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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 28, 2010 1:31:10 GMT 10
The Homeland Security Department's customs enforcement division has gone on a Web site shutdown spree, closing down at least 76 domains this week, according to online reports. While many of the web domains were sites that trafficked in counterfeit brand name goods, and some others linked to copyright-infringing file-sharing materials, at least one site was a Google-like search engine, causing alarm among web freedom advocates who worry the move steps over the line into censorship. All the shut sites are now displaying a Homeland Security warning that copyright infringers can face up to five years in prison. According to a report at TorrentFreak, the search engine that was shut down -- Torrent-Finder.com -- neither hosted copyrighted material nor directly linked to places where it could be found. Instead, the site opened new windows to sites that did link to file-sharing materials. "When a site has no tracker, carries no torrents, lists no copyright works unless someone searches for them and responds just like Google, accusing it of infringement becomes somewhat of a minefield," writes Torrentfreak, "Unless you’re ICE Homeland Security Investigations that is." As of its last update, Torrentfreak counted 76 domains shut down this week. Homeland Security's ability to shut down sites without a court order evidently comes from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a Clinton-era law that allows Web sites to be closed on the basis of a copyright complaint. Critics have long assailed the DMCA for being too broad, as complainants don't need to prove copyright infringement before a site can be taken down. News of the shutdowns has some observers wondering whether the US really needs COICA, the anti-counterfeiting bill that passed through a Senate committee with unanimous approval last week. That bill would allow the federal government to block access to Web sites that attorneys general deem to have infringed on copyright. "Domain seizures coming under the much debated ‘censorship bill’ COICA? Who needs it?" quips Torrentfreak. However, COICA would allow the government to block access to Web sites located anywhere in the world, while Homeland Security's take-downs are limited to servers inside the United States. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said he would place a hold on COICA, effectively killing the bill at least until the new congressional session next year. The owner of Torrent-Finder.net complained that his search engine was shut down without so much as a court order or prior complaint. “My domain has been seized without any previous complaint or notice from any court!” the owner said, without being identified in the Torrentfreak article. Earlier this week, Homeland Security shut down a popular hip-hop music site, RapGodfathers.com, which had nearly 150,000 members. The site claims it is compliant with copyright laws, as it doesn't host copyrighted materials. However, its users posted links to file-hosting services such as Rapidshare and Megaupload, where copyrighted material may have been shared. These domains are now "the property of Homeland Security," writes Gareth Halfacree at Thinq.co.uk, "And there's no indication that their original owners will ever be able to get them back." source: www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/homeland-security-shuts-dozens-sites/
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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 28, 2010 1:22:47 GMT 10
Large Hadron Collider to destroy Earth Large Hadron Collider is full of new surprises, not always pleasant ones. It was recently discovered that even the famous Nostradamus predicted the emergence in Europe of a "satanic arc of fury" threatening dire consequences across the globe. What is not quite clear is whether the prophecy has anything to do with the collider. Michel Nostradamus, who lived in the 16th century, was not just a physician and astrologer, but also a person with extensive scientific knowledge. Until now, we do not know for certain what the sources of his information about the future were. He was said to have built a "mirror" machine in which he saw pictures of the future. Perhaps, it was a medieval time machine. The modern interpreters of his works believe that the prophecies of Nostradamus for 2010 should be sought in quatrains X of X Centuries. There is also a mentioning of some "satanic arc if fury in Europe," which in November of 2010 may cause "terrible burning "of half of the globe. As a result, in 2011, deadly precipitation will occur and everything will be infected by it. There will be no plants, no animals, and by 2016 all people will perish. Until recently it was believed that he could have been talking about a launch of a ballistic missile (Nostradamus, who was not familiar with the realities of the 21st century, could see a rocket trajectory as a "satanic arc"). In this case, radioactive precipitation makes sense. However, a significant event occurred on November 4th and 7th of this year: the collider testers recorded the first collisions of lead ions at a very high speed. 