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The Right Builder for the Right Spacecraft at the Right Time
Post Date: 2006-09-02 01:08:45 by robin
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Friday, Sep. 01, 2006 The Right Builder for the Right Spacecraft at the Right Time Analysis: By awarding the contract for the next generation Orion space vehicle to Lockheed Martin, NASA finally got something right. But will Washington have the political will to complete the trip? By JEFFREY KLUGER It was a long, long time in coming, but NASA's manned space program finally got one right. Thursday's announcement that the contract for the next generation crew exploration vehicle—now dubbed Orion—had been awarded to Lockheed Martin was the right spacecraft to the right company at the right time. Going on three years after President Bush announced his plans to send human beings ...
The Death Star
Post Date: 2006-08-31 20:41:52 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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For the first time a star has been observed in real time as it dies and becomes a supernova — an immensely powerful explosion. The cataclysmic supernova, briefly outshining the Milky Way galaxy, occurred 440 million light years away in a star-forming galaxy in the constellation of Aries. Large stars are likely to end their days in this way, by blowing themselves to smithereens. Aftermaths of supernovae have been observed many times but scientists have never before seen one of the explosions happening. They will now have an unprecedented view of a supernova from start to finish across many wavelengths, including radio and X-ray. Radio telescopes have seen the burst from the day it ...
Scientist Can Now ERASE Rat Brain Memories - You Next?
Post Date: 2006-08-31 16:53:51 by Horse
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Scientists have for the first time erased long-term memories in rats and also directly seen how the brain is changed by learning. The research points to potential human benefits. These findings could prove key "to understanding how memories can be augmented, for example in diseases that affect memory, like Alzheimer's," said neuroscientist Mark Bear at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. The research could also help treat pain that does not go away, "like neuropathic pain, where people have a moderately severe injury, typically to the hands or feet, and instead of going away in a couple of hours just perpetuates," neurologist and molecular biologist ...
Russia Mulls New Space Station, Missions To Moon, Mars
Post Date: 2006-08-29 20:37:09 by Brian S
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MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - The International Space Station will be dismantled after 2015 to be replaced with a new orbital station, a Russian Space Agency official said Tuesday. "It is necessary because at present we can monitor less than 10% of Russian territory, but with a new station the coverage will be increased tenfold," said Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of the agency. He said the new space station would be used to produce materials that are impossible to manufacture on Earth and to improve the methods of remote monitoring of the Earth. Davydov also said Russia would test technologies for space travel to the Moon and Mars in 2015-2025. "And after 2025 we are ...
Military research aims to develop self-configuring, secure wireless nets
Post Date: 2006-08-29 14:41:58 by Tauzero
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Military research aims to develop self-configuring, secure wireless nets Researchers develop military-grade intelligent wireless net. By Ryan DeBeasi, http://NetworkWorld.com, 08/16/06 Government, corporate and academic researchers are working on a network that would be able to configure itself, intelligently cache and route data, and allow for fast and reliable sharing of data, all while maintaining military-grade security. The project is called Knowledge Based Networking and is under development by the Department of Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Researchers from schools including Northeastern, Virginia Tech, Lehigh University have been involved with the project, as have ...
Nature Perverted: See The Extent to Which Genetically Modified Crops Have Been Adopted in the U.S. (and in Your State)
Post Date: 2006-08-28 19:34:13 by Arator
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Check out this chart: See the ominous trend? In my state (Kansas), for example, the percentage of planted acres that are presently genetically modified Frankenfood are as follows: Corn - 68% Soybeans - 95% You can check out the extent of genetic adulteration in your own state at the following links: Corn Cotton Soybeans
Poster Comment:With these high (and increasing) rates of adoption, how many of us are now unwittingly eating this adulterated garbage?
Monsanto Buys ‘Terminator’ Seeds Company
Post Date: 2006-08-28 07:48:47 by loner
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by F. William Engdahl August 27, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The Government has been working quietly on this technology since 1983. Now, the little-known company that has been working in this genetic research with the Government’s US Department of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-- is about to become part of the world’s largest supplier of patented genetically-modified seeds (GMO), Monsanto Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri. Relations between Monsanto, Delta & Pine Land ...
Escaped GM grass could spread bad news
Post Date: 2006-08-27 19:13:42 by Red Jones
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Study: Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Grasses Will 'Wreak Havoc' on Native Species Escaped GM grass could spread bad news Nature, August 11, 2006 http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060807/full/060807-17.html An escaped strain of transgenic grass bred for golf courses could wreak havoc on native grassland species in the northwestern United States, ecologists are warning. The strain, which was growing in a test plot in Oregon and hadn't yet been approved for use by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), has now been detected in the wild, up to 3.8 kilometres outside the test area. While the transgenic component of the plant might not in itself pose a problem, the hardy strain could ...
