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Local scientist calls global warming theory 'hooey'
Post Date: 2007-06-18 17:41:11 by farmfriend
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Local scientist calls global warming theory 'hooey' Samara Kalk Derby — 6/18/2007 8:01 am Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey. The UW-Madison professor emeritus, who stands against the scientific consensus on this issue, is referred to as a global warming skeptic. But he is not skeptical that global warming exists, he is just doubtful that humans are the cause of it. There is no question the earth has been warming. It is coming out of the "Little Ice Age," he said in an interview this week. "However, there is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide. We've been ...
Bye, Bye Birdies?
Post Date: 2007-06-17 18:23:48 by robin
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(Christian Science Monitor) This article was written by Mark Clayton. New data show the populations of some of America's well-known birds in a tailspin, thanks to the one-two punch of habitat fragmentation and, increasingly, global warming. From the heartland's whippoorwills and meadowlarks to the Northern bobwhite and common terns of the nation's coasts, 20 common bird species tracked by the National Audubon Society have seen their numbers fall 54 percent overall since 1967, with some down about 80 percent, the group reported Thursday. Most of the trouble lies with loss of bird habitat, and has for decades, due to expanding agriculture and suburban development. The Rufous ...
when the levees break
Post Date: 2007-06-17 11:03:22 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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when the levees break
Poster Comment:Immediately "preceding" Katrena Cindy Sheehan was 'on a roll' against the WAR and Bush with the msm gaining in its' coverage of her resistance and the nations'. Thank the god of Mouloch AND Tesla technology.
Disable Windows Error Reporting? - video
Post Date: 2007-06-16 16:31:09 by Lod
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Space Station Computers Up and Running
Post Date: 2007-06-16 12:10:26 by Brian S
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HOUSTON (AP) - Russian cosmonauts on Saturday began turning back on some crucial systems that had been shut down more than four days ago when a computer system on the Russian side of the international space station crashed. The first system turned on was a machine that scrubs carbon dioxide from the air inside the space station. Just a day earlier, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov were able to get four of six processors on two computers working again by using a cable to bypass a circuit board. It took four days to restore the capability of the computers. In addition, spacewalking astronauts on Friday were able to stitch up a peeled back thermal blanket near space shuttle Atlantis' ...
Rednecks Save the Space Program
Post Date: 2007-06-16 11:08:52 by Calamity
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Rednecks Save the Space Program I recently received an email with the subject of “Redneck Time Out”. Attached was this photo. At first I thought it looked like an obvious case of child abuse. Then I saw that the baby was pretty relaxed. [The condition of the stuffed duck was questionable. He looked miserable. He probably had spinal cord damage as a result of being hung by the neck.] Little did I know that the parents of this child were possibly NASA employees practicing standard agency procedural policy. Yep, today I learned the truth. Confused? That’s OK. Stick with me. The link was on tonight’s news: NASA’s in-flight emergency plans cover astronaut going ...
NASA Eyes Workarounds for Space Station Computer Glitch [Zillion Dollar Political Toy About to Burn Up Over Your House]
Post Date: 2007-06-15 17:36:54 by IndieTX
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HOUSTON -- Russian and U.S. engineers are drawing up plans to work around the failure of critical computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in time for the departure of the shuttle Atlantis next week. NASA's ISS program manager Mike Suffredini said engineers are studying alternatives to help maintain control of the space station's orientation, including using rockets aboard docked Russian spacecraft, once Atlantis' STS-117 crew casts off from the orbital laboratory on June 19. "The highest priority would be maintaining attitude once the shuttle has departed," Suffredini said Friday. The space station's six Russian computers governing control and ...
Plastic that grows on trees
Post Date: 2007-06-15 16:10:42 by farmfriend
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Plastic that grows on trees Fuel, polyester and other chemicals from biomass get a giant boost, PNNL team reports in the journal Science Contact: Bill Cannon cannon@pnl.gov 509-375-3732 DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash. -- It has been an elusive goal for the legion of chemists trying to pull it off: Replace crude oil as the root source for plastic, fuels and scores of other industrial and household chemicals with inexpensive, nonpolluting renewable plant matter. Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery this week, reporting in the June 15 issue of the journal Science that they have directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alternative ...
French Say 'Non' to U.S. Disclosure of Secret Satellites
Post Date: 2007-06-15 11:41:26 by gengis gandhi
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French Say 'Non' to U.S. Disclosure of Secret Satellites By PETER B. de SELDING Space News Staff Writer posted: 08 June 2007 09:58 am ET BROYE-LES-PESMES, France - A French space-surveillance radar has detected 20-30 satellites in low Earth orbit that do not figure in the U.S. Defense Department's published catalogue, a discovery that French officials say they will use to pressure U.S. authorities to stop publishing the whereabouts of French reconnaissance and military communications satellites. After 16 months of operations of their Graves radar system, which can locate satellites in orbits up to 1,000 kilometers in altitude and even higher in certain cases, the French ...
