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August 17, 2005

City-Wide Wireless Networks are the Wave of the Future

by Joshua Minton

San Francisco is preparing to add a wireless access network throughout the entire city.

I would have no problem voting for a minimal local government tax increase to support this initiative. I believe that anyone should have access to the Internet regardless of their social class. I support their right to have Internet access throughout the city the same way that I support local libraries offering everyone Internet access; it's just the civic thing to do.

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Fantastic Bastard on Extra Terrestrial Life...

by Joshua Minton

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Some people think that there is no chance that life has evolved around other stars. The vanity....

I was discussing this concept with a co worker a few days ago and this picture sums it up perfectly for me.

Anyone who understands the concept of the law of probability should understand my point.

According to The Drake Equation, it is a statistical inevitablity that there is life elsewhere in the universe.

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August 16, 2005

Someday We Can Be Driving on Piss Power

by Joshua Minton

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US Scientists Develop Cellular Micro-Organisms That Could One Day Save Your Life

by Joshua Minton

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August 14, 2005

Hybrids That Get 250 MPG--Science Fiction? Don't Bet On It.

by Joshua Minton

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It's only a matter of time before this technology breaks the oil industry in two and completely reshapes our global economy.

Hat tip to Fark.

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August 8, 2005

Study Finds that Men Can't Hear Women as Well as Other Men

by Joshua Minton

I already tried this out on my wife. She wasn't buying it.

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Where is the Exit Strategy for Earth?

by Joshua Minton

A chemist in Cambridge is looking for a way to power a society of 9 billion human beings.

Instead of looking to make scarce resources go farther here on this planet, we should be looking at ways of terraforming other planets, moons, asteroids, and comets to acquire more scarce resources and more lebensraum for humanity to stretch out a little bit.

I'm very serious about this. We have the bedrock foundation of a global space program and once we have completely demolished fundamentalism of all types (scientific, political and religious), we can begin pooling our resources to focus on what really matters--our evolution as a species of space exploration.

United Federation of Planets, here we come...

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A Procedure Has Been Developed to Read Thoughts Via Brainscan

by Joshua Minton

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Imagine the implications for here for allowing paralyzed people to speak again. How about infants to better communicate?

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August 6, 2005

Genetic Chip Under Development to Scan the Root of Childhood Cancer

by Joshua Minton

Scientists have developed a microchip to look for genetic signs showing how a form of a childhood nervous system cancer - neuroblastoma - may progress.

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August 4, 2005

The Music Industry is Digging Itself a Very Large Grave Very Fast

by Joshua Minton

Fantastic Bastard came to visit last week and had the latest Van Zandt album that he wanted to share with me but couldn't because of this ridiculous technology that allows only 3 disc copies and ripping only in WMA format under the Fairplay technology.

You know what I'm going to do with artists who allow their labels to produce their work on this crap format?

Nothing.

I'm not going to buy their music and I'm not going to care anymore about what these pricks have to say. And I don't care how good they are--if they don't make it easy to listen then I won't listen and fuck 'em for their hard work, effort and bullshit marketing plan.

Ask Metallica what a good idea it is to handcuff their fans to technology.

Music should be given away. If your artistic vision is worth a shit, people will make you rich for it. If you're in it for the money, you're in it for the wrong reason anyway.

If this wasn't enough to convince you that the music industry is a bunch of greedy whores, read this.

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South Korea Clones the First Dog

by Joshua Minton

This is about as close as they've gotten to creating an actual food replicator like on Star Trek TNG.

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Astronomers Find a MotherLoad of Black Holes

by Joshua Minton

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August 2, 2005

Scientist Suggests Cosmic Rays May Ultimately Prevent Long-Haul Space Travel for Humans

by Joshua Minton

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Scurvy was also a major health issue when traveling for long periods of time over the oceans. But we made it over that obstacle also. Shit, anyone who's ever driven through the Allegheny mountains in West Virginia should be in awe that our forefathers had the balls to climb and cross those bitches by foot and by horse.

If there is a lesson in the history of Western civilization it is this, "Don't ever challenge us when it comes to exploration--we'll leave tire tracks across your face."

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Did Bacteria Cause a Major Ice Age? Can They Do It Again?

by Joshua Minton

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"Earth has been through many cold spells since its birth 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists say some drastic episodes froze the planet all the way to the equator."

"In the first and worst snowball episode, 2.3 billion years ago, bacteria suddenly developed the ability to break down water and release oxygen. The influx of oxygen destroyed methane in the atmosphere, which had acted as a blanket to keep the planet warm."

"'We haven't had a snowball in the past 630 million years, and because the Sun is warmer now it may be harder to get into the right condition,' Kirschvink said. 'But if it ever happens, all life on Earth would likely be destroyed. We could probably get out only by becoming a runaway greenhouse planet like Venus.'"

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August 1, 2005

When is the Government Going To Realize That Access to Social Security Numbers Isn't the Problem?

by Joshua Minton

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It's the fact that a social security number is being used a centralized master key that all of our identifiable information is linked to that is the issue. There has to be a better and more secure way to pool all this distinctive information online into a central web portal where it can be firewalled and encrypted from cyber-thieves.

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Study Finds that Women Who Smoke During Pregnancy Increase the Risk of Their Child Displaying Anti-Social Behavior

by Joshua Minton

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Study Determines that Cats Have no Genes to Taste Sweets

by Joshua Minton

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No wonder my cats hate to have their teeth brushed with Crest...

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