The construction of skyscrapers higher than 1000 meters begins

While we mere mortals look forward trifles, multi-billionaires often amuse only things that will set them in place above all their ilk. Because that often lead "battle" over who will have the biggest mansion, yacht or car, and in the last few decades and who will build the biggest skyscraper, and thus surpass all previously constructed skyscrapers in the world. But while we are on who will have the biggest yachts, more or less the same, fighting around the biggest skyscrapers with the technological side it seems very interesting.

A few days ago it was announced that on April 27 begins works on skyscraper "Kingdom Tower" which will be located in the city of Jeddah, the largest sea port of Saudi Arabia. Interestingly, this will be the first skyscraper to exceed the height of 1000 meters and that from pride of Dubai, Burj Khalifa, will be higher for at least 173 meters.

"Kingdom Tower" is designed by architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, and if you read about the Burj Khalifa, maybe you know Adrian Smith from earlier just because he is the author of the project on which is built that currently the tallest skyscraper in the world.

It is planned that construction will last for four years, and when the "Kingdom Tower" is finished, at its more than 200 floors will be located apartments, business offices and a hotel, while the vantage point of the 157-th floor will be the highest vantage point in the world. It is planned that on the construction of this giant to be spent over one billion two hundred million dollars.

 

Close, Cold Neighbor of Sun Discovered

A "brown dwarf" star that appears to be the coldest of its kind - as frosty as Earth's North Pole - has been discovered by a Penn State University astronomer using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescopes. Images from the space telescopes also pinpointed the object's distance at 7.2 light-years away, making it the fourth closest system to our Sun. "It is very exciting to discover a new neighbor of our solar system that is so close," said Kevin Luhman, an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and a researcher in the Penn State Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds. "In addition, its extreme temperature should tell us a lot about the atmospheres of planets, which often have similarly cold temperatures."

Scientists can now prove that we are all living in the past!

Our brains are amazing organs! They go through a lot of effort to make everything we perceive seem fluent so that we can make sense of it all. The truth is things are not at all what they seem, and we are all actually living in the past!

David Eagleman of the Baylor College of Medicine demonstrated that we are all living in the past by using several visual illusions to prove the point. One of them is the flash-lag effect. A light flashes when an object moves past it, but we don’t see the two as coincident; there appears to be a slight delay between the two events.

Our consciousness lags 80 milliseconds behind actual events. “When you think an event occurs it has already happened,” Eagleman said. The reason is because our brains try to reconstruct events that happen and stimuli that occur at different times, in a cohesive way so that we can have a cohesive picture of the world around us.

But sometimes the brain just can’t wait. If a hand-clapper is less than 30 meters away, you hear and see the clap happen simultaneously, but one meter further and the sound arrives more than 80 milliseconds later than the light, and the brain no longer matches what you see and hear.

Our brains are amazing organs! They go through a lot of effort to make everything we perceive seem fluent so that we can make sense of it all. The truth is things are not at all what they seem, and we are all actually living in the past!
David Eagleman of the Baylor College of Medicine demonstrated that we are all living in the past by using several visual illusions to prove the point. One of them is the flash-lag effect. A light flashes when an object moves past it, but we don’t see the two as coincident; there appears to be a slight delay between the two events.
Our consciousness lags 80 milliseconds behind actual events. “When you think an event occurs it has already happened,” Eagleman said. The reason is because our brains try to reconstruct events that happen and stimuli that occur at different times, in a cohesive way so that we can have a cohesive picture of the world around us.
But sometimes the brain just can’t wait. If a hand-clapper is less than 30 meters away, you hear and see the clap happen simultaneously, but one meter further and the sound arrives more than 80 milliseconds later than the light, and the brain no longer matches what you see and hear.

