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POPSNew Exotic Particle May Explain Milky Way Gamma Phenomenon So what produces gamma-rays in large numbers? The first thing that comes to mind is a gamma-ray burst, produced when a massive star dies and collapses as a supernova. But this is short-lived and not sustained. How about the supermassive black hole sitting in the middle of the Milky Way’s galactic nucleus? This theory was recently discussed on Astroengine, but the production of antimatter (i.e. positrons) is more of a slow leak than anything substantial, certainly not of the scale that is being measured. As we are dealing with gamma-rays of the exact rest mass energy as a positron, so we know that the source is some kind of positron annihillation. What could possibly be doing this?
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POPSAre We Living in a Giant Void? Their theory posits that if in fact Earth and our surrounding neighbors are in fact in an unusual or special region of space, ie, a void, then our perspective on the universe would be severely challenged
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POPSAs Gas Prices Rise “You can increase and decrease the number of police riding around in cars, and the public can’t tell the difference. You can increase the number of police out interacting with the community, and people can tell the difference very quickly.”
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POPSThe World's First Flying Saucer: Made Right Here on Earth Using an onboard source of energy (such as a battery, ultracapacitor, solar panel or any combination thereof), the electrodes will send an electrical current into the plasma, causing the plasma to push against the neutral (noncharged) air surrounding the craft, theoretically generating enough force for liftoff and movement in different directions (depending on where on the craft's surface you direct the electrical current). The concept sounds far-fetched, but U.F. mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Roy plans to have a mini model ready to demonstrate his theory within the next year.
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POPSWhat is Globalization?
I LOVE CONSPIRACY THEORY! Sometimes it does not have to make sense if it just has some connections - George Bush joins the Trilateral Commission (a brainchild of fellow Bonesman, David Rockerfeller ) in 1991. On SEPTEMBER 11, 1991, he makes his infamous New World Order speech... which espouses both the Trilateral Commission Globalization Policy and the Skull & Bones Society's tradition of members all being from rich families and seek to control economics as well as Political Policy and keeping power in the hands of a select few that follow their plans or are architects of it, of a "New World Order;" a world where the few who maintain power make policy for years to come and ONLY they do. NOW, 10 years to the day later, George W. Bush reads a book to school children as the hijacked passenger jets take down the WTC, tear into the Pentagon, and crash in a field due to brave passengers fighting back. Has anyone made THAT connection other than me? Coincidence or conspiracy? I Love Paranoia!
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POPSBusiness presence in Virtual Worlds It appears to me virtual world inhabitants expect everything to be free. I have yet to see profit from direct sales as a result of a business' existence in a virtual world.
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POPSSatellite network to predict earthquakes According to the theory, due to pressure in the rocks oxygen is one of the products of the chemical reactions in the rock. When it is under extreme pressure the oxygen gives off a positive charge which is reflected in readings in the ionosphere. The nature and of the charge, can give an indication of the pressure as it slowly build before a major earthquake. The number of lives save may be hard to imagine, but one of the most frightening aspects of an earthquake at the moment, is the fact that there is literally one minutes notice.
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POPSDark, Perhaps Forever - Clueless about the universe Whatever proposal is eventually selected, the dark energy satellite will return a tidal wave of data about the universe and its weird denizens, both visible and invisible. This data is likely to transform astronomy in unpredictable ways, but there is no guarantee that it will nail the mystery of dark energy. “We really need new theory, and we have none,” Dr. Krauss said.
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POPSGOP Senator, VA Secretary Disrespect Troops on Memorial Day What Stevens is really saying is that today's troops are unpatriotic--that they're only in it for the money and the college. And while Stevens' "mass exodus" theory has been thoroughly discredited by the Congressional Budget Office, the true irony of the situation lies in the fact that Stevens earned his own college degree after World War Two by using the same GI Bill he's aiming to prevent today's veterans from receiving. In today's military lingo, this makes Senator Stevens a "Blue Falcon" or a "Bravo Foxtrot." At the same convention, VA Secretary James Peake--who is already under fire for the cover-up of an extraordinary number of veteran suicides and for overseeing an organization that may not be taking PTSD seriously--showed a stunning lack of situational awareness by discounting recent media reports and think tank studies by suggesting that fewer returning vets actually had PTSD than is commonly thought.
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POPS The Nut Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree which he claimed called in an outstanding loan he had with the bank in an effort to bankrupt his law practice. In 2003, long after the deaths of Johnson, Clark and the rest of the gang, McClellan wrote a book, "Blood Money & Power", in which he lays out a conspiracy theory of how Johnson and Clark had President John F. Kennedy assassinated as well as other people who got in their way. A number of the Texas oilmen alleged to have had a role in the Kennedy assassination were big supporters of the Bushes in Texas politics. Aside from his family problems, he performed the job as ineptly as any White House press secretary I can recall. The Bushies now claim McClellan was fired from his job, but Bush kept the incompetent press secretary on for nearly three years before unloading him. It looks like he's determined to become for Bush what Dick Morris has become for the Clintons.
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POPSThis link kills spam If you link to this page, whenever a harvester visits your site, it gets filled up with superfluous email addresses. These email addresses change every time this page is visited. (A sample of the emails are shown below. These emails continue on below the screen, but you can't see them to save space) Contact us xcaigdogs@katucespnx.com Contact us lbbjevpkk@ebkjbvpgkx.com Alert our admin xatscaltn@llcmnltjeg.com Contact us ihhrkdjrp@jrnjlimntg.com Don't know if this works...will have to ask my son when he gets back from his meeting in Chicago
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POPSThe name-letter effect “We’ve shown time and time again that people are attracted to people, places and things that resemble their names, without a doubt.” In studies that make believers in free will squirm, Dr. Pelham’s team asserts that names and the letters in them are surprisingly influential in people’s lives. In one experiment, participants of both sexes evaluated a young woman more favorably when the number on the jersey she was wearing had been subliminally paired with their own names on a computer screen. “Self-similarity is really one of the largest driving forces of behavior of social beings,” said Jeremy Bailenson, the director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab. There are more prosaic reasons that people may feel connected to their Googlegängers, though. They may share a name because they belong to the same ethnic group, or their families may have had similar aspirations for them.
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POPSNot Hobbits after all “Some of the traditional stories of the local people may be an ancient memory of an otherwise forgotten time, when cretins were a common part of the human population on Flores”
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POPSDepression Sources Mispresented by Media We've been taught this in every single Psychology course I've taken (nearly a dozen) and there's always some idiot who says, "But the Zoloft squiggle says it's a chemical imbalance!" Seriously, people. If Corona told you their beer would fix a chemical imbalance, would you believe them? One company is the same as the other. The job of advertisements is to SELL. I'm so glad to see all of this new unbiased data on anti-depressant effectiveness. Why on earth does the FDA let companies do their own testing? Ridiculous. </rant>
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POPSFind your misplaced cell phone Where's My Cell Phone is a handy new online application to help find misplaced mobile The service is actually low-tech: it simply redials whatever number you enter and you follow the ring until you've found your beloved handset, answer the call, and turn it off. The service is U.S. only for now. In theory it could be used to annoy your friends to no end, although when you pick up you're given the option to take your number off the list permanently. The creators also claim your number is never saved or kept tracked. This is a good thing and a bad thing, as taking your name off the list means you can never use it again, so be careful when you answer that found phone.
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