04/24/10 - The Irrefutable Logic of Maxine

04/24/10 - 16 Year Old High School Student Discovers Microbe That Eats Plastic
NOTE: There are TWO high school students who discovered plastic-consuming microorganisms. The first was Daniel Burd. The second was Tseng I-Ching (last month), a high school student in Taiwan. - Daniel had a thought it seems even the most esteemed PhDs hadn’t considered. Plastic, one of the most indestructible of manufactured materials, does in fact eventually decompose. It takes 1,000 years but decompose it does, which means there must be microorganisms out there to do the decomposing. Could those microorganisms be bred to do the job faster? That was Daniel’s question, and he put to the test with a very simple and clever process of immersing ground plastic in a yeast solution that encourages microbial growth, and then isolating the most productive organisms. The preliminary results were encouraging, so he kept at it, selecting out the most effective strains and interbreeding them. After several weeks of tweaking and optimizing temperatures Burd was achieved a 43 percent degradation of plastic in six weeks, an almost inconceivable accomplishment. With 500 billion plastic bags manufactured each year and a Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch that grows more expansive by the day, a low-cost and nontoxic method for degrading plastic is the stuff of environmentalists’ dreams... - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Sense of smell makes flies' time fly
Could smells affect your lifespan? Female fruit flies deprived of the ability to smell food outlive their peers. The sense of smell may be linked to the cellular ageing process in many other organisms – even people. A link has recently been found between sensory experiences and lifespan in both worms and flies. For example, Scott Pletcher, a molecular biologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, found that eliminating fruit flies' ability to smell any odour at all enabled them to live nearly 20 per cent longer than flies with an intact sense of smell. Why is this so? Pletcher's team reasoned that food smells were the ones most likely to affect ageing, as nutrition and longevity are known to be linked in many organisms. For example, cutting the amount of food consumed lengthens the lifespan of yeast, mice and monkeys, and keeps a variety of diseases at bay in people. CO2 odour - To test the idea that food odours affect lifespan, Pletcher's team eliminated flies' ability to smell carbon dioxide, which is produced by some fly foods, such as live yeast. They left the rest of the olfactory system intact. This intervention had no effect on male flies, but the females lived 30 per cent longer than normal. Pletcher reckons eliminating the ability to smell CO2 may deprive flies of information about food availability. This could signal to cells that food is scarce, triggering processes that promote survival. Indeed, his team found that the CO2-insensitive female flies stored extra fat and that both males and females rendered immune to CO2 were more resistant to oxidative stress than normal flies. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Free Up Drive Space by Deleting the Hiberfil.sys
Windows: If you routinely use Hibernation mode, this trick isn't for you. If you never use Hibernate mode on your desktop or laptop, this trick will free up 4-6GB of disk space on your system disk. Over at the computer how-to site How-To Geek they've put together a guide to deleting your hiberfil.sys file and disabling hibernation mode. Windows has two power management modes that you can choose from: one is Sleep Mode, which keeps the PC running in a low power state so you can almost instantly get back to what you were working on. The other is Hibernate mode, which completely writes the memory out to the hard drive, and then powers the PC down entirely, so you can even take the battery out, put it back in, start back up, and be right back where you were. Hibernate mode uses the hiberfil.sys file to store the current state (memory) of the PC, and since it's managed by Windows, you can't delete the file. Check out the step-by-step walk through at the link below to disable Hibernate mode in Windows 7, Vista, and XP and reclaim that chunk of disk space for better use. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Biofuels could produce more greenhouse emissions than standard fuels
Biofuels such as biodiesel from soy beans can create up to four times more climate-warming emissions than standard diesel or petrol, according to an EU document released under freedom of information laws. The European Union has set itself a goal of obtaining 10 percent of its road fuels from renewable sources, mostly biofuels, by the end of this decade, but it is now worrying about the unintended environmental impacts. Four major studies are under way. Chief among those fears is that biofuel production soaks up grain from global commodity markets, forcing up food prices and encouraging farmers to clear tropical forests in the quest for new land. Burning forests releases vast quantities of carbon dioxide and often cancels out many of the climate benefits sought from biofuels. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Four Arguments Against Immortality
Science fiction is full of stories where our heroes live forever. And some current biological research is aimed at making our lives last centuries. So what's the downside of lasting forever? Here are four reasons to be a mortalist (click the link). Social immortality vs. personal immortality - Sure, you're saying, there's a downside. But does that mean we shouldn't invest in new medicines and technologies that will extend our lives today? Or make our lives more comfortable? No, that's not what it means. We should absolutely keep working to make medicine as advanced as possible, and to make our lives as healthy and long as possible. But not to the point of impoverishing other areas of life. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Egg incubation chamber
[Mazomen] left the expensive ready-to-order options for others and built his own egg incubation chamber. It keeps the eggs warm and happy in a Styrofoam lined box. Temperature regulation is handled by an ATtiny26 microcontroller in conjunction with a DS18B20 temperature sensor. When the temp drops, two 60-watt light bulbs in the chamber above the eggs are turned on and the air is circulated with a small case fan. If you’ve already made the switch to automated vegetable growing this project will make your chicken raising easier as well. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - The Big Fix (Hold on to your Wallets)
This potion is being served long before its time. Sure, deficits are big and the projections are scary. But the economy is struggling to get out of a big hole. Unemployment is still near 10%. Foreclosures are still rising. Banks aren't lending; businesses aren't hiring. Deficit spending is critical to what little growth we've seen. The president and the Congress should be focused on jobs, not deficits. Ironically, when pushed, most of the purveyors of the hysteria agree. Consider this another example of Naomi Klein's "shock doctrine." Not wanting to let the crisis go to waste, an elite consensus is congealing on how to bring the deficits down. Call it the big fix. "Everything is on the table," we're told. That's code for a trade-off. Republicans accept tax increases; Democrats accept spending cuts. But the fix is in the details. On the revenue side, the favored vehicle is a value added tax (VAT). The VAT is essentially a hidden sales tax, levied at each stage of a product's production. Conservatives, who, unlike Dick Cheney, believe deficits matter, accept it because it is regressive, taxing spending, not investment or wealth. Liberals accept it because it is hidden, and could generate a lot of revenue. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Leontiev's Pipe
Alexander Leontiev, a Russian laureate, is a famous thermal physicist, who invented “Leontiev’s pipe” – two coaxial pipes, filled with gas, which moves with dramatically different speeds in each pipe, thus creating temperature difference. This invention is perfect for cooling-heating units. Leontiev has also worked in the field of turbulent heat-transfer enhancement, and gas turbulence. / As noted the academician of washers, “academician Paton made an enormous contribution to all aspects of power engineering. His work plays exceptional role in power engineering of the countries of the CIS and generally in the guarantee with the fuel of the most different countries of world. Because of its works on welding of pipes the reliable power supply of millions of people today is ensured. This is the rare case, when man is the author more than one-and-a-half thousand patents in different countries of world”. Nikolai [Laverov] described that academician Leont'yev is well-known thermophysicist. He - the creator of the so-called “pipe of Leont'yev”. To it belongs work on the vortex intensification of heat exchange, and also study in the region of turbulence of gases, [ITAR]- TASS transfers. “Leont'yev is closely connected not only with the solution of theoretical problems in the field of thermophysics, but also with resolution of the practical questions, necessary for the development of power engineering. Therefore he is one of the bright representatives of Russian energy school”, emphasized the Vice President of RAN [Russian Academy of Science]. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - How To Attract Investors For Your Small Business
Let's face it - your million-dollar business idea is never going to get off the ground. You'll push it on company after company until you've drained your piddly seed money and your network's resources. Eventually, you'll end up eating Dinty Moore Beef Stew on a futon in your parents' basement, complaining about how nobody "gets" you. At least, that's what will happen without a little financial help. Clink the link for 8 Tips For Starting Your Own Business. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Duke Researchers Say Patents Block Competition
Duke University released a study that, not surprisingly, says patents block competition. WOW! Thank you so much for clearing that up Duke! What would we have ever done without the learned elite at Duke University telling us that patents block competition. Seriously… what was your first clue? For goodness sakes I hope you didn’t take much time or energy coming to that conclusion, given that is exactly what patents are supposed to do. You see, they provide exclusive rights, which means the owner of the right has the ability to exclude. So let’s all breath a sigh of relief that the money spent on an academic study actually reached factual findings that were true and accurate. If only the conclusions drawn from the study were as commonsensical as the discovery of patents conveying exclusive rights. According to the Duke Institute for Genome Science & Policy, “exclusive licenses to gene patents… do more to block competition in the gene testing market than to spur the development of new technologies…” The news report straight from Duke University itself is biased from the start, when it seemingly wants to justify its disdain for exclusive rights by pointing out that most of the research relating to gene patents is done by academic institutions and receive taxpayer-funding. Oh my goodness. Greedy universities are taking taxpayer funding and then getting patents? My gosh, say it ain’t so! How could that be true. Oh… wait… isn’t that exactly what the Bayh-Dole legislation intended? And, by the way, isn’t Bayh-Dole considered to be the most positive piece of legislation enacted by Congress in the post World War II era? And isn’t Bayh-Dole universally understood to be responsible for US domination in research and development at Universities? And don’t we teach students at Universities? And isn’t University patented technology, which represents pure scientific research that wouldn’t be undertaken by corporate America because it is too speculative, licensed out to create jobs and entire new industries? Don’t small businesses, which are famously known to create the most jobs, the ones who receive preferences under Bayh-Dole? Don’t those companies pay royalties back to the Universities to continue to fund research? - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Solar-Gem Continues to Light up the World
