Chinese Claim Teleportation over 10 Mile Radius

"Quantum teleportation has achieved a new milestone or, should we say, a new ten-milestone: scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles, an unprecedented length. The researchers who have accomplished this feat note that this brings us closer to communicating information without needing a traditional signal, and that the ten miles they have reached could span the distance between the surface of the earth and space."

New Car Breaths Like Animal

WOW, where have you been the past few months??? If you'd really like to know, mostly -HERE- and -HERE- . Now back to business, shall we?! Will try to update BLACK HOLE'S LEDGE at least a couple times a week, but if you wanna find my regular posts, CONSPIRAPORN! is your best bet....

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"One reason treehuggers like myself love trees is that the leaves scrub CO2 from the atmosphere, use it for energy and emit life-giving oxygen, the process of photosynthesis. Wouldn't it be great if cars — notorious for CO2 emissions — could do the same?"

Happy 50th Birthday, Lasers

If you had to single out one cool, geeky technology as the preeminent cool, geeky technology, lasers would be a fine choice. They've enriched our gadgets, confused our cats, and, for half a century, lit up our imaginations.

VIA: -GIZMODO-

New Book: THE CRYPTOTERRESTRIALS

-Posthumous release from author, Fortean researcher, and prolific blogger Mac Tonnies-

Likewise, with any luck I'll be a weekly contributor over here for the next couple months; a new website tribute to the late Mac Tonnies who passed away Oct. '09....
macbots.wordpress.com/

MOON

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(film)

Most Expensive Piece of Virtual Property Sold

The most expensive piece of digital property has been sold for £200,000 on Planet Calypso – a space station.

Online gamer, Erik Novak splashed out on the building at an auction and believes he’ll be able to recoup his investment by letting users use the facilities, before selling at a profit.

The makers of the game believe he could do this within two years.

Buzz Erik Lightyear, to use Erik’s character name hails from Canada and is one of 800,000 users of the game which launched in 2003.

Computer games writer Andrew Thomas stated on tgdaily.com that the Canadian had ‘proved you can put a price tag on stupidity’.

Entropy Alone Can Create Complex Crystals

In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.

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Rainbow Trapped for the 1st Time...

Oh, to catch a rainbow. Well, it's been done for the first time ever – and with just a simple lens and a plate of glass at that. The technique could be used to store information using light, a boon for optical computing and telecommunications.

All-optical computing devices promise to be faster and more efficient than current technology, but they suffer from the drawback that signals have to be converted back and forth from optical to electrical. The ability to "slow" light to a crawl or even trap it helps, as information in the light can then be manipulated directly.

360 degree panorama of Stonehenge

An exclusive image of Stonehenge taken from within the inner circle - normally out of bounds to the public. To move around the image click the left mouse button and hold down whilst dragging the mouse around. To zoom in press A and to zoom out press Z.

VIA: -THE PRESURFER-

Google unveils protocol for an interplanetary internet

Vint Cerf, Google's internet evangelist, has unveiled a new protocol intended to power an interplanetary internet.

The Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol emerged from work first started in 1998 in partnership with Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The initial goal was to modify the ubiquitous Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to facilitate robust communications between celestial bodies and satellites.

The First Starlight...

Scientists have seen the first starlight ever recorded, and we don't mean the first incidence of a monkey marking something down - we mean the first star to send light which reached Earth. This light is the earliest, the furthest away, the most red-shifted, and every other factor that could possibly say "Everything else ever came after this."

Confirmation of Underground Lunar Caves

New satellite photos have revealed what scientists have long suspected: There are large tunnels made from lava running beneath the Moon's surface. These caves could provide shelter from radiation for future lunar settlers. Or they might already be occupied!

No One Can Hear You Scream...

A Canadian circus billionaire boarded the International Space Station on Friday after a smooth ride up from Earth, and promptly played the entertainer by donning a red clown nose for a camera.

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte became the seventh paying space tourist to travel to the station, where he plans to mix clownish fun with a serious message about the growing shortage of clean water on the planet 220 miles (355 kilometers) below.

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Eclipses

Longest lightning storm on Saturn breaks Solar System record

A powerful lightning storm in Saturn’s atmosphere that began in mid-January 2009 has become the Solar System’s longest continuously observed thunderstorm. It broke the record duration of 7.5 months set by another thunderstorm observed on Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft between November 2007 and July 2008.

Egyptian temples followed heavenly plans

ANCIENT Egyptian temples were aligned so precisely with astronomical events that people could set their political, economic and religious calendars by them. So finds a study of 650 temples, some dating back to 3000 BC.

Hieroglyphs on temple walls have hinted at the use of astronomy in temple architecture, including depictions of the "stretching of the cord" ceremony in which the pharaoh marked out the alignment for the temple with string. But there had been little evidence to support the drawings. Belmonte and Mosalam Shaltout of the Helwan Observatory in Cairo found that the temples are all aligned according to an astronomically significant event, such as a solstice or equinox, or the rising of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.

New Study Shows Each Person has "At Least 100 Mutations"

Every person born has at least 100 new mutations in her genome, and probably a lot more. That was the finding from a group of scientists who studied genetic mutations in two men from an extended family. The scientists published their work in Current Biology, and described using rapid DNA sequencing technology to investigate the subtle genetic differences that signal mutation from one generation to the next. Based on the number of mutations they found, the scientists estimate most people would have between 100-200 unique mutations in their genomes.

Molecule Million X Smaller than Grain of Sand, Imaged

It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule.

Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule.

'This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,' lead researcher Leo Gross said.

Sun Wheel in Ancient & Modern Paganism

The sun wheel is a potent symbol of the cycles of the seasons including the concept of death and rebirth. Several variations exist of this ancient symbol such as a circle with a dot in the center and a circle divided into six parts.

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Is Everything Made of Mini Black Holes?

Could All Particles Be Mini Black Holes?:
May 14, 2009

The idea that all particles are mini black holes has major implications for both particle physics and astrophysics, say scientists.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23530/

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Is Everything Made of Mini Black Holes?:
May 14th, 2009

In 1971 physicist Stephen Hawking suggested that there might be “mini” black holes all around us that were created by the Big Bang. The violence of the rapid expansion following the beginning of the Universe could have squeezed concentrations of matter to form miniscule black holes, so small they can’t even be seen in a regular microscope. But what if these mini black holes were everywhere, and in fact, what if they make up the fabric of the universe? A new paper from two researchers in California proposes this idea.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/14 ... ack-holes/