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[url=http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/02/18/navy-breaks-world-record-futuristic-laser-getting-real/?intcmp=related]Navy Breaks World Record With Futuristic Free-Electron Laser | Fox News[/url]

My dream of lazer tag with real lazers becoming a reality

[QUOTE=Chico23231;1002522][url=http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/02/18/navy-breaks-world-record-futuristic-laser-getting-real/?intcmp=related]Navy Breaks World Record With Futuristic Free-Electron Laser | Fox News[/url]

My dream of lazer tag with real lazers becoming a reality[/QUOTE]

at 60million that program is as awesome as it is a bargain!

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[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SJZ8wZrCCv0]Sirius Theatrical Trailer - Dr. Steven Greer, UFO's, Extraterrestrials, Alternative Energy - YouTube[/url]

[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/07/tiny-alien-humanoid-among_n_3017854.html]'Sirius,' Steven Greer's Film, Claims To Unveil Tiny 'Alien' Humanoid (VIDEO)[/url]

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[URL="http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/6067/20130405/first-tests-fusion-powered-spaceship-propulsion-successful.htm"]Fusion propulsion success![/URL]

[I]University of Washington researchers and scientists at a Redmond-based space-propulsion company are currently building components of a fusion-powered rocket, which could enable astronauts to travel to Earth’s neighboring planet Mars within weeks instead of months, at speeds considerably faster than feasible until now. The current travel speeds using fuel rockets make Mars travel a journey of about four years but the new fusion technology being tested by researchers at the University of Washington promises that in 30 to 90 days.[/I]

[B][I]"To the stars, bitches!" [/I][/B][I]Tyrone Biggums [/I]

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[URL="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2013/03/how-stores-spy-on-you/index.htm"]Scary Science:[/URL]

[I]Video cameras record your every move. Your face and car’s license plate are captured and filed in searchable databases. Hidden cameras classify you by age, sex, and ethnicity, and even detect your body language and mood. Even your bank account records are being pried into. The main goal of these surveillance methods, of course, is to get you to shop more and spend more.[/I]

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[quote=RedskinRat;1003061][URL="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2013/03/how-stores-spy-on-you/index.htm"]Scary Science:[/URL]

[I]Video cameras record your every move. Your face and car’s license plate are captured and filed in searchable databases. Hidden cameras classify you by age, sex, and ethnicity, and even detect your body language and mood. Even your bank account records are being pried into. The main goal of these surveillance methods, of course, is to get you to shop more and spend more.[/I][/quote]

Sounds like Minority Report

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[quote=Mattyk;1003064]Sounds like Minority Report[/quote]

Without the attempt to correct potential poor\illegal decisions.

Although at some point they will send in SWAT when you try to purchase plaid pants with a paisley shirt. Rightfully so.

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[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/perfect-planets-for-life-telescope-sees-distant-worlds-not-too-hot-not-too-cold-not-too-big/2013/04/18/d4ddf7b6-a853-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html?hpid=z3]Perfect planets for life? Telescope sees distant worlds not too hot, not too cold, not too big - The Washington Post[/url]

Just finished this book called "The Eerie Silence" for as quirky as they are SETI has some really fascinating science behind it. It also is completely privately funded as a research institution.

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I have a huge man crush on Colonel Hadfield. I wished the US had some cool ass astronauts like this.


[url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/04/21/177949605/a-wet-towel-in-space-is-not-like-a-wet-towel-on-earth]A Wet Towel In Space Is Not Like A Wet Towel On Earth : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR[/url]

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[IMG]http://i.minus.com/ibu68Mqu5n8dxo.gif[/IMG]

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[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22344398#TWEET738502"]SS2 Test Flight[/URL]

[I]The spaceplane being developed by UK billionaire Sir Richard Branson has made its first powered flight.

The vehicle was dropped from a carrier aircraft high above California's Mojave Desert and ignited its rocket engine to go supersonic for a few seconds.

