is...wild n crazy like fate
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video of barycenter behavior and new theory of solar activity.
nice video with graphic of barycentric of solar system and possible new theory of solar activity.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/700-000-gold-dust-missing-pfizer-lab-215440578.html
Police in Missouri are trying to determine if hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold dust missing from a Pfizer medical research lab was stolen or simply misplaced.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that police in Chesterfield began their investigation after the gold dust turned up missing during an annual inventory of the lab. Pfizer Inc. had purchased the gold dust for $700,000 in 2011 to be used for research.
And while small amounts of gold dust may technically be light, it's unlikely that a light breeze blew away the entire supply. The Dispatch notes that $700,000 in gold dust would weigh between 30 and 70 pounds.
"We're not even sure if they just didn't account for it and it was used naturally, or if it was stolen or misplaced," said police Capt. Steven Lewis. "Some of it is gone and some isn't."
Pfizer said it's cooperating with law enforcement on the investigation. "We are taking this matter very seriously and working closely with local law enforcement authorities," reads a statement from the company.
Interestingly, regardless of whether the gold dust was lost or stolen, the value of Pfizer's purchase has increased substantially over the past year.
"You can add at least $100,000 to the value of that from last year," said Gary Sturgill of the Gold Prospectors Association of America.
Pfizer did not specify what kind of research it was conducting on the dust, but gold is commonly used in a number of industries, including electronics and dentistry (the metal is used in creating crowns). A 2004 study looked into the possibility of using gold salts in the treatment of arthritis.
It also has several commercial manufacturing purposes, is sometimes used in automobiles and can even be turned into a clothing thread.
Last month, contractors found $300,000 in gold dust inside a California home where they were installing a new air-conditioning unit.
i bookmarked that one for sure!
wired has a new collection of space related articles called open space. the link :
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/open-space/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/12/grail-moon-probes-results/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
gravity mapping of the moon. a couple nice videos with the article
new link!
this is a nasa satellite showing earth conditions such as gravity map, water height changes, temps, carbon dioxide levels.....
http://eyes.nasa.gov/earth/launch2.html
you need a relatively new browser to run this. very slow on my machine.
utube link about solar activity, comes out daily.
this is a link to utube that shows world weather for the last week. check out the orb over the grounded tanker.
x1 solar flare overnight. probably more to come
just found this site today. military memoribilia with an emphasis on germany. lots of pm's and other artifacts. says he is not a neonazi. bit pricy, but interesting. this link is to the coins section.
http://ww2army.com/coins/coinsUS1.php
lol. the dark side??
i love this one!!!
http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/afron-winners/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+F
These $10 Robots Will Change Robotics Education
BY NATHAN HURSTEMAIL AUTHOR09.29.126:00 PM
And the future of robotics education in Africa is ... Chupa Chups?
When the African Robotics Network announced their $10 robot design challenge this summer, co-founder Ken Goldberg was careful not to share too many expectations, lest he influence contestants' designs. But he never imagined one of the winning entries would prominently feature a pair of Spanish lollipops.
The challenge, hosted by AFRON co-founders Goldberg and Ayorkor Korsah, emphasized inexpensive designs to help bring robotics education to African classrooms. Goldberg announced AFRON's 10 winners in three categories today at Maker Faire, including the lollipop-laden Suckerbot and traditional (roaming) category first prize winner Kilobot, a Harvard-spawned three-legged, vibrating, swarming robot.
"The ingenuity that has come from all over the world to address this problem is just astounding," Goldberg said in an interview with Wired Design. "And we're very excited about the next step, which is that once they're awarded, some of them will become available products."
The contest had a few simple restrictions, including the loose $10 target; entrants from around the world had to build a prototype, offer instructions on a website, and make the whole plan open-source, software included. The winners were little, an inch or two in size and up, never more than a foot long. They were sourced from cardboard, old cell phones, and circuit boards. They performed simple tasks: navigating, following lines, even communicating with each other.
