Our Life, Our Time

Thoughts: Panspermia and the Electric Universe

2007-01-24T05:44:00.001-08:00

I just had a thought regarding the electric universe ideas and panspermia ideas. Some from panspermia believe that a lot of the dust seen in space is actually bacterial spours. If that were the case others have said they would not be viable because of the radiation they would be explosed to.

The true enough. in space however an object will gain a double layer, shielding it from a lot of effects of the outside. So bacterial spours might have a protective double layer around them which helps keep out UV and other radiation. Is this possible or even true?

I did some searching on the internet and found this interesting abstract. It proposes that bacterial spores could be transported up into the atmosphere by magnetic fields generated by thunderstorms. These could the travle along the magnetosphere down the tail and bubble off into a plasmoid which could them be deposited onto another planet. WOW!

Discussion: http://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss-27697-bacterial-spore-uplift-during-geomagnetic-storms.html
New Scientist article: http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19125625.300-electrified-bugs-soar-into-space-and-infest-the-galaxy.html
Abstract: http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/COSPAR2006/00001/COSPAR2006-A-00001.pdf?PHPSESSID=87bb6e2f2b03f53f2d2470f276a6f5d5
Article: Waiting for it

First Daily Blog Poster 12/20/2006

2006-12-20T16:03:00.000-08:00

Magnetism mystery of Mercury is explained at last Annotated(3)

The core's outer layers are "stably stratified," which means they are largely insulated from the heat of the swirling inner core.

assumptions......
- post by seanpu2

If the dynamo theory is right, the planet's magnetism should be 30 times stronger than it is.
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Obviously then the dynamo theory is wrong and been falsified. But they will not falsify the theory.
- post by seanpu2
Obviously then the dynamo theory is wrong and been falsified. But they will not falsify the theory.
- post by seanpu2

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Comet X-ray emissions simulated in laboratory Annotated(1)

This study shows how comets produce xrays as a results fo interaction with the solar wind. A mode for the calculation of xray production is not provided. it might prove interesting if they did. From the electric theorists perspective is would seem obvious that a simulated comet in a lab will produce proportionately less xrays than observed of its counter part in space. the reason being that the outerspace comet has a greater charge with respect to the laboratory comet hense the interaction with the solar wind will be greater!
- post by seanpu2

Comet X-ray emissions simulated in laboratory

Synchrotrons Help Reveal the Nature of Comets Annotated(6)

I think its pretty clear; the comets forming out of left overs from planet formation theory is wrong and they should admit that.

Another question needs to be answered. These tiny pieces of rock
that has been captured, are they blown off the "dusty snowball" or are
they broken off by some force? More Concisely, how hard are these
coments and from which parts of the comet did these capture particals
come from?

The "ice snowball" model can be thrown out the window. No ice has
been found on any comet/astroid we"ve visited. HO molecules yes, but
thats no exclusive marker for H2O (solar wind, lots of H, cometary
compounds having lots of O in them ~= HO). Plus that snowball has to
have nano sized particals all over it!

If comets where a hard balls and it was under high electric stress,
EDM could take place which is known to produce nanosized dust
particals. EDM also produces large amounts of xrays, which has been
shown to emit from the front of the comet (that is the part that faces
the dirrection is is traveling). interaction with the solar wind has
proven to produce xray emissions.

How people can still suggest astroids the left overs is a bit
strange, especially as they still think about accession discs forming
planets. How can hard astroids have been produced? how can they
reconcile solid astroids with their soft-astroid producing theory. We
can only wait for they imaginations to run wild.
- post by seanpu2

Stardust returned about one microgram of cometary dust, the largest of which are about 10 microns—approximately a tenth the diameter of a human hair.

EDM can produce particle sizes down to nanometers
- post by seanpu2

Our Solar System is about 4.5 billion years old, and the details of its origin are still a mystery to researchers.

The results also suggest that the materials that formed our Solar System underwent considerable mixing as the sun and planets formed.

they must say this in order to preserve the previous theory, which has broken down with the new evidence
- post by seanpu2

"Information from this comet is important because it should be close to the starting material from the beginning of the solar system,"
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this is an assumption based on a theory that has no proof of being correct
- post by seanpu2

I think its pretty clear; the comets forming out of left overs from planet formation theory is wrong and they should admit that.

Another question needs to be answered. These tiny pieces of rock that has been captured, are they blown off the "dusty snowball" or are they broken off by some force? More Concisely, how hard are these coments and from which parts of the comet did these capture particals come from?

The "ice snowball" model can be thrown out the window. No ice has been found on any comet/astroid we"ve visited. HO molecules yes, but thats no exclusive marker for H2O (solar wind, lots of H, cometary compounds having lots of O in them ~= HO). Plus that snowball has to have nano sized particals all over it!

If comets where a hard balls and it was under high electric stress, EDM could take place which is known to produce nanosized dust particals. EDM also produces large amounts of xrays, which has been shown to emit from the front of the comet (that is the part that faces the direction is is traveling). interaction with the solar wind has proven to produce xray emissions.

How people can still suggest astroids the left overs is a bit strange, especially as they still think about accession discs forming planets. How can hard astroids have been produced? how can they reconcile solid astroids with their soft-astroid producing theory. We can only wait for they imaginations to run wild.

First Daily Blog Poster 12/18/2006

2006-12-18T16:01:00.000-08:00

Stellarium

Stellarium Astronomy Software - post by daniellphillips
美しい壁紙 - post by oishiyuichi
Stellarium - post by devilish
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer - post by morrita
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. - post by bigfellow
free night sky prediction software - post by jeeves
[en] 开源跨平台的天文学软件，可运行于 Windows，Linux 和 MAC 平台。
- post by chenjing
free planetarium software. and its great!
- post by seanpu2

First Daily Blog Poster 12/14/2006

2006-12-14T16:02:00.000-08:00

Alternative theory of gravity explains large structure formation -- without dark matter

at long last an article the publically acknowledges that dark matter might not exist!
- post by seanpu2
at long last an article the publically acknowledges that dark matter might not exist!
- post by seanpu2

First Daily Blog Poster 12/13/2006

2006-12-13T16:02:00.000-08:00

Layered Crater Annotated(1)

northwestern Schiaparelli Basin

First Daily Blog Poster 12/12/2006

2006-12-12T16:03:00.000-08:00

Virgin Galactic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Annotated(1)

All my support goes to Richard in this space ventures. But I'm very worried about the thought of flying through or near an aurora borealis event. Being an electrical phenomanon we haven't a clue what effect flying near it would have. We don't want anoher columba disaster happening, especially on a commercial flight. But it will be facinating to find out what happens with a drone/unmanned vehicle.
- post by seanpu2

Virgin is also considering launches from Scotland^[6] and northern Sweden from Esrange, the latter being particularly suitable for in-flight views of the aurora borealis.

Jerry Jensen's ATM idea - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum Annotated(2)

And it goes further than that: If you look at the impact craters of the moon, the floors are compressed, and understandably heavier than the surrounding terrain, and in the orbital surveys, they have strong positive Beoguer anomalies. On Mars, the trend is just opposite: The large craters show clear negative Boeguer anomalies. Explain that.

Ya, I crawled out on this limb, and then started looking for some roots. I cannot stress enough how important of a root the Boeguer inversions are: I reasoned, that if there is this second order effect upon gravity, the dwell time over mountain peaks by orbiting probes is effectively greater than the the general surface, and if the planet or moon is more massive than the orbital solution predicts, the mountains should appear to be anomalously massive relative to the surrounding terrain.