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Deadly Asteroids Strike Earth More Often Than Thought, Study Shows

At a press conference on Tuesday at the Seattle Museum of Flight, three prominent astronauts supporting the B612 Foundation presented a visualization of new data showing the surprising frequency at which the Earth is hit by asteroids. The astronauts were guests of the Seattle Museum for a special series of public events on Earth Day 2014. Dr. Ed Lu, former US Shuttle and Soyuz Astronaut and co-founder and CEO of the B612 Foundation was joined by former NASA Astronaut Tom Jones, President of the Association of Space Explorers and Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders, first Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former Chairman and CEO of General Dynamics to discuss findings recently released from the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, which operates a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations. Between 2000 and 2013, this network detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1-600 kilotons - all caused not by nuclear explosions, but rather by asteroid impacts.

To put that in perspective, the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945, exploded with an energy impact of 15 kilotons. While most of these asteroids exploded too high in the atmosphere to do serious damage on the ground, the evidence is important in estimating the frequency of a potential “city-killer-size” asteroid. 

"There is a popular misconception that asteroid impacts are extraordinarily rare ... that's incorrect," Lu said.

The Earth is continuously colliding with fragments of asteroids, the largest in recent times exploding over Tunguska, Siberia in 1908 with an energy impact of 5-15 megatons. More recently, we witnessed the 600-kiloton impact in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013, and asteroid impacts greater than 20 kilotons occurred in South Sulawesi, Indonesia in 2009, in the Southern Ocean in 2004, and in the Mediterranean Sea in 2002. "Chelyabinsk taught us that asteroids of even 20-meter (66-foot) size can have substantial effect," Lu said.

Important to note as well is the fact that none of these asteroids were detected or tracked in advance by any existing space-based or terrestrial observatory.

Asteroids as small as about 131 feet - less than half the size of an American football field - have the potential to level a city, Lu told reporters on a conference call. "Picture a large apartment building - moving at Mach 50," Lu said. Mach 50 is 50 times the speed of sound, or roughly 38,000 mph.

The B612 Foundation released a new video visualization of these findings, showing the impact size range and location of all 26 explosions. The video is posted at https://b612foundation.org/portfolio/impact-video and can also be viewed on YouTube.com. The listing of all locations and size of impacts is also listed with additional FAQs at: https://b612foundation.org/impact-video-faq.

Also attending the press conference in Seattle were students from Key Peninsula Middle School. In addition, Astronauts Ed Lu, Tom Jones, and Bill Anders joined Museum of Flight CEO Doug King to visit the Challenger Center at the Museum of Flight to discuss asteroids and space-related assets to detect and track asteroids and field questions from the students.

“While most large asteroids with the potential to destroy an entire country or continent have been detected, less than 10,000 of the more than a million dangerous asteroids with the potential to destroy an entire major metropolitan area have been found by all existing space or terrestrially-operated observatories,” stated Lu. “Because we don’t know where or when the next major impact will occur, the only thing preventing a catastrophe from a "city-killer" sized asteroid has been blind luck.” 

The B612 Foundation aims to change that by building the Sentinel Space Telescope Mission, an early warning infrared space telescope for tracking asteroids that would provide many years to deflect an asteroid when it is still millions of miles away. The B612 Sentinel Mission will be the world’s first privately funded deep space mission that will create the first comprehensive dynamic map of our inner solar system, identifying the current and future locations and trajectories of Earth crossing asteroids. Sentinel will detect and track more than 200,000 asteroids in just the first year of operation, after a planned launch in 2018.

The B612 Foundation is named for the asteroid home of the “Little Prince” in the Antoine de Saint-Exupery classic novel. The Little Prince came to realize that what is essential in life, is often invisible to the human eye.

Cloning of human cells to new therapies

Scientists are a step closer to creating stem cells that perfectly match the patient's DNA.

Progress is described in the online version of the journal "Cell Stem Cell", this is the first "therapeutic cloning" of human cells.

Technically described as somatic cell nucleus transfer, therapeutic cloning involves producing embryonic cells genetically identical to the donor, usually for the purpose of using the cells in the treatment of disease.

