Links for 11-08-2007
Testing panspermia, predicting global warming, singing to computers, gagging the military …
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1 – An Experiment to Test Panspermia
“… bolting a Scottish rock to the outside of an ESA research spacecraft [...] microbes in the rock will enjoy the acceleration of liftoff, 12 days of microgravity and vacuum, and then re-entry through the Earth’s atmosphere.”
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2 – Global warming: Met Office predicts plateau then record temperatures
“British scientists are predicting a succession of record-breaking high temperatures in the most detailed forecast of global warming’s impact on weather around the world.” Now wait for the denial spin.
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3 – Sing to your computer to find music
“… the next generation of search engines will be able to retrieve music for you when you sing a song to your computer.” Sounds like a good idea. *comedy drum-roll*
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4 – MoD issues gag order on armed forces
“Sweeping new guidelines barring military personnel from speaking about their service publicly have been quietly introduced by the Ministry of Defence …” A different type of inconvenient truth.
