Archive for July, 2015
Boeing Patents Laser-Powered Fusion-Fission Jet Engine for Airplanes, Spacecraft
July 13th, 2015Via: Ars Technica: Assume the brace position. Boeing has received a patent for, I kid you not, a laser-powered fusion-fission jet propulsion system. Boeing envisions that this system could replace both rocket and turbofan engines, powering everything from spacecraft to missiles to airplanes. The patent, US 9,068,562, combines inertial confinement fusion, fission, and a turbine […]
New Zealand: “HPV Vaccine Has Done This to My Child”
July 12th, 2015Via: Youtube / Amber Smith: This was a very hard video to post, my 12 yr old daughter was fine before her vaccine, now this is her life. We live in New Zealand and I thought our healthcare system was ok, we have been left to deal with this ourselves. I’m showing this because I […]
On Thursday, Wind Power Generated 140% of Denmark’s Electricity Demand
July 11th, 2015Via: Guardian: So much power was produced by Denmark’s windfarms on Thursday that the country was able to meet its domestic electricity demand and export power to Norway, Germany and Sweden. On an unusually windy day, Denmark found itself producing 116% of its national electricity needs from wind turbines yesterday evening. By 3am on Friday, […]
All-Electric Airbus E-Fan Aircraft Crosses the English Channel
July 10th, 2015Via: The Verge: This adorable little two-seater isn’t about to replace Airbus’ airliners, but the E-Fan — a light aircraft powered by lithium-ion batteries and two electric motors — just set a notable aviation milestone by crossing the English Channel. The 36-minute event took place earlier today, departing from Lydd, England and arriving in Calais, […]
Blood & Fog: The Military’s Germ Warfare Tests in San Francisco
July 10th, 2015Via: Discover: The Nuremberg Code was drafted in 1947 following the appalling revelations of human experimentation committed in Nazi concentration camps. The overarching goal of the Code was to establish a set of rules for the ethical conduct of research using human subjects, guaranteeing that the rights and welfare of such participants would be protected. […]
Jade Helm: No Media Allowed
July 9th, 2015Via: Washington Post: Jade Helm 15, the controversial Special Operations exercise that spawned a wave of conspiracy theories about a government takeover, will open next week without any media allowed to observe it, a military spokesman said. Embedded reporters won’t be permitted at any point during the exercise, in which military officials say that secretive […]
NYSE HALTED
July 8th, 2015[???/Coincidence] “Bizarre: New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines all downed by technical glitches” — [Related?] United Airlines Ground Stop, “Automation Issue” — Update: BloombergTV Live: DHS and FBI Treating Outage as Internal Technical Issue with NYSE — Update: BloombergTV Live: Orderly Trading Continues on Other Market Systems — Yep. Technical difficulties. […]
Heroin Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Nearly Quadrupled Between 2002 and 2013
July 8th, 2015One more for your herniating Mission Accomplished file folder. Via: Reuters: Heroin overdose deaths in the United States nearly quadrupled between 2002 and 2013, fueled by lower costs as well as increased abuse of prescription opiate painkillers, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. The report found that heroin use increased by 63 percent from 2002 […]
San Francisco Pier Shooting Suspect Francisco Sanchez Allegedly Used Federal Agent’s Gun
July 7th, 2015Claim: Weapon Stolen from BLM Ranger’s Car Via: San Jose Mercury News: A Bureau of Land Management ranger’s service pistol was stolen from a car four days before police said a Mexican national and five-time deportee used it to shoot and kill Kathryn Steinle on a San Francisco pier. But it isn’t clear how he […]
U.S. Vaccine Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Fraud
July 2nd, 2015Via: Nature: Rare is the scientist who goes to prison on research misconduct charges. But on 1 July, Dong-Pyou Han, a former biomedical scientist at Iowa State University in Ames, was sentenced to 57 months for fabricating and falsifying data in HIV vaccine trials. Han has also been fined US$7.2 million and will be subject […]
