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Project Blue Book - Interview with EBE-3 The Alien from Future Earth
Post Date: 2016-08-28 22:50:58 by FormerLurker
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Poster Comment:Interesting dialogue, not sure if it's real, but can't say I disagree with anything the little guy supposedly said.
The Da Vinci Surgical system: finely-tuned robotics
Post Date: 2016-08-28 00:49:21 by NeoconsNailed
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The da Vinci® Surgical System The da Vinci® Surgical System enables surgeons to perform operations through a few small incisions and features several key features, including: Magnified vision system that gives surgeons a 3D HD view inside the patient’s body Ergonomically designed console where the surgeon sits while operating Patient-side cart where the patient is positioned during surgery Wristed instruments that bend and rotate far greater than the human hand The da Vinci System is powered by robotic technology that allows the surgeon’s hand movements to be translated into smaller, precise movements of tiny instruments inside the patient’s body. One of the ...
A New Way of Seeing the Solar System | Space News
Post Date: 2016-08-27 01:00:29 by Horse
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'A lit fuse': Ancient carbon slowly seeping from permafrost could ignite
Post Date: 2016-08-26 05:21:30 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Slowly melting permafrost is seeping ancient carbon into the atmosphere in what researchers describe as a slowly ticking climate change time bomb. The paper, published in Nature Geoscience on Monday, confirms that the thawing permafrost is releasing gases which have been trapped in ice for thousands of years as climate-warming greenhouse gases. By subjecting gas captured from lakes in Alaska, Siberia and Canada to radiocarbon dating, researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks found the gas had been generated from carbon stored up to 30,000 years ago. Permament state of deep freeze: Earth’s melting tundra releases ancient viruses (VIDEO) ...
Aerial surveillance is here to stay; itÂ’s time to talk about privacy
Post Date: 2016-08-25 21:17:23 by BTP Holdings
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Aerial surveillance is here to stay; it’s time to talk about privacy Posted on August 25, 2016 by Sam Rolley small drone title Personal Liberty Poll Exercise your right to vote. Law enforcement agencies throughout the country are increasingly turning to drone technology developed for military use to keep an ever-present eye in the sky. Unfortunately, little has been revealed about how the data they gather may be used to prosecute residents. Bloomberg reported this week that cops in Baltimore are using a small plane equipped with highly capable cameras to record what’s happening on the city’s streets on a near-constant basis. From the report: Since the beginning of the ...
"Evidence Points To Another Snowden At The NSA"
Post Date: 2016-08-25 01:17:02 by Tatarewicz
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PMF... Three Amigos, or The Three Stooges? Last week, following the news that a previously unknown hacker collective, "The Shadow Brokers" had hacked and released legitimate hacking tools from the NSA's own special-ops entity, the "Equation Group", initial speculation that Russians may have penetrated the US spy agency - suggested by none other than Edward Snowden - shifted to the suggestion that the agency may be housing another "mole" insider. As we noted on Thursday, a former NSA source told Motherboard, that “it’s plausible” that the leakers are actually a disgruntled insider, claiming that it’s easier to walk out of the NSA with a ...
US woman sentenced to jail over bid to send military gear to China
Post Date: 2016-08-21 01:29:05 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... A US federal judge in Miami has sentenced a California woman to over four years of imprisonment for conspiring to export American military equipment, including warplane engines and a drone aircraft, to China. The judge sentenced 45-year-old Wenxia Man, a naturalized US citizen from San Diego, on Friday after a jury convicted her in June of conspiring to export military gear to China without the proper license, AP reported Saturday. Citing federal prosecutors, the report points to evidence that shows Man collaborated with somebody in China to export engines used in F-135, F-22 and F-16 fighter jets as well as an MQ-9 Reaper drone aircraft -- worth $50 million -- capable of ...
Researchers accidentally discover blue firenado that could efficiently clean up oil spills
Post Date: 2016-08-20 09:47:28 by Ada
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Researchers accidentally discovered a new type of blue fire that could prove valuable when cleaning up major oil spills. The fire was detected while researchers investigated uses for fire whirls, also known as firenados. Faculty members from the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering were initially working to understand the burning dynamics of fire whirls on water. During their experiment, they discovered an eco-friendly "blue whirl," which had transitioned from a standard yellow flame. The optimal, clean burning of the blue fire could be valuable when it comes to cleaning up oil spills and meeting worldwide demand for high-efficiency, low-emission ...
Scientists find likely cause of 2011 Virginia earthquake, believe there may be more to come
Post Date: 2016-08-19 07:53:51 by Ada
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On Aug. 23, 2011, those living in eastern North America, from Ontario to Georgia, felt an unexpected shock as the earth trembled in the wake of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near the town of Mineral, Virginia, around 2 p.m. local time. A notable quake with a magnitude of 4.0 or higher east of the Rockies is a rarity, according to USGS reports. However, a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth is shedding light on the likely causes behind the event and may indicate that there are more to come. Civilians and military personnel evacuate the Pentagon after an earthquake. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason ...
