The Critical Thinker: Who will be controlling the 30,000 Drones that Taxpayers pay for? The end to privacy as we know it!

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Is this a mosquito? No. It represents an insect spy drone. These machines are already in production, funded by the US Government. They can be remotely controlled and equipped with a camera and a microphone. They may be able to land on you, and may have the potential to take a DNA sample or leave RFID tracking nanotechnology on your skin. They can fly through an open window, or attach to your cloth...ing until you take them in your home. Given a propensity to request macro-sized drones for surveillance, one is left with little doubt that police and military are into these gadgets . 

 
IF MACHINES CONTROL DRONES...

            How do they tell wrong from right? How do they know this when scientists have been trying to explain morality with no avail? What happens if there is a mistake? Why can we be an open book and the government needs to hide everything? How can we trust that it will not be abused? If our lives are to be such an open book why does

LBP AdvancedTech: Navy: We’re 4 Years Away From Laser Guns on Ships: Its a Science Fiction World we Live in ...

   

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The dream of sailors, nerds and sailor-nerds everywhere is on the verge of coming true, senior Navy technologists swear. Within four years, they claim they’ll have a working prototype of a laser cannon, ready to place aboard a ship. And they’re just months away from inviting defense contractors to bid on a contract to build it for them.
“Subsonic cruise missiles, aircraft, fast-moving boats, unmanned aerial vehicles” — Mike Deitchman, who oversees future weapons development for the Office of Naval Research, promises Danger Room that the Navy laser cannons just over the horizon will target them all.
Or they will be, if ONR’s plans work out as promised — not exactly a strong suit of proposed laser weapons over the decades. (Note the decided lack of blast at your side.) First step in reaching this raygun reality: Finish up the paperwork. “The contract will probably have options go through four years, but depending on which laser source the vendors pick, we may be able to demo something after two years,” says Roger McGiness, who works on laser tech for Deitchman. “Our hope afterwards is to move to acquisition.”

In "The Pickle" Real Strange News:Billions of Habitable Alien Planets Should Exist in Our Galaxy

 

This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. The brightest star in the sky is the red dwarf Gliese 667 C, which is part of a triple star system. The other two more distant stars, Gliese 667 A and B appear in the sky also to the right. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the Milky Way alone. CREDIT: ESO/L. Calçada View full size image

There should be billions of habitable, rocky planets around the faint red stars of our Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.
Though these alien planets are difficult to detect, and only a few have been discovered so far, they should be ubiquitous, scientists say. And some of them could be good candidates to host extraterrestrial life.
The findings are based on a survey of 102 stars in a class called red dwarfs, which are fainter, cooler, less massive and longer-lived than the sun, and are thought to make up about 80 percent of the stars in our galaxy.

Finding super-Earths

Using the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile, astronomers found nine planets slightly larger than Earth over a six-year period. These planets, called super-Earths, weigh between one and 10 times the mass of our own world, and two of the nine were discovered in the habitable zone of their parent star, where temperatures are right for liquid water

Liberty Bell Press AdvancedTech:Refrigerator magnet lets you order pizza with a single push of a button

Designed to appeal to consumers that are looking for speed and efficiency when ordering food, a pizza joint has created a one-step process to getting a pizza delivered to the front door.

Created by a Dubai-based restaurant called Red Tomato Pizza, the wood-fired pizza place has designed a fridge magnet that will allow consumers to order a pizza for delivery by pressing the magnet one time. In order to enable the one-touch process, the user syncs the ‘VIP Fridge Magnet’ via Bluetooth with a smartphone. The user sets up their favorite type of pizza order online and this specific selection will be tied to the user’s account. As noted by Mashable, the magnet is in the shape of a small pizza box with a lid that opens up, likely designed to avoid accidental button presses.

In "The Pickle" Real Strange News:What is Pink Slime?

What?When is Jack N The Box Coming To Milwaukee! Gross Mcd's Real Gross.

This controversial meat filler is used in a larger percentage of ground beef. CREDIT: NewsLinkForward | YouTube

Warning: don't read this article while eating. In particular, don't read while eating a hamburger patty.
"Pink slime" refers to processed lean beef trimmings, and is a cheap filler used to "beef up" many meat products. It is made by salvaging the meat that gets trimmed off cuts of beef along with fat. The trimmings are first simmered at a low temperature to separate muscle and fat, then spun in a centrifuge to complete the separation. Next, the salvaged meat is squeezed through a pipe and sprayed with ammonia to kill bacteria, after which it is dyed pink, packaged into bricks, frozen and shipped to meat packing plants.
Once used only in pet food and cooking oil, pink slime is now found in a large (but unknown) percentage of the ground beef sold in supermarkets and served in fast food restaurants.
U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist Carl Custer recently told ABC News that pink slime is essentially a "salvage product" and, in his opinion,

AdvancedTech:World's Most Powerful Laser Fires Most Powerful Blast, We Live In A Science Fiction World.

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THE GIST The pulse of energy lasted for just 23 billionths of a second, yet it generated 411 trillion watts of power.

• The world's largest laser was turned on for a fraction of a second.
• It unleashed the most powerful laser blast in history.

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The National Ignition Facility's machine consists of 192 laser beams that are combined, gathered and focused through a series of lenses to generate one giant shot. Click to enlarge this image.
Lawrence Livermore National Labs

The largest laser in the world was turned on for a fraction of a second last week -- and it unleashed the most powerful laser blast in history.

10 Reasons Why Nothing You Do On The Internet Will EVER Be Private Again

The American Dream
March 24, 2012

The Internet is rapidly being transformed into a Big Brother control grid where privacy rights are being systematically strangled to death. The control freaks that run things have become absolutely obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that you do on the Internet. One thing that you can count on is that nothing you do on the Internet will ever be private again. In fact, if you are obsessed with privacy then the last place you want to be is on the Internet. Most Americans have absolutely no idea how far Internet surveillance has advanced in the past few years. At this point, it would be hard to imagine any place less private than the Internet. Do not ever put anything on the Internet that you would not want the authorities or your employer to hold you accountable for. Basically, the Internet is creating a permanent dossier on each one of us, and we contribute to this process by freely posting gigantic volumes of information about ourselves on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Advanced Tech:Google Gets Patent for Using Background Noise to Target Ads

 

Google Gets Patent for Using Background Noise to Target Ads

Google, on Tuesday, was awarded a patent for “advertising based on environmental conditions.” In other words, Google has patented the technique of using environmental factors gathered through a device’s sensors to target ads at users.“When determining what ads to serve to end users, the

In :The Pickle" TopSecret! Science Brings Us One Step Closer to Implanting False Memories We are living In a Science Fiction World!

 

 

Science Brings Us One Step Closer to Implanting False Memories

Researchers say they've succeeded in giving mice a "hybrid" memory that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. They forced the mice to recall memories while they were already busy forming new ones, by reactivating specific neurons in their brains. This could even represent a step towards implanting full-blown false memories.

AdvanceTech:The Breaktrough: We live in a Science Fiction World Now! Physicists Create Magnetic Invisibility Cloak

Physicists Create Magnetic Invisibility Cloak

By Kate McAlpine, ScienceNOW
The sneaky science of “cloaking” just keeps getting richer. Physicists and engineers had already demonstrated rudimentary invisibility cloaks that can hide objects from light, sound, and water waves. Now, they’ve devised an “antimagnet” cloak that can shield an object from a constant magnetic field without disturbing that field. If realized, such a cloak could have medical applications, researchers say.

Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster!

F-35B test aircraft BF-3 flies with weapons bay doors open in March 2012. Photo: Lockheed

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the supposed backbone of the Pentagon’s future air arsenal, could need additional years of work and billions of dollars in unplanned fixes, the Air Force and the Government Accountability Office revealed on Tuesday. Congressional testimony by Air Force

Scientists shocked to find antibiotics alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia

 

Scientists shocked to find antibiotics alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia
Chance discovery of link between acne drug and psychosis may unlock secrets of mental illness

The brain of a person shortly after diagnosis with schizophrenia (top) showing it relatively unscathed. Five years later, there is substantial loss of grey matter (above). Damage starts in the outer regions of the brain and spreads to all parts over the years. Patients with the worst tissue loss tend to have the worst symptoms~Paul Thompson/UCLA School of Medicine

In Advanced Tech: Robot Barber Shaves Mans Head

 

This robot barber is shaving a brave volunteer's head to raise money for charity. The robot is Intelligent Automation's Multi-Arm Unmanned Ground Vehicle (MA-UGV). It's three arms provide for a range of motions and although it didn't get the closest shave, it also didn't harm the volunteer. The motion of the arms was controlled by a human through a computer program.