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Hubble telescope spots a dark blemish on Uranus
Post Date: 2006-10-07 00:08:25 by Morgana le Fay
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The recently-troubled Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a giant swirling, dark vortex on Uranus. Peering 3.2 billion km into space, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys snapped the photos on August 23. The dark spot indicates a massive storm on the alien planet's surface that is large enough to engulf two-thirds of the United States. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers report the spot measures 1,700 km by 3,000 km. The image is a composite of three cameras that comprise Hubble's main viewing device. Hubble trouble Since taking the image, Hubble's primary camera has experienced technical difficulties. The three-channel camera shut down after losing power on Sept. 23. Since ...
'Monster' fossil find in Arctic
Post Date: 2006-10-05 23:07:56 by robin
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'Monster' fossil find in Arctic By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News One find has been nicknamed "The Monster"Enlarge ImageNorwegian scientists have discovered a "treasure trove" of fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs. The 150 million-year-old fossils were uncovered on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard - about halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. The finds belong to two groups of extinct marine reptiles - the plesiosaurs and the ichthyosaurs. One skeleton has been nicknamed The Monster because of its enormous size. These animals were the top predators living in what was then ...
K7RA Solar Update
Post Date: 2006-10-05 19:04:56 by Tauzero
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The K7RA Solar Update SEATTLE, WA, Oct 5, 2006 -- This report is appearing one day early this week to accommodate travel schedules. Daily sunspot numbers and solar flux were higher this week. Average daily sunspot numbers rose by nearly 22 points to 34.6. Average daily solar flux was up nearly by 6 points to 76.7. September 30 ended the third quarter of 2006, so now is a good time to review quarterly averages of daily sunspot numbers and solar flux, to examine the current solar cycle's downward trend. From the first quarter of 2004 through the third quarter of 2006, the average daily sunspot number was 72.9, 71.3, 69.3, 61, 46.1, 55.7, 58, 36, 18.1, 39.7 and 23.5. The average daily solar ...
The 2007 hurricane season: a lamb too?
Post Date: 2006-10-05 18:55:05 by Tauzero
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The 2007 hurricane season: a lamb too? There have been nine named storms so far during this year's Atlantic hurricane season. Jeff Masters thinks we'll probably only get one more storm between now and when hurricane season ends on Nov. 30. So, at the beginning of the year, do you recall anyone predicting an average hurricane season (9.6 named storms) for the Atlantic? Bill Gray predicted 17 storms. NOAA called for 13 to 16 storms. Joe Bastardi said the United States was going to get hit by three major hurricanes. Even some knucklehead calling himself SciGuy called for 17 named storms using his ultra-unsophisticated "averaging" system. But wait a minute: Houston's Weather ...
Amazon Stonehenge
Post Date: 2006-10-03 19:42:05 by tom007
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Another ‘Stonehenge’ discovered in Amazon Centuries-old granite grouping may have served as observatory Image: Granite blocks Gilmar Nascimento / AP file A grouping of 127 granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of an ancient astronomical observatory, according to archaeologists. • Most viewed on http://MSNBC.com RSS FEEDS ON MSNBC.COM Add these headlines to your news reader • Science • Learn more about RSS By Stan Lehman Updated: 5:06 p.m. CT June 27, 2006 SAO PAULO, Brazil - A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory — a find that archaeologists say ...
Out-of-Body Experience? Your Brain Is to Blame
Post Date: 2006-10-03 02:41:23 by Morgana le Fay
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They are eerie sensations, more common than one might think: A man describes feeling a shadowy figure standing behind him, then turning around to find no one there. A woman feels herself leaving her body and floating in space, looking down on her corporeal self. Such experiences are often attributed by those who have them to paranormal forces. But according to recent work by neuroscientists, they can be induced by delivering mild electric current to specific spots in the brain. In one woman, for example, a zap to a brain region called the angular gyrus resulted in a sensation that she was hanging from the ceiling, looking down at her body. In another woman, electrical current delivered ...
