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Alleged LAPD-killer is first drone target on U.S. soil

turtlezepp — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:30:23 -0500

Alleged LAPD-killer is first drone target on U.S. soil:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

It’s official: The drone war has come home to America.

Wanted fugitive Christopher Dorner, the former cop currently at war with the LAPD, has become the first known human target for airborne drones on U.S. soil. Their use was confirmed by Customs and Border Patrol spokesman Ralph DeSio, who revealed the government’s fear that Dorner will make a dash for the Mexican border. The fugitive has already killed three people, according to police, and has a $1 million bounty on his head. Dorner, who has military training, is believed to be hiding in the wilderness of California’s San Bernardino Mountains, where locating him without air support may be all but impossible

Even though the drone is surveillance only (for now), I have no doubt that weaponized drones are very quickly going to be part of our daily lives. This is a big step in that direction.

anarcho-queer: Top Photo: San Diego, CA — Federal roadblocks...

turtlezepp — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:25:46 -0500

anarcho-queer:

Top Photo: San Diego, CA — Federal roadblocks and checkpoints are springing up in the zealous search for an ex-LAPD officer suspected of murder. Not only are vehicles being searched without probable cause or a warrant, but 600 homes were searched in Big Bear, CA.

Bottom Photo: Big Bear Lake, CA — California Highway Patrol forcibly search vehicles on the road at gunpoint, as they aggressively search for the ex-LAPD officer accused of murder.

One man, one excuse is all that is needed to suspend innocent people’s rights and impose police state tactics.

Killing Ernest: Pulled - A Day With The Youngest Iditarod Champion -

turtlezepp — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:32:26 -0500

Killing Ernest: Pulled - A Day With The Youngest Iditarod Champion -:

timakimoff:

There is nothing like the feeling of being pulled along a frozen trail by a team of sled dogs.

Their eagerness electrifies the lines tethering them to the sled, and you can feel their desire to run in your bones.

I have been pulled by trains, horses, elephants and even people, but being pulled by canines born to pull, born to run, born for the cold and wide-open land is a different connection altogether. It’s a tether only the musher truly knows.

My concept of mushing and sled dogs was a combination of “Call of the Wild,” and PETA ads before I moved to Alaska.

I was lucky that the first musher I met was Dallas Seavey, who would go on to become the youngest winner of the Iditrarod sled dog race less than two years later.

Seavey, a member of the racing Seaveys, as venerable an Alaskan family as I would come to know, was coming off a top-10 finish in the Iditarod and a win in the Jr.

He was poised to win it all, and if I listened closely to his words in our first conversation, he laid it all out in plain English.

His dogs would continue to breed for endurance, for less rest, faster digestion and more run.

He told me the only limit to the 1,000-mile race would be human endurance. And we all know that we’ve reached the limit of that without the addition of performance-enhancing drugs or human growth hormone.

It’s a science project began by Gregor Mendel and perfected in land of the Midnight Sun under blindingly frozen skies over tundra and stream with overflow, sub-zero wind and aurora borealis.

The day I met Dallas he was busy dealing with dogs, which is so normal as to be habitual. He, like other mushers, lives a life that is revolved by dogs. Like the opposite of the earth and sun, his universe is barking and shit, endless shit.

And cold.

It was near zero when I ran with his team. The sun was low on the horizon, as it neared the shortest day of the year. As high in the sky as it would get that day, it painted gold across ice and snow in a meadow near where Dallas lived with his wife and children.

We drove in a circle, the wind whipping over us as the dogs strained in harness, responding to his gee and haw.

We splashed through some melted streams and waded through deeper snow, and I let the sun wash over me and focused in on the sounds of the padding feet on hardened trail, the panting and the slice of sled skis through ice and snow.

After all of that, we were rewarded with hot cocoa in the warm yurt where the Seaveys resided.

I’m not an animal person. I loved a dog once. I loved him for half my whole life, and he died one day, and I felt like I lost a part of me. It’s been hard to love another animal since then.

Seavey walked into the yurt with a box full of puppies, and for the first time in a long, long time, I felt my heart twitch just a little as the balls of smiling fur wriggled in my arms.

Not much compares to an armful of puppy.

