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Archive for May 2008

An Improved Theory for Galaxy Rotation

May 29th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: Astronomy


Galaxy Spiral Arm Stability and Dynamics
Simple Newtonian gravitation is sufficient to explain the entire behavior of Galaxy Spiral Arms. The well-known Keplerian effect certainly dominates, but a Spiral Arm also has internal mutual gravitation, which has surprisingly strong effects!
The stability of galaxy spiral arms has long troubled the Astrophysics community. It has been assumed that [...]



The Magic of magicJack

May 28th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: News

[...] The MagicJack costs $40, which includes a year’s worth of unlimited local and long-distance calls. (Free international calls to other MagicJack users, too.) After that, you’ll pay just $20 per year. I’ve tried this thing, and let me tell you: It rocks. It’s way easier to use than Skype, way cheaper than Vonage, and [...]



Microsoft - Multi-touch Demo in Windows 7

May 28th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: Microsoft

Surface! A new computing experience on Windows 7.
Touch is quickly becoming a common way of directly interacting with software and devices. Touch-enabled surfaces are popping up everywhere including laptop touch pads, cell phones, remote controls, GPS devices, and more.
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Source: Windows Vista Team blog
Tags: Multi-touch, Windows 7, Surface, Microsoft

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

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The Disclosure Project

May 27th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: Myths & Mysteries

The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research project working to fully disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and propulsion systems. We have over 400 government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, first hand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information [...]



Free Online TV channels - sorted by category and country

May 25th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: Technology

TvChannelsFree.com - The largest resource available on the Web for viewing Free Internet Television. Live streaming TV, recorded news, broadband internet TV stations, and video from all over the world. About 2,894 Online TV Channels from 60+ countries in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, The Caribbean, Latin America, Middle East all in one website.
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Gas price predictions: $12 for a gallon of gas is “inevitable.”

May 23rd, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: Predictions

Business & Media Institute
5/21/2008
It may be the mother of all doom and gloom gas price predictions: $12 for a gallon of gas is “inevitable.”
Robert Hirsch, Management Information Services Senior Energy Advisor, gave a dire warning about the potential future of gas prices on CNBC’s May 20 “Squawk Box”. He told [...]



Cold Fusion - Prof. Y. Arata Plans Demonstration at Osaka University

May 20th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: Physics

May 14, 2008
Osaka National University Prof. emeritus Yoshiaki Arata has announced a lecture and demonstration of his latest cold fusion reactor, on May 22, 2008, starting at 1:30 p.m. (subject to change). A photo of the reactor is shown below. The lecture will be on the 1st floor of Arata Hall on the university campus, [...]



Earthquake Prediction & Unusual Clouds - Videos

May 20th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: Predictions

Earthquake Clouds appear over China 30 min before deadly earthquake. The referred main cloud itself was captured over Linyi, Shandong province, east China.
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake, at a magnitude 8.0 Ms/ 7.9 Mw, occurred at 14:28:01.42 CST (06:28:01.42 UTC) on 12 May 2008 in Sichuan province of China. In China, it was named the Wenchuan [...]



Never A Better Time to Go Mobile

May 15th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: Communication

by Leah Forteza
These days, it’s all about the Internet. But the Age of the Mobile has dawned and all roads lead to an emerging Golden Age. A lot of tech pundits predict an explosion of mobile technology and software, especially Mobile Web, in 2008. Mobile trend forecasts for 2008 include the rise of the mobile [...]



New theory on Stonehenge

May 15th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: Myths & Mysteries

New theory on Stonehenge: health center
Presence of Welsh bluestones intrigues archaeologists

[SFGate](05-11) 04:00 PDT Amesbury, England — The mysterious circle of stones that rises on Salisbury Plain near here has stood as an archaeological marvel for thousands of years, its origins and purpose shrouded in the mists of history.
But a just-completed excavation of Stonehenge, the first [...]



Files released on UFO sightings

May 14th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: UFO

[BBC NEWS] - 14 May 2008
Secret files on UFO sightings have been made available for the first time by the Ministry of Defence.
The documents, which can be downloaded from the National Archives website, cover the period from 1978 to 1987.
They include accounts of strange lights in the sky and unexplained objects being spotted by [...]



What are the potential iPhone killers?

May 13th, 2008 | By CentroN | Category: iPhone

With a frenzy of iPhone deal-making over the last couple of weeks, Apple’s popular mobile phone will soon be coming to an additional 26 countries, spread from Latin America all the way down to little ol’ New Zealand.
But what of the competition? With nearly a year to pour over the iPhone and get their engineers [...]