Australian researchers back hobbit claims
Post Date: 2006-10-02 11:57:53 by gengis gandhi
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Australian researchers back hobbit claims Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) are backing claims that the discovery of the so-called hobbit in Indonesia does represent a new species of human. In 2003, Australian scientists unearthed the remains of a hobbit-like species, with adults about the height of a three-year-old child, in a cave on a remote island in Indonesia. In a new paper, ANU researchers reject claims that the skeleton of a hobbit-like species was simply a very short human with a rare brain disease. ANU Professor Colin Groves says after analysing the evidence, he has no doubt the discovery represents a new species of human. "What is particularly ...
Halloween Money Bringing Spell
Post Date: 2006-10-02 03:53:19 by Morgana le Fay
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You might want to try this popular 'spell' for money. It is best done around Halloween. You need a gold coin and a pair of old shoes. Holding up the coin in daylight and say "what I see, may it increase, so I may have financial peace." Place the gold coin in the old left shoe, then put both shoes on. Walk clockwise in a circle three times. Take the shoes off and place them in a T shape where they can't be disturbed. Do the same thing for three two days. On the third day take out the gold coin from the left shoe and tape the coin in the most worn pair of shoes. Do not spend the coin as it will bring you luck!! ONLY DO THIS SPELL IF MONEY IS NEEDED NOT OUT OF GREED! If you are ...
First test of China's new thermonuclear fusion reactor succeeds
Post Date: 2006-09-30 14:26:01 by Steel
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Chinese scientists on Thursday successfully conducted their first test of an experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor, which replicates the energy generating process of the sun. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion reactor, nicknamed "artificial sun", was tested at the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province. During the experiment, deuterium and tritium atoms were forced together at a temperature of 100 million Celsius. "At that temperature, the super heated plasma, which is neither a gas, a liquid nor a solid, should begin to give off its own energy," ...
4th Generation Warfare Delusions
Post Date: 2006-09-29 10:51:24 by bluedogtxn
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The Sanctuary Delusion by William S. Lind At America’s behest, Pakistan sent its army into the tribal territories along its northwest frontier. Predictably, its army got beaten. The Pakistani government has now signed a truce with the tribes in North Waziristan, a wise move given that government’s fragility. (On Sunday, when the power went out all over Pakistan, everyone assumed there had been a coup.) Washington and its gentlemanly Afghan puppet, Mr. Karzai, are howling that this will give the Taliban a sanctuary, which is true. Every military force, including those of the Fourth Generation, needs some sort of secure rear area where its fights can relax, its wounded can ...
Injustice, Inequality, and Evolutional Psychology
Post Date: 2006-09-28 08:52:17 by Tauzero
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Injustice, inequality and Evolutionary Psychology Bruce G Charlton MD bruce.charlton@ncl.ac.uk Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry Department of Psychology University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH England Editor-in-Chief, Medical Hypotheses ABSTRACT As biological knowledge of "human nature" continues to grow, political theory and public policy will increasingly need to take account of Evolutionary Psychology in order effectively to pursue its goals. This essay stands as an example. Socio-economic differentials are perceived to be unjust, but the reason for this is not obvious given the ubiquity of stratification. It is suggested that "the injustice of inequality" has ...
Cooling Sun brings relief to sweltering Earth
Post Date: 2006-09-25 23:15:11 by Tauzero
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Cooling Sun brings relief to sweltering Earth Help in battle against global warming as scientists claim that our nearest star is about to go into a period of reduced activity Robin McKie, science editor Sunday September 24, 2006 The Observer The earth could be rescued from global warming by an unlikely saviour: not fewer cars, nor less pollution, nor even thousands of wind farms spread across Britain's hillsides - but, remarkably, by a cooler Sun. An international group of scientists believes a period of reduced solar activity could soon bring desperately needed cooling to our sweltering world. The work is based on research of past periods of climatic change, including the Little Ice ...
