Tag: spacewar
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building block of life found on comet
from reuters: The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space, scientists said on Monday. Microscopic traces of glycine were discovered in a sample of particles retrieved from the tail…
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spacewalk #2 unfolds on 40th moon anniversary
from ap: The astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex are celebrating the 40th anniversary of man’s first moon landing with their own spacewalk. Late Monday morning, David Wolf and Thomas Marshburn ventured out to hook spare parts to the international space station. It is the second spacewalk in three days, and it’s taking place 40 years…
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cyber/spacewar: lost tapes, underground labs & more moon memes
nasa conveniently finds missing moon landing tapesa few weeks before anniversary! what are the odds?from express.co.uk: Ecstatic space officials at NASA could be about to unveil one of their most stunning discoveries for 40 years – new and amazingly clear footage of the first moon landing. The release of the new images next month could…
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cyber/spacewar: black holes, false claims & digital warfare
cyber czar position will be announced this week a favorite emerges in obama’s cyberczar searchfrom time: Tom Davis, a moderate Republican from Virginia, has emerged as a leading candidate for the Obama Administration’s newly created position of cybersecurity czar. Sources familiar with the White House’s deliberations on the subject say Obama officials feel a Washington…
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cyber/spacewar: singularity, censorship, malware, mars & the moon
1 in a million: german boy hit by meteorite*pentagon blinds astronomers to ‘armageddon’*military hush-up: incoming space rocks now classified*hathaway confirms she’s a candidate for cyber chief*future warbot powered by xbox controller*US ceases analog television broadcasts*the singularity is near – terminator: salvation & the future of humanity*cia adopting web 2.0 tools despite resistance*twitter quitter trent reznor…
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cyber/spacewar: homeland hackers & a paid internet
hacker ‘dark tangent’, jeff moss, joins dhs security council bills would kill dhs satellite surveillance officefrom fcw: A senior House Democrat has introduced legislation that would kill the controversial National Applications Office (NAO), a Homeland Security Department-run program to make intelligence and military satellite imagery available to civilian agencies for domestic purposes. Rep. Jane Harman…
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#CyberSpaceWar: Obamessiah Meets the Cyberczar
cybersecurity: obama’s promise to trash the constitution as the white house creates new cyberspace watchdogfrom dpa: The White House Friday moved to stem escalating cyber crime as threats to internet security and wireless technology grow at an alarming pace. US President Barack Obama announced the creation of a White House office that will coordinate protection…
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5/28 Newspurge
9/11 updates:9/11 commissioner veniste slams bush*bush criticized by former 9/11 commission member*last chance to indict bush & cheney for the mass murders of 9/11?*cheney corroborates his early arrival in the bunker on 9/11*napolitano: 9/11 terrorists did not enter US from canada*psychologists weigh in on 9/11*300,000 new yorkers could be headed for 9/11-related health crisis*9/11 ‘misleads’…
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5/21 newspurge
cyber/spacewar:internet generation ‘ill-prepared for adult life’*wolfram alpha suffers last minute launch hitch*fbi ‘going dark’ budget request for hi-tech surveillance capabilities soar*corporate media exploits teen idol to push cyberbullying bill*internet data heads for 500b gigabytes*youtube restores the alex jones channel*related: nytimes/press attack conspiracy theorists of ‘new world order’ film*future combat systems not killed*army promises their new…
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cyber/spacewar: nuking hackers & hacking the nukers
‘unified quest 2009’: army war games for future conflicts doj budget details high-tech crime fighting toolsfrom abcnews: The release of the 2010 budget request has shed more light on some FBI surveillance programs the bureau is currently developing and testing. While the FBI has been criticized at times for its slow reforms after the 9/11…
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obama orders review of nasa plan to return to moon
from reuters: The Obama administration has ordered a top-level review of the U.S. human spaceflight program that has been focused on returning astronauts to the moon by 2020, officials said on Thursday. Former Lockheed Martin Chairman and Chief Executive Norm Augustine will head a blue-ribbon panel charged with assessing NASA’s progress on a space transportation…
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cyber/spacewar: stratcom, solar storms, weatherwars
cybersecurity act: heavy restrictions on internet freedoms US military prepares for ‘cyber command’from afp: The US administration is planning to create a new military command to counter cyber attacks on the country’s sensitive computer networks, a US defense official said on Wednesday. The move would be part of a planned overhaul of cyber security policies…
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cyber/spacewar: social networking & spyware
pirate bay prosecution could spawn flurry of lawsuitsfrom telegraph: The entertainment industry yesterday hailed the successful prosecution of the four founders of the illegal file-sharing website Pirate Bay, as a major victory in its battle to recoup billions of pounds in lost revenue… Lawyers believe that the sentencing of Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik…
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4/16 Newspurge
obamessiah & the apostles of war:jesus missing from obama’s georgetown speech -nice pyramid symbolism, though*obamadvisor & cfr vp says 100k+ troops, 10yrs+ needed in afghanistan*obama to release reagan records kept secret by bush*obama half-brother ‘linked to uk sex attack’*gordon brown’s plan for army of teen volunteers*obama taps 5th riaa lawyer to justice dept*the nsc’s invisible…
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area 51, ufo sightings & codename oxcart
from raw replay: Former employees are coming forward to talk about their work at a secret military facility known as Area 51. For decades there have been reports of UFO sightings near Area 51. The CIA has recently declassified a program that may explain some of those sightings. Thornton Barnes told Fox’s Bill Hemmer that…