Blue Demons - Sea monsters are only sailors' tales, right?
Post Date: 2006-08-26 17:18:49 by robin
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IT’S A LONG STORY: Greg Willis hangs onto an 18 1/2-foot oarfish, believed to weigh 500 pounds, as it is towed to his boat in the Sea of Cortez in 1996.
Blue Demons
Sea monsters are only sailors' tales, right? Probably. But consider the local sightings of an oarfish and giant-squid appendages.
By Pete Thomas Times Staff Writer
August 26, 2006
If you don't believe in sea monsters, consider yourself warned: They are among us.
Exhibit A lies in a freezer at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, soon to go on display as it appeared before being pulled from the ocean: a serpent-like denizen, 15 feet long and sinuous, with a hatchet-shaped head and a silver body adorned ...
Order Your New Bugatti Here
Post Date: 2006-08-24 22:08:46 by Lod
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For 1.4mil, you should get it your way. 0-60mph in 2.4 seconds, if you have the need for speed.
Pluto Demoted, No Longer a Planet
Post Date: 2006-08-24 13:14:29 by Neil McIver
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Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
http://SPACE.com Thu Aug 24, 10:00 AM ET
Capping years of intense debate, astronomers resolved today to demote Pluto in a wholesale redefinition of planethood that is a victory of scientific reasoning over historic and cultural influences.
Pluto is no longer a planet.
"Pluto is dead," said Caltech researcher Mike Brown, who spoke with reporters via a teleconference while monitoring the vote. The decision also means a Pluto-sized object that Brown discovered will not be called a planet. "Pluto is not a planet. There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system."
The decision establishes three main categories of objects ...
Was British terror plot a load of crap?
Post Date: 2006-08-24 05:08:07 by Zoroaster
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Thu, 8.24.06 Geov Parrish http://WorkingForChange.com 08.22.06 Printer-friendly version Email this item to a friend Most e-mailed stories Was British terror plot a load of crap? Liquid explosives very difficult to make; Orange Alert a political move? An article posted last Thursday in the British online outlet The Register raises a very good question I haven't seen posed anywhere else, certainly not in our sycophantic American media: was the exposed British "plot" to bring down commercial airliners by mixing harmless household chemicals in the lavatory even remotely possible from the standpoint of basic chemistry? To address that question, it's worth quoting from The ...
Russian refuses math's highest honor
Post Date: 2006-08-22 17:38:48 by Starwind
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A reclusive Russian won the math world's highest honor Tuesday for solving a problem that has stumped some of the discipline's greatest minds for a century - but he refused the award. Grigory Perelman, a 40-year-old native of St. Petersburg, won a Fields Medal - often described as math's equivalent of the Nobel prize - for a breakthrough in the study of shapes that experts say might help scientists figure out the shape of the universe. John Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, said that he had urged Perelman to accept the medal, but Perelman said he felt isolated from the mathematics community and "does not want to be seen as its figurehead." Ball offered no ...
satellite view of aurora australalis (beautiful)
Post Date: 2006-08-21 14:58:11 by gengis gandhi
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Backward Sunspot
Post Date: 2006-08-21 14:16:43 by gengis gandhi
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Backward Sunspot 08.15.2006 + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Email to a friend | + Join mailing list August 15, 2006: On July 31st, a tiny sunspot was born. It popped up from the sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours. On the sun this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it wouldn't be worth mentioning. But this sunspot was special: It was backward. see caption"We've been waiting for this," says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Alabama. "A backward sunspot is a sign that the next solar cycle is beginning." Right: The tiny, backward sunspot of July 31, 2006. Credit: SOHO. ...
A Magnificent Collapse (cyclone forming in gulf mysteriously disappears)
Post Date: 2006-08-21 14:04:51 by gengis gandhi
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One of the most basic rules of forecasting tropical cyclone formation is to see if deep convection (rain clouds and thunderstorms) persists, because oftentimes what goes up comes down just as quickly. If there's a big blowup over water and it continues for at least 12-18 hours, and is collocated with a well-defined surface wind circulation & low pressure as well favorable conditions aloft, then development can ensue. A couple of days ago (Tuesday August 15) there was not only an example of a big burst of convection over warm water imploding after equally rapidly exploding, it was one of the more dramatic such instances one is ever going to see. Thunderstorms cranked up in a hurry in ...