Global Temperature Highest in Millennia
Post Date: 2006-09-25 22:26:26 by Zipporah
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lobal Temperature Highest in Millennia WASHINGTON (AP) -- The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years, warming that has begun to affect plants and animals, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Earth has been warming at a rate of 0.36 degree Fahrenheit per decade for the last 30 years, according to the research team led by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. That brings the overall temperature to the warmest in the current interglacial period, which began about 12,000 years ago. Hansen, who first warned of the danger of climate change decades ago, said that ...
China Attempted To Blind U.S. Satellites With Laser
Post Date: 2006-09-25 11:56:53 by Brian S
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China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft, according to sources. It remains unclear how many times the ground-based laser was tested against U.S. spacecraft or whether it was successful. But the combination of China’s efforts and advances in Russian satellite jamming capabilities illustrate vulnerabilities to the U.S. space network are at the core of U.S. Air Force plans to develop new space architectures and highly classified systems, according to sources. According to experts, lasers — depending on their power level — could blind electro-optical satellites ...
Tweaked Firefox Lets You Surf Internet Without a Trace
Post Date: 2006-09-22 12:58:24 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Tweaked Firefox Lets You Surf Internet Without a Trace Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Wed Sep 20, 3:00 PM ETA tweaked version of Firefox that makes Web browsing anonymous has been released by a group of privacy-minded coders.Every few minutes, the Torpark browser causes a computer's IP address to appear to change. IP addresses are numeric identifier given to computers on the Internet. The number can be used along with other data to potentially track down a user, as many Web sites keep track of IP addresses.Hackers Promote PrivacyTorpark's creators, a group of computer security gurus and privacy experts named Hactivismo, said they want to expand privacy rights on the Internet as new ...
The lunar effect
Post Date: 2006-09-20 00:34:50 by Morgana le Fay
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DOES a full moon make you feel like partying? Do you feel more energetic during a waxing moon? Either way, Making plans around the phases of the moon can lead to many things, from good business deals to more lustrous hair. Roch Voller, who works in the psychiatric emergency department of Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital, understands first-hand the meaning of the term "the lunar effect". He says he always expects more code grey alerts when it's a full moon. "Code grey refers to patient aggression," he says. "We expect patients to be harder to control, louder, more violent and likely to hear voices then, too." Voller isn't alone in believing in the lunar ...
First penis transplant reversed after two weeks
Post Date: 2006-09-19 21:38:27 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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First penis transplant reversed after two weeks Tue Sep 19, 8:41 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife. ADVERTISEMENT Dr Weilie Hu and surgeons at Guangzhou General Hospital in China performed the complex 15-hour surgery on a 44-year old man whose penis had been damaged in a traumatic accident. The microsurgery to attach the penis, which had been donated by the parents of a 22-year-old brain-dead man, was successful but Hu and his team removed it two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological ...
Intel Develops Silicon Hybrid Laser Chip
Post Date: 2006-09-18 18:36:13 by robin
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Hardware Intel Develops Silicon Hybrid Laser Chip Tuan Nguyen September 18, 2006 5:30 PMRecipient E-mailPlease enter a valid E-mail addressPlease enter a valid E-mail addressSender E-mailPlease enter a valid E-mail addressPlease enter a valid E-mail addressClick image to enlargeHigh performance light-based computers in the horizonResearchers at Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara have announced the world's first Hybrid Silicon Laser, or HSL. An HSL is a silicon-based laser emitting device. According to Intel, creating a laser emitting silicon chip is a breakthrough that will propel the world of computers into the light-based transmission era.Called Indium Phosphide, the ...
Hacked - Virus Implanted/Spread On Diebold Vote Machines!
