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New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board 277

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 05, 2009 @04:36AM from the gauntlet-thrown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Australia refused to give Rebellion's new Aliens Vs. Predator game a rating, effectively banning it in the country. Rebellion says it won't be submitting an edited version for another round of classifications, however. (As Valve did with Left 4 Dead 2.) They said, 'We will not be releasing a sanitized or cut down version for territories where adults are not considered by their governments to be able to make their own entertainment choices.'"

Man Controls Cybernetic Hand With Thoughts 81

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 05, 2009 @03:10AM from the i-thought-john-connor-destroyed-that-thing dept.

MaryBethP writes "Scientists in Italy announced Wednesday that Pierpaolo Petruzziello, a 26-year-old Italian who had lost his left forearm in a car accident, was successfully linked to an artificial limb that was controlled by electrodes implanted in his arm and connected to the median and ulnar nerves. He has learned to control the artificial limb with his mind. According to CNet, Petruzziello says he could feel sensations in it, as if the lost arm had grown back again. The BBC has a brief video showing the arm in operation."

Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

Comment Re:How dimensions wrap themselves up (Score 1) 277

by SixTwelve on Sunday September 04, 2005 @06:05AM (#13475616) Attached to: Evidence of 6 Dimensions or More?

we can only perceive three dimensions and yet we must exist in the other six as well

More like they'd exist within us. The article describes them as mostly existing at the nanometer scale. Nanometers certainly do exist within us, and I surely can't perceive them. I'll grant you that that doesn't jibe with my understanding of dimentions, having only the other 4 to work with as reference.

but we can't see them

Lot's of stuff we can't directly perceive. For instance, I believe in UV radiation, but I can only infer it from the pain of my white irish ass getting about 4 minutes exposure to the sun.

life-forms that exist in one or two dimensions, so how can we exist in just three?

I don't know where life-forms come into this. Your sentiocentricity gives me great pleasure in coining a word.

Well, I guess you didn't specify sentients. But babelfish doens't have english to latin so I got nothin. I wonder, though, how many dimentions a sea cucumber percieves? Maybe time? That doesn't mean it doesn't exist in at least 3 more.

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