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Bushmaster ACR in MS:Paint. (Video)
Post Date: 2010-03-18 09:55:52 by PSUSA
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Cobra Kenne Bell 30 - 160+mph
Post Date: 2010-03-18 04:22:26 by X-15
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Cobra Kenne Bell 30 - 160+mph acceleration
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Texas university has eureka moment for coal-to-gas
Post Date: 2010-03-17 22:22:18 by rack42
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Scientists in Texas say they have found a way to convert coal into gasoline at a cost of less than $30 (U.S.) a barrel - with zero release of pollutants Canada has more energy in its "proven, recoverable" reserves of coal than it has in all of its oil, natural gas and oil sands combined: 10 billion tonnes. The world has 100 times more: one trillion tonnes. These reserves hold the energy equivalent of more than four trillion barrels of oil. They are scattered in 70 countries, mostly in relatively easy-to-mine locations and mostly in democratic countries. The United States alone has 30 per cent of the world's reserves, and scientists in Texas say they have found a way to ...
Do You Mind If Mint Sells Data Based On Your Transactions?
Post Date: 2010-03-17 18:54:13 by DeaconBenjamin
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Financial blogger Felix Salmon wants to know why there isn't regulatory oversight of Mint and other financial management websites, especially if they're going to sell data created from their users' transaction histories. Mint's CEO Aaron Patzer spoke at SXSW on Saturday and said that the company is sitting on a gold mine of customer data that it may or may not sell. Here's how Salmon paraphrases it in his blog post: [Patzer] started talking about the rich value of all the store-level data he was sitting on. For instance, he said, he can see pretty much in real time how much money his huge database of customers is, in aggregate, spending at Blockbuster vs Netflix vs ...
The Great Storm: Solar Tempest of 1859 Revealed
Post Date: 2010-03-17 06:36:07 by Ada
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A pair of strong solar storms that hit Earth late last week were squalls compared to the torrent of electrons that rained down in the "perfect space storm" of 1859. And sooner or later, experts warn, the Sun will again conspire again send earthlings a truly destructive bout of space weather. If it happens anytime soon, we won't know exactly what to expect until it's over, and by then some modern communication systems could be like beachfront houses after a hurricane. In early September in 1859, telegraph wires suddenly shorted out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires. Colorful aurora, normally visible only in polar regions, were seen as far south ...
Climate "Fix" Could Poison Sea Life
Post Date: 2010-03-16 18:19:55 by CadetD
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Fertilising the oceans with iron to absorb carbon dioxide could increase concentrations of a chemical that can kill marine mammals, a study has found. Iron stimulates growth of marine algae that absorb CO2 from the air, and has been touted as a "climate fix". Now researchers have shown that the algae increase production of a nerve poison that can kill mammals and birds. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they say this raises "serious concern" over the idea. The toxin - domoic acid - first came to notice in the late 1980s as the cause of amnesiac shellfish poisoning. If the end goal is to use it to fight climate warming, then we have to ...
Death Star circling the Sun?
Post Date: 2010-03-15 02:45:20 by Tatarewicz
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A brown dwarf star may be circling our sun and causing deadly comets to bombard the earth, resulting in mass extinctions which have occurred every 26-million years. NASA scientists have nicknamed the IR-emitting star Nemesis and expect to locate it with a heat-seeking telescope that began scanning skies in January. Nemesis is thought to pull icy bodies out of the more distant Oort Cloud and hurl snowballs toward earth in the form of comets, causing devastation similar to the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs 65-million years ago. Click for Full Text!
Spider silk research could lead to new super-materials
Post Date: 2010-03-14 15:53:05 by DeaconBenjamin
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Making bricks from straw may soon be possible and even desirable after scientists found spider silk could make ordinary materials stronger than steel. Researchers found that spider silk employs a unique crystal structure that converts an otherwise weak material into one stronger and less brittle than steel or ceramics. They believe in future it may be possible to copy spider ingenuity to create new classes of materials that are both incredibly flexible and strong out of cheap, ordinary elements. Theoretically, they could even be made from wood, straw or hemp, say the scientists. Carbon-based materials made the same way would be even stronger than spider silk. A key property of ...