Solar-Gem (http://solar-gem.asia/), a Sydney-based company that provides affordable off-grid energy solutions based on clean solar power systems, today announced that it is continuing to grow its customer base for its unique solar energy solutions. The company’s solutions deliver clean, efficient power for lighting and other applications to remote and under-developed regions around the world. The system is a turnkey, yet modular product comprising a set of solar panels, battery and Solar-Gem’s own invention, made up of a smart energy controller with an on-board billing system. Solar-Gem’s solution powers lights, as well as other small applications such as mobile phones and laptops and is the first solution of its kind to provide a 10-year system life, at least 2.5 days of energy without a charge, software-controlled energy regulation for efficiency and automated diming and scalability to incorporate higher-wattage appliances. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Interview with human leg extension inventor Kim Graham
Meredith Yayanos of Coilhouse interviewed Kim Graham about her finely-tuned digitigrade, "reverse leg" extensions. Graham has started selling them at Weta for NZD$1,320 a pair. Please describe the Weta Legs. What sets your invention apart from other kinds of stilts or leg extensions? They have been called the Holy Grail of costuming. How do you build a device that will give a person the backward leg of a dog or horse? They are referred to by all sorts of names: digilegs, digitigrades, faun legs… What does digitigrade mean? A digitigrade is an animal that stands or walks on its digits, or toes. But this is not easy to say unless you like tongue twisters, so it was shortened to “digileg”. They’ve also been called “dog legs” or “reverse stilts”. Originally, we called them leg extensions, because they’re not really stilts, but we want to give them one name that is pretty easy to say. Hence, Weta Legs. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Race-car technology is on track to help truckers
It may be hard to imagine how a race car that can go from 0-60 in three seconds, has a top speed over 200 mph and is designed for grueling 12-hour competitions can help save the planet, but local real estate developer Steve Pruitt is happy to connect the dots. That car is a gas-electric hybrid that is the brainchild of Pruitt and his team of experts at Salt Lake-based Corsa Racing. And, thanks to technology developed in that project, a new device could keep tons of pollutants out of the air by making freight-hauling tractor-trailer rigs more fuel-efficient. Pruitt is also fine-tuning a device that mounts on the axle of semi-trailers that could cut fuel use by 10 percent or more. That, Pruitt said, could turn into a significant dent in fuel usage and emissions by the 11 million or so trucks currently on the road in the U.S. "Those trucks use, on average, about 85,000 gallons of fuel a year," Pruitt said. "Also, they spend about 1,800 hours a year idling while burning a gallon of fuel an hour." Pruitt's invention, which mirrors the hybrid system on his race car, charges batteries using the kinetic energy of the trailer's wheels turning when it is moving downhill and acts as a motorized "helper" when the truck is pulling the trailer uphill. The system garners savings in fuel usage and provides stored electrical energy in the batteries to use in lieu of idling — innovations that have caught the attention of both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Toy tests your ability to endure electrical shock
The latest from Brando, the Hong Kong based manufacturers of odd electronic curiosities -- a $20 game to test your ability to endure an increasingly powerful jolt of electricity. - SHOCKING DUEL! - How Long can you hang on? A Great Party Fun Game. - The First Person to let go of the shock handles is the WIMP! - It brings EXTREME FUN to your party, family and office! - Test your nerves against your opponent with shocking duel - Simple to play - Functions: party, home and office fun - Dimensions: Handle Base Diameter x Height(approx.): 99 x 115 mm - Battery: AAA battery x 3 pieces (not included) - (There are a couple of guys here in central Mexico who walk around town with two copper rods tied into a pulsing battery shocker...cost $1 to test your manhood by how long you can hold the copper rods as he turns up the current. What bothers me is both these guys have the shakes from demonstrating it and they aren't that old. - JWD) - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Call For College Inventors: Alternative Energy Technology Competition
Inventors Digest has partnered with the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) to host the the 2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge: Help Save The World One Kilowatt at a Time. The challenge is seeking ideas for innovative low-cost, alternative energy technologies, products, solutions, and services that will help assuage the cycle of poverty, malnutrition, disease and death among peoples of the world that live without electricity. Submissions are in the form of videos, 2 minutes or less in length, that must clearly describe the technology, tool, product, or service the entrant has invented. The invention must be based on scientific, engineering or physics principles as determined by the sponsors. Winning videos must demonstrate imagination, innovative implementation, deployability and scalable attributes of the invention. There will be 25 finalists and, potentially, a Grand Prize Winner. Deadline for submissions is July 31, 2010, 5:00 P.M. Eastern (US). There are three phases of the judging process that will take place between the end of July and August 31, 2010, when the winner(s) will be announced. Inventors Digest has published detailed rules available at the Edison Nation website. Please read them carefully, and understand what intellectual property rights you will have as well as those you may be giving up. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - White robber wore lifelike black mask
Alleged bank robber Conrad Zdzierak is said to have used a $650 mask called “The Player” to fool security cameras. Check out a video of the mask here. Investigators believe Zdzierak likely removed the mask between the robberies in order to confuse the cops who believed they were looking a black man. The authorities caught a break when they spotted a Volvo with its interior splattered with red dye from a dye pack slipped into a bag used to hold the stolen money. Police found Zdzierak hiding in a motel bathroom. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Lose weight, bolster your immune system
Australian scientists have shown for the first time that even modest weight loss reverses many of the damaging changes often seen in the immune cells of obese people, particularly those with Type 2 diabetes. The immune system is made up of many different kinds of cells that protect the body from germs, viruses and other invaders. These cells need to co-exist in a certain balance for good health to be maintained. Many factors, including diet and excess body fat, can tip this balance, creating cells that can attack, rather than protect, our bodies. Undertaken by Dr Alex Viardot and Associate Professor Katherine Samaras from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research, the results showed an 80% reduction of pro-inflammatory T-helper cells, as well as reduced activation of other circulating immune cells (T cells, monocytes and neutrophils) and decreased activation of macrophages in fat. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Alcohol shortens telomeres to cause premature aging
Alcohol abuse causes cancer and aging at the cellular level by shortening your telomeres. 'Heavy alcohol users tend to look haggard, and it is commonly thought heavy drinking leads to premature aging and earlier onset of diseases of aging. In particular, heavy alcohol drinking has been associated with cancer at multiple sites,' said lead researcher Andrea Baccarelli, M.D., Ph.D., head of the Center of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Granda Hospital Foundation, University of Milan, Italy. 'All the cells in our body have a biological clock in telomeres.' Using real-time polymerase chain reaction, the researchers measured serum DNA among 59 participants who abused alcohol (22 percent consumed four or more alcoholic drinks per day) and 197 participants with variable alcohol consumption habits (4 percent consumed four or more alcoholic drinks per day)." The two groups were similar in age and other factors that might affect telomere length, such as diet, physical exercise, work-related stress and environmental exposures. Results showed that telomere length was dramatically shortened in those who consumed heavy amounts of alcohol. Telomere length was nearly half as long as telomere length in the non-abusers (0.41 vs. 0.79 relative units). - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Fish oil supplements provide no benefit to brain power
The largest ever trial of fish oil supplements by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine investigated the effects of taking omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplements over a two year period on the cognitive function of participants aged 70-80 years. No evidence was found that they offer any benefits for cognitive function in older people. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Bad eyes, go to sleep, wake up with perfect vision
What if you could go to sleep with a vision problem and wake up with a crystal-clear view of the world? A Spanish optometrist not only says this is possible, but he actually wants you to sleep in your contacts. His patented contact lenses, designed to achieve the same effect of corneal reshaping surgery, can correct vision defects like myopia (nearsightedness) and stigmatism – and now hyperopia (farsightedness) – without taking sharp instruments or lasers to your eyes. During the night the lenses gently reshape the cornea by pressuring the film that coats the outside of the cornea, changing its shape by about half the width of a human hair. The next morning, the lenses come out and the patient has perfect vision – at least for the duration of the day. The changes are not permanent so the patient must repeat the process each night, which could prove a tedious chore. But the farsightedness is gone, allowing the patient to get through the day without constantly squinting or groping about for his or her glasses. The cost of the system might sway patients back toward surgery though – $1,350 up front to custom-design the lenses, plus another $550 or so each year thereafter to replace them. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - UK University Researchers Must Make Data Available
"In a landmark ruling, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office has decided that researchers at a university must make all their data available to the public. The decision follows from a three-year battle by mathematician Douglas J. Keenan, who wants the data to do his own analysis on it. The university researchers have had the data for many years, and have published several papers using the data, but had refused to make the data available. The data in this case pertains to global warming, but the decision is believed to apply to any field: scientists at universities, which are all public in the UK, can now not claim data from publicly-funded research as their private property." - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Cop CYA - Seattle Hacker Catches Cops Who Hid Arrest Tapes
"In 2008, the Seattle Police illegally arrested security consultant Eric Rachner for refusing to show ID. After Rachner filed a formal complaint, he was prosecuted for obstructing, and the police claimed that videos of the arrest were unavailable — until Rachner's research uncovered proof that the police had the videos all along." It's an interesting story of how he figured out how the system in use by Seattle police automatically tracks deletion, copying, or other uses of the recorded stream. - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Four Novel Toys You Can Make With Rubber Balloons (Aug, 1931)
These drawings show the construction of four novel toys made from circus balloons that will prove highly fascinating. Fill the balloon with hydrogen and attach to it a postcard bearing your name, and a request to return it from whatever point it falls to earth. Thus you can learn in what direction and how far it travels. Another balloon, equipped with a gondola will float in the air like a wartime captive dirigible. The aerial torpedo which zips up through the air is made by affixing fins to an air-filled balloon. The unique air boat cuts through the water under power of air exhaust from blown up balloon. - (These could be hybridized with modern technology to make them far more entertaining... - JWD) - Full Article Source