The exact flop-flop in the Boeguer anomalies of Mars and Venus confirm this systemic non-Newtonian, or rather second-order gravimetric effect does in fact exist...at least mathematically. If anyone can offer a better explaination for Venus to have ultra-light volcanoes and heavy valley floors, while Mars has ultra heavy mountains and extra light floors, I am all ears.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Climate 'would reel from A-bombs' Annotated(3)

Its study, reported at an American Geophysical Union meeting, employed the very latest computer simulations.

Why should these models be any better than the usual climate models?
- post by seanpu2

"If you look at the change in solar radiation from, say, the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption (1991), it goes away after about a year, but the black smoke is lofted into the stratosphere and it lasts for a decade," explained Professor Alan Robock from Rutgers.

to be flippant, that sounds like the solution to our global warming problems
- post by seanpu2

The authors also note that the smoke plumes would upset stratospheric chemistry, resulting in a significant disruption of the ozone layer, depleting it by 40% over many inhabited areas and by up to 70-80% at the poles.

that doesn't really matter. the ozone layer is constantly replenished by solar wind action on the upper atmosphere
- post by seanpu2

Researchers identify driver for near-Earth space weather

this seems important but I've no idea how
- post by seanpu2

First Daily Blog Poster 12/10/2006

2006-12-10T16:02:00.000-08:00

Lightning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Annotated(1)

For reasons that are not widely agreed upon, a cloud-to-ground lightning flash originates in this mixed water and ice region.

could the ice form into a lattice and start being inducted by upper atmospheric plamsa?
- post by seanpu2

First Daily Blog Poster 12/05/2006

2006-12-05T16:03:00.000-08:00

Southern Ocean Could Slow Global Warming Annotated(2)

The new model developed at GFDL shows that the poleward shift of the westerlies intensifies the strength of the winds as they whip past the tip of South America and circumnavigate Antarctica.

This just made me think, there is another vortex at the south pole, is there a connection between solar output and antartic winds? from the mechanical perspective, if the sun shine more brighly and increase the temperature more nothward, she's concluding the westerly winds will brow harder.
- post by seanpu2

realistic

sorry to be sceptical, but when has a climate model been realistic?
- post by seanpu2

Understanding Moonquakes Annotated(1)

There are at least four different kinds of moonquakes: (1) deep moonquakes about 700 km below the surface, probably caused by tides; (2) vibrations from the impact of meteorites; (3) thermal quakes caused by the expansion of the frigid crust when first illuminated by the morning sun after two weeks of deep-freeze lunar night; and (4) shallow moonquakes only 20 or 30 kilometers below the surface.

Ok, good for learning from our experience and putting our believed earth causes for earthquakes at the cause of moonquakes. but its another surprise to meterologists. they conclude on earth earthquakesare caused by crusts moving afloat a magma ball. Cosmologists don't think the moon has this magma centre, so whats causing the quakes? electric universe theory puts quakes down principally to electrical stress in the planetary body discharging.
- post by seanpu2

Lunar Leonid Strikes Annotated(1)

With these latest detections, Cooke's group has tallied a dozen "lunar meteors" since Nov. 2005. Most were sporadic meteoroids--meaning they are part of no annual shower like the Leonids, but just random chips of asteroids and comets floating around in space. Cooke estimates that for every four hours they observe the Moon, they see one bright flash caused by the impact of a large meteoroid.

They conclude meteorites are causing the flashes but without any evidence of meteorite material to hand. Yes, its a plausable explanation, but its an assumption until we see the meteorite hitting.
- post by seanpu2

First Daily Blog Poster 12/03/2006

2006-12-03T16:03:00.000-08:00

A New Paradigm for Lunar Orbits Annotated(1)

Why? Earth is responsible. The gravity of massive Earth only 240,000 miles from the Moon constantly tugs on lunar satellites. For a lunar orbit higher than 430 miles, Earth's pull is actually strong enough to whisk a spacecraft out of the game.

The moon also has a very uneven gravitational field that prohibits any kind of good circular orbit without continous alterations. There's even an article on this website that states this!

- post by seanpu2

Scientists Want to Solve Puzzle of Excess Water Vapor Near Cirrus Clouds

Meterorite Yields Life Origins Clue

2006-12-03T02:40:00.000-08:00

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Meteorite yields life origin clue

The scientists from Nasa found that a meteorite that well in Canada in 2000 was riddled with, potentialy, billions of tiny cavities, which they theorise could be good environments for the development of cells.

I think this article is highly welcomed as it gives further supports to the hypothesis that life on Earth started in space; we imported life. But I have a few healthy criticisms of the idea.

Firstly, the bubbles appears to be pretty much empty, so no proto-life found in this meteorite. The team has only tested a handful of cavities (26) and their tests may not have been specifically testing for life, so there is a possibility they will find more clues upon further investigation.

Secondly, the temperature at which they guess the rock formed (-260C, 13K) is extremely low and most scientists would probably dismiss out of hand the notion that life could originate at such temperatures. Personally, the temperature doesn't bother me so much as the missing organics. A lot of things are cool when constructed and "hot" when active (eg the sun, or a car).

Thirdly, the origin of meteorites is not known. The theory of solar system creation is not proven conclusively and as such it is not truely possible to say that organics got mixed up in the planetary nebula cloud. A competing theory, the Electric Universe, for example, postulates that at least some meteorites are created by interplanetary lightning strikes and exploding celestial bodies due to electrical stress. Under these electrical conditions material would be heated to a very high temperatures, create these bubbles in material and transmute elements into different isotopes giving rise to isotopic ratios that are "very unusual, which suggests the structures did not come from Earth".

NGC 1313 - A strange galaxy

2006-11-29T04:08:00.000-08:00

The topsyturvy galaxy

To quote "But NGC 1313 is not just a pretty picture. A mere scratch beneath the elegant surface reveals evidence of some of the most puzzling problems facing astronomers in the science of stars and galaxies."

Cyclic gamma ray source with pos setup

2006-11-29T03:57:00.000-08:00

Astronomers find first ever gamma ray clock

we can also assume the compact object is not a black hole but something that is more massive and more electromagnetic. Looked this way, as the star orbits the more massive object it would seem possible that the star's solar wind could be accelerated more strongly towards and passed the larger object more than it would behind the star. As the objects occult each other the gamma intensity would increase and decrease, much like a lighthouse except the focuser is in front of the light source. It also points to the star as the source of the material for the gamma rays but the more massive object as the focuser and accelerator.

Water acts as electric conductor in space

2006-11-28T07:37:00.000-08:00

Study Suggests the Existence of Ferroelectric Ice in the Universe

If ice is ferroelectric at 55-65K then it could be a key playing in setting up Berkley current structures and assisting in the transmission of electricity all around the solar system.

Venus Transit

2006-11-25T11:38:00.000-08:00

Venus Transit: A call for Global Oneness

Something to look up: when venus transits earth in 2012, how close would it be? Could the cometary tail of venus come into contact with earth? If so could we get electricuted or receive a massive discharge? If this does happen which parts of the earth will be able to view the transit? If venus's tail does meet the earth what is the post likely configuration of earth and venus when the tail actually touches earth?

Caduceus

2006-11-25T11:16:00.000-08:00

Saturn joins Venus in the vortex club

I bet if scientists can build a 3d structure of the venus double-vortex at the north pole they will reveal a caduceus structure

That would be consistant with the electric universe ideas. It would also link up with catastrophisms ideas; if it is happening on venus, perhaps it did happen on earth, then perhaps the origin of the caduceus really is from a venus like double-vortex on earth many years ago.

