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Man Missing After Pulled Into Ocean By Turtle
Post Date: 2006-08-11 17:03:24 by IndieTX
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A graduate student from the University of Central Florida is missing after he was pulled underwater by a large sea turtle, according to Local 6 News. Officials said the man vanished Thursday afternoon about three miles north of the Sebastian Inlet and 400 yards out to sea, sheriff's officials said. The student was apparently tagging turtles as part of a UCF research project. "The person was onboard a Boston Whaler with other students when a large turtle pulled the victim underwater," Local 6's Bob Frier said. The Coast Guard from the Fort Pierce, Fla., station is conducting the search with assistance from the Brevard County sheriff's helicopter.
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Brain scan as a lie detector except for politicians
Post Date: 2006-08-11 09:26:53 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Organic molecules found in diverse space places
Post Date: 2006-08-11 06:41:32 by gengis gandhi
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Organic molecules found in diverse space places Posted 8/8/2006 4:31 PM ET E-mail | Save | Print | Subscribe to stories like this Subscribe to stories like this An artist's illustration of the cosmic chemistry cycle. Stars eject matter into space, which forms giant gas and dust clouds. The clouds condense into planets and stars, comets and meteorites. Enlarge Courtesy: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF An artist's illustration of the cosmic chemistry cycle. Stars eject matter into space, which forms giant gas and dust clouds. The clouds condense into planets and stars, comets and meteorites. SCIENCE, SPACE IN PHOTOS Gallery: This week in space (Wednesdays) Gallery: Science Lens (Thursdays) FOR ...
Science reveals secrets of invisibility
Post Date: 2006-08-10 22:43:02 by IndieTX
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CNN) -- Invisibility has long been a fantastical ability exclusively enjoyed by teenage wizards, super heroes and the ultra-advanced civilisations of science fiction. But more pragmatic-minded scientists and engineers now believe that invisibility-enabling technology may be within reach of lesser mortals as well. The key to that possibility is the development of increasingly complex metamaterials -- manmade composites engineered on a nano scale with properties entirely different to anything found in nature. Doctor Ulf Leonhardt, a physicist at Scotland's St. Andrews University who has recently published two papers on the theory behind invisibility technology, said the key was developing ...
Custom-Built Pathogens Raise Bioterror Fears
Post Date: 2006-08-09 13:12:47 by Jethro Tull
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Custom-Built Pathogens Raise Bioterror Fears By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 31, 2006; Page A01 STONY BROOK, N.Y. Eckard Wimmer knows of a shortcut terrorists could someday use to get their hands on the lethal viruses that cause Ebola and smallpox. He knows it exceptionally well, because he discovered it himself. In his small lab, Eckard Wimmer recently examined a tray that held a newly created virus growing in a cellular broth. (By Joby Warrick -- The Washington Post) FROM SUNDAY'S POST The Secretive Fight Against Bioterror Work at new lab could someday save thousands of lives -- or create new risks and place the U.S in violation of international ...
Google to warn people about malicious websites
Post Date: 2006-08-08 10:52:45 by robin
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Google has upped the ante with regards to beating malware, by letting searchers know if the site they are looking for is responsible for giving users malicious software. Google are working with the Stop Badware Coalition to decide which sites need to be flagged up. Whenever people click on a dodgy link Google will whisk the user off to a warning web page, informing you of the dangers that lie ahead. The options Google will then offer you are: try another search, select a different result from your search or if you fancy testing your computers security system, proceed ahead. Google has said that in the future they will make these warning page far more specific, letting users know what ...
Video cameras on the lookout for terrorists
Post Date: 2006-08-08 06:32:42 by noone222
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NISKAYUNA, New York (AP) -- It sounds like something out of science fiction. Researchers at General Electric Co.'s sprawling research center, are creating new "smart video surveillance" systems that can detect explosives by recognizing the electromagnetic waves given off by objects, even under clothing. Scientist Peter Tu and his team are also developing programs that can recognize faces, pinpoint distress in a crowd by honing in on erratic body movements and synthesize the views of several cameras into one bird's eye view, as part of a growing effort to thwart terrorism. "We're definitely on the cutting edge," said Tu, 39. "If you want to reduce risk, video is ...
