Comment Where is this power derived from? (Score 1) 193
I just had another look at Article One, Section Eight of our Constitution, and do not see anything that could grant this type of authority - am I missing something?
Comment Re:Doesn't work on a live brain (Score 2, Funny) 95
A slab of tissue — in this case, from a mouse's cerebral cortex — was carefully sliced into sections only 70 nanometers thick. (That's the distance spanned by 700 hydrogen atoms theoretically lined up side by side.) These ultrathin sections were stained with antibodies designed to match 17 different synapse-associated proteins, and they were further modified by conjugation to molecules that respond to light by glowing in different colors.
In case you were wondering, you have to be dead to be scanned with this technique, and it doesn't look like they will be able to press a button and scan a whole brain.
I'm not so sure that this small technicality will stop the TSA from installing one of these scanners
Comment Combine with smog busting paint (Score 1) 88
I wonder if they have thought of combining this with the smog busting paint previously discussed here?
Submission + - Surprise Collision on Jupiter (gemini.edu)
Submission + - Most Distant Known Object in Universe (gemini.edu)
G3CK0 writes: "Scientists at NASA's Swift satellite and Gemini Observatory on Mauna Kea have observed the most distant object in our universe. The object, a Gamma ray burst, has been measured at a redshift of z = 8.2. The light from this object has been traveling over 13 of the estimated 13.7 billion year age of the universe. An interesting note, this observation falls under what is know as a TOO (Target of Opportunity). Normal observations at Gemini are carried out via queue mode. When time sensitive events happen, a decision can be made to suspend the queue (and classical observing) in order to observe the TOO."
