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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-03-08 04:26:00 by 2Trievers
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APOD: 2005 March 8 - Crater on Mimas Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 March 8 Crater on Mimas Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn's smallest moons. The crater, named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel, spans about 130 kilometers and is pictured above in the dramatic light of its terminator. Mimas' low mass produces a surface ...
Say no to Big Brother plan for Internet [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-03-07 14:57:10 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Say no to Big Brother plan for Internet MICHAEL GEIST During the Internet boom of the late 1990s, Nortel Networks ran an advertising campaign that featured as its slogan, "what do you want the Internet to be?" The implications were obvious ? the Internet was a technology of unlimited possibility that could be whatever we wanted it to be. More than five years later, Nortel's vision is becoming reality. The Internet has become so essential to the every day lives of millions of people ? a pillar of communication, information, entertainment, education, and commerce ? that at times it seems as if the Internet really is anything we want it to be. Notwithstanding the Internet's ...
Unusual Life Forms Found in the Atlantic
Post Date: 2005-03-06 10:01:58 by robin
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WASHINGTON - A strange world of see-through shrimp, crabs and other life forms teems around a newly explored field of thermal vents near the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists report. AP Photo Towering white mineral chimneys mark the field, named the Lost City, a sharp contrast to the better-known black smoker vents that have been studied in recent years. The discovery shows "how little we know about the ocean," lead researcher Deborah S. Kelley of the University of Washington said. "I have been working on black smokers for about 20 years, and you sort of think you have a good idea what's going on," she said in a telephone interview. "But the ocean is a ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-03-04 08:04:20 by 2Trievers
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 March 4 NGC 1427A: Galaxy in Motion Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI), ESA, NASA Explanation: In this tantalizing image, young blue star clusters and pink star-forming regions abound in NGC 1427A, a galaxy in motion. The small irregular galaxy's swept back outline points toward the top of this picture from the Hubble Space Telescope - and that is indeed the direction NGC 1427A is moving as it travels toward the center ...
Extinct and With Tiny Brain, but a Clever Little Relative?
Post Date: 2005-03-04 07:58:50 by 2Trievers
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One of the extinct little people of the Indonesian island of Flores, who were accorded a separate status in the early human family after their discovery was announced last October, has undergone its first intelligence test. In a study of the shape and contours of its tiny braincase, the 18,000-year-old adult female, who was barely three feet tall, was found to have anatomical attributes suggesting a capacity for higher thinking processes, a significant memory bank and ability to plan. Not bad for a species with a brain one-third the size of a contemporary human's. A research team, led by Dr. Dean Falk of Florida State University, reported yesterday that casts made of the interior cranium ...
Fossett makes history (Pilot completes first nonstop, global flight without refueling)
Post Date: 2005-03-03 20:48:31 by robin
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CNN) -- Flying from horizon to horizon, Steve Fossett completed the first nonstop, flight 'round-the-world without refueling on Thursday afternoon, landing gracefully in Kansas at 2:49 pm ET. A cheering crowd gathered to usher the GlobalFlyer and its 60-year-old pilot into the record books, something that has become almost routine for Fossett in recent years. The aviator now holds three record-breaking circumnavigations of the globe, the two others by balloon and sailboat. "It's something I've wanted to do for a long time," Fossett said as he stepped out of the plane, his legs wobbly after nearly three days in the cockpit. "It has been a major ambition of mine." The ...
Monsanto Terminator Technology -- Worldwide Famine & Starvation
Post Date: 2005-03-03 17:52:38 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Ethical Investing Monsanto Terminator Technology -- Worldwide Famine & Starvation Return to Monsanto Unethical Investment Page / Ethical Investing Home Page Monsanto is in the process of acquiring and patenting their newest technology, known as "Terminator Technology." This technology is currently the greatest threat to humanity. If it is used by Monsanto on a large-scale basis, it will inevitably lead to famine and starvation on a worldwide basis. Billions of people on the planet are supported by farmers who save seeds from the crops and replant these seeds the following year. Seeds are planted. The crop is harvested. And the seeds from the harvest are replanted the ...
Gay men read maps like women
Post Date: 2005-03-03 14:09:00 by crack monkey
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Gay men read maps like women 18:32 25 February 2005 NewScientist.com news service Shaoni Bhattacharya Gay men employ the same strategies for navigating as women - using landmarks to find their way around - a new study suggests. But they also use the strategies typically used by straight men, such as using compass directions and distances. In contrast, gay women read maps just like straight women, reveals the study of 80 heterosexual and homosexual men and women. "Gay men adopt male and female strategies. Therefore their brains are a sexual mosaic," explains Qazi Rahman, a psychobiologist who led the study at the University of East London, UK. "It's not simply that lesbians ...
Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon
Post Date: 2005-03-03 13:56:50 by crack monkey
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Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon 19:00 02 March 2005 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition David Hambling The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture. "I am deeply concerned about the ethical aspects of this research," says Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, UK. "Even if the use of temporary severe pain ...