Get Ready For Third Hand Smoke
Post Date: 2010-03-14 13:12:40 by Original_Intent
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Newest tobacco fear reeks of lies Apparently the secondhand-smoke demons aren't scaring enough people... because in their latest desperate move, the Health Nazis have conjured up a new tobacco monster. They're calling it "thirdhand smoke." That's right, folks. You can't make this stuff up. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that smokers create toxic particles that linger long after their cigarette has been snuffed. The researchers are suggesting that smokers carry a little invisible cloud of these particles around with them wherever they go, kind of like that dust cloud that always follows Charlie Brown's ...
F-35 Electronic Defense System
Post Date: 2010-03-13 10:36:42 by Lod
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Oregon's monster mushroom is world's biggest living thing
Post Date: 2010-03-12 11:30:06 by Original_Intent
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Oregon's monster mushroom is world's biggest living thing By Jeff Barnard Sunday, 6 August 2000 The largest living organism ever found has been discovered in an ancient American forest. The Armillaria ostoyae, popularly known as the honey mushroom, started from a single spore too small to see without a microscope. It has been spreading its black shoestring filaments, called rhizomorphs, through the forest for an estimated 2,400 years, killing trees as it grows. It now covers 2,200 acres (880 hectares) of the Malheur National Forest, in eastern Oregon. The outline of the giant fungus stretches 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometres) across, and it extends an average of three feet (one metre) ...
How smart are killer whales?
Post Date: 2010-03-09 12:26:40 by Prefrontal Vortex
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How smart are killer whales? Orcas have 2nd-biggest brains of all marine mammals By KEVIN SPEAR Orlando Sentinel March 8, 2010, 1:07PM ORLANDO, Fla. — Neuroscientist Lori Marino and a team of researchers explored the brain of a dead killer whale with an MRI and found an astounding potential for intelligence. Killer whales, or orcas, have the second-biggest brains among all ocean mammals, weighing as much as 15 pounds. It’s not clear whether they are as well-endowed with memory cells as humans, but scientists have found they are amazingly well-wired for sensing and analyzing their watery, three-dimensional environment. Scientists are trying to better understand how killer ...
Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primordial Ooze
Post Date: 2010-03-08 16:44:36 by Ferret
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There is a five-story, blood-red waterfall pouring slowly from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley. Its back story, at Atlas Obscura, is simply remarkable: Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall ...
It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
Post Date: 2010-03-06 09:24:48 by Ferret Mike
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LONDON (Reuters) – A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades. A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction, which created a "hellish environment" around 65 million years ago and wiped out more than half of all species on the planet. Scientific opinion was split over whether the extinction was caused by an asteroid or by volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps in what is now India, where ...
Tons of Water Ice Found on the Moon's North Pole
Post Date: 2010-03-01 23:11:07 by gengis gandhi
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Tons of Water Ice Found on the Moon's North Pole Tariq Malik SPACE.com Managing Editor SPACE.com – Mon Mar 1, 7:00 pm ET This story was updated at 6:39 p.m. ET. Vast pockets of water ice numbering in the millions of tons have been discovered at the north pole of the moon, opening up another region of the lunar surface for potential exploration by astronauts and unmanned probes, NASA announced Monday. A NASA radar instrument on an Indian moon probe found evidence of at least 600 million metric tons of water ice spread out on the bottom of craters at the lunar north pole. It is yet another supply of lunar water ice, a vital resource that could be mined to produce oxygen or rocket ...
Al Gore wishes global warming weren't real
Post Date: 2010-02-28 20:50:37 by buckeroo
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Former Vice President Al Gore, the target of ridicule by climate skeptics this winter, says he wishes global warming were an "illusion." Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has long warned of the dangers of global warming. He spoke about them during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. CAPTION By Axel Schmidt, AFP/Getty Images Unfortunately, its dangers are real, despite mistakes by a leading United Nations climate-science panel, Gore writes Sunday in the New York Times. "The overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged," he says, adding: In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million ...
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - SETI@home
Post Date: 2010-02-28 07:26:42 by wudidiz
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What is SETI@home?
Global Warming Update
Post Date: 2010-02-26 06:57:18 by Ada
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www.JewishWorldReview.com | Private industry and governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars in the name of saving our planet from manmade global warming. Academic institutions, think tanks and schools have altered their curricula and agenda to accommodate what was seen as the global warming "consensus." Mounting evidence suggests that claims of manmade global warming might turn out to be the greatest hoax in mankind's history. Immune and hostile to the evidence, President Barack Obama's administration and most of the U.S. Congress sides with Climate Czar Carol Browner, who says, "I'm sticking with the 2,500 scientists. These people have been ...
