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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 ...
Is It Raining Aliens?-red rain in india has scientists baffled, experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600ÚF.
Post Date: 2006-06-09 21:10:55 by gengis gandhi
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Is It Raining Aliens? Nearly 50 tons of mysterious red particles showered India in 2001. Now the race is on to figure out what the heck they are By http://img.timeinc.net/popsci/images/2006/05/redrain_cells_485.jpg| June 2006 Courtesy Dr. Godfrey Louis E.T. Under the Microscope: Scientists have yet to identify the unusual particles [above, magnified 500 times] isolated from India’s mysterious red rainwater. As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the ...
Vessel Measures Record Ocean Swells-" so big, according to computer models used to set safety standards for ships and oil rigs, they shouldn't even exist."
Post Date: 2006-06-09 11:05:29 by gengis gandhi
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Vessel Measures Record Ocean Swells By Markus Becker A British research team has observed some of the biggest sea swells ever measured. A whole series of giant waves hammered into their ship that were so big, according to computer models used to set safety standards for ships and oil rigs, they shouldn't even exist. When the RRS Discovery set out to sea, the crew was expecting stormy weather. Meteorologists had predicted a violent storm, and the scientists -- a team from Britain's National Oceanography Center -- wanted to observe it from up close. What they ended up experiencing went far beyond anything they could have imagined -- and could have cost them their lives. Near the island ...
Mysterious glowing clouds targeted by NASA
Post Date: 2006-06-09 10:27:41 by gengis gandhi
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Mysterious glowing clouds targeted by NASA 17:07 26 May 2006 http://NewScientist.com news service Maggie McKee Print this pageEmail to a friendRSS Feed High-altitude noctilucent clouds have been mysteriously spreading around the world in recent years (Image: NASA/JSC/ES and IA)Related Articles Columbia's final launch left lingering sky glow 08 July 2005 Taken by storm 14 November 1998 Review: Shining nights 13 April 1991 Search New Scientist Contact us Web Links AIM mission, Hampton University Noctilucent clouds, University of Colorado Scott Bailey, University of Alaska Glowing, silvery blue clouds that have been spreading around the world and brightening mysteriously in recent years ...
Asteroid risk to Earth lowered, scientists say
Post Date: 2006-06-08 04:01:49 by Neil McIver
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Chances of impact move ‘in right direction,’ toward odds of 1-in-24,000 After a fresh round of radar observations, astronomers said Thursday that the chances of a catastrophic asteroid impact in the year 2036 are lower than previously thought — and they're hoping the threat will be completely ruled out once more readings are made. The chances of collision with the asteroid Apophis in 2036 now stand at 1 in 24,000, said Steve Chesley, an expert on near-Earth objects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That's a significant advance from the previous orbital predictions, which set the odds of impact at 1 out of about 6,000. Chesley told http://MSNBC.com that there's still a ...
New species of dwarf dinosaur found in Germany
Post Date: 2006-06-07 19:46:24 by Zipporah
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LONDON - Fossils from a new species of a 150 million-year-old dwarf dinosaur have been found in northern Germany, scientists said on Wednesday. Initially they suspected that the remains from more than 11 sauropods were from young dinosaurs. But an analysis of their bones showed they were small adults that probably lived on an island during the late Jurassic period. "It is the first case of island dwarfing proven for sauropod dinosaurs," said Professor Martin Sander of the University of Bonn in Germany. Sauropods were the largest animals that lived on Earth. With their long necks, massive tails, small heads and stout legs they weighed on average about 20 tonnes and measured 20 ...
Worm-inspired robot crawls through intestines
Post Date: 2006-06-06 23:18:52 by Pandora
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Worm-inspired robot crawls through intestines The robot (shown on top of pig gut) modelled on a polychaete, or "paddle worm" A robot designed to crawl through the human gut by mimicking the wriggling motion of an undersea worm has been developed by European scientists. It could one day help doctors diagnose disease by carrying tiny cameras through patients' bodies. The team behind the robot includes scientists from Italy, Germany, Greece and the UK. They modelled it on polychaetes, or "paddle worms", which use tiny paddles on their body segments to push through sand, mud or water. "We turned to biological inspiration because, in the peculiar environment of the ...
