Robot Cheetah DARPA Terminator

DARPA’s M3 Robotic Cheetah set a new land speed record for legged robots. The Robot Cheetah was able to gallop at 18 mph on a lab treadmill.

Testing of a free running cheetah robot prototype is planned for later in 2012. The cheetah robot was developed by Boston Dynamics.

The robot’s movements are patterned after those of the cheetah in nature, increasing its stride and running speed by flexing and un-flexing its back on each step.

DARPA video demonstration of M3 Cheetah Robot:

DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, supplies technological options for the entire Department of Defense and is designed to be the technological engine for transforming DoD.

Ground robots have already saved many lives and preventeds thousands of injuries in military explosive disposal missions.

Robots may more effectively assist soldiers across a greater range of missions.

DARPA’s M3 – Maximum Mobility and Manipulation program seeks to create and demonstrate significant scientific and engineering advances in robot mobility and manipulation capability.

Maximum Mobility and Manipulation or Terminator? Unleash the hounds.

61st Planet Discovered by NASA Kepler Telescope

NASA and the Kepler mission has made a major discovery confirming the existence of 61 Planets with 2,326 other planetary candidates.

The newly found planetary system with the most alien planets is Kepler-33. The star hosts 5 planets.

Our galaxy is positively loaded with Planets of all sizes and orbits.

Many scientists are calling Kepler 22-B, Earth’s Twin, as it is believed to be a planet striking similar to our own.

Assuming you are traveling at the speed of light, it would still take 600 years to reach the Planet though.

NASA’s Kepler Mission has confirmed its first Planet in a habitable zone of a Sun like Star.

NASA scientist Relax World Not Ending in 2012

” There is No Threat to Earth in 2012. There is No Danger. All of the talk about a Doomsday is a big Hoax. So please don’t worry about it.” says NASA astrophysicist David Morrison.

There’s been a lot of talk about a Planet X or Nibiru, a giant planet that’s going to hit the Earth, or come very close, in 2012 .

The simple fact is, Nibiru does not exist. Astronomers would have been tracking it for a decade and it would be visible now. It’s not there. It’s a no-show. There’s nothing to worry about. Nothing’s coming to hit us in 2012.

There’s also been some talk about a global alignment. This happens every December. It really doesn’t mean anything, and there’s nothing special about 2012.

There’s also been some talk that somehow the poles are going to flip. If you’re talking about the rotation pole of the planet, that can’t change. It never has and never will.

If you’re concerned about a shift in magnetic polarity – a shift in the North and South pole – which does take place every few hundred thousand years, well there’s no reason to think it will happen in 2012. And actually no evidence that it would do any harm to us, even if it did happen.

Some people talk about solar flares which could do great damage to the Earth. Well, the Solar Maximum takes place every 11 years and occasionally there is some damage to satellites in orbit. But very little real damage is done.

And there’s no solar maximum predicted in 2012. The next solar maximum is predicted for the spring of 2013 and is anticipated that it will be lower than usual.

” Again, all this 2012 talk is just a Hoax. It’s a Fake. It’s nothing you should worry about… it’s Not True. Don’t worry about 2012 and Enjoy 2013, when it comes.”  – NASA scientist David Morrison

Michio Kaku warns of Solar Flare storm May 2013

The Sun, the source of all life, could put an end to the world as we know it in May 2013. The key word is could.

If a super solar flare storm penetrates our atmosphere, it could knock out all electricity and satellite communication on Earth. 

I’m going with NASA’s version. Scientists there are much rosier about solar maximums and solar flares.

If a giant solar flare fireball hits earth in May 2013, it would be devastating. It would literally paralyze the USA for months to a year. Transformers would short-circuit and burn out. Satellites would be fried to a crisp. Computers would all go down. Again the key word is if.

According to AstroPhysicist Michio Kaku, this [solar maximum] happens about every 11 years but the next one [May 2013] could be a Big One.  The last big one was in 1859.

Nasa scientist David Morrison says there’s nothing to worry about. It’s not a big one. I’m rooting for his take on the matter.