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New computer project to simulate 'everything happening on Earth' One of the most large-scale computer projects undertaken aims to simulate everything that happens on Earth - global weather patterns, spread of diseases or international financial transactions. "Many problems we have today - including social and economic instabilities, wars, disease spreading - are related to human behaviour, but there is apparently a serious lack of understanding regarding how society and the economy work," the BBC quoted Dr Helbing, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, as saying. The Living Earth Simulator (LES) would be a result of a knowledge accelerator colliding different branches of knowledge to reveal the hidden laws and processes underlying societies constitutes the most pressing scientific grand challenge of our century, he said. To start, the LES would need to be populated by data covering the entire gamut of activity on the planet, said Helbing. Although t

China developing carrier-killer missile Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) The Chinese military is working on an anti-ship ballistic missile programme capable of sinking aircraft carriers, a US naval official said. The Washington Times quoted US Admiral Robert F. Willard, commander of the US Pacific Command, as saying that the new anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is now in the early stages of deployment after having undergone extensive testing. 'An analogy using a Western term would be 'initial operational capability (IOC),' whereby I think China would perceive that it has an operational capability now, but they continue to develop it,' Willard said. 'I would gauge it as about the equivalent of a US system that has achieved IOC.' The new weapon, the 'D' version of China's DF-21 medium-range missile, involves firing the mobile missile into space, returning it into the atmosphere and then manoeuvring it to its target. Military officials consider using ballist

WikiLeaks: China's Science Secrets -Quantum Teleporation to Soft-Matter Physics Last year, The Daily Galaxy reported on China's eventual goal to extract Helium 3 from the Moon. The Wikileaks extracts shown below show that China's Earth-bound efforts in advanced esoteric science are equally impressive, ranging from nuclear fusion as a sustainable means to produce energy to quantum teleportation. Teleportation has long been a cornerstone of countless science-fiction novels, movies and television series. The scientific reality of teleportation (image left), Star Trek notwithstanding, is a long way off. Until recently it had been considered an impossibility, but with the advent of quantum teleportation this is starting to change, though slowly. Ads by Google China Tibet tours Amazing vacation to China Tibet a great discount! www.visitchinaguide.org Ouyang Ziyuan,

Internet traffic 'hijacked' to China servers, says US report WASHINGTON — Highly sensitive Internet traffic on US government and military websites was briefly "hijacked" and routed through Chinese servers earlier this year, a report to the US Congress said Wednesday. For 18 minutes on April 8, a Chinese state-owned telecommunications firm rerouted email traffic to and from websites of the US Senate, the Department of Defense, along with "many others" including NASA and Department of Commerce, said the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission's annual report. Some 15 percent of the Internet's entire traffic was routed through Chinese servers during this brief period in the late morning US time, said the report. "We don't know what was done (with the data) when they got it," commissioner Larry Wortzel told reporters Wednesday, noting it was not established if the traffic hijacking by China Telecom was intentional and sanctioned by

Is This China’s First Stealth Fighter? They could be the products of a Chinese government misinformation campaign. They could be clever Photoshop jobs by Chinese aviation fanboys. Or, they could be the real thing: the first hard evidence of the long-rumored Chengdu J-20, China’s first stealth-fighter prototype. The above photo and several others surfaced over the Christmas weekend on Chinese internet forums, catching the eye of Aviation Week fighter guru Bill Sweetman. A noted skeptic in the sometimes enthusiastic world of fast-jet journalism, Sweetman stressed that the pics might be fakes. Fantastical Photoshop art is a hallmark of Chinese military-themed websites. See the giant, flying “heli-carrier ” or the submarine flattop — both creations of over-excited Chinese Photoshoppers. But there are hints that the J-20 photos are real — and that much clearer shots exist, somewhere. “Rumor has it that better shots have put in transient appeara

China plans Death Star for 2020 Military ambition behind China's bold decision to go it alone in space By Tim Edwards L AST U PDATED 4:05 PM, OCTOBER 29, 2010 Share C hina has announced its intention to complete construction of a "relatively large" manned space station by around 2020. The existence of the programme suggests Beijing has decided against collaborating with other space-faring nations to join the International Space Station already in orbit around the earth. "After the construction of the space station, China's three-step manned space programme will be complete," a spokesman said. The mission will "promote China's scientific and technological progress and innovation, enhance overall national strength and make an important contribution to raising national prestige". In August, China tested a module called Tiangong-1 - or 'Heavenly Palace'. It is expected to be launched in 2011, to be followed the same year by the Shenzhou-8 s

Scientists behaving badly Recent events show China needs to clean up its scientific act Chinese ethics DISPUTES about science in Western countries can sometimes be heated. Seldom, though, do they descend into fisticuffs. But this is what seems to have happened in China on August 29th. That day Fang Shimin, a well-known scientific blogger and self-proclaimed “science cop”, was attacked in the street by a gang. Nor was this the first such incident. In June Fang Xuanchang (no relation), a science journalist on Caijing magazine, was on the receiving end of similar treatment. So far, it might be thought by smug Westerners, so depressing. But then there was a twist in the tale. One of the objects of the two Fangs’ criticisms, Xiao Chuanguo, a urologist at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, was arrested and charged with organising the assaults. Even more extraordinary (or perhaps not, considering that he had been detained f

The 36th edition of the closely watched TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers confirms the rumored takeover of the top spot by the Chinese Tianhe-1A system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, achieving a performance level of 2.57 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second). News of the Chinese system’s performance emerged in late October. As a result, the former number one system — the Cray XT5 “Jaguar” system at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in Tennessee — is now ranked in second place. Jaguar achieved 1.75 petaflop/s running Linpack, the TOP500 benchmark application. Third place is now held by a Chinese system called Nebulae, which was also knocked down one spot from the June 2010 TOP500 list with the appearance of Tianhe-1A. Located at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, Nebulae performed at 1.27 petaflop/s. Rounding out the Top Five slots are two new systems: Tsubame

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