Sir Richard's intention is to use the spaceship to carry fare-paying passengers on short pleasure rides above the Earth's atmosphere.

His company Virgin Galactic has already taken hundreds of deposits.

The rocket vehicle is known as SpaceShipTwo (SS2).

Although it has been in the air on more than 20 occasions, this was the first time its hybrid motor had been ignited.[/I]

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[quote=RedskinRat;1006905][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22344398#TWEET738502"]SS2 Test Flight[/URL]

[I]The spaceplane being developed by UK billionaire Sir Richard Branson has made its first powered flight.

The vehicle was dropped from a carrier aircraft high above California's Mojave Desert and ignited its rocket engine to go supersonic for a few seconds.

Sir Richard's intention is to use the spaceship to carry fare-paying passengers on short pleasure rides above the Earth's atmosphere.

His company Virgin Galactic has already taken hundreds of deposits.

The rocket vehicle is known as SpaceShipTwo (SS2).

Although it has been in the air on more than 20 occasions, this was the first time its hybrid motor had been ignited.[/I][/quote]

Thats pretty awesome.
What you are seeing here is our first private sector run spaceship that can do what the space shuttle did.
This a big step towards making civilian space travel become a lot more frequent and another way to service space stations.

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[B][URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/29/sopa-creators-latest-bill-proposes-stripping-peer-review-from-science-funding/"]SOPA creator’s latest bill proposes stripping peer-review from science funding[/URL][/B]

[I]A draft bill obtained by Science Magazine‘s blog ScienceInsider, sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), would strip the peer-review requirement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant process, inserting a new set of funding criteria that is significantly less transparent and not inclusive of the opinions of independent experts.

Smith, sponsor of the highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that threatened to fundamentally change how the Internet works, has long been a critic of the NSF grant process. In furtherance of those views, Smith recently conducted a hearing supposedly meant to consider how the grant approval process might be improved, an early indication that such a bill was forthcoming.

Another indication came in February, when Smith published an editorial in Roll Call describing how his vision of science funding is based not upon the impacts new research may have on the scientific community, but whether that research will “create jobs.” He went on to boast about how much of the House science committee’s $39 billion in agency budgets gets dumped onto nuclear, fracking and “clean coal” projects.[/I]

What could possibly go wrong?

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[quote=RedskinRat;1007001][B][URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/29/sopa-creators-latest-bill-proposes-stripping-peer-review-from-science-funding/"]SOPA creator’s latest bill proposes stripping peer-review from science funding[/URL][/B]

[I]A draft bill obtained by Science Magazine‘s blog ScienceInsider, sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), would strip the peer-review requirement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant process, inserting a new set of funding criteria that is significantly less transparent and not inclusive of the opinions of independent experts.

Smith, sponsor of the highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that threatened to fundamentally change how the Internet works, has long been a critic of the NSF grant process. In furtherance of those views, Smith recently conducted a hearing supposedly meant to consider how the grant approval process might be improved, an early indication that such a bill was forthcoming.

Another indication came in February, when Smith published an editorial in Roll Call describing how his vision of science funding is based not upon the impacts new research may have on the scientific community, but whether that research will “create jobs.” He went on to boast about how much of the House science committee’s $39 billion in agency budgets gets dumped onto nuclear, fracking and “clean coal” projects.[/I]

What could possibly go wrong?[/quote]

If this happened in the 1860s we'd still be harpooning whales for oil since that created far more jobs than oil drilling.

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[url=http://gizmodo.com/watch-nasas-emergency-iss-spacewalk-live-right-now-501627379]Watch NASA's Emergency ISS Spacewalk Live Right Now[/url]

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thanks SS.

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[url=http://news.yahoo.com/ruins-lost-city-may-lurk-deep-honduras-rain-130008608.html]Ruins of Lost City May Lurk Deep in Honduras Rain Forest[/url]

New images of a possible lost city hidden by Honduran rain forests show what might be the building foundations and mounds of Ciudad Blanca, a never-confirmed legendary metropolis.

