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White House Rehearses for a Domestic Attack. 2007-02-25 12:13:24 The WhiteHouse
is staging a high-level exercise Saturday to test responses to the prospect of a massive domestic terrorist attack involving IEDs (improvised explosive devices)—the same deadly roadside bombs that have been used by insurgents against the U.S. military in Iraq.
White House
homeland security adviser Fran Townsend will preside over a group of senior officials—including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Director of National Intelligence John (Mike) McConnell—as they attempt to deal with the latest nightmarish scenario cooked up by government counterterrorism planners.
As part of the exercise, the officials will be handed a thick binder which lays out a scenario involving simultaneous terror attacks by "sleeper cells" of 20 to 25 individuals each dispersed in five cities across the country: New York, Washington, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles. The officials will then be tested on how they direct their respective agencie Read more:Domestic
Atlantis Found ? 2007-02-24 09:44:01
This underwater platform was found recently during a Sonar Survey in the waters off of Amerian Samoa
this is right in the area claimed to be Lost City of Atlantis
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Sea levels in the equatorial Pacific were higher than today between about 5,000 and 1,500 years ago. That would suggest that if this is a submerged city it must have been built before 3,000BC. It looks to me to be an artificial harbour with an encircling wall . The wall is 500 metres wide and confirmed as made from limestone.
Some speculate that the Lemurians were at some point telepathically linked to the Dolphins. Their tones were called “Dolphin Codes.”
Lemurians had pliable, jelly-like bodies and slowly developed physical forms. [Movement from higher to lower frequency - above the physical into solid matter]. The first Lemurian subraces allegedly were apelike, egg-laying hermaphrodites who communicated by mental telepathy through a third eye. This atrophied after Lemuria’s fall and became the p
Strange lights seen over southern Qld 2007-02-21 09:05:54 Stargazers have been reporting a strange sighting in the skies over southern Queensland last night. Numerous residents on the Darling Downs have called the ABC to report a milky glowing cloud and lights moving slowly across the night sky between 3am and 4am AEST. Former meteorologist and amateur astronomer, Mark Yandle, from Millmerran says hethinks it could have been an explosion in space.
“High in the south-west there was a cloud of gas about twice the size of a full moon and as you watched it over, say, the course of an hour it moved slowly north-eastward and gradually got larger and at the centre of this cloud there was even brighter bits to me that sounds as though it was an explosion of some sort in outer space,” he said. “I’ve seen rocket burns before and there is no doubt the cloud is rocket exhaust,” says Garradd. “However, this is much larger than any I have seen before, such as Cassini. It makes me wonder if I saw a controlled burn or an e Read more:Strange
U.N. urged to take action on asteroid threat 2007-02-19 12:35:52 An asteroid
may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday. Astronomers are monitoring an asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036. Although the odds of an impact by this particular asteroid are low, a recent congressional mandate for NASA to upgrade its tracking of near-Earth asteroids is expected to uncover hundreds, if not thousands of threat
ening space rocks in the near future, former astronaut Rusty Schweickart said. “It’s not just Apophis we’re looking at. Every country is at risk. We need a set of general principles to deal with this issue,” Schweickart, a member of the Apollo 9 crew that orbited the earth in March 1969, told an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Francisco.
Schweickart plans to present an update next w
70-Year-Old Man Found Dead in Front of TV a Year Later 2007-02-18 10:07:19 HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. — Vincenzo ‘Vinnie’ Ricardo was the proverbial tree that fell in the forest: No one knew.
From what police in Hampton Bays, N.Y., can determine, the 70-year-old was sitting alone watching TV in his two-story home when he died.
That was more than a year ago, and when workers were summoned to his house last week after a report that freezing temperatures had caused the home’s pipes to burst, they found Ricardo’s mummified body still sitting on the couch, the TV still on. A neighbor of Ricardo’s, Deanna Devon, was shocked that no one discovered him sooner. “He was blind and he used to wander into the street. I used to worry he would get hit,” she told FOXNews.com.
