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[Chico23231]

Navy Breaks World Record With Futuristic Free-Electron Laser | Fox News

My dream of lazer tag with real lazers becoming a reality

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Navy Breaks World Record With Futuristic Free-Electron Laser | Fox News

My dream of lazer tag with real lazers becoming a reality

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

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Sirius Theatrical Trailer - Dr. Steven Greer, UFO's, Extraterrestrials, Alternative Energy - YouTube

'Sirius,' Steven Greer's Film, Claims To Unveil Tiny 'Alien' Humanoid (VIDEO)

[RedskinRat]

Fusion propulsion success!

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.

"To the stars, bitches!" Tyrone Biggums

[RedskinRat]

Scary Science:

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.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

Scary Science:

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.

Sounds like Minority Report

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Sounds like Minority Report

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.

[BaltimoreSkins]

Perfect planets for life? Telescope sees distant worlds not too hot, not too cold, not too big - The Washington Post

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.

[NC_Skins]

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


A Wet Towel In Space Is Not Like A Wet Towel On Earth : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR

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[RedskinRat]

SS2 Test Flight

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.

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

SS2 Test Flight

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.

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.

[RedskinRat]

SOPA creator’s latest bill proposes stripping peer-review from science funding

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.

What could possibly go wrong?

[BaltimoreSkins]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

SOPA creator’s latest bill proposes stripping peer-review from science funding

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.

What could possibly go wrong?

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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