Archaeologists and filmmakers Steven Elkins and Bill Benenson announced last year that they had discovered possible ruins in Honduras' Mosquitia region using lidar, or light detection and ranging. Essentially, slow-flying planes send constant laser pulses groundward as they pass over the rain forest, imaging the topography below the thick forest canopy.

What the archaeologists found — and what the new images reveal — are features that could be ancient ruins, including canals, roads, building foundations and terraced agricultural land. The University of Houston archaeologists who led the expedition will reveal their new images and discuss them today (May 15) at the American Geophysical Union Meeting of the Americas in Cancun.

Ciudad Blanca, or "The White City," has been a legend since the days of the conquistadors, who believed the Mosquitia rain forests hid a metropolis full of gold and searched for it in the 1500s. Throughout the 1900s, archaeologists documented mounds and other signs of ancient civilization in the Mosquitias region, but the shining golden city of legend has yet to make an appearance.

Whether or not the lidar-weilding archaeologists have discovered the same city the conquistadors were looking for is up for debate, but the images suggest some signs of an ancient lost civilization.

"We use lidar to pinpoint where human structures are by looking for linear shapes and rectangles," Colorado State University research Stephen Leisz, who uses lidar in Mexico, said in a statement. "Nature doesn't work in straight lines."

The archaeologists plan to get their feet on the ground this year to investigate the mysterious features seen in the new images.

This lidar is bad ass

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[quote=Chico23231;1009175]Stephen Leisz, who uses lidar in Mexico, said in a statement. "Nature doesn't work in straight lines."[/quote]

Mr. Leisz's pantaloons have recently spontaneously combusted.

[IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WCOYkmz1veI/S9cUn3bFSBI/AAAAAAAAB-Y/xbKK2zltrjI/s1600/straight+line+1.jpg[/IMG]

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Man I hate to egg RR on,

But this is one kickass computer:

[url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/google-buys-a-quantum-computer/?partner=yahoofinance]Google Buys a Quantum Computer - NYTimes.com[/url]

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[url=http://world.time.com/timelapse/]Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine[/url]


Show's time lapses of the world changing over the course of 3 decades.

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If you follow Reddit by any measure, you know who Col. Chris Hadfield is and why he's such a popular person.


I found this interesting about a astronaut's lifestyle upon returning to earth.

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/canadian-astronaut-wrestles-gravity-spaceflight-155914826.html]Canadian astronaut wrestles with gravity after spaceflight[/url]


[quote] "For now, I'm still trying to stand up straight. I have to sit down in the shower so I don't faint and fall down, and I don't have calluses on the bottom of my feet yet, so I'm walking around like I walked on hot coals," he said.

It usually takes about three weeks until a returning astronaut can return to driving, according to the Canadian Space Agency.

"We're sort of tottering around like two old duffers in an old folks home," Hadfield said, referring to his crew mate Marshburn.

Hadfield's orbital odyssey ended with a parachute descent of their Soyuz space capsule onto the steppes of Kazakhstan.

"We hit the Earth just like a car crash, like we expected," Hadfield said. "There was enough wind so that we rolled up on our side. I was the guy hanging from the ceiling."[/quote]

Did not know it was quite like that.

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Nerdy, yet kind of cool

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/galaxy-throes-death-spied-1st-time-182327879.html]Galaxy in Throes of Death Spied for 1st Time[/url]

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Perspective. Point a telescope at a area they thought was void, came back with billions of galaxies they never knew existed.


[YT]oAVjF_7ensg[/YT]



[quote=SmootSmack;1010754]Nerdy, yet kind of cool

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/galaxy-throes-death-spied-1st-time-182327879.html]Galaxy in Throes of Death Spied for 1st Time[/url][/quote]

Pretty amazing stuff.