But these guys only get so much coddling, because they’ll be on the puppy team before long, and that means they start putting on the miles, and sojourns inside to the warm world of humans will be less and less, until they learn to love the cold.

The colder the better. For racing dogs.

sciencesoup: Graphene: The Miracle Material Graphene is 200...

turtlezepp — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:40:40 -0500

sciencesoup:

Graphene: The Miracle Material

Graphene is 200 time stronger than steel, harder than diamond, super flexible, and an excellent conductor of heat and electricity—and yet is only one atom thick. It’s a material made out of a single layer of pure carbon atoms, arranged in a honeycomb lattice connected by the strongest bonds known to science. Basically, graphene is just a super-thin sheet of graphite, the material found in pencils—so thin that a stack of three million sheets would be just 1 mm thick. Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov discovered it in 2004, and later received a Nobel Prize for their work because graphene is an incredibly versatile material—comparable to the vast range of uses that plastic has—and can even be modified to take on different properties: researchers have successfully made it magnetic. Graphene’s amazing mechanical, electrical and optical properties mean that it could be used for vast range of applications, from stronger and lighter car and airplane parts, to super-tough textiles, to healthcare, to a replacement for silicon in nano-electronics—which could lead to faster, thinner and more flexible electronic devices. It may be some years before we see these applications fully realised because there are still obstacles to overcome, but there’s no doubt that graphene has incredible and unparalleled potential.

Read about recent advancements

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turtlezepp — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:13:47 -0500

thescienceofreality: The river that DID run red: Residents of...

turtlezepp — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:25:14 -0400

thescienceofreality:

The river that DID run red: Residents of Chinese city left baffled after Yangtze turns scarlet.

“It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see.

But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday.

The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast as the red started to filter into the other river.”

Meeting point: A ship sails across the junction of the polluted Yangtze River (left) and the Jialin River in Chongqing, China, yesterday.

Shock: The Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday.

In the thick of it: A fisherman goes about his daily business.

Bizarre: The red river gave Chongqing an apocalyptic appearance yesterday.

Check it out! Some residents were so amazed that they collected samples in water bottles.

“Although the cause is yet to be determined, this is not the first time a river has turned red in China.

Last December, the Jian River in the city of Luoyang, in the north Henan province, turned red after becoming polluted by a powerful dye.

The dye was being dumped into the city’s storm drain network by two illegal dye workshops.”

See more photos & continue reading here.

motherjones: bestrooftalkever: mcdavis: Ouch. Every. Four....

turtlezepp — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:56:47 -0400

motherjones:

bestrooftalkever:

mcdavis:

Ouch.

Every. Four. Years.

UHMYEAHABOUTTHAT TDCF YIV BOIKNJ!

huh?

turtlezepp — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:52:03 -0400

huh?

show me your papers

turtlezepp — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:47:16 -0400

show me your papers

what’s an adult?!

turtlezepp — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:44:33 -0400

what’s an adult?!

realdisclosure: 4 members of the Deverow family all share their...

turtlezepp — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:49:26 -0400

realdisclosure:

4 members of the Deverow family all share their amazing experience of witnessing a UFO described as a bright spherical white light. They all 4 testify that this object emitted an overwhelming sense of love as it approached their vehicle. After the encounter they all experienced an hour of missing time. Rachel, the mother has since visited a regressive hypnotherapist to retrieve her memory of the lost time. This event occurred in North Yorkshire, England 2005.

Watch their testimony on video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo9NfWXPSq8&feature=player_embedded

Read a more in-depth article: http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0107/bentham.html

babywarrior5: mccunt: stangefruitandwildthing: Geraldine Hoff...

turtlezepp — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:48:23 -0400

babywarrior5:

mccunt:

stangefruitandwildthing:

Geraldine Hoff Doyle, was a 17 years (in 1942) while she was working at the American Broach & Machine Co. when a photographer snapped a pic of her on the job.

That image used by J. Howard Miller for the “We Can Do It!” poster, released during World War II.

Oh shit, that’s the real “Rosie the Riveter” ?

BAMF

BAMF INDEED. This woman deserves all the respect in the universe!