Vinnie was often seen walking in the streets with his cane, Devon said. Ricardo had been stricken blind in his 50s and suffered from diabetes. He apparently died of natural causes, according to Dr. Stuart Dawson, Suffolk County deputy chief medical examiner.
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Year of Pig forecast: More epidemics, disasters and unrest. 2007-02-17 09:57:16 The Year of the Pig starts Sunday, and Chinese fortunetellers say it will be a good time to have a baby, but also warn there will be an upsurge in epidemics, disasters and violent conflicts across the world.“The Year of the Pig will not be very peaceful,” said Raymond Lo, a feng shui master in Hong Kong.Pig years can be turbulent because they are dominated by fire and water — two of the five elements that Chinese mystics say are the basis of the universe, Lo said. Since fire and water are conflicting elements, they tend to whip up trouble, he said.“Fire sitting on water is a symbol of conflict and skirmish. We’ll also see more fire disasters and bombings,” he said. Malaysian feng shui master Lillian Too agreed there was trouble ahead. “I wish I could say that there won’t be natural disasters, but I am afraid it could be as bad as last year,” she said. “There could be epidemics. I am very worried about bird flu. Eat healthy foo Read more:unrest
Underground Plumbing System Discovered on Mars. 2007-02-16 07:26:42 Â
 A Mars-orbiting spacecraft has spotted a subterranean natural plumbing system that might have ferried water beneath the surface of the red planet in the distant past.
 New images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show hills and plateaus with alternating layers of dark and light colored rocks in Candor Chasma, one of several canyons that make up Valles Marineris, a sprawling Martian rift valley that is longer than the contiguous United States and up to seven times deeper than the Grand Canyon in places.
 Cutting like a vertical scar across these light and dark bands in Candor Chasma are a series of linear cracks surrounded by "halos" of light-colored bedrock.
Similar processes are known to occur on Earth. Veins of gold and silver in rock, for example, are formed when water rich in the dissolved forms of these elements flows through cracks and finally deposit the metals as bright streaks in the rock. Read more:Plumbing
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Where are all the bees going? 2007-02-16 06:54:06 You may be wondering why would this would be a big story, well mainly because without bees mankind would die. Don’t believe that? Well just think about it. Without bees.. the flowers, trees, crops would all die. Still think I’m crazy, well look what Albert Einstein said, ”If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.” So read blow to see what is happening now.
Beekeepers in 22 states have reported losses of up to 80 percent of their colonies in recent weeks, leaving many unable to rent the bees to farmers of crops such as almonds and, later in the year, apples and blueberries. Researchers from state and federal agriculture agencies have been frustrated in their search for a cause because affected hives are often empty except for the queen and a few bees.
The ailment has killed off tens of thousands of honeybee colonies in at least 21 states, researchers said, threatening the livelihood of commercial be
U.S. companies prepare for bird flu pandemic 2007-02-16 04:59:36 So you haven’t heard much about the Bird Flu lately. Well just because the media is to busy reporting on Anna Nicole or the Rosie and Donald fued doesn’t mean the threat is gone. Just read for yourself.
The U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration urged employers to develop plans to cope with a possible flu pandemic on Tuesday, suggesting letting employees work from home and encouraging sick workers to stay home without reprisals.
Jay Schwartz, vice president of information systems at North Carolina-based Alex Lee Inc., is worried about what will happen when food supplies begin to get scarce as people become ill, stay home to care for children when schools close or tend to ill relatives.
“Security is a huge issue,” Schwartz, whose company owns a chain of grocery stores and an institutional food supplier, told a conference in Orlando.
Big food trucks may be targeted by bandits. “Maybe we’ll have someone riding shotg
2000 UK Islamists plotting attacks 2007-02-26 08:52:17 THE threat of homegrown terrorists attacking Britain is greater now than at any time since the September 11 attacks
in the US, according to a leaked intelligence document. More than 2000 British-based Islamic terrorists are believed to be plotting
attacks, according to a government threat assessment prepared this month and seen by The Sunday Telegraph. The number is far greater than was previously thought by the security services. “The scale of al-Qa’ida’s ambitions towards attacking the UK and the number of UK extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we previously judged,” the newspaper quoted the document as saying.”We still believe that AQ (al-Qa’ida) will continue to seek opportunities for mass-casualty attacks against soft targets and key infrastructure.
