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Fastest Train In The World - 500 Km/h
Post Date: 2007-07-15 16:39:28 by Eoghan
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Tactical Nuclear Warhead Made From Smoke Detectors
Post Date: 2007-07-15 10:04:11 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Tactical Nuclear Warhead Made From Smoke Detectors Many people don't realize this but most smoke detectors contain an artificially produced radioisotope: americium-241. Americium-241 is made in nuclear reactors, and is a decay product of plutonium-241. This radioisotope can be used as the fissionable material in a homemade nuclear warhead. I will outline the details of how to make your own nuclear weapon on this page. First some background: The key component in household smoke detectors is a small quantity of americium-241. This element was discovered 50 years ago during the Manhattan Project. The first sample of americium was produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons in a nuclear ...
Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest
Post Date: 2007-07-14 22:40:16 by whackadoodle
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Saturday July 14, 2007 The Guardian Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that seem to be some sort of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla. Their location at the centre of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the planet, the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has meant that the mystery apes have been little studied by western scientists. Reaching the region means negotiating the shifting fortunes of warring rebel factions, and the heart of the animals' range is deep in impenetrable forest. But despite the difficulties, a handful of ...
New huge telescope to start scouring the skies from Spain's Canary Islands
Post Date: 2007-07-13 12:33:29 by Brian S
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TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) - One of the world's most powerful telescopes will be trained on the skies on Friday, searching for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands. Perched 2,400 meters up on the Roque de los Muchachos peak in the Atlantic island of La Palma, the Great Canary Telescope has a 10.4-meter (34.1 feet) lens. It is to receive its so-called «first light» _ when the telescope is pointed toward the sky and focusses on the North Star _ at 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) in a ceremony attended by Crown Prince Felipe. «The GTC will be able to reach the weakest and most distant celestial objects of the universe,» the ...
Global Warming Nuts Take Over BBC
Post Date: 2007-07-11 17:33:46 by ghostdogtxn
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Personal Insults in Online Discussions
Post Date: 2007-07-11 11:08:52 by ghostdogtxn
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Researcher: Feeding distiller's grains vital to future of livestock operation success
Post Date: 2007-07-11 04:26:11 by farmfriend
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Researcher: Feeding distiller's grains vital to future of livestock operation success Contact: Brian Hyps bhyps@aspb.org 240-354-5160 American Society of Plant Biologists Maize streak viruses (MSV), geminiviruses that can destroy most of a maize crop, are endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent Indian Ocean islands where they are transmitted by leafhoppers in the genus Cicadulina. Maize can supply 50% of the caloric intake in sub-Saharan Africa but, in certain years, a farmer’s entire crop can be wiped out. Now, scientists at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, along with colleagues at the South African seed company, PANNAR Pty Ltd, have developed a resistant variety ...
First all-African produced genetically engineered maize is resistant to maize streak virus
Post Date: 2007-07-11 04:23:36 by farmfriend
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First all-African produced genetically engineered maize is resistant to maize streak virus Contact: Brian Hyps bhyps@aspb.org 240-354-5160 American Society of Plant Biologists Maize streak viruses (MSV), geminiviruses that can destroy most of a maize crop, are endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent Indian Ocean islands where they are transmitted by leafhoppers in the genus Cicadulina. Maize can supply 50% of the caloric intake in sub-Saharan Africa but, in certain years, a farmer’s entire crop can be wiped out. Now, scientists at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, along with colleagues at the South African seed company, PANNAR Pty Ltd, have developed a resistant variety ...
Illinois-based study of energy crops finds miscanthus more productive than switchgrass
Post Date: 2007-07-11 04:02:18 by farmfriend
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Illinois-based study of energy crops finds miscanthus more productive than switchgrass Findings presented in Chicago at ASPB Annual Meeting on July 10 Contact: Brian Hyps bhyps@aspb.org 240-354-5160 American Society of Plant Biologists At the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Chicago (July 7-11, 2007), scientists will present findings on how to economically and efficiently produce plant crops suitable for sustainable bioenergy. Improving the production of such biomass is important because it should significantly ease and eventually replace dependence on petroleum-based fuels. Biomass is plant material, vegetation or agricultural waste used as fuel. ...