04/24/10 - Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City
"Bloomberg reports that New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and a bipartisan delegation of 17 US representatives from New York and New Jersey have sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden calling for the agency to place a shuttle aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. A former aircraft carrier, Intrepid served as one of NASA's recovery vehicles for early space flights. Intrepid officials have gathered almost 57,000 signatures on a petition to bring an orbiter to New York, and NASA is weighing 21 bids from visitors' centers, science museums and educational institutions eager to host one of the three aging space shuttles that will be retired this year. 'These are going to be like the Mona Lisa,' says space historian John Logsdon, referring to Leonardo da Vinci's iconic 1506 portrait of a woman in Florence that remains on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris. 'The primary criteria for the shuttles' location will be the stability of the site and whether the chosen institutions can exhibit them for the next 500 years.'" - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Volcanic Lightning and how it works
All told, there have been more than 150 different eruptions over the past couple of centuries where volcanic lightning has been recorded. In fact, I've managed to dig up some photographs of volcanic lightning from before I was born! Here's Mount Vesuvius -- and the accompanying volcanic lightning -- from 1944! Okay, so now you're convinced that lightning happens in volcanic ash all the time. Yes, it makes for a spectacular picture, but how do you get this in the first place? Well, what is lightning? You create a big enough electric potential difference between two places, and you can get all of these excess charges to "jump down" to the lower potential. In air, it takes a voltage of about 33,000 Volts (!) to get a spark to jump even one centimeter! Lightning that goes from a high cloud down to the ground can have a voltage difference in excess of a billion Volts! You can do this because you can get a huge amount of charge separation. For example, in a big lightning strike, you separate out about 1020 electrons! But ash and rocks -- even molten rock -- are electrically neutral, right? So how to we get a big voltage from neutral matter? Thankfully, the ash that comes out is hot enough so that not every particle is neutral: many are positively charged ions and many are negatively charged ions. If you can make something push the positive ions differently than it pushes the negative ones, you can create a charge separation! If you get enough charges separated, you can make a large enough voltage to give you lightning! - (This reminds me of Paul Clint back in 2001 who was claiming he got up to continuous 2 foot arcs from his specially doped electrets. He said long wire antennas or anything that would interface with large volumes of moving air could produce all the energy anyone could ever want, just as Perrigo did back in the 1920s. The guy told me the more dust, sand, snow, etc. in the air, the more electricity you could extract from it. - JWD) - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Green machine: Power from the people
London-based architectural research firm Facility: Innovate is developing an energy harvester for crowded areas such as sports arenas and shopping centres. The technology will be invisible to the people it feeds on: they will simply walk over what looks like a normal floor tile. But their steps will push down on a pneumatic device that drives air through a turbine to generate electricity, says managing director Oliver Schneider. People will feel only a slight movement at most, like stepping on an entrance mat, he says. "We're looking to generate around 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity [from each device]per day. That's enough to charge around 300 phones per day," he says. The power will be fed to phone-charging stations, or to lighting and electronic advertising. The system generates a direct current, so using it to power DC devices locally is more efficient than switching to the alternating current needed to feed it back to the grid. The company plans to install its first device later this year in a US shopping centre, with a UK site to follow soon after. "Ticket barriers at sports stadiums are also a good spot, anywhere people are funnelled through a small area," Schneider says. Unlike existing energy-generating paving slabs such as those developed by London-based Pavegen Systems, the technology can be installed under conventional flooring, allowing it to be used in a wide range of settings without altering a building's appearance, claims Schneider. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Earth’s Magnetic Field – Dinosaur Killer
Russian scientists, who investigate behavior of our planet’s magnetic field, are absolutely sure that we should not blame a meteorite for sudden death of almost all dinosaurs. Their research showed that mass extinctions of living beings had taken place 20-30 million years after each superchron ended. A superchron is a time interval during which no reversals of planet’s geomagnetic field takes place, in other words, Earth’s poles do not change places. Reversion of geomagnetic field is a bright and mysterious phenomenon, since it is irregular and cannot be predicted. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, 2008 Study Says
Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth's liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet's surface, a new study says. "What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth's magnetic field," said study co-author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen. The findings suggest similarly quick changes are simultaneously occurring in the liquid metal, 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) below the surface, he said. The swirling flow of molten iron and nickel around Earth's solid center triggers an electrical current, which generates the planet's magnetic field. The study, published recently in Nature Geoscience, modeled Earth's magnetic field using nine years of highly accurate satellite data. Fluctuations in the magnetic field have occurred in several far-flung regions of Earth, the researchers found. In 2003 scientists found pronounced changes in the magnetic field in the Australasian region. In 2004, however, the changes were focused on Southern Africa. The changes "may suggest the possibility of an upcoming reversal of the geomagnetic field," said study co-author Mioara Mandea, a scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. Earth's magnetic field has reversed hundreds of times over the past billion years, and the process could take thousands of years to complete. The decline in the magnetic field also is opening Earth's upper atmosphere to intense charged particle radiation, scientists say. Satellite data show the geomagnetic field decreasing in the South Atlantic region, Mandea said, adding that an oval-shaped area east of Brazil is significantly weaker than similar latitudes in other parts of the world. "It is in this region that the shielding effect of the magnetic field is severely reduced, thus allowing high energy particles of the hard radiation belt to penetrate deep into the upper atmosphere to altitudes below a hundred kilometers (62 miles)," Mandea said. This radiation does not influence temperatures on Earth. The particles, however, do affect technical and radio equipment and can damage electronic equipment on satellites and airplanes, Olsen of the Danish space center said. (Thanks to Joel McClain via Norm Wootan for this additional material about the magnetic changes. - JWD) - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - 3 New eBooks to Read and Add to your Collection
I'm pleased to offer these interesting volumes that you might wish to add to your collection too. Sure there are many sources on the internet but these and whatever else for sale here help support KeelyNet and my 'livin la vida loca' (right!) here in glorious Mejico! Here it's 'pobre pero feliz'...which means simply, I'm poor but I'm happy..and isn't that what life should be about? Stay healthy, try new things when the opportunity presents and enjoy life while you have it, you could lose it in a second or waste away. "Party when you can, rock til you drop, that's the law." - the late, great Sam Kinison;

