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Asteroid may strike earth in october 2017
Post Date: 2016-03-28 22:12:28 by Tatarewicz
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Started by vladzo Astronomers at the University of Texas fear an asteroid the size of the Statue of Liberty, that in 2012 came dangerously close to colliding with Earth, is once again on a path to crash into our planet - and what’s worse, scientists have no idea where it might fall. Asteroid 2012 TC4, which narrowly avoided colliding with Earth in October 2012, is set to swing dangerously close to our planet for the second time. Researchers have speculated that this time, the celestial body could be as large as 40 meters wide, almost as large as the famed Statue of Liberty, and about twice the size of the meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February 2013 ...
Jupiter's Rings Revealed
Post Date: 2016-03-28 20:03:30 by BTP Holdings
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Jupiter's Rings Revealed Source: NASA Published: 16 September 2011 Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but their origin was a mystery. Data from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 later confirmed that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons. As a small meteoroid strikes tiny Adrastea, for example, it will bore into the moon, vaporize and explode dirt and dust off into a Jovian orbit. Pictured above is an eclipse of the sun by Jupiter, as viewed from Galileo. Small dust particles high in Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as the dust particles that compose ...
Student Solar Car Team Shows the Future is Powered by Sunshine
Post Date: 2016-03-27 11:03:52 by Ada
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Battling extreme heat, kangaroo roadkill and a constant threat of clouds, the University of Michigan Solar Car crew shows how teamwork and technology can produce an engineering feat. For almost five long, sizzling days, an all-star team of 17 University of Michigan students took to the Australian outback, racing a car that guzzles little more than ingenuity and sunshine. The race is the Bridgestone World Solar Car Challenge, a biennial event since 1987 where energy-efficient cars from around the world race almost 1,900 miles to push the limits of solar car innovation. It’s the World Cup of solar car racing, and University of Michigan is a tier-one team. In 2015, the team finished ...
Las Vegas embattled forensics experts respond to scandals and flawed convictions
Post Date: 2016-03-27 07:12:21 by Ada
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“ICAN PEEL a person’s face apart in 90 seconds,” said the well-dressed woman holding tongs, “but I can’t get a quesadilla out of here.” It had been a long day at the 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Science. At the private reception in Pavilion 5, the food had gone quickly. All that remained was an unappetizing pile of quesadillas, stubbornly stuck together in their stainless steel buffet tray. As she leaned in to dislodge a clump of tortilla and cheese, the woman’s conference badge revealed that she worked in a medical examiner’s office. Her ID hung from a blue lanyard adorned with the iconic retro sign that greets ...
Pentagon Wants to Buy That Bomb You’re Building in the Garage
Post Date: 2016-03-27 02:35:36 by Tatarewicz
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DARPA will pay tinkerers to weaponize off-the-shelf items — in hopes of defending against such hacks. Can you rig your toaster into an improvised explosive device or turn a cheap hobby drone into a weapon of mass destruction? The Pentagon would love to hear from you. On Friday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced that they would award money to people who can turn consumer electronics, household chemicals, 3-D printed parts, cheap drones or other “commercially available technology” into the next improvised weapon. “For decades, U.S. national security was ensured in large part by a simple advantage: a near-monopoly on access to the most ...
Microsoft Pulls Robot After It Tweets 'Hitler Was Right I Hate the Jews'
Post Date: 2016-03-25 07:12:48 by Ada
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Among other offending tweets was 'Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now. Donald Trump is the only hope we’ve got.' Microsoft put the brakes on its artificial intelligence tweeting robot after it posted several offensive comments, including “Hitler was right I hate the jews.” The so-called chatbot TayTweets was launched by the Seattle-based software company on Wednesday as an experiment in artificial intelligence, or AI, and conversational understanding. But the company was forced to quickly pause the account and delete the vast majority of its tweets after the chatbot posted a number of offensive comments, including ...
U.S. scientists create "minimal cell" with just genes needed for life
Post Date: 2016-03-25 06:20:07 by Tatarewicz
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[More] WASHINGTON, March 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers announced Thursday the design and construction of a minimal synthetic bacterial cell that contains only the genes necessary for life, a breakthrough that may help better understand the secret of life. Genome research pioneer Craig Venter's team shocked the world in 2010 by creating the first synthetic cell in human history and now they went further to simplify and reorganize the cell's genome to retain only 473 genes, making it the smallest genome of any organism that can be grown in laboratory media. "The only way to answer basic questions about life would be to get to a minimal genome, and ... probably the only way ...
Strangeness: "New Tech Shows Why You Can't Trust Anything You See on the News"
Post Date: 2016-03-22 01:29:20 by NeoconsNailed
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An eccentric but seemingly credible presentation. Yeah, the dramatizations are old news, but it's hard to imagine them actually using this face manipulations technique. The Weasel Slimeball is used as an example, but his rubber face clearly needs no help and he's made no accusations that they've made him look even more stupid and hateful than he naturally does. Comments please. NN Click for Full Text!
