Technological Revolution

Even DHS is freaked out by spy drones over Amerika

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 16:30

January 26, 2011 - Police departments around the country are warming up to unmanned spy planes. But don’t expect the Department of Homeland Security to catch drone fever anytime soon. It’s too controversial for an agency already getting hammered for naked scanners and junk touching.

New Big Brother device can ID fingerprints from a distance

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 15:09

January 19, 2011 - While ears may be the new bionetric du jour, Advanced Optical Systems (AOS) is doing its best to keep fingerprints as the preferred method for identifying enemies of the state. The company has built a fingerprint scanner with the ability to accurately read a print up to two meters away, and our military views the system as a means to reduce the risk to soldiers at security checkpoints all over the world.

Bill Gates wants to register all newborns on the planet for vaccines

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 16:13

Natural News - January 17, 2011 - Bill Gates is promoting a plan to use wireless technology to register every newborn on the planet in a vaccine database.

In a keynote address to the mHealth Summit, which focuses on using mobile technology to improve health care, Gates said that improving survival rates among children under the age of 5 would benefit not just individual families, but societies and the planet as a whole.

Weird nuclear reaction at CERN baffles physicists

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 16:09

GENEVA, Switzerland - January 12, 2011 - The world of physics can be strange, very strange indeed; and every once in awhile something happens during an experiment that throws a wrench into the neatly constructed model of how everything works and causes all assumptions to be reassessed.

Such a thing happened to the physicists at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland during December 2010.

Food and fuel shortages imminent as new Ice Age dawns

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 22:12

January 5, 2011 - With an Ice Age comes abrupt change, and with change comes death - sometimes death on a massive scale.

More of the world's top scientists in the disciplines of geology, ecology, meteorology, astrophysics, and heliology are predicting that the two major cooling cycles are converging - the short term and long term Ice Ages - and Earth has just entered the beginnings of this dangerous cooling cycle.

Both cooling periods are due and both seem to have started just as the sun is about to reach its solar maximum. When the sun goes quiet after 2012, it's expected to stay quiet for at least the next 30 to 50 years. During that time, the sun will generate significantly less heat and the planets - including Earth - will cool rapidly.

A mile underground is a race to find dark matter

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 15:43

LEAD, South Dakota - January 4, 2011 - Between 1876 and 2002, the people of Lead, South Dakota, extracted $3.5 billion worth of gold from the Homestake mine. It was the town’s main business, and when falling prices and diminishing returns finally shut it down, no one was sure what to do with the remaining 8,000-foot hole in the ground.

Then, in 2007, the National Science Foundation decided that an 8,000-foot hole would be the perfect place to put its proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, or DUSEL, a massive research complex that will include the world’s deepest underground lab.

Giant planet may be approaching earth

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 12/08/2010 - 16:29

December 1, 2010 - Our sun may have a companion that disturbs comets from the edge of the solar system - a giant planet with up to four times the mass of Jupiter, researchers suggest.

A NASA space telescope launched last year may soon detect such a stealth companion to our sun, if it actually exists, in the distant icy realm of the comet-birthing Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system with billions of icy objects.

Scientists reverse aging process in mice; humans next

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 12/08/2010 - 16:21

BOSTON, Massachusetts - November 28, 2010 - Harvard scientists were surprised that they saw a dramatic reversal, not just a slowing down, of the aging in mice. Now they believe they might be able to regenerate human organs.

Scientists claim to be a step closer to reversing the aging process after rejuvenating worn out organs in elderly mice. The experimental treatment developed by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy animals by regenerating their aged bodies.

Attempts to redesign our species pose a serious threat to humanity's survival

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 14:19

By Margaret Somerville

November 24, 2010 - Being an incurable optimist, I do not believe the human race will end, but, if it were to, I think it would most likely come about through human intervention in human life with avant-garde technoscience. Such interventions could either intentionally wipe out the species, as in the case of the transhumanists, or unintentionally, as could happen with xenotransplantation.

Hi-tech eye scanners to track passengers throughout the airport

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 15:57

LONDON, England - November 16, 2010 - Passengers will have their eyes scanned as soon as they check in as part of a new trial a major UK airport.

High-tech machines that can recognize an individual's iris as they walk around will be installed at Manchester Airport at check in during the government-backed pilot program.

The technology has the potential to overhaul security and customs, with airport bosses hoping it could help in the fight against terrorism.

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