Nov 18, 2009 -
- OPINION: WONDER LAND
- NOVEMBER 12, 2009
The only good news out of the Fort Hood massacre is that U.S. electronic surveillance technology was able to pick up Major Hasan's phone calls to an al Qaeda-loving imam in Yemen. The bad news is the people and agencies listening to Hasan didn't know what to do about it.
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Jul 08, 2009 -
PUBLIC POST
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Nazis were close to building stealth bomber that could have changed course of history
Published: 7:00AM BST 08 Jul 2009
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Nazi engineers were dangerously close to building a stealth warplane shielded from radar that could have changed the outcome of World War II.
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A prototype of the Horten Ho 2-29 made a successful test flight just before Christmas 1944, but by then time was running out for the Nazis and they were never able to perfect the design or produce more than a handful of prototype planes.
However, an engineering team has reconstructed the bomber – albeit one that cannot fly – from blueprints.
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Aug 08, 2007 -
Source: Science News - June 30, 2007
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070630/bob8.asp
The Heat Is On
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
William F. Ruddiman
Princeton University Press, 2005
An explosion of human population and burgeoning technology use are causing planet-warming greenhouse gases to build up in Earth's atmosphere. That statement is true today, was true at the beginning of the industrial revolution nearly 2 centuries ago, and—in what probably is a surprise to most people—was true thousands of years ago.
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Oct 08, 2009 -
Source: Yahoo News/AFP
NASA is preparing a violent return to the moon Friday as part of a mission to send a satellite and a rocket booster crashing into the planet's surface to look for water.
Conspiracy theories aside -- a 'do not bomb the moon' website is already campaigning against the move -- there is no actual bomb, but the US space agency's LCROSS satellite and heavier Centaur upper-stage rocket will still leave huge impact sites where NASA hopes to find evidence of water or ice.
At 1130 GMT (7:30 am EDT), the rocket and four minutes later the spacecraft will separately race into the moon at 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) per hour to kick up approximately 6.2 miles (10 km) of lunar dirt from the Cabeus crater floor near the planet's south pole.
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Jul 15, 2007 -
this site seems to have the baddest and newest technology, design, art news.. set up is clean too. http://www.everyoneforever.com/
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Apr 11, 2007 -
This already happened last year, but i wonder if the got all the information back.
St. Louis police lose crime files
Computer crash erases case details.
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Aug 12, 2009 -
The next generation of EV's is very impressive. The first vid covers Car/GM/Gov. share in co.
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Oct 14, 2009 -
TORONTO – Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci — in part by examining a fingerprint on the canvas.
Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, said Tuesday that a fingerprint on what was presumed to be a 19th-century German painting of a young woman has convinced art experts that it's actually a da Vinci.
Canadian-born art collector Peter Silverman bought "Profile of the Bella Principessa" at the Ganz gallery in New York on behalf of an anonymous Swiss collector in 2007 for about $19,000.
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Oct 15, 2009 -
I'm not going to copy the whole article, because it's lengthy, but it is rather interesting. The article discusses how forensic artists help in kidnapping cases through digital age progression. They say hundreds of children have been found because of the technology and artist skill.
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Oct 15, 2009 -
U.S. troop funds diverted to pet projects
Study finds $2.6 billion taken from guns and ammunition
By Shaun Waterman THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.
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