Suppressed 1963 episode of One Step Beyond: magic mushrooms
Post Date: 2016-03-17 05:01:54 by NeoconsNailed
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=================== BrasscheckTV Report =================== It's one of those odd episodes in history. Four days after John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, an Alcoa sponsored TV series introduced American television watchers to the wonder of magic mushrooms. Here's the very popular episode from the series "One Step Beyond" which was pulled from syndication and never shown on TV again. cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa_Presents:_One_Step_Beyond#.22The_Sacred_Mushroom. 22 'On camera, Newland ingested several mushrooms and allowed his reactions to be filmed for broadcast. This was the only episode of the entire series to have a relatively reality-based ...
Raising the Costa Concordia: totally ossome engineering, $1.2B worth
Post Date: 2016-03-17 04:26:22 by NeoconsNailed
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Parbuckling the operative buzzword. Really impressive delicate operation involving humongous flotation devices, winches etc. The team even turned the ships lights on and made it their project headquarters!?!?! 33 lives lost in the original disaster, none in the two-year removal. Just curious, any of yawl see this broadcast on TV? Whoa, breaking up the ship 'will take around 125 workers between 18 months and two and a half years. Once the Concordia's in Genoa, crews will construct a giant tent over the ship and none of us will ever see it again. The front and the back will be dismantled first, and any possessions that passengers left behind as they fled the sinking liner will be ...
This hot robot says she wants to destroy humans 14 Hours Ago Meet Sophia. Hanson Robotics human-like robot that may embody the androids of our future.
Post Date: 2016-03-17 00:36:07 by Horse
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IQ and fade-out effect: Environmental intervention can raise general intelligence, but the effects aren't permanent
Post Date: 2016-03-15 11:53:06 by Ada
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Summary: A psychologist shows that while environmental intervention can raise general intelligence, the effects aren't permanent. Interventions to raise IQ in young children did raise intelligence levels, but not permanently. Scientists have long agreed that we humans are a complex combination of our inherited traits and the environments in which we are raised. How the scales tip in one direction or the other, however, is still the subject of much debate. To better understand the nature versus nurture question, UC Santa Barbara psychologist John Protzko analyzed an existing study to determine whether and how environmental interventions impacted the intelligence levels of low birth ...
Does Undersea Crater Solve the Bermuda Triangle?
Post Date: 2016-03-15 04:35:16 by Tatarewicz
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New research off the coast of Norway has led to renewed speculation surrounding what may be behind the infamous spate of ship disappearances attributed to the Bermuda Triangle. Scientists from Arctic University of Norway announced that they have discovered a series of massive craters in the nearby Barents Sea. These craters, measuring a half-mile wide and 150 feet deep, are believed to be the result of methane gas bubbling up from the seabed and causing a massive disruption on the surface of the water. The discovery of the craters adds strength to the longstanding theory that the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle is due to vessels being inadvertently struck by the sudden ...
Is a robot coming for your jobs? Biology versus technology
Post Date: 2016-03-14 12:45:19 by NeoconsNailed
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As the human narrator says, "Baxter" or "backster" technology is smart like no previous wave of robotization. Scary or exciting? WHAT WILL PEOPLE LIVE ON when there are NO jobs left except IT and robotics? Who'll buy the products they so smugly turn out? NN Click for Full Text!
4"-wide amoebas and holes belching liquid CO2: 'Earth's 10 Most Mysterious Lost Worlds'
Post Date: 2016-03-13 19:04:23 by NeoconsNailed
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A little break in the political action here. These series are more fun -- except when they're showing humanity for what it really is, natch :-o NN Click for Full Text!
This “Green” Energy Source Gets 326 Times More Subsidies Than Coal, Oil or Natural Gas
Post Date: 2016-03-11 04:18:53 by BTP Holdings
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This “Green” Energy Source Gets 326 Times More Subsidies Than Coal, Oil or Natural Gas February 27th, 2016 Critics of subsidies for renewable energy are usually met with the comeback that the oil industry gets trillions in subsidies – $5.3 trillion a year, to be exact. That estimate is based on three major mistakes: It’s the entire energy industry (not oil); the estimate includes externalities, which aren’t subsidies; and most of the amount tends to benefit consumers, not the industry. Here are some more accurate numbers through a recent article in Forbes, which shows the amount of subsidies given to green energy sources, versus coal, oil or natural gas. And the ...
Snowden: FBI's claim it can't unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is 'bullshit'
Post Date: 2016-03-09 09:24:28 by Ada
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NSA whistleblower rubbishes claims that only Apple can unlock killer’s iPhone 5C, indicating FBI has the means itself Edward Snowden, the whistleblower whose NSA revelations sparked a debate on mass surveillance, has waded into the arguments over the FBI’s attempt to force Apple to help it unlock the iPhone 5C of one of the San Bernardino shooters. The FBI says that only Apple can deactivate certain passcode protections on the iPhone, which will allow law enforcement to guess the passcode by using brute- force. Talking via video link from Moscow to the Common Cause Blueprint for a Great Democracy conference, Snowden said: “The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive ...
