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Hubble Repair Mission OK'd
Post Date: 2006-10-31 10:26:06 by Brian S
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- NASA Administrator Michael Griffin turned astronomers' Halloween into Christmas with the announcement to send astronauts on a final mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. "We are going to add a shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope to the shuttle's manifest to be flown before it retires," Griffin told workers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland on Tuesday. The mission will prolong the life of an instrument that has captured some of the most spectacular images of the universe. At least three astronauts planned to be available for a news conference in Houston Tuesday afternoon. Astronauts already have been training ...
Daily Circulation Falls at U.S. Papers
Post Date: 2006-10-30 21:02:35 by DeaconBenjamin
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NEW YORK -- Circulation declines accelerated at major U.S. newspapers for the six-month period ending in September, according to figures released Monday, in the latest sign of struggle for an industry that is continually grappling with changing reader habits. Average paid circulation fell 2.8 percent on weekdays and 3.4 percent on Sundays, the Newspaper Association of America reported, an even worse showing than the last time figures were released in May. Then, the NAA said average weekday circulation fell 2.5 percent in the six months ending in March, while Sunday circulation fell 3.1 percent. The figures are based on biannual publishers' statements delivered to the Audit Bureau of ...
The Nazi Model For Outcome-Based Education
Post Date: 2006-10-30 05:55:57 by Kamala
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The Nazi Model For Outcome-Based Education Skip to Community Service See also Molding Human Resources for the Global Workforce, Brainwashing in America Bush, Shultz, Gorbachev and Soviet Education, Public schools and what you are up against by a 16-year-old student Redefining "Literacy" for a New World Order, HR 1385 - Workforce Development Means Life-Long Indoctrination by Berit Kjos Home | Today's News | Articles Email this page History keeps repeating itself, but few heed its warnings. If our leaders did, they would know that today's massive attempt to transform our culture by nationalizing education will bring repression, not freedom. They would see that the ...
(Maine)TV GM bans global warming news (temporarily until town is underwater)
Post Date: 2006-10-30 04:39:08 by Zipporah
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Big News http://Network.com Monday 30th October, 2006 (UPI) The general manager of two TV stations in Maine has ordered his news department to stop covering global warming until Bar Harbor is underwater. Michael Palmer told the joint news staff of WVII and WFVX in an e-mail that global warming stories are like 'the killer African bee scare' from the 1970s or, more recently, the Y2K scare when everyone's computer was going to self-destruct. A copy of the e-mail was sent to The New York Times, which said Palmer did not respond to a request for comment. A former staff member told the newspaper Palmer's e-mail went out after the stations broadcast a report on Al Gore's movie, An ...
Water-based fuel (Water powered cars)
Post Date: 2006-10-29 05:08:10 by Neil McIver
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Poster Comment:Anyone here got the basic equipment and saftey know-how to do a test? An accidental short of a car battery would be not difficult and very bad with the experiments shown, but it seems to be no real rocket science. It would have been better if the gas coming up were shown to be hydrogen & Oxygen.
Vampires a Mathematical Impossibility, Scientists Say
Post Date: 2006-10-27 01:01:11 by Morgana le Fay
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A researcher has come up with some simple math that sucks the life out of the vampire myth, proving that these highly popular creatures can't exist. ADVERTISEMENT University of Central Florida physics professor Costas Efthimiou's work debunks pseudoscientific ideas, such as vampires and zombies, in an attempt to enhance public literacy. Not only does the public believe in such topics, but the percentages are at dangerously high level, Efthimiou told LiveScience. Legend has it that vampires feed on human blood and once bitten a person turns into a vampire and starts feasting on the blood of others. Efthimiou's debunking logic: On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911. If the ...
Mathmeticians Destroy Evolution Theory
Post Date: 2006-10-25 16:48:25 by gengis gandhi
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**go to url for links WISTAR DESTROYS EVOLUTION With the dawn of large main-frame computers came the data needed to disprove evolution. Wistar buried evolutionary theory. Yet the evolutionists won't admit it. Evolutionary theory is a myth. God created everything; the evidence clearly points to it. Nothing else can explain the evidence found in nature. This is science vs. evolution—a Creation-Evolution Encyclopedia, brought to you by Creation Science Facts. CONTENTS: Wistar Destroys Evolution The 1966 Philadelphia Meeting - Evolution destroyed by mathematical facts at Wistar The 1969 Alpbach Meeting - More evidence against evolution The 1980 New York Meeting - The situation became ...
Global Warming: Here Come The Lawyers
Post Date: 2006-10-23 15:59:43 by mirage
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Global Warming: Here Come The Lawyers It's the next wave of litigation -- after tobacco, guns, and junk food. Why Detroit, Big Oil, and utilities should worry Two days after hurricane Katrina smashed into the Gulf Coast, F. Gerald Maples returned to his hometown of Pass Christian, Miss., to utter devastation. Most of his neighbors' houses were totally destroyed. His was in ruins. "It broke our hearts and absolutely changed our lives," he says. It also made Maples, a veteran asbestos plaintiffs' attorney in New Orleans, determined to fight back. "I couldn't stand by when my entire cultural history was destroyed by an event that could become more frequent because of global ...
