Deep Impact 08: Hurricane Wars

Hurricane 4 Gustav is shaping up like another Katrina, and so is Tropical Storm Hanna, to the East.
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Gustav’s extremely dangerous impacts will stem from storm tides reaching at least 9-12 feet above normal and winds potentially of Category 3 status, or at least 111 mph, near the site [...]

Moon landing? Don’t believe your lying eyes

Space blogger to moon landing skeptics: Trust “scientists, engineers (and) the government.”
Universe Today hopes this NASA image from the Apollo 11 mission (above) is so undeniably realistic-looking, few people will again dare to insist the U.S.’s moon landings were hoaxed. (Link, excerpt, below.)
Many conspiracists would be happy to see the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter prove them [...]

No Picnic: Marketers plan for the future

The speeches by leading futurists, celebrities like Sir Richard Branson, the yoga classes with Woody Harrelson: Picnic in Amsterdam is a great big party for the global technorati.
Futurist speaker Adam Greenfield at the conference next month will address the loss of privacy and independent thought caused by ubiquitous computing devices.
In an interview at the Picnic [...]