"Two peoole playing PONG. No mouse, no joystick, just thoughts. Amazing."

"This video shows how to type text WITHOUT a keyboard - just by thought. And remember: it's no fake, it' serious research."

NASA.News: "Newly Forming Solar System Has Planets Running Backwards! Call it the biggest beltway ever seen. Astronomers have discovered a newly forming solar system with the inner part orbiting in one direction and the outer part orbiting the other way."

Ooops, the Phantom Zone exploded!

"PTO Requests Model of Warp Drive Invention

The Worsley-Twist warp drive does not depend upon traditional emissions of matter to create thrust. Rather, the drive creates a change in the curvature of the space-time continuum — thus allowing travel by warping space-time. Worsley & Twist patent application recently suffered another setback."

Via Patent Law Blog

"A new study shows that monkeys love justice and the rule of law. Researchers at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico found that pigtailed macaques have "police" who moderate and prevent conflicts in large groups. These high-status monkeys selflessly intervene when there's trouble on the horizon, and when they're not around, the social order quickly crumbles." Sploid

"NASA official joins search for extraterrestrial life (CNN): G. Scott Hubbard, who has led a NASA research center since 2002 and investigated the space shuttle Columbia tragedy, is stepping down to accept a position with an organization that studies the possibility of life beyond Earth, he said Monday."

Very interesting

"Some military tacticians have already pondered ways to turn weather into a weapon." Full story at space.com

"Read illustrated accounts of the world's first robot, the Steam Man, created in 1865! Subsequent automatons such as the Electric Man and the Automatic Man are also profiled. The most comprehensive section, with more than 20 pages, concerns the mechanical man known as Boilerplate.

Boilerplate was unveiled in 1893 by Professor Archibald Campion. Built as a prototype soldier for use in resolving the conflicts of nations, Boilerplate served with Roosevelt's Rough Riders and fought alongside Pancho Villa"

This is the best website I've seen this week.

"Mit dem Roboter zur Witzfigur" - Story im Spiegel "The Strange Case of the Spoofer Captured by a Spoof" - Story in the New York Times

How To Survive a Robot Uprising : Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

This is a really evil company! They started the Dharma Initiative. They also closed down Mr. Clucks.

File under "Lost - collecting the clues"

No, "New York Times", that new planet is not really officially called "Xena", but it looks like one of the solar system's major new players. It even has a moon! Read this!

Fun: Hacking the moon!

NASA has this very serious tutorial

"Men could reduce their risk of developing prostate cancer through regular masturbation, researchers suggest. They say cancer-causing chemicals could build up in the prostate if men do not ejaculate regularly.

And they say sexual intercourse may not have the same protective effect because of the possibility of contracting a sexually transmitted infection, which could increase men's cancer risk."

story from the bbc

"The UN Outer Space Treaty of 1967 stipulated that no government could own extraterrestrial property. However, it neglected to mention individuals and corporations. Therefore, under laws dating back from early US settlers, it is possible to stake a claim for land that has been surveyed and register it with the US Government Office of claim registries. In 1980, that is exactly what Dennis Hope did for land on the Moon and he established the Lunar Embassy to parcel and sell documented acres. The Lunar Embassy was obliged to inform the General Assembly of the United Nations, the US Government, and the Russian Government in writing of the claim and legal intent to sell extraterrestrial properties. These governing bodies had several years in which to contest the claim and they never did. The enabled Mr. Hope to take the next step and copyright his work with the US Copyright registry office and begin selling actual deeds for the land on the Moon.
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Over 2,000.000+ people from 176 countries around the world own property on the Moon. To date, more than 300 million acres have been issued to individuals and corporations.
The Lunar Embassy has been selling land on the Moon for the past 22 years. They are the THE ONLY COMPANY in the world to possess a legal basis and copyright for the sale of lunar, and other extraterrestrial property within the confines of our solar system. LunarLandRush.com is an authorized agent of the Lunar Embassy. (...) Approximately 250 very well known celebrities as well as two former US presidents are now extraterrestrial property owners. This includes approximately 15 main actors from the original Star Trek series, as well as the Next Generation and Voyager series. In addition, 30 past and present members of NASA own property on the Moon. "

Check it out yourself! Short time only!

story at cnn.com

Helpful hints on how to survive an atomic attack with nothing but a hat

Originally taken from How to Survive an Atomic Bomb, by Richard Gerstell, Ph.D., Consultant to the Civil Defense Board (Bantam Books, NYC, 1952).

Nachgedruckt in "Weltrundschau" von 1924. Zuerst veröffentlicht von Hugo Gernsback in "Science and Invention".

Beachten sie den Tränengas-Tank!

This is why I love the Internet Hm, The Mad Revisionist, that guy could become my arch-nemesis, even though I'm glad he finally solved the secret of the Titanic.

But he puts down one of my favourite books, Michael Shermer's "Why People Believe Weird Things" which I'd recommend again and again. I'm getting quite a lot of traffic due to some armchair-Nazi who liked the picture of Lenie Riefenstahl's birthday a lot. (But you were not invited, Senor, ha!)

  The space shuttle Columbia is all over Texas. Don't touch any of the pieces. They might be lethal and they can make you glow in the dark. Well, aren't we glad that NASA works on sending a nuclear powered space shuttle the next time?

Here's an interesting article: Will Nuclear Power Put Humans On Mars? by Greg Clark at space.com

Water on mars, galaxies frozen in time or a time that never ends. etc. Here is the new Top Ten Space mysteries for 2003 collected by space.com