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No Pictures Please: Researchers Develop System to Thwart Unwanted Video and Still Photography
Post Date: 2006-06-27 10:28:53 by Red Jones
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No Pictures Please: Researchers Develop System to Thwart Unwanted Video and Still Photography Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have completed a prototype device that can block digital-camera function in a given area. Commercial versions of the technology could be used to stymie unwanted use of video or still cameras. A Georgia Tech camera-neutralizing prototype could soon be used to stop movie piracy and other forms of unwanted digital-camera photography. Shown here with the device are, left to right, Jay W. Summet, PhD student, and James R. Clawson, research technician. Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek Download 300 dpi version The prototype device, produced by a team ...
MIT research may spell end for the battery - Supercapacitor could make electric car viable
Post Date: 2006-06-27 01:16:16 by Pandora
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think they're on the verge of making traditional batteries obsolete. The researchers are working on a new device that uses carbon nanotubes to store and release electrical energy in a system that could carry as much power as today's lead or lithium batteries. But unlike the rechargeable batteries used on today's cellphones and laptop computers, these devices could be recharged hundreds of thousands of times before wearing out. And instead of taking hours to recharge, they could be powered up in about the same time it takes to fill up a gas tank. Electronics professor Joel Schindall drives a Toyota hybrid car, which uses an ...
Proof Positive: Google Video on Remote Viewing (Psi)
Post Date: 2006-06-26 14:38:37 by gengis gandhi
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remote viewing is a fact, a latent ability all of us have. why do you suppose the establishment goes out of its way to debunk psi phenomenon? do they debunk things that normally constitute a threat to existing power structures? i submit to you that the ultimate demise of existing power structures, as is happening now with the internet, is complete access to information. in this way, the stock in trade of these controllers, illusion and lies, is utterly destroyed, and entirely worthless.
Men With Older Brothers More Likely to Be Gay
Post Date: 2006-06-26 11:56:46 by Brian S
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(06-26) 08:06 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Having several older brothers increases the likelihood of a man being gay, a finding researchers say adds weight to the idea that there is a biological basis for sexual orientation. "It's likely to be a prenatal effect," said Anthony F. Bogaert of Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada, "This and other studies suggest that there is probably a biological basis for" homosexuality. S. Marc Breedlove of Michigan State University said the finding "absolutely" confirms a physical basis. "Anybody's first guess would have been that the older brothers were having an effect socially, but this data doesn't support ...
Russian Ship Blasts Off for Space Station
Post Date: 2006-06-25 12:43:31 by Brian S
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(06-24) 13:32 PDT MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- A Russian cargo spacecraft carrying food and supplies blasted off Saturday for the international space station, mission control said. The unmanned Progress M-57 ship lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at about 11:08 a.m. EDT, Russian mission control spokesman Valery Lyndin said. The spacecraft, which is scheduled to dock at the orbiting space station on Monday, is transporting almost 3 tons of fuel, food and water, along with equipment. Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams began a six-month mission on the station April 1. The American space program has depended on the Russians for cargo ...
Has string theory tied up better ideas in physics?
Post Date: 2006-06-25 00:27:05 by Morgana le Fay
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(AP) - Nobel physicist Wolfgang Pauli didn't suffer fools gladly. Fond of calling colleagues' work "wrong" or "completely wrong," he saved his worst epithet for work so sloppy and speculative it is "not even wrong." That's how mathematician Peter Woit of Columbia University describes string theory. In his book, "Not Even Wrong," published in the U.K. this month and due in the U.S. in September, he calls the theory "a disaster for physics." A year or two ago, that would have been a fringe opinion, motivated by sour grapes over not sitting at physics' equivalent of the cool kids' table. But now, after two decades in which string theory has ...