Russian Cargo Ship Reaches Space Station
Post Date: 2005-03-03 10:16:37 by Brian S
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(03-02) 13:44 PST MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- A Russian cargo ship carrying food, equipment and other supplies docked successfully with the international space station Wednesday, an official said. The unmanned Progress M-52 spacecraft docked with the station on schedule at 11:10 p.m. Moscow time (3:10 p.m. EST), said Valery Lyndin, a spokesman for Russia's Mission Control in Korolyov, just outside Moscow. An automatic docking procedure connected the cargo ship to the station's Russian-made Zvezda service module, Lyndin said by telephone from Mission Control. The Progress craft had lifted from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, carrying about 2.75 tons of ...
9/11: Missing Pentagon Jet Engine Identified? - A 727 JT8D
Post Date: 2005-03-02 15:54:43 by Zipporah
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Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry displays the Pratt & Whitney JT8D. These photos show that JT8D matches the Pentagon engine photographed at the crash site. Note the outlined bolt flanges for comparison purposes. The bolt flanges hold the sections of the engine together. Both engines have portions of the outer cover removed so the inner engine is clearly visible. Measurements: Fan tip diameter: 39.9 - 49.2 in Length, flange to flange: 120.0 - 154.1 in From: http://www.pratt-whitney.com/prod_comm_jt8d.asp Make That A 737Jet Engine... From J. Kaplowitz 3-2-5 Try 737. http://www.onlinejournal.com/ (pdf) They are all jet engine components (past and present) on the A-3 ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-02-28 05:49:56 by 2Trievers
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APOD: 2005 February 28 - Unusual Plates on Mars Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 February 28 Unusual Plates on Mars Credit: G. Neukum (FU Berlin) et al., Mars Express, DLR, ESA Explanation: What are those unusual plates on Mars? A leading current interpretation holds that they are blocks of ice floating on a recently frozen sea covered by dust. The unusual plates were photographed recently by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft currently orbiting Mars. Oddly, the region lies ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-02-27 08:17:41 by 2Trievers
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APOD: 2005 February 27 - The Solar Spectrum Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 February 27 The Solar Spectrum Credit & Copyright: Nigel Sharp (NSF), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF Explanation: It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Shown above are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The above spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our yellow-appearing ...
Why Israel Really Fears Iranian Nukes, Part Two
Post Date: 2005-02-26 19:02:01 by crack monkey
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Why Israel Really Fears Iranian Nukes, Part Two by Roger Howard The acquisition of a nuclear warhead by any country, whether a friend or foe of the United States, is a development of not merely military significance. Instead it necessarily has immense political importance both to a domestic audience and on a wider international stage: the bomb helped India to shake off feelings of post-colonial inferiority, for example, while the French nuclear deterrent symbolized the country's independence from Washington and, at one stage, from the European Community. So too should the prospect of an Iranian warhead be seen in these wider terms. For as Part 1 of this essay argued, however much Western ...
Mystery of the silent woodlands: scientists are baffled as bird numbers plummet
Post Date: 2005-02-26 12:14:24 by 1776
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It has hardly been noticed, but it is another sinister warning sign of a world going badly wrong. Populations of some of Britain's most attractive woodland birds are plummeting at a rate that threatens them with extinction, and nobody knows why. Precipitous declines in the numbers of some species, of up to four-fifths, have been registered over the past 30 years, but scientists are just realising what is happening, and they have no simple explanation. In its scale and its range, the phenomenon is one of the most ominous events in the natural history of Britain over the past half-century. Perversely, the decline comes at a time when Britain is planting more woodlands than ever, and forest ...
Solar Tower of Power Finds Home
Post Date: 2005-02-26 08:00:27 by 2Trievers
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02:00 AM Feb. 24, 2005 PT The quest for a new form of green energy has taken a significant step with the purchase of a 25,000-acre sheep farm in the Australian outback. The huge alternative energy project isn't driven by manure, but by a 1-kilometer-high thermal power station called the Solar Tower. Announced several years ago, the 3,280-foot Solar Tower is one of the most ambitious alternative energy projects on the planet: a renewable energy plant that pumps out the same power as a small reactor but is totally safe. If built, it will be nearly double the height of the world's tallest structure, the CN Tower in Canada. The Solar Tower is hollow in the middle like a chimney. At ...
Father Of Intermittent Wipers Dies
Post Date: 2005-02-26 07:43:45 by 2Trievers
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DETROIT -- You may never have known his name, but Robert Kearns was responsible for making driving on a drizzly day a lot easier and a lot quieter. The man who invented intermittent windshield wipers has died at the age of 77. His daughter said Kearns was buried, appropriately enough, on a misty day when it rained "just enough to have the wipers going on intermittent." Kearns patented his intermittent system in 1967 and then demonstrated it for Ford Motor Co. Eleven years later, when Ford began installing the wipers on new cars, Kearns sued the automaker and won. He collected $10 million from Ford and another $21 million from Chrysler. But Kearns called the settlements a ...
