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Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on June 25, 2012 at 8:03am

Wow, this is bad ass... dunno how else to put it. Up there w/Tesla motor co.!~

Researchers have clocked light beams made of "twisted" waves carrying 2.5 terabits of data - the capacity of more than 66 DVDs - per second.

The technique relies on manipulating what is known as the orbital angular momentum of the waves

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18551284

and freaks still wanna do god wtf.. waste...

Comment by Mick Ohrberg on June 19, 2012 at 6:48am

Indeed - this is exactly what quasars are; giant black holes with giant accretion disks. The material in the accretion disks rubs against all the other material, heats up and starts to glow, effectively. Since the speeds are to phenomenal, the heat gets absolutely fantastically intense. Plasma, as the result of the heat, that's moving generates a magnetic field, and the magnetic field has two poles. Just as energy gets IN at the poles of the earth's magnetic field, energy gets OUT at the poles of the black hole's magnetic field. Note that these two beams are steady - not sweeping through space like from a neutron star, pulsar or magnetar, since the magnetic field from a black hole's accretion disk doesn't "wobble" the way the magnetic field does on a neutron star, pulsar or magnetar.

Comment by Ken Perrott on June 19, 2012 at 12:15am

Tom, black holes are often associated with stars or a ring of material feeding into the hole. These jets are coming from the surrounding material not from the hole itself.

Observations of black holes often relies on observing this material.

Comment by Tom Sarbeck on June 18, 2012 at 11:45pm

If you keep informed on black holes and their behavior, we have for years known of their gamma-ray jets that emanate in nearly opposite directions.

If nothing can escape a black hole's gravity, where do the gamma-ray jets originate? Do we rename them dark holes?

Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on June 18, 2012 at 3:09pm

whoa check this out:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests

nations' govs? b hungry for that scientific daytah aye?

Comment by TNT666 on June 17, 2012 at 6:10pm

blind link... dead link... grrr

Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on June 16, 2012 at 4:39pm

this science of misinformation is propaganda 101?
http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/veteran-employees-of-alaba...

and a side of corporate cntrl

Comment by TNT666 on June 9, 2012 at 11:18am

Disappearing glaciers of Africa, good read in Mother Jones:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/06/africa-glaciers-melt...

Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on June 8, 2012 at 5:20pm

Comment by TNT666 on June 6, 2012 at 10:12am

Just like the studies trying to demonstrate that 'men are from mars woman are from venus' and inferring innate differences, based on skill sets that are highly teachable... this seems to fit right in there. Mentalising is a teachable skill, not necessarily a school learned skill, but a skill taught by parents in the early years of childhood. The study, while having a point with Autistic children precisely BECAUSE they have learning difficulties, but transferring this to male-female is way overstepping into Mars and Venus land!

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