1,000 skeletons found in Rome catacombs
Post Date: 2006-06-24 23:33:28 by Morgana le Fay
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ARCHAELOGISTS exploring one of Rome's oldest catacombs have discovered more than 1,000 skeletons dressed in elegant togas. Experts are thrilled by the find - which dates from about the first century - as it is the first "mass burial" of its kind identified. Mystery surrounds why so many bodies were neatly piled together in the complex network of underground burial chambers, which stretch for miles under the city. It was the custom then for Rome's upper classes to be burnt not buried, so it is thought the skeletons may be early Christians. Tests are being carried to establish whether they suffered violent death or were victims of an unknown epidemic or natural disaster. ...
Scholars debut 'Journal of 9/11 Studies'
Post Date: 2006-06-24 07:05:06 by valis
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http://www.journalof911studies.comThe Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001. All content is freely available online. Volume 1 – June 2006 WTC 7: A Short Computation 9/11 – Evidence for Controlled Demolition: a Short List of Observations 9/11 – Evidence Suggests Complicity: Inferences from Actions The Flying Elephant: Evidence for Involvement of a Third Jet in the WTC Attacks Momentum Transfer Analysis of the Collapse of the Upper Storeys of WTC1 Click for Full Text!
Robotic 'pack mule' displays stunning reflexes
Post Date: 2006-06-23 01:14:10 by Pandora
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A nimble, four-legged robot is so surefooted it can recover its balance even after being given a hefty kick. The machine, which moves like a cross between a goat and a pantomime horse, is being developed as a robotic pack mule for the US military. BigDog is described by its developers Boston Dynamics as “the most advanced quadruped robot on Earth”. The company have released a new video of the robot negotiating steep slopes, crossing rocky ground and dealing with the sharp kick. View the impressive clip here (28MB Windows media file). “Internal force sensors detect the ground variations and compensate for them,” says company president and project manager Marc Raibert. ...
Palmtop Feng Shui
Post Date: 2006-06-23 01:04:34 by Pandora
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Ever felt the position of your home furnishings were seriously throwing your mystical chi – or life energy – out of balance? Then put your mind at rest. Motorola has patented a new kind of PDA that evaluates a property’s Feng Shui rating by measuring positive and negative chi and awarding plus and minus points accordingly. “Feng Shui principles are widely applied in the fields of interior decorating and real estate,” a company spokesperson explains. The device houses a camera that checks the colour of the property, a microphone that listens for noise from nearby roads and factories and a compass to find north – a crucial factor for Feng Shui enthusiasts. It ...
Earth's Temp May Be at 2,000-Year High
Post Date: 2006-06-22 16:13:44 by Brian S
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(06-22) 11:37 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since the Earth has run such a fever. The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia." A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that the Earth is heating up and that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming." Their 155-page report said average global surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose about 1 degree during the 20th century. This ...
World Scientists Unite To Attack Creationism
Post Date: 2006-06-22 11:51:11 by Brian S
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Published: 22 June 2006 The world's scientific community united yesterday to launch one of the strongest attacks yet on creationism, warning that the origins of life were being "concealed, denied or confused". The national science academies of 67 countries warned parents and teachers to ensure that they did not undermine the teaching of evolution or allow children to be taught that the world was created in six days. Some schools in the US hold that evolution is merely a theory while the Bible represents the literal truth. There have also been fears that these views are creeping into British schools. The statement, which the Royal Society signed on behalf of Britain's ...
Hawking: Earth "Might End Up Like Venus, At 250 Degrees Centigrade And Raining Sulfuric Acid"
Post Date: 2006-06-22 09:25:48 by Mind_Virus
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Hawking: I Like Chinese Culture, Women (AP) Updated: 2006-06-21 17:23 Stephen Hawking charmed a group of Chinese students on Wednesday, telling them he liked Chinese culture and women while warning that global warming might turn the Earth into a fiery planet. Before an audience of 500 at a seminar in Beijing, the wheelchair-bound celebrity cosmologist said, "I like Chinese culture, Chinese food and above all Chinese women. They are beautiful." Stephen Hawking from the University of Cambridge, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, is greeted by a Chinese student in Beijing June 21, 2006. [Reuters] The audience of mostly university students and professors and a ...
