... ; this is due to the absorption by the ozone layer that lies above the Earth . The UVC is the shortest of the rays measuring one hundred to two hundred ninety nano meters (Brannon). The variety of UV rays is slowly causing the depletion of the Earth's ozone layer (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). With the depletion of the ozone layer there is brief ... the main cause of sunburn or reddening of the skin. Ranging from two hundred ninety to three hundred twenty nano meters are the UVB rays (Brannon). The longest ray is the UVA ray varying from three hundred twenty nano meters to four ...

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... or key using visual or speech recognizing technologies in real life; I've only seen them in the movies. He predicted that a technology required for translating languages will come to exist in sufficient quality for a first generation system by the late 1990's. I believe this has come true, ... although the technology is still very raw, and not really usable. As I am a bilingual, I have tested out translating Korean into English using translation ... this area of disabilities, and I think it's reasonable to think that in 20 years, lot of them will be cured or helped by technology that al...

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... ? Why does everything man imagines have to be a relative of the "here-now" reality? What would happen if a new religion came along and told everyone that heaven was populated with "nano-machines" that do everything in subservience to the will of the "master-intelligence," ala TRON, instead of angels obeying God? Instead of using the now "old" heaven-construct, let's design ... to completely dehumanize everything and look at the universe as a "trap" -- ala Buddhism, Krishna, or Scientology. None of those work. What else is there? Well, you have the subject of technology to deal with. What...

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