In the Body of an Accounting Professor, a Little Bit of the Mongol Hordes
Post Date: 2006-06-06 23:10:05 by Pandora
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The first American to be able to claim descent from Genghis Khan has been discovered. He is Thomas R. Robinson, an associate professor of accounting at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. Dr. Robinson's descent from Genghis Khan emerged in a roundabout way. The Y chromosome of that Mongol emperor was identified in 2003 by geneticists at the University of Oxford in England. Surveying the chromosomes of Asian men, they noticed a distinctive genetic signature in populations from Mongolia to Central Asia. Their common feature was that all but one lay within the borders of the former Mongol empire. The geneticists concluded that the far-flung Y chromosome must have belonged to ...
Special forces to use strap-on 'stealth wings'(CHECK THIS OUT)
Post Date: 2006-06-06 21:09:31 by tom007
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Special forces to use strap-on 'stealth wings' By MATTHEW HICKLEY, Daily Mail 13:33pm 6th June 2006 C Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings. The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles or more before landing - making them almost impossible to spot, as their aircraft can avoid flying anywhere near the target. The technology was demonstrated in spectacular fashion three years ago when Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner - a pioneer of freefall gliding - famously 'flew' across the English Channel, leaping ...
Creation or Evolution - Does It Really Mattr What You Believe?
Post Date: 2006-06-06 05:54:32 by Zoroaster
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Creation or Evolution - Does It Really Matter What You Believe? by Mario Seiglie Two great achievements occurred in 1953, more than half a century ago. The first was the successful ascent of Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Sir Edmund Hillary and his guide, Tenzing Norgay, reached the summit that year, an accomplishment that's still considered the ultimate feat for mountain climbers. Since then, more than a thousand mountaineers have made it to the top, and each year hundreds more attempt it. Yet the second great achievement of 1953 has had a greater impact on the world. Each year, many thousands join the ranks of those participating in this accomplishment, hoping to ...
Long-term marijuana use may fog the brain
Post Date: 2006-06-05 00:32:14 by Morgana le Fay
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Long-term users of marijuana gradually become worse at learning and remembering things, a new study suggests. “It definitely fogs your brain,” says Lambros Messinis, who led the study at the University Hospital of Patras in Greece. Messinis and colleagues tested the mental abilities of 20 long-term users who had taken marijuana heavily – smoking at least four joints a week – for an average of 15 years. Their brains were rustier than those of 20 short-term users – who had averaged seven years of use – and 24 controls who had used the drug sporadically or not at all. Long-term users performed worse in tests to measure memory, learning ability and the ...
Water Fuel Experimenter and Team Threatened
Post Date: 2006-06-04 11:17:09 by Grumble Jones
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Ken Rasmussen's research team has been working on a process that turns out to have similarities to the super-efficient electrolysis process being developed by Professor Kanarev. Rasmussen's work ceased after a member of the team was threatened at gunpoint. VENTURA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, USA -- On May 16, a technician who was one of a team of garage experimenters investigating a hydrogen-on-demand technology was run off the road near a rural intersection and accosted by four white, middle-aged males in black suits, carrying Glocks and Mac tens. The assailants were driving a late model, black Lincoln Town Car. This comes just one month after Bill Williams was similarly threatened because ...
The red rain phenomenon of Kerala and its possible extraterrestrial origin [Life from Space???]
Post Date: 2006-06-04 11:12:30 by Pandora
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ABSTRACT: Comments: 18 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science A red rain phenomenon occurred in Kerala, India starting from 25th July 2001, in which the rainwater appeared coloured in various localized places that are spread over a few hundred kilometers in Kerala. Maximum cases were reported during the first 10 days and isolated cases were found to occur for about 2 months. The striking red colouration of the rainwater was found to be due to the suspension of microscopic red particles having the appearance of biological cells. These particles have no similarity with usual desert dust. An estimated minimum quantity of 50,000 kg of red particles has ...
Acetone as a Fuel Additive - A cheap way to get an increase of from 15 to 35%, mpg.
Post Date: 2006-06-04 01:38:03 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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A cheap way to get an increase of from 15 to 35%, mpg. Using ordinary 100 % Acetone as a Fuel Additive 1 ½ oz. per 10 gallons http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Acetone_as_a_Fuel_Additive http://pesn.com/2005/03/17/6900069_Acetone/ For more just do search on Acetone MPG
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