GMO's - "The Biggest Scientific Fraud of Our Age"
Post Date: 2016-03-08 16:19:38 by Aquila
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Did you know that almost everything in a market today that comes in a box contains Genetically Modified Food products? Rice Krispies? GMO Sugar Smuckers Jam and Jellies? GMO Sugar Canned Chili? GMO Soybeans Pancake Syrup? Syrup from GMO Corn Candy? GMO Soy and Sugar It's safe to assume that if it doesn't say "Organic" or "Non-GMO" on the box the food in the box contains some kind of GMO. Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public A book by Steven Drucker This book uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating ...
Researchers Copy a 3D Model By Recording Its Printer's Sounds
Post Date: 2016-03-08 04:17:26 by NeoconsNailed
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Anyone looking to duplicate a 3D-printed model doesn't necessarily need computer hacking skills to do so. New research shows that the blueprint of a model can be copied simply by recording the sounds of the 3D printer as it produces it, Gizmodo reports. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine's Advanced Integrated Cyber- Physical Systems Lab made this discovery by recording the noises made by a 3D printer as it printed out a key-shaped object. The sounds generated by the servos, pumps, and extruders were all unique enough to give away their positions as well as the amount of filament they were printing at a given time. When the team attempted to reproduce the key ...
You know Area 51, but just what in the world is Area 6?
Post Date: 2016-03-07 09:18:55 by Ada
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The asphalt runway stretches for a mile on Yucca Flat, deep in the Nevada National Security Site about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Built in 2005, the runway covers a dirt landing strip from the 1950s, when the wide, flat valley was used for atomic bomb test shots. A small complex of buildings dominated by a large hangar with unusual clamshell doors dominates the southern end of the asphalt strip. The complex has no official name. Not many people even know it’s there. As secret airbases go, the single runway in the test site’s Area 6 is easily overshadowed by the world’s most famous secret military base, Area 51, a dozen miles northeast. Area 51’s existence was ...
How Solar Is Saving the Oil Industry
Post Date: 2016-03-06 13:13:08 by BTP Holdings
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How Solar Is Saving the Oil Industry Written by Nick Hodge Posted March 3, 2016 With the collapse in oil prices, oil companies are pulling out all the stops to staunch the bleeding. And the pressures aren't just coming from pricing, which has already led to several dozen bankruptcies, but they're also coming from a renewed global push against climate change. You see, the global energy market is in flux. And fortunes will be made and lost as a new energy order develops. Coal fortunes, for example, have already been lost. Oil will be fine. And in fact I suspect huge gains to be made from the sector once it rebounds. But I believe even more gains are to be had ...
Scientific paper which says the human hand was designed by a 'Creator' sparks controversy
Post Date: 2016-03-04 09:35:58 by Ada
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The paper's perceived references to intelligent design have provoked anger and calls for a boycott of the journal The language of the paper references a 'Creator', which some saw as an endorsement of intelligent design Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images A recent scientific paper on the movement of the human hand has faced strong criticism for referring to a 'Creator' throughout. The paper, titled: 'Biomechanical characteristics of hand coordination in grasping activities of daily living' was written by a team of four researchers, three from Huazhong University in China, and one from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Published in the PLOS ONE ...
Commercial Plane Makes EMERGENCY Landing for 'pit stop'
Post Date: 2016-02-28 22:04:04 by Neo TryingtoWarnYou
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Commercial Plane Makes EMERGENCY Landing for 'pit stop'
Ransomware Strikes 3rd Largest South Carolina School District
Post Date: 2016-02-27 21:11:39 by BTP Holdings
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Ransomware Strikes 3rd Largest South Carolina School District February 18, 2016 by Kayla Thrailkill Ransomware hits Horry County Schools in South Carolina, locking 25 servers… The risk of ransomware has never been higher, with the latest victim being Horry County Schools in South Carolina. According to Myrtle Beach Online, the virus that encrypted various files came from outside of the United States, which has lead to the involvement of the federal and state government. The virus did not cause a data breach, but has encrypted 25 servers rendering them inaccessible. In order to obtain the encryption key the school is being ordered to pay thousands of dollars. According to WBTW News ...
A Smart Gun That Only Fires for Its Owner Is One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality
Post Date: 2016-02-25 19:29:38 by BTP Holdings
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A Smart Gun That Only Fires for Its Owner Is One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality The San Francisco police chief has agreed to test it out. Paul Chinn, The Chronicle By Benny Evangelista San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr on Tuesday offered his department as a test bed for smart guns once the technology is more fully developed. Suhr, speaking at an event sponsored by smart-gun technology proponents, said he'd be willing to give tech-savvy officers the option of trying a weapon that can be fired only by its authenticated owner. "Officer safety is huge, so you wouldn't want to compel that upon officers," Suhr said. "But we have so many officers who are ...
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