The coming year is going to be a big one in all kinds of areas, from space to supercomputing, research done both above and below the ocean, examinations into our distant past and into our future. And salmon. Expect to hear lots about salmon.
Five amazing, clean technologies that will set us free, in this month's energy-focused issue. Also: how to build a better bomb detector, the robotic toys that are raising your children, a human catapult, the world's smallest arcade, and much more.


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One day a serious real asteroid will hit earth.
The realities of destroying one of these things or deflecting it we have no experience.
Perhaps we should have played target practice of this one and learn!
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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.
yes 2012 will a crazy year. a lot of destruction. but also the return of the Aunnaki. they are our ancestors and are coming back for what was rightfully theirs.
@robot,
we can destroy an asteroid. we do have the tech.
"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"
-Killah Priest
JediMindset
The Annunaki are mix breed aliens and humans that were destroyed long ago. There were all kinds of annunaki; some more successful and some not so successful. Some were Egyptian Kings and Mayan Rulers and more throughout the world which had higher brain function with cone heads. Some were equal to human ants and used much for labor. Others were giants. There were a large variety and a few completely successful mix breed ones too. All the mix breeds are gone now.
We current humans do have technical prowess, I agree. But in actual reality of destroying an asteroid or deflecting is unproven and the skill needs development. The asteroid that hit the Earth in the future is an unknown and so is our experience of stopping such an event right now.
It is not the Annunaki that will return, but their makers. How they may mingle or use the current humanoid is another complete unknown.
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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.
@Robot
wow you are on point. yes they are a mix breed but so are we. we are a quarter alien, while the Annunaki are half. they used us as slaves because we were very efficient. both the Egyptians and Mayans were highly intelligent and very well aware of the universe. that was knowledge passed down to them by the annunaki. they didn't want the truth to be forgotten so they left us the mayan calender which they helped design. and yes they mated with the humans since we were their design. we are a genetic experiment designed to see how long we would survive as a race. they are not impressed with what we have done with the earth so are either gonna destroy us upon their return on 12/21/12 or try to help us. they are sad to see so much bloodshed in the name of religion and politics has been spilled. they see our man made borders and laugh at how pathetic we have become.
"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"
-Killah Priest
@robot & JediMindset
...what is this, I don't even
JediMindset,
The Mayan thinking of calendars was in cycles. December 21 2012 is simply an end to one great cycle and a beginning of another. There is no doom or gloom of the end of the world. It is the same as Spring, Summer Fall and Winter, only this cycle is over a much greater period. Humans are adaptable to all the seasons and we will adapt and grow to this new beginning of a cycle. All is well.
The Annunaki and those who followed them were eliminated over 10,000 years ago, perhaps longer in the great cleansing of the world. Perhaps we do have a little left over alien influence, but the old ways of thinking are gone. We current human are responsible for our own actions now.
I still think USA should of done some kind of practice on that asteroid and seen if the could destroy it or deflect it.
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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.
yeah its like a cycle. i heard a rumor that this coming change will promote us supernatural powers(ie. human flight,pyrokinesis, Telekinesis and many different Psychokinesis. many the movie xmen and the shoe Heroes was on point. maybe that is the next stage of human evolution and 2012 will grant us that. i cant wait to be able to become invisible to infiltrate hidden place. i would like to see some one knock on area 51 door and see if they let one in. but yea i agree that we should test one of our methods to push away further the asteroids. hopefully it doesn't cause it to act erratic and sends it on a course with earth LOL.
"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"
-Killah Priest
JediMindset,
Sometime around, near or even on the date of 21December 2012, the polarity of the heavens as they affect the magnitude of earth and the human mind elements will change, causing a shift of how people will treat each other and think. Many humans will not adapt to the change and simple die off. The quantity of humans dyeing off from this change is an unknown. The remainder humans will have a different outlook on life and society will change to be more matriarchic.
Once the mental change of society begins is at this point we may be visited again by our alien ancestors. Currently the outer space aliens are fearful of the violent nature of the patriarch style of thinking and tend to be remote observers of humanity.
The polarity and mind changing events will be very subtle and gradual. The only thing significant in the change is the polarity will be another direction. Imagine you are walking forward slowing and carefully and correctly all your life and now one day you find yourself walking backward, slowly, carefully. It will take a different mindset to adapt and then others will try to insist in continuing walking forward and feeling stress the rest of their life to their eventual death. But it will not actually be walking backwards, but just a different way of seeing things, thinking about things, perceptions and thought processes.
21December2012 is not about Earth Quakes, Explosions, Tidal Waves or anything suddenly terrifying. But it will change everything never the less! The change will be in our own human minds.
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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.
@Robot
wow. that is good news. thank you for the great insight! soon we shall see great changes!! and we are lucky enough to fall witness to this marvelous event!! all hail the mighty Annunaki!!! all hail the nibiru!!!!!!!!!!!!
"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"
-Killah Priest
guys, this is a science website. Are you trolling? are you the same person?
Kyro,
Below is some of your previous posted comments. Please explain the how scientific your comments were?
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9.27.2011 at 12:43pm - Comment by kryo
hemp.
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9.15.2011 at 06:42pm - Comment by kryo
@scienceguy2 fuck you
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3.18.2011 at 03:14pm - Comment by kryo
everything written in the daily mail is a lie. even true things, once in the daily mail become lies.
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2.28.2011 at 12:41pm - Comment by kryo
@deadzombie I don't think I'm a samurai, I just think that those weapons have been perfected as human killing devices over thousands of years and hence are good at killing zombies
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Your responses are not so scientific.
But hey I may or may not approve of some of your comments, but I am glad you have free speech. Take care.
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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.
(Looking at the picture in the article)
Is it just me
or is that asteroid
"HAPPY to pass by Earth!"
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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.
@kryo
no we are not the same person. LOL wow.
"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"
-Killah Priest
For those of us in life with a desire and aspiration to grow and evolve, we are never the same person.
Besides, JediMindset wears tinfoil on his head to keep the aliens from reading his multiple minds.
And I wear a steel noodle drain bowl over my head to keep the aliens from putting thoughts in my mind.
We nothing a like! LOL Wowzers!
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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.
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