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Category: Science

  • Rods from God Open Comments

    Nope, not a Catholic post – quite the opposite. These Air Force ‘Rods from God’ Could Hit with the Force of a Nuclear Weapon The 107-country Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed or used from Earth’s orbit. What they didn’t count on was the U.S. Air…

  • Zombie Genes Thursday Open Comments

    When do we actually die? Doctors in a Canadian intensive care unit have stumbled on a very strange case – when life support was turned off for four terminal patients, one of them showed persistent brain activity even after they were declared clinically dead. For more than 10 minutes after doctors confirmed death through a…

  • Friday Open Comments

    I just finished reading the first book of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series – Foundation. In it, a man who specializes in the field of psycohistory – the prediction of human behavior en masse over long periods of time, not the study of any of a select group of Comfy Couch denizens – sets up conditions…