Dark Side Of The Moon
Post Date: 2006-08-07 21:39:18 by Rainingfish
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Still believe the footage you saw? Check out this angle. Kubrick's there as the wizard and look at some of the other players! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3288261061829859642&q
buzz alrdrins interview on the apollo 11 ufo (google vid)
Post Date: 2006-08-07 11:07:03 by gengis gandhi
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http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=6647204125621625190&q=ufo
Poster Comment:man those fucking weather balloons sure get around. yeah, and i mean, come on, you can't believe a crackpot like an apollo astronaut....he doesn't even live in a trailer park and has excellent dental work.
Turffalo Grass
Post Date: 2006-08-07 11:05:43 by Lod
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Turffalo Brand Turfgrasses have worked with Texas Tech University over the past 15 years to bring you the newest turf technology on the market. For full sun areas, nothing can compete with Tech Turf for low water usage. In heavily shaded areas in hot climates, no other turfgrass performs like Shadow Turf. Together, Tech Turf and Shadow Turf offer a complete solution for growing the perfect lawn. Did you know that over 70% of the average homeowner’s water usage is spent on their lawn? Planting a turfgrass such as Tech Turf that conserves water is not only environmentally responsible, but can also save a tremendous amount of money. Turffalo’s turfgrass technology is years ahead of ...
Comments on Helen Caldicott's Book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
Post Date: 2006-08-07 09:27:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Comments on Helen Caldicott's New Book: Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer - by Stephen Lendman No one writes with more passion, commitment and knowledge about the immense dangers of nuclear technology in all its forms than Australian physician and nuclear expert Helen Caldicott. Since writing her first book (must reading for everyone), Nuclear Madness, in 1978, Dr. Caldicott has worked tirelessly to expose the real threat this technology from hell poses to human survival. In her first book she wrote: "As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will ...
Pinch My Ride (long but good)
Post Date: 2006-08-06 00:13:42 by Indrid Cold
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Last summer Emad Wassef walked out of a Target store in Orange County, California, to find a big space where his 2003 Lincoln Navigator had been. The 38-year-old truck driver and former reserve Los Angeles police officer did what anyone would do: He reported the theft to the cops and called his insurance company. Two weeks later, the black SUV turned up near the Mexico border, minus its stereo, airbags, DVD player, and door panels. Wassef assumed he had a straightforward claim for around $25,000. His insurer, Chicago-based Unitrin Direct, disagreed. Wassef’s Navigator, like half of all late-model domestic cars on the road today, is equipped with a transponder antitheft system: The ...
Search Is on for Original Apollo 11 Footage
Post Date: 2006-08-05 23:02:14 by Indrid Cold
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Almost everyone on the planet who had access to television watched the first moon landing, back on the night of July 20, 1969. What the TV viewers didn't know is that they weren't seeing the best images. The astronauts actually beamed higher-quality footage back to Earth, but it was only seen by a small number of people at three tracking stations. Those original images were recorded and put into storage -- somewhere. Now, a small crew of retirees, space enthusiasts, and NASA employees are searching for a moon landing that the world has never seen. Houston, The Image Is Degraded One of them is Stan Lebar. On that historic night, he was 44 years old and sitting in Houston's Mission ...
Illegal Immigrant on CBS: In 20 Years, We'll Run America! - "We're already running the cities!"
Post Date: 2006-08-03 08:25:22 by Brer'
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Illegal Immigrant on CBS: In 20 Years, We'll Run America! On CBS’s "Sunday Morning" reporter Martha Teichner narrated a piece sympathetic to Hispanic immigrants, and in particular, illegal immigrants. She profiled three Hispanic people, two of whom initially came to the country illegally. One illegal immigrant she profiled was defiant of his status, and sounded almost threatening when he said: "In 20 years, we are going to run the country. Right now we're running the cities. So little by little, we're running the show. Little by little. So this sleeping giant is already awakened." The piece omitted some crucial elements, first there was no mention of societal ...