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"If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

[B][I]N Tesla[/I][/B]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJAgrUBF4w&feature=player_embedded]Amazing Resonance Experiment! - YouTube[/ame]

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[url=http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2013/06/new-human-cornea-layer-discovered#.UbjlKpzNl64]New Human Cornea Layer Discovered[/url]


Figured we knew everything about the human body there was to know. Guess not.

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[quote=NC_Skins;1011824][URL="http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2013/06/new-human-cornea-layer-discovered#.UbjlKpzNl64"]New Human Cornea Layer Discovered[/URL]


[/quote]
We were looking at it the whole time and didn't see it!

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[URL="http://www.nature.com/news/toy-helicopter-guided-by-power-of-thought-1.13139"]Toy helicopter guided by power of thought[/URL]

[I]A model helicopter can now be steered through an obstacle course by thought alone, researchers report today in the Journal of Neural Engineering. The aircraft's pilot operates it remotely using a cap of electrodes to detect brainwaves that are translated into commands.1

Ultimately, the developers of the mind-controlled copter hope to adapt their technology for directing artificial robotic limbs and other medical devices. Today's best neural prosthetics require electrodes to be implanted in the body and are thus reserved for quadriplegics and others with disabilities severe enough justify invasive surgery.[/I]

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[URL="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/19/national/animal-human-embryo-test-clears-first-hurdle/"]Animal-human embryo test clears first hurdle[/URL]

[I]Proposed experiments with animal-human embryos cleared the first regulatory hurdle Tuesday as Japanese scientists seek permission for tests that could see human organs produced inside the growing body of an animal.

Researchers want to introduce a human stem cell into an animal embryo, to create a so-called chimeric embryo, which they can implant into an animal’s womb.

The hope is that this stem cell will grow into a fully-functioning human organ — a kidney or a liver, for example — as the animal matures.

This would mean when the creature is fully grown, the organ could be harvested from the animal and used for transplanting into a person in need.[/I]

I disagree with using animals, we have enough fat people to use as organ farms.

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[URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829224.200-wormhole-entanglement-solves-black-hole-paradox.html#.UcRJNa3D-Uk"]Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox - space - 20 June 2013 - New Scientist[/URL]

[I]WORMHOLES – tunnels through space-time that connect black holes – may be a consequence of the bizarre quantum property called entanglement. The redefinition would resolve a pressing paradox that you might be burned instead of crushed, should you fall into a black hole.

Knowing which hazard sign to erect outside a black hole isn't exactly an everyday problem. For theoretical physicists, though, it reveals an inconsistency between quantum mechanics and general relativity. Solving this conundrum might lead to the sought-after quantum theory of gravity.[/I]

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[quote=RedskinRat;1012831][URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829224.200-wormhole-entanglement-solves-black-hole-paradox.html#.UcRJNa3D-Uk"]Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox - space - 20 June 2013 - New Scientist[/URL]

[I]WORMHOLES – tunnels through space-time that connect black holes – may be a consequence of the bizarre quantum property called entanglement. The redefinition would resolve a pressing paradox that you might be burned instead of crushed, should you fall into a black hole.

Knowing which hazard sign to erect outside a black hole isn't exactly an everyday problem. For theoretical physicists, though, it reveals an inconsistency between quantum mechanics and general relativity. Solving this conundrum might lead to the sought-after quantum theory of gravity.[/I][/quote]

Sheldon will get his Nobel prize for this! He figured it out while eating spaghetti. The sauce and noodles revealed it to him.

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[URL="http://disinfo.com/2013/06/the-natural-history-of-the-incorporeal-garage-dragon/"]Science, sort of[/URL]

More like philosophy, but a great read:-

[I]Skeptics, believers. Lay down your shotguns and knives. Take a moment to bandage and reload, and I will explain to you why an incorporeal garage dragon means that you should not be fighting. As much.

This strange beast, and its fantastical properties, are described in The Demon Haunted World, by Carl Sagan.

“A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage,” he begins, “…Surely you’d want to check it out, see for yourself.”