• $20 - Breakthrough to Free Energy Devices - this book hasn't been available since 2006. Since the first edition of this book in 1977, the world's scientific system has been undergoing a large revamping. The old physics is giving way to new expanded concepts of the universe and man's relation to it. Ideas such as order from chaos, faster-than-light particles, and a new version of the ether (tachyon field), which would have been unthinkable 12 years ago, are now being readily accepted by many orthodox scientists.
• $6 - The Annotated Vril - This fascinating ebook is an original occult fantasy dealing with the mental control of zero point energy to produce effects in matter. Vril is the author's name for this force which is focused and projected using 'Vril Rods'. The Vril force is a fluid capable of being raised and disciplined into the mightiest agency over all forms of matter, animate or inanimate. It can destroy like the flash of lightning; yet, differently applied, it can replenish or invigorate life, heal, and preserve, and on it they chiefly rely for the cure of disease, or rather the enabling the physical organization to re-establish the due equilibrium of its natural powers, and thereby to cure itself. By this agency they rend way through the most solid substances, and open valleys for culture through the rocks of their subterranean wilderness.
• $6 - The Annotated Smoky God - Did Norseman Olaf Jansen actually travel to world within the earth? Did he create the story to cover the death of his father on their ill-fated boat voyage? Why would he stay in a mental institution rather than recant his original story about their trip through the pole and down into the earth, to encounter all manner of marvelous wonders and giant humans? Take an egg-shell, and from each end break out a piece as large as the end of this pencil. Extract its contents, and then you will have a perfect representation of Olaf Jansen's earth. The distance from the inside surface to the outside surface, according to him, is about three hundred miles. The center of gravity is not in the center of the earth, but in the center of the shell or crust...

Dan Davidson's Breakthrough to Free Energy Devices contains many insights into the entire field including some Keely anecdotes of interest. I have always been a fan of the Vril Force story, seeing within it a direct correlation to how we can tap universal energy as aether, vril, chi, zpe or whatever you choose to call it.

And there are a few gravity anomalies that add to the Smokey God story. What if spherical bodies are actually hollow and have an interior sun which could support life? WOW, does that mean my theory that the moon is a hollow body containing a giant hotel where people live til the earth recovers from climate disasters, could be true?

Remember the Moon DID 'ring like a bell' when 'during the Apollo 13 mission, part of the disposable rocket crashed into the moon and the seismometer picked up a reading that the moon was ringing like a bell.'!

We are told the earth has a liquid metal core at 1900 miles down (3,000 kilometers) but could they be wrong? After all, it is impossible to drill that far down. So how far has man actually drilled? Current Maximum depth: 23000 feet ft. below seafloor.

23 000 feet = 4.356 060 606 1 mile
10 kilometer = 6.213 711 922 4 mile
12.3 kilometer = 7.642 865 664 5 mile

The deepest hole drilled by man was the Kola Hole, going 12,3 km down. The Earth's continental crust is about 30-50 km thick.