It Is Happening: US to Hand Over Control of the Internet as of October 1
Post Date: 2016-08-19 05:59:09 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... The United States will fulfill a years-old promise to privatize the governance of the World Wide Web in October. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was established in 1988 to coordinate domain names across the globe. A nonprofit organization, ICANN is overseen by the US Department of Commerce. Twitter page in browser window © Sputnik/ Alexandr Kryazhev Russia, China Challenge Western-Style Internet Naturally, a number of countries and privacy advocates have expressed concern that a global entity as vital as the internet is under the control of the US, and the Obama Administration promised to cede control over ICANN. Until recently, Washington ...
Uber acquires truck startup, planning test run of driverless SUVs
Post Date: 2016-08-19 04:07:26 by Tatarewicz
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This file photo taken on March 25, 2015 shows an UBER application shown as cars drive by in Washington, DC. The US ride-sharing service Uber announced August 18, 2016 it had acquired the commercial transport-focused tech startup Otto as the company presses ahead with its pursuit of self-driving technology. The announcement came as the company also announced a $300 million effort with the Sweden-based automaker Volvo Cars to develop driverless cars."If that sounds like a big deal -- well, it is," Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a statement. ) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Uber Technologies Inc. said on Thursday it had acquired Otto, a technology startup whose aim is to ...
Nearly two decades of data reinforce concerns that pesticides are really bad for bees
Post Date: 2016-08-17 09:24:53 by Tatarewicz
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WaPo... New research has provided some of the strongest evidence yet that pesticides can do serious, long-term damage to bee populations. And the findings may help fuel the ongoing debate about whether certain insecticides should be permitted for agricultural use at all. The new study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, examines the question of whether the use of a common (and highly controversial) class of pesticides called neonicotinoids can be linked to wild bee declines in England. The results suggest that this could be the case. Using 18 years of data collected on more than 60 bee species in England, the researchers found that species foraging on ...
This new study might actually explain the weirdness that is déjà vu
Post Date: 2016-08-17 04:33:50 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... In French, déjà vu literally translates to "already seen", and describes the phenomenon of having the strong feeling that the experience you’re having right now has already been experienced by you in the past. It’s clearly not a glitch in the Matrix, but scientists have been struggling for centuries to explain what prompts a feeling of déjà vu - and why. But now a team of neuroscientists just might have an answer. Led by Akira O’Connor from the University of St Andrews in the UK, the team figured out how to trigger a feeling of déjà vu in a lab setting - making something that’s spontaneous, fleeting, ...
Nanostructured device grabs solar energy to disinfect water
Post Date: 2016-08-17 03:59:18 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have created a nanostructured device, about half the size of a postage stamp that disinfects water with solar energy. As sunlight falls on the device, it triggers the formation of hydrogen peroxide and other disinfecting chemicals that kill more than 99.999 percent of bacteria in just 20 minutes, much faster than putting germy water out in the sun in a plastic bottle for six to 48 hours to allow ultraviolet rays to kill the microbes. "Our device looks like a little rectangle of black glass. We just dropped it into the water and put ...
New study suggests we might have spotted a fifth force of nature
Post Date: 2016-08-16 05:26:18 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... As far as we know, there are four fundamental forces that hold our Universe together - gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. But, in April last year, physicists in Hungary saw evidence of a possible fifth force of nature, one that could potentially explain some of the lingering mysteries in our Universe, such as dark matter. Now an independent team of researchers has re-analysed the results, confirming that the anomaly seen in the data last year really could be a whole new fundamental force. This idea is still a long way off being confirmed - as we learnt from CERN's latest announcement, sometimes promising blips in the data end up ...
WATCH: Scientists Use Sound Waves to Levitate Golf Ball-Sized Sphere
Post Date: 2016-08-16 05:11:27 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... While the technology won’t be able to facilitate flying cars in the near future, scientists have successfully used sound pressure to keep an object suspended in midair. Using opposing beams of acoustic waves, researchers at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and Heriot-Watt University in the UK managed to keep a 2-inch solid polystyrene sphere aloft. The opposing pressure created standing waves that keep the object in place. "Acoustic levitation of small particles at the acoustic pressure nodes of a standing wave is well-known, but the maximum particle size that can be levitated at the pressure nodes is around one quarter of the acoustic wavelength," Marco ...
China launches world’s 1st quantum communications satellite
Post Date: 2016-08-16 02:25:34 by Tatarewicz
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RT... The world’s first quantum communications satellite has been launched into orbit aboard a Long March-2D rocket. The main task of the Chinese satellite is to potentially secure communications in an age of cyberattacks and global electronic surveillance. The 600-plus-kilogram Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) satellite took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gobi Desert at 1:40am local time on a two-year mission on Tuesday. Nicknamed "Micius," in honor of the fifth century B.C. Chinese philosopher and scientist, QUESS will be positioned at sun-synchronous orbit, some 600 kilometers (373 miles) above the Earth at an angle of 97.79 degrees, allowing ...