Can Microsoft do that?
Post Date: 2006-10-23 08:57:58 by Red Jones
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By Ken Fisher Sunday, October 22, 2006 Can Microsoft do that? With the full public release of Windows Vista only a few months away, tensions are heating up between Microsoft and some security software vendors, and plenty of pundits are saying that this situation looks like a 2007 repeat of the great Microsoft-Netscape battles of old. In the following report, we briefly summarize the facts and then explain why this situation is worlds apart from that landmark battle over web browsers. If anyone should be sweating bullets, it's Microsoft. As previously reported, antivirus and security firms Symantec and McAfee object to x86-64 Windows' PatchGuard feature for 64-bit versions of the OS, ...
Why Bush's NSA Wire tapping is defeated by VoIP Networks
Post Date: 2006-10-23 00:09:06 by Neil McIver
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8493098426180726284&pr=goog-sl Good listen. About 13 minutes long.
Scientists create first cloaking device
Post Date: 2006-10-21 11:14:02 by Tauzero
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Scientists create first cloaking device www.chinaview.cn 2006-10-20 15:52:57 LOS ANGELES, Oct.19 (Xinhua) -- Scientists have created the first cloaking device to demonstrate the theory of hiding an object from electromagnetic radiation. The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow around an inside object with little distortion, making it appear almost as if nothing were there at all, a group of researchers reported in the Oct.19 online advance edition of the journal Science. Cloaks that render objects essentially invisible to microwaves could have a variety of wireless communications or radar applications, according to the team led by scientists at the U.S. Duke University. The first ...
Facial expressions run in the family
Post Date: 2006-10-20 12:55:29 by Tauzero
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Facial expressions run in the family Tuesday, 17 October 2006 Jacqui Hayes Cosmos Online SYDNEY: Do you look like your father when you're angry? Probably more than you'd imagined. Facial expressions may be inherited, Israeli researchers say. According to scientists, every person has a set of facial expressions that is unique to them, a signature of their identity that remains stable over time. Stable patterns of facial expressions arise before a baby is six months old, but until now, scientists were unsure whether these patterns were learned or innate. "We were interested to examine whether there is a unique family facial expression signature," said lead author Gili Peleg from ...
Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules
Post Date: 2006-10-19 20:14:14 by DeaconBenjamin
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THE [British] Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube. The European Commission proposal would require websites and mobile phone services that feature video images to conform to standards laid down in Brussels. Ministers fear that the directive would hit not only successful sites such as YouTube but also amateur “video bloggers” who post material on their own sites. Personal websites would have to be licensed as a “television-like service”. Viviane Reding, the Media Commissioner, argues that the purpose is simply to set minimum standards on areas ...
Paper takes swipe at bedrock law of physics
Post Date: 2006-10-16 13:55:11 by gengis gandhi
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Paper takes swipe at bedrock law of physics Oct. 14, 2006 Special to World Science A new paper by a self-described hobby physicist challenges what may be the bedrock law of nature. And while skeptics are rolling their eyes, the study has appeared in a professional journal with the apparent consent of leading physicists. The principle under dispute, central to physics for at least two centuries, is called the law of conservation of energy. It states that nothing can be created or destroyed: you can’t get something from ...
Major SETI Institute Announcement
Post Date: 2006-10-16 10:40:40 by Mind_Virus
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Major SETI Institute Announcement 10:00 - 11:00 am PDT Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Location: SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA, US Web Site Address: http://www.seti.org
AUDIO: Could We See Two Suns In Five Years?
Post Date: 2006-10-15 18:14:42 by Mind_Virus
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Could We See Two Suns In Five Years? Is it possible we live in a binary solar system with two suns? According to NASA, over 80% of all solar systems have multiple suns and the historical accounts contained in The Kolbrin Bible suggest it could be Sol's unborn twin. A destructive brown dwarf larger than the planet Jupiter, and known to the ancients as the Destroyer. The authors of this 3600 year-old secular anthology tell us it caused Noah's Flood, the Ten Plagues of Exodus, and that it will return soon. In this special audio report, you'll learn what this new cosmic threat could mean to life as we know it, and what our governments are doing about it. Could We See Two Suns in Five Years? - ...
Cyberface: New Technology That Captures the Soul
Post Date: 2006-10-15 11:06:41 by Morgana le Fay
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THERE’S nothing particularly remarkable about the near-empty offices of Image Metrics in downtown Santa Monica, loft-style cubicles with a dartboard at the end of the hallway. A few polite British executives tiptoe about, quietly demonstrating the company’s new technology. What’s up on-screen in the conference room, however, immediately focuses the mind. In one corner of the monitor, an actress is projecting a series of emotions — ecstasy, confusion, relief, boredom, sadness — while in the center of the screen, a computer-drawn woman is mirroring those same emotions. It’s not just that the virtual woman looks happy when the actress looks happy or relieved ...