Messages From Water-How water structure reflects our consciousness
Post Date: 2007-07-10 21:55:58 by gengis gandhi
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(go to link to view microscope darkfield photos of crystalline structures which are numerous to post) Miraculous Messages from Water How water structure reflects our consciousness by http://WellnessGoods.com Water has a very important message for us. Water is telling us to take a much deeper look at our selves. When we do look at our selves through the mirror of water, the message becomes amazingly, crystal, clear. We know that human life is directly connected to the quality of our water, both within and all around us. The photographs and information in this article reflect the work of Masaru Emoto, a creative and visionary Japanese researcher Mr. Emoto has published an important book, ...
Structural Changes in Water & DNA Associated with New Physiologically Measurable States
Post Date: 2007-07-10 21:49:27 by gengis gandhi
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Structural Changes in Water & DNA Associated with New Physiologically Measurable States Glen Rein, Ph.D. and Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. Journal of Scientific Exploration. 1994; 8(3): 438-439. We have recently defined two new physiological states in terms of their unique electrophysiological characteristics (1). These states are generated using specially designed mental and emotional self-management techniques which involve intentionally quieting the mind, shifting one’s awareness to the heart area and focusing on positive emotions (2, 3). Time-domain and frequency spectral analysis of heart rate variability, pulse transit time and respiration were used as electrophysiological ...
The MEG Project
Post Date: 2007-07-10 18:51:31 by intotheabyss
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The MEG Project "..This one works beautifully and produces COP=5.0..." has said Tom Bearden Created on 11-18-00 - JLN Labs - Last update 05-10-02 All informations in this page are published free and are intended for private/educational purposes and not for commercial applications The MEG diagrams published in these pages are currently under test by JL Naudin and may be subject to modifications after that they have been published on this site. They are the result of some attempts of a private and fully independant replication by the author. These diagrams are not the original MEG diagrams being tested by the Bearden's teamwork or some accredited labs. Disclaimer: The author ...
missing honeybees
Post Date: 2007-07-10 18:46:59 by richard9151
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The mystery of the missing honeybees may have a simple solution. But will anyone pay attention? Antibiotic bees Over the past few months I've been following a stream of daily updates about colony collapse disorder (CCD), the phenomenon in which bees abandon their hives and disappear. CCD continues to be reported throughout the U.S. and Canada - a potential disaster for food crops that require pollination. Most of the updates I've seen come from newspapers that detail local incidences of CCD. And most of them read the same: a description of the overall problem followed by interviews with local beekeepers. Each of these accounts notes the various theories about what causes CCD ...
Women drawn to men with muscles
Post Date: 2007-07-10 16:30:46 by gengis gandhi
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Women drawn to men with muscles Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:13AM EDT Email | Print | Digg | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] Photo 1 of 1Full Size Featured Broker sponsored link Money Center Power. Price. Service. No Compromises. By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Muscular young men are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiseled peers, researchers at the University of California Los Angeles said on Monday. Their study, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggests muscles in men are akin to elaborate tail feathers in male peacocks: They attract females looking for a virile mate. "Women are predisposed to prefer muscularity in men," said ...
Models trump measurements
Post Date: 2007-07-10 12:13:22 by sourcery
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We are doomed, say climate change scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body that is organizing most of the climate change research occurring in the world today. Carbon dioxide from man-made sources rises to the atmosphere and then stays there for 50, 100, or even 200 years. This unprecedented buildup of CO2 then traps heat that would otherwise escape our atmosphere, threatening us all. "This is nonsense," says Tom V. Segalstad, head of the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo and formerly an expert reviewer with the same IPCC. He laments the paucity of geologic knowledge among IPCC scientists -- a ...
Banana Boobs as Darwin's Clock
Post Date: 2007-07-10 04:59:47 by YertleTurtle
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Oh god, the endless, thumping, hope-draining, drab, repetitive soul-crushing tiresomeness of it. I find in Psychology Today a piece called “Ten Politically Incorrect Truths about Human Nature,” explaining various aspects of behavior in Darwinian terms.* The smugness of that “politically incorrect” is characteristic of those who want a sense of adventure without risk. Nothing is more PC than an evolutionary explanation, unless it explains obvious racial differences that we aren’t supposed to talk about. OK, the authors are going to explain why we mate as we do. “Blue-eyed people,” they write, “are considered attractive as potential mates because ...
Bizarre Xbox 360 Pics at Amazon
Post Date: 2007-07-09 19:48:51 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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I don't get it. Is Amazon trying to sell this contraption or are they just having fun? Click Here! Click for Full Text!