These attacks are likely to involve the use of suicide operatives.” The document was being circulated between the Home Office, Defence Ministry, M15 intell Read more:Islamists
Tomb of Jesus Christ? 2007-02-28 05:39:32 JERUSALEM — Filmmakers and researchers on Monday unveiled two ancient stone boxes they said may have once contained the remains of Jesus
and Mary Magdalene, but several scholars derided the claims made in a new documentary as unfounded and contradictory to basic Christ
ian beliefs.
“The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” produced by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and scheduled to air March 4 on the Discovery Channel, argues that 10 small caskets discovered in 1980 in a Jerusalem suburb may have held the bones of Jesus and his family. One of the caskets even bears the title, “Judah, son of Jesus,” hinting that Jesus may have had a son, according to the film. “There’s a definite sense that you have to pinch yourself,” Cameron said Monday at a news conference. In an earlier television interview, he said that statisticians found “in the range of a couple of million to one” in favor of the documentary’s conclusions about the caskets, o Read more:Jesus Christ
Scientists Discover Subterranean ‘Ocean’ Under Eastern Asia 2007-03-02 05:38:56 Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia
that has at least the volume of the Artic Ocean
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The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet’s deep mantle. Previous predictions calculated that if a cold slab of the ocean floor were to sink thousands of miles into the Earth’s mantle, the hot temperatures would cause water stored inside the rock to evaporate out. “That is exactly what we show here,” Wysession said. “Water inside the rock goes down with the sinking slab and it’s quite cold, but it heats up the deeper it goes, and the rock eventually becomes unstable and loses its water.”
The water then rises up into the overlying region, which becomes saturated with water. “It would still look like solid rock to you,” Wysession told LiveScience. “You would have to put it in the lab to find the water in it.” Althoug Read more:Discover
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Full Lunar Eclipse Tonight 2007-03-03 18:41:04 Skywatchers eagerly awaiting Saturday’s total lunar eclipse say that the spectacle could be the “best in years”.
The eclipse will be visible from the whole of Europe, Africa, South America, and eastern parts of the US and Canada. “They are beautiful events,” said Robert Massey, spokesman for the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society. “They have a really romantic feel to them as you look up because the Moon, which is normally pearly white, takes on this reddish color.” He added that it was totally safe to observe and no protective filters were needed because the Moon would actually be less bright than during a normal full moon.
Robin Scagell, from the Society for Popular Astronomy, was hopeful that the event will be the “best in years”. “If the clouds stay away, it will be fascinating to watch the Moon’s graceful movement through the shadow of the Earth,” he said. The last total eclipse visible from the U Read more:Lunar
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New Ice Age Coming? 2007-03-05 05:36:56 Alot of people are focusing on Global warming but what most don’t realize is the chain reaction Global Warming has on the the Earth. So how can it cause an Ice Age well read for yourself.
Climate change is partly responsible for a rapid change in the ecosystem along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic, which has so far been blamed on the collapse of the cod stocks, according to a U.S. oceanographer. “It is becoming increasingly clear that Northwest Atlantic shelf ecosystems are being tested by climate forcing from the bottom up and overfishing from the top down,” said Charles Greene, director of the Ocean Resources and Ecosystems Program at Cornell University.
Climate change caused by global warming has made water in the Northwest Atlantic less salty, he said. Increased precipitation and melting polar ice have sent more fresh water into the ocean, which in turn has been driven into the northwest coastal waters by shifting Arctic wind patterns. Th
Super bug kills dozens in hospitals across country 2007-03-08 21:18:04 A deadly bacterium known as Klebsiella pneumoniae is believed to have killed some 120-200 patients in hospitals across the country. “Between 400 to 500 people have been infected by the bug, and 30 to 40 percent of them have already died. However, it is important to note that most of them were in a serious condition, and some were suffering from prior medical conditions,” said Prof. Yehuda Carmeli, the head of the epidemiology unit at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv. According to Carmeli, most of those infected have been hospitalized for over 25 days, and their average age stood at 74-75. The virulent stain of bacteria is resistant to all kinds of antibiotics, and has already spread in many hospitals across Israel.