"Ambitious projects to drill deeper than 10 kilometers or so always hit the same basic limits: heat, pressure, and money. At 9 kilometers down, temperature reaches 260°C or more, and the pressure can crush the metal casings that line drill holes."

Wouldn't it make a lot of sense, that if you were a very ancient race living inside the hollow body of the Earth, that you would do everything in your power to direct people to look outwards, into space for the presence of other life forms and the origins of UFOs? Have another tequila and think about it... - ...Vanguard Sciences eBooks and More...

04/21/10 - US support opens door for nuclear waste invention
AN Australian invention that allows nuclear waste to be stored within a synthetic rock-like substance could be on the verge of hitting paydirt after more than 30 years in the making. The breakthrough came recently with the decision by America's powerful Department of Energy to use a technology known as hot isostatic pressing (HIP) for the multibillion-dollar clean-up of a nuclear reprocessing facility in Idaho. The department plans to use the technology to treat and remove about 4400 cubic metres of high-level waste calcine. ANSTO's technology, which can be used for a range of nuclear waste types, is branded Synroc, because its synthetic qualities mimic the geology of rocks that have existed for millions of years. Synroc's ceramic and glass-ceramic waste-forms have huge advantages over traditional nuclear waste storage forms, producing a product that is more stable and much smaller in mass. To produce the synthetic rock, ANSTO would apply the HIP technology to a mixture of Synroc powder and the calcine. The radioactive waste would be embedded in the end product. The technology's inventors say Synroc is able to retain the radioactive isotopes as they decay ''over tens to hundreds of thousands of years, significantly reducing the long-term environmental risk''. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - USPO/USA Ripping off the Inventor using Secrecy Classification
Mr. Hornback is the named inventor of U.S. Patent No. 6,079,666 (the "'666 patent"), titled "Real Time Boresight Error Slope Sensor." The '666 patent resulted from an application that Mr. Hornback filed on April 25, 1986. The Air Force subsequently classified Mr. Hornback's application as "secret" and, accordingly, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") imposed a secrecy order under 35 U.S.C. § 181. On September 17, 1987, the PTO issued a "Notice of Allowability" that stated that the application was "in condition for allowance" but that "in view of the secrecy order issued August 24, 1987, under 35 U.S.C. (1952) 181, this application will be withheld from issue during such period as the national interest requires." The government rescinded the secrecy order on April 21, 1999, and the '666 patent issued on June 27, 2000.

