9. security & defence

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and prohibits military activity or mining; 28 countries maintain research stations subject to review by the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs which oversees best practices of scientific research on the continent.

lets go mine the stars...i think treating the moon like the Antartic is a terrible idea

But if you send a robot to mine the surface and send the minerals back you would own the area in

which you are capable of mining. In the west ranchers set barbed wire to hold their cattle and this in effect set up their property boundaries.@

I am not combatant to you or anyone else. I encourage you and others to make comments often.

@Wollf Laacrenbut in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war! I think an avatar scenario would be (a little?

while 8 foot tall super soldiers use rocket powered grenade firing rifles to carry out the will of their emperor who is in reality pretty much dead.

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On the dashboard right in front of the windshield is a low-profile heads-up display. manual it reads in sober sans serif font white on black.

Levandowski works at Google's headquarters in Mountain view California. He's the business lead of Google's self-driving-car project an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.

Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars easily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof an average of once an hour.

At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year where Governor Jerry brown signed California's self-driving-car bill into law Google cofounder Sergey Brin said you can count on one hand

For the errors worrisome enough to require human hands back on the wheel Google's crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques including emergency braking high-speed lane changes

A self-driving car near Google's headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward

The attack came from Chrysler the smallest of Detroit's Big Three automakers in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.

His company Velodyne makes a unit that packs 64 lasers in a turret that typically rotates at 600 rpm continuously strafing the landscape with 64 separate beams.

Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask whether he could make a next-generation lidar a ruggedized standardized automotive component.

The company wanted a design that it could hide (perhaps behind the windshield) that would wholesale for no more than $1000

'Ã¢Â#Â The other fight is the legal one. It too is filled with catch-22's. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker's analysis of self-driving-car technology.

But that doesn't mean the development of potentially lifesaving technology should be halted. There wasn't legal protection for the Wright brothers

when they made that first plane he says. They made them they went out there

In Volvo's real-world platooning tests drafting resulted in average fuel savings of 10 to 15 percent

if they sense imminent danger either by steering back onto the roadway or braking in anticipation of a crash.

-and-steel variety and automakers could eliminate roll cages returning the consequent weight savings as even better mileage.

The first wave of the attack of the machines will be these autonomous cars running people down(:

Lets not build helmets because they don't save lives that 0. 00001%of the time or seat belts or any other life saving thing.

Driverless cars should be aggressively rolled out as soon as they marginally surpass statistical human safety levels which they may have done already.

It is a form of duel mode transportation which is powered by electricity from the road bed in 2 protected automated lanes and an access and exit lane

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43 colonel mustard is talking about lens flares1: 44 when will they talk about whether the thing will shatter

if the NSA demands it apple will turn over your fingerprint which will then be connected to your entire online identity and location.

Cool because its not like it was revealed just last week that the NSA has been working for decades to break just that kind of encryption oh wait2:

Apple's addition of a fingerprint reader in its latest smartphone the iphone 5s is part of its strategy to double down on device security. by Zack Whittaker September 10 2013 12:27 PM PDT Apple has unveiled its smartphone

's latest weapon: a fingerprint reader it's calling Touch ID. With its move Apple could end up making the technology commonplace as rivals might feel compelled to follow suit.

http://news. cnet. com/8301-1009 3-57602286-83/google-security-exec-passwords-are-dead/../Brazilian Doctor Arrested For Using Silicone Fingers To Fool Fingerprint-Based Biometric Check-Inour keyless

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#Irradiated Seeds Combat World's Most Serious Wheat Diseasekenyan farmers last week got a first look at two new varieties of wheat that are resistant to the number-one threat to worldwide wheat production.

The story of how that wheat got made is a peek into the constant worldwide fight against crop diseases.

The wisdom in human selection is the greatest risk factor here. tmarti69 As the Earth is currently in the beginnings of a magnetic polar flip with a ongoing to zero reduction of magnetic field more wild life will be subject to the the sun comsic radays

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That's modest but the explosion of ebook sales isn't; in that same 2011-2012 period sales of ebooks more than doubled.

but there are forces out there that won't allow that. So good luck with that. The way I see it Amazon is practically throwing in the electronic edition

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and don't have a vested interest in making money or protecting the image of their product.