Tornado at Micro Level

2006-11-11T07:11:00.000-08:00

'Tornadoes' are transferred from light to sodium atoms

Photons spiral down to atoms making a tornado structure. Perhaps we are seeing the fractal nature of particle nature, because, as the article points out, the same pattern is found in tornadoes on earth and other planets, the solar system, and I would add most galaxies.

The moon has weather too

2006-11-08T14:41:00.000-08:00

Moon's escaping gasses expose fresh surface

the moon has space weather! could this be electrical discharge right before our eyes? - post by seanpu2

I have been thinking that if the electric universe idea is correct we should be able to confirm it quite simply, just by looking at our close neighbours. I had been thinking the moon is an excellent candidate to observe, so is the sun.

Using the moon we should be able to verify electrical activity on its surface, much like the author of the article is suggested. Some prediction of the EU theory would be very bright/hot explosions leaving a clean area. Very large explosion will leave spider marks behind or a crater with a rise in the centre. We would probably also see plumes leaving the surface over a long period of time.

The sun shoudl help resolve the redshift=light problem.

Observing earth, sun and moon should show us the connection between all three and the currents that link them together. Solar flares are already linked to magnetopause changes, upper atmospheric temperature changes, changes to the plasma belts. So too the moon's weather change. Perhaps increase outbursts during heavy flare encounters.

Interesting, if a very large solar flare wipped passed earth and the moon, connecting the two, would a current flow between them, creating a massive lightning bolt, leaving a hugh crater on both bodies with spider like arms leading up to the crater?

Desert dust feeds tropical rainforest

2006-10-31T04:52:00.000-08:00

Desert dust feeds tropical rainforest

The Amazon rainforest in South America relies on dust transported by winds from the Sahara desert in North Africa to replenish the nutrients and minerals in its soils. For the first time, scientists have proved that over half the dust transported to the Amazon comes from one location in the Sahara, the Bodele depression, even though it makes up less than 1% of the Sahara. Without this supply of dust to replenish the nutrients in its soils, the Amazon could become a wet desert.

St. Elmo's Fire: Riding the Storm

2006-10-26T11:36:00.000-07:00

YouTube - Flying through Iraq thunderstorm

Flying through a thunder storm in Iraq. You can see loads of St. Elmo's Fire! Great movie!

Untitled

2006-10-23T12:23:00.000-07:00

Small Organisms, Great Proxies

“When you have more sun spots, the magnetosphere of the earth is influenced, which influences the air pressure,”

Hausmann said. The circulation of the water column of the lakes responds to the increase of winds caused by changes in air pressure. As the fossil diatom record is an archive for past lake water circulation, it is significantly correlated with reconstructed sun spot cycles.

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2006-10-23T12:14:00.000-07:00

Transit Of Mercury

Radars on Earth have pinged Mercury and received a strong echo from polar craters. A favorite explanation is ice. While Mercury's daylit surface heats up to 400o C, the temperature in deep, dark polar craters dips below -200o C.

If an icy comet landed in one of those craters (or made one of those craters), the comet's ices, vaporized by impact, might re-freeze and stick around. As skeptics like to say, however, "it's just a theory,"

and a theory is should stay. The moon has no water at the poles, depsite ideas that it might, and so the chances of Mercury also not having water are quite high. That's my prediction. The interpretation of radar on the moon caused the phantom of water to be there, and on Mercury again we're seeing the same histeria.

Hot Ice

2006-10-22T09:55:00.000-07:00

Freezing Transition of Interfacial Water at Room Temperature under Electric Fiel

Reading Wikipedia's section on cloud formation brought up an interesting abstract (above) which basically says that room-temperature water can be turned into ice if 10million volts is applied to it. This is something of the phenomena I'm looking for.

Musings on the Weather (2)

2006-10-22T09:25:00.000-07:00

Water vapour is a gas. Gases are suposed to disappate. Water vapour clumps together into clouds. Why?

Musings on The Weather (1)

2006-10-22T09:06:00.000-07:00

During the summer i have noticed that it rains mostly in the morning, just before and after sunrise. Is this a coincidence? Or is there something triggering it? My initial thought was of some link between energy received from the sun in the form of heat and/or light, or some electric component of the atmosphere. That is, rainfall is an effect of a downward flow of energy from the atmosphere in an attempt to balance out the difference between energy levels in the atmosphere and the solid earth. Either way, I've noticed it rains mostly in the mornings and a night so the sun must have something to do with rainfall (at least in my parts of the UK :).

q1) during which hours do most showers happen,
q2) during which hours does most rain volume fall,
q3) is there greater rainfall at night or day,
q4) is there a difference between rainfall at sea or on land.

Using this article,
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Exploding_Stars_Influence_Climate_Of_Earth_999.html the dutch have shown that "cosmic rays" (fast moving particles) have a significant contribution to cloud formation. Its given that cosmic rays come from "outside the solar system" help produce aciditc compounds which help seed cloud-formation, but cosmic rays could equally have been accelerated by earth's radiation belts, magnetosphere and current sheets which shift as the Earth revolves on its axis and around the sun.

q5) is there a correlation between cosmic ray occurances and time of day, time of year, current sheet activity, aurora activity other electrical atmospheric phenomena?
q6) is rainfall triggered by an attraction to the ground of energy wanting to reach the ground thus achieving it through rainfall.
q7) If this energy isn't balance itself would lightening be used to discharge the pent-up/excess energy instead?

All interesting stuff. I'm gonna have to brush up on my meteorology.

If rainfall is electrical in nature then water would tend to fall from the sky's where it is attracted the most. If all surfaces have equal attraction to cloud droplets, then a cloud moving from sea to land would be more likely to begin raining, and from land to more hilly areas, and from hilly to mountenous, and clouds would reduce their rain fall as the ground lowered.

I presume the moon has no electrical interaction with matter, but certainly it has a gravitational influence - eg tides.

As vegitation has a bio-electric field could vegitation influence the amount of rainfall in a given location?

Hardy microbes could survive on mars

2006-10-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

Mars May be Cozy Place for Hardy Microbes

Meteror didn't kill off the Dino's directly

2006-10-18T02:10:00.000-07:00

More Than a Meteor Likely Killed Dinosaurs 65 Million Years Ago

Ok, so in this "impact" crater the geologist can analyse microfossils in the sediment directly above and below the "impact" layer. How thick is this "impact layer". I suspect its not very thick and could be much thinner than predicted by impact theory. This could be evidence that this was not the site of an impact but something else that somehow removed the soil from this area. - post by seanpu2

"In all these localities we can analyze their microfossils in the sediments directly above and below the Chicxulub impact layer, and cannot find any significant biotic effect," said Keller. "We cannot attribute any specific extinctions to this impact."

Where's the crater? "I wish I knew," said Keller.

Perhaps its not a crater my firend :) - post by seanpu2

A final, much larger and still unidentified impact 65.5 million years ago appears to have been the last straw, said Keller, exterminating two-thirds of all species in one of the largest mass extinction events in the history of life. It's that impact - not Chicxulub - that left the famous extraterrestrial iridium layer found in rocks worldwide that marks the impact that finally ended the Age of Reptiles, Keller believes.

