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 NEW YORK (CNN) -- Some New Yorkers may want to reconsider exclaiming "Thank God" when arriving at their destination subway station beginning Monday. Or at least that's what a coalition of eight atheist organizations are hoping, having purchased a month-long campaign that will place their posters in a dozen busy subway stations throughout Manhattan. The advertisements ask the question, written simply over an image of a blue sky with wispy white clouds: "A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?" On October 26, a dozen bustling New York City subway stations will be adorned with the ads as "part of a coordinated multi-organizational advertising campaign designed to raise awareness about people who don't believe in a god", according to a statement from the group, the Big Apple Coalition of Reason. read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/21/new.york.... Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
 Send my credentials to the house of detention I got some friends inside...  ... Before I sink into the big sleep I want to hear, I want to hear The scream of the butterfly  ... We're gettin' tired of hangin' around Waitin' around, with our heads to the ground I hear a very gentle sound  Very near, yet very far Very soft, yeah, very clear Come today, come today  What have they done to the Earth?  What have they done to our fair sister?  Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her  Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn  And tied her with fences   And dragged her down  I hear a very gentle sound With your ear down to the ground We want the world and we want it... Now Now? NOW!     now. all in favor of no more war, please come and be heard.
shout it out. be heard, and be received. all in favor of no more murder in the name of someone lining their pocketbook, sound off. any of you who want no more American bloodshed as a result of the bush cabal's attempt to divide the world, please speak up. for those who wish to see an end to the merciless and untimely deaths of Iraq and Afghanistan's people say so now. to the people of the world who still think it's possible to take a "time out" and sit down at a table across from our enemies, and peacefully settle our differences, be a part of a collective voice of reason. speak up. be heard. we're not asking for too much. just peace. this is not pro or anti obama rhetoric. this is pro PEACE. this is anti WAR. this is the desire to live, not by the will and hands of corporate masters and the military industrial complex, but by the voice and reason of the people. I AM TIRED OF SEEING HEADLINE AFTER HEADLINE ABOUT MORE DEATHS OF OUR TROOPS. it's simple:    Oct. 8, 2009 -- Jupiter's moon Europa should have enough oxygen-rich water to support not only simple micro-organisms but also complex life, according to a University of Arizona researcher who studies ice flows on the frozen moon. Judging by how quickly Europa's surface ice is replenished, Richard Greenberg estimates that enough oxygen reaches the subterranean ocean to sustain "macrofauna" -- more complex, animal-like organisms. Assuming Europa life forms would need as much oxygen as Earth-like fish, Greenberg estimates the moon's ocean has enough oxygen to support 6.6 billion pounds of macrofauna. A key question about whether Europa can support life has been whether its suspected buried ocean contains adequate levels of oxygen. read more: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/08/e... Meteorite impacts turn up nearly pure water ice in Mars's mid-latitudes
 Planetary scientists looking for water ice on Mars have employed a number of tactics to great success in their search. The Phoenix lander dug it up; orbiting radar measurements have seen it under insulating blankets of debris. (Frozen water sublimates to vapor in Mars's climate and so is not stable when exposed at the surface.) Now a team of researchers has let meteorite impacts do the digging for them—a paper in this week's Science presents observations of fresh impacts and what they turn up from below the surface. Using instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), a group led by Shane Byrne, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, found five recent impact craters in the Martian mid-latitudes, near the boundary where subsurface ice is thought to be no longer tenable. All were relatively small, ranging in size from about four to 12 meters across. more at link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-... Sex, Lies and Videotape in Moscow; Cold War Tactics Merge with the Internet