Norman Borlaug the agronomist credited with saving over a billion people from starvation was a scientist.

a virus that attacks the female reproductive system. It shuts it down. Why female? Because the female could artificially inseminate

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#The Robotic Search For Lost WORLD WAR II Airmen Click here to see the galleryon a bright morning in Mid-march Pat Scannon stands on the deck of a 40-foot catamaran looking for an airplane hidden in the waters of Palau

He has spent the past 20 years making annual wreck-hunting trips to Palau about 500 miles from the Philippines to find aircraft that had been shot down during one of WORLD WAR II's fiercest battles planes that may still be holding their pilots His organization Bentprop Project

works to repatriate their remains to the U s. To guide the search Scannon ordinarily relies on interviews with Palauan elders military records

and maps hand-drawn after the war. But on this trip he has a new tool at his disposal.

Two technicians in a nearby Boston Whaler cradle a small torpedo-shaped craft then lower it into the water.

while helping Bentprop locate WORLD WAR II airmen an effort they named Project Recover. The lead scientist is Eric Terrill director of the Scripps Coastal Observing Research and development Center.

and after WORLD WAR II broke out it began to shore up its defenses building hundreds of bunkers

and caves to defend the islands from an American attack. General Macarthur who wanted to secure islands to the east as he prepared to invade the Philippines ordered that attack in 1944.

The U s. began with a furious air campaign that was designed to knock out Japanese vessels clustered in Palau's western lagoon

and adjacent harbors and clear the way for an amphibious assault. These people died defending usthat September the U s. Marines landed on the island of Peleliu.

Although they ultimately won that battle it came at a terrible cost: 10000 Japanese and 1700 Americans were killed in action the highest casualty rate of WORLD WAR II's Pacific Theater.

And between the beginning of the air campaign and the end of the war Bentprop estimates 200 U s. aircraft were shot down inside Palau's barrier reef.

Some 40 to 50 planes and 70 to 80 airmen have never been recovered. Scannon a medical doctor and founder of a biotechnology company first visited Palau in 1993 as a recreational scuba diver.

He came with a group looking for a Japanese naval vessel that had been sunk by George h w bush who flew torpedo bombers during the war.

After the group found it Scannon hired a local guide to take him to other wreck sites where he eventually discovered the wing of A b-24.

and active-duty military members to help him search. Combing the jungle and surrounding waters they located debris from more than five dozen aircraft.

It carried 10 to 11 men including a pilot and copilot gunners bombers a radioman and a navigator.

Of the four B-24s Bentprop suspects were shot down near Palau two were found after the war.

the organization notified the Department of defense's Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the remains of the eight men onboard (three had parachuted out only to be apprehended

Mission photographs from WORLD WAR II show the fourth a Consolidated B-24 Liberator on a path toward the western lagoon.

what heading they were on during the bombing mission and we have very good information about

but their unofficial headquarters is an open-air bar called the Drop off originally built for the production crew of CBS's Survivor:

WORLD WAR II wrecks attract dive tourists and salvagers. The next morning at the coral-reef lab Terrill debriefs Scannon and the Bentprop group.

Flip Colmer a former Navy pilot who now flies for Delta also with Bentprop reaches for the book Floatplanes in Action

There weren't antiaircraft along the ridge. But existing ships that were moored still had antiaircraft.

During WORLD WAR II floatplanes in Palau often flew rescue operations. As they scooped airmen from the water another plane provided cover overhead.

Bentprop knew that two Kingfishers on reconnaissance missions had disappeared during the war and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up.

After descending to the plane O'brien noticed that the windscreen on the cockpit was located behind the wing.

Scannon waves me over to the cockpit and places my hand on the gun mount.

It held a 7. 7mm machine gun Scannon later explains to me developed by the Japanese navy.

The high-speed reconnaissance floatplane had a single engine contra-rotating propellers and a center pontoon that could be jettisoned during an attack.

It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.

According to Bentprop the Japanese manufactured nine prototypes; six were brought to Palau for combat testing and all were shot down by U s. forces.

Though it isn't an American plane Scannon is pleased with the discovery. It's a very unusual aircraft one of the rarest archaeological planes you will find he says.

And there's a very high likelihood that the remains are still on it. Bentprop alerts the Palauan government which will notify the Japanese embassy.

that of the American Corsair discovered by the spear fishermen. That plate revealed the Corsair's story.

On the way back he and his wingman strafed four Japanese ammunition dumps; an explosion at the last one sent shrapnel into the oil cooler of his plane.

Mccullah placed a distress call and made for the island's western reef. Then he tightened his seat belt locked the canopy back and turned off the plane's engine switch.

Placing his left hand on the cockpit coaming he braced for impact. There was no shock Mccullah later wrote in a mission report.

and swam across the reef where a rescue aircraft swept down to pick him up.

For the rest of his life Mccullah who after his rescue went back to the base had a brandy

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Food scientist Richard Goodman for example told Entine The risks from GM foods are infinitesimally small though no such viewpoints made it into Elle's pages.