Stellar Eclipse: Moon to Hide Bright Star March 3
Post Date: 2005-02-26 07:10:40 by 2Trievers
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As the Moon makes its monthly circuit around the sky it often passes in front of stars, blotting them out for as much as an hour or so. Such an event is called an occultation (derived from the Latin word occultare, which means “to conceal.”), and it can be a startling spectacle, especially if the star happens to be bright. The star appears to creep up to the Moon’s limb, hangs on the edge for a minute or two, and then, without warning, abruptly winks out. Later it pops back into view just as suddenly on the Moon’s other side. The suddenness with which occultations take place was one of the first proofs that the Moon has no atmosphere. If our natural satellite were ...
Probe points to chance of recent life on Mars
Post Date: 2005-02-26 05:45:05 by 2Trievers
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SPACE:After the discovery of lava flows and a frozen sea, a quarter of scientists say they believe life may still exist on the planet. BY TOBY STERLING ASSOCIATED PRESS NOORDWIJK, Netherlands - Scientists said Friday that they have discovered active volcanoes and a frozen sea on Mars and called for a follow-up mission to find out if there is life on the red planet. The recommendations came at the end of a weeklong conference in the Netherlands to analyze results from the European Space Agency's Mars probe. A poll conducted among 250 conference participants showed that 75 percent believed life in the form of bacteria once existed on Mars, and 25 percent thought it might still be there. ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-02-26 05:36:09 by 2Trievers
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APOD: 2005 February 26 - Frizion Illume Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 February 26 Frizion Illume Credit & Copyright: Peter Wasilewski (Goddard Space Flight Center) Explanation: Scientific images of cosmic dust clouds or even frozen water can be esthetic too. In fact, this picture of thin layers of forming ice crystals uses a scientific understanding of light's wave properties solely for artistic purposes. Titled "Illume", the picture was created by astrophysicist Peter ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-02-25 06:56:15 by 2Trievers
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 February 25 Saturn's Dragon Storm Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: Dubbed the "Dragon Storm", convoluted, swirling cloud features are tinted orange in this false-color, near-infrared image of Saturn's southern hemisphere. In one of a series of discoveries announced by Cassini researchers, the Dragon Storm was found to be responsible for mysterious bursts of radio static monitored by Cassini instruments during the last ...
MSN Search Finds Viral Campaign
Post Date: 2005-02-24 22:55:52 by Dakmar
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NOT CONTENT WITH its massive television, Internet, and radio advertising blitz to promote its newly released proprietary search engine MSN Search, MSN apparently has released a viral campaign, “MSN Found,” to promote the search site. An MSN spokesperson declined to comment on the viral campaign, other than to say: “There is a lot of great content to be found out on the Web. ‘Found’ complements MSN Search by finding more of the unique content on the Web.” When the MSN Search marketing blitz was being announced, an MSN executive told OnlineMediaDaily that an agency called 42 Entertainment would be creating virals to promote the search engine. 42 Entertainment ...
The UFO Phenomenon - Seeing Is Believing (Peter Jennings tonight 8-10 est)
Post Date: 2005-02-24 20:01:46 by Brian S
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Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief. For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of people. It is a mystery that only science can solve, and yet the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting on this subject by the mainstream media holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to ridicule. On Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" takes a fresh look at the UFO phenomenon. "As a journalist," says Jennings, "I began this project with a healthy dose of skepticism ...
Glasses get piercing stares [and you thought you'd seen it all]
Post Date: 2005-02-24 09:28:23 by 2Trievers
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www.piercedglasses.com "Freaky, yet cool," is the reaction James Sooy of Dallas gets when people realize his eyeglasses are attached to his face via body piercing. Gross. Weird. Freaky. James Sooy hears it all. But when you stick a barbell through the bridge of your nose and screw prescription lenses to it, the 22-year-old Dallas artist admits, you come to expect some criticism. Beauty is, after all, in the eyeglasses of the beholder. "Since I've been wearing glasses so long, it was kind of odd," said Sooy, who created the "pierced glasses" that he now sports. "I'd reach up to take them off and I'd realize they were stuck on there." After years ...
Test for canine personalities
Post Date: 2005-02-24 07:10:47 by 2Trievers
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[Science News]: Dogs show huge differences in personality, according to a US scientist who has developed a test to assess canine character. Dr Sam Gosling, of the University of Texas, rates the dogs on four key traits with positive and negative extremes. He adds that his work suggests pets should be matched with owners who have similar personalities. The work was presented at a major science conference in Washington DC. Personality traits "We used approaches used to assess human personality and applied them to dogs," said Dr Gosling. "You do find personality differences between breeds. Indeed, many have been bred on that basis. But you also find enormous [personality] ...
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