Why the undieing belief that this was caused by an impact crater? Obviously he cannot reason the possibility of any other action influencing the extinction and the iridium layer. - post by seanpu2

Supanova illumunates cracks in theory

2006-09-21T10:06:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Exploding star 'breaks the rules'

An exploding star that seems to contravene the laws of physics is puzzling astronomers.

Astronomers are now considering whether objects such as SNLS-03D3bb should be screened out in cosmological studies, to avoid them "contaminating" results.

"As this supernova does not obey the relations that allow type 1a supernovae to be calibrated as standard candles, and as no counterparts have been found at low redshift, future cosmology studies will have to consider possible contamination from such events," the authors write in Nature.

This BBC Article about the star say the results should not be included as they will contaminate the pool of standard yardsticks. One of the reasons for the exclusion is that no other star of this found at this star's red-shift, which is low.

I'm running on very few pieces of information, but it seems to me these are two interesting observations, 1) low red-shift, 2) surprisingly bright/massive star.

I wonder if there is a link between red-shift and an object's mass or electrical content, and that red-shift isn't solely an effect of the object moving away from us.

NetWeather! "You got a window? Open it!"

2006-09-13T15:46:00.000-07:00

http://www.nowcast.co.uk/lightning/index.htm

Now this is an interesting website. Get real-time info on lightning strikes all over the UK! At the moment its free to see but for a tiny fee (4£/m) you can see all strikes and track storms!

Here's another one http://www.upminsterweather.co.uk/test/live_lightning.htm , but this ones gives you a last-30-minute animation as well!

Here's yet another. The Isle of Wight has a nice interactive webpage with lots of data.

In fact, now that I'm looking there seems to be quite a lot of people with weather stations that put their weather data on the net. Steve has one and here are loads of stations all over the uk!

Impressive.

2006-09-13T08:30:00.000-07:00

First Global Connection Between Earth And Space Weather Found

Ooo! Seek and you shall find.

On physorg today NASA has found a tentative link show how "earth's weather effects the ionosphere". I guess thats how they would view it, but I'm tending to think it's an interaction between the solar wind and earthly weather. But it quite rightly puts the sun square in the calculations of climatologists. Its can no longer be ignored! (actually the climate guys probably will ignore it)

Japanese Probe may well have Bounced off course

2006-09-10T11:27:00.000-07:00

Michael Armstrong from the Thunderbolts group has replied exceptionally quickly to my email, and I thank him greatly. His reply is as follows:

Dear Sir,

Thanks for writing and for the kind words.

I haven't familiarized myself with the details of the Japanese mission. We tried to warn them before the mission was launched that they must take electrical interactions into consideration, but we are unaware of whether they actually did that. As I remember, they planned to have their craft spend considerable time in the vicinity of the asteroid before attempting to proceed, and that would have given the charge imbalance a chance to equalize somewhat.

As to your actual question, I would say "yes", that electrical interaction could be the reason for the erratic course and malfunction, but the Japanese would probably lump this under "mechanical". If you learn more send it to us.

Again, thanks to Michael Armstrong for your reply.

Did Japanese Probe Get Bounced off Course?

2006-09-09T04:26:00.000-07:00

This idea just came to mind. I remembered the Japanese probe Hayabusa "missed" an astroid because it "malfunctioned". With the elctric universe now in mind, I wonder if they where effected by the astroids electrostatic field?

In trying to gain an answer to this question I read through some articles here here and the probe's website here and it seemed a possible explantion. I was a bit surprised to actually see the picture of the asteroid as well. It looked like a misshappen ballon with rocky-fluff stuck to it. I was more surprised when digger further on the Thunderbolts website I found an article about the shape and debre on it. They theorised that astroids "may tend to aggregate material electrostatically". Amazing!

I'm going to write an email to the website contacts asking if they can comment on the behaviours of the probes and my ideas.

2006-09-08T08:08:00.000-07:00

European discovery challenges criteria for deciding mental death

A Very interesting article from the Europeans. In summary they scanned a woman categorised as in a vegitative state with a fMRI scanner and found that she mentally responded to words and could even mentally plan a journey into a room to play tennis.

Cold Virus Spreading like Wildfire

2006-09-08T02:39:00.000-07:00

I thought i'd make a note on the recent cold I've developed, because 1) it seems to have spread very fast, and 2) it gave me an idea for an interesting website.

Ok, (1), my brother first showed symptoms of a cold on the 29th August. I started two days later. A work collegue has the same sysmptoms started between those days, he lives about 100 miles from mine. I spoke with a girl working in a call centre in Scotland who had the same synptoms which developed at the same time as mine. A number of my friends who live close by also have the same symptoms. My mother, who lives 300 miles away, has the same symptoms developed at the same time.

The most interesting thing here is that everyone developed this cold at about the same time, regardless of distance. Surely, its not possible for a cold virus to travel such distances so quickly? If it where then it must be extremely contageous at a very early stage, before symptoms show. So I can't accept the person-to-person spread as being possible in this case.

There's two big assumptions here; 1) that my symptoms and everyone else's are caused by a virus; 2) that all our symptoms are caused by the same or very similair virus. I will assume these are correct assumption as I'm only interested in the symptoms, which all people are displaying.

I also note that these symptoms have come at a time when it has rained lots all over the UK. The other story we are told by doctors is that rain evaporates from the ground and carries with it viruses which include the cold viruses. Again I can't accept this, as it must mean that large parts of the UK have the cold virus very close to the ground surface, and if that where the case then everytime it rained people would suddenly contract a cold. Ok, we might become immune to viruses over time, but for the virus to mutate at so many different locations that its new mutations overcome previously learn immunities, it doubt very much.

It seems more that the virus appeared very quickly all over the UK, deposited over a large geographical area. The only way i can see this could happen is through the air, either by wind, by rain, probably a combination of both (I will exclude conspiracy notions of planes flying over the UK and dispersing viruses). Later, once people are infected the virus probably spreads a little from person to person.

Over time this might make for an interesting picture. For example, suddenly, a lot of people get colds, and this dies down. But a week or two later other people start getting ill as the virus spreads between people, which is a slower process. The virus may affect some people worse that others, so at the initial peek we might have a few people developing a flu (esp. old people), but in the second round as the virus spreads, more people will be infected and we might see more people developing flu-like symptoms.

This leads me to my interesting website idea.

To test the above idea of an initial peek of colds, a lull followed by an slowly increase in colds and flus we'd need more sensative data than doctors could provide.

Most people do not report to their doctors that they have a cold, or simple flu, or some ache and pain; they only seek help for very bad symptoms - fevers and such (why should they see a doctor for anything less? Its only a cold so they're not going to take time off work to see the doctor). So what's needed is something less intrusive. A website would be great for this, especially if it can dispense advice on how to lessen the inevitable symptoms.

It might be fun to show them where other people have similair symptoms, how the symptoms are spreading geographically.

Sounds a bit doomsday and I've no idea if it would catch on. I personally would love people to enter their symptoms as they get them and as they stop. That would show us many thing. a) when cold and flu symptoms start, b) estimate the duration of colds, c) let someone see the symptoms they might get if that cold from the south comes north towards them, d) help them protect themselves against getting the cold. It might also prove how viruses and bugs start to cause problems. It might scare people too much with reports on the news like "the cold virus is spreading north towards Manchester. Doctors are advising people to get vaccinated". This would also help determine if flu vaccines are actually worth the money, or are in fact a waste of time.

All interesting stuff. I must stop and do some work! Any thoughts?