Two Articles Posted: (1) NASA Masonic Conspiracy (2) Lunatic fringe; There has long been a suspicion in some quarters that the Moon landings were faked and the Video: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon (Fascinating Reading & Viewing)
Post Date: 2006-08-03 00:03:32 by christine
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NASA Masonic Conpsiracy background="images/blue.jpg" bgcolor="FFFFFF"> NASA Masonic Conpsiracy Apollo Mission's Masonic SymbolsIn 1961, William Branham said: "I tell you now, it's a program that'll take you a hundred billion, billion, million light years beyond the moon. That's right. And there if you go to the moon you couldn't set down because see, you'd jump right back up unless you had some magnet to hold you there. You couldn't stay over night; you'd freeze to death. In the daytime you'd burn up. What you going to do when you get there?" (Basis of Fellowship 61-0214)The following article is an excerpt from Wm. Cooper's site NASA was created to make ...
Mig vs Ufo cylinder, Declassified Soviet footage
Post Date: 2006-08-02 13:06:33 by gengis gandhi
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http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4468185100897567649&q=ufo+cylinder http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5210326345538570434&q=russian+ufo FO NASA Above Earth with Dirty Screen 2 http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-20...&q=ufo+cylinder
Rare Cloud Formation Seen in Antarctica
Post Date: 2006-08-01 21:11:10 by Brian S
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Rare Cloud Formation Seen in Antarctica Tuesday, August 1, 2006 Printable Version Email This Article (08-01) 16:35 PDT HOBART, Australia (AP) -- Some of the coldest temperatures on Earth brought a rare cloud formation to the skies over Antarctica, scientists said Tuesday. Meteorological officer Renae Baker captured spectacular images of the nacreous clouds, also known as polar stratospheric clouds, last week at Australia's Mawson station in Antarctica. The clouds only occur at high polar latitudes in winter, requiring temperatures less than minus 176 degrees Fahrenheit. A weather balloon measured temperatures at minus 189 degrees Fahrenheit on the day the photos were taken. ...
Beauty and mystery in rare Antarctic clouds
Post Date: 2006-08-01 11:46:55 by gengis gandhi
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Beauty and mystery in rare Antarctic clouds Tuesday 1 August 2006 A rare and spectacular cloud formation has been seen at the end of the polar night at Australia's Mawson station in Antarctica. © Renae Baker 2006 These so-called nacreous clouds were situated high in the stratosphere, some 20km above the ground, and reveal very cold temperatures in the rarefied atmosphere. Photographs taken by Renae Baker, a meteorological officer with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology at Mawson, on July 25 show delicate colours produced when the fading light at sunset passed through tiny water-ice crystals blown along on a strong jet of stratospheric air. "Spectacular is an ...
Bush's fondness for fundamentalism is courting disaster at home and abroad
Post Date: 2006-07-31 23:32:23 by Morgana le Fay
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Affinity with the Christian right has led to banning stem cell research and turning a blind eye to civilian deaths in Lebanon From the very beginning, the conflict between religion and modern science was couched in extreme, even apocalyptic rhetoric. Thomas H Huxley, who popularised the Origin of Species, insisted that people had to choose between faith and science; there could be no compromise: "One or the other would have to succumb after a struggle of unknown duration." In response, conservative Christians launched a crusade against Darwinism. After the first world war, the Democratic politician William Jennings Bryan claimed that there was a direct link between ...
