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Crew Chosen for 4 Month Mars Simulation Mission
Post Date: 2007-04-02 16:45:19 by bluedogtxn
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Crew Chosen for Four-Month Arctic Mars Simulation Mission by Kevin F Sloan — last modified 2006-12-06 21:33 The crew has been chosen for this unprecedented four-month human Mars simulation mission that will be conducted from May through August of 2007 at The Mars Society’s Flashline Mars Artic Research Station (FMARS) on Devon Island, in the high Canadian arctic. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Kevin Sloan (814) 574-1211 November 20, 2006 – The Mars Society announced earlier this month the selection of University of New Brunswick geologist Melissa Battler as crew commander of FMARS 2007. This unprecedented four-month human Mars simulation mission will be conducted from ...
Elon Musk Coming to Mars Society Convention
Post Date: 2007-04-02 16:37:08 by bluedogtxn
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Elon Musk To Speak At 2007 Mars Society Convention by Alex Kirk — last modified 2007-03-29 13:40 Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, will speak at the 2007 Mars Society Convention, to be held at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, August 30-Sept 2, 2007. The Mars Society is proud to announce that Elon Musk will be speaking at the 10th International Mars Society Convention, which will be held at UCLA, Los Angeles, August 30-Sept 2, 2007. Elon Musk is the founder and CEO of SpaceX, an entrepreneurial rocket development company that just made history by reaching an altitude of 200 miles with its privately developed Falcon 1 launch vehicle. Much larger Falcon 5 and Falcon 9 vehicles are reportedly under ...
Lots of Ice Found at the South Pole
Post Date: 2007-04-02 16:30:56 by bluedogtxn
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Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide 03.15.07 Pasadena, Calif. -- New measurements of Mars' south polar region indicate extensive frozen water. The polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 11 meters (36 feet) deep. A joint NASA-Italian Space Agency instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft provided these data. This new estimate comes from mapping the thickness of the ice. The Mars Express orbiter's radar instrument has made more than 300 virtual slices through layered deposits covering the pole to map the ice. The radar sees through icy layers to the lower boundary, which is as deep as 3.7 ...
THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD: THE MOST IMPORTANT IMAGE EVER TAKEN (cool video)
Post Date: 2007-04-02 14:25:54 by gengis gandhi
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George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house 32 CCTV cameras around George Orwell’s home
Post Date: 2007-04-01 21:25:21 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house 32 CCTV cameras around George Orwell’s home According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily. http://jkn.com/View?j=788764.931880553073 The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home. It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person's movements is now here. ...
Mystery of Great Pyramid 'solved'
Post Date: 2007-03-31 17:55:40 by robin
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Mystery of Great Pyramid 'solved' Internal ramps were used to push the stones into place, Houdin says A French architect claims to have solved the mystery of how Egypt's Great Pyramid was built. Jean-Pierre Houdin said the 4,500-year-old pyramid, just outside Cairo, was built using an inner ramp to lift the massive stones into place. Other theories contend that the three million stones - each 2.5 tons - were pushed into place using external ramps. Mr Houdin studied the problem for eight years and used a computer model to illustrate how he thought it was done. "This is better than the other theories, because it is the only theory that ...
Massive Solar Plant Opens in Portugal
Post Date: 2007-03-30 02:35:07 by robin
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - March 29, 2007, 10:43 AM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,474623,00.htmlSOAKING UP THE SUNMassive Solar Plant Opens in Portugal One of the largest solar plants in the world has opened in Portugal's sunny south. The project is intended to help reduce the country's reliance on imported energy. AFP The new Serpa solar plant is located in one of Europe's sunniest locations -- pay no attention to those clouds in the sky. Some countries are just better suited to wean themselves off fossil fuels than others. Sun-kissed Portugal is one of the lucky ones when it comes to potential for solar power generation, and the country has now opened one of ...
Dell Gives the Go-Ahead for Linux
Post Date: 2007-03-30 02:24:09 by robin
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Dell gives the go-ahead for Linux Large firms like Oracle use open source Linux softwareComputer giant Dell will start to sell PCs preinstalled with open source Linux operating systems, the firm has said. The second largest computer maker in the world said it had chosen to offer Linux in response to customer demand. Earlier this year, 100,000 people took part in a Dell survey. More than 70% of respondents said they would use Linux. Dell has not released details of which versions of Linux it will use or which computers it will run on, but promised an update in the coming weeks. "Dell has heard you," said a statement on the firm's website. "Our first step in this ...
Does Maya Calendar Predict 2012 Apocalypse?
