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Code of the Caveman [Neaderthal Genome]
Post Date: 2006-07-10 23:49:40 by Morgana le Fay
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A new DNA mapping technique may solve an ancient mystery: Do modern humans carry Neanderthal genes? On a forest-choked expanse of land that will one day be called Germany, a herd of bison huddles together to ward off the cold. Hidden in the foliage nearby squats a man. Like the animals he’s hunting, he has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to cope with freezing temperatures. His massive jaw juts out, and his forehead slopes forward to form a heavy brow – providing a thick layer of bone that protects his sinuses and large brain from the icy air. His barrel-shaped body and short limbs help him retain heat. So do the furs he wears and the fires his family builds in the ...
Mini solar system could reveal hidden dimensions
Post Date: 2006-07-09 00:37:46 by Morgana le Fay
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A tiny, artificial solar system could reveal hidden spatial dimensions and test alternative theories of gravity, a new study suggests. If the system's "planets" moved slightly differently than expected from standard gravity, it would signal the presence of new physical phenomena – which have proven very difficult to test. Numerous theories that attempt to unify all the forces of physics into one cohesive model call for hidden spatial dimensions in addition to the three we can sense. In some of these theories, gravity would leak into the extra dimensions – explaining why it is a relatively weak force in the universe we know. This leakage would dilute its power and ...
Dark visions, ancient fears [New Theory on Dreams]
Post Date: 2006-07-08 23:50:13 by Morgana le Fay
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Scientists claim that nightmares evolved to help us to deal with daily threats. So dream on, says Roger Dobson Those dreams about being chased by wild animals may not be meaningless after all. And the bottomless pits, the running but not moving, and those rooms with no doors and windows, they also may have a real purpose. According to new research from Canada and Finland, which is backed by a Boston University study presented at a recent international conference, dreams are not meaningless but are part of an evolutionary survival strategy that developed in early man to help him to learn how to recognise and deal with threats in a hostile world. And Canadian research indicates that almost ...
Crow Believed to Be Oldest in World Dies
Post Date: 2006-07-07 23:56:54 by Morgana le Fay
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Crow That May Have Been the World's Oldest Dies at Age 59 BEARSVILLE, N.Y. - There's no way to prove Tata was the world's oldest crow when he died Sunday at age 59. But an expert on crows says it's possible. Tata's tale began in 1947 when a thunderstorm blew the fledgling out of his nest in a Long Island cemetery, a mishap that likely led to his long life. Injured and unable to fly, the bird was scooped up by a cemetery caretaker and brought to a local family with a reputation for taking care of animals, Tata's most recent owner, Kristine Flones, told the Daily Freeman of Kingston. "He was never able to fly, so he became their family pet," said Flones, a wildlife ...
Cord Caused NOAA Piers Fire in Seattle
Post Date: 2006-07-07 23:54:04 by Dakmar
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SEATTLE (AP) -- A faulty electrical cord caused a fire that scorched two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration piers following a Fourth of July celebration, investigators said Friday. The cord, which ran from a dock to a ship, shorted early Wednesday morning, the Seattle Fire Department said. The fire was reported more than two hours after the end of a fireworks show over Lake Union. The piers are expected to be unusable for as long as two years. The fire also damaged two 224-foot NOAA ships, two smaller boats, a navigation operations trailer and a steam plant. © 2006 The Associated Press.
Poster Comment:A steam plant? That must have been one hell of a fire, kudos to ...
The National Academy of Sciences is flunking as the referee in the global warming debate
Post Date: 2006-07-07 23:46:02 by BTP Holdings
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The National Academy of Sciences is flunking as the referee in the global warming debate By Dennis T. Avery Saturday, July 1, 2006 The Academy was supposed to referee an acrimonious debate in Congress and the science community over the infamous "hockey stick" global warming studies. Those two studies, published in 1998 and 1999, were led by Michael Mann, now at the University of Virginia. They appear to find dramatic 20th century warming, after 900 years of supposedly stable world temperatures. The study is controversial because it appeared to wipe out the Medieval Warming and Little Ice Age, two of the most widely documented climate events in history. Nevertheless, it was ...
