Two of the well-known scientists from England proposed, this week, to control the global warming by sowing the oceans of the world with millions of enormous vertical pipes 100 to 200 metres long.
We need “an emergency treatment for the pathology of global warming”, James Lovelock and Chris Rapley wrote in a letter to the magazine Nature. This therapy would be created due to “the capacity of the Earth to heal itself.”
As the atmosphere heats up, they explain, cyclical processes that usually regulate the climate are beginning to amplify the warming process rather than holding it in check.
When Arctic sea ice recedes further each year, for example, sunlight falls on blue waters and they absorb the heat, instead of white snow and ice that reflect heat back into the space; this accelerates the warming process.
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Apple Inc, the computers maker, said on Monday that the available programs in internet that allow that the iPhone be used with other suppliers of telephony services, besides AT&T, can damage the device in an irreparable way.
Apple that also manufactures the Mac computers, the iPod digital player and operates the iTunes online store, said that once the Apple’s software for the iPhone is changed, it “will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable” .
Since the iPhone presentation on June, Apple has said the company hopes to sell 1 million units at the end of this month. Apple said that in the first two days the company sold 270.000 devices.
“We are not doing anything proactively to disable iPhones that have been hacked or unlocked”, Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of worldwide product marking said.
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Your finances will be now in a place: Mint.com… Everything, without having to login to multiple accounts. By means of this tool, you would know the state of your financial health in any moment .
Mint.com can connect directly to 3,000 US banks and credit card companies, downloading your transactions and balances for the purpose of making calculations, to identify opportunities or unusual activity and offer suggestions. All your financial transactions are stored in a place even if you have various accounts with several banks. Equally, you will know where your money is going (Home, Food & Dining, Shopping, etc) and you will be able to make decisions to optimize your expenses.
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The European Mars Express spacecraft has obtained some new images of Tiu Valleys (one of the most interesting regions in the red planet due to its watery past) which shows several mysterious ridges, next to what seems to be the place where a system of creeks or channels ended.
Although the scientists have not still determined completely the origin of these stranger structures, composed by arrays of mounds that twist on the valley, it seems they arose several millions years ago due to the action of the water mixed with lava, coming from volcanic activities that took place in that environment which is an inactive desert now.
According to the hypothesis that the European Space Agency (ESA) outlines, the water (or maybe a water-rich mud flow) came in contact with lava when the valley was flooded, what would have caused the formation of the gnarled structures revealed by the new images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board Mars Express. The mission of this spacecraft that arrived to the vicinity of Mars in December 2003 has been prolonged twice, what allows it to continue working until May 2009.
The new pictures were taken last year in June but they have just been presented. They have a resolution of 16 metres per pixel and they cover (judging by their aspect) something that should be the estuary or the valley outlet where the water flowed from the creeks. The region has one of the biggest systems of channels on the red planet. It is dominated by large-scale remnant massifs, which are large relief masses that have been moved and weathered as a block by the water action in the past. The images of ESA cover an area of approximately 140 by 80 km.
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The Japanese company Sony Corp. presented a new version of its Sony Walkman with capacity to play digital video, the last potential rival of the dominant device in the market, the Apple’s iPod.
The company said that the new digital music players (NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610) would be available on this month.
These gadgets will play musical formats like MP3 and Microsoft’s WMA offering options to download online music and video.
The battery allows up to nine video hours and they will cost between US$ 140 and US$ 230.
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