 The U.S. Ambassador in Moscow has lodged a formal protest with the Russian Foreign Ministry over an "attempted smear" of an American diplomat with a purported sex video recorded in a Moscow hotel room. "This kind of effort to discredit an American diplomat really has no place in the sort of relationship that we are trying to build with the Russian federation," Ambassador John Beyrle told ABC News in an interview to be broadcast tonight on World News with Charles Gibson and Nightline. American officials say the Russian intelligence agency that replaced the KGB, the Federal Security Service (FSB), produced the video in an attempt to either recruit or discredit the diplomat, Brendan Kyle Hatcher, a 34-year-old married State Department employee who serves as a liaison with religious and human rights groups in Russia. more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/russian-sex-...  (CBS) This story was first published on April 12, 2009. It was updated on Sept. 17, 2009. When Americans are wounded in Afghanistan or Iraq, no expense is spared to save their lives. But once they're home, if they have suffered an amputation of their arm, they usually end up wearing an artificial limb that hasn't changed much since World War II. *snip* But as 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley first reported in April, that is starting to change. One remarkable leap in technology is called the DEKA arm and it's just one of the breakthroughs in a $100 million Pentagon program called "Revolutionizing Prosthetics." Fred Downs has been wearing the standard prosthetic arm since 1968, after he stepped on a landmine in Vietnam. "It's a basic hook. And I can rotate the hook like this and lock it," Downs told Pelley, demonstrating the limited movement ability of his prosthetic arm. "In those days they didn't have a lot of sophistication about it. They fit you and say, 'This is your arm, this is your leg.' And it was the best technology in those days and you just had to make yourself learn how to use it and I did."  read much more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/10/... ummm... who the FUCK is behind the wheel over there?
i mean, really. who's fucking driving the gopmobile? 9iu11iani scurrs the WH? uh, what? obama not born in US? der wha?? teabaggers multiply by gawd-magic and come in droves to protest. like swarms of locusts were they? er... ummm, huh? socialism, fascism, and communism can all be emobodied as a single idea, by a single person? do you.. i mean, wha... i-iiii, FUCK, i can't talk i'm so confused. so, seriously, who the FUCK is driving? is there anyone left over there with an iota of brain power in your party? how long do you really think you can sustain the hate-fest? i mean, shit - have your tantrum, i suppose. throw yourself to the ground, kick, scream, call names. i guess do what you gotta do. i dunno. it just all seems so surreal. i guess just keep doing what you're doing. i got some popcorn, so i'm good to go. i just though i'd ask. just so you know, though, i think you may have accidentally left the keys laying around because it looks like the children in your party might have driven off with the family car. yeah, it looks like they're headed for a cliff too, so... you know... you might want to, i don't know... maybe... STOP THEM? no? oh, okay. carry on, and... ah, the best of luck to you? i guess...  Landing sites on Europa identified
 A RIGOROUS analysis of the jagged terrain of Jupiter's moon Europa is helping to identify safe landing strips for future missions. Europa is thought to have an ocean of water beneath its icy shell. The latest study is the first to use images from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, to generate measurements of Europa's slopes. "This is the first quantitative sampling that gives hard numbers, real numbers that you can believe," says Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. Schenk used shadows, plus pictures taken from two different angles, combined into 3D images, to calculate the slopes of various regions of Europa. He examined four different kinds of terrain: ridged plains that make up the majority of the surface; impact craters; so-called "chaos" regions where icebergs appear to float in a frozen soup; and long smooth stripes called dilational bands. more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2032... Long-range Taser reignites safety debate
 THE manufacturer of the Taser stun gun is sparking new controversy with the commercial launch of a long-range version that can be fired from a 12-bore shotgun. Government-funded tests on initial versions of the new Extended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP) have revealed possible health risks to people on the receiving end, New Scientist has learned. The manufacturer, Taser International of Scottsdale, Arizona, says the issue has been addressed in redesigned devices, but these have yet to be independently tested. Unlike the current Taser X26, which fires darts attached to short wires, the XREP is wire-free. Its projectile, the size of a shotgun cartridge, is designed to pierce the target's skin and contains battery-powered circuits that deliver a debilitating shock. It has a range of 20 metres or more, compared with 5 metres for previous Tasers. more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2032... |
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