There IS life after DEATH: Scientists reveal shock findings from groundbreaking study
Post Date: 2016-08-15 08:59:55 by Horse
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In a large scale study of more than 2,000 people, British boffins confirmed that thoughts DO carry on after the heart stops. The shock research has also uncovered the most convincing evidence of an out of body experience for a patient declared dead. It had been believed the brain stopped all activity 30 seconds after the heart had stopped pumping blood around the body, and that with that, awareness ceases too. However, the study from the University of Southampton shows people still experience awareness for up to three minutes after they had been pronounced dead. Lead researcher Dr Sam Parnia said: "Contrary to perception, death is not a specific moment but a potentially reversible ...
10 futuristic vehicles that will fundamentally transform how we travel
Post Date: 2016-08-14 12:23:08 by Ada
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Transportation is undergoing one of the biggest transformations in history. From self-driving cars to the Hyperloop, companies are investing in new ways for humans to get from point A to point B more efficiently. Here's a look at some of the vehicles and transport systems that are being developed that could dramatically change how we travel on earth and, possibly, even to other planets. Click for Full Text!
Genetics and good schooling key to a child's reading ability
Post Date: 2016-08-14 06:56:33 by Tatarewicz
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New research suggests poor schooling environments may disrupt the influence of genetics on reading ability among young children. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A child's ability to read is reliant on nature and nurture. New research suggests even high quality reading genes aren't enough to overcome poor schooling. Researchers from Florida State University found top schools allow innate abilities to flourish, but poor schools can quash a child's potential. FSU doctoral student Rasheda Haughbrook and assistant psychology professor Sara Hart looked at correlations between student reading performance and school quality. Most public schools in Florida receive a letter grade ...
Space tourism breakthrough? China working on hypersonic spaceplane with horizontal takeoff
Post Date: 2016-08-13 05:38:22 by Tatarewicz
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RT... China is planning to take space exploration to a new level, as it develops a new “spaceplane” that could take off from a runway and fly at hypersonic speed before blasting into space and back. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CATSC) is behind the project of a plane/spacecraft hybrid that will travel back and forth between the runway and space orbit at hypersonic speeds, Popular Science reported. Development and testing is scheduled for the next three to five years. The first deployment date is estimated for 2030. Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2.(AFP Photo / DARPA) China’s hypersonic strike vehicle ‘in 3d test flight’ ...
The Ancient Therapy Secret of Champions is Suddenly Making a Huge Comeback
Post Date: 2016-08-12 07:29:04 by BTP Holdings
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Cupping Therapy In a breakthrough that combines modern materials science with the ancient healing art of Chinese Cupping Therapy, I've launched a revolutionary cupping therapy set made of silicone. Cupping therapy is suddenly hugely popular again after olympian Michael Phelps was spotted winning gold medals while sporting cupping circles on his back and shoulders. In fact, many olympian competitors are using cupping therapy as a strategy for their muscle performance and competitive success. You can even perform cupping therapy on yourself, right at home. Modern Materials Enabled a Revolution in Cupping Therapy Self-Care Cupping therapy has been used by health practitioners for ...
Russian military’s invisible ‘cloak’ to hide weapons & hardware from enemy radar
Post Date: 2016-08-12 07:11:28 by Tatarewicz
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RT... A Russian defense company has created a “cloak,” which it says can make electronic objects invisible to enemy radar. The aim of the fiber technology, which is used in the cloak, is to make weapons invisible to prying eyes and detection systems. The St. Petersburg-based company Roselectronics has come up with the invention and says it can make weapons that use thermal, infrared, and electromagnetic radar in targeting invisible. Read more RIA Novosti / Vitaliy Ankov Russian scientists create ‘bio-cement’ for human bones The technology works by placing the insulating object over electronic devices, which makes them undetectable. “The main idea of the ...
Another Tesla Autopilot crash, this time in China
Post Date: 2016-08-12 06:47:06 by Tatarewicz
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LaTimes A Tesla store in Beijing, one of 24 stores and service centers in China. Nobody was killed or even injured. But a minor accident involving a Tesla Model S running on Autopilot in China is again raising questions about exactly how the feature works. The electric car company said Wednesday that it is investigating the Aug. 2 incident. The driver’s Tesla sideswiped a Volkswagen that was parked halfway in the lane of a busy Beijing highway. The company said Autopilot was engaged and the driver was not holding the steering wheel. But the driver, Luo Zhen, claimed he was misled by Tesla. He told the Reuters news agency that Tesla salespeople described Autopilot as a ...
The DEA just opened up a path to medical marijuana nationwide
Post Date: 2016-08-12 03:49:03 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) decided to reject a petition that asked them to reclassify marijuana, leaving it in the Schedule 1 (most restricted) category of controlled substances with "no currently accepted medical use", as NPR and other outlets reported Wednesday. But one aspect of the decision could actually open the door for medical marijuana in the future. Today, researchers can only study the limited quantity of marijuana grown at the University of Mississippi, which has a contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse. But in the DEA's August 11 announcement, the agency said that it will finally allow other institutions around the country ...
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