04/21/10 - FixWin One-Click Repairs Over Fifty Windows Annoyances
Windows: When something goes wrong in Windows, especially something maddening like the recycle bin vanishing or thumbnails failing to build properly, it's extremely frustrating. FixWin is a portable application that puts one-click repairs at your finger tips. Rather than digging around in the registry or hunting for complex solutions with Google, fire up FixWin. It's lightweight, portable, and it fixes over fifty issues that can crop up in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Whether your right-click context menu is missing in action or Windows Media Player suddenly won't start, FixWin has a one click fix to help with dozens of issues. FixWin is portable, freeware, and Windows only. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Life is Precious...
Doug Stanhope the comedian does a hilarious routine about old people wanting to live another few years...in the skit, a guy begs people to change his bag or help him get around and thank god he has have lived another day.. Stanhope asks what EVER FOR? You are useless and a drain on people and the world...so why if you aren't healthy or still together enough to get around and care for yourself, would you EVER want to live more years? click the link to read the rest and hear Stanhopes take on suicide and getting older... - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Make cotton candy at home
If you are anything like us, you are suddenly filled with childlike glee when you think of big fluffy poofs of cotton candy. The thought of making it at home has a certain appeal, but that machine is a mystery reserved only for those elite enough to get through cotton candy maker school. Or so we thought. As it turns out, it is actually quite simple. You can make one and be serving cotton candy in an afternoon with parts you probably have sitting around. The video is pretty easy to follow, but if you want more information, there’s an instructable as well. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Holodeck heals mental injuries
Wounded soldiers and injured civilians will soon be using technology reminiscent of the holodeck in old Star Trek movies to help regain their physical and mental confidence. Jung was speaking at a funding announcement Sunday to bring a $1.5-million virtual reality simulator to Edmonton's Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital. People learning to use an artificial limb or recovering from a stroke will be able to walk, drive or even swim through a variety of virtual environments without leaving the safety of the hospital — almost like on the holodeck of the fictional Starship Enterprise. CAREN — the Computer-Assisted Rehabilitation Environment — consists of a mobile platform, and a variety of video projectors and cameras. Patients will stand on the platform, which moves according to what they're doing and what terrain they're moving through. Meanwhile, they are surrounded by images of whatever environment they've chosen. Heals mental injuries - "It's very much like a 3-D game scenario, where you get into the environment," said Jung. "The patient actually feels like they're in that environment. You can actually get completely immersed in your virtual environment to really push yourself." Because the treatment takes place in hospital and not the outside world, it's much safer for patients still in recovery. It's also much easier for hospital staff to take someone to CAREN instead of the park. Jung said the system will also help heal mental injuries as well. "With [post-traumatic stress disorder], the therapy is often on reintroduction of the scenarios that caused it in the first place," he said. "With this, you can virtually create the scenario that caused it in the first place — whether it's on the battlefield, a car accident — and gently re-introduce the individual. That's what allows a person to get back into their real life without the fear of constant flashbacks." The simulator should greatly speed up recovery times, said Jung, who called it a "transformational" technology. CAREN will also be available for civilians, who may use it for rehabilitation from everything from multiple sclerosis to strokes to concussions. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Public transportation notifier
[Knuckles904] was tired of waiting for the bus. His town had installed GPS units on the buses so that riders could track their locations via the Internet so he knew there should be a way to avoid the wait while also never missing the bus. He developed a sketch for an Arduino to check the bus location and notify him when it was on its way. This method saves him from leaving his computer running. It parses the text data from the public transportation website and updates both an LED display, as well as a Twitter feed. Now he can monitor several different bus lines via the hardware at home, or though a cell phone if he’s on the go. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Beer can pinhole camera for 'Slow Light' superlong exposures
When [Justin Quinnell] sent in his beer can pinhole camera, we were just floored. The parts are easy to obtain, and the process for building and ’shooting’ with the camera are near effortless. The really impressive part of this hack is letting your camera sit for 6 months facing the sun. Yes, you read that correct, a 6 month exposure. Check out after the break for one of his astonishing shots, and trust us, its well worth the click. / One of the many qualities of pinhole photography is its ability to capture time durations of beyond our vision. Usually this is in the range of a few seconds, but by combining old and new technologies, it is possible to achieve exposures of far greater duration. I have always been fascinated with astronomy, its immense scales of space and time reaching far beyond comprehension within our own short instances on Earth. The project was to record views of Bristol, with the sun trailing across the sky from the winter solstice (22nd December) to the summer solstice (the 20th of June). The technique is not new. Several people are currently doing similar work. Paolo Gioli in Italy and Tarja Trygg in Finland are both experts in this area. I just wanted my hometown of Bristol to be imaged in this way. Accessible wonder is all the reason I need. Most of the cameras survived 6 months of wind, rain, hail (and being thrown in the bin!). Several were blank; one was full of water, (the emulsion on the photographic material having floated off.) and one, still exposing, currently sits inaccessibly under 10 foot of bramble, waiting forever to be recovered. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Virtual windows that track a viewer’s position
Winscape will let you replace that garbage-strewn ally view with just about anything you want. The two windows above are actually plasma screen televisions. In between them you can spot a Nintendo Wii Remote that is used to track an IR badge worn by the person in the room. As they move, the images on the screens are changes to simulate the change in perspective you would see out of a real-world window. Take a look at the video after the break. This is unfortunately not an open source project but the software is available for trial and we find the concept interesting. If you can write video processing algorithms you may be able to take the Wii Remote Whiteboard concept and turn it into a Winscape clone. - (Thanks to Marko for the headsup! - JWD) - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Vigorous exercise keeps the tunes coming
There are cars that increase the radio volume as you drive faster, and video games that ramp up the music as your gameplay improves (we’re looking at you SSX Tricky). Now you can add that feature to your workout with [Polymithic's] Motion Feedback MP3 Player. It uses a passive infrared sensor to detect motion so there’s no need to wear any electronics. But if you used some Bluetooth headphones you could bring the system with you to the gym, just don’t exercise so hard that you blow your eardrums out. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Augmented reality glasses
Augmented reality is a pretty neat thing but we don’t want to live our lives staring at a smartphone as we walk around. [F00] didn’t either so he built these augmented reality glasses. You can see a hole in the middle of the glasses where he added a webcam. The camera captures the image in front of you, processes it through augmented reality software, then sends the image to the wearable display that makes up the body of this hack. Integrate this into the head-mounted Linux hack and you’ll be able to ride your bike around the real world with your blast shield down instead of being tethered to your trainer in a virtual universe. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Many born-again Christians suffering birth defects
Doctors warned today that those embracing religion in adult life are often not receiving the vital medical attention they need to avoid potentially dangerous complications during labour. As a result, the lives of born-again Christians are routinely being blighted by incurable conditions such as smugness, chronic evangelism and an inability to conduct a conversation without mentioning the name ‘Jesus'. ‘Sometimes when people find God, they happen across Him when He's in the middle of something pressing like smiting a sinner or distracting starving children with a rainbow,' said Dr Forstadt, author of a new study in The Lancet. ‘Just occasionally this means that those being re-made in His image miss out on important finishing touches like tolerance, a sense of one's own worth or separate eyebrows. The only known treatment is to keep them segregated from the rest of society and give them remedial treatment each Sunday.' - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Condom Hack Pack
Here's a pack of 5 cool things you can do with an ordinary condom, including the Condom Shotgun! - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - New Life for Old Tires
Used rubber is hard to recycle because it is vulcanized--hardened and rendered chemically inert--by the addition of sulfur and other compounds to the material's long molecular chains. Small chunks of used tires can be partially melted and used as filler in asphalt, but devulcanizing rubber involves expensive chemical and thermal processes. Lehigh Technologies instead shatters rubber into a fine powder using a process that involves freezing old rubber and smashing it to pieces. This starts with tires that have been torn into half-inch chunks using conventional shredding equipment. Lehigh mixes these rubber pieces with liquid nitrogen, cryogenically cooling the rubber to -100°C. The rubber is then fed into a high speed "turbomill" that shatters it into particles no more than 180 microns in size. Creating such fine powder transforms the rubber from a highly inert filler material to one that can bond with other materials. "We deliver a huge increase in surface area relative to size, and that allows for a much more intimate mixing with other materials," says Lehigh Technologies CEO Alan Barton. Lehigh's PolyDyne and MicroDyne powders can be used to replace as much as 40 percent of the polymers that normally go into plastic. PolyDyne, the larger and less expensive of Lehigh's two rubber powders, sells for just under 50 cents a pound; finer grained MicroDyne requires colder temperatures and higher milling speeds, making it significantly more expensive. PolyDyne is half the cost of nonrecycled synthetic rubber, a third of the price of natural rubber, and nearly half the cost of polypropylene, a polymer commonly used in plastic moldings. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Got a New Invention? We’ll Publicize It!
Sometimes inventions just need a little push, a little publicity to get them noticed by the public or investors. That’s why last year we launched Under the Radar, a section in the print version that features new and nascent inventions that have yet to take hold in the market. Precious few publications offer inventors of all stripes this type of opportunity. Under the Radar has proved so popular that we’re going to experiment and expand it, both online and in the print edition. So here’s the deal – if you’re an inventor with a new product or prototype and want some international exposure, send a description and an image to info@inventorsdigest.com and we’ll see what we can do. Note: disclosing your idea in public starts the clock on when you can file for a U.S. patent, and can derail foreign patent applications. When in doubt, check with your local inventor club or your patent attorney. The USPTO’s Inventors Assistance Center also has free information. Here is an Under the Radar entry from our April 2010 print edition. It got picked up in the Brownsville (Texas) Herald. The inventor reports to us that he’s since had at least one meeting with an interested manufacturer. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Robert "Budget Suites" Bigelow's moon bases
Meant for 18 astronauts to call temporary home, the base would be assembled in space before piloted to the lunar surface. A solar array field would power the habitat, which Bigelow suggests could have a minimum volume of 2,100 cubic meters, twice that of the International Space Station. The company is also designing habitats for the International Space Station and also Lagrangian Point L1, halfway between Earth and the moon, as a way station for trips to Mars. From Space.com: "I see a huge sea change in using expandable systems," Bigelow told SPACE.com in an exclusive interview. "I feel this architecture is fundamentally safer, less expensive, and can save an awful lot of time...." Two prototype space modules built by Bigelow Aerospace are now circuiting the Earth. Lofted in July 2006 and in June 2007, respectively, the company's Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 expandable modules served as forerunners to ever-larger and human-rated space structures... (The company's Director of Washington, D.C. Operations & Business Growth Michael) Gold said that Bigelow Aerospace has been aggressively establishing an international consortium of what the group terms as "sovereign clients" -- along with hammering out the financial and legal structure, he said, for such partnerships to blossom, first in low Earth orbit and then beyond. "We need to make low-Earth orbit work first before we go beyond . . . but I believe we will," Gold told SPACE.com. "Once we've established a robust infrastructure in Earth orbit, created the economies of scale necessary to produce facilities in low Earth orbit . . . at that point, we've really enabled ourselves to look at a variety of options." Bigelow Aerospace has taken a hard look at how their habitats could function on the lunar surface, Gold said. "We believe our expandable habitat technology will be a critical piece of building a presence on the moon," he added. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Should you turn your computer off?
We leave our computers on, because then the system can do its thing while we sleep, meaning backups, virus checks, defragmenting, etc. We turn the monitors off, though, because the computer knows what it’s doing without looking at the screen.image If your computer doesn’t need to do those tasks, you can set it to “hibernate.” Hibernation powers the computer down to using just 2-3 watts. That’s almost the same as turning it off, but you have the advantage of it being ready to go just by hitting a key or moving the mouse. To find the instructions, click “start” then “help and support” and type “hibernate.” - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Watching American tv abroad
Many TV sites, such as Hulu.com and Clicker, are not available outside the U.S. TVGorge.com was great for international viewing but now it too is off limits outside America. What to do? A reader we had helped before lives in Southern Thailand and offered to try to find a replacement provider of U.S. movies and TV. He spent four days trying out web sites and ended up sending us more than 20,000 words summarizing his findings. We had to cut that down, of course. A few of the sites are listed below. Before you try any of these or search for new ones, be sure you have a good anti-virus and anti-spyware program installed. We use Malware Bytes “Anti-Malware” software and it blocked a lot of malicious stuff on some of the sites our reader passed on. We have not included those sites here. Results will vary based on your connection and location. The sites listed below are free.

04/21/10 - eReader Update
If you haven’t bought a Kindle for $259 or an iPad for $500, the $149 Aluratek Pro Reader looks like a good option. It comes with 100 free books: These include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Frankenstein, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, etc. You can get over one million more free titles from ebook sites like books.google.com and gutenberg.org. The Aluratek has a slot for an SD memory card – the same kind used with digital cameras. (The iPad and Kindle do not have an SD card slot.) That means you can have separate libraries to plug in and out as you choose. It can handle cards with a capacity of up to 32 gigabytes (a little over two gigabytes would hold the entire Encyclopedia Britannica). It can even play music while you read. Find it at Aluratek.com. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Mass Migration, the Modern Version of Invasion
In the ancient days, such as prior to 1945, politics, that is territorial acquisition, was much more honest. If I wanted your province, I invaded, if I could, took it, if I could and annexed it, if I could. That was prior to 1946. n the modern world, states conquer each other through a slow, grinding process of migration and assimilation and forced cultural change. Since this does not involve a clear cut battle or series of military engagements, the victim does not feel defeated and resists with everything he has, thus instead of a short sharp act of mass violence, followed by first oppression and then integration, something that usually lasts a generation or less, we have multi-generational, degeneration, murder, oppression and counter oppression. In other words, slow attrition that further grinds down both societies, especially those at the center of it. Now, the local populations resist in different measures. Often, the state, for what ever reason: corruption, ideology, or simple plain ignorance, does not actively support its own population on its own territory, against the aggressor state that is sending its population over. Some times the people take action to defend their lands and some times they roll over and "die". Ignorance is the simplest matter to deal with, as the situation will become critical sooner than later and will force the attention of the government and population. Corruption is a much more difficult issue, as usually there are special interests involved at the highest levels. Ideology, such as that in the West, is a death knell, as there is no curing it, short of radical revolution, and the outcome is the destruction of the target culture and in the end a large section of the resistant population. This is most obvious in places such as East Asia, Russia, Europe and America. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - George W. Bush: Patriot or Traitor?
George W. Bush was elected President of the United States of America twice, once through the manipulation of the voting system (countless numbers of voters were blocked from voting in the key State of Florida) and once through the manipulation of fear, (Osama bin Laden turning up on cue weeks before the election). An analysis of the eight years of the Bush regime will determine whether this pariah of the international community was a patriot or a traitor. Washington found out for itself what international terrorism meant soon after Bush and his National Security Adviser, Condoleeza Rice, failed to provide national security, preferring instead to pick up the debris from 9/11 and turn it to their own advantage, using the misfortune of 3,000 people to foster their own energy agenda in Iraq. In the process, it has been calculated by the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism, two non-profit making journalistic watchdog Organizations, that Bush and the members of his regime lied no more than 532 times, “in an orchestrated campaign to effectively galvanise public opinion, and in so doing, take the nation to war based upon false pretexts”. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Fatal Flaw Discovered In Invisibility Cloaks
"Carpet cloaks took the world by storm last year because they were the first devices to hide objects at optical frequencies. The idea is that a thin layer of dielectric material placed on a surface can make light look as if it is reflecting off the original surface. In other words, the layer is invisible and anything embedded within it is invisible too. This trick is like hiding something under a carpet, hence the name. Carpet cloaks are relatively easy to make because the dielectric material does not need to be specially constructed to steer light in special ways; physicists call this an isotropic material. Now a group at MIT has shown that isotropic carpet cloaks have a fatal flaw. When viewed at an angle, the carpets don't hide objects at all. Instead, they simply shift their position by about the same distance as they are high. So when viewed from an angle of 45 degrees, an object 0.2 units high is shifted to one side by a distance of 0.15 units, says the team. That's a serious limitation for carpet cloaks." - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Cat sends US Iraq war robots out of control
Control over heavily armed US war robots fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan was lost last year after a cat climbed into machinery at an American command base and "fried everything", a US officer has confirmed. The news comes from Colonel Grant Webb, describing technical problems at Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, Nevada. This is famously the location from which US Air Force "Predator" and "Reaper" robot aircraft are controlled during missions overseas*. "A cat climbed into one of the electronic nodes and fried everything," the colonel says. We're indebted to the excellent DEW Line blog for the vid - and speculative analysis suggesting that the feline saboteur was in fact a highly trained al-Qaeda suicide martyr moggy. It should be noted that when the satellite link to a Predator or Reaper is lost, the roboplane doesn't plunge to Earth or embark on a frenzied orgy of mechanised slaughter or anything. In general the plane simply circles where it is, awaiting further commands. After power has been restored, operators at Creech can generally relocate the errant wardroid and gain control over it again. There has, however, been at least one case in which a mutinous robot has refused to acknowledge any further orders: on that occasion the rebellious machine was shot down by a manned fighter plane before it could violate the borders of a nearby neutral country. - Full Article Source

04/21/10 - Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets
"File this under "no, really?" CBS news catches up with the fact that photocopiers, whether networked or not, tend to have a much longer memory these days. When they eventually get tossed, few companies bother to scrub them. Couple this with the tendency of older employees to consider hard-copy to be "secure," and your most protected secrets may be shipped directly to information resellers — no hacking required. "The day we visited the New Jersey warehouse, two shipping containers packed with used copiers were headed overseas — loaded with secrets on their way to unknown buyers in Argentina and Singapore."' - Full Article Source

High Voltage & Free Energy Devices Handbook
This wonderfully informative ebook provides many simple experiments you can do, including hydrogen generation and electrostatic repulsion as well as the keys to EV Gray's Fuelless Engine. One of the most comprehensive compilations of information yet detailing the effects of high voltage repulsion as a driving force. Ed Gray's engine produced in excess of 300HP and he claimed to be able to 'split the positive' energy of electricity to produce a self-running motor/generator for use as an engine. Schematics and tons of photos of the original machines and more! Excellent gift for your technical friends or for that budding scientist! If you are an experimenter or know someone who investigates such matters, this would make an excellent addition to your library or as an unforgettable gift. The downloadable HVFE eBook pdf file is almost 11MB in size and contains many experiments, photos, diagrams and technical details. Buy a copy and learn all about hydrogen generation, its uses and how to produce electrostatic repulsion. - 121 pages - $15.00 - Source

DVD - the Physics of Crystals, Pyramids and Tetrahedrons
This is a wonderful 2 hour DVD which presents one man's lifelong study of pyramids, crystals and their effects. Several of his original and very creative experiments are explained and diagramed out for experimenters. These experiments include; 1) transmutation of zinc to lower elements using a tetrahedron, 2) energy extraction from a pyramid, 3) determining mathematic ratios of nature in a simple experiment, 4) accelerating the growth of food, 5) increasing the abundance of food, 6) how crystals amplify, focus and defocus energy, 7) using crystals to assist natural healing, 8) how the universe uses spirals and vortexes to produce free energy and MORE... - $20 DVD + S&H / Source to Buy and Youtube Clip

14 Ways to Save Money on Fuel Costs
This eBook is the result of years of research into various methods to increase mileage, reduce pollution and most importantly, reduce overall fuel costs. It starts out with the simplest methods and offers progressively more detailed technologies that have been shown to reduce fuel costs. As a bonus to readers, I have salted the pages with free interesting BONUS items that correlate to the relevant page. Just filling up with one tank of gas using this or other methods explained here will pay for this eBook. Of course, many more methods are out there but I provided only the ones which I think are practical and can be studied by the average person who is looking for a way to immediately reduce their fuel costs. I am currently using two of the easier methods in my own vehicle which normally gets 18-22 mpg and now gets between 28 and 32 mpg depending on driving conditions. A tank of gas for my 1996 Ford Ranger costs about $45.00 here so I am saving around $15-$20 PER TANK, without hurting my engine and with 'greener' emissions due to a cleaner burn! The techniques provided in this ebook begin with simple things you can do NOW to improve your mileage and lower your gas costs. - $15 eBook Download / Source to Buy

KeelyNet BBS Files w/bonus PDF of 'Keely and his Discoveries'
Finally, I've gotten around to compiling all the files (almost 1,000 - about 20MB and lots of work doing it) from the original KeelyNet BBS into a form you can easily navigate and read using your browser, ideally Firefox but it does work with IE. Most of these files are extremely targeted, interesting and informative, I had forgotten just how much but now you can have the complete organized, categorized set, not just sprinklings from around the web. They will keep you reading for weeks if not longer and give you clues and insights into many subjects and new ideas for investigation and research. IN ADDITION, I am including as a bonus gift, the book (in PDF form) that started it all for me, 'Keely and his Discoveries - Aerial Navigation' which includes the analysis of Keely's discoveries by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton. This 407 page eBook alone is worth the price of the KeelyNet BBS CD but it will give you some degree of understanding about what all Keely accomplished which is just now being rediscovered, but of course, without recognizing Keely as the original discoverer. Chapters include; Vibratory Sympathetic and Polar Flows, Vibratory Physics, Latent Force in Interstitial Spaces and much more. These two excellent bodies of information will be sent to you on CD. To give some idea of how Keely's discoveries are being slowly rediscovered in modern times, check out this Keely History. If alternative science intrigues and fascinates you, this CD is what you've been looking for... - Source

New Vanguard Sciences eBooks - Save a Tree! eBooks make great gifts!
Shape Power - Dan Davidson's analysis of the mysterious pyramid energies, Keely's aether force, Reich's orgone energy, Schauberger's diamagnetic energy, plus a host of others, and shows how shape and materials interact with the universal aether to modify the aether into electromagnetic, gravitic, and various healing energies... - Shape Power Youtube

The Physics of the Primary State of Matter - published in the 1930s, Karl Schappeller described his Prime Mover, a 10-inch steel sphere with quarter-inch copper tubing coils. These were filled with a material not named specifically, but which is said to have hardened under the influence of direct current and a magnetic field [electro-rheological fluid]. With such polarization, it might be guessed to act like a dielectric capacitor and as a diode...

'The Evolution of Matter' and 'The Evolution of Forces' on CD
Years ago, I had been told by several people, that the US government frequently removes books they deem dangerous or 'sensitive' from libraries. Some are replaced with sections removed or rewritten so as to 'contain' information that should not be available to the public despite the authors intent. A key example was during the Manhattan Project when the US was trying to finalize research into atomic bombs. They removed any books that dealt with the subject and two of them were by Dr. Gustave Le Bon since they dealt with both energy and matter including radioactivity. I had been looking for these two books for many years and fortunately stumbled across two copies for which I paid about $40.00 each. I couldn't put down the books once I started reading them. Such a wealth of original discoveries, many not known or remembered today. / Page 88 - Without the ether there could be neither gravity, nor light, nor electricity, nor heat, nor anything, in a word, of which we have knowledge. The universe would be silent and dead, or would reveal itself in a form which we cannot even foresee. If one could construct a glass chamber from which the ether were to be entirely eliminated, heat and light could not pass through it. It would be absolutely dark, and probably gravitation would no longer act on the bodies within it. They would then have lost their weight. / Page 96-97 - A material vortex may be formed by any fluid, liquid or gaseous, turning round an axis, and by the fact of its rotation it describes spirals. The study of these vortices has been the object of important researches by different scholars, notably by Bjerkness and Weyher. They have shown that by them can be produced all the attractions and repulsions recognized in electricity, the deviations of the magnetic needle by currents, etc. These vortices are produced by the rapid rotation of a central rod furnished with pallets, or, more simply, of a sphere. Round this sphere gaseous currents are established, dissymetrical with regard to its equatorial plane, and the result is the attraction or repulsion of bodies brought near to it, according to the position given to them. It is even possible, as Weyher has proved, to compel these bodies to turn round the sphere as do the satellites of a planet without touching it. / Page 149 - "The problem of sending a pencil of parallel Hertzian waves to a distance possesses more than a theoretical interest. It is allowable to say that its solution would change the course of our civilization by rendering war impossible. The first physicist who realizes this discovery will be able to avail himself of the presence of an enemy's ironclads gathered together in a harbour to blow them up in a few minutes, from a distance of several kilometres, simply by directing on them a sheaf of electric radiations. On reaching the metal wires with which these vessels are nowadays honeycombed, this will excite an atmosphere of sparks which will at once explode the shells and torpedoes stored in their holds. With the same reflector, giving a pencil of parallel radiations, it would not be much more difficult to cause the explosion of the stores of powder and shells contained in a fortress, or in the artillery sparks of an army corps, and finally the metal cartridges of the soldiers. Science, which at first rendered wars so deadly, would then at length have rendered them impossible, and the relations between nations would have to be established on new bases." - Source

$5 Alt Science MP3s to listen while working/driving/jogging
No time to sit back and watch videos? Here are 15 interesting presentations you can download for just $5 each and listen to while driving, working, jogging, etc. An easy way to learn some fascinating new things that you will find of use. Easy, cheap and simple, better than eBooks or Videos. Roughly 50MB per MP3. - Source

15 New Alternative Science DVDs & 15 MP3s
An assortment of alternative science videos that provide many insights and inside information from various experimenters. Also MP3s extracted from these DVDs that you can listen to while working or driving. Reference links for these lectures and workshops by Bill Beaty of Amateur Science on the Dark Side of Amateur Science, Peter Lindemann on the World of Free Energy, Norman Wootan on the History of the EV Gray motor, Dan Davidson on Shape Power and Gravity Wave Phenomena, Lee Crock on a Method for Stimulating Energy, Doug Konzen on the Konzen Pulse Motor, George Wiseman on the Water Torch and Jerry Decker on Aether, ZPE and Dielectric Nano Arrays. Your purchase of these products helps support KeelyNet, thanks! - Source to Buy