Smithsonian removes electric-car exhibit
Post Date: 2006-06-21 20:25:57 by Esso
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WASHINGTON -- Just weeks before the release of a movie about the death of the electric car from the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution has removed its EV1 electric sedan from display. The National Museum of American History removed the rare exhibit yesterday, just as interest in electric and hybrid vehicles is on the rise. The upcoming film "Who Killed the Electric Car?" questions why General Motors created the battery-powered vehicles and then crushed the program a few years later. The film opens June 30th. GM happens to be one of the Smithsonian's biggest contributors. But museum and GM officials say that had nothing to do with the removal of the EV1 from display. A museum ...
NASA's Safety Chief Objects With Decision to Launch Shuttle Without Fixing Foam-Shedding Problem
Post Date: 2006-06-20 20:13:41 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - NASA's top safety official objected to the agency's decision to press ahead with the launch of Discovery next month without fixing a potentially catastrophic foam-shedding problem, but said he won't appeal and won't resign in protest because he does not believe the shuttle astronauts' lives are in danger. "It's a done deal," chief safety officer Bryan O'Connor said in a Monday night interview with The Associated Press. O'Connor, a former shuttle commander, said he was uncomfortable with going ahead with the launch on July 1 but accepted the decision because NASA has plans in place to have the crew take refuge in the international space station and wait for a rescue ...
History Of 'New Energy' Invention Suppression Cases
Post Date: 2006-06-20 00:06:39 by Coral Snake
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History Of 'New Energy' Invention Suppression Cases By Gary Vesperman garyvesperman@yahoo.com 6-19-6 This is the third version of my compilation of specific energy suppression cases. This time I decided to get serious. I thoroughly reviewed my own files and a few web sites pertaining to energy suppression. Deleted were some cases that didn't appear to be authentic suppression. I also incorporated some thoughtful comments that had been emailed to me this last week. About three days ago, I received an amazingly timely phone call from Byron Wine in Virginia. For more than three decades he has been collecting energy information which he posts on his site http://byronwine.com. I included some ...
NASA, Despite Dissent, Sets Shuttle Date
Post Date: 2006-06-17 19:43:10 by Brian S
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(06-17) 16:19 PDT Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) -- NASA managers on Saturday picked July 1 to launch the first space shuttle in almost a year, despite recommendations against a liftoff attempt by the space agency's chief engineer and safety offices. The decision to launch Discovery on a trip to the international space station was made after two days of meetings by NASA's top managers and engineers at the Kennedy Space Center. The flight would be only the second shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster in 2003. During a poll of top managers, representatives from NASA's Office of Safety and Mission Assurance and the Office of the Chief Engineer recommended against flying until further ...
Scientist's Study Of Brain Genes Sparks a Backlash
Post Date: 2006-06-16 20:29:50 by Tauzero
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Scientist's Study Of Brain Genes Sparks a Backlash By Antonio Regalado Word Count: 2,325 CHICAGO -- Last September, Bruce Lahn, a professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, stood before a packed lecture hall and reported the results of a new DNA analysis: He had found signs of recent evolution in the brains of some people, but not of others. It was a triumphant moment for the young scientist. He was up for tenure and his research was being featured in back-to-back articles in the country's most prestigious science journal. Yet today, Dr. Lahn says he is moving away from the research. "It's getting too controversial," he says. Dr. Lahn had touched a raw nerve in ...
SPAWAR launches Drones over San Diego aka: Predator B's
Post Date: 2006-06-15 23:32:34 by gothink3
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New Tool In Maritime Surveillance Launched Image Quality Good Enough For Court, Companies Say SAN DIEGO -- Drones launched off the San Diego coast Wednesday demonstrated how new imaging technology will make shipping lanes safer. Images: New Tool In Maritime Surveillance Launched The new technology, created by Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, allows drones to patrol hundreds of square miles of ocean, NBC 7/39 reported. The imaging technology is so advanced that it can identify people on-board ships. Lockheed Martin and General Atomics say the image quality is good enough to be used in a courtroom prosecution. "We can take very good high-quality pictures and (get) information from ...
