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Posted: 9:56:49 AM  

Stargazers and astronomers are excitedly waiting to see Mars in the night sky this weekend when the planet is at its closest to Earth in over two years - making glow visibly red even to the naked eye.

The event, known as an opposition, happens once every 26 months when the orbits of Earth and Mars align so that the two planets form a relatively straight line with the sun.

Indeed this cosmic event is called an opposition because the Red Planet sits on the exact opposite side of Earth from the sun.

Mars will be visible in the constellation Leo, where it will be the brightest star at the time of the opposition.

Posted: 9:48:20 AM  

A mute button for people? Speech jamming gun that stops people talking by freezing the brain

It is a new gadget that could be straight out of George Orwell's 1984.

Japanese researchers have invented the ultimate conversation killer and instrument of control - a machine that can shut someone up at will.

Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada have built a gun they call the "Speech Jammer", which could be ideal for an unruly classroom or noisy library.

It forces individuals into vocal submission, they say, and is accurate when fired from up to 30 metres away.

Posted: 9:43:10 AM  

Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has unveiled a new add-on for the popular web browser that gives web users an instant view of which companies are watching them as they browse.

The move comes the same week that Google pushed ahead with its controversial new privacy policy, built to provide even more data for Google's $28 billion advertising business - despite concerns that the massive harvesting of private data might be illegal in many countries.

The Collusion add-on will allow users to pull back the curtain on web advertising firms and other third parties that track people's online movements, says Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs.

Posted: 9:36:45 AM  

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See this too: http://youtu.be/NulV3YInRIA- Photon Belt

ThxPaul

Posted: 9:27:35 AM