the alma-X-files

[ghetto kitty]

2007 - Chinese year of the Chicken - Bird Flu Pandemic devastates parts of Asia

2008 - Chinese year of the Horse - Equine Influenza decimates Australian racing

2009 - Chinese year of the Pig - Swine Flu Pandemic kills hundreds around the globe.

but dboy, you left this part out >

next year......

2010 - Chinese year of the Cock - what could possibly go wrong?

[DBoy]

http://www.zmescience.com/most-amazing- ... -artifacts

[almax]

Melbournebeats a bit boring atm, time for a theoretical discussion

Time Travel

First theorised by Kurt Godel circa 1938 (correct me if im wrong)

So when/if a time machine is built, it won't mean you can travel back in time and visit the dinosaurs, all it will mean is that from that point on, people can travel back and forth so long as the machine stays on.

Time would become non linear. The instant the machine is turned on, people from thousands of years in the future could potentially travel back in time, sharing technology and knowledge.
So there would be no progress, it would all instantly become available. End of the world as we know it?

discuss

[FoundationStepper]

Primer

[almax]

what context are you saying that in?
as in the detonation device or the type of book?

[FoundationStepper]

the scifi movie about timetravel

[almax]

oh right, is it any good?

[FoundationStepper]

its a bit of a mess but a kind of good headf#ck. worth a nerdy watch

[ghetto kitty]

Time would become non linear.

I believe time IS non linear, and that it is only the constructs that somehow we all agree on, or did agree on long ago, that make it linear.

I dont think there needs to be a 'machine' (another nice human way to say that unless we invent it, it will not be possible)
to time travel, nor is it so far out of our reality to move between places and times at will.
Lots of ancient belief systems work with this as something one aspires to, in the process of searching.

And yes, the end of the world as we know it has been happening for some time already. One could argue that the advent of the innernet was this transference of knowledge through time and space. 2012 is merely a nice marker with which to again, aspire to understand timelines we have only set ourselves.

Again, kitty touting the fact that I do not believe science has the answer for everything.

[ghetto kitty]

god, i just should not post in these threads anymore....

:tumbleweeds:

[almax]

ok kitty, i will address your post based on my thoughts.

You said that science doesnt have the answer to everything and i'd agree, in fact i'd think "science "would agree with you too, that why it exists, to find out these answers or at least try to get a better understanding of things through systematic observation and experimentation.

As far as whether time is linear or not, i'd have to say at present, in our experience of the world, it is. Godel alikened time to a river, streaming ahead. A river can by diverted however and his theory of time travel used the existence of eddys in a rivers to explain how it could potentially be achieved. (an eddy is what happens when there is a boulder/obstacle in the river, as the water flows around the obstacle, it backflows to fill the void)

An exciting prospect in a non linear time would be the power of thoughts.
Lets say that if you, in 2010, decide that you are going to research and develop, for example anti gravity, then you get funding, work progresses on this project and maybe after 50 years in 2060 anti gravity machines are developed, now if a time machine was developed in 2012 or 2020 or whenever, from that moment on any train of thought you have with conviction could instantly become available. So if you think, right, im gonna develop anti gravity and when its complete, ship it back in time to 2012 to when the first time machine was switched on.

Does that even make sense?

[ghetto kitty]

agree on the first point.

second point - thats exactly it, 'in our experience of the world, it is' is what im getting at. We only experience it as linear because we have constructed our world around past, present and future as being static things, defined by hours/days/eons that march out behind each other indefinately. I dont know who Godel is, but if we use the analogy that time is a river, there must also be other unknowns, other things that impact on the flow in one direction, like man made dams also rain, streams and tributaries, and the occasional dive bombing moneys that displace the river into other areas suddenly. for example

third point - kind of makes sense.
Ill digress for a minute, and say that thoughts are one of the main things we humans still have, mostly under our control as individuals, that ARE non linear. I guess I just feel like thoughts and the ability of the human mind are possibly already more powerful than any machine we may decide to try and build.
NOW, if there WAS a machine, what would the reality of time travel be? would the machine transport the physical matter (like the person or the anti gravity machine) to another time, same place?
So it would be almax standing on flinders street when horse and carriages rolled past instead of trams?
now if we assume this IS the point, and all we have at the end is almax looking at said horsey, and he comes back and reports to us in the future (the now) the smells, the sunlight, the ease of using horse and carriage over connex etc,
all we really have to go on is almax's perception of this past, dont we?
So, my argument, kind of hinges on the fact that perception is everything, that unless we can use this time machine to transport an entire city (for example) BACK in time, what do we have to gage the relevance of any future or past on apart from the individual's idea of it?

