DNA building blocks can be made in space, NASA evidence suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808220659.htm

Re: Deadly Drug in our Water Supply Systems

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Dean McClain wrote:

Brethren

Did you know there's an "invisible" drug that a majority of Americans consume on a daily basis—a drug so harmful it's been proven to cause serious health issues, including damage to your bones and teeth, as well as your kidneys, thyroid, pineal gland, and even your brain. This drug is so pervasive that over 40 percent of all American teens between the ages of 12 and 15 show visible signs of having been overexposed to it, and, shockingly, recent international studies indicate that even small doses of this drug can lower the IQ in children.

What is this drug?

Fluoride.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/07/professional-perspectives-documentary.aspx?e_cid=20110807_SNL_Art_1

RESPONSE:

http://fluorideinfo.org/articles.html#Fluoridation: A Triumph of Science Over Propaganda

http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/feeding/fluoride_water.html#

http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/systematic.htm 

Fwd: Anti-Matter found in earth orbit

From: john.m.gardner

Antiquarks, two ups and a down.  You could also arrive at the necessary charge with three down quarks (charge -1/3), but then it wouldn't mass correctly and would not be an antimatter equivalent of the proton. 

 

Keep your dollar though, since I was reading about this stuff last night and it was fresh in mind. 

 

Collecting the stuff in orbit would be an interesting idea, though the cost to lift a penning trap into orbit would probably be prohibitive in terms of cost vs. benefit.  This does have interesting implications for space travel though, in terms of antimatter catalized fusion engines.  If antimatter is more common than previously thought, then it may be possible to scavange fuel en route per the old bussard ram-scoop idea.  Finding the stuff in orbit does tend to raise some eyebrows though. 

 

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/enginelist.php#id--Antiproton-initiated_Microfusion/Inertial_Confinement_Fusion

 

 

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From: Coston, Cory

I'll give you a dollar if you can tell me what quarks compose an anti-proton without looking it up.

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From: Trout, Larry


'PAMELA Spacecraft Finds a Belt of Antimatter Around the Earth'

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/theres-belt-antiprotons-around-earth

I wonder if we could collect the anti-matter and create energy from it.

Moon Colony?

NASA finds 'significant' water on moon

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-11-13/tech/water.moon.nasa_1_lunar-crater-observation-anthony-colaprete-solar-system?_s=PM:TECH

 

Scientists Make Oxygen Out of Moon Rock

http://www.physorg.com/news169216598.html

 

The Moon may have the same proportion of water as Earth does

http://io9.com/5805307/the-moon-may-have-as-much-water-as-earth-does

 

 

 

Utah State University experimenting with in-road electric vehicle charging system

http://i.green.autoblog.com/2011/07/29/utah-state-university-experiments-with-in-road-electric-vehicle/

Observations: Water from a Saturnian Moon Rains Down on the Ringed Planet

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=water-from-a-saturnian-moon-rains-d-2011-07-26

New way to store sun's heat: Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely, then be recharged by exposure to the sun

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713121301.htm

NASA spacecraft Dawn's incredible journey

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dawn-20110624,0,6421064.story

New way to make lighter, stronger steel -- in a flash

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110609173718.htm

Dreams of Fusion Power: I'm Not the Only One

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2011/05/16/dreams_of_fusion_power_im_not_the_only_one_106237.html

Lithium Battery Industry Keeps Going, And Going ...

http://m.npr.org/story/136029474?url=/2011/05/09/136029474/lithium-battery-industry-keeps-going-and-going

Fwd: Graphene paper composite

'By using a proprietary process, the UTS team claims to have made a material that, when compared to steel, is six times lighter, is five to six times less dense, is two times harder and has ten times the tensile strength and 13 times the bending rigidity.'

http://green.autoblog.com/2011/05/08/graphene-composite-material-is-thin-like-paper-10-to-13-times-s/

Radiation

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

What triggers mass extinctions? Study shows how invasive species stop new life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101230100050.htm

What's inside a Dalek?

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/3691

Chasing Immortality

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j30/kurzweil.asp

Life in 2060: A Futurizon Report by Ian Pearson

http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38267:life-in-2060-a-futurizon-report-by-ian-pearson&catid=291:technology&Itemid=1036

Leonardo Da Vinci Automovile (1495)

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2qeZrejZp0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Scientists To Drill Deeper Than Ever Before, Hope To Sample Mantle

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/scientists-drill-into-mantle_n_840546.html

First permanent anti-fog coating developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316104117.htm

Big Minds Debate Theory of Everything | Physics, Cosmology & String Theory |

http://www.livescience.com/13129-physics-string-theory.html

8 Shocking Things We Learned From Stephen Hawking's Book

http://www.livescience.com/8869-8-shocking-learned-stephen-hawking-book.html

Could Atom Smasher be Used as a Time Machine?

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/16/atom-smasher-used-time-machine/?test=faces#

Geomagnetic reversal

At present, the overall geomagnetic field is becoming weaker; the present strong deterioration corresponds to a 10–15% decline over the last 150 years and has accelerated in the past several years...

The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting from northern Canada towards Siberia with a presently accelerating rate — 10 km per year at the beginning of the 20th century, up to 40 km per year in 2003,^[11] and since then has only accelerated ^[12]. In the last decade magnetic north was shifting roughly one degree every five years.^[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

Algae converted to butanol; Fuel can be used in automobiles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301200638.htm

Navy Breaks World Record With Futuristic Free-Electron Laser

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/18/navy-breaks-world-record-futuristic-laser-getting-real/#

Fountain of youth from the tap? Environmental lithium uptake promotes longevity, scientists demonstrate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110218111709.htm

Galileo and the Scientific Pose of the Left

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/17/galileo_and_the_scientific_pose_of_the_left_108934.html

New material provides 25 percent greater thermoelectric conversion efficiency

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110215164336.htm

A Nine-Planet Solar System Once More? NASA Telescope May Reveal New Planet, Tyche

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/15/a-nine-planet-solar-system-once-more-nasa-telescope-may-reveal-new-planet-tyche/