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Why I Missed Armstrong's Walk on the Moon
Post Date: 2009-07-20 06:42:02 by Ada
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On July 20, 1969, an estimated 600 million viewers around the world watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. I was not one of them. I was attending R. J. Rushdoony's weekly Sunday evening Bible study. The moon walk was scheduled to take place before the meeting began. The family that hosted the meeting turned on the television. We viewed a blurred image of an empty moonscape. The camera was ready to record Neil Armstrong's first step onto the moon's surface. We waited. And waited. Nothing. After possibly ten minutes, Rushdoony said, "Let's begin the meeting." Someone dutifully turned off the television, and Rushdoony gave his lecture. After the lecture, ...
Could moon landings have been faked? Some still think so [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-07-18 11:23:26 by christine
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CNN) -- It captivated millions of people around the world for eight days in the summer of 1969. It brought glory to the embattled U.S. space program and inspired beliefs that anything was possible. Moon landing hoax theorists point to the "rippling" flag as evidence the landings were faked. It's arguably the greatest technological feat of the 20th century. And to some, it was all a lie. Forty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon, a small cult of conspiracy theorists maintains the historic event -- and the five subsequent Apollo moon landings -- were staged. These people believe NASA fabricated the landings to trump their Soviet rivals and fulfill ...
Military Developing Half-Robot, Half-Insect 'Cybug' Spies
Post Date: 2009-07-16 22:27:15 by TwentyTwelve
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Military Developing Half-Robot, Half-Insect 'Cybug' Spies Thursday, July 16, 2009 By Charles Q. Choi Researchers are now experimenting with developing insect cyborgs or 'cybugs' that could work as spies. Miniature robots could be good spies, but researchers now are experimenting with insect cyborgs or "cybugs" that could work even better. Scientists can already control the flight of real moths using implanted devices. The military and spy world no doubt would love tiny, live camera-wielding versions of Predator drones that could fly undetected into places where no human could ever go to snoop on the enemy. Developing such robots has proven a challenge so ...
Video: Local Louisiana News Station Investigates Chemtrials
Post Date: 2009-07-16 04:40:56 by wudidiz
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Video: Local Louisiana News Station Investigates Chemtrials Posted by t3soro on July 15, 2009 A local news station in Louisiana investigates the unnatural trails left lingering by airplanes crossing the sky. After taking precipitation samples, they find Barium in a concentration three times the toxic level set by the EPA. via Brasscheck TV
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Exxon to convert sunshine to oil
Post Date: 2009-07-15 04:57:52 by Tatarewicz
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Oil giant Exxon Mobil is joining with Synthetic Genomics Inc. to research and develop next generation biofuels, using photosynthetic algae. Algae convert carbon dioxide with energy from the sun into cellular oils, even long-chain hydrocarbons which can be processed into fuels compatible with gasoline and diesel and industrial chemicals using existing refining techniques. Exxon expects to spend more than $600-million if research proves up a feasible process, paying SGI up to $300-million as specific milestones are reached. SGI founder, Craig Venter of genome sequencing fame, has found an algae that converts CO2 to methane and another that does the same with coal. His San Diego lab has ...
Citizen petitions put photo enforcement companies on the defensive --
Post Date: 2009-07-14 21:26:21 by TwentyTwelve
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Citizen Petitions Put Photo Enforcement Companies on the Defensive Citizen referendum efforts put red light camera and speed camera companies on the defensive in Arizona, Ohio and Texas. Camera referendum logosPetitions to place the fate of red light cameras and speed cameras in the hands of voters are circulating across the country. This November, photo enforcement bans are likely to be considered in three Ohio and two Texas cities. Every Arizona jurisdiction may have a chance to vote on a statewide ballot initiative in November 2010. So far, the efforts in Ohio are the most advanced. In April, the group Citizens Against Photo Enforcement succeeded in having an automated ticketing ban ...
Temperatures are normal, it’s the Politics that are Wrong
Post Date: 2009-07-14 20:53:03 by farmfriend
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Temperatures are normal, it’s the Politics that are Wrong Don't confuse me with facts I'm saving the world, Global temperatures are declining but politicians keep speaking of warming By Dr. Tim Ball Monday, July 13, 2009 There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. - A.N.Whitehead. Temperatures are normal. In a massive irony President Obama spoke of global warming at the G8 on July 8, the same day his political hometown of Chicago recorded the coldest July 8 in 118 years. Global temperatures are declining but ...
