Category: Studies


Power of Moore Tornado Dwarfs Hiroshima Bomb

Filed Under: Drama, Lifestyle, News, Studies, Technology, Thoughts, Weather, Weird News by Heidi Sanders — Leave a comment
May 21, 2013

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Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

Meteorologists contacted by The Associated Press used real time measurements to calculate the energy released during the storm’s life span of almost an hour. Their estimates ranged from 8 times to more than 600 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.
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China conducts Test of New Anti-Satellite Missile

Filed Under: Drama, News, Political, Studies, Technology, Thoughts, World News by Taylor Beckham — Leave a comment
May 15, 2013

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China’s military on Monday conducted the first test of a new ground-launched anti-satellite missile that was fired into space and disguised as a space-exploration rocket, according to U.S. officials.

The test was carried out early Monday from the Xichang Space Launch center and was identified by officials as the new Dong Ning-2 ASAT missile.
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Jolie reduces her Chances with Breast Cancer

Filed Under: Celeb Gossip, Entertainment News, Health & Medical, Lifestyle, News, Studies, Technology, Thoughts by Eric Scott — Leave a comment
May 15, 2013

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In her bad girl days, Angelina Jolie’s body was a billboard for tattoos that said such things as “Billy Bob.”

Now she’s sharing intimate details of her anatomy to help women at risk, going public with her preventive double mastectomy to greatly reduce her high odds of breast cancer. View full article »

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Obama tries to swat down 2 Swirling Controversies

Filed Under: Crime, Drama, History, News, Political, Studies, Thoughts, World News by Eric Scott — Leave a comment
May 14, 2013

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President Barack Obama tried to swat down a pair of brewing controversies Monday, denouncing as “outrageous” the targeting of conservative political groups by the federal IRS but angrily denying any administration cover-up after last year’s deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Simultaneous investigations – and demands by Republicans for more – have put the White House on the defensive, emboldened GOP lawmakers and threatened to overtake a second-term Obama agenda already off to a rocky start.
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Bride, 4 others Die in Limo Fire on Calif. Bridge

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May 6, 2013

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Investigators are trying to determine why the back of a stretch limousine burst into flames on a San Francisco Bay bridge, trapping and killing five of the nine women inside on a girls’ night out, including a newlywed bride.

It happened late Saturday night as the Lincoln Town Car crossed the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge on the south end of the bay.

The driver, Orville Brown, said at first he misunderstood what one of the passengers in the back was saying when she knocked on the partition between the passenger area and the driver compartment and complained about smelling smoke.
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UN Report wants Moratorium on Killer Robots

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May 2, 2013

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Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input “should not have the power of life and death over human beings,” a new draft U.N. report says.

The report for the U.N. Human Rights Commission posted online this week deals with legal and philosophical issues involved in giving robots lethal powers over humans, echoing countless science-fiction novels and films. The debate dates to author Isaac Asimov’s first rule for robots in the 1942 story “Runaround:” `’A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
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Oil Drilling Technology leaps, Clean Energy Lags

Filed Under: History, Lifestyle, News, Political, Studies, Technology, Thoughts, World News by Jo Kruze — Leave a comment
May 2, 2013

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Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade – just not the one we expected.

By now, cars were supposed to be running on fuel made from plant waste or algae – or powered by hydrogen or cheap batteries that burned nothing at all. Electricity would be generated with solar panels and wind turbines. When the sun didn’t shine or the wind didn’t blow, power would flow out of batteries the size of tractor-trailers.
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