Croat scientist warns ice age overdue, could start in five years (or sooner)
Post Date: 2010-02-25 16:49:31 by abraxas
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Croat scientist warns ice age overdue, could start in five years (or sooner) A leading scientist has revealed that Europe could be just five years away from the start of a new Ice Age. While climate change campaigners say global warming is the planet's biggest danger, renowned physicist Vladimir Paar says most of central Europe will soon be covered in ice. The freeze will be so complete that people will be able to walk from England to Ireland or across the North Sea from Scotland to northern Europe. Professor Paar, from Croatia's Zagreb University, has spent decades analysing previous ice ages in Europe and what caused them. "Most of Europe will be under ice, including ...
Flying into the future: New Zealand company to make personal jet packs
Post Date: 2010-02-25 14:08:32 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Flying into the future: New Zealand company to make personal jet packs A company in New Zealand is to begin production of a commercial jet pack. Martin Aircraft Company, in Christchurch, New Zealand, aims to make 500 packs a year which will sell for around £50,000. The 200 horsepower dual-propeller packs are the brainchild of inventor Glenn Martin who unveiled his machine for the first time in July last year. Because it weighs less than 254 pounds (115kg) the jet pack does not require a pilot's licence. It is capable of travelling 30 miles in 30 minutes on a full tank of fuel. And recent tests have seen the newest model reach heights of up to 2,400 metres and top speeds of 60 ...
Haste Leaves Anthrax Case Unconcluded
Post Date: 2010-02-25 06:35:38 by Ada
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NEW YORK — Probably not very many readers of this space are subscribers to the scientific journal Aerosol Science and Technology. Neither am I. But an article in that publication published in March 2008 has acquired considerable significance in light of the announcement by the F.B.I. last week that it would close its nine-year investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States. Aerosol Science and Technology reported on an attempt by a group of scientists at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah to reproduce the dry, powderized substance that was found in one of the anthrax-laden envelopes mailed by the perpetrator of the attacks, in which 5 people were killed, 17 were ...
When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
Post Date: 2010-02-24 15:39:00 by freepatriot32
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The US copyright lobby has long argued against open source software - now Indonesia's in the firing line for encouraging the idea in government departments It's only Tuesday and already it's been an interesting week for the world of digital rights. Not only did the British government changed the wording around its controversial 'three strikes' proposals, but the secretive anti-counterfeiting treaty, Acta, was back in the headlines. Meanwhile, a US judge is still deliberating over the Google book settlement. As if all that wasn't enough, here's another brick to add to the teetering tower of news, courtesy of Andres Guadamuz, a lecturer in law at the University ...
New species of dinosaur found in eastern Utah rock
Post Date: 2010-02-24 02:08:44 by farmfriend
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New species of dinosaur found in eastern Utah rock By MIKE STARK, AP SALT LAKE CITY — Fossils of a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur have been found in slabs of Utah sandstone that were so hard that explosives had to be used to free some of the remains, scientists said Tuesday. The bones found at Dinosaur National Monument belonged to a type of sauropod — long-necked plant-eaters that were said to be the largest animal ever to roam land. The discovery included two complete skulls from other types of sauropods — an extremely rare find, scientists said. The fossils offer fresh insight into lives of dinosaurs some 105 million years ago, including the evolution of ...
New Climate Agency Head Tried to Suppress Data, Critics Charge
Post Date: 2010-02-22 18:46:25 by farmfriend
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New Climate Agency Head Tried to Suppress Data, Critics Charge By Ed Barnes FOXNews.com Updated February 22, 2010 Thomas Karl, the head of Obama's new Climate Change office has been criticized for trying to suppress contradictory scientific data on climate change. The scientist who has been put in charge of the Commerce Department's new climate change office is coming under attack from both sides of the global warming debate over his handling of what they say is contradictory scientific data related to the subject. Thomas Karl, 58, was appointed to oversee NOAA's new National Climatic Data Center, an ambitious office that will collect climate change data and disseminate it ...
Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
Post Date: 2010-02-22 18:26:25 by farmfriend
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Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report's author now says true estimate is still unknown David Adam Guardian.co.uk, Sunday 21 February 2010 18.00 GMT Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings. The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It used data over the last 22,000 years to predict that sea level ...
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