Nope, fuck time machine, we need teleport first. I'm still waiting scientists. Bags are packed.

[ghetto kitty]

okay, have thought more about this.

apart from stock markets, baseball scores and bringing blueprints for future technology back and giving it to people who know nothing about the inner workings/development of said machines to troubleshoot them,

what would actually be the point of time travel?

[apophenian]

So you could become your own grandfather like in futurama?

[FoundationStepper]

saving john conner

[almax]

So you could become your own grandfather like in futurama?

yes everything would be exactly like futurama, and the terminator and back to the future all rolled into one. Maybe some star trek too.

[DBoy]

the quandary is the concept of multiple realities...

If you invent the anti-gravity machine in 2050 having lived in "reality A" and go back to 2012 with your discoveries so the time machine now exists in "Reality B" - does your self in "reality A" still go on inventing the machine and going back to 2012 to create the skew that creates "reality b"? or does "reality a" cease to happen once the time machine is brought into the frame in 2012. If so how does it get invented?

Back to the future really did cover most of this Al.

[ghetto kitty]

exactly, which kind of confirms my hopeful belief that there is actually reality A AND B (and C and D and E) occurring at this moment, we just have not learned to move between them with ease.

In fact, perhaps there is the same said scientist operating on a few different planes of existence right now, and one ingredient, or number in a formula, will alter the course of their reality (or the creation of their time machine) , and perhaps bring closer the possibility of collision between A and B. Kind of like when the Life on Mars guy sees his mother, realities collide yet only the more progressed or 'advanced' entity understands what is occurring.

Tv and science fiction explore all this shit, im one of the people that thinks that if even half the Law and Order stories come from something in reality, im inclined to bet on the X files too.

[almax]

post from another forum

High Precision atomic clock:

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/7724-pha ... achine.php

Construction of CNES’s PHARAO atomic clock is getting underway in preparation for its planned launched in 2013. Among other things, it will set out to test Einstein’s theory of relativity on the ISS.


A long-haul project:

Sylvie Léon-Hirtz. Credits: CNES/S. Godefroy, 2008.

PHARAO* is certainly setting its sights high, as one of its objectives is to test Einstein’s famous theory of relativity postulated at the start of the 20th century.

CNES’s atomic clock is a large cube 1 metre on each side that will fly in 2013 to the International Space Station (ISS), where it will be mounted outside the European Columbus laboratory for 18 months.

“Since the theory of relativity was postulated a century ago, time has become elastic,” explains Sylvie Léon-Hirtz, PHARAO Project Manager at CNES. “Time and space are interwoven in a space-time fabric warped by gravitation. According to Einstein’s theory, the intensity of the gravitational field affects the flow of time. This means a clock in motion will be ‘slower’ than a clock that is stationary. In this sense, we say that time is subjected to relativistic effects like gravitational redshift or expansion.”

All these predicted effects can be tested experimentally and that is what the uniquely precise PHARAO clock is designed to do.

“Such tests have already been performed from a drop tower and on aircraft or sounding rockets,” says Sylvie Léon-Hirtz. “But on the ISS, at an altitude of 400 km and in microgravity, we’ll gain several orders of magnitude in precision.”

PHARAO is also the 1st cold-atom space clock. “We’re going to have to validate and calibrate it for 6 months,” concludes Sylvie Léon-Hirtz. “Demonstrating these new technologies will be useful for many other instruments, especially new inertial sensors.”




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What will this exp try to do?
= test the predicted time differences between clocks moving at different speeds with more precision than they've been tested before.