However, the transfer of the core is also the first step in the reproductive cloning or to the production of genetic duplicates of man, a technique that causes controversy since the cloning of Dolly the sheep 1997th.

The United Nations 2005 urged all countries to ban cloning, but South Korea apparently didn't do that. The latest research is funded, one foundation and government of the country.

Other laboratories confirm that this can be a major breakthrough, since in future many illnesses in the future will be heal with stem cells.

Stem cells that perfectly match the patient could be created from the old cells, without the need to create embryos.

Although it sounds possible, it is far from simple: from 39 attempts, scientists have created stem cells only once for each donor.

The study was led by Jang Gi Chang from the Research Institute for Stem Cells in Los Angeles.

In therapeutic cloning, scientists use electricity to connect an adult cell (usually a skin cell) with the egg cell which has had its DNA removed.

The egg for five to six days develops into an embryo in the form of a hollow ball.

The inner cells are "pluripotent", or have the power to become any cell of the human body.

When such an embryo was transplanted into the uterus, it could turn into a clone of the donor DNA.

"Without regulation in this area, such embryos could be used for reproductive cloning of humans, although it would be unsafe and unethical terrible", said Dr. Robert Lanza, a scientist biotech firm Advanced Cell Technology Adaptive Environments de Massachusetts and one of the authors of the new study. 

The aim is that these embryonic stem cells develop into a beaker and turn into specialized cells for the purpose of treatment of the donor of certain diseases such as Parkinson's, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes.

Since the cells are genetically identical donor immune system they would not be rejected.

Despite the fact that scientists working in this field 15 years, before this study only one managed to produce stem cells with this technique and that happened a year ago.

This time they created two healthy embryos, one from each donor age 35 and 75 years.

However, due to the complex techniques and poor success of this procedure, Lanza says that this therapy could obtain only very wealthy people.

Substantial obstacle in the production of stem cells that perfectly match the patient and that very few women want to donate oocytes, since it can be a very painful process. 

UN finally admitted: We are sprayed you and control weather

A few days ago, the United Nations session was devoted to the control of weather, chemtrails, dusting and everything that the governments of the world for years and still do not acknowledge, and telling us about how chemtrails conspiracy is theory that has no evidence.

Then it's really amazing how the UN at its meeting discuss the chemicals that planes emit on all of us.

It is stated that these experiments are work of private companies and world governments. The aim is to claim control and change the weather to protect agriculture and crops due to global warming, which is already well known, big lie on which revolve billions in taxes for carbon dioxide. Now they do not hesitate to say so publicly how planes do change our climate with chemical substances that are released into the air.

It's just not clear who had allowed private companies and world governments to carry out their experiments upon humanity.

For years, people are assured to not see well, as traces in the sky does not exist, how those are regular planes and condensing gases. For years, saying that spraying does not exist, as it is only a conspiracy theory, and worst of all, they managed to fool a many people.

Theory of chemtrails is discredited and so today there are people who, despite all the evidence and confessions continue to talk thats all the conspiracy theories, it's not true .

According to the analysis of rainwater and soil samples chemtrails, among other things , the highest percentage consisting of aluminum oxide , barium salts - dibromoethane , carcinogenic extra fuel and insecticides , fibrous brown stuff , like cobwebs. -Alumina and barium salts are the two most common component in those chemtrails and has absorbed the radioactive matters.

Frogs use their eyeballs to eat. Really!

Frogs aren't just for dissecting in science class. The many species all have unique, fun, weird, and sometimes deadly characteristics about them that would surprise the majority of animal lovers. One of the strangest has to do with simply swallowing their meal.

As soon as they grab that succulent, unsuspecting insect, they need to blink, and it's not to keep their eyeballs from flying out. The eyelids pushes their eyes down to the top of their mouth and actually helps push the food down their throat. Talk about eyes bigger than their stomach.