"It's a mix of people who really ... want to make this happen," said Goldberg. "No one here did this just to say 'here's something, a thought experiment'."
Designs were judged by a 6-member jury of robotics industry professionals, and compiled by Goldberg and Korsah, who are professors at the University of California in Berkeley and Ashesi University College in Ghana, respectively.
Suckerbot, designed by Thomas Tilley, a computer scientist living in Thailand, started with a hacked PlayStation controller, and wound up winning first prize in the tethered robot category. In this case, the tether is the controller's USB cable, and Tilley attached the rumble motors to a pair of wheels. Suckerbot's list of parts comes to $8.96, but the real genius is the Chupa Chups. Tilley needed a way for the robot to sense if it ran into something, so he stuck a lollipop in each joystick. Whenever the Suckerbot bumps something, the weight of the sucker tips the joystick forward, and a signal is sent to the processor.
Many of the robots were created specifically for the challenge. Kilobot, however, was years in the making. Created by a Harvard robotics team, including Michael Rubenstein, Radhika Nagpal, and Christian Ahler, it was meant to be a multi-unit swarming robot. Having to build 1024 pieces made the project well suited for the event.
"If you're going to build a lot of robots, you need to have them be cheap and easy to make and easy to use," said Rubenstein. "So all of those things also aided in the AFRON challenge."
"I think there is a great need for — not only in Africa, but even in the U.S. — low-cost robots that you could use for education," Rubenstein went on. "There are people who try to make that now, but they're only in the hundreds of dollars for an educational robot."
pnsn is going under. delisting voluntarily and looks like bankrupcy. get yer gold and silver.
other banks are being attacked over the net. the big banks like wells fargo, us bank and several others. seems someone from the middle east has hacked them and is transferring money from account to account. so ordinary people who bank online can't access their money to pay bills. hmmmm... WWIII may not involve nuclear weapons!
totally unnecessary when you can shut down the economy over the net.
too much time on utube spark. man there are some nasty characters on there aren't there?
try this one. neat kind of dude.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/visit-to-klingon-empire-could-happen-maybe/story-fn5fsgyc-1226478131345
NASA starts work on warp drive. Finally!
i sent a message to admin. maybe they can/will fix it.
nice post.
are you having problems with ihub? i can't get in and out of different boards. i have to close my browser sometimes just to get out of a post! no wonder no one is posting much anymore. or maybe it's just me.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/19/161375379/ebolas-unlikely-victims-health-care-workers?ft=1&f=1001
The Ebola virus continues to strike people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since May the World Health Organization has counted 72 confirmed, probable or suspected cases and 32 deaths.
As usual, a disproportionate share of those cases are health care workers – 23 of them, almost a third.
That's because, despite elaborate protective garb and other precautions, it's very hard for doctors, nurses and health aides to avoid virus-laden bodily fluids of Ebola patients, or to avoid accidental needle-sticks. That's especially true at the beginning of an outbreak, when Ebola symptoms might be mistaken for malaria or something else.
"The repeating story is always that here's incredible incidence among health care workers," says Peter Jahrling of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, an expert on Ebola and similarly lethal viruses. "It's usually the medical staff that bears the brunt of it."
Apart from the tragedy of caregiver deaths, this has a ripple effect that helps keep an outbreak going.
Dr. Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders says that's because when health workers don moon suits and avoid all unnecessary contact with Ebola victims, that reinforces the community perception that the hospital is just the place people go to die.
"If you don't hang IV lines and do things that look medical, if you just put people in beds and walk around in protective gear and don't touch anybody, well, why would they want to come there?" Sprecher said in an interview with Shots from the Doctors Without Borders operations center in Brussels.
The perception is only fueled when people see health care workers die of Ebola in hospitals.
"We have a horrible time marketing our treatment unit because patients are not seeing a benefit to come in when we don't produce a lot of survivors," Sprecher says.
And if infected people stay away from hospitals, that just allows the virus to spread out in the community.
But the grim truth is doctors can't do anything for Ebola patients except give them fluids and other supportive care. What's needed, Sprecher says, is an effective treatment.