0 SharePrint version Font Size Send to friend "The purpose of the experiments is to obtain a quark-gluon plasma," said Yuri Kharlov with the Institute of High Energy Physics, who now works at CERN. "A full disintegration of the matter into quarks, gluons, and bosons - this has never been observed before." What can this kind of testing result in? After all, if the universe was formed as a result of the Big Bang, there may be a reverse process. If researchers can "accelerate" the particles, raising the energy level and temperature, and increasing the intensity of their collision, etc., then it is possible that Earth will turn into a giant proton-e-bomb whose explosion will shake the entire solar system. Yet, even if an explosion of this intensity will not happen, then the processes started by the acceleration of particles will cause terrible environmental consequences for the planet. However, a softer version is possible as well, which was predicted by Nostradamus: the catastrophe will affect only half of the globe. Perhaps the ocean will be able to protect America and Australia, since water absorbs heat. Yet it all depends on the intensity of the destructive processes. A former Soviet psychic Wolf Messing used to mention "a dangerous lab in the mountains of Europe." Unfortunately, the meaning of these prophecies remained unclear until recently. Meanwhile, some researchers are seriously talking about the fact that various natural disasters and abnormal weather patterns that became frequent lately may be "side effects" of the collider. However, most scientists do not respond to all these fears, rightly believing that those who expressed them were simply bad students in school and did not learn their physics well. From their point of view, there is no potential danger, because to create a "black hole" you must have the strongest gravitational compression created by a huge mass of matter. The collider is simply incapable of this. In general, experiments with the LHC are not something new to mankind. Particle accelerators have been extensively used in research laboratories since the mid twentieth century, and no one has yet seen any harm caused by them. Additionally, accidents and malfunctions in such devices are extremely rare, and nuclear power plants explode even more frequently. Yet, none of the predecessors of the current Large Hadron Collider failed to achieve similar rates of particle acceleration. Nevertheless, these rates still cannot match the speed of light. But, as we recall, according to Einstein's formula (E = mc2), for the mass to turn into energy, meaning, for our planet to explode, its value must be doubled. At lower speeds nothing like this can happen. The assumptions made about the fact that the collider could affect the planet's climate are generally ungrounded. What could this device do? Emit large amounts of heat into the atmosphere? But even if that happens (after all, the collider has a very reliable protection), this amount of heat energy is unlikely to be greater than that released during the eruption. As we know, they affect the climate only locally, i.e. only in those areas where they are located. Nor should we fear that red-hot plasma will leak onto the territory of Europe. Even if that happens, its amount is so small that it is not enough even to burn the forest around the giant accelerator. As for the prophecies of Nostradamus, as we know, all connections to specific dates are very, very doubtful. The dating of events in his prophecies is traced according to a slightly modified Hebrew calendar, which dates from the creation of the world (in this case Nostradamus, for some reason, pushed the date back another 1,000 years). There is no system in place that could accurately compare the dates of these two very different systems of chronology. It very well may be that all the horrors predicted by Nostradamus have nothing to do with our time. Most likely, the collider should not be afraid of. Yet, anything can happen and it may be a good decision to stop the experiment before it is too late. Irina Shlionskaya SOURCE:http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/24-11-2010/115908-large_hadron_collider-0/
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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 28, 2010 1:15:06 GMT 10
The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as the Bible stories? There is a great deal of archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. Consider these astonishing finds: The Grooved Spheres Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian - and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown. The Dropa Stones In 1938, an archeological expedition led by Dr. Chi Pu Tei into the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains of China made an astonishing discovery in some caves that had apparently been occupied by some ancient culture. Buried in the dust of ages on the cave floor were hundreds of stone disks. Measuring about nine inches in diameter, each had a circle cut into the center and was etched with a spiral groove, making it look for all the world like some ancient phonograph record some 10,000 to 12,000 years old. The spiral groove, it turns out, is actually composed of tiny hieroglyphics that tell the incredible story of spaceships from some distant world that crash-landed in the mountains. The ships were piloted by people who called themselves the Dropa, and the remains of whose descendents, possibly, were found in the cave. The Ica Stones Beginning in the 1930s, the father of Dr. Javier Cabrera, Cultural