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Asteroids could be used to destroy enemy cities if they were nudged out of their normal orbits and guided towards cities on Earth by a string of nuclear explosions.

The result could cause devastation more than 50,000 times greater than the bomb at Hiroshima and could obliterate a region the size of Belgium. The perpetrators might even be able to escape blame by calling it a natural disaster.

David Asher, of Armagh Observatory, and Nigel Holloway, of Spaceguard UK, think this isn?t science fiction?that?s it?s possible with the technology we have now.
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Russian scientists claim to have developed the world?s first artificial brain, a ?neuro-computer? with the same intellectual potential as a human brain. Earlier attempts to create artificial intelligence have all failed.

If this proves to be correct, this may well be the most important breakthrough in years. The development of artificial intelligence has lagged badly in the west, and there is an increasingly urgent need for truly intelligent machines to support complex human activities in an increasingly challenging world.
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A Dreamland listener sent us this photograph, which can be neither confirmed nor denied. The presumption is that the 747 was taking off, otherwise the picture would not have survived…unless, of course, the landing was a very, very near miss.

Clever software mavin or incredibly foolish and brave photographer? One guess: the photo is computer generated. It’s a still taken from a really excellent indie short called 405 by Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt

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Beginning on April 21, Dreamland will be aired live on Saturday nights. The Easter Sunday program will be the program’s last Sunday evening broadcast. This is being done as part of the program’s drive to be cleared on more stations. On Sunday nights, stations will now be scheduling other programming.

For many years, a substantial number of stations have broadcast Dreamland tape-delayed on Saturday nights. This has proved to be a popular time with listeners, and network programming officials are hoping that Dreamland’s steady growth can be continued and increased by the move.
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