Why do I think that is this cool?
= demonstrates concepts of of the "twin paradox"*


This looks to be an updated/more precise test similar to the Hafele-Keating Experiment done in the 70's (where reading from atomic clocks on both east & west bound planes were compared to ones on the ground):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele-Keating_experiment

Results:
Time on clock on the ground =0
Time on clock on plane moving east = -59ns
Time on clock on plane moving west = +273ns

Breakdown (there's a better table at the wiki link):

..............Difference in nanoseconds relative to clock on ground

...............predicted.......................... .........................|.measured
...............___________________________________ _____|..............
...............gravitational.........kinematic.... .|....TOTAL......|...............
...............(general rel.)......(special rel.)...|..................|...............
eastward....144±14.............−184 ± 18.....|..−40 ± 23...|..−59 ± 10
westward...179±18.................96±10.......|... .275±21....|....273±7


brief explanation of physics:

According to special relativity, the rate of a clock is greatest according to an observer who is at rest with respect to the clock. In a frame of reference in which the clock is not at rest, the clock runs slower, and the effect is proportional to the square of the velocity. In a frame of reference at rest with respect to the center of the earth, the clock aboard the plane moving eastward, in the direction of the earth's rotation, is moving faster than a clock that remains on the ground, while the clock aboard the plane moving westward, against the earth's rotation, is moving slower.

According to general relativity, another effect comes into play: the slight increase in gravitational potential due to altitude that speeds the clocks back up. Since the aircraft are flying at roughly the same altitude in both directions, this effect is more "constant" between the two clocks, but nevertheless it causes a difference in comparison to the clock on the ground.


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*The twin paradox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox

In his famous work on special relativity in 1905, Albert Einstein predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, and then one was moved away and brought back, the clock which had undergone the traveling would be found to be lagging behind the clock which had stayed put. Einstein considered this to be a natural consequence of special relativity, not a paradox as some suggested, and in 1911, he restated and elaborated on this result in the following form:

If we placed a living organism in a box ... one could arrange that the organism, after any arbitrary lengthy flight, could be returned to its original spot in a scarcely altered condition, while corresponding organisms which had remained in their original positions had already long since given way to new generations. For the moving organism the lengthy time of the journey was a mere instant, provided the motion took place with approximately the speed of light. (in Resnick and Halliday, 1992)

In 1911, Paul Langevin made this concept more vivid and comprehensible by his now-iconic story / thought experiment of the twins, one of whom is an astronaut and the other a homebody. The astronaut brother undertakes a long space journey in a rocket moving at almost the speed of light, while the other remains on Earth. When the traveling brother finally returns to Earth, it is discovered that he is younger than his sibling, that is to say, if the brothers had been carrying the clocks mentioned above, the astronaut’s clock would be found to be lagging behind the clock which had stayed with the Earth-bound brother, meaning that less time had elapsed for the astronaut than for the other. Langevin explained the different aging rates as follows: “Only the traveler has undergone an acceleration that changed the direction of his velocity”. According to Langevin, acceleration is here "absolute", in the sense that it is the cause of the asymmetry (and not of the aging itself).[3]

[ghetto kitty]

So, we can invent that machine, and then regress instead of progress!

[almax]

that depends on your point of view, if you were the one to travel, then when you get back to earth you have travelled into the future

[ghetto kitty]

Yeah, but you have not progressed, and everyone else has.

Kind of like when one travels to Adelaide or WA right?

[almax]

Stephen Hawking:"Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution"

from dailygalaxy.com ............ Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points out in his Life in the Universe lecture, is about a bit a year.

"By contrast," Hawking says, "there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage, and no use to any form of life. But, even so, the rate at which useful information can be added is millions, if not billions, higher than with DNA."

This means Hawking says that we have entered a new phase of evolution. "At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information."

But what distinguishes us from our cave man ancestors is the knowledge that we have accumulated over the last ten thousand years, and particularly, Hawking points out, over the last three hundred.

"I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race," Hawking said.

In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, "an external transmission phase," where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. "But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage," Hawking says, "has grown enormously. Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes."

The time scale for evolution, in the external transmission period, has collapsed to about 50 years, or less.

Meanwhile, Hawking observes, our human brains "with which we process this information have evolved only on the Darwinian time scale, of hundreds of thousands of years. This is beginning to cause problems. In the 18th century, there was said to be a man who had read every book written. But nowadays, if you read one book a day, it would take you about 15,000 years to read through the books in a national Library. By which time, many more books would have been written."

But we are now entering a new phase, of what Hawking calls "self designed evolution," in which we will be able to change and improve our DNA. "At first," he continues "these changes will be confined to the repair of genetic defects, like cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy. These are controlled by single genes, and so are fairly easy to identify, and correct. Other qualities, such as intelligence, are probably controlled by a large number of genes. It will be much more difficult to find them, and work out the relations between them. Nevertheless, I am sure that during the next century, people will discover how to modify both intelligence, and instincts like aggression."