Anthropologist for Ica, Peru, discovered many hundreds of ceremonial burial stones in the tombs of the ancient Incas. Dr. Cabrera, carrying on his father's work, has collected more than 1,100 of these andesite stones, which are estimated to be between 500 and 1,500 years old and have become known collectively as the Ica Stones. The stones bear etchings, many of which are sexually graphic (which was common to the culture), some picture idols and others depict such practices as open-heart surgery and brain transplants. The most astonishing etchings, however, clearly represent dinosaurs - brontosaurs, triceratops (see photo), stegosaurus and pterosaurs. While skeptics consider the Ica Stones a hoax, their authenticity has neither been proved or disproved. The Antikythera Mechanism A perplexing artifact was recovered by sponge-divers from a shipwreck in 1900 off the coast of Antikythera, a small island that lies northwest of Crete. The divers brought up from the wreck a great many marble and and bronze statues that had apparently been the ship's cargo. Among the findings was a hunk of corroded bronze that contained some kind of mechanism composed of many gears and wheels. Writing on the case indicated that it was made in 80 B.C., and many experts at first thought it was an astrolabe, an astronomer's tool. An x-ray of the mechanism, however, revealed it to be far more complex, containing a sophisticated system of differential gears. Gearing of this complexity was not known to exist until 1575! It is still unknown who constructed this amazing instrument 2,000 years ago or how the technology was lost. Baghdad Battery Today batteries can be found in any grocery, drug, convenience and department store you come across. Well, here's a battery that's 2,000 years old! Known as the Baghdad Battery, this curiosity was found in the ruins of a Parthian village believed to date back to between 248 B.C. and 226 A.D. The device consists of a 5-1/2-inch high clay vessel inside of which was a copper cylinder held in place by asphalt, and inside of that was an oxidized iron rod. Experts who examined it concluded that the device needed only to be filled with an acid or alkaline liquid to produce an electric charge. It is believed that this ancient battery might have been used for electroplating objects with gold. If so, how was this technology lost... and the battery not rediscovered for another 1,800 years? The Coso Artifact While mineral hunting in the mountains of California near Olancha during the winter of 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey and Mike Mikesell found a rock, among many others, that they thought was a geode - a good addition for their gem shop. Upon cutting it open, however, Mikesell found an object inside that seemed to be made of white porcelain. In the center was a shaft of shiny metal. Experts estimated that it should have taken about 500,000 years for this fossil-encrusted nodule to form, yet the object inside was obviously of sophisticated human manufacture. Further investigation revealed that the porcelain was surround by a hexagonal casing, and an x-ray revealed a tiny spring at one end. Some who have examined the evidence say it looks very much like a modern-day spark plug. How did it get inside a 500,000-year-old rock? Ancient Model Aircraft There are artifacts belonging to ancient Egyptian and Central American cultures that look amazingly like modern-day aircraft. The Egyptian artifact, found in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt in 1898, is a six-inch wooden object that strongly resembles a model airplane, with fuselage, wings and tail. Experts believe the object is so aerodynamic that it is actually able to glide. The small object discovered in Central America (shown at right), and estimated to be 1,000 years old, is made of gold and could easily be mistaken for a model of a delta-wing aircraft - or even the Space Shuttle. It even features what looks like a pilot's seat. Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica Workmen hacking and burning their way through the dense jungle of Costa Rica to clear an area for banana plantations in the 1930s stumbled upon some incredible objects: dozens of stone balls, many of which were perfectly spherical. They varied in size from as small as a tennis ball to an astonishing 8 feet in diameter and weighing 16 tons! Although the great stone balls are clearly man-made, it is unknown who made them, for what purpose and, most puzzling, how they achieved such spherical precision. Impossible Fossils Fossils, as we learned in grade school, appear in rocks that were formed many thousands of years ago. Yet there are a number of fossils that just don't make geological or historical sense. A fossil of a human handprint, for example, was found in limestone estimated to be 110 million years old. What appears to be a fossilized human finger found in the Canadian Arctic also dates back 100 to 110 million years ago. And what appears to be the fossil of a human footprint, possibly wearing a sandal, was found near Delta, Utah in a shale deposit estimated to be 300 million to 600 million years old. Out-of-Place Metal Objects Humans were not even around 65 million years ago, never mind people who could work metal. So then how does science explain semi-ovoid metallic tubes dug out of 65-million-year-old Cretaceous chalk in France? In 1885, a block of coal was broken open to find a