Everything You Need to Know About Bedbugs but Were Afraid to Ask
Post Date: 2006-10-15 03:01:32 by Morgana le Fay
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TYPICALLY, the problem starts with the bites: itchy, reddish welts that leave their victims wondering if they have a rash or have had an allergic reaction to something. Often, the next step is a visit to the doctor, followed by calls to the landlord, the superintendent and the exterminator. The cause is the bedbug, the nocturnal, blood-sucking insect that is making a comeback in urban housing across North America. Complaints about bedbugs in rental apartments in New York City more than doubled last year and are on target to reach a record this year. Managers and owners of co-op and condominium apartments in the city report similar trends, although the city tracks complaints only in ...
VIDEO: Metal Storm Weapons: Million-Plus Rounds Per Minute
Post Date: 2006-10-11 11:04:58 by Mind_Virus
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Metal Storm Weapons: Million-Plus Rounds Per Minute O’Dwyer constructed a triple-barrel, a nine-barrel, and a 36-barrel firing prototype design that he lovingly named Bertha. “The reason for the 36 barrels was simply to indicate to ourselves and to others the future versatility of this system, in that with the 36 barrels we had 540 rounds on board and, based on the 45,000-round-per-minute rate per barrel, that gave us a maximum firing rate of 1.62 million rounds per minute,” the inventor says
HAS YOUTUBE SOLD IT'S SOUL TO GOOGLE?
Post Date: 2006-10-11 10:50:48 by Mind_Virus
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HAS YOUTUBE SOLD IT'S SOUL TO GOOGLE? Is this the boomtime deal that signals a bust? A Message From Chad and Steve Google has paid $1.65bn for video site YouTube Some think it will come to regret it Young, suitless executives with a start-up company born in pokey offices encrusted with pizza boxes suddenly finding themselves flush with hundreds of millions of dollars. A business with little or no revenues attracts a nosebleed valuation just a few years after launching. Surely these are signs that the technology world, ever keen on a fad, is blowing up another bubble to challenge the dotcom madness of 2000. If the decision of Time Warner, stalwart of the traditional media world, to ...
Was The North Korean Blast Nuclear? A Tricky Question For Scientists
Post Date: 2006-10-09 14:15:39 by Brian S
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Published: October 9, 2006 PARIS North Korea sets off an earthshaking explosion — and claims it was nuclear. Was it? For scientists, that was not a quick and easy question to answer. Like earthquakes, large explosions send out shockwaves that can be detected on seismographs. Big nuclear bombs make big waves, with clear signatures that make them fairly easy to detect, analyze and confirm that they were caused by splitting atoms. But smaller blasts — as North Korea's appears to have been — are trickier to break down. The natural sound of the Earth, with its constant seismic activity of tectonic plates grinding together, complicates the task of trying to determine whether a ...
Scientists teleport two different objects
Post Date: 2006-10-09 13:09:06 by Neil McIver
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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Beaming people in "Star Trek" fashion is still in the realms of science fiction, but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality. Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second. But Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter. "It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different ...
Future of the hard drive 'secure'
Post Date: 2006-10-08 04:29:57 by robin
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Future of the hard drive 'secure' By Chris Long BBC Click reporter With all the developments in memory technology you could be forgiven for thinking that the lowly hard drive is dead. The terabyte hard drive uses perpendicular recording But although the hard drive is 50 this year, we have seen yet more growth in the technologies around it. The one terabyte drive is more or less here, we have perpendicular recording and they are getting smaller all the time. Without Daniel Bernoulli we would not have a name for the effect that we rely on to make the hard disk work. The Bernoulli Effect is what happens when a wing moves through the air - it floats. Just like an aeroplane's wing, ...
The Human Genome Project: A Cosmic Joke that has the Scientists Rolling in the Aisle
Post Date: 2006-10-07 09:37:10 by gengis gandhi
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The Human Genome Project: A Cosmic Joke that has the Scientists Rolling in the Aisle Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. There is a "thing" I refer to as Universe Humor, others may refer to it as a Cosmic Joke. There have been times in all of our lives when we thought we knew exactly how some event or incident was going to turn out. We could be so convinced that we "knew" what was going to happen, that we would have bet the family farm and the kitchen sink on the outcome of the event. It is at moments like this, when the Universe surprises us by taking a left turn instead of a right. While in most cases such a turn of events may evoke anger, disappointment or disillusion, I ...
Giant camel's remains found in Syria
Post Date: 2006-10-07 08:25:45 by Steel
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Swiss researchers have discovered the 100,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria. Professor Jean-Marie Le Tensorer of the University of Basel says the discovery is revolutionary for science. "It was not known that the dromedary was present in the Middle East more than 10,000 years ago," he said. "Can you imagine? The camel's shoulders stood three metres high and it was around four metres tall, as big as a giraffe or an elephant. "Nobody knew that such a species had existed." Professor Tensorer, who has been excavating at the desert site in Kowm since 1999, says the first large bones were found some years ago but were ...
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