Israel causes 'worst environmental disaster' in Mediterranean
Post Date: 2006-07-31 23:23:11 by Zipporah
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BEIRUT (AFP) - The Mediterranean is threatened by its worst ever environmental disaster after Israel's bombing of a power plant in Lebanon sent thousands of tons of fuel gushing into the sea, the environment minister charged on Saturday. "Up until now 10,000-15,000 tons of heavy fuel oil have spilled out into the sea," after Israel's bombing of the power station in Jiyeh two weeks ago, Lebanese Environment Minister Yacub Sarraf told AFP. "It's without doubt the biggest environmental catastrophe that the Mediterranean has known and it risks having terrible consequences not only for our country but for all the countries of the eastern Mediterranean." Israeli forces ...
Transforming the Alchemists
Post Date: 2006-07-31 23:18:05 by Morgana le Fay
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PHILADELPHIA — Historians of science are taking a new and lively interest in alchemy, the often mystical investigation into the hidden mysteries of nature that reached its heyday in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries and has been an embarrassment to modern scientists ever since. There was no place in the annals of empirical science, beginning mainly in the 18th century, for the occult practices of obsessed dreamers who sought most famously and impossibly to transform base metals into pure gold. So alchemy fell into disrepute. But in the revival of scholarship on the field, historians are finding reasons to give at least some alchemists their due. Even though they were secretive ...
Asteroid (2006 OK3) Just Flew By 'Too Close'--within .07 lunar distances
Post Date: 2006-07-25 16:31:54 by gengis gandhi
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Asteroid (2006 OK3) Just Flew By 'Too Close' by Mitch Battros – ECM/ECTV Asteroid ‘2006 OK3’ did not get the recognition it should have. Just yesterday (July 24th) this 12 meteor diameter rock came within .07 lunar distances from Earth. The distance between the Earth and Moon is approximately 238,857 miles or (384,403 kilometers). This means asteroid ‘2006 OK3’ came within 167,212 miles from a collision with our home. In the astronomical world this is a razors hair in distance. If this rock would have been just a bit larger, all hell would have broke loose. The IAU Minor Planet Center announced this intruder just 3 days ago on Saturday July 22nd. Asteroid 2006 ...
Phobos & Deimos, The Moons of Mars
Post Date: 2006-07-25 12:57:02 by gengis gandhi
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Phobos & Deimos, The Moons of Mars Regular readers to this site may have read in the past our articles on Phobos, which is one of the small moons that circle around Mars. As we have speculated before, this 'moon' seems to be very odd, and has always been considered a rather mysterious object, as has its smaller twin, Deimos. Recent events seem to have strengthened our beliefs as news recently reached us that both Moons have mysteriously disappeared... But first, lets look at the history of these moons and tell you of some strange events that have been related to them in the past. Joseph Shklovskii noted member of the Soviet Academy of science and co-writer with Dr Carl Sagan of ...
Evidence of Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan
Post Date: 2006-07-25 12:45:58 by gengis gandhi
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Evidence of Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan By ALICIA CHANG AP Science Writer AP Photo Science Video Advertisement LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Scientists said Monday they have found the first widespread evidence of giant hydrocarbon lakes on the surface of Saturn's planet-size moon Titan. The cluster of lakes was spotted near Titan's frigid north pole during a weekend flyby by the international Cassini spacecraft, which flew within 590 miles of the moon. Researchers counted about a dozen lakes six to 62 miles wide. Some, which appeared as dark patches in radar images, were connected by channels, while others had tributaries flowing into them. Several were dried up, but the ones that contained ...
Models show one nearby star system could host Earth-like planet
Post Date: 2006-07-25 12:42:56 by gengis gandhi
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Models show one nearby star system could host Earth-like planet CONTACT: Vince Stricherz vinces@u.washington.edu 206-543-2580 The steady discovery of giant planets orbiting stars other than our sun has heightened speculation that there could be Earth-type worlds in nearby planetary systems capable of sustaining life. Now researchers running computer simulations for four nearby systems that contain giant planets about the size of Jupiter have found one that could have formed an Earth-like planet with the right conditions to support life. A second system is likely to have a belt of rocky bodies the size of Mars or smaller. The other two, the models show, do not have the proper conditions to ...
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