You do, but you can’t. The dragon is invisible. You could spread flour on the floor to capture its footprints, but, alas, it also floats. You offer to fetch your infrared camera, but, sadly, its fire is heatless. Perhaps a can of spray paint, then, to make the dragon visible? Oh, right. Incorporeal.

You see where he’s going: “Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless,” he writes, “the only sensible approach is to tentatively reject the dragon hypothesis, [but] to be open to future data…”

The garage dragon is a straightforward parable about the scientific value of a non-falsifiable hypothesis, but it contains an important nuance. While rejecting the hypothesis, Sagan still leaves open the possibility that, after all, the dragon might still be real. “Immune to disproof,” after all, isn’t the same as “wrong.”

This may seem like splitting hairs until you consider that within the narrow philosophical gap between “immune to disproof” and “wrong” there lies the entire universe of mystical experience, the wellspring of religion and spirituality. The dragon we’re discussing here is not a cute, intellectual abstraction; it’s a powerful, visionary experience you had of the divine manifesting to you in the form of a winged serpent—and so what if it didn’t leave footprints? Yes, with all that supernatural stuffed into such a tiny crack, it seems that we ought to take a closer look at our epistemology.

In scientific positivism, objectivity is the measure of truth. The observation must be shared, the experiment replicated. To the extent that everyone can achieve the same result, witness the same phenomenon, the scales of evidence tilt that way; but if objectivity is the measure of truth, then, by extension, it is also what delineates the scope of inquiry.

Where materialists overreach is in equating the scope of scientific inquiry with the scope of reality; that is to say, they confuse the map for the territory. The objectively observable universe may well represent the whole extent of reality, but if it were not, then how would we know? For example, what are the laws which decide that a biochemical mechanism called the brain should be inhabited by an awareness capable of sensing the redness of red and the sourness of sour, but that an apple tree capable of blossoming in the spring and bending itself in the direction of the sun should not likewise experience the light and temperature that stimulate its own behavior? Or does it, perhaps? What of a thermostat, the operating system of a factory arm, or the neural network studying your browsing behavior? What is the deciding factor?

We lack an outside frame of reference that permits us to answer questions like these. We are able to gather sensory information from the world, but we can’t “go meta” and find out whether your chocolate tastes like my vanilla. We are constrained in what we can know, given the sort of beings that we are. How constrained, you ask? Well, that’s one of the things that we are constrained from knowing. The material model might not be far off, but it’s also possible that the qualitative universe—the “inner-space,” if you will—is actually a lot bigger, and a lot stranger, than we could ever imagine. You can’t hear it, but the lawn you just mowed—is screaming!

Continued at this [URL="http://disinfo.com/2013/06/the-natural-history-of-the-incorporeal-garage-dragon/"]link[/URL]
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^^ An excellent article with which I fully agree.

[quote]It is deeply unsatisfying, for most people, to accept that the deepest answers we can seek are simply unknowable, but for my part, I take comfort in the fact that, regardless of my chosen paradigm, I will still find a mystery at the center of existence. An unanswerable question, after all, yields infinite possibility.[/quote]

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Posted with you in mind, JR.

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Wow!
3-D printing, even in it's infancy is making amazing strides. The days of replicating food may not be far off you Star Trek fans!

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/princeton-researchers-create-bionic-ear-161927090.html]Princeton researchers create 'bionic ear'[/url]

^^ Resistance is futile, we will be assimilated.

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For those of you who like science or have kids you would like to be interested in science I recommend the following:
The Cartoon Guide to Genetics, The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, The Cartoon Guide to Physics. For those interested in more "mathy" things they have ...Guide to Statistics and ...Guide to Calculus.

