Healthier, smarter, happier? | DailyTidings.com: "We stand on the brink of a disease-free utopia where our technology has overcome aging and given us vastly increased intelligence, physical prowess and psychological stability. Sound good?
It might be, says Southern Oregon University sociologist Echo Fields, who will give a presentation Wednesday on the 'transhuman' movement — or it could be, as one scientist called it, 'the world's most dangerous idea.' Transhumanism, or H+, as it is symbolized, goes by the slogan 'healthier, smarter, happier' and envisions 'tiny, tiny, tiny' nanotechnology devices implanted in our bodies to remove cancer, disease and effects of aging."
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Mammoth ambitions to perform another miracle
Mammoth ambitions to perform another miracle: "THE ice age mammoth, believed to have gone extinct ten thousand years ago, is the centre of an exciting new project initiated by a group of scientists under the leadership of Japan's Kyoto University. They mean to use cloning technology to bring this ancient animal back to life, using cells from the supposed remains of one discovered years ago and now preserved in a Russian research lab."
Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate
Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate: "AUSTIN - The suspect's house, just west of this city, sat on a hilltop at the end of a steep, exposed driveway. Agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety believed the man inside had a large stash of drugs and a cache of weapons, including high-caliber rifles."
YouTube - UFO sighting over Lake Elsinore, CA (01/06/2011 7:30pm)
YouTube - UFO sighting over Lake Elsinore, CA (01/06/2011 7:30pm): "Compare with sighting seen at EL PASO (10/15/2010)"
Is Gliese 581 Nibiru or Planet X?
The idea of a new planet being discovered in our Solar System is pretty exciting. Even more so because of the many theories about 'planet-x' or 'Nibiru' being associated with space aliens and the doomsday prophecies of 2012. Scientists at places like NASA and famous observatories have deflected inquiries about the discovery for a few years now, mainly because they feared being associated with these 'fringe' theories. But like it or not -- it has happened. Well... According to a team of Spanish artronomers who call themselves the StarViewer Team."
UFOs digging our nukes is not news – De Void - Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota, FL - Archive
UFOs digging our nukes is not news – De Void - Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota, FL - Archive: "A few weeks ago, Frank Warren, who runs a Web site out of Sacramento called The UFO Chronicles, interviewed another retired USAF officer with a national-security secret. This guy was on launch-control duty at a Midwestern nuclear missile silo in the Sixties when a UFO buzzed the bunker he was assigned to and scared the spit out of topside security.
Stories like these are becoming increasingly common. In his 2008 book UFOs and Nukes, New Mexico researcher Robert Hastings talked with military veterans who’ve placed UFOs stalking America’s A-bomb factories since the 1940s, from Hanford to Oak Ridge. Some 120 have shared their stories, and last September he brought seven of them together for a press conference in Washington."
Stories like these are becoming increasingly common. In his 2008 book UFOs and Nukes, New Mexico researcher Robert Hastings talked with military veterans who’ve placed UFOs stalking America’s A-bomb factories since the 1940s, from Hanford to Oak Ridge. Some 120 have shared their stories, and last September he brought seven of them together for a press conference in Washington."
Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the sky in New York | Mail Online
Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the sky in New York | Mail Online: "The FAA has launched an investigation after a mysterious greenish-yellow goo fell from the skies and splattered homes in Snyder, New York on Tuesday.
Homes along Washington Highway and Berryman Drive are now coated in yellow or green icicles. Walls and pavements are splashed with a bizarre deep brown substance.
Neighbours said the mystery substance appeared between the hours of 9am and midnight on Tuesday."
Homes along Washington Highway and Berryman Drive are now coated in yellow or green icicles. Walls and pavements are splashed with a bizarre deep brown substance.
Neighbours said the mystery substance appeared between the hours of 9am and midnight on Tuesday."
Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US | Media | The Observer
Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US | Media | The Observer: "The way in which people frantically communicate online via Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern madness, according to a leading American sociologist.
'A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological,' MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book, Alone Together, which is leading an attack on the information age.
