Scientists of the Japanese university of Keio have developed a computer program with which an Avatar can be steered, e.g., in Second Life only with strength of thought. The cerebral activities are transmitted with the help of electrodes to a laptop. Then the new Sostware translates the cerebral signals into the orders which steer the Avatar. Sounds almost unbelievable - if we could`nt see it here by film.
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The humanity shortens the life of the universe, writes Roger Highfield, Science editor, in an article for “telegraph.co.uk”. Sounds for the moment quite mad, but Highfield brings a scientific thesis for this adventurous assertion. Therefore, cosmologists would have found out that the life of the universe could come rather at his end - only by the fact that they observe the mysterious ” dark energy “.
“Our very ability to study the heavens may have shortened the inferred lifetime of the cosmos … By observing the system, however, we may pick out one single ‘quantum state’, and therefore force the system to change its configuration … New Scientist reports a worrying new variant as the cosmologists claim that astronomers may have provided evidence that the universe may ultimately decay by observing dark energy, a mysterious anti gravity force which is thought to be speeding up the expansion of the cosmos.”

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A 18-year-old New Zealander, code name “Akill”, was arrested by the New Zealand police on the last Friday. He should have stated worldwide computer hacker, with main focuses in New Zealand, the Netherlands and the USA. The damage is estimated at converted 13.5 million euros. Now to the teenager threaten up to ten years of custody. All together the hackers should have brought 1.3 million computers under her control. Then these could have been used for the dispatch by Spam, the Ausspioneren of private data or for specific attacks on single servers. Akill is a true master, says the police. No virus scanner could recognise the penetrated software. “He is one of the best in the world by developing this kind of software “, says the boss of the department for computer crime, Maarten Kleintjes. On the track the investigators to the youngster had come after an attack on the computers of the university of Pennsylvania.

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The space research belongs to me as one of the most interesting sciences. It stands for great visions and projects. Besides, the most exciting project is the investigation of Mars. Before some time I was in an arrangement with Prof. Dr. Jesco v. Puttkamer: ” Millennium project Mars ”

The legendary space pioneer Wernher von Braun had taken Jesco v. Puttkamer in the 60s as a developing engineer for the first moon landing program in the USA. As a chief strategist of the NASA he planned afterwards a number of expeditions in the space. At the moment v. Puttkamer leads the NASA development of the long-term development of the universe. Puttkamer said about the “millennium project Mars”: ” The space mission opens the vision of a common future in the space as a human task”.