If the human race manages to redesign itself, to reduce or eliminate the risk of self-destruction, we will probably reach out to the stars and colonize other planets. But this will be done, Hawking believes, with intelligent machines based on mechanical and electronic components, rather than macromolecules, which could eventually replace DNA based life, just as DNA may have replaced an earlier form of life.

[almax]

EARTH TO MARS IN 39 DAYS

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... ?full=true

http://io9.com/5323516/earth-to-mars-in-39-days

Earth to Mars in 39 Days
By Lauren Davis, 10:30 AM on Mon Jul 27 2009, 2,678 views

A six-month space journey away, Mars often seems an almost impossible planet to reach. But engineers are developing a new engine that could turn six months to six weeks, bringing the Red Planet much, much closer than ever before.

Using the traditional fuel-burning rockets that carried humans on lunar missions, it would take a manned spacecraft six months to travel from the Earth to Mars. While you could find volunteers in spades willing to trade a year in a tin can for a glimpse of another planet, osteoporosis-inducing weightlessness and dangerous radiation render a lengthy trip unfeasible. But attention has turned to ion engines. While a combustion rocket thrusts a space shuttle through the atmosphere, then lets it coast to its destination, ion engines are able to effect a more continuous thrust:

Ion engines, on the other hand, accelerate electrically charged atoms, or ions, through an electric field, thereby pushing the spacecraft in the opposite direction. They provide much less thrust at a given moment than do chemical rockets, which means they can't break free of the Earth's gravity on their own.

But once in space, they can give a continuous push for years, like a steady breeze at the back of a sailboat, accelerating gradually until they're moving faster than chemical rockets.

Engineers at the Ad Astra are seeing promise in VASIMR, an ion engine that uses a radio frequency generator to heat charged particles and create greater thrust than other similar engines. Ad Astra plans to attach a solar-powered VASIMR engine to the International Space Station for tests, and, if they are successful, could use VASIMR periodically to thrust the ISS back into the Earth's orbit.

But, if the engine were powered by an onboard nuclear reactor, its applications could be much more profound. Using 1000 times the energy of a solar-powered VASIMR, a nuclear-powered VASIMR engine could propel a manned spacecraft to Mars in a mere 39 days. Although the technology to play a nuclear reactor on a space shuttle is still a ways off, many in astrophysics feel the project holds enormous promise. NASA has provided Ad Astra with a small stipend for VASIMR development, and NASA chief Charles Bolden had high praise for the possibility of shortened space travel:

If engines, such as VASIMR, could be developed to take people to the Red Planet in 40 days, "that puts it inside the range of what we feel comfortable of doing with humans," he told New Scientist. "Something like VASIMR – that's a game changer."

[ghetto kitty]

I read the other day that one of the toilets broke in the space station, and they had the most people ever up there at one time.

@ anti gravity shit and hovering in space whilst in the que for the urinal

[almax]

lol, i think they have suction toilets, so if you are taking a piss, you get a blow at the same time!

[ghetto kitty]

but hang on, girls sit, boys stand, so the girls get blown and the boys miss out?

[almax]

girls dont go to space silly!

[almax]

looks like fun times! but would be better if made of fleshlite

[ghetto kitty]

eesus christ.

that looks like an abortion tool, not a toilet.

sorry, Women go to space, not girls. and boys are boys in the whole galaxy.

[Feigan]

Fleshlight FTW!

[almax]

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

[almax]

'Hidden Portal' Concept Described: First Tunable Electromagnetic Gateway

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 083329.htm

[ghetto kitty]

a gateway that can block electromagnetic waves but that allows the passage of other entities" like a "'hidden portal' as mentioned in fictions."

okay so it is tunable, meaning it can be turned on and off.

but i still dont really get what it is, a secret doorway for 'other entities', like in harry fucking potter?

not enough info, sounds like science geek beatup tbh.

[almax]

Ok so i did a bit of reading here and there about this (as much as i could be bothered) and a negative refractive index means any light that comes in is sort of redirected outwards, like say using a planet's gravity to whip around it(unlike a mirror, where it is bounced off a surface).

"that force light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation in complicated directions to create a hidden portal."

So this tells me that they're talking about a cloak field here more than a portal to the past or another dimension.

