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Making weapons at home just got much easier

2012-07-27 00:00:00

Get ready. It's now possible to print weapons at home.

An amateur gunsmith, operating under the handle of "HaveBlue" (incidentally, "Have Blue" is the codename that was used for the prototype stealth fighter that became the Lockheed F-117), announced recently in online forums that he had successfully printed a serviceable .22 caliber pistol.

Despite predictions of disaster, the pistol worked. It successfully fired 200 rounds in testing.

HaveBlue then decided to push the limits of what was possible and use his printer to make an AR-15 rifle. To do this, he downloaded plans for an AR-15 in the Solidworks file format from a site called CNCGunsmith.com. After some small modifications to the design, he fed about $30 of ABS plastic feedstock into his late-model Stratasys printer. The result was a functional AR-15 rifle. Early testing shows that it works, although it still has some minor feed and extraction problems to be worked out......

World's first GM babies born

2012-06-28 00:00:00

The world's first geneticallymodified humans have been created, it was revealed last night.

The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics.

So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three 'parents'.

Fifteen of the children were born in the past three years as a result of one experimental programme at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey.

The babies were born to women who had problems conceiving. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilised in an attempt to enable them to conceive.

Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year- old children confirm that they have inherited DNA from three adults --two women and one man.....

TV in 2020: The Multi-Screen Experience

2012-06-25 00:00:00

Series One Episode One: The Multi-Screen Experience from Free TV on Vimeo.

2020 Vision: Future of TV is an industry initiative dedicated to exploring how television will evolve over the next ten years.

To kick start the conversation, we’ve commissioned a six-part documentary series seeking the opinions of industry experts and pioneers exploring the future of the television platform.

The films provide unprecedented access to business leaders, industry visionaries and production pioneers from Australia and around the world.

The webisodes investigate the evolution of television and how this will impact audiences and advertisers in the future:

· How technology is changing the way we interact and engage with TV
· The power of the audience
· Future programming trends
· The impact of the changing landscape on advertisers
· What will TV look like in 2020?

In the first episode of our six-part documentary series, our visionaries discuss how television viewing is migrating across multiple screens.

Magnetic Movie

2012-06-25 00:00:00

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

More info here semiconductorfilms.com/root/Magnetic_Movie/Magnetic.htm

An Animate Projects commission for Channel 4 in association with Arts Council England.

StarGaze - Universal Beauty

2012-06-15 00:00:00

Psalm 19,2:
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

StarGaze HD brings the beauty and majesty of the Universe to your HD Home Theatre. Journey beyond the stars with images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. With over an hour of astounding images set to ambient music, StarGaze HD will quickly become a favorite.

http://amzn.com/B0018LX9ZI

Music from: 2002 [Opus 27]:
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