Health Minister Yacov Ben Yizri on Wednesday rejected accusations that his ministry had underestimated the scope of the outbreak, saying the case was kept a secret to prevent mass panic. “It is true that the bug infects people who have been hosp Read more:Super
U.S. accused of silencing experts on polar bears and climate change 2007-03-10 09:33:38 The federal agency responsible for protecting Arctic polar bears has barred two Alaska scientists from speaking about polar bears, climate change or sea ice at international meetings in the next few weeks, a move that environmentalists say is censorship. The rule was issued last month by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service but was made public this week. The federal government has proposed listing the polar bear as a threatened species, and the wildlife agency is receiving public comment on the proposal. “It’s a gag order,” said Deborah Williams, a former high-level Interior Department official in Anchorage, Alaska, who received documents on Wednesday from Alaska scientists who chose to remain unnamed. The documents make the subjects of polar bears, climate change and sea ice off limits to all scientists who haven’t been cleared to speak on the topics.
The Bush administration has been under fire for several years for allegedly trying to curb the speech of gove Read more:accused
Stabilizing our Weather by Destroying the Moon? 2007-03-12 05:28:57 A University professor has a moonstruck solution to the Earth’s weather problems. He wants to blow up the moon - or at least send it somewhere else. “It’s the only way to rid the world of scorching deserts and artic winters,” says Professor Alexander Abian, a mathematician at the University of Iowa. He claims that by getting rid of the moon, the Earth will then be able to shift into a “more desirable orbit.” The change would make our weather less extreme, turn our deserts into fertile farm land, and make the north and south polar regions livable.
But other scientists disagree, suggesting the professor might be moonstruck. “If you lose the moon, you LOSE THE TIDES. And if you melt the polar caps, you’re going to flood the seacosts of every continent,” one scientist explains. Another climate expert says blowing up the moon would turn Earth into “a bleak, seasonless
Surprising New Arctic Inhabitants: Trees 2007-03-13 09:40:12 Rising temperatures fueled by global warming are causing forests of spruce trees to invade Arctic
tundra faster than scientists originally thought, evicting and endangering the species that dwell there and only there, a new study concludes. Tundra is land area where tree growth is inhibited by low temperatures and a short growing season. In the Arctic, the tundra is dominated by permafrost, a layer of permanently frozen subsoil. The only vegetation that can grow in such conditions are grasses, mosses and lichens. Forests of spruce trees and shrubs neighbor these tundra areas, and the boundary where they meet is called the treeline.
In summer, the permafrost thaws, and the tundra becomes covered in bogs and lakes, allowing a unique habitat for plants. Climate change, meanwhile, has extended the summer warming season and promoted tree growth, causing the treeline to encroach on the tundra. By looking at tree rings, researchers reconstructed a 300-year history of tree density and treeli Read more:Inhabitants
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Wipe out a single memory 2007-03-15 05:10:05 A single
, specific memory has been wiped from the brains of rats, leaving other recollections intact.
The study adds to our understanding of how memories are made and altered in the brain, and could help to relieve sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) of the fearful memories that disrupt their lives. The results are published in Nature Neuroscience1.
The brain secures memories by transferring them from short-term to long-term storage, through a process called reconsolidation. It has been shown before that this process can be interrupted with drugs. But Joseph LeDoux of the Center for Neural Science at New York University and his colleagues wanted to know how specific this interference was: could the transfer of one specific memory be meddled with without affecting others?
“Our concern was: would you do something really massive to their memory network?” says LeDoux.
Scary music
To find out, they trained rats to fear two different musical tones, by playing them
Earth bakes in hottest quarter on record 2007-03-17 08:36:01
A US government agency reported a record warm January worldwide pushed average temperatures to 0.72C above normal for the 20th Century.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it was the highest average temperature for the period since records began in 1880.