I think what they're describing, or at least what this is a step in the right direction of, is basically the invisible entrance the batmobile drives into. What's significant about this metamaterial compared to previous ones is that it interacts with a wide range of light frequencies.

I'm not entirely sure what they mean by "other entities", i doubt that would mean solid objects at this point.

[ghetto kitty]

So this tells me that they're talking about a cloak field here more than a portal to the past or another dimension.

I think what they're describing, or at least what this is a step in the right direction of, is basically the invisible entrance the batmobile drives into. What's significant about this metamaterial compared to previous ones is that it interacts with a wide range of light frequencies.

I'm not entirely sure what they mean by "other entities", i doubt that would mean solid objects at this point.

okay that makes a little more sense. I love the fact that terms are quite vague with things like this. 'other entities' such as ghosts, nightrider, batmobile, shapeshifters and shamans?

however, light refraction fascinates me.

[almax]

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

[DBoy]

We are so F&*KED.

[mrj]

- in the panic they try to pull the plug
- skynet fights back

[almax]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200 ... tatedinlab

Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields.

Other researchers have made live frogs and grasshoppers float in mid-air before, but such research with mice, being closer biologically to humans, could help in studies to counteract bone loss due to reduced gravity over long spans of time, as might be expected in deep space missions or on the surfaces of other planets.

Scientists working on behalf of NASA built a device to simulate variable levels of gravity. It consists of a superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals, with a space inside warm enough at room temperature and large enough at 2.6 inches wide (6.6 cm) for tiny creatures to float comfortably in during experiments.

Disoriented

The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something.

"It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented," said researcher Yuanming Liu, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They decided to mildly sedate the next mouse they levitated, which seemed content with floating.

A plastic cage was also designed by physicist Da-Ming Zhu at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, to keep the mice in during levitation. Its top remained open to let in air, food, water and video surveillance, and its bottom was filled with small holes to allow waste removal.

From time to time, mice would kick the walls of the cage, causing it to briefly drop off from the levitation zone before re-entering it and floating again.

Although the researchers could levitate mice with or without the cage, "it's easier to house a mouse in a cage when you bring it to the levitation zone," Liu explained. Also, if you want to run an experiment comparing mice living inside and outside the levitator, you want to set up exactly the same living conditions to match results up as best as possible.

Results

Repeated levitation tests showed the mice, even when not sedated, could quickly acclimate to levitation inside the cage. After three or four hours, the mice acted normally, including eating and drinking. The strong magnetic fields did not seem to have any negative impacts on the mice in the short term, and past studies have shown that rats did not suffer from adverse effects after 10 weeks of strong, non-levitating magnetic fields.

"We're trying to see what kind of physiological impact is due to prolonged microgravity, and also what kind of countermeasures might work against it for astronauts," Liu said. "If we can contribute to the future human exploration of space, that would be very exciting." They are now applying for funding for such research with their levitator.

The researchers also levitated water drops up to 2 inches wide (5 cm). This suggests the variable gravity simulator could be used to study how liquids behave under reduced gravity, such as how heat is transferred or how bubbles behave.

Liu, Zhu and their colleagues detailed their findings online Sept. 6 in the journal Advances in Space Research

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

so this could lead to things like artificial gravity, zero-G rooms, dampening fields, repulsorlift technology

[cammo]

http://www.infowars.com/twenty-minutes- ... president/

why did i only hear about this a month later? have not seen any media coverage since the last time they went nuts on charlie

charlie sheen interview wit obama. a must read

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

[almax]

Spain’s Stunning Teatro del Agua Solar Desalination Plant

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/18/cha ... -del-agua/



As the planet heats up and our resources stretch to accommodate a skyrocketing population, it has become clear that water will be a hotly contested commodity in the coming years – some are even calling it the “new oil”. Charles Paton has endeavored to meet this challenge with his Seawater Greenhouse which takes a low-cost, low-energy, carbon-neutral approach to desalination. Recently he’s been working with Eden Project and Grimshaw Architects to create a gorgeous sweeping Teatro Del Agua. The design will incorporate Paton’s remarkable desalination method with a publicly accessible venue for the performing arts, once again focusing our societies around the common element that sustains them.