Space station computers remain down: Cosmonauts work to repair failed system; no current plans to evacuate
Post Date: 2007-06-15 10:43:20 by aristeides
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Space station computers remain down Cosmonauts work to repair failed system; no current plans to evacuate By Mike Schneider The Associated Press Originally published June 15, 2007, 9:57 AM EDT HOUSTON // Cosmonauts aboard the international space station struggled for a second day today to try to reboot failed computers that control the orbiting outpost's orientation. The Russians worked on the system through the night but only succeeded in getting one of three power channels to the station's computers operating before flight controllers told them to get some sleep, NASA flight director Holly Ridings said. Advertisement Valery Lyndin, spokesman for Russia's Mission Control ...
Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge
Post Date: 2007-06-15 01:31:05 by Horse
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This study explored the hypothesis that in some cases intuitive knowledge arises from perceptions that are not mediated through the ordinary senses. The possibility of detecting such “nonlocal observation” was investigated in a pilot test based on the effects of observation on a quantum system. Participants were asked to imagine that they could intuitively perceive a low intensity laser beam in a distant Michelson interferometer. If such observation were possible, it would theoretically perturb the photons’ quantum wave-functions and change the pattern of light produced by the interferometer. The optical apparatus was located inside a light-tight, double steel-walled ...
Plasma rocket breaks endurance record
Post Date: 2007-06-14 16:27:45 by farmfriend
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Plasma rocket breaks endurance record Reuters and http://NewScientist.com A revolutionary plasma rocket engine has been tested for a record time of more than four hours at a test facility in Costa Rica. Scientists at the Ad Astra Rocket Company hope the engine will eventually be cheaper to operate than conventional models and will reduce travel time for space missions. The company, led by Costa Rican-born, former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, hopes to use its rocket engines to boost commercial spacecraft into higher orbits, stabilise space stations, and then to power a trip to Mars within two decades, cutting the travel time by about a third to around three months. The engine ...
Kill Your DirecPC Satellite Dish
Post Date: 2007-06-14 15:29:02 by richard9151
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...NOW. Right now. Go on, you know you want to. The HughesNet/DirecPC lies and BS and rotten service and throttling down when you accidentally hit their daily limit, not to mention being on hold for one hour just to talk with Omar in Tent City, India as your tech rep, are enough to drive anyone over the edge. Go on. Do it. Kill the damn thing. I confess: I have an agenda here today. I hate the HughesNet/DirecPC satellite service, though I was one of its very first subscribers, back when it first started, about 12 years ago. Finally, I can get even with years of indignities and rotten service by cutting some of its revenue stream. For years, Verizon kept saying it didn't have DSL or ...
Human activities increasing carbon sequestration in forests
Post Date: 2007-06-14 12:50:51 by farmfriend
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Human activities increasing carbon sequestration in forests Contact: Beverly Law bev.law@oregonstate.edu 541-737-6111 Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Human-caused nitrogen deposition has been indirectly “fertilizing” forests, increasing their growth and sequestering major amounts of carbon, a new study in the journal Nature suggests. The findings create a more complex view of the carbon cycle in forests, where it was already known that logging or other stand-replacement events – whether natural or not – create periods of 5-20 years when there is a net release of carbon dioxide from forests to the atmosphere, instead of sequestration as they do later ...
ZapRoot Unearthed | Monsanto Corp. for a Better America[GM Corn]
Post Date: 2007-06-14 09:36:52 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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I would like to talk to you today about the face of evil. We have no more Hitler, no more Pol Pot. Gone are the quaint icons of evil in the last century. Today we usher in a new version of evil, for our new century. Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you a promotional video from the Monsanto Corporation . Monsanto is responsible for such great hits like, developing Agent Orange & Bovine Growth Hormone, being the largest provider of genetically modified food sources on the planet, Water Privatization, creating terminator seeds (seeds that are genetically designed to only grow once and not reproduce), and Round-Up Ready food, corn and grain that are genetically resistant to pesticides and ...
Human instruction book not so simple
Post Date: 2007-06-14 08:24:27 by Ada
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Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An in-depth examination of the human DNA map has turned basic biology concepts upside-down and may even rewrite the book on evolution and some causes of disease, researchers said on Wednesday. They found there was far more to genetics than the genes themselves and determined there was no such thing as "junk DNA" but that some of the most useless-looking stretches of DNA may carry important information. Thirty-five teams of researchers from 80 different organizations in 11 countries teamed up to share notes on just 1 percent of the human genome. Their findings, the start of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements or ENCODE ...
Moonlighting in solar;For chip manufacturers, wafers 'have been like gold' of late
Post Date: 2007-06-13 23:55:23 by JCHarris
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Moonlighting in solar For chip manufacturers, wafers 'have been like gold' of late By Matt Andrejczak, MarketWatch Last Update: 12:52 PM ET Jun 13, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Not long ago, used chip wafers were considered all but worthless, sent to landfills or recycling centers. But semiconductor makers have found a new home for the millions of wafers they exhaust each year: the emerging solar industry. Amid tight supplies of polysilicon, it's become a worthwhile side business for chip manufacturers such as Texas Instruments Inc. 'Lucrative business' These wafers "have been like gold" for the makers of chips over the past couple years, said Pat ...