Officially known as the Farmer Assurance Provision has been derided by opponents of biotech lobbying as the Ã¢Â#Âoemonsanto Protection Actã¢Â#Â as it would strip federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting

and FDA all acknowledge the risks involved with GMO's. Their adverse affects on environment have been shown

Currently the GMOS on the market today have been given genetic traits to provide protection from pests tolerance to pesticides

And thank you Empmortakaten for pointing out that there is greater public health risk from so-called organic foods than from GMO foods.

or unwilling to accept the evidence that there were no banned weapons systems in Iraq or to expose the Ã¢Â#Âoenayirahã¢Â#Â fraud.

Also to address your misconception about chemical weapons in Iraq. They WERE there at one time. Saddam Hussein used them during the 1980's against Iranian and Kurdish civilians.

in order to maintain at least the illusion of a credible threat to prevent an incursion by Iran.

What we did know is had that he them at one time he had used them he was emboldened by Al Qaeda's successful attack on America in 2001

a possible threat that was neutralized by our removing Hussein from power (which by the way very few Iraqis were sad about).

However this also means that modern corn is laced with extensive glyphosate residues that we eat on a regular basis. Research shows that regular long-term intake of glyphosate is linked to increased risks of gastrointestinal disorders obesity diabetes heart disease

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But instead of growing them scientists in the gleaming 15000-square-foot headquarters of Organovo print them

It chills. 3d printing technology more mature than just come out the average consumer to understand its function more and more deeply to see a 3d print reports that have been put in the military field responsible for the production of large originals. 3d printer compared to traditional manufacturing machinery greatly shorten product development

or http://goo. gl/2wt6lu view details. 3d printing technology more mature than just come out the average consumer to understand its function more and more deeply to see a 3d print reports that have been put in the military field responsible for the production of large originals. 3d printer compared to traditional

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Next thing you know a missile ends up hitting one of our allies rather than one of our adversaries.

Kevin your attack on the youth forgets some important things namely that as the requirements of an environment change old skills can become useless.

and dangers to not knowing these skills but only if our current environment falls backwards (always a possibility but improbable we'd fall too far back).

and thatched huts. So all in all kudos to your perceptions o

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#The Odd Way Beavers Impact Climate Changewhen the industrious beaver scurries around being its toothy self cutting down trees

Science via Phys. org Considering we're at a critical carbon deficit right now it's about time to start wiping these pudgy menaces out for good!

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The outer atmosphere will eventually be puffed out in a gentle explosion and the Sun will be at the center of a planetary nebula.

the force exerted by a massive object points directly toward that object's present position.

For example even though the Sun is 500 light seconds from the Earth newtonian gravity describes a force On earth directed towards the Sun's position now not its position 500 seconds ago.

Strictly speaking gravity is not a force in general relativity and a description in terms of speed and direction can be tricky.

In that case one finds that the force in GR is not quite central it does not point directly towards the source of the gravitational field

The Ã¢Â#Âoeneedã¢Â#Â for us to explore space is a distinctly human anomaly possibly even a maladaptation and not somehow inevitable in alien intelligence even in itã¢Â#Â#s highest forms.

but thatã¢Â#Â#s just another human hang-up that alien intelligence must be like us and just another version of anthropomorphism.

Once you've got sufficient power online and enough resources to create a self-sustaining underground mining operation a civilization could theoretically thrive indefinitely underground without ever revisiting the surface again.

Emergency access afterward would be significantly less hazardous than an EVA from a space shuttle or space station since gravity would be in effect so thermal and thin-atmosphere considerations would be the only things that would act as impediments.

If the end-of-the-world wars were survived with a large enough population with the political will to do it there's nothing insurmountable about having the species survive On earth indefinitely

End of the world wars? How could these things be going on with no light and no food and subzero temps?

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Science Mag Perhaps in the not so distant future NSA might incorporate itself in artifically created orgins

From the ground up of technology and the foundation of software NSA wants to have its fingers in the new technology to ease its snooping!!!

Silicon valley NSA might be closer than we thought...The Times was able to identify one company that has established such a team in the past:

The Microsoft-owned company the Times'sources claim established a small team of employees to work on the legal and technical issues in making Skype calls readily available to the NSA and other law enforcement agencies.

http://news. cnet. com/8301-1009 3-57590258-83/silicon-valley-nsa-might-be-closer-than-we-thought/..

and saving it for further'analysis'on the premise you might be a terrorist. The word analysis makes it legally ok.

@wonder The NSA is way behind. Some churches have been implanting a psychological device like that into their followers already for 2000 years or longer.

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