KRAMINIK WINS 700,000 DOLLARS AFTER TYING SUPERCOMPUTER
Post Date: 2006-07-07 21:25:56 by rowdee
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Kraminik proves humans still have their last word against the machine World chess champion insists it is still too early to entirely write off man in his battle with machine. MANAMA - World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik won 700,000 dollars in prize money from Bahrani King Hamad Saturday after tying the eighth and final game of the tournament to draw with the world's most powerful chess computer, Deep Fritz, organizers said. Kramnik's draw with the machine exceeded the performance of his predecessor as world champion, Gary Kasparov, who in 1997 was defeated by supercomputer Deep Blue in New York. The final game was the shortest of the contest, with the 21 moves taking just under two ...
The World of Free Energy-complete with patents, link info, etc
Post Date: 2006-07-07 17:31:02 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.wanttoknow.info/freeenergy GO TO URL TO SEE LINKS, THERE ARE SEVERAL. Free Energy The World of Free Energy By Peter Lindemann, D.Sc. 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 ...
Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone
Post Date: 2006-07-05 21:24:41 by christine
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Many organizations including the cell phone industry often downplay the risk of cell phone radiation to the brain. Results from short-term studies were used to convince consumers that use of a cell phone is not associated with brain tumors or cancer, which only develop decades after exposure. To be fair, no one knows exactly how much harm a cell phone can do to a person. Recently, new media has reported a study showing the radiation from cell phones is so full of energy they can be used to cook eggs. In the experiment, researchers placed one egg in a porcelain cup (because it is easy to conduct heat), and put one cell phone on one side and another cell phone on the other. The researchers ...
The "Global Warming Conspiracy"
Post Date: 2006-07-05 02:23:12 by Mind_Virus
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The "Global Warming Conspiracy" I've been rather curious about the global warming controversy after: 1) seeing Al Gore on the Daily Show a few days back talk about "An Inconvenient Truth" 2) observing how conservatives have a visceral distaste for the subject of human-induced global warming. I therefore picked up a book called "Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints" published in 2002 and started reading it. It's quite amazing. On the one hand they have scientists telling of their findings on climate change due to the significant CO2 level increase in the past 100 years and the dire problems that a greater increase in CO2 would cause-- all in a very ...
Crack Found in Foam on Shuttle Fuel Tank
Post Date: 2006-07-03 14:24:48 by IndieTX
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA managers weren't ruling out a Fourth of July launch for space shuttle Discovery on Monday, even after inspectors found a 5-inch-long crack in the foam insulation on its external fuel tank. Officials said they needed more time to evaluate the problem and planned to meet again Monday evening to decide whether to go ahead with the launch. The space agency's engineers believe the crack was caused by the expanding and shrinking of the tank as it was fueled with supercold propellant, which also caused a 3-inch-long triangle-shaped piece of foam to fall off the area and land on a platform below. The chunk of foam was too small to have caused damage if it had ...
Weather Forces 2nd Straight Shuttle Delay
Post Date: 2006-07-02 13:46:47 by Brian S
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(07-02) 10:24 PDT Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) -- Stormy weather prevented NASA from launching Discovery for the second day in a row Sunday, extending a yearlong grounding of the space shuttle necessitated by persistent trouble with fuel-tank foam. Launch officials said they would try again Tuesday, on the Fourth of July, after giving the work force a day of rest and a chance to replenish the shuttle's on-board fuel. The weather was expected to improve by Tuesday, although rain was still in the forecast.
RFID misinformaton
Post Date: 2006-07-02 02:47:27 by gothink3
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From the misinformation article: "What about the risks? They are real, but I don't think they are any greater than using a plain old credit card. I just don't think you should worry about it" read his silly article here. If its good for yankees fans its good for you! http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/06/29/14607.aspx From me: RFIDS are bad. This author tries to say they are good. He is an idiot and so are all who unknowingly use these terrible devices. If you get an RFID in the mail send it back or destroy it. You are not obligated to use it. Your current credit cards will work normally without activating this evil technology. My documentation: ...
