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News Briefs 15-04-2011

“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”

Thanks to Greg, RPJ, Kat and RMG for news and huge props to Greg & Perceval for filling in!

Quote of the Day:

“God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.”

S.J. Hawking

  1. Meet George Jetson…
    Re: First commercial jetpack is only ‘months away’.

    The first two pictures on the linked webpage shows a human strapped to the bulky flying device. It reminded me of the old cell phone commercials from the 1980s… where the happy businessman and father gets a call on his 900 LBS cell, to bring home a loaf of bread.

    Maybe in 30 years, we’ll finally be able to zip about in anti-grav sneakers, too…

      1. Your brain on magnets
        That is a magnetic field interfering with his ability to recite a nursery rhyme. The same effects can be achieved with electromagnetic fields, and if you are so unfortunate as to live near strong sources of fields such as cell phone towers. radio masts, fluorescent lighting ballasts, etc, then your ability to think and function will also be impaired. Note also his comment about very tiny electrical currents having large effects if placed properly in the brain. Om the one hand, we have science demonstrating EMF effects on brain functioning, yet there is still a lot of bias against the idea that cell phone towers and radio masts could affect the brain.

        1. from the Geller-vs-SPECTRA-Dept.
          Do you think it’d be possible, without devices of any sort, to ‘boost’ one’s own brain fields so that it affects other people’s brains?

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