"If you had something in the refrigerator on standby, it might make it easier for the health care staff to engage with the patients," he says, "if they knew there was something that might help them in the event of something awful happening."
That might become possible. Fifty leading experts on Ebola and similar deadly viruses are gathering Wednesday and Thursday at the National Institutes of Health outside Washington to assess several promising treatments for these diseases.
"This is really the first time we've ever all gotten together and addressed this problem," says Jahrling, who's running the meeting.
Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration has just granted so-called fast track review to one company for two of its experimental drugs for Ebola and Marburg viruses.
Jahrling says this week's workshop will hash out what it would take to move one or more of the advanced treatments to the point where it could be tried in humans exposed to Ebola or its cousin Marburg virus.
One big challenge is to get the treatment – a vaccine, a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies or an anti-sense RNA-based drug – to where it would be needed.
That's possible when the exposed person is a U.S. laboratory worker who has an accidental needle-stick during a monkey experiment. But it's a different story when Ebola pops up in a remote corner of Africa and no one can be sure when someone got exposed.
Animal experiments suggest that the Ebola antidotes will need to be given within 24 to 48 hours of exposure to the virus, before symptoms appear.
Another hurdle: Officials in the affected country would have to be persuaded that giving a drug never used before in people was a safe and ethical experiment.
"These are the kinds of things that are going to come out in our workshop discussion," Jahrling says, "whether you're going to treat one occupational exposure or a village."
The goal is to see if the groundwork can be laid for trying an experimental treatment for Ebola before the next outbreak – or the one after that.
stole this ihub post from science spin offs
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=79137821
Then, a paper published 15 years ago in the journal Nature proposed an ingenious method of detecting space-time pixels. Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, a theoretical physicist at Sapienza University in Rome, and colleagues said the building blocks of space-time could be discovered indirectly by observing the way light of different colors disperses as it travels through the pixels on its journey across the universe, just as light spreads into its component wavelengths when it passes through the crystalline structure of a prism. As long as one is sure all the photons, or particles of light, left their source at exactly the same time, measuring how much photons of different wavelengths spread out during their commute to Earth would reveal the presence, and size, of the pixels they passed through.
Such studies hadn't been feasible, until now.
http://www.space.com/17399-gamma-ray-photons-quantum-spacetime.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo
have you seen this site about ufo's?
http://www.nuforc.org/index.html
just found it tonight for the first time and i can't recall seeing it before.
hmmmmm... sci fi or reality... that is the question...
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/07/05/nasa-claims-hidden-portals-between-earth-and-sun-exist-setting-up-a-mission-to-find-them/
sort of a contrast between government and private development don't you think? or government versus corporate.
amazing. looks a bit like the grand canyon with a layer of dust.
a global view of events. kind of newsy. someone may find it useful
http://www.geostrategicforecasting.com/
i got 'volunteered ' to woik on the space and astronomy news board.
am posting lots of links in that ibox. feel free to grab some as i have been stealing them left and right from everyone.
paper on the lunar magnetic 'field'
http://www-spc.igpp.ucla.edu/personnel/russell/papers/Lunar/
check it out. i have more lol.
what do you say to putting links to science mags, videos, and discussions in the ibox? i have some and can certainly get more. bet most of our posters have some to contribute too.
we could include a section on sci-fi for fans too.
new magazine:
http://www.physicsplanet.com/
another basserdan report from another board:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=78639585
nice! a new link to add to my bookmarks too! ty for that one
found it. nrc 2013-2022 decadal survey in solar and space physics
pdf file
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/decadal/2013_2022/
2013-2022 decadal survey for nasa pdf file
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/docs/Vision_and_Voyages-FINAL.pdf
there's another one out if i can find it. on solar and space physics
hah. i designed one of those over 20 years ago. only problem i had was that the water boiled too hard and shook the whole assembly apart.
was going to build a new one with a permanent mount and pump the water through to lower temp. if i ever get to it. lol
it's going viral. there are searches all over the net for this guy and no one can find him. i even tried googling images and the first frame of the video comes up but no other pics like it. are u sharkbait or is that a friend of yours?
spark, you have to watch this one.
this utube vid is a backyard shot of the moon. i had to play it full-screen to see what the guy was trying to show. really does look like something there. thought you would like it.
