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It was a similar story on July 24th 1993 at Fairford, when two MiG-29s of the Russian Air Force Russian Swifts aerobatic team collided in mid-air and crashed, but safely away from the public. Incredibly no one was injured on the ground and both MiG-29 pilots (Alexander Beschastonov and Sergey Tresvyatsk) ejected from their aircraft. Aircraft investigators highlighted that pilot error was to blame where it was shown on video that one pilot had carried out a reverse loop and flew into clouds, whereas the other pilot lost visual contact with his wingman and aborted the display performance.

In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online -- Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts -- are considering a coordinated blackout of their sites, some of the web’s most popular destinations.

No Google searches. No Facebook updates. No Tweets. No Amazon.com shopping. Nothing.

On November 15, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL, and LinkedIn wrote a letter to Washington warning of SOPA's dangers. "We are concerned that these measures pose a serious risk to our industry's continued track record of innovation and job-creation, as well as to our Nation's cybersecurity," the letter argued

Google co-founder Sergey Brin himself has loudly denounced the bill. “While I support their goal of reducing copyright infringement (which I don't believe these acts would accomplish), I am shocked that our lawmakers would contemplate such measures that would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world,” Brin wrote on Google+ social networking site earlier this month.

More: Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/30/will-google-amazon-and-facebook-blackout-net/#ixzz1jNPe7gdV

"SOHO watched as a fairly bright comet dove towards the Sun in a white streak and was not seen again after its close encounter (May 10-11, 2011). The comet, probably part of the Kreutz family of comets, was discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov. In this coronagraph the Sun (represented by a white circle) is blocked by the red occulting disk so that the faint structures in the Sun's corona can be discerned. Interestingly, a coronal mass ejection blasted out to the right just as the comet is approaching the Sun.

Scientists, however, have yet to find a convincing physical connection between sun-grazing comets and coronal mass ejections. In fact, analysis of this CME using images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows that the CME erupted before the comet came close enough to the solar surface to interact with strong magnetic fields."

@mgittle :
Interesting about the Plutonomy Report. It seems pretty straight-forward to say Plutonomies like the US, the British Empire, and the Roman Empire brain-drain the rest of the world. That's why the young creator of Chatroulette recently moved to Silicon Valley, instead of staying in Russia,* same as Google's Sergey Brin.

I remember a study from a few years ago that concluded when human were migrating out from Africa, each group that kept moving to a new location had slightly higher novelty-seeking genes than the group that stayed... fascinating... with the end result being in places at the end of the longest migration paths, like the Americas and the Pacific Islands there were significant differences. However, the paper connected that with higher rates of attention-deficit type learning disabilities in those areas, rather than with higher rates of entrepreneurship.

Ultimately, though, there are myriad differences between groups, so looking at just one trait or theory, as seems to be done in the Plutonomy Report, isn't necessarily very helpful in the big picture.

@mgittle :
Interesting article about time perception. I think it's a good reminder to practice mindefulness in daily life... and I see they mention the Dalai Lama in that article

Marinegunrock: Trying very hard not to downvote.

This is nothing but fear mongering. What? You think Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page are all sitting somewhere petting a cat in a dark cave? Come the fuck on. You got caught leaving a porn shop? OH NO! It's not like regular people passing by the shop couldn't see it. A naked baby!?!? Seriously? Ugh.

Science is dying in America. NSF might have it's budget completely eliminated. NIST, NIH, NOAA, NRL, ANL, have all seen there budget sharply cut when compared to inflation. And you ask, who would I vote for?

You people. And you wonder why we have such a bad economy. The days of "Made in USA" are over people. We cannot compete with the foreign labor. Americans innovate. We make new things that no one has thought of, which are conceived in national labs and universities. Even Google was invented at a University.

"Google began in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California."

And you ask me who I would vote for. Do you have any idea how bad it is and has been for science? This is ridiculous. Is there a choice?

Obama is the only one of those candidates who had a legitimate science policy. No one ever asked Ron Paul "What are you gonna do about Science?". Why? Because he would have said, "I would eliminate the NSF and all other research institutions and give tax incentives to corporations to do research."

And if you seriously think that is a viable economic philosophy, then you need to get off your computer, because that was also invented at a University.

It's easier to justify the outsize rewards society bestows upon innovators like Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google. They have a lavish slice of the pie, but they made the pie bigger for everyone, whether you're in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong or anywhere in between.

>> ^omnistegan:
I'm willing to bet he's the only richest man ever to have a "Philanthropy" section on his Wikipedia page.

Not necessarily. Doing some research for my website, I found out the philanthropy is the norm among the world's gazilionaires.

Large donations have been made recently by:
* Bill Gates of Microsoft to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
* Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
* Carlos Slim Helu of Latin American telecoms to health programs in Mexico
* Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google to Google.org

Right after the writer talks about Viacom's billion dollar lawsuit against Google, I'm pretty sure that's Sergey Brin walking by in the background... It's at 1:31.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Do you really think we would buckle under and sell-out for mere money? What do you take us for, good sir?




Pssst. Larry, Sergey -- email's in my profile. AND it's GMail (wink)