Post Date: 2006-09-15 05:55:06 by Zoroaster
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Hacked - Virus Implanted/Spread On Diebold Vote Machines! New, First-of-Its Kind, University Study Reveals Malicious Code Can Be Easily Inserted into Voting Machine, Spread from One System to the Next, Resulting in Flipped Votes, and Stolen Elections All Without a Trace Being Left Behind Study Also Confirms that Voter Access Cards Can Be Created At Home to Defeat Security Protocols, Allowing Voters to Vote Multiple Times in a Single Election! By Brad Friedman EXCLUSIVE 9-14-6 A vote for George Washington could easily be converted to a vote for Benedict Arnold on an electronic voting machine and neither the voter, nor the election officials administering the election would ever know ...
Researchers Offer a New Date for Neanderthals’ Last Stand
Post Date: 2006-09-14 02:34:59 by Ghost of Inbred Cousin Humpers
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An international team of scientists thinks it has solved the ultimate mystery of the Neanderthals: where and when they made their last stand before extinction. It was at Gibraltar 28,000 years ago, the scientists say, about 2,000 years more recently than previously thought. The archaeologists and paleontologists reported yesterday finding several hundred stone tools in Gorham’s Cave, on the rugged Mediterranean coast near the Rock of Gibraltar. They were made in the Mousterian stoneworking style, usually associated with Neanderthals. So far, no fossil bones of the cave occupants have been uncovered. The researchers said, however, that the tools established the survival of a ...
Princeton scientists create vote-stealing program for Diebold AccuVote
Post Date: 2006-09-14 02:00:08 by Morgana le Fay
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This is a press release, so let's give it some press, in full. For immediate release: September 13, 2006 Media contact: Teresa Riordan, (609) 258-9754, triordan@princeton.edu; Steven Schultz, (609) 258-3617, sschultz@princeton.edu Researchers reveal 'extremely serious' vulnerabilities in e-voting machines In a paper published on the Web today, a group of Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can fraudulently change vote counts without being detected. "We have created and analyzed the code in the spirit of helping to guide public officials so ...
Baby Bang experiment could open door to new dimension
Post Date: 2006-09-10 13:19:22 by Eoghan
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Deep underground on the Franco-Swiss border, someone will throw a switch next year to start one of the most ambitious experiments in history, probing the secrets of the universe and possibly finding new dimensions. The Large Hadron Collider - a 27km-long circular particle accelerator at the CERN experimental facility near Geneva, will smash protons into one another at unimaginable speeds trying to replicate in miniature the events of the Big Bang. "These beams will have the kinetic energy of an aircraft carrier slammed into the size of a zero on a 20p piece," Brian Cox of Manchester University told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. ...
Dark Matter Exists
Post Date: 2006-09-09 12:46:20 by Neil McIver
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Sean at 11:52 am, August 21st, 2006 The great accomplishment of late-twentieth-century cosmology was putting together a complete inventory of the universe. We can tell a story that fits all the known data, in which ordinary matter (every particle ever detected in any experiment) constitutes only about 5% of the energy of the universe, with 25% being dark matter and 70% being dark energy. The challenge for early-twenty-first-century cosmology will actually be to understand the nature of these mysterious dark components. A beautiful new result illuminating (if you will) the dark matter in galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56 is an important step in this direction. (Here’s the press release, and ...
Another route to organic food: Get the pests dead drunk [India]
Post Date: 2006-09-07 21:11:39 by DeaconBenjamin
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Now drink to the ingenuity of Telangana's farmers. First they sprayed soft drinks - in place of pesticides - on cotton crops. They are moving on to hard drinks. In some villages in Adilabad and Karimnagar districts, farmers are experimenting with cheap liquor on crops. And the results are encouraging, they say with all the seriousness of scientists in lab coats. The farmers turned to the bottle when the use of spurious pesticides led to crop failure. Liquor treatment is cost-effective too. A litre of cheap booze costs a little over Rs 100 and is enough to spray on two acres. Pesticides for the same area will cost the farmers Rs 3,000-4,000. "I did not think it would work but the ...
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