New Theory of the Cosmos

2006-09-07T05:50:00.000-07:00

I stumbled across a theory of the cosomos which makes a lot more sense than the current model (what with is mythical dark matter, dark energy and creationist big bang, and black holes, all aspect I cannot agree exist). Its called Plasma Cosmology (PC), and here are some links to very useful/interesting material on the topic

Plasma Cosmology .net
Electric Cosmos .org
The Electric Universe Website
Thunderbolts.info
Wikipedia Entry on Plasma Cosmology
Wikipedia: The Electric Universe

If you haven't heard about this before, you'd best read the wikipedia entries as they are more general in nature.

I'm a computer scientist not an astrophysicist, and I've always had an interest in physics, the universe at large and biology and genetics. I'm no authority on these topics but, like Cosmic Ancestry, I feel this theory is a lot closer to reality than the currently accepted model.

Interesting, in searching for the above links, I came across this blog of someone who has a similair feelings as me, that the world (human consciousness) is become more aware of itself, more aware of the interconnectedness of everything around us, and he works towards examining a wide range of concepts to gain a larger more connected , and hopefully more correct, understanding of the universe.

In this respect I believe Plamsa Cosmology and Cosmic Ancestry also bring the heavens down to Earth (hopefully bring some of the science people out of the clouds as well). CA is already making excellent progress and being considered by mainstream communities already (the public are quite accepting, I feel, of the idea of life existsing, at least at some point in time, on other planets in our solar systems, if not somewhere else (everywhere?) in the universe). PC, well I've conly just heard of it but cosmology cirlces have known about it for a long time. As I was reading about PC I was surprised and delighted to read that Fred Hoyle being advocate of PC (if you didn't know he and Chandra Wickramasinghe are both advocates of Panspermia). He has very probably looked for a link between PC and CA, which is something I will try to read about after reading the PC material I've found.

2006-09-04T23:24:00.000-07:00

BayRelay - Do you know where your friends are?

Here's a groovy idea I pursed not very diligently but others have brought from thought form to conception. BayRelay lets your phone upload its position to this website, which can be viewed through your web browser. Sounds simple, but when all your mates on MSN, Yahoo etc do the same you can see where they are too!

I cannot use the service because 1) I'm not in the US, and 2) my mobile isn't compatible with the mobile phone program. Nevertheless, having logged in and seen the potential, these people are heading in the right direction.

Good luck to them, i hope to see a UK version soon!

2006-09-02T14:14:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Top scientist's fears for climate

The media is awash with climate fears again, appear to blame President Bush for the melting of Greenlands ice (amazing what a man can do inside 10 years) and the New Scientist pushed an story again invalidating previous assumptions about the environmental impact of green sea bateria; it appears the effect scientists believed they have on CO2 absorbtion is too high. So back to the drawin board to see where that CO2 was going to then I guess.

2006-09-02T14:02:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | UK | Baggage advice for UK passengers

I've just come back from a holiday abroad and had to undergo some rediculous security checks, which now include taking off my shoes and belt to be put through the x-ray scanner.

Tell me, have these security checks EVERY found anyone trying to blow up a plane or hi-jack a plane? I believe the answer is never (in particular I'm refering to the apparent "islamic terrorists"). They are always in retrospect, in fact these additional shoe and belt checks are total rediculous seeing as the potential "shoe bomber" happened years ago. Why didn't they ask to check our shoes then?

In my own protest I refused to remove my belt. Not that I made a fuss, i just protended not to have it. By pure accident I forgot to turn my mobile phone off as well. We didn't get blown up, we didn't crash, and mobile phones has been stated as not being a problem to the aviation industry any more.

This climate of fear being fermented by the Goverment really is going too far. I watch V for Vendetta the orher day, great film, and I firmly believe the UK is going in just the same direction.

2006-08-30T09:03:00.000-07:00

Video Cameras Learn from Insect Eyes

it can: resolve detail in light and dark; detect moving objects; rapidly compress and transmit video at incredible speed; and detect and measure the speed of very small objects moving in the distance

Another question I'd ask is how much power does it need? Another team created a great camera chip which uses 1/50th of the power currently needed. Breakthrough Chip Delivers Better Digital Pictures For Less Power

2006-08-28T15:06:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Fresh blast hits Turkish resorts

The Turkish economy is heavily reliant on tourism, which Kurdish separatists have repeatedly threatened to target.

Meanwhile, a Kurdish militant group with links to the banned separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for Sunday's blasts in Marmaris and Istanbul.

"We had warned before, Turkey is not a safe country. Tourists should not come to Turkey," the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (Tak) said on its website.

Nervous atmosphere

2006-08-26T06:12:00.000-07:00

Planet Earth may have 'tilted' to keep its balance

The theory, known as true polar wander, postulates that if an object of sufficient weight --such as a supersized volcano -- ever formed far from the equator, the force of the planet's rotation would gradually pull the heavy object away from the axis the Earth spins around. If the volcanoes, land and other masses that exist within the spinning Earth ever became sufficiently imbalanced, the planet would tilt and rotate itself until this extra weight was relocated to a point along the equator.

I just wanted to note this article cos this guy had some interesting comment:

Princeton University"s Adam Maloof posits that an eccentric weight of some large object such as a giant volcano would move towards the equator. This is incorrect. Such a movement would increase the instability of the entire planet and momentum would not be conserved. The eccentric mass would instead move towards a Pole, North, or South. You can demonstrate this yourself right now if you are wearing jewelry like a class ring. If you spin it at any attitude, the eccentric seal will move to the top and it will spin symetrically. I would go looking for a large mass near one of the poles, not at the equator, maybe a big hunk of nickel/iron, eh? "Symmetry will be served"

2006-08-26T00:42:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | UK | Church 'alarm' over cross caution

What a crock of shit!

The Devil really has taken over the court system when making the sign of the cross an offence. The sign of the cross is a power invocation in thise instance used to protect the crossee and ward off evil spirits. Sadly it seems the evil spirits in the audience now have a backdoor mechanism, via the courts, to surpress any invocation of God's power.

Even if you are not religious, performing the sign of the cross has psychological significance. People the world over know what it means, and in performing the act the observers mentally register the invocation and it might impact on their performance if they don't understand it. One might say it's a simple mind game. All the better then to allow it in social games like football; players are not just tested on their physical ability but mental accuity, and if someone is scared of the cross they are illogical, for the sign does not only protect the crossee but all those around them as well, and is a benefit to all players in the game.

So what's the next invocation to be banned on the pitch, "the Crossing of Fingers", dare they not!

2006-08-24T09:03:00.000-07:00

Viruses Can Jump Between Primates and Humans

"Viruses are already jumping the species barrier and affecting both people and animals, and there is the potential for much worse," explained Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, a research scientist in the Division of International Programs at the UW’s Washington National Primate Research Center. "It's especially cause for concern in Asia, where people and monkeys have so much interaction, and there has been little research done on this topic."

Hello fellow humans, another wake up call. Nature has been doing this for billions of years, and you are the net beneficiaries of this amazing technique of genetic enhancement using viruses. Why should we been SO concerned? People have been living with animals of millenia, why get concerned now? It should be noted that this happens and accept it.

"In one article, researchers estimate that about six people out of every thousand who visit a monkey temple in Bali, Indonesia, will be infected with simian foamy virus (SFV) from a monkey bite. SFV is a primate retrovirus that so far has not been shown to cause disease in humans."

It does not cause a problem because in the human body-environment it is not programmed to do so. In fact, it might be adding to our genetic heritage which in years or generations to come might express some wonderful phenotypic qualities.