It's Getting Cold Out There
Post Date: 2009-07-14 15:13:07 by farmfriend
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It's Getting Cold Out There A Commentary by Debra J. Saunders Sunday, July 12, 2009 No wonder skeptics consider the left's belief in man-made global warming as akin to a fad religion -- last week in Italy, G8 leaders pledged to not allow the Earth's temperature to rise more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. For its next act, the G8 can part the Red Sea. The worst part is: These are the brainy swells who think of themselves as -- all bow -- Men of Science. The funny part is: G8 leaders can't even decide the year from which emissions must be reduced. 1990? 2005? "This question is a mystery for everyone," an aide to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said. And while ...
to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate—
Post Date: 2009-07-14 14:54:09 by X-15
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Reston, VA - North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation. A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil. Related Podcasts 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Oil in North Dakota and Montana Download directly | Details or subscribe by e-mail. Technically recoverable oil resources are those producible using currently available technology and industry practices. USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered ...
12 Greatest Low-Tech Inventions
Post Date: 2009-07-13 17:39:51 by Horse
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Non-electrical Refrigerator Mohammed Bah Abba made a really cool invention, which won a Rolex Award of $100,000 –a refrigerator than runs without electricity. Here's how it works. You take a smaller pot and put it inside a larger pot. Fill the space in between them with wet sand, and cover the top with a wet cloth. When the water evaporates, it pulls the heat out with it, making the inside cold. It's a natural, cheap, easy-to-make refrigerator. Evaporative fridges are a relatively well-tested, proven, low-tech approach to cooling. They can cool produce, food and beverages at about 15-20 C below ambient temperatures. They are most appropriate in hot, dry (not humid) climates ...
Global Temperature Is Dropping, Not Rising [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-07-12 14:22:56 by farmfriend
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Global Temperature Is Dropping, Not Rising Written by Ed Hiserodt Saturday, 11 July 2009 19:40 Environmental doomsayers may still be claiming that we must radically reduce carbon-dioxide and other “greenhouse” gas emissions in order to prevent catastrophic global warming, but they cling to that position despite the fact that the warming they’ve been forecasting has not occurred. In fact, the average global temperature has gone down, not up, in recent years. The graph at this link from icecap.us shows that the average global temperature has been dropping since at least 2002, even though the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has been increasing. A graph based on ...
Are Chemtrails for Real? TV News Expose'
Post Date: 2009-07-11 22:17:17 by Tax Pro Tester 2
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A couple news stations covered the topic in depth and did fairly favorable stories. You decide. 3 videos to watch. Click for Full Text!
Discovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel'
Post Date: 2009-07-11 20:39:38 by wudidiz
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BLACK-GOLD BLUESDiscovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel'New evidence supports premise that Earth produces endless supplyPosted: February 01, 20081:00 am Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2009 WorldNetDaily.com A study published in Science Magazine today presents new evidence supporting the abiotic theory for the origin of oil, which asserts oil is a natural product the Earth generates constantly rather than a "fossil fuel" derived from decaying ancient forests and dead dinosaurs. The lead scientist on the study ? Giora Proskurowski of the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle ? says the hydrogen-rich fluids venting at the ...
Oxygen radical and photo protein give birds magnetic vision
Post Date: 2009-07-11 06:25:48 by Tatarewicz
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Birds can "see" magnetic fields to navigate by having eyes with low levels of toxic superoxide in combination with the cryptochrome photo protein molecule. Scientists in Germany and the University of Illinois have found a chemical reaction in which the cytochrome photoreceptor can be influenced by orientation with respect the magnetic field of the earth through "Zeeman and hyperfine" interactions to give birds the magnetic compass sense. Crytochrome is also present in the human eye but our superoxides are even lower, enhancing longevity, whereas in birds, evolution has favored a bit of cellular damage in return for navigational benefits of magnetic vision, according to ...
Human Limb Regeneration Is No Longer Just a Job for the Men in Black
Post Date: 2009-07-08 15:21:58 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Human Limb Regeneration Is No Longer Just a Job for the Men in Black Scifi characters are fairly adept at re-growing their limbs: Wolverine constantly recovers from amputations; Jeebs in Men in Black can get his head blasted off and have a new one in place in a few seconds with only a mild headache; and Terminator 2's T-1000 can take repeated blows to the head and body like pebbles being dropped into a pond (provided he's not himself dropped into molten metal). In real life, we're not so lucky. A human being can re-grow a fingertip if its amputated above the first joint, but that's about it... unless of course the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden, Germany has ...
The Genome Wager: Wolpert V Sheldrake
Post Date: 2009-07-08 13:55:23 by Prefrontal Vortex
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The Genome Wager: Wolpert V Sheldrake Posted at 5:00PM Wednesday 08 Jul 2009 THE GENOME WAGER Press Release/ PRESS EMBARGO - 17.00, Wed 8 July 2009 Please contact: Najma Finlay, Head of PR Icon Books najma.finlay@iconbooks.co.uk 020 77009962 In the spirit of famous scientific wagers by notable scientists, such as Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman, two leading biologists, Professor Lewis Wolpert and Dr Rupert Sheldrake, have set up a wager on the predictive value of the genome. Due to appear exclusively in the 11 July issue of The New Scientist, The Genome Wager, as it has been called, will be explained in full as Wolpert and Sheldrake state their cases both for and against. The ...