Storm Clouds Force Delay of NASA Launch [try again tomorrow 3:26 p.m. EDT]
Post Date: 2006-07-01 20:18:36 by Brian S
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(07-01) 14:58 PDT Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) -- Thunderstorms forced NASA to call off the launch of Discovery on Saturday, delaying the first space shuttle flight in a year by at least a day. More bad weather was forecast for Sunday and for the rest of the Independence Day weekend. Storm clouds moved in and out of the launch zone throughout the morning and early afternoon, posing lightning threats. As the countdown held at the nine-minute mark, it became clear the weather would not improve, and launch director Mike Leinbach announced a 24-hour delay. "We're not going to make it today," Leinbach said. "It's not a good day to launch the shuttle. So we're going to try ...
Psychologist reveals the luck factor
Post Date: 2006-07-01 02:08:24 by Morgana le Fay
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Ironically enough, Professor Richard Wiseman, one of Britain's pre-eminent psychologists, has become something of a global good luck charm. Not in a superstitious sense: rabbits' feet, broken mirrors and black cats mean nothing to this self-confessed sceptic. But in a scientific sense: his pioneering research into luck proved that it isn't just the Fates controlling good or bad fortune. Thoughts and behaviour play a far more pivotal role. Before starting his research, Professor Wiseman thought the number of people who described themselves as either lucky or unlucky was too large to be a random phenomenon, so he attempted to "set the record straight" and placed advertisements in ...
NASA Administrator Griffin Defends Decision To Proceed With Shuttle Launch Despite Objections From Two Senior NASA Officials
Post Date: 2006-06-30 19:51:42 by Brian S
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Kennedy Space Center, Florida - Despite objections from two senior NASA officials, the space agency is moving ahead with plans for a Saturday launch. Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator “the agency's top safety official and nasa's chief engineer are worried that foam could break-off from brackets securing pressurization lines and damage the shuttle's heat shield. ” In their analysis, the officials say that type of failure is "probable/catastrophic." Meaning it is probable that sometime in the final 17 flights, foam will be shed with "catastrophic results." As you'll recall a large piece of foam doomed columbia in 2003. And ...
Astronomers Gear Up for Historic Asteroid Pass in 2029
Post Date: 2006-06-30 18:54:10 by Neil McIver
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During the early morning hours of April 13, 2029, observers in Asia and North Africa will have a chance to witness a rare celestial event as an asteroid, 99942 Apophis, passes within 20,000 miles of Earth. "It's not gonna knock your socks off, and it certainly won't be the brightest object in the sky, but it'll be easily observable with the naked eye," said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program. The approach of an asteroid this large -- Apophis is more than 1,000 feet in diameter -- and this close to Earth occurs only about once every 1,500 years. Scientists are awaiting the close flyby with mixed emotions: excitement at a unique scientific opportunity ...
Asteroid Spotting: Skywatchers to Glimpse Close Flyby
Post Date: 2006-06-30 18:46:51 by Neil McIver
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It's not often you get a chance to spot an asteroid in our night sky. And though the task will be challenging, experienced backyard astronomers will give it a go this weekend. A large asteroid will make an exceptionally close approach to our planet early on July 3, passing just beyond the Moon’s average distance from Earth. The space rock is named 2004 XP14. There is no chance of a collision, but professional astronomers are keeping an eye on the object, too. Asteroid 2004 XP14 is an Apollo asteroid, a class that cross Earth's orbit. And there are two other classes of asteroids that possess orbits that can also take them tantalizingly near to the Earth: the Atens and Amors. How ...