Post Date: 2007-03-28 11:39:01 by Brian S
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With humanity coming up fast on 2012, publishers are helping readers gear up and count down to this mysterious — some even call it apocalyptic — date that ancient Mayan societies were anticipating thousands of years ago. Since November, at least three new books on 2012 have arrived in mainstream bookstores. A fourth is due this fall. Each arrives in the wake of the 2006 success of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, which has been selling thousands of copies a month since its release in May and counts more than 40,000 in print. The books also build on popular interest in the Maya, fueled in part by Mel Gibson's December 2006 film about Mayan civilization, Apocalpyto. Authors ...
Bizarre hexagon spotted in Saturn’s clouds
Post Date: 2007-03-28 07:00:48 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Bizarre hexagon spotted in Saturn’s cloudsAstronomers can’t explain six-sided pattern at planet’s north polegetCSS("3088867")FREE VIDEO• Saturn's hexagonMarch 27: Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a hexagonal cloud formation hovering over the north pole. http://MSNBC.com's Dara Brown reports.MSNBC.comhttp://class="credit">MSNBC.com st*l*="padding-bottom: 20px;">SLIDE SHOW• Best of CassiniClick "Launch" to see some of the greatest hits from Cassini's mission to Saturn. if (window.spacecom_hed) { spacecom_hed.appWidth=300; spacecom_hed.ID = "spacecom_hed"; spacecom_hed.appFmt = 1; ...
Michigan Teen Builds Nuclear Fusion Device
Post Date: 2007-03-27 20:13:16 by Red Jones
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Michigan Teen Builds Nuclear Fusion Device Steve Kovsky (Blog) - March 27, 2007 2:03 PM Teenager Thiago Olsen posted this picture of his homemade fusion device on a blog page for other amatuer physicists to admire.A high school senior has achieved nuclear fusion in his parents’ basement. When he's not running track and cross country at Stoney Creek High School, 17-year-old Thiago Olsen can be found tinkering with items such as high-voltage X-ray transformers, diffusion pumps, and neutron bubble dosimeters. Most of the devices were scrounged from eBay or built from scraps and pieces picked up at the local hardware store. This teen's dream of fusing two hydrogen atoms by ...
The World of Free Energy
Post Date: 2007-03-26 15:23:29 by intotheabyss
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For a two-page summary of this 10-page essay, click here In the late 1880's, trade journals in the electrical sciences were predicting free electricity and free energy in the near future. Incredible discoveries about the nature of electricity were becoming common place. Nikola Tesla was demonstrating "wireless lighting" and other wonders associated with high frequency currents. There was an excitement about the future like never before. Within 20 years, there would be automobiles, airplanes, movies, recorded music, telephones, radio, and practical cameras. The Victorian Age was giving way to something totally new. For the first time in history, common people were ...
Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human
Post Date: 2007-03-26 10:17:31 by christine
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Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs. The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer. Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada, has spent seven years and £5million perfecting the technique, which involves injecting adult human cells into a sheep's foetus. He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own ...
Are GM Crops Killing Bees?
Post Date: 2007-03-22 23:08:56 by robin
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - March 22, 2007, 06:21 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,473166,00.htmlCOLLAPSING COLONIESAre GM Crops Killing Bees?By Gunther Latsch A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous. DDP Is the mysterous decimation of bee populations in the US and Germany a result of GM crops? Walter Haefeker is a man who is used to painting grim scenarios. He sits on the board of directors of the German Beekeepers Association (DBIB) and is vice president of the European ...
France Opens Secret UFO Files Covering 50 Years
Post Date: 2007-03-22 12:17:08 by Brian S
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France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades. The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists. "It is a world first," said Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer who heads the office for the study of "non-identified aerospatial phenomena." Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest along with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government ...
Nikola Tesla profiled by Mark Pilkington
Post Date: 2007-03-21 20:42:13 by Zipporah
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Nikola Tesla profiled by Mark Pilkington Mark Pilkington, editor of the wonderful fringe culture magazine Strange Attractor Journal, has written a fascinating profile for Fortean Times of Nikola Tesla, quintessential maker, intriguing eccentric, and power hacker. Makers around the world celebrated Tesla's 150th birthday last year. (Seen here, a multiple exposure photo of Tesla in his laboratory.) From Pilkington's article: While it’s still possible to find modern histories of electricity that make no mention of Tesla, during his lifetime he was, alongside Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi, the most celebrated inventor of the age. His polyphase system of Alternating ...
Study Details Catastrophic Impact Of Nuclear Attack On US Cities
Post Date: 2007-03-21 11:10:44 by Brian S
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Science Daily — A new study by researchers at the Center for Mass Destruction Defense (CMADD) at the University of Georgia details the catastrophic impact a nuclear attack would have on American cities.A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress. (Credit: Image courtesy of U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) The study, which the authors said was the most advanced and detailed simulation published in open scientific literature, highlights the inability of the nation’s ...
