German scientists: We have broken speed of light

A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.

However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory.

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by fruittreeofwisdom

Corporations are People Too!

Stephen Colbert: "Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River."

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Turn off your cellphone because IT'S TRACKING YOU.

"If someone in the 1970s had revealed that within 40 years Americans would all be carrying electronic location-tracking devices with them wherever they traveled, people at the time would have either scoffed at the notion, or concluded that we were destined for a totalitarian takeover by the Soviet Union.

"Yet here we are just three decades later, and that situation is precisely what we are rapidly finding ourselves in. The technology is our cell phones."

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Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?

Entirely serious here:

Fascism unfolds in five stages. The first two are pretty solidly behind us -- and the third should be of particular interest to progressives right now.

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Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings

"Corporations are now, for all practical purposes, the only way anything can get done, made or distributed, or even imagined as a way of anything coming into being (except babies). Look around you. Is there anything, from the food in the fridge to the fridge itself, from the furniture to the very varnish on the floors or the clothes we wear that was not delivered unto us by corporations?

"Our dependency on corporations at every level of the needs hierarchy is total. We cannot see beyond the corporate manufactured reality because, to us, it is the only possible reality. We cannot see around it or out of it from the inside. Corporate reality is all permeating. Air tight, too. Each part so perfectly reinforces all of its other parts as to be seamless. Inescapable. In that sense, we are prisoners for life."

-- Joe Bageant, via AlterNet

Electric motorcycle does 0 to 60 mph in one second

Let's start with this -- via the SJ Examiner:



"The KillaCyle, owned and designed by Bill Dube, is in hot pursuit of world speed records for all motorcycles. This lightning quick bike is already the world’s fastest electric vehicle of any kind in the quarter mile with a time of 7.89 seconds and speed of 174 mph, set in October 2008 at Bandimere Speedway."



plus the 1972 Datsun "White Zombie" -- "the fastest street legal car on earth."



woo hoo!

JG