Though SFV and a similar primate virus called SRV are not yet known to cause disease in humans, both are retroviruses, which are typically slow-acting in their host. It could be many years before physicians know the effects of those virus exposures. Other viruses carried by monkeys can cause disease and death in humans. "Governments and non-governmental organizations can also take steps to
reduce the risk of virus transmission," said Jones-Engel. "Better
management of monkey populations, disease surveillance of human and
primate populations, and improved public sanitation can all cut down on
the risk of viral transmission within monkey populations, and between
animals and people."

Here we go, try and control nature again. I'm all for hygeine and not getting harmful desease, but this comes across as scaremungering in a light form. Basic sanitation is all that is required. Ok, some people might get infected (1 in 1000 so they say) but thats just with monkeys. This about all the other animals we interactive with - cats dogs, chickens mice etc - what genetic information might we be exchanging with them???

The only time we have known about virus transmission in the past is to see disease, we are only just becoming aware of benign viral transmission, like some viruses seemingly coming from monkeys above. We have little idea of the benefits or illness caused by viruses and should study them as these good chaps are. But at the heart of the philosophy is that all forms of genetic transmission between organisms (sex excluded) are bad. And that may not actually be the case.

2006-08-24T03:09:00.000-07:00

UK 'must tackle ethnic tensions'

Unless the Government takes seriously a holistic view of the "problems" in the UK to include its foreign policies, domestic policies, and possibly the role of the media in fuelling hatred among peoples - for example segregating Poles and East Europeans as job robbers and Muslims as terrorists - then the commission will fail.

My firm belief is 1) the Government has fuels passions in the muslim minority communities with its involvment in sacred lands, 2) the Opposition and the media are exploiting public media-imposed fears about work and public servies impacted by European migrants to gain political advantage.

2006-08-23T15:29:00.000-07:00

Sulfur signature changes thoughts on atmospheric oxygen

so whats normal? - post by seanpu2

So there is a possibility earth had an oxygenated atmosphere, then didn't have one, then had one again. Or it always had one and our understanding of sulfur isotopes is screwed

2006-08-23T15:15:00.000-07:00

Researchers harness the power of bacteria

"Looking for alternatives to world reliance on
fossil fuels for energy, an interdisciplinary team of University of
Wisconsin-Madison researchers is studying ways to generate electricity
by feeding a species of photosynthetic bacteria a steady diet of
sunshine and wastewater."

I had this fantastic idea when i was a kid :) at last things are moving in the right direction. But my idea spanned around the moon as a fuel source instead.

2006-08-23T14:28:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ozone hole stable, say scientists

Ar! At last the ozeon hole has started to "stablise". Was it ever unstable?

Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for 100 years: study

2006-08-22T04:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.physorg.com/news75394015.html

Personally I don't believe in global warming. Some might say its all scare tactics from USA, some might say its a conspiracy. (lets not forget that two years ago the USA didn't officially believe in global warming)

The global warming debate appears more to be a feature of the human race becoming more globally and planetarily aware of itself. At the heart of the debate we fear our lives will end in a firey inferno (very biblical). we believe we are seeing the effect of our actions on the planet in the changing environment we live in. Yet if current parameters be put in an historical context, the earth is not outside any "normal" behaviour by any measures available.

Our governments' desires to "stop global warming" is our arrogence to believe we are capable of controling every facet of the planet. In truth we are like bateria on this earthly petry dish, and the sun and universe the scientists that effect our environment with far greater effect and ability than we are capable of imagining.

To me the global warming debate seems more an element of our awakening.

2006-08-18T02:30:00.000-07:00

Researchers develop mobile robot that balances, moves on ball instead of wheels or leg

The Jettson robot is at last here with us. This looks like a very exiciting alternative to the little Japanese humanoid robots. Probably it can only work on stablish surfaces, but thats ok as we humans like smooth pavements, roads and grassy lawns.

Now stick some arms on it, a voice box and make it answer to the name Robby and we're all set!

2006-08-18T02:15:00.000-07:00

Segway launches 2 new scooters

I'd love to own a Segway, but at over £3k here I couldn't get the bill bassed by girl.

I could wake in the morning for the London run, jump on my Segy for a trip to the train station in Brighton, off at London Victoria, Seg up the escilators and down the roads to my office, all suited and booted, and arrive without a single speck of street shit on my shoes and great windswept hair (my hair always looks better windswept).

With the new remote control imagine, stick a wifi cam on it and a note for the canteen ladies, remote it down the corridor, down the lift, through the canteen to my favourate lady, she'd pop on a coffee and muffin and I'd drive it back, using the wifi cam to guide me. I'd call it bouncer, lol.

(I wonder if I could hook up some more sensors and AI software and let it roam the office looking for nice girls to give flowers and bon-bons to, hmmm....)

A Two Teir Internet? Why?

2006-06-30T02:56:00.000-07:00

What is the point in the US government implementing an additional charges to the internet to supply content (see BBC news article here)? Customer and supplier access is already restricted by two factors 1) the speed the customer has subscribed to, and 2) the bandwidth the content provider has paid for. So the customer gets a garenteed download speed, and as long as the content supplier has paid for the bandwidth and speed, the customer will get their content at the garenteed speed.

These changes are changing the content provider's relationship with the internet, meaning that customers may have a higher download speed than supplier upload speed. If all our blogs take longer to download, we'll either pay blogger for better deliver speed or let it be. If most content providers (like us and small businesses) don't want to pay fees on-top of connection fees then customers may subscribe to a low bandwidth as there will be no point in upgrading to higher bandwidth.

I have a 4mb connection, and I'm already thinking of downgrading as most sites don't download any quicker than a 2mb connection. If this Bill becomes law then there is no point in my 4mb connect and I'll definately downgrade, saving me £100 a year.

Another oscilating battery idea

2006-06-29T05:04:00.000-07:00

Another post on zpenergy.com extended the oscilating battery idea.

want a battery to last a decade? and by that i mean not rechargeing or repairing it for a decade. take some chunk of yellow cake or urano-nitrile or thorium. (wear plastic gloves to avoid particles adhereing to skin) now with a 40kv DC source atach the nagative lead to a ceramic radio shack magnet. put this magnet on your radioisotope and leave it negatively charged for about 27 hours. now take anhydrous ammonia and fill it in a glass jar. in the glass jar's lid put strip of copper and a strip of steel and seal it up airtight. now drop the altered magnet into the jar seal the lid. you have a battery that should last 10 years from a brief charging of the magnet. the best thing is that so little radioisotope is in the magnet that it is not a radiation hazard on exposure to the enviorment. here is a machine you can make without radioisotopes for you purists out there. it is powered by cosmic rays which are manufactured largely from the solar wind. it is like a crookes tube. just modified for cosmic particles not light. get a big bottomed flask with a stopper. now like one-way glass. half silver the outside. (so particles can get through and reflected too!) fill the flask with high density hydrogen. now put a magnetic rod half in and half out of the flask. seal the thing air tight. wrap a coil around the exposed rod for power. this thing is so similar to the crookes tube that it will generate power from a laser shined at the vessel too not just cosmic rays. unlike the tube though it has been configured to output electricity not motion of vanes. this thing was part of tesla's papers siezed by the FBI. it was part of a collaboration bettween crookes and tesla. as visible light was to weak to be powerful enough for usefulness in crooke's radiometer. they undertook a method to convert high energy cosmic rays. like tesla said he was able to operate a motor with it. (crookes tubes can't drive motors) tesla used the civil war reaction Fe+ H2SO4 to make the hydrogen. but it is better to use the aluminum/water reaction. for laser energy conversion the USAF says nitrogen/UV lasers are best. UV being very invigorating to hydrogen. lasers are only for high power fast though. it can easily run a motor just from cosmic rays on earth.

