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Long-term presence of dark energy bolsters gravity theory
Post Date: 2006-11-17 01:28:26 by Morgana le Fay
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Dark energy, the enigmatic force that is causing the universe to expand, has been present and constant for at least 9 billion years, a finding that eliminates many theories that have been developed to explain its mysterious role in the cosmos, astronomers said Thursday. The finding provides further support for, but does not yet prove, Albert Einstein's century-old idea that a repulsive form of gravity exists in the vacuum of space. That theory, called the cosmological constant, was developed by Einstein to explain the balance between the expansion of the universe and the powerful gravitational pull of stars and other matter. He eventually abandoned it, calling it his "biggest ...
Mechanical Mole Men, Attack!
Post Date: 2006-11-17 00:46:20 by Morgana le Fay
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Throughout the ages, bad guys have loved bunkers, whether they're in Nazi Germany or Jihadist Iran. With good reason: the suckers are hard to find, and even tougher to blow up. Even the most bleeding-edge, experimental bunker-busters can penetrate, at most, 10 meters down. Which is why the Air Force is considering a new approach: teams of foot-long "subterranean vehicles" with new-fangled ways to dig. A subterranean vehicle could engage these types of targets in an effective manner, avoiding both collateral damage and unnecessary risks to our troops. It could be deployed a safe distance from the target and autonomously navigate itself to the target while detecting, identifying, ...
Ancient Crash, Epic Wave [Basis of Gilgamesh/Noah Legend?]
Post Date: 2006-11-13 23:21:45 by Morgana le Fay
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At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high. On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction — toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface. The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the ...
Anthrax hoaxer may be Free Republic poster
Post Date: 2006-11-13 14:30:15 by nolu_chan
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Anthrax hoaxer may be Free Republic poster 11/13/2006 @ 11:27 am Filed by Larisa Alexandrovna and Brian Beutler The man arrested on Saturday for sending more than a dozen envelopes containing "fake anthrax" to anti-war celebrities, journalists, and politicians may have ties to the conservative supersite Free Republic, RAW STORY has found. Chad Castagana, a 39 year old Californian named as the FBI's prime suspect in the case, is due in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles today, where procecutors are expected to file criminal complaint against him for sending threatening letters through the U.S. mail. Castagana has an extensive online history, often writing about science fiction ...
Why No Man Has Ever Set Foot on the Moon
Post Date: 2006-11-11 00:25:26 by richard9151
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Why No Man Has Ever Set Foot on the Moon http://www.moonmovie.com The Top 15 Reasons Why No Man Has Ever Set Foot on the Moon 15. "Tricky Dick" Richard Nixon was president at the time. He was the king of cover-up, secret tapes and scandal. Think about all of his potential antics that were not discovered. 14. A successful manned mission to the moon offered a wonderful pride-boosting distraction for the near revolt of the US citizens over 50,000 deaths in the Vietnam War. 13. The Soviets had a five-to-one superiority to the U.S. in manned hours in space. They were first in achieving the following seven important milestones: First manmade satellite in earth ...
'Aliens could attack at any time' warns former MoD chief
Post Date: 2006-11-10 10:10:16 by Diana
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'Aliens could attack at any time' warns former MoD chief By CHARLOTTE GILL UFO sightings and alien visitors tend to be solely the reserve of sci-fi movies. So when a former MoD chief warns that the country could be attacked by extraterrestrials at any time, you may be forgiven for feeling a little alarmed. During his time as head of the Ministry of Defence UFO project, Nick Pope was persuaded into believing that other lifeforms may visit Earth and, more specifically, Britain. His concern is that "highly credible" sightings are simply dismissed. And he complains that the project he once ran is now "virtually closed" down, leaving the country "wide open" ...
U.S. Navy Cold Fusion Research Lab (Video - 2005)
Post Date: 2006-11-08 23:12:46 by rack42
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U.S. Navy Cold Fusion Research Lab (2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke_ZhgAKjhs Some notes: Glass is not used for the "cell" because of possible contamination from "leachates." The copper strips are taped to the outside of the plastic cell. The platinum electrode is in contact with the deuterated water during the experiment. "Deuterated" means that the water consists of some water molecules that have deuterium. Deuterium is a Hydrogen atom with a neutron. Tritium is a Hydrogen atom with 2 neutrons. Deuterium is quite stable; it doesn't decay. Tritium is not stable and does decay. This experiment produces Tritium from Deuterium. This should not ...
Near-silent jet no flight of fancy
Post Date: 2006-11-07 13:09:42 by Tauzero
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Near-silent jet no flight of fancy Reuters November 07, 2006 CAMBRIDGE, England: A radically designed passenger jet could alleviate a major complaint of people living near major airports - the deafening sound of planes taking off and landing. A team of 40 researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University spent three years working on the wide, streamlined jet, which was due to be unveiled in London last night. The "silent jet", which from outside the boundaries of an airport would sound no more noisy than a washing machine, would carry 215 passengers and could be in the air by 2030. The MIT-Cambridge team set out to design a new passenger plane ...
Mozilla Foxfire 2.0
Post Date: 2006-11-07 09:48:23 by Lod
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I just installed this browser and it is slick - when doing my previous post, I noticed that it includes an automatic spell checker. Off to take my Kinky yard sign to install it near my nearest polling place... Continue on.
Get'cher Fresh, Hot, Highly Enriched Uranium Here!!
Post Date: 2006-11-05 14:50:52 by hammerdown
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In the popular imagination Cold War custodians of the bomb had a Dr. Strangelove zeitgeist. What we often forget is that most people doing the work did it with deeply humanitarian impulses—the very last thing they wanted to see was the bomb in use. Especially not against civilians. So it's a real pleasure and an honor to talk with someone who worked at the highest levels in both bomb making and nuclear weapons policy, who is now one of the country's foremost dissidents, opposing the Tyrant's fraudulent non-proliferation policies. Dr. James Gordon Prather is another old-fashioned conservative who sees, and fears, the emergence of American totalitarianism. With reason. So here's a crash ...
Japanese researchers find dolphin with 'remains of legs'
Post Date: 2006-11-05 02:54:43 by Diana
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TOKYO (AP) - Japanese researchers said Sunday a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, providing further evidence ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land. Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin off the coast of Wakayama prefecture in western Japan on Oct. 28 and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, said museum director Katsuki Hayashi. Fossil remains show dolphins and whales were four-footed land animals about 50 million years ago and share the same common ancestor as hippos and deer. Scientists believe they later transitioned to an aquatic lifestyle and their hind limbs disappeared. Though odd-shaped protrusions ...
White House May Have Sought To Censor Research
Post Date: 2006-11-03 08:41:08 by Zipporah
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WASHINGTON — Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said Wednesday. Senator Lautenberg, a Democrat of New Jersey, said he was informed that the inspectors general for the Commerce Department and NASA had begun "coordinated, sweeping investigations of the Bush administration's censorship and suppression" of federal research into global warming. "These investigations are critical because the Republicans in Congress have ignored this serious problem," Mr. Lautenberg said. He said the investigations "will uncover ...
'Only 50 years left' for sea fish
Post Date: 2006-11-02 22:20:04 by robin
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'Only 50 years left' for sea fish By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website Natural protectionEnlarge ImageThere will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study. Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Writing in the journal Science, the international team of researchers says fishery decline is closely tied to a broader loss of marine biodiversity. But a greater use of protected areas could safeguard existing stocks. "The way we use the oceans is that we hope and assume there will always be ...
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 ...
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