooms past a threshold of 20 years of operation this month. On April 24, 1990, the space shuttle and crew of STS-31 were launched to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope into a low Earth orbit. What followed was one of the most remarkable sagas of the space age. Hubble's unprecedented capabilities made it one of the most powerful science instruments ever conceived by humans, and certainly the one most embraced by the public. Hubble discoveries revolutionized nearly all areas of current astronomical research, from planetary science to cosmology. And, its pictures were unmistakably out of this world. At times ...
Last in Class: Critics Give U.N. Climate Researchers an 'F'
Post Date: 2010-04-19 20:54:35 by James Deffenbach
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A group of 40 auditors from across the globe have released a shocking report card that flunks the U.N.'s landmark climate-change research report. It may be time for the United Nations' climate-studies scientists to go back to school. A group of 40 auditors -- including scientists and public policy experts from across the globe -- have released a shocking report card on the U.N.'s landmark climate-change research report. And they gave 21 of the report's 44 chapters a grade of "F." The team, recruited by the climate-change skeptics behind the website NoConsensus.org, found that 5,600 of the 18,500 sources in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's ...
Virus modified to split water - energy sourse
Post Date: 2010-04-19 07:20:04 by Tatarewicz
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PhysOrg.com) -- A team of MIT researchers has found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use the power of sunlight to split water and make chemical fuel to power their growth. In this case, the team used a modified virus as a kind of biological scaffold that can assemble the nanoscale components needed to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Splitting water is one way to solve the basic problem of solar energy: It's only available when the sun shines. By using sunlight to make hydrogen from water, the hydrogen can then be stored and used at any time to generate electricity using a fuel cell, or to make liquid fuels (or be used directly) for cars and ...
Coldest weather in 30 years marks the start of a series of extreme winters
Post Date: 2010-04-18 16:35:59 by DeaconBenjamin
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After enduring the coldest winter for 30 years, you might have been hoping for some respite from the cold weather. However, scientists are now warning that Britain can expect to endure a series of extreme winters - the like of which have not seen for more than 300 years. Researchers have found that low solar activity - marked by a decrease in the sun's magnetic field - influences the weather conditions across northern Europe. The last time the sun showed similar behaviour, between 1650 and 1700, temperatures dropped so low that Londoners were able to skate and hold fairs on the iced-over River Thames. According to a study published today, we are moving into "an era of low ...
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