I need this on my blog.

turtlezepp — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:54:15 -0400

Society: Every girl is beautiful.
Fat girls: Really?
Skinny girls: Really?
Curvy girls: Really?
Scene girls: Really?
Preppy girls: Really?
White girls: Really?
Black girls: Really?
Society: Wait let me be more specific
Society: You need to have boobs the size of Canada, an ass that will put Nicki Minaj to shame, perfect porcelain skin with nary a single blemish, straight white teeth that will blind somebody that looks at them without sunglasses, hair that is thick and flows like a waterfall made of rainbows and unicorn tears, eyelashes that will touch your forehead and look natural doing it, soft hairless skin, and a smolder that will fry a chicken in a basket. You also have to be a size 00 because guys love it when they can see your ribcage.
Girls:
Society:
Girls:
Society:
Girls:
Society: Why is everybody getting depressed all of a sudden?

nanosize: Nanoparticle Completely Eradicates Hepatitis C...

turtlezepp — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:00:35 -0400

nanosize:

Nanoparticle Completely Eradicates Hepatitis C Virus

Researchers at the University of Florida (UF) have developed a nanoparticle that has shown 100 percent effectiveness in eradicating the hepatitis C virus in laboratory testing.

iraffiruse: frozach submitted

turtlezepp — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:49:18 -0400

iraffiruse:

frozach submitted

∞: Message from the Galactic Federation of Light 7/7/12 ‘The Arrests & Media Coverage’

turtlezepp — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:38:08 -0400

∞: Message from the Galactic Federation of Light 7/7/12 ‘The Arrests & Media Coverage’:

scienceofthespirit:

Message from the Galactic Federation of Light 7/7/12 ‘The Arrests & Media Coverage’

Justice is being served throughout your world as you read these words today. Arrests are taking place and beings who have committed crimes against the people of Earth…

zeusyallday: so airplanes officially banned tweezers. honestly i think anyone that can hijack an...

turtlezepp — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:59:00 -0400

zeusyallday:

so airplanes officially banned tweezers. honestly i think anyone that can hijack an airplane with a pair of tweezers deserves the airplane

verbalresistance: Americas ‘settled in three waves’ The biggest...

turtlezepp — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:59:27 -0400

verbalresistance:

Americas ‘settled in three waves’

The biggest survey of Native American DNA has concluded that the New World was settled in three major waves.

But the majority of today’s indigenous Americans descend from a single group of migrants that crossed from Asia to Alaska 15,000 years ago or more.

Previous genetic data have lent support to the idea that America was colonised by a single migrant wave.

An international team of researchers have published their findings in the journal Nature.

“For years it has been contentious whether the settlement of the Americas occurred by means of a single or multiple migrations from Siberia,” said co-author Prof Andres Ruiz-Linares from University College London (UCL).

“But our research settles this debate: Native Americans do not stem from a single migration. Our study also begins to cast light on patterns of human dispersal within the Americas.”

The team analysed data from 52 Native American and 17 Siberian groups, studying more than 300,000 variations in their DNA known as Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, or SNPs.

This allowed them to examine patterns of genetic similarities and differences between the population groups …

The team also found that once in the Americas, people expanded southward along a route that hugged the coast, with populations splitting off along the way.

After their divergence, there was little gene flow among Native American groups, especially in South America.

Two glaring exceptions to this simple dispersal were also discovered. First, Central American Chibchan-speakers have ancestry from both North and South America, reflecting a migration back from South America to Central America.

Second, the Naukan and coastal Chukchi from north-eastern Siberia carry distinctive “First American” DNA. Thus, Eskimo-Aleut speakers migrated back to Asia, bringing Native American genes.

The team’s analysis was complicated by the influx into the hemisphere of European and African immigrants since 1492 and the 500 years of genetic mixing that followed …

Read Whole: BBC News

Henry Ford made a car out of Hemp Plastic in 1941. It was lighter and stronger than any metal car, and of course ~ was shut down. Oi Vey.

turtlezepp — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:31:13 -0400

Henry Ford made a car out of Hemp Plastic in 1941. It was lighter and stronger than any metal car, and of course ~ was shut down. Oi Vey.

rationalthinker: Neil Degrasse Tyson FTW!!

turtlezepp — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:28:32 -0400

rationalthinker:

Neil Degrasse Tyson FTW!!