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs race to bring electric cars to market

2006-06-28T04:46:00.000-07:00

From http://www.physorg.com/news70614375.html

This is fantatsic! I think it will take the energies of people like silicon valley (SV) business people to bring markets into focus on what we need. First super efficient cars would spring from SV, the to support those cars new power modules will be developed and the energy revolution could really start to kick off. The obvious drawback with battery powered cars is their need for fuel from the power socket, which in turn comes from coil/gas/oil burning power stations (more to the point "non-renewable" resources). But one hopes these stations are at least the generating-distributing-charging-driving structure is more efficient than petrol burning engines.

Environmental Link to Gene Expression

2006-06-27T07:37:00.000-07:00

Interesting article which demonstrates the changing view of medicine, examines the more dynamic aspect of our bodies in relation to the gene-environment interaction and how the enviornment activates gene expression. This article reminds me of another in which indigenous Australian tribes are described as take extreme care of women intending to have children. During a woman's inception and pregnancy attention is paid to the woman's emotional needs and food ensure the baby lives in the best possible environment, its mother

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5117752.stm Can genes explain rising obesity?
http://www.physorg.com/news70606639.html

And this one links the women's womb environment to the mental/sexual orientation of a male babies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5120004.stm Womb environment 'makes men gay'
http://www.physorg.com/news70613397.html

Drug firms attacked on marketing

2006-06-26T04:55:00.000-07:00

As testiment to some of the techniques used by drug firms I give a story from friends of mine in Bulgaria. Now the country is entering the EU, drug companies are putting preasure on doctirs and GPs to use and perscribe their drugs by enticements such as "free holidays". Recently a friend had an all expenses paid week holiday to Greece (food, hotel and travel included) to learn about a company's drug range. They are promised more "marketing-trips" abroad if the company sees hospitals they work at using more of their products. Of course people from Bulgaria can't usually afford foreign holidays to 4-star hotels, so they are "encouraged" to perscribe the drugs or else watch their collegues going abroad and enjoying themselves for free. As drug use can only be monitored on a hospital basis and not on staff member basis, non-compliant collegues are bullied or intimidated into conforming.

Self-regulation must fall down to concensus. If all companies agree the above practices are ok they will all do it. They may well comply with standards etc but that doesn't mean standards are good enough.

Reported here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5116312.stm

Top European pharmaceutical firms are using unscrupulous marketing practices to promote their products, a consumer report says. The Consumers International lobby group accused drugmakers of using the methods to get doctors to prescribe products and persuade consumers they need them.

It said there was a "shocking" lack of publicity about where the $60bn (£33bn) annual marketing spend went.

Drug firms say that they act within strict guidelines.

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) told the BBC News website that for UK-based firms there was "a stringent and transparent code of practice that goes beyond the requirements of UK law and the industry regulator".

Sponsorships

Consumers International said it had analysed the selling techniques of many leading companies, including Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson.

Richard Lloyd, the group's director general, said: "The pharmaceutical industry spends nearly twice as much on marketing as it does on research and development, yet consumers know next to nothing about where this money is going."

He called for a revision of marketing regulations to achieve "more transparency from drug companies".

In most Western markets direct advertising to consumers is banned.

But Mr Lloyd said there were other methods drug companies were using to influence opinion.
These include the sponsoring of patient lobby groups, funding disease awareness campaigns and use of hospitality packages for medical experts.

The report cites sponsorships by such firms as Eli Lilly and Pfizer. The latter, the maker of Viagra, sponsored a campaign by the Impotence Association which sported the Pfizer logo.

The report said only one of the firms studied, Orion Pharma, provided specific marketing budget information.

It also pointed to the "large numbers of serious, recent and repeated breaches of marketing codes".

This showed the "current regulatory framework is clearly insufficient to prevent systemic violations of marketing regulations".

However, the ABPI said the number of complaints raised showed the system, which had been strengthened this year, was working.

It said complaints from drug companies about fellow firms' activities showed the self-regulation was effective.

But it also said it was vital for doctors to know about products.

"There is no point having innovative new medicines if they remain unused," an association spokesman said.

Self-oscillating magnet. Possible?

2006-06-24T12:11:00.000-07:00

I found a very interesting remark on www.zpenergy.com which hints at a possible self-oscillating magnet.

thorium is interesting if you go to rexresearch.com and look at the moray lectures you see on "induced radioactivity" that thorium emmanations can be used to make a metal 10,000 times more radioactive than the initial thorium! simple to do too. for those screaming in horror you can use atomic science constructively. in fact since tritium is to the EPA a benign radiation source (emits electrons) you could do what a certain "forbidden patent" says and make a self-oscillating magnet. (this patent is classified but you know what? i make unilateral decisions) get some tritium from an old exit sign of the self-luminous type. take a magnet and atach it to 40 kilovolts of negative potential. magnet sucks up the tritium gas. now put a thin layer of sealant over the magnet. wrap a coil around it. as the tritium emits beta particles it oscillates the magnets field putting energy in the coil. a similar black-ops technology uses thorium. the same high voltage source absorbs thorium into a bit of iron. the iron is put in a small bullet proof glass capsule. then filled with liquid hydrogen. two electrodes. one copper one magnesium in the hydrogen electrolyte take energy out to run small lights and sensors. enjoy! (me and prometheus disagree with the concept of "need to know")

Its a magnet could self oscillate as suggested that GREAT!

Treating Cancer with electrical treatments

2006-06-21T02:00:00.000-07:00

If you remember Bjorn Nordenstrom, the radiologist and researcher who was using platinum electrodes and measuring DC micro currents in the body, he was able to cure various diseases including cancer. Frank provides this URL which shows the curing of cancer with applied electrical current. - "Bjorn Nordenstrom, M.D., author of Biologically Closed Electric Circuits : Clinical, Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for an Additional Circulatory System, states that bioelectricity is conducted through the microcapillary circulatory system in the body. When injury occurs, a positive charge builds up in the area of injury and sets up the voltage potential difference which serves as biological battery waiting for the switch to be turned on. The bioelectricity is then switched on by a change in the electrical insulation properties of the capillary membranes. As they become less permeable to the flow of ions and become more electrically insulated, the bioelectric flow of energy is forced to take path of least resistance, which is through the bloodstream. Thus the bioelectric switch is through the bloodstream." Correlation with E-Meters - "In the author's opinion, endogenous activation of BCEC systems, leading to unidirectional flow of current over long time periods, may lead to modification of cells and tissues. Strong currents will destroy cells and tissue. Weak currents, on the other hand, will gently create new internal and external environments for cells. The currents will also directly interfere with cellular metabolism and modify structural elements of cells, damage to structures e.g. the DNA molecule, is evidently one possible effect of such modifications. Cells subjected to the conditions described can be expected to show variable abilities to survive and adapt themselves to the new living conditions."
http://www.keelynet.com/

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2006-06-20T12:35:00.000-07:00

"Intelligence expresses itself through matter." - Dr. O.Z.A. Hanish

Near-death experiences go under the French microscope

2006-06-20T12:33:00.000-07:00

More than 1,500 delegates including people who claim to have had NDEs are attending the one-day conference, which aims to take stock of the disputed phenomenon in the most scientific way possible.