The Teatro del Agua works by coupling “a series of evaporators and condensers such that the airborne moisture from the evaporators is then collected from the condensers, which are cooled by deep seawater.” The sweeping structure will incorporate solar panels to provide heat for the evaporators and will operate almost entirely on renewable energy.
The Teatro del Agua is planned to be but in Spain’s Canary Islands. We’ve covered culturally focused desalination plants in the past, and we’d love to see more innovative ideas such as these begin to precipitate around the world.

[almax]

a fricken Awesome 8 part documentary on Egypt to watch based on the work of John Anthony West and Graham Hancock.
These guys have in my mind, the real story of Egypt which differs from the “official” history which is tainted supressed and controlled for political and monetary gains.

http://www.guba.com/watch/2000915278




Episode One - The Invisible Science

A growing body of evidence is suggesting
a missing chapter in human history. Symbolist
author and Egyptologist John Anthony West
explores evidence of a sophisticated science
behind the unexplainable accomplishments
of Ancient Egypt. Was Ancient Egypt the
inheritor of a body of scientific and spiritual
knowledge from an even earlier civilization?

Author / Mathematician Michael S. Schneider
discusses organic geometry and the role of
the fibonacci number series in growing life.
West then demonstrates the presence of the
fibonacci series in the stages of construction
of the temple of Karnak - also known as
the "House of Life".



Episode Two - Old Kingdom and Older Kingdom Still

Old Kingdom and Older Kingdom Still

John Anthony West explores architectural
anomalies and other evidence of an advanced
civilization predating the ancient Egyptians.

Across Egypt, the many architectural, engineering,
artistic and scientific wonders still defy explaination.
The mysterious Oserion appears to already have
been an ancient ruin when it was "uncovered" by
Seti I during the construction of the Temple of
Abydos in first Dynasty.

New developments in the "age-of-the-sphinx"
debate. In the Cairo museum is a stella which
describes reparations to the great sphinx performed
by the Father of the traditionally credited builder.

Does the great sphinx conseal its own date of
construction in the age of Leo?


Episode Three - Descent

An obscure and very ancient ruin in
the deep Egyptian desert is found to
contain an accurate sculpture of our
Milky Way galaxy as well as 23 of it's
neighbors. It also shows the trajectory
and ACCURATE DISTANCES to
significant stars in the constellation
of Orion.

Could this be an alien artifact?

Astrophysicist and archeo-astronomer
Thomas G. Brophy presents his
bombshell discovery.





Episode Four - The Temple in Man

"The temple was the teaching". A look at
the ancient Egyptian temple as an interactive
repository of ancient teaching.

After more than 17 years onsite at
Luxor Temple, the enigmatic mathematician,
philosopher and modern-day alchemist
R. A. Schwaller de Lubics discovered
a key that unlocks a timeless teaching
encoded in stone.

Does Luxor temple conseal an ancient
teaching about the metaphysical
anatomy of man? West explores the
controversial findings of Schwaller de Lubics
and the biometric data he discovered
hidden in this remarkable temple.



Episode Five - What to do in the Afterlife

Did the ancient Egyptian technology extend
into mastery of the afterlife? In the Valley of
the Kings, the tombs of Seti I and Tuthmosis III
have been closed to the public for over a decade.
Arcane funerary texts cover the walls of the
tombs with a bewildering list of spells and secrets
that allow the deceased to navigate the afterlife.

Dr. Rick Strassman, author of "DMT: The Spirit
Molecule" discusses the biochemistry of the
death experience and the role of the mysterious
pineal gland. Our powerful interaction with DMT
is shedding new light on the ancient
understanding of the "third eye" or pineal
gland as the seat of consciousness.

Lon Milo Duquette discusses the strange state
of consciousness known as Lucid Dreaming
and its unexpected relationship with the
afterlife experience.

Episode Six - Intitiation

The ancient Arabic name for Egypt was "Khemet",
or "The Black Land". The western continuation
of the Egyptian magical arts was called "Al-Khemet",
meaning "from the Black Land".

The cradle of civilization is also the ancestral
home of a high science of magic. We explore
the many modern encarnations of the ancient
science of perfection and the transformation
of the "materia prima" of the Alchemists.

From Alchemy to Tarot, and in the many modern
esoteric and mystical societies existing today,
we explore the hidden thread that connects
modern and ancient magic - The occult
idea that consciousness is the materia prima.
The coal that turns into a diamond. The lead
that becomes gold.