Free from the Atmosphere
Post Date: 2007-06-13 15:08:23 by farmfriend
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Free from the Atmosphere Laser Guide Star System on ESO's VLT Starts Regular Science Operations An artificial, laser-fed star now shines regularly over the sky of Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, one of the world's most advanced large ground-based telescopes. This system provides assistance for the adaptive optics instruments on the VLT and so allows astronomers to obtain images free from the blurring effect of the atmosphere, regardless of the brightness and the location on the sky of the observed target. Now that it is routinely offered by the observatory, the skies seem much sharper to astronomers. In order to counteract the blurring effect of Earth's ...
Alternative energy comes closer with advances in hydrogen fuel cell sealing technology
Post Date: 2007-06-13 10:14:36 by farmfriend
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Alternative energy comes closer with advances in hydrogen fuel cell sealing technology Developing ceramic seal technology for solid oxide fuel cells Contact: Dr. Ian Birkby journals@azonetwork.com 61-029-999-0070 AZoNetwork Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) have attracted major interest from research and development communities as an alternative source of power, with commercial trials already under way. In these fuel cells electricity is generated via electro-chemical reactions using hydrogen based gas and oxygen as a fuel and oxidant, respectively. Sealing these units is a critical technical issue that needs further work before they can be put into widespread commercial use. In particular ...
A Dictionary for the "9/11 Truth Movement" [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-06-13 08:53:36 by can of corn
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Alloyal subject: Person who regards as sacred the creed that steel is perfectly rigid until it melts. Alternative theory: Something so wacky that even Twoofers don't give it much credence (e. g. holographic planes, pods). Beam Weapon: A currently non-existent quantum weapon that entered our dimension during a 3-hour period on 9/11/2001 and got a space woody for steel-framed buildings and five-sided buildings. Oh, and half of some automobiles. Then it winked out of existence and is not included in the 9/11 Omission Report. Bermass - a loud-mouthed conspiracy theorist. "When all he did was yell 'liar liar' over and over, I knew the guy was a bermass" bollyn (v.) - ...
NASA satellites watch as China constructs giant dam
Post Date: 2007-06-12 21:47:46 by farmfriend
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NASA satellites watch as China constructs giant dam Contact: Lynn Chandler lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov 301-286-2806 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Some call it the eighth wonder of world. Others say it's the next Great Wall of China. Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam along China’s Yangtze River will be the world's largest hydroelectric power generator and one of the few man-made structures so enormous that it's actually visible to the naked eye from space. NASA's Landsat satellites have provided detailed, vivid views of the dam since construction began in 1994. The Yangtze River is the third largest river in the world, stretching more than 3,900 miles ...
New ORNL theory aims to explain recent temperature, climate extremes
Post Date: 2007-06-12 21:35:09 by farmfriend
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New ORNL theory aims to explain recent temperature, climate extremes Media Contact: Ron Walli Communications and External Relations 865.576.0226 OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 12, 2007 — Using an ocean of data, sophisticated mathematical models and supercomputing resources, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are putting climate models to the test with particular focus on weather extremes. Ultimately, the new methodology developed by Auroop Ganguly and colleagues could help determine to what extent there is a connection between human activity and climate change. For now, however, researchers are concentrating on how climate models fare when compared ...
Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
Post Date: 2007-06-11 17:02:10 by farmfriend
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Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming Contact: Mark Shwartz mshwartz@stanford.edu 650-723-9296 Stanford University While solar power and hybrid cars have become popular symbols of green technology, Stanford researchers are exploring another path for cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Carbon capture and storage, also called carbon sequestration, traps carbon dioxide after it is produced and injects it underground. The gas never enters the atmosphere. The practice could transform heavy carbon spewers, such as coal power plants, into relatively clean machines with regard to global warming. ...
The woes of Kilimanjaro: Don't blame global warming
Post Date: 2007-06-11 16:36:48 by farmfriend
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The woes of Kilimanjaro: Don't blame global warming Contact: Vince Stricherz vinces@u.washington.edu 206-543-2580 University of Washington The "snows" of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro inspired the title of an iconic American short story, but now its dwindling icecap is being cited as proof for human-induced global warming. However, two researchers writing in the July-August edition of American Scientist magazine say global warming has nothing to do with the decline of Kilimanjaro's ice, and using the mountain in northern Tanzania as a "poster child" for climate change is simply inaccurate. "There are dozens, if not hundreds, of photos of midlatitude ...
Oxygen trick could see organic costs tumble [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-06-11 12:51:04 by farmfriend
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Oxygen trick could see organic costs tumble Contact: SCI Press Office press@soci.org 44-020-759-81548 Society of Chemical Industry A simple, cheap treatment using just oxygen could allow growers to store organic produce for longer and go a long way towards reducing the price of organic fruit and vegetables, reports Lisa Richards in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI. Currently UK shoppers have to pay twice as much for some organic products. Organic apples, for example, are around double the price of conventionally grown apples in Sainbury’s, Waitrose and Tesco. One of the major contributing factors affecting the price is the short shelf life of organic produce. ...
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