The report came less than a month after a UN panel said that global warming was almost certainly caused by human activity and several governments and international bodies have sounded the alarm over the need to cut carbon emissions.
The El Nino phenomenon, an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern Pacific, contributed to the chart-busting combined global land and ocean surface temperature, the NOAA said.
But El Nino rapidly weakened in February, as ocean temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific cooled more than 0.3C and were near average for the month.
Nevertheless, the ocean-surface temperature in the period tied for second warmest on record, the agency said, just 0.06C cooler t Read more:Earth
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Humans can live to be 1000 years old 2007-03-20 04:33:19 Last month, at a conference at Cambridge, Dr Aubrey told some leading gerontologists there is no reason why humans cannot live for 1000 years. He named seven cellular, molecular and genetic calamities that add up to a worn-out body — then offered a cure. Harvard Professor Ronald Kahn told the conference how he and a team of 15 had found an anti-ageing gene in mice. Called the Klotho gene, after the Greek goddess who spins life’s thread, its stimulation led to mice living 30 per cent longer, Kahn said.
The oldest documented person was Frenchwoman Jeanne-Louise Calment, who died in 1997 at 122. The prevailing notion is that people may live to 130, but not much more, and the best we can do is develop therapies that will make old age more comfortable and delay the inevitable. “But it’s not inevitable, that’s the point,” de Grey says. “At the moment, we’re stuck with this awful fatalism that we’re all going to get old and sick and die pain
Yellowstone Supervolcano getting closer? 2007-03-23 08:11:08 Not many people know about the Supervolcano underneath Yellowstone National Park. When this thing errupts again, it will effect the entire U.S. if not the world. Here’s the lastest info.
A 17-year University of Utah study of ground movements shows that the power of the huge volcanic hotspot beneath Yellowstone National Park is much greater than previously thought during times when the giant volcano is slumbering. “The Yellowstone hotspot has had a much bigger effect over a larger area with more energy than ever expected,” says University of Utah geophysics Professor Robert B. Smith. “We’re seeing large-scale deformation of the Earth’s crust in the western United States because of the effects of the Yellowstone hotspot,”
The study summarizes the movements of the floor of the 45-by-30-mile Yellowstone caldera – a gigantic volcanic crater formed by a catastrophic eruption 642,000 years ago that spread volcanic ash over half of North America and Read more:closer
Scientists Create a Sheep that’s 15% Human 2007-03-25 22:56:42 Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs. The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.
He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep. The process would involve extracting stem cells from the donor’s bone marrow and injecting them into the peritoneum of a sheep’s foetus. When the lamb is born, two months later, it would have a liver, heart, lungs and brain that are partly human and available for transplant.
But the development is likely to revive criticisms about scientists playing God, with the possibility of silent viruses, which are harmless in animals, being introduced into the human race. D Read more:Sheep
Bizarre hexagon spotted in Saturn’s clouds 2007-03-28 21:38:41 One of the most bizarre weather patterns in the solar system has been photographed at Saturn
, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole. Rather than the normally sinuous cloud structures seen on all planets that have atmospheres, this thing is a hexagon. The honeycomb feature has been seen before. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged it more than two decades ago. Now, having spotted it with the Cassini spacecraft, scientists conclude it is a long-lasting oddity.
The hexagon is nearly 15,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it. The thermal imagery shows that the hexagon extends about 60 miles (100 kilometers) down into the clouds. The hexagon can’t be seen in Cassini’s visible-light imagery because the area is currently in darkness during Saturn’s 15-year polar night — but the thermal signature shows up clearly in the infrared views, captured during a 12-day period last October Read more:Bizarre
Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service 2007-04-01 10:59:29 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google
Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband
service that delivers online connectivity via users’ plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.
“We’ve got that whole organizing-the-world’s-information thing more or less under control,” said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called “dark porcelain” research and development. “What’s interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you.”
