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POPSPart I The Marijuana FACTS 
Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. * Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941. * Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938. * Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the wor
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POPSBuzz Aldrin: NASA on Wrong Track With Moon-Mission Reruns I've got a problem with the five year gap between manned launches for America. We'll need to hit a ride with Russia, which doesn't like us today or China, who are beginners in space. We'll likely anger China anyway if and when we do something about North Korea
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POPSEarthrise Kaguya's stream of photos will end when the satellite crashes into the moon on Wednesday.
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POPSThe CitiCAT and MiEv coming soon Despite what the ignoramuses and special interest groups say, the reason we need these technologies is becoming more and more obvious around the globe: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/34145218-DDDA-496B-A5ED-5BBAD785C2B1/
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POPSPrefab Green Homes continues: The result was the Clayton I-House (view Clayton’s online tour of it here), an innovative prefab home that can be powered for a dollar a day, thanks to Low-E windows, solar augmentation, high-efficiency appliances and superior insulation. The solar panels on the roof don't supply all the home's needs, but they do cut electricity consumption in half. There's also a tankless water heater and a cistern that collects rainwater from the roof for use in gardening, car washing or other outdoor uses. Floors are made of fast-growing bamboo, and paint and insulation are low- or zero-emission.
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POPS In The Time Of Miracles OK, but do you want to be the one who says the power of Obama wasn’t abroad upon the land today? Or in the air, water, whatever?
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POPSBritish Steam-Car Team Sets Sights on 170 mph Engineers are trying for a modest speed, but the technology they're using is no shrinking violet. According to Popular Mechanics, the British Steam Car uses liquefied petroleum gas and a dozen microboilers to generate the 3 megawatts of heat needed to create a steam temperature of 750 degrees Fahrenheit. The steam flows through 1.86 miles of tubing and several giant valves to a two-stage turbine spinning at 13,000 rpm and drives the rear wheels. The system can turn 10.5 gallons of water a minute into steam at 40 times atmospheric pressure. "It's a total-loss system," project manager Matt Candy told Popular Mechanics. "We're not condensing the steam or anything. We just throw it out the back and, as a consequence, we're only about 10 percent thermally efficient." British Steam Car in successful tests according to the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/3690952/British-Steam-Car-in-successful-tests.html
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POPS10 Most Brilliant Gadgets Of 2008 Popular Mechanics announced its picks for the 2008 Breakthrough Awards awards in what the publication called The 10 Most Brilliant Gadets of the Year. Here's the list of international winners; you may be surprised at the gadgets on the list.
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POPSNASA Needs to Take Space Sex Seriously The fact remains however, that we are naive of the effects of sex in space, let alone if it is even a pleasurable experience. The mechanics of "human docking procedures" (as described by tests carried out by the Russian space agency) are a lot more complicated when in zero gravity. There are also huge ethical questions hanging over possible pregnancies in space. Zero-G tests on rat embryos produced decreased skeletal and brain development, the effects on a human embryo will remain a mystery. The fact remains that NASA continues to cut back biological research in favor of future Moon missions, so much about human sexuality in space will remain a mystery.
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POPSThe Journal of Unlikely Science I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas J. Watson ., IBM Chairman, 1943 Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949
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POPSHow to Read Popular Magazines on your Desktop for Free using Safari or Firefox simple trick to help you read the latest issue of popular magazines like PC Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Popular Mechanics, MacWorld, Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest, etc without paying any subscription charges. You will also get to read adult magazines like Playboy and Penthouse. Best of all, these digital magazines are exact replicas of print
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POPSArmed Robots Still In Iraq Good to hear. As a colleague recently pointed out, we need even more high tech weaponry sent to Iraq. The day we deploy giant walking robots with 50-foot swords into Basra, this war is over.
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POPS9/11 CONTRADICTIONS: Open Letter to Congress and the Press David Ray Griffin is about to unleash truth about 9/11 in a very powerful manner in this book to be released soon. His tenacity is an example of how to push truth against propaganda by this bull dog who will not let go of the bone he has to pick with the official story. Also, listen to him on the Charles Goyette radio show in Phoenix, AZ recently where he brings out the FACT that the FBI says Ted Olson's (who represented Bush and Cheney before the Supreme Court in the Election 2000 controversy vs. Gore) story about a cell phone call from his wife on Flight 77 is not and cannot be true! (This story made Digg). The clip on the audio link about the FBI and Ted Olson's statement is about 80% into the interview.
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