Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Your Moment of Ewwwwwww. "Most Common Creature On Earth" Affects Global Warming "Thought for the day: More bacteria are alive in your mouth right now than the number of people who have ever lived on Earth. And if you're swimming in the ocean and take an accidental gulp of seawater, some of those bacteria in your mouth are the very ones that may control global warming." [Sci-Fi Today] [The Shifted Librarian] 8:54:46 PM    comment []

A Bioweapon Worse Than Anthrax?. Tularemia, a seldom-mentioned but extremely infectious pathogen, could pose as great a bioterror risk as anthrax and smallpox, some experts say. Others, including the Centers for Disease Control, aren't so sure. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] 8:44:19 PM    comment []

IBM Grid Computing: Join with us to fight Smallpox. Through the smallpox Grid project, potentially more than two million personal computers will be linked to create a virtual supercomputer that could deliver processing power greater than the most powerful supercomputers in use today. Researchers will use this massive computing power to analyze the active proteins in smallpox and screen approximately 35 million molecules to find drugs that will target these harmful proteins, and effectively treat or prevent smallpox infections [Smart Mobs] 8:29:50 PM    comment []

Slashdot | Terahertz Imagery Progresses. ke4roh writes "Since Slashdot last discussed terahertz imaging, the European Space Agency's Star Tiger project has taken terahertz images of a human hand. Some of the pictures show just how useful the imagery might be for peering through walls and such - one of the images is through a 15mm pad of paper." --- The EE Times has another story. [Privacy Digest] 8:15:55 PM    comment []

New Energy Device?. I believe that sooner or later we'll be switching over to totally different energy production devices. Not burning old dinosaurs, but rather drawing a charge from the quantum field, or something along those lines. And there has been no lack of people who seemed to have invented over-unity devices. But either somebody managed to buy off or murder ALL of them, or they didn't really work when put under scrutiny. So it is with some caution that I pass on news about 'free' energy devices. But Stephen Greer of the Disclosure Project has his head screwed on fairly well, and even though he likes being the center of attention, what he presents is normally very solid. A while back he set up a company, Space Energy Access Systems, for the purpose of locating and marketing such devices. And he believes he has something now. See transcript of an interview. "It's not very big at all. I picked it up - you can pick it up with one hand. Took it out actually on a sidewalk. This device gathered, very passively, less than one watt of power from the environment - I won't say how it was done, I'm not allowed to at this point - and the machine started up. It generated hundreds of watts of power in usable form. We hooked this up ourselves, so there was no mystery about it. We even selected the things to hook up to this thing. It ran a 300-watt light bulb, a 100-watt light bulb, a stereo and an oscillating fan with an electric motor, all at the same time with literally no artificial manmade input of power." I hope it stands up to further scrutiny. Getting rid of the oil economy would change everything. [Ming the Mechanic]   Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof.  Carl Sagan said that I belive. 5:26:36 AM    comment []