Among them is anaesthetist and intensive care doctor Jean-Jacques Charbonnier, who has taken evidence from several people who claim to have had an NDE.

"People who were brain-dead could see what was going on in a waiting room, or around them, in precise detail. We are not talking about an hallucination here because it was quite real," he said.

Sonia Barkallah, organiser of the conference, being held in Martigues near Marseille, added: "These are people who have come close to death, whether through an accident or during an operation, and who have brought back from their unconscious state accounts that are quite out of the ordinary.

"They are floating above their bodies, they can hear what the doctors are saying about them, they feel themselves getting sucked into a dark tunnel with a bright but not blinding light at the end of it," she continued.

"At the end of the tunnel they often meet 'light beings' or dead relatives who tell them it is not their time."

Articles in respected scientific journals such as Nature and The Lancet have provided a better understanding of NDEs, although there remains considerable scepticism about the phenomenon.

In a statement released ahead of the conference, delegates including the respected American psychiatrist Raymond Moody said it was "very important that scientists should be able to conduct research in different disciplines, in particular in neurosciences, without prejudice of any kind".
A survey released in 1982 in the United States showed eight million Americans claimed to have experienced an NDE.

Nonetheless, Barkallah said, the phenomenon remains "very controversial, especially in France, where it is difficult to conduct serious research".

"I noticed that doctors were very interested in the subject, but that they conducted their research in secret, afraid of being considered quacks," she said.

"The aim of this international day is not to prove that there is life after death, it is to show what this can teach us on a human and scientific level," she added.

Charbonnier said he frequently felt he could read the minds of his unconscious patients. He told how on one occasion he felt he was being asked to look in a patient's wallet. When he did so, he found a letter from the patient asking to be "unplugged" if he was ever in such a condition. Charbonnier said many people found coming close to death to be a positive experience that left them feeling more altruistic and less attached to material things.

http://www.physorg.com/news69767114.html

Slow-frozen people? Latest research supports possibility of cyropreservation

2006-06-20T12:29:00.000-07:00

He conducted the study, scheduled for the July 6 issue of the ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry B, one of 34 peer-review journals published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.

In medicine, cryopreservation involves preserving organs and tissues for transplantation or other uses. Only certain kinds of cells and tissues, including sperm and embryos, currently can be frozen and successfully rewarmed. A major problem hindering wider use of cyropreservation is formation of ice crystals, which damage cell structures.

Cyropreservation may be most familiar, however, as the controversial idea that humans, stricken with incurable diseases, might be frozen and then revived years or decades later when cures are available.

Bogdan's experiments involved a form of water termed "glassy water," or low-density amorphous ice (LDA), which is produced by slowly supercooling diluted aqueous droplets. LDA melts into highly viscous water (HVW). Bogdan reports that HVW is not a new form of water, as some scientists believed.

"That HVW is not a new form of water (i.e., normal and glassy water are thermodynamically connected) may have some interesting practical implications in cryobiology, medicine, and cryonics." Bogdan said.

"It may seem fantastic, but the fact that in aqueous solution, [the] water component can be slowly supercooled to the glassy state and warmed back without the crystallization implies that, in principle, if the suitable cyroprotectant is created, cells in plants and living matter could withstand a large supercooling and survive," Bogdan explained. In present cyropreservation, the cells being preserved are often damaged due to freezing of water either on cooling or subsequent warming to room temperature.

"Damage of the cells occurs due to the extra-cellular and intra-cellular ice formation which leads to dehydration and separation into the ice and concentrated unfrozen solution. If we could, by slow cooling/warming, supercool and then warm the cells without the crystallization of water then the cells would be undamaged."

http://www.physorg.com/news70025926.html

'Mind over matter' no longer science fiction

2006-06-09T16:55:00.000-07:00

I've been waiting for this like 10 years, but its finally in the mainstream media; being able to control a computer from your own thoughts (look, no hands! :)

Sitting stone still under a skull cap fitted with a couple dozen electrodes, American scientist Peter Brunner stares at a laptop computer. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message -- letter by letter -- on a giant screen overhead.

"B-O-N-J-O-U-R" he writes with the power of his mind, much to the amazement of the largely French audience of scientists and curious onlookers gathered at the four-day European Research and Innovation Exhibition in Paris, which opened Thursday.

Brunner and two colleagues from the state-financed Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York were demonstrating a "brain computer interface (BCI)," an astounding technology which digitalizes brain signals emitted as electrical impulses -- picked up by the electrodes -- to convey intent.

While no spoons were bent, this was definitely mind over matter.

Without recourse to nerves or muscles, BCI "can provide communication and control to people who are totally paralyzed" and unable to unable to speak or move, explains researcher Theresa Sellers, also from Wadsworth.

Dr. Sellers estimates there are some 100 million potential users of BCI technology worldwide, including 16 million sufferers of cerebral palsy, a degenerative brain disease, and at least five million victims of spinal cord injury. Another 10 million people have been totally paralyzed by brainstem strokes, she said.

Scientists have been experimenting with ways to translate thought directly into action for nearly two decades, but BCI has only recently begun to move out of the laboratory and into the daily lives of those trapped inside bodies that no longer respond to their will.

Possible applications extend beyond the written word into physical movement -- it is only a matter of time, Sellers says, before the same technology is used to operate motorized wheel chairs. "We can do already. But it is a complex problem, and for now it would be unsafe," she says.

The frightful condition of being "locked in" came into the public eye in the late 1990s, when French journalist and Elle Magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, after suffering a massive stroke, painstakingly "dictated" a beautiful and moving memoir by blinking his left eyelid.
," published two days before he died, became an international bestseller.

Had BCI technology been available to him, Bauby would almost certainly have been able to write his book unassisted, and in a fraction of the time.

The Wadsworth system, one of several that detects electroencephalographic (EEG) activity, is based on an algorithm that analyzes the brain waves and identifies peaks in activity that correspond to particular mental efforts.

As Dr. Brunner concentrates on the "B" of "bonjour" in a keyboard-like grid of letters and symbols taking up half the screen, a computer randomly highlights lines of characters in rapid succession.

Each time the row -- vertical or horizontal -- containing the letter "B" is illuminated, Brunner's brain emits a slightly stronger signal. It takes the computer about 15 seconds to figure out what letter he is looking at. The system is doubly adaptive, with both the software and the person using it becoming more efficient over time.

"It may not sound very practical, but for someone who is paralyzed it can make all the difference in the world," says Sellers.

Indeed, for at least one 48-year old neurobiologist in the United States stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- an invariably fatal degenerative disease that attacks nerve cells -- the Wadsworth BCI technology has make it possible not only to communicate but to continue working, even though he can no longer even move his eyes.

"He writes grant proposals, sends e-mails and can use the keyboard of a computer at home," Sellers said of the man, whom she did not identify in order to protect his privacy.

He even wrote a message for the exhibition in Paris, which Sellers projected onto a screen.
"To Altran," he began, referring to the French innovation consulting firm that sponsors an annual competition for public service innovation, won in 2005 by the head of the Wadworth Center, Jonathan Wolpaw.

"I am a neuroscientist wHo couldn't work without BCI," the message read, typo and all. "I am writing this with my EEG courtesy of the Wadsworth Center Brain-Computer Interface Research Program."

Source:http://www.physorg.com/news69039322.html

2006-06-04T15:55:00.001-07:00

Some great Final Fantasy videos from Google. I don't play Final Fantasy but these are GREAT videos!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6438043738887963379
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2364363488204557063
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8842843785080641444