metal cube obviously worked by intelligent hands. In 1912, employees at an electric plant broke apart a large chunk of coal out of which fell an iron pot! A nail was found embedded in a sandstone block from the Mesozoic Era. And there are many, many more such anomalies. What are we to make of these finds? There are several possibilities: Intelligent humans date back much, much further than we realize. Other intelligent beings and civilizations existed on earth far beyond our recorded history. Our dating methods are completely inaccurate, and that stone, coal and fossils form much more rapidly than we now estimate. In any case, these examples - and there are many more - should prompt any curious and open-minded scientist to reexamine and rethink the true history of life on earth. ancientx.com/nm/anmviewer.asp?a=75
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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 28, 2010 0:28:50 GMT 10
Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder' Turns Out to Be Right What Einstein called his worst mistake, scientists are now depending on to help explain the universe. In 1917, Albert Einstein inserted a term called the cosmological constant into his theory of general relativity to force the equations to predict a stationary universe in keeping with physicists' thinking at the time. When it became clear that the universe wasn't actually static, but was expanding instead, Einstein abandoned the constant, calling it the '"biggest blunder" of his life. But lately scientists have revived Einstein's cosmological constant (denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda) to explain a mysterious force called dark energy that seems to be counteracting gravity — causing the universe to expand at an accelerating pace. A new study confirms that the cosmological constant is the best fit for dark energy, and offers the most precise and accurate estimate yet of its value, researchers said. The finding comes from a measurement of the universe's geometry that suggests our universe is flat, rather than spherical or curved. Geometry of the universe Physicists Christian Marinoni and Adeline Buzzi of the Universite de Provence in France found a new way to test the dark energy model that is completely independent of previous studies. Their method relies on distant observations of pairs of galaxies to measure the curvature of space. "The most exciting aspect of the work is that there is no external data that we plug in," Marinoni told SPACE.com, meaning that their findings aren't dependent on other calculations that could be flawed. The researchers probed dark energy by studying the geometry of the universe. The shape of space depends on what's in it — that was one of the revelations of Einstein's general relativity, which showed that mass and energy (two sides of the same coin) bend space-time with their gravitational force. Marinoni and Buzzi set out to calculate the contents of the universe — i.e. how much mass and energy, including dark energy, it holds — by measuring its shape. There were three main options for the outcome. Physics says the universe can either be flat like a plane, spherical like a globe, or hyperbolically curved like a saddle. Previous studies have favored the flat universe model, and this new calculation agreed. Flat universe The geometry of space-time can distort structures within it. The researchers studied observations of pairs of distant galaxies orbiting each other for evidence of this distortion, and used the magnitude of the distortion as a way to trace the shape of space-time. To discover how much the galaxy pairs' shapes were being distorted, the researchers measured how much each galaxy's light was red-shifted — that is, budged toward the red end of the visual spectrum by a process called the Doppler shift, which affects moving light or sound waves. The redshift measurements offered a way to plot the orientation and position of the orbiting pairs of galaxies. The result of these calculations pointed toward a flat universe. Marinoni and Buzzi detail their findings in the Nov. 25 issue of the journal Nature. Understanding dark energy By providing more evidence that the universe is flat, the findings bolster the cosmological constant model for dark energy over competing theories such as the idea that the general relativity equations for gravity are flawed. "We have at this moment the most precise measurements of lambda that a single technique can give," Marinoni said. "Our data points towards a cosmological constant because the value of lambda we measure is close to minus one, which is the value predicted if dark energy is the cosmological constant." Unfortunately, knowing that the cosmological constant is the best mathematical explanation for how dark energy is stretching out our universe doesn't help much in understanding why it exists at all. "Many cosmologists regard determining the nature of dark energy and dark matter as the most important scientific question of the decade," wrote Alan Heavens of Scotland's University of Edinburgh in an accompanying essay in the same issue of Nature. "Our picture of the universe involves putting together a number of pieces of evidence, so it is appealing to hear of Marinoni and Buzzi's novel technique for testing the cosmological model, not least because it provides a very direct and simple measurement of the geometry of the universe." This Hubble image displays a pair of spiral galaxies with swirling arms. The binary galactic system is located in the constellation of Draco, the Dragon, about 350 million light-years (100 million parsecs) away. Astronomers studied galaxy pairs like this to determine the geometry of the universe, which shed light on dark energy. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) SOURCE: www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=hubble-galaxy-pair-101124-02.jpg&cap=This+Hubble+image+displays+a+pair+of+spiral+galaxies+with+swirling+arms.+The+binary+galactic+system+is+located+in+the+constellation+of+Draco%2C+the+Dragon%2C+about+350+million+light-years+%28100+million+parsecs%29+away.+Astronomers+studied+galaxy+pairs+like+this+to+determine+the+geometry+of+the+universe%2C+which+shed+light+on+dark+energy.+Credit%3A+NASA%2C+ESA%2C+the+Hubble+Heritage+%28STScI%2FAURA%29-ESA%2FHubble+Collaboration%2C+and+A.+Evans+%28University+of+Virginia%2C+Charlottesville%2FNRAO%2FStony+Brook+University%29
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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 28, 2010 0:13:27 GMT 10
N.Korea 'Has 180,000 Special Forces Ready to Cross into South' North Korea operates 40,000 special forces troops, including the 11th or "Storm" Corps whose mission is to infiltrate South Korea and create havoc in case of war. It also has around 10,000 naval special forces and around 5,000 air force soldiers who can cross the border if a war breaks out. The figures were revealed in a speech by former South Korean commander of special operations Kim Yun-suk to fellow veterans at the War Memorial in Seoul. Kim said the Storm Corps, which has been trained to stir up confusion behind enemy lines, is composed of four light infantry, seven airborne and three sniper brigades. And the 4th Corps special forces, stationed on the Ongjin Peninsula close to South Korea's Baeknyeong Islands in the West Sea, consists of 600 scout troops, 600 naval reconnaissance soldiers and around 1,800 naval forces. The North also operates a large amphibious landing force in the region similar to South Korea's Marines. Totaling 180,000 troops, North Korea has the largest number of special ops forces in the world. The 11th Corps accounts for 22 percent with 40,000 special forces troops, and 120,000 light infantry brigades make up 66 percent of the special forces. The reconnaissance brigade, which has been fingered in the sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan, accounts for around 6 percent of special forces, and the Navy and Air Force each have around 5,000 crack troops, which make up 3 percent. "Ten thousand North Korean special forces are capable of infiltrating simultaneously through underground tunnels or aboard 260 hovercraft or submarines, while 175 AN-2 transport planes and 310 helicopters can transport another 10,000 troops," Kim said. The former officer said the South needs to come up with measures to deal with the so-called asymmetric threat by creating a powerful special forces brigade, operating a special military branch that handles North Korea's irregular forces and boosting the number of anti-terrorism units and training. english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/06/16/2010061601318.html
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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 27, 2010 18:07:19 GMT 10
Having done a search on OCB that came up saying nothing found so i posted mine. Wes thanks for the link by the way, that took me to brill's great post thank's brill a good informative watch i have deleated mine....crick
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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 27, 2010 5:35:29 GMT 10
Ashort film with a BIG Twist!!
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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 27, 2010 5:20:27 GMT 10
A broadband satellite being launched tonight will open a window to the internet for hundreds of thousands of cut-off consumers across Europe. The £120 million Hylas-1 satellite will act as a relay station for broadband traffic, enabling isolated rural communities to connect with the world wide web for the first time. Hylas is the first superfast broadband satellite to be launched outside the US. An artist's impression of the Hylas-1 satellite which will act as a relay station for broadband traffic It will be carried into orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket due to be launched from French Guiana tonight between 8.39pm and 11.54pm UK time. Britain has played a major role in the Hylas project. The satellite's development was partly funded by the UK Space Agency, and Hylas was designed and built for Avanti Communications by the British space company Astrium UK. When Hylas is on-stream, between 150,000 and 300,000 consumers at a time will be able to use it to access fast broadband. Science minister David Willetts said: 'Bringing innovative ideas to life requires the right mix of specialist knowledge, public support and opportunity. 'Hylas is a great example of how strategic investment in space technology can yield benefits for the wider economy.' David Williams, chief executive of Avanti, said: 'This is a landmark day for the many consumers and businesses across Europe, who have been frustrated by lack of access to adequate broadband, it means that finally there is the opportunity to solve the digital divide. 'The launch of our satellite today means that access to broadband in remote areas is no longer on the distant horizon.' A second satellite, Hylas-2, to be launched in 2012, is now at an advanced stage of development. It will provide further coverage across Europe as well as a footprint in the Middle East and parts of Africa. Together, the two satellites will have a capacity of one million consumers. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1333423/Superfast-broadband-satellite-launched-bring-high-speed-internet-thousands.html#ixzz16PxyoA8z