Erasing the Pain of the Past
Post Date: 2007-03-21 08:10:54 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Erasing the Pain of the Past Scientists Are Developing Drugs That Could Eliminate Traumatic Events From Our Memories By RUSSELL GOLDMAN March 20, 2007 — "I'd take it in a second," said Sgt. Michael Walcott, an Iraq War veteran, referring to an experimental drug with the potential to target and erase traumatic memories. Walcott, who served in a Balad-based transportation unit that regularly took mortar fire, now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Since returning to the United States two years ago, he has been on antidepressants and in group therapy as he tries to put his life back together and heal from the psychological scars of war. "There are ...
Gendered division of labor gave modern humans advantage over Neanderthals
Post Date: 2007-03-20 18:14:58 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Diversified social roles for men, women, and children may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over Neanderthals, says a new study in the December 2006 issue of Current Anthropology. The study argues that division of economic labor by sex and age emerged relatively recently in human evolutionary history and facilitated the spread of modern humans throughout Eurasia. "The competitive advantage enjoyed by modern humans came not just from new weapons and devices but from the ways in which their economic lives were organized around the advantages of cooperation and complementary subsistence roles for men, women, and children," write Steven L. Kuhn and Mary C. Stiner (University of ...
Is This the Fabric of the Universe? [can anyone explain this?]
Post Date: 2007-03-20 09:04:48 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Is this the fabric of the universe?Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 19/03/2007Roger Highfield describes a heroic mathematical enterprise that could lay bare the fundamentals of the cosmosMathematicians have successfully scaled their equivalent of Mount Everest. Today they unveil the answer to a problem that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan. A two dimensional representation of E8, courtesy of Peter McMullen and John StembridgeAt the most basic level, the calculation is an arcane investigation of symmetry – in this case of an object that is 57 dimensional, rather than the usual three dimensional ones that we are familiar with. Although this object was ...
Comet C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)
Post Date: 2007-03-19 20:05:31 by BeAChooser
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Comet C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) This is might offer a good show as it approaches earth. Here's an orbital simulation: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?sstr=C%2F2007+E2&group=all&search=Search
Scientist accuses White House of 'Nazi' tactics
Post Date: 2007-03-19 19:26:06 by Zipporah
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Scientist accuses White House of 'Nazi' tactics By Joel Havemann, Times Staff Writer 1:05 PM PDT, March 19, 2007 WASHINGTON -- A government scientist, under sharp questioning by a federal panel for his outspoken views on global warming, stood by his view today that the Bush administration's information policies smacked of Nazi Germany. James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, took particular issue with the administration's rule that a government information officer listen in on his interviews with reporters and its refusal to allow him to be interviewed by National Public ...
Israel a Hotbed of Internet Attacks, Report Says
Post Date: 2007-03-19 17:09:52 by Tauzero
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Israel has the dubious honor of being home to the most malicious Internet activity per Internet user, according to Symantec's twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report. The latest report, covering the second half of 2006, was just released today. This was the first time Symantec measured how much activity like spam origination, phishing site hosting and bot-infected computers could be attributed to an average Internet user. From July through December, 9 percent of all such activity traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8 percent, while Poland and the US tied with 6. Dave Cole, Director of the Symantec security response team, says it doesn't mean that viruses and phishing ...
Germany Automakers' Hybrid Efforts Plagued by Technical Problems
Post Date: 2007-03-18 12:04:21 by robin
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - March 16, 2007, 04:14 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,472189,00.htmlCOMING LATE TO THE GAMEGermany Automakers' Hybrid Efforts Plagued by Technical ProblemsBy Christian Wüst German automakers will introduce hybrid cars into the market later than planned. Carmakers underestimated the difficulty of developing the sophisticated, environmentally friendly technology. DPA Toyota's Lexus LS 600h hybrid model at the Geneva Auto Salon: a pioneer in hybrid technology The first defeat was bad enough. It amounted to a collective recognition by executives at German car companies that they had misjudged the situation. More than two years ago ...
This time, China may get to moon 1st
Post Date: 2007-03-18 09:19:04 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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This time, China may get to moon 1st By Traci Watson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — China is on track to put humans on the moon before the United States can return there, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told a House panel Thursday. If NASA continues to receive its current level of funding, it will return astronauts to the moon in 2019, Griffin told the House Science and Technology Committee. A "few billion extra" dollars would allow NASA to send crews to the moon in 2017, he said. President Bush ordered NASA to send humans back to the moon by 2020 for the first time since 1972. Griffin said it "would be easily possible" for the Chinese to put humans on the lunar ...
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