Holy batcapes! The age of the superhero suit is upon us
Post Date: 2007-07-09 17:24:19 by Eoghan
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Inventor who fought off ignorance, financial ruin and ridicule now anticipates £2bn global takings ITS ROCK-HARD surface can take a full- on assault from a baseball bat, yet remains flexible enough to allow you to kick, leap and roll with perfect ease. Crafted from cutting-edge science, its unique molecular structure means that while providing armoured protection against crude concrete and even barbed wire, it remains light enough to allow you to run at high speed. It sounds like the stuff of Batman comics - but the superhero suit is here. Identified as a major breakthrough that could impact on every sector from the military to motor sports, the revolutionary shock-absorbent ...
The perpetual myth of free energy
Post Date: 2007-07-09 13:47:35 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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The perpetual myth of free energy Irish company Steorn made headlines around the world when it took out a full page advert in The Economist claiming to have developed a device that produced "free energy". Throughout early July, the company planned to display the device to the public for the first time. Professor Sir Eric Ash, electrical engineer and former rector of Imperial College London, visited the demonstration for the BBC News website. Sean MacCarthy does not know where the energy comes from Marvellous things can happen in this world. As an engineer, whenever I look at a new baby I say categorically that there can be no such thing - it's ...
The Divine Matrix: Gregg Braden Pt.1
Post Date: 2007-07-08 11:50:48 by gengis gandhi
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Poster Comment:3 more parts at link
Brit fumes over Wikipedia, lava lamps
Post Date: 2007-07-07 19:56:12 by Eoghan
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Is Wikipedia running a censorship board? John Barberio thinks so. After more than two years as an active contributor to the free online encyclopedia, the 27-year-old Oxfordshire man recently left the project over the behavior of its "OTRS volunteers," unpaid administrators who act on reader complaints about the site's content. "I dislike using the scary C word, but OTRS are acting as a censorship board," he says. "And worse, they appear to be acting as an inept, heavy-handed amateurish censorship board." Others who have had brushes with Wikipedia's "Open-source Ticket Request System" are saying much the same thing. To illustrate his point, ...
Hostages to a hoax
Post Date: 2007-07-07 17:55:38 by sourcery
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I COULD not have upset the soft-left, soft-green middle classes more if I had crept in their kitchens and snuck genetically modified tomatoes in their paninis. Why did I make the film The Great Global Warming Swindle? The head of science programs at Britain's Channel 4, Hamish Mykura (who has a PhD in environmental science), asked me to. He suspected the global warming alarm was not based on solid science. So did his predecessor, Sara Ramsden, who was also eager to make a film in this area. I was an experienced science documentary producer used to handling complex subjects. So what was our conclusion, after months of research that involved talking to hundreds of scientists and wading ...
New Wi-fone service from T-Mobile: Hotspot @ Home
Post Date: 2007-07-06 19:45:29 by Zipporah
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New Wi-fone service from T-Mobile: Hotspot @ Home Snip from NYT piece by David Pogue about "T-Mobile HotSpot @Home" -- which could save you a bundle , but is only available in small test markets so far: If you’re willing to pay $10 a month on top of a regular T-Mobile voice plan, you get a special cellphone. When you’re out and about, it works like any other phone; calls eat up your monthly minutes as usual. But when it’s in a Wi-Fi wireless Internet hot spot, this phone offers a huge bargain: all your calls are free. You use it and dial it the same as always — you still get call hold, caller ID, three-way calling and all the other features — but ...
DNA Test Indicates Very Green Greenland
Post Date: 2007-07-05 23:53:05 by farmfriend
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DNA Test Indicates Very Green Greenland By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON - Ice-covered Greenland really was green a half-million or so years ago, covered with forests in a climate much like that of Sweden and eastern Canada today. An international team of researchers recovered ancient DNA from the bottom of an ice core that indicates the presence of pine, yew and alder trees as well as insects. The researchers, led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, say the findings are the first direct proof that there was forest in southern Greenland. Included were genetic traces of butterflies, moths, flies and beetles, they report in Friday's edition ...
'Free' energy technology goes on display
Post Date: 2007-07-05 08:10:50 by Eoghan
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Technology developed by an Irish firm that allegedly defies basic laws of physics to produce free power today goes on public display for the first time. Steorn is challenging worldwide cynicism over its claims to have stumbled upon a revolutionary discovery that creates clean, constant energy and could end the global fuel crisis. While 22 scientists continue their exhaustive tests on the Orbo technology the inventors are asking the public to come and see a demonstration for themselves at Kinetica Museum, Spitalfields Market, London. A live working demonstration will be streamed on the internet from 6pm tonight. It can be viewed on the web from four different camera angles, before opening ...
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