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Since we have only scanned a small percent of our own Galaxy, Michio Kaku isn’t convince that we Aliens wouldn’t exist.  We could be in the middle of an Intergalactic conversation and have no idea since our own technology is so primitive.

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We are doing this early, almost a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with open source developers. There are many of you who share our passion for creating a new model of computing. Chromium OS makes it possible for any interested developer to contribute code, ideas and designs to help shape the future of personal computing.

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• Google Releases Source To Chromium OS (tech.slashdot.org)
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The video above was taken on my iPhone as we drove through northern Indianas WindFarm.

TreeHugger has a great story about the worlds largest wind farms. Wind power, after experiencing dead calm for the last 1.5 years as developers struggled to get approval and investment money for their projects, is suddenly moving briskly again… Read the full story on TreeHugger

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. This is a demo video to give you a feel for the Google Chrome OS user experience.

Google Chrome OS is an opensource operating system for people whos lives are spent online. Expect it to start showing up on limited Hardware (as they are not making it available for download).

You know that they truly appreciated life after each of these moments. (I call fake on a couple of them, but all in all its a great compilation!).

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The planet has a fever – and how we cool it down is the challenge of the century. How do we start? According to advocates of a branch of scientific techniques known as geo-engineering, the only approach is to think big – and change the planet’s ecosystem before it changes us. Are we ready for these four scientific experiments on a truly global scale?

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The Earth is heating up because of the greenhouse effect – and one way to short-circuit this process is to prevent the heat getting into our atmosphere in the first place. One way of doing that might be to construct massive orbital space-mirrors, reflecting the brunt of the sun’s energy output back into space (or, even better, into some kind of energy storage facility ready to be used at ground level, following the recent Japanese example). A more contentious proposal? Pollute the atmosphere even further! The world’s largest volcanic eruptions throw particles into the atmosphere that block incoming solar radiation and cool the planet down – so by lacing the upper atmosphere with heat-reflecting aerosols, we might be able to do the same thing. And if that doesn’t work, we could trigger super-accelerated blooms of algae across the world’s oceans that could trap carbon for centuries, giving our planet – and us – the time to find a better solution in the longer term.

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Such as…moving the Earth. How could we perform such a feat? (Not by getting a super-huge child to do it, of course). The answer was first proposed in 2001: by whipping a 100-km-wide piece of rock past the Earth at “regular” (6,000-yearly) intervals, the entire planet could be gravitationally boosted to a wider, safer orbit. Downsides: a timescale completely useless to combat modern global warming – and it might upset the Moon’s orbit in unexpected and therefore thoroughly bad ways. But the idea is splendid: what could possibly go wrong?

Easy DIY Home Energy: 4 Ways to Plant a Solar Tree

Four types of solar tree, from concept to reality, turning solar paneling into works of Art.

5 Alternative Ways to Power your Home

Let’s look at some of the more obscure forms of alternative energy that you can use to power your home.

Naturally Social: Cool Ways Animals Communicate

From the dialects of the prairie dog to the inaudible rumbles of elephants, animal communication serves many practical purposes, all the while amazing.

Submitted to YouTube by logolou: “A large ball of fire streaking across the night time skies just after midnight had many Utahn’s wondering what they saw early Wednesday morning.”

Early Nov. 18th, eyewitnesses reported an explosion in the atmosphere above Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho in the western United States. Some said the fireball "turned night into day" and produced shock waves that shook the ground when it exploded just after midnight Mountain Standard Time. Infrasound recordings of the blast suggest a small asteroid hitting Earth's atmosphere and exploding with an energy of 0.5 to 1 kiloton of TNT. As the sun rose in the morning, remnants of the explosion were visible as noctilucent clouds over the region. The best video of the extremely bright event was just recently released, from the University of Utah's Eccles Observatory.
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The 1963 Split-Window Coupe is one of the more rare Corvettes you’ll have trouble finding and has a design feature that didn’t last, primarily because it neatly blocked the sightline of the rearview mirror. In a sense the design was ahead of its time, meaning if it could be combined with today’s rearview cameras, rather than mirrors, then the split window wouldn’t be a problem.

GM’s latest back-to-the-future Corvette concept is toying with bringing back the split window. In the following World of Car Fans video, it’s nice to see GM design veep Ed Welburn introducing the car, as the man is clearly in love with the design:

Incidentally, for a look at a cool usage of rearview cameras, check out Popular Mechanics’ description of the three they rigged up (two replacing the side mirrors) for their “Eco-Muscle” project, where they attempt to turn a beastly Dodge Challenger into a green machine while maintaining the muscle.

Each little camera is only 1-in. in diameter, but delivers a 120-degree wide angle image. We mounted one in the center of the rear spoiler pointing straight back and one at the leading edge of each side window, angled to give a clear view of traffic. The three cameras all feed to a 7-in. rectangular screen that shows the scene from all three simultaneously….

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In this video, International Space Station commander Frank De Winne explains what a typical day on board the ISS is like. Today, however, De Winne and his crew of Robert Thirsk, Roman Romanenko, Nicole Stott, Maxim Suraev and Jeffrey Williams are busy getting ready for the arrival of the STS-129 space shuttle crew. They need to set up to take pictures of the incoming shuttle to document the condition of the shuttle’s heat shield as it makes a "back flip" or a rendezvous pitch maneuver during its approach to the station. Plus, if the crew is anything like me, they probably have some last minute tidying to do before company arrives. Docking is scheduled for 11:53 a.m. EST. Watch it live on NASA TV.

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