Turkle's book, published in the UK next month, has caused a sensation in America, which is usually more obsessed with the merits of social networking. She appeared last week on Stephen Colbert's late-night comedy show, The Colbert Report. When Turkle said she had been at funerals where people checked their iPhones, Colbert quipped: 'We all say goodbye in our own way.'
Turkle's thesis is simple: technology is threatening to dominate our lives and make us less human. Under the illusion of allowing us to communicate better, it is actually isolating us from real human interactions in a cyber-reality that is a poor imitation of the real world."
'A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological,' MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book, Alone Together, which is leading an attack on the information age.
Turkle's book, published in the UK next month, has caused a sensation in America, which is usually more obsessed with the merits of social networking. She appeared last week on Stephen Colbert's late-night comedy show, The Colbert Report. When Turkle said she had been at funerals where people checked their iPhones, Colbert quipped: 'We all say goodbye in our own way.'
Turkle's thesis is simple: technology is threatening to dominate our lives and make us less human. Under the illusion of allowing us to communicate better, it is actually isolating us from real human interactions in a cyber-reality that is a poor imitation of the real world."
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Chinese National TV reporting impending UFO/ET disclosure by Obama government - Seattle exopolitics | Examiner.com
The unprecedented national China TV news bulletin that U.S. President Barack Obama may be preparing to disclose U.S. relations with specific extraterrestrial races was broadcast on the official channel Xinhua on January 4, 2011 on the eve of China President Hu Jintao's state visit to the United States."
Quantum robins lead the way
Quantum robins lead the way: "Researchers have been investigating the mechanism which enables birds to detect the Earth's magnetic field to help them navigate over vast distances. This ability, known as magnetoreception, has been linked to chemical reactions inside birds' eyes.
Now a team from Oxford University and Singapore believe that this 'compass' is making use of something called quantum coherence.
In a forthcoming article in Physical Review Letters the team report how they anaylsed data from an experiment by Oxford and Frankfurt scientists on robins.
The experiment showed that the magnetic compass used by robins could be distrupted by extremely small levels of magnetic 'noise'. When this noise, a tiny oscillating magnetic field, was introduced it completely disabled the Robins' compass sense which then returned to normal once the noise was removed - good news for robins which have to navigate on the long migration route to Scandinavia and Africa and back every year."
YouTube - Spectacular UFO's fleet
YouTube - Spectacular UFO's fleet: "Since 1994 UFO's fleets were recorded all over the world, and currently during the night, making spectacular shapes"
YouTube - INCREDIBLE UFO FLEET HOVERS OVER PITTSBURGH
YouTube - INCREDIBLE UFO FLEET HOVERS OVER PITTSBURGH: "Filmed on 01-16-11 over the skies of Pittsburgh. A fleet of UFOs witnessed and filmed hovering over the skies of Pittsburgh."
YouTube - Real UFO in Chhattisgarh
YouTube - Real UFO in Chhattisgarh: "20 January 2011 Catch on Mobile Real UFO in Chhattisgarh"
The Singularity Film
The Singularity Film: "Within the coming decades we will be able to create AIs with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and re-design matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human?"
Quantum Computing: Will It Be a Leap in Human Evolution? (Today's Most Popular)
Quantum Computing: Will It Be a Leap in Human Evolution? (Today's Most Popular): "Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that would take a classical computer longer than the age of the universe.
Oxford Professor David Deutsch, quantum-computing pioneer, who wrote in his controversial masterpiece, Fabric of Reality says: 'quantum computers can efficiently render every physically possible quantum environment, even when vast numbers of universes are interacting. Quantum computers can also efficiently solve certain mathematical problems, such as factorization, which are classically intractable, and can implement types of cryptography which are classically impossible. Quantum computation is a qualitatively new way of harnessing nature.'"
Oxford Professor David Deutsch, quantum-computing pioneer, who wrote in his controversial masterpiece, Fabric of Reality says: 'quantum computers can efficiently render every physically possible quantum environment, even when vast numbers of universes are interacting. Quantum computers can also efficiently solve certain mathematical problems, such as factorization, which are classically intractable, and can implement types of cryptography which are classically impossible. Quantum computation is a qualitatively new way of harnessing nature.'"
University researchers create networked flying robots that build