Sociogenomics 2: Why You Can’t Clone a Calico Cat
Post Date: 2009-07-08 13:38:20 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Sociogenomics 2: Why You Can’t Clone a Calico Cat There's a country music song in there somewhere. Calico cats are white with red and black patches. Apparently some couple with more money than sense paid to have their dear departed calico cloned. But several attempts failed to produce a cat that looked like Furball, or whatever they called the deceased. Instead they bought, for thousands, cats that were all one color or another. Someone might have bothered to tell them that what they were trying to do was destined to fail. Calicos are all females, and their hair color is determined by a gene on the X chromosome. But here is the cool thing: the chromosome contains two complete ...
Sociogenomics 1
Post Date: 2009-07-08 13:18:48 by Prefrontal Vortex
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July 07, 2009 Sociogenomics 1 I was one of a number of scholars lucky enough to be invited to the Illinois Politics and Biology Summer Institute, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The Directors include Ira Carmen, a political scientist who writes extensively on genetics and politics, and Gene Robinson, a biologist who spends his time working on links between the genes and social behaviors of honey bees. The Institute is meeting at the Institute for Genomic Biology on the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The pace is pretty brutal for this kind of thing: eight solid hours a day of presentation and discussion. Most of the NSF fellows are youngsters by my ...
Federal agency Web sites knocked out by massive, resilient cyber attack
Post Date: 2009-07-08 06:23:21 by Ada
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned. The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week, according to officials inside and outside the government. Some of the sites were still experiencing problems Tuesday evening. Cyber attacks on South Korea government and private sites also may be linked, officials there said. U.S. officials refused to publicly ...
Sperm created in test tube from stem cells
Post Date: 2009-07-08 03:14:53 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists have created human sperm using stem cells derived from a five-day-old male embryo, raising hopes that infertile men may be able to father their own biological children in the future. The breakthrough was achieved by Professor Karim Nayernia's research team at England's Newcastle University using embryonic stem cells which were first developed into germ line stem cells with half the number of chromosomes and then prompted to produce sperm which were fully mature and functional despite being made in a petri dish rather than a man's testes. The results are reported in Stem Cells and Development. In another ongoing experiment Nayernia's researchers are creating stem ...
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Post Date: 2009-07-07 11:23:53 by Lysander_Spooner
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No climate debate? Yes, there is
Post Date: 2009-07-05 20:45:02 by farmfriend
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No climate debate? Yes, there is by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe July 1, 2009 IN HIS weekly address on Saturday, President Obama saluted the House of Representatives for passing Waxman-Markey, the gargantuan energy-rationing bill that would amount to the largest tax increase in the nation's history. It would do so by making virtually everything that depends on energy -- which is virtually everything -- more expensive. The president didn't describe the legislation in those terms on Saturday, but he made no bones about it last year. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in January 2008, he calmly explained how cap-and-trade -- the carbon-dioxide rationing scheme that is ...
The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic
Post Date: 2009-07-05 19:13:07 by farmfriend
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The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic The professional penalty for offering a contrary view to elites like Al Gore is a smear campaign. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Wherever Jim Hansen is right now -- whatever speech the "censored" NASA scientist is giving -- perhaps he'll find time to mention the plight of Alan Carlin. Though don't count on it. Mr. Hansen, as everyone in this solar system knows, is the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Starting in 2004, he launched a campaign against the Bush administration, claiming it was censoring his global-warming thoughts and fiddling with the science. It was all a bit of a hoot, given Mr. Hansen was already a ...
Sen. Inhofe Calls for Inquiry Into 'Suppressed' Climate Change Report
Post Date: 2009-06-30 22:44:47 by rack42
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A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming. The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin's report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined. "He came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying ...
NASA Supposedly Finds Missing Moon Landing Tapes
Post Date: 2009-06-30 10:52:03 by christine
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ECSTATIC space officials at Nasa could be about to unveil one of their most stunning discoveries for 40 years — new and amazingly clear footage of the first moon landing. The release of the new images next month could be one of the most talked about events of the summer. The television images the world has been used to seeing of the historic moment when Neil Armstrong descended down a ladder onto the moon’s surface in 1969 is grainy, blurry and dark. The following scenes, in which the astronauts move around the lunar lander, are so murky it is difficult to make out exactly what is going on, causing conspiracy theorists to claim the entire Apollo 11 mission was an elaborate ...
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