Infineon to Provide Chip for U.S. E-Passport
Post Date: 2006-08-21 13:11:17 by robin
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German chip maker Infineon Technologies will supply chips for new electronic passports that the United States will begin issuing in the coming weeks. Of the 15 million e-passports to be issued by the end of the year, several million of them will be equipped with Infineon chips, the manufacturer said Monday. The first wave of U.S. passports with chips, however, comes despite lingering privacy and security concerns. Earlier this month, a German security expert at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas demonstrated how e-passports—equipped with a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip containing biometric data—could be copied using a laptop computer, an RFID reader and ...
George Draws The Line At Stem Cells
Post Date: 2006-08-18 22:08:52 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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George Draws The Line At Stem Cells
Plants’ methane emissions revised
Post Date: 2006-08-18 21:38:56 by rack42
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The startling news that trees and other plants can give off large quantities of methane – a potent greenhouse gas – took biologists and atmospheric chemists by surprise in January this year. But since then, scientists have criticised the way that the results, obtained from small laboratory-based experiments, were scaled up to produce an estimate of global methane emissions from plants. So scientists involved with the original research have now fine-tuned their calculations and set an upper limit on plants’ total methane emissions that almost halves their original suggestion.1 Frank Keppler at the Max Plank institute for nuclear physics, Heidelberg, Germany, led the ...
'Hybrid Mutant' Found Dead in Maine
Post Date: 2006-08-17 10:35:29 by gengis gandhi
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'Hybrid Mutant' Found Dead in Maine Wed Aug 16, 4:55 PM ET TURNER, Maine - Residents are wondering if an animal found dead over the weekend may be the mysterious creature that has mauled dogs, frightened residents and been the subject of local legend for half a generation. ADVERTISEMENT The animal was found near power lines along Route 4 on Saturday, apparently struck by a car while chasing a cat. The carcass was photographed and inspected by several people who live in the area, but nobody is sure exactly what it is. Michelle O'Donnell of Turner spotted the animal near her yard about a week before it was killed. She called it a "hybrid mutant of something." "It was ...
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Post Date: 2006-08-16 15:31:30 by Lod
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Microsoft Office Under Siege
Post Date: 2006-08-15 08:26:44 by Red Jones
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Microsoft Office Under Siege August 13, 2006 By Ryan Naraine What started as an amusing eBay listing of an Excel vulnerability for sale has developed into an all-out hacker assault on Microsoft Office applications. Security researchers and malicious hackers have zeroed in on the desktop productivity suite, using specialized "fuzzing" tools to find a wide range of critical vulnerabilities in Word, Excel and PowerPoint file formats. The upsurge in reported Office flaws has put Microsoft on high alert for targeted zero-day attacks that have all the characteristics of characteristics of corporate espionage—highly targeted and using Trojan horse programs to drop keyloggers and ...
Dell recalls 4 million batteries
Post Date: 2006-08-14 19:58:18 by robin
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The Dell laptop that caught in Osaka in June. Photo: Gaston/The Inquirer
Computer maker Dell Inc. has announced it will recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries .
The batteries are made by Sony Corp and Dell said that it issued the recall because the lithium ion batteries could overheat and, in rare cases, produce smoke and catch fire.
The batteries are Dell-branded but contain Sony battery cells, a Dell spokesman said.
In recent weeks there's been a number of reports of Dell notebooks catching fire.
The most well-known case happen in Osaka, Japan two months ago.
The laptop computer was photographed as it burst into flames.
In Sydney yesterday, the founder of ...
Experts meet to decide Pluto fate
Post Date: 2006-08-14 02:45:39 by robin
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Experts meet to decide Pluto fate Pluto was discovered in 1930 by US astronomer Clyde TombaughMore detailsAstronomers are gathering in the Czech capital, Prague, hoping to define exactly what counts as a planet. The International Astronomical Union hopes to settle the question of Pluto, which was first spotted in 1930. Experts are divided over whether Pluto - further away and considerably smaller than the eight other planets in our solar system - deserves the title. The stakes were raised when a bigger planet-type body, known as 2003 UB313, was discovered by a US astronomer. Professor Mike Brown and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology have discovered several other ...
Homeland Security: Apply MS06-040 Patch
Post Date: 2006-08-12 21:27:35 by Red Jones
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Homeland Security: Apply MS06-040 Patch August 9, 2006 By Ryan Naraine Less than 24 hours after Microsoft shipped security fixes for 23 serious software vulnerabilities, the U.S. government's Department of Homeland Security issued a firm notice to Windows users: immediately apply the patches in the MS06-040 bulletin. In a somewhat unusual move, the DHS warned that the patches cover a remote code execution vulnerability that could be used in a network worm attack similar to Blaster, Slammer of Sasser. "Windows users are encouraged to avoid delay in applying this security patch. Attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in operating systems routinely occur within 24 hours of the release ...
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