Episode 7 - Illumination

Twice a year, on the anniversary of the Ramses'
birth and coronation day, the rising sun penetrates
the temple to illuminate the four gods of creation
situated at it's very core.

As we witness this rare spectacle, we gain an
understanding of the ancient temple, not just
as a place of worship, but as an essential
mechanism of the ancient magical practices.

West is joined by bestselling author /
researcher Robert Bauval at the temple of
Abu Simbel. We look at the temple, statuary
and heiroglyphs as examples of talismanic
technology.

Lon Milo Duqette discusses modern
applications of talismanic technology.


Episode 8 - Cosmology

A comparison of ancient and modern models
of the structure of the universe reveal unexpected
similarities.

As our most recent scientific understanding is
bringing the subatomic realms into ever clearer focus,
the strange world of quantum mechanics and
string theory are finding a remarkably consistent
echo in the cosmology, or creation myth, of
the ancient Egyptians.

Could there be complex scientific notation hidden
in ancient heiroglyphics? Author / researcher
Laird Scranton demonstrates an unexplainably
accurate description of subatomic structure,
quantum physics, cellular biology and even string
theory, hidden in ancient accounts of the formation
of the universe.

If Scranton's discovery proves true, it may be the
most important breakthrough in Egyptology since
the discovery of the Rosetta stone.

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http://www.theage.com.au/world/lost-ama ... -lu9y.html

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Lake Vostok is some crazy shit. It's 2 miles beneath Antarticas ice, super oxygenated, and scientists believe that life could have been independently been evolving there for millions of years. They claim it would be very similar to life living underneath the surface of one of Saturn's moons.

http://www.damninteresting.com/raiders-of-the-lost-lake

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Lake Vostok is some crazy shit. It's 2 miles beneath Antarticas ice, super oxygenated, and scientists believe that life could have been independently been evolving there for millions of years. They claim it would be very similar to life living underneath the surface of one of Saturn's moons.

http://www.damninteresting.com/raiders-of-the-lost-lake

Thats so phenomenal!
Rekon the russians will drill down and contaminate?
Keep us updated on further info man - would love to read more about it.

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will do Jordz

heres something else intriguing, especially if we can harness it.
Reminds me of a story i have heard that a species of Aliens (the greys i think) apparently have chlorophyll in their skin so they don't need to eat.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/ ... z0cLOI2vfN


SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant.

Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica already has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and some genes from algae. Now it turns out that the slug has acquired enough stolen goods to make an entire plant chemical-making pathway work inside an animal body, says Sidney K. Pierce of the University of South Florida in Tampa.

The slugs can manufacture the most common form of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, Pierce reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Pierce used a radioactive tracer to show that the slugs were making the pigment, called chlorophyll a, themselves and not simply relying on chlorophyll reserves stolen from the algae the slugs dine on.

“This could be a fusion of a plant and an animal — that’s just cool,” said invertebrate zoologist John Zardus of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C.


Microbes swap genes readily, but Zardus said he couldn’t think of another natural example of genes flowing between multicellular kingdoms.

Pierce emphasized that this green slug goes far beyond animals such as corals that host live-in microbes that share the bounties of their photosynthesis. Most of those hosts tuck in the partner cells whole in crevices or pockets among host cells. Pierce’s slug, however, takes just parts of cells, the little green photosynthetic organelles called chloroplasts, from the algae it eats. The slug’s highly branched gut network engulfs these stolen bits and holds them inside slug cells.

Some related slugs also engulf chloroplasts but E. chlorotica alone preserves the organelles in working order for a whole slug lifetime of nearly a year. The slug readily sucks the innards out of algal filaments whenever they’re available, but in good light, multiple meals aren’t essential. Scientists have shown that once a young slug has slurped its first chloroplast meal from one of its few favored species of Vaucheria algae, the slug does not have to eat again for the rest of its life. All it has to do is sunbathe.

But the chloroplasts need a continuous supply of chlorophyll and other compounds that get used up during photosynthesis. Back in their native algal cells, chloroplasts depended on algal cell nuclei for the fresh supplies. To function so long in exile, “chloroplasts might have taken a go-cup with them when they left the algae,” Pierce said.