My kids love them for the humor as well as the pictures. And as they get older they understand more and more of them. (I also learn from them and I'm a scientist.) Each is written by Larry Gonick along with a professor (in the appropriate department) at a top-level university. The chemistry book covers at least as much as 2 college classes of material (and the others are similarly comprehensive), but the presentation is so humorous that it's hard to put down. The same author also wrote 'A Cartoon Guide to the History of the Universe' (3 books) and 2 books (similarly titled) about American History.

Another great book is Guy Murchie's 'The Seven Mysteries of Life'. He spent 17 years investigating the material (biology), and while the book is about 30 years old, the information he has in it is fascinating and the writing is exquisite. I haven't even gotten to the latter half (the 7 mysteries), but the first half covers so much biology in a fascinating way. For example, in 2 paragraphs he discusses plants that need absolutely no rainfall. (Which ones they are and how they cope.) I have seen this book captivate kids who absolutely detest school. It's well-enough written that I ended up buying all the works of the author (all out of print). It is amazing how he is so concise while at the same time not overbearing with the density of information.

The last thing I'll mention is the Johns Hopkins Physics Fair (usually held in April or May). (This is where I actually discovered the 'Cartoon Guide' series.) When it's over I usually have to drag my kids out kicking and screaming (them, not me.) They have about 200 hands-on experiments covering most aspects in phyics, including a trebuchet that launches cantaloupes about 200 feet. (I call it a cantapult.) When we have to choose between the Physics Fair and Maryland Day, we always choose the Physics Fair (even though I work at Maryland).

Hope these suggestions will be useful.

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[URL="http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/7/8/mystery-intergalactic-radio-bursts-detected#"]Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected[/URL]

[I]The powerful signal, which lasted for just milliseconds, could have been a fluke, but then the team found three more equally energetic transient flashes all far removed from the galactic plane and coming from different points in the sky.

Analysis later indicated that, unlike most cosmic radio signals that originate in the Milky Way or a nearby neighbor galaxy, these four seem to have come from beyond.

Whatever triggered the bursts has come and gone. The signals, detected between February 2011 and January 2012, were one-time events so little follow-up work can be done.

What is known is that in just a few milliseconds, each of the signals released about as much energy as the sun emits in 300,000 years.[/I]

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;1014330]Wow!
3-D printing, even in it's infancy is making amazing strides. The days of replicating food may not be far off you Star Trek fans!

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/princeton-researchers-create-bionic-ear-161927090.html]Princeton researchers create 'bionic ear'[/url][/quote]


I love technology and science. Fascinating things can happen.

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[quote=RedskinRat;1014681][URL="http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/7/8/mystery-intergalactic-radio-bursts-detected#"]Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected[/URL]

[I]The powerful signal, which lasted for just milliseconds, could have been a fluke, but then the team found three more equally energetic transient flashes all far removed from the galactic plane and coming from different points in the sky.

Analysis later indicated that, unlike most cosmic radio signals that originate in the Milky Way or a nearby neighbor galaxy, these four seem to have come from beyond.

Whatever triggered the bursts has come and gone. The signals, detected between February 2011 and January 2012, were one-time events so little follow-up work can be done.

What is known is that in just a few milliseconds, each of the signals released about as much energy as the sun emits in 300,000 years.[/I][/quote]

this is scaring the crap out of me right now.

im thinking a cosmic blast travelling at uncalculable speeds will just wipe out planet earth at any moment.

we will not have any warning or indication.

in a blink of an eye, everything and everyone is gone.

i blame parenthood for this.

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[quote=mike340;1014408]
The last thing I'll mention is the Johns Hopkins Physics Fair (usually held in April or May). (This is where I actually discovered the 'Cartoon Guide' series.) When it's over I usually have to drag my kids out kicking and screaming (them, not me.) They have about 200 hands-on experiments covering most aspects in phyics, including a trebuchet that launches cantaloupes about 200 feet. (I call it a cantapult.) When we have to choose between the Physics Fair and Maryland Day, we always choose the Physics Fair (even though I work at Maryland).

Hope these suggestions will be useful.[/quote]

that sounds like an awesome day. will put in my memory bank.