Louisiana sinkhole roils local natural gas network
Jeanine Prezioso
Reuters
5:03 p.m. CDT, August 8, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A sinkhole the size of a football field in southern Louisiana has forced energy companies to halt nearby natural gas pipeline activity and draw down fuel from a local storage cavern.
Chevron Corp's subsidiary Bridgeline Holdings declared force majeure on new injections into its salt dome storage facility near the sinkhole and the town of Napoleonville, through the rest of the year, according to notice to customers posted on its website.
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Customers were also asked to begin reducing their current storage inventory to 40 percent of each of their currently contracted amount, according to the Bridgeline filing.
Natural gas traders said Chevron's move to purge the gas could push an additional 4 billion to 5 billion cubic feet of gas on the market. U.S. September and October futures prices settled lower, while winter months settled higher on Wednesday, and traders said companies could be scrambling to sell supplies while locking in winter gas to meet heating demand.
"Chevron Pipeline Co has elected to take the step of drawing down the NS1 cavern as a precaution to ensure that we are doing everything possible to protect public safety and the environment," said Gareth Johnstone, a Chevron spokesman.
The sinkhole, which local media reported was 372-feet wide, was discovered near the cavern on Friday, and has consumed full-grown trees. Sinkholes occur when underground spaces or caverns become so large they can no longer support the land above them, causing a collapse.
There is no indication that gas is leaking from the facility, Johnstone said, adding there was no evidence that the integrity of the cavern was at risk.
Louisiana Commissioner of Conservation James Welsh issued a Declaration of Emergency on Friday due to the sinkhole, located in a region of wooded swamp in Bayou Corne. The Texas Brine Company, which has a plugged salt cavern within 100 yards of the sinkhole, was ordered to investigate the site.
"The objective is to determine if the cavern has a direct relationship to this event," said Mark Cartwright, president of subsidiary Texas Brine Company Saltville, LLC. "The obvious conclusion is of course it does, but we don't know yet."
"This is very puzzling."
Unexplained bubbles discovered in the region in recent months had been under investigation by state, local, and federal agencies.
Tremors were also reported in the area before the sinkhole appeared, state officials said, but the cause was still being investigated.
PIPELINES SHUT
Enterprise Product Partners, owner of the Arcadian Gas Pipeline System, said it was forced to shut two 20-inch gas pipelines near the area, according to a spokesman. The gas has been rerouted so the company has been able to continue deliveries to customers, he added.
A spokeswoman for Crosstex Energy said the company shut a portion of its 36-inch natural gas pipeline near the sinkhole taking about 150 million cubic feet a day of supply offline.
Customers have made other arrangements to source other supplies, the spokeswoman said.
Chevron has three natural gas salt dome storage caverns in the area with a total capacity to hold 12.7 billion cubic feet of gas, according to the company website. The storage sites connect with Acadian Gas Pipeline Company, Gulf South Pipeline Company, and Florida Gas Transmission. Maximum withdrawal was listed as 1.1 bcf per day.
"They are worried about the cavern integrity and the slurry breaching the salt dome that they have," said Genscape senior natural gas analyst Andy Krebs.
"If there was anybody that did have gas in storage looking to play to winter, they're going to have to pull it out now."
Napoleonville is located in Assumption Parish in southeastern Louisiana with a population of 660 as of 2010, according to City-Data.com.
(Additional reporting by Eileen Houlihan and Edward McAllister in New York; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
Copyright © 2012, Reuters
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-chevron-natgasbre87716i-20120808,0,2527136.story
basserdan post from another board:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=78386263
explains a lot.
a sincere thank you for your reply to vexari on thg's board.
i know. this is not the place. but you're wrong. this is the place.