Most frogs actually have teeth on their upper jaw, used primarily for keeping the prey in their mouth while it awaits the eyeball assault that pushes them down to the stomach.

If you were interested in what happened after the dinner starts its journey to the stomach, look no further than the glass frog which has translucent skin. That means you can see everything on the inside, including organs, bones, and muscles. Track that fly from the mouth, all the way to the stomach where it gets digested, like a grand tour of frog body.

Earth is the only known planet in the universe to have total solar eclipses!

Currently, our moon's diameter is approximately 400 times smaller than that of our sun; but it's also approximately 400 times closer. That means that, thanks to some great cosmic coincidence, we are the only know planet that can experience a total eclipse of the sun.

So what are the odds of this happening anywhere else? No one really knows, unfortunately. Only 893 planets have been discovered and named by astronomers so far, and our knowledge about their moons is equally sparse.

Based on our current knowledge of space, there may be millions or even billions of undiscovered planets, each of which may have one or more moons.

Ultimately, thanks to the vast numbers involved in the calculations, we can assume that some other planet, somewhere in the depths of space, also has the same size relationship between it's sun and moon — and maybe even intelligent life to view it!

 

Currently, our moon's diameter is approximately 400 times smaller than that of our sun; but it's also approximately 400 times closer. That means that, thanks to some great cosmic coincidence, we are the only know planet that can experience a total eclipse of the sun.
So what are the odds of this happening anywhere else? No one really knows, unfortunately. Only 893 planets have been discovered and named by astronomers so far, and our knowledge about their moons is equally sparse.
Based on our current knowledge of space, there may be millions or even billions of undiscovered planets, each of which may have one or more moons.
Ultimately, thanks to the vast numbers involved in the calculations, we can assume that some other planet, somewhere in the depths of space, also has the same size relationship between it's sun and moon — and maybe even intelligent life to view it!

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Scientists have produced the first "living material"

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a material with the properties of living and non-living things using the bacterium E.coli.

Their study suggests that in the future be possible materials that will evolve and renew themselves, and will be used by the development of biosensors and solar panels.

Researchers led by Timothy Luoma, assistant professor of electrical and biological engineering have shown that it is possible to connect gold nanoparticles and quantum points in the so-called "living material".

These smart materials will be able to react to the environment, such as living cells, but will also develop complex networks that are necessary for the application.

For example, self-healing materials can help absorbance and conducting electricity in solar cells. These materials also can repair scratches or defects without external intervention.

"Our idea is to combine the world of inanimate and animate and make hybrid materials with functional cells," said Lu.

Controlling bacteria

In order to develop the material , scientists were "getting involved" in "producing biofilm" to force the bacteria that uses nanoparticles and quantum dot.
Biofilm helps bacteria ( such as those that inhabit tartar ) that " sticks " to the surface , and in the case ešerhije quantity , it is about a fiber made ​​of a series of protein subunits CsgA .
For the study , the researchers altered the natural ability of E. coli that produces CsgA and made ​​genetically designed strain that produces CsgA only in certain circumstances , for example , when present molecule AHL .
This has helped scientists to control the production of biofilm formation in bacteria .
In the next part of the study, the researchers designed by E.coli that produces CsgA associated with peptides containing the amino acid histidine .
Production of targeted CsgA was controlled by limiting the amount of other molecules ATC .
When gold nanoparticles are added to a mixture of fiber , histadin was " bought" these particles and creating a network of gold nanoconections. In the future, such a network could be used in advanced computer science and biosensors .
Researchers have even demonstrated that bacteria can evolve and interact with each other to make them " persuaded " to produce CsgA linked to histidine .
" This is a very simple system , but it shows that cells can communicate with each other and changing the composition of the material over time ," says Lu . " We hope that this will succeed in imitating the ways in which natural systems are being developed , such as the bones ."
The study was published in the journal Nature Materials .