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Science Sunday 08-06-17

The Progressive Wing Posted on August 5, 2017 by bebimbobAugust 5, 2017

Clingy Drones Vice News’ Motherboard reports that a new type of drone has successfully been designed by researchers at the Createk Design Lab at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec that can autonomously alight on, and cling to, vertical surfaces, both hard and soft. Besides obvious spy applications that the drone was not specifically designed for, the researchers suggest that the UAV can be used to survey areas damaged by earthquakes, or to inspect tall structures that are difficult to get to.   Zealandia Recently, a team of eleven geologists strongly recommended that the sunken land mass between Australia and … Continue reading →

Posted in Science Sundays | Tagged Australia, colonizing Mars, CP symmetry violation, Createk, Dave Chapelle, dragon cargo ship, drones that cling to vertical surfaces, Elon Musk, matter over antimatter, Motherboard, NASA, neutrino oscillation, New Caledonia, New Zealand, planetary protection officer, raptor engine, Space X, University of Sherbrooke, Zealandia

Physician’s First Watch: ‘No Mass Fatal Shootings in Australia Two Decades After Semiautomatic Gun Ban’

The Progressive Wing Posted on June 23, 2016 by Star StriderJune 23, 2016

From the New England Journal of Medicine — Physician’s First Watch (23 Jun 2016): ———————————————————— No Mass Fatal Shootings in Australia Two Decades After Semiautomatic Gun Ban By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM Australia has experienced no mass fatal shootings since it banned rapid-fire long guns in 1996, a JAMA study finds. The ban included guns already owned by citizens and mandated government buyback of all prohibited firearms. Using national government statistics and news reports, researchers compared firearm deaths during two decades before the ban (1979 through 1996) and two decades afterward (1997 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Assault Weapons, Assault Weapons Ban, Australia, Gun Control

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