China ended a drought with the use cloud seeding technologies? This article thinks the technology is unproven. Still very interesting.
Category: Science
The US arming has provided funding for a system of communicating messages by thought alone.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/10/14/2390439.htm?site=science&topic=latest
Considering that DARPA was behind GPS and the Internet (sorry Al), don’t be surprised if you perceive this in a thought wave near you soon!
We can already start creating the terminology. Tmail, Tetter, Tic.
Oh, and maybe then one day, the babelfish will become a reality, since, if they had, for example, a chinese version of this, the machines could do the translation on the fly so to speak and then translate to any other language. Couldn’t they?
Very interesting discovery in South Africa of a single species ecosystem. Makes me wonder how long that ecosystem has existed for though. Would be a perfect test bed for evolution if they were to monitor it for a period of time (days, months, years, decades) and see what – if any – mutations occur. Problem now may be that they’ve already introduced ‘foreign’ and new bacteria through contamination.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/10/deep-in-a-goldmine-an-ecosystem-of-one/