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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 27, 2010 5:11:27 GMT 10
Astronauts to be sent to the far side of the moon for first time in 40 years in pre-Mars mission By Daniel Bates Scientists are planning to explore the far side of the Moon using a manned spacecraft for the first since since the Apollo landings of 1968. Engineers with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin want to send up astronauts into stationary orbit above Earth's best-known natural satellite to study it further. The firm hopes to use remote controlled robots dispatched from their spacecraft to collect samples and explore the South Pole-Aitken basin on the Moon, one of the oldest craters in the solar system. Crucially they also hope it will serve as a test for a future possible mission to Mars - the six month trip would see if the equipment and the astronauts - most likely from the US - were capable of enduring long-term space travel. The L2-Farside Mission would let astronauts operate robots remotely on the lunar surface NASA has in the past estimated that it could take around a year to complete a round-trip to the Red Planet and back, allowing a few months to collect samples. Lockheed’s plan involves using the combined gravity of the Earth and the Moon to ensure that its craft hovers on the same spot, within sight of both planets. It has pitched what it is calling the L-2 Farside Mission Orion spacecraft to do the job, which would house both astronauts and probes. So long as NASA approves, it will give both organisations the chance to see how humans respond to lengthy doses of deep space radiation, a key problem on a longer Martian trip. Lockheed Martin are the firm behind the Orion capsule, shown here on its way to the far side of the moon The far side of the Moon is permanently turned Lockheed Martin are the firm behind the Orion capsule, shown here on its way to the far side of the moon Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1332892/Astronauts-sent-far-moon-time-40-years-pre-Mars-mission.html#ixzz16PuuTlVYaway from us and at best we can only ever see one fifth of it. The surface was first photographed by Luna 3, a Soviet probe, in 1959 then the Apollo 8 mission followed in 1968 but there has been scant exploration of it since. The astronaut’s general stamina will also be an issue, as will their psychological welfare and ability to cope with being away for such a long time. Both organisations would also have the chance to address the problem of a higher re-entry speed which is accumulated on trips further away from the Earth. The rocky desolation on the far side of the moon was best summed up by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders who said: ‘The backside looks like a sand pile my kids have played in for some time. It's all beat up, no definition, just a lot of bumps and holes.’ A mission to Mars could involve swinging a spacecraft out of the Earth’s orbit and into that of Mars before slowly making a descent. Earth and Mars have to be at the right positions in their orbit for this method to work, and the launch window only comes around once every 25 months. Such a technique could take around 16 months but could be cut to four months if a nuclear rocket was used. Should Lockheed’s plan be approved by NASA the company needs to first build a heavy lifter machine and, assuming that happens, an L2-Farside mission could take place as early as 2016. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1332892/Astronauts-sent-far-moon-time-40-years-pre-Mars-mission.html#ixzz16Ps8Jcgb
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Post by Crickinneck on Nov 27, 2010 4:10:44 GMT 10
addicted to cheese? here's why from care2: Ever felt like you couldn’t give up cheese? Ever think it might actually be a drug? The surprising news is that as far back as the 1980’s researchers have known that cheese contains trace amounts of morphine. Seriously. In 1981, Eli Hazum and his colleagues at Wellcome Research Laboratories reported traces of the chemical morphine, a highly addictive opiate. It turns out that morphine is found in cow milk and human, purportedly to ensure offspring will bond very strongly with their mothers and get all the nutrients they need to grow. Researchers also discovered the protein casein, which breaks into casomorphins when it is digested and also produces opiate effects. In cheese, casein is concentrated, and so is the level of casomorphins, so the pleasurable effect is greater. Neal Barnard, MD said, “Since cheese is processed to express out all the liquid, it’s an incredibly concentrated source of casomorphins — you might call it dairy crack.” SOURCE: foodworldorder.blogspot.com/2010/11/addicted-to-cheese-heres-why.html
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