For years, data carriers have confronted the “last hundred yards” problem for delivering data from local ne
Possible Cancer Cure Found 2007-04-04 07:30:14 A small, non-toxic molecule may soon be available as an inexpensive treatment for many forms of cancer, including lung, breast and brain tumours, say University of Alberta researchers.The molecule appears to repair the damage that cancer cells cause to mitochondria, the units that convert food into energy. “Cancer
cells actively suppress their mitochondria, which alters their metabolism, and this appears to offer cancer cells a significant advantage in growth compared to normal cells, as well as protection from many standard chemotherapies,” Michelakis said in a written statement.
After oral intake, it can reach areas in the body that other drugs cannot, making it possible to treat cancer of the brain, for example. In addition, because DCA has been used in both healthy people and ailing patients with mitochondrial diseases, researchers know it is a relatively non-toxic molecule that can be immediately tested in patients with cancer. The compound, which is sold both Read more:Possible
Blue Flu Update 2007-04-11 11:07:40 A new case of bird flu has been reported in Egypt as Indonesia reports its 74th human death from the disease. A 15-year-old Egyptian girl has been diagnosed with bird flu, according to media reports. The teenager, Marianna Kameel Mikhail from Cairo’s Shubra district, was admitted to hospital last Thursday. The deadly H5N1 form of the bird flu virus is rapidly mutating and the world must be on guard even though the disease has yet to be transmitted between humans, experts told a meeting in Beijing, Chinese media said on Tuesday.
“The experts said that despite there being no evidence yet of human-to-human transmission of bird flu, the highly pathogenic H5N1 form of the virus is continuing to rapidly mutate, and human infections keep happening,“ the Health News reported. “H5N1 is a virus that has the potential for mass transmission, and people cannot slacken off in their control efforts,“ it added in a front-page story. According to Reuters, the report provided no other Read more:Update
Possible first earth-like planet found outside our Solar System 2007-04-25 20:31:08 In a finding that if confirmed could stand as a landmark in history, astronomers have reported discovering the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date: a world that may have liquid oceans and thus life. Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists found the body, estimated as 50 percent wider than our Earth, orbiting a so-called red dwarf star relatively close to Earth. The star is thought to harbor two other planets also. The newfound exoplanet—as astronomers call planets around stars other than the Sun—would be the smallest such body ever reported. Nonetheless, the object is estimated to weigh as much as five Earths, partly thanks to its greater width. For the same reason, it would have more than twice Earth’s surface area. Historically, only large exoplanets lend themselves to human detection, though that is changing.Other curious Read more:Possible
The Earth Changing Its Rotation 2007-04-24 21:21:19 The following tool allows you to compute the excitation functions of the Earth
rotation (according to the “Euler-Liouville” formalism) and to compare them to the geophysical excitation functions, as far as these later ones are available. Presently the geophysical excitation is restricted to the atmospheric forcing. Comparison is done through visual plot and computation of the correlation coefficients.
* The observed excitation functions (χx, χy, χz) are computed from the pole coordinates (x,y) and length of day changes ΔLOD of the IERS C04 series (sampling of 1 day, fluctuations > 6 days) according to the equations : χx + i χy=(x-i y) + i/σc d(x-iy)/dt where σc is the Chandler angular frequency : (σc = 2π/T ( 1 + i / 2 Q), T Chandler period, Q quality factor) and χz=ΔLOD/LOD (LOD=86400 s TAI)
* Effective Atmospheric Angular Momentum Functions provided by the Special Bureau for Atmosphere of the IERS (NCEP-NCAR reanalysis time series) (http://ftp.aer.com/pub/a Read more:Changing
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New toys read brain waves 2007-05-01 18:37:21 A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber. But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It’s a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology. Behind the mask is a sensor that touches the user’s forehead and reads the brain’s electrical signals, then sends them to a wireless receiver inside the saber, which lights up when the user is concentrating. The player maintains focus by channeling thoughts on any fixed mental image, or thinking specifically about keeping the light sword on. When the mind wanders, the wand goes dark.
Engineers at NeuroSky Inc. have big plans for brain wave-reading toys and video games. They say the simple Darth Vader game — a relatively crude biofeedback device cloaked in gimmicky garb — portends the coming of more sophisticated devices that could revolutionize the way people play. Technology from NeuroS
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