More Moons Around Earth? Its Not So Loony
Post Date: 2006-06-30 13:19:04 by Neil McIver
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Earth has a second moon, of sorts, and could have many others, according to three astronomers who did calculations to describe orbital motions at gravitational balance points in space that temporarily pull asteroids into bizarre orbits near our planet. The 3-mile-wide (5-km) satellite, which takes 770 years to complete a horseshoe-shaped orbit around Earth, is called Cruithne and will remain in a suspended state around Earth for at least 5,000 years. Cruithne, discovered in 1986, and then found in 1997 to have a highly eccentric orbit, cannot be seen by the naked eye, but scientists working at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London were intrigued enough with its peregrinations to ...
Corkscrewing asteroid leaves Earth behind
Post Date: 2006-06-30 13:06:44 by Neil McIver
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Orbital oddity gets a push into deep space from our planet Corkscrewing asteroids, more formally known as co-orbitals or quasi-satellites, trace a series of circles around Earth but are not truly captured in our planet's orbit, like the moon is. This diagram illustrates the orbit of the asteroid 2002 AA29 — which, like 2003 YN107, is a quasi-satellite. An asteroid that has been corkscrewing around Earth in recent years is now heading for deep space, according to NASA. The object, named 2003 YN107, was discovered in 2003. It arrived in Earth's vicinity in 1999, scientists have calculated. "It's been corkscrewing around Earth ever since." said Paul Chodas of NASA's Near ...
Search the web anonymously-A new search engine allows web users to search the web anonymously, automatically deleting all their personal search details.
Post Date: 2006-06-29 11:10:02 by gengis gandhi
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Search the web anonymously June 28, 2006 Ross Wigham ixquick A new search engine allows web users to search the web anonymously, automatically deleting all their personal search details. Called Ixquick, the website collates the results of popular search engines such as Google, AOL and MSN, and displays the results on the same page. Its creator said that as concerns around privacy and the use of search details by third parties increases, it believes its is important to remove all personal search details from its log, along with users' IP addresses – the unique number that identifies individual computers. It said more and more personal details are now stored by search engines and details ...
Joe Cell (free energy)
Post Date: 2006-06-28 17:51:06 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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What is a Joe Cell? A Joe Cell is similar to an electrolysis cell built with concentric stainless steel pipes. In one configuration, the pipes have diameters of 1, 2, 3, and 4 inches. Sometimes a five-inch pipe is also included. Different theories hold that the cylinders should be between 4" and 10" long. There are many theories of how the cell works. Among those who believe in Orgone energy, the Joe Cell is believed to be an Orgone Accumulator. An operating cell progresses through a series of stages, the first of which is simple electrolysis, the second is referred to as the seeding stage, in which the cell builds up a charge in the water, which eventually reaches a point where ...
Mysterious Lunar Swirls Stump Scientists
Post Date: 2006-06-28 15:42:47 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/552809/ mysterious_lunar_swirls_stump_scientists/index.html Mysterious Lunar Swirls Stump Scientists Click to enlarge Picture this: A cup of coffee, steaming and black. Add a dollop of milk and gently stir. Eddies of cream go swirling around the cup. Magnify that image a million times and you've got a Lunar Swirl. Lunar swirls are strange markings on the Moon that resemble the cream in your coffee -- on a much larger scale. They seem to be curly-cues of pale moondust, twisting and turning across the lunar surface for dozens of miles. Each swirl is utterly flat and protected by a magnetic field. What are they? "We don't know," says Bob Lin ...
Scientists OK Gore's Movie on Global Warming, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' for Accuracy
Post Date: 2006-06-27 22:22:19 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy. The former vice president's movie replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press. The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists ...
Unidentified floating object near International Space Station
Post Date: 2006-06-27 11:32:01 by Brian S
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27 June 2006 MOSCOW - An unknown floating object close to the International Space Station ISS has concerned ground control, according to reports from the US Space Agency NASA on Tuesday. The object is approximately 2.8 kilometres away from the International Space Station, said the Russian flight control centre in Moscow, citing a NASA source. The situation is quite serious, but does not yet require a dodge manoeuvre, said Russian flight trajectory expert Alexander Kireyev. “The object has no number in the list of space debris,” Kireyev said, according to reports from the Russian Itar-Tass agency. “It is however probably an old piece of space exploration ...
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