There have been previous hints, however, that the chloroplasts in the slug don’t run on stored-up supplies alone. Starting in 2007, Pierce and his colleagues, as well as another team, found several photosynthesis-related genes in the slugs apparently lifted directly from the algae. Even unhatched sea slugs, which have never encountered algae, carry “algal” photosynthetic genes.

At the meeting, Pierce described finding more borrowed algal genes in the slug genome for enzymes in a chlorophyll-synthesizing pathway. Assembling the whole compound requires some 16 enzymes and the cooperation of multiple cell components. To see whether the slug could actually make new chlorophyll a to resupply the chloroplasts, Pierce and his colleagues turned to slugs that hadn’t fed for at least five months and had stopped releasing any digestive waste. The slugs still contained chloroplasts stripped from the algae, but any other part of the hairy algal mats should have been long digested, he said.

After giving the slugs an amino acid labeled with radioactive carbon, Pierce and his colleagues identified a radioactive product as chlorophyll a. The radioactively tagged compound appeared after a session of slug sunbathing but not after letting slugs sit in the dark. A paper with details of the work is scheduled to appear in the journal Symbiosis.

Zardus, who says that he tries to maintain healthy skepticism as a matter of principle, would like to hear more about how the team controlled for algal contamination. The possibilities for the borrowed photosynthesis are intriguing though, he says. Mixing the genomes of algae and animals could certainly complicate tracing out evolutionary history. In the tree of life, he said, the green sea slug “raises the possibility of branch tips touching.”

“Bizarre,” said Gary Martin, a crustacean biologist at Occidental College in Los Angeles. “Steps in evolution can be more creative than I ever imagined.”

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Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included

By Katie Drummond February 5, 2010 | 9:42 am | Categories: DarpaWatch

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02 ... -included/

The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.

As part of its budget for the next year, Darpa is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating “the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement.” The plan would assemble the latest bio-tech knowledge to come up with living, breathing creatures that are genetically engineered to “produce the intended biological effect.” Darpa wants the organisms to be fortified with molecules that bolster cell resistance to death, so that the lab-monsters can “ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely.”

Of course, Darpa’s got to prevent the super-species from being swayed to do enemy work — so they’ll encode loyalty right into DNA, by developing genetically programmed locks to create “tamper proof” cells. Plus, the synthetic organism will be traceable, using some kind of DNA manipulation, “similar to a serial number on a handgun.” And if that doesn’t work, don’t worry. In case Darpa’s plan somehow goes horribly awry, they’re also tossing in a last-resort, genetically-coded kill switch:

Develop strategies to create a synthetic organism “self-destruct” option to be implemented upon nefarious removal of organism.

The project comes as Darpa also plans to throw $20 million into a new synthetic biology program, and $7.5 million into “increasing by several decades the speed with which we sequence, analyze and functionally edit cellular genomes.”

Of course, Darpa’s up against some vexing, fundamental laws of nature — not to mention bioethics — as they embark on the lab beast program. First, they might want to rethink the idea of evolution as a random series of events, says NYU biology professor David Fitch. “Evolution by selection is nota random process at all, and is actually a hugely efficient design algorithm used extensively in computation and engineering,” he e-mails Danger Room.

Even if Darpa manages to overcome the inherent intelligence of evolutionary processes, overcoming inevitable death can be tricky. Just ask all the other research teams who’ve made stabs at it, trying everything from cell starvation to hormone treatments. Gene therapy, where artificial genes are inserted into an organism to boost cell life, are the latest and greatest in life-extension science, but they’ve only been proven to extend lifespan by 20 percent in rats.

But suppose gene therapy makes major strides, and Darpa does manage to get the evolutionary science right. They’ll also have a major ethical hurdle to jump. Synthetic biology researchers are already facing the same questions, as a 2009 summary from the Synthetic Biology Project reports:

The concern that humans might be overreaching when we create organisms that never before existed can be a safety concern, but it also returns us to disagreements about what is our proper role in the natural world (a debate largely about non-physical harms or harms to well-being).

Even expert molecular geneticists don’t know what to make of the project. Either that, or they’re scared Darpa might sic a bio-bot on them. “I would love to comment, but unfortunately Darpa has installed a kill switch in me,” one unnamed expert tells Danger Room.



Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02 ... z0etzZVDz4

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hope this get implemented in my lifetime, imagine this up and down the eastern seaboard and also over to WA, you could be over in WA or Queensland easily in ~30 mins

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

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Watch the posted video on YouTube.