Bill Gates Plans His Exit from Microsoft
Post Date: 2006-06-15 20:15:30 by Zipporah
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All Things Considered, June 15, 2006 · In a surprise announcement, Bill Gates said he plans to leave Microsoft, the company he co-founded more than 30 years ago, to focus full-time on the work of his foundation. Speaking at the company's headquaters, Gates said he will gradually step down over the next two years, and that by July 2008 he will no longer having any day-to-day responsibilities at the company. Microsoft remains the world's largest software company, despite a slumping stock price that has disappointed investors and company insiders. Michele Norris talks with NPR'S Wendy Kaufman.
MISSILE & REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEMS ADDED TO SMALL JETS BEFORE 9-11; SAME PARTS FOUND AT PENTAGON
Post Date: 2006-06-14 18:17:13 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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MISSILE & REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEMS ADDED TO SMALL JETS BEFORE 9-11; SAME PARTS FOUND AT PENTAGON by Tom Flocco Witnesses link missile to small military jet parts found at Pentagon on 9/11 Date: Monday, May 23 @ 01:59:41 EDT Topic: 9-11 Attacks Fort Collins, Colorado -- May 26, 2005 -- http://TomFlocco.com -- "See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her -- but now murderers! Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them." Isaiah 1: 21, 23 Missile & remote control ...
Chicken-Robot Interaction (remote influencing non organic matter via thought-french experiments)
Post Date: 2006-06-14 12:00:48 by gengis gandhi
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Chicken-Robot Interaction Text 24794, v1 Av Louis Belanger I am much taken with a series of French experiments reported in issue 62 of Network, the journal of the Scientific & Medical Network, by Dr Peter Fenwick, a well-known London neuropathologist, whereby chickens and rabbits apparently influenced signals composed by a random-number generator for a robot close to them, and human subjects apparently influenced the movements of the robot even though its signals had been generated by a random-number computer program six months earlier. Chicks hatched close to the robot imprinted on it as their mother and followed it about. It had a random-number generator inside it controlling its ...
Rival U.S. Labs in Arms Race to Build Safer Nuclear Bomb
Post Date: 2006-06-13 03:09:05 by Morgana le Fay
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The new warhead could help reduce the nation's stockpile, but some fear global repercussions. In the Cold War arms race, scientists rushed to build thousands of warheads to counter the Soviet Union. Today, those scientists are racing once again, but this time to rebuild an aging nuclear stockpile. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are locked in an intense competition with rivals at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Bay Area to design the nation's first new nuclear bomb in two decades. The two labs have fiercely competed in the bomb trade with technologies as disparate as Microsoft's and Apple's. The new weapon, under development for about a year, is ...
Project Woodpecker
Post Date: 2006-06-12 15:49:45 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Project Woodpecker By Cal 1-9-5 In the Tulsa World (1-11-94), there was a small article entitled: "Weapons Designers Win Secret Award". It said this: "The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory won an award. The staff is very proud. The award is on display. But, they can't say what the honor was for. It's a secret. .Its 21 member "Project Woodpecker" team was cited. It won the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion. That's an award from the CIA and National Security Agency. The citation says the award was for solving complex problems." PROJECT WOODPECKER pertains to the "Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating Method" now being used to alter the ...
Top 10 Strangest Spy Gadgets
Post Date: 2006-06-10 16:55:13 by Zipporah
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Top 10 Strangest Spy Gadgets Our editors have compiled a list of the “Top 10 Strangest (or coolest) Spy Gadgets” for your enjoyment. Which ones are your favorites? 10. Motion Detector Telephone Home security becomes less of a chore with the TeleSpy Motion Activated Intrusion System. If the built-in sensor detects movement, the phone will automatically call a preset number, allowing you to listen in for 30 seconds through its amplified microphone. The passive infrared sensor detects changes in the room’s heat due to occupant’s movement. The detection range is about 30 feet long and the width is about 20 feet. It will then create about 45 degree wedge beyond the ...
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