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In their paper, the Keck team proposes using an Atlas V rocket to launch a craft that once in space would be slow moving, powered by solar heated ions. Once the target is reached, a bag would be opened that would engulf the asteroid – which would likely be no bigger than 7 meters wide – then drag it back and place it into orbit around the moon. Such a mission, the researchers suggest, would likely take six to ten years depending on the distance to the asteroid and cost in the neighborhood of $2.6 billion, which isn’t much more than the Mars Curiosity rover mission. (via NASA considering capturing and placing asteroid into moon orbit)
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It was never really about “the terrorists”. It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens – it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you.
Read more "It was never really about “the terrorists”. It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens – it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you."Naomi Wolf, Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy – New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent, for the Guardian, December 29, 2012.
WikiLeaks published an assessment report from the Homeland Security Department (DHS) on the Occupy movement that was put together in October 2011. The assessment was attached to a Stratfor email, one of five million or so emails the organization obtained and has been releasing since February 27, 2012. Via.
See also, Honoré Daumier, Tiens peuple, tiens bon peuple, en veux-tu en voilà!
I’m pretty much reposting/tweeting this piece wherever I find it. Because she’s right.
Read moreIf you attach certain molecules to cadmium telluride quantum dots, they will latch onto certain targets, making it possible to detect trace amounts of substances ranging from pesticides to cancer cells.
As versatile as cadmium telluride quantum dots are, however, they’re not easy to make. It’s especially tedious to fashion them so that they’re not toxic to living cells, since both cadmium and tellurium are nasty metals. In the latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology, a group of scientists at Kings College London offer a remarkably easy way to make them.
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Earthworms can sense metals in their meals. They immediately respond by making special enzymes. Exposing a worm to cadmium, for example, causes it to produce enzymes called metallothionein in its gut. The metallothionein grabs hold of the cadmium and stores it away in special cavities inside the cells, where it undergoes chemical reactions to make it less dangerous to the worm. Then immune cells attack the cells and engulf them. The worm eventually excretes them safely out of its body.
CRIMINAL WISDOM: TWITTER STALKER
From Wired’s The 8 Craziest Job Openings in the Military-Industrial Complex:
Security firm Archimedes Global wants a “Cyber Counterterrorism Persona Targeting Analyst.” The title sounds great at parties, for one. But basically, it comes down to stalking people on Twitter. Aside from using…
CRIMINAL WISDOM: TWITTER STALKER
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Read moreCalled “Project Seal,” the design team reportedly went through 3,700 bombs before declaring success and deeming it capable of destroying coastal cities around the globe.
Using 10 successive detonations about five miles from shores the bomb would require about a million pounds of explosive.
“If you put it in a James Bond movie it would be viewed as fantasy but it was a real thing,” Waru told The Telegraph.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 