Archive for May 3rd, 2010

  • Technology, Jeremy Hsu, climate, cloud seeding, clouds, environment, lasers, precipitation, rain, snow, weather, weather control A lab experiment involved the laser firing inside water-saturated air to create tiny clouds similar to airplane contrails.

    Lasers Could Create Clouds, and Perhaps Rain on Demand

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | 3 Comments
    Technology, Jeremy Hsu, climate, cloud seeding, clouds, environment, lasers, precipitation, rain, snow, weather, weather control A lab experiment involved the laser firing inside water-saturated air to create tiny clouds similar to airplane contrails.

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  • WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama offered a bit of wisdom to a ballroom filled with celebrities, political insiders and journalists: There are a few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. "Well, love and a birth certificate," he quipped at Saturday's black-tie White House Correspondents' Association dinner, poking fun at the so-called birther movement, which questions whether the president was born in the United States.

    Obama targets advisers, birthers, GOP for laughs.

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | 3 Comments
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama offered a bit of wisdom to a ballroom filled with celebrities, political insiders and journalists: There are a few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. "Well, love and a birth certificate," he quipped at Saturday's black-tie White House Correspondents' Association dinner, poking fun at the so-called birther movement, which questions whether the president was born in the United States.

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  • Security precautions for London 2012 include the construction of a 17.5 km, 5,000volt electric fence, topped with 900 daylight and night vision surveillance cameras spaced at 50 metre intervals. On first sight of the fence you could be forgiven for thinking you had slipped through a wormhole in the space-time continuum to find yourself on the perimeter of a Soviet era Gulag.

    London 2012: One Big Party or One Big Prison?

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | 4 Comments
    Security precautions for London 2012 include the construction of a 17.5 km, 5,000volt electric fence, topped with 900 daylight and night vision surveillance cameras spaced at 50 metre intervals. On first sight of the fence you could be forgiven for thinking you had slipped through a wormhole in the space-time continuum to find yourself on the perimeter of a Soviet era Gulag.

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  • Not the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: The government, which got $420 million from the federal bailout to modernize land ports like this, wants to spend about $7 million to build an expanded station. To do it, the government says, it needs an adjoining 4.9-acre parcel now used to grow hay and corn

    Feds Threaten Eminent Domain Grab on Vermont Farm

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Not the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: The government, which got $420 million from the federal bailout to modernize land ports like this, wants to spend about $7 million to build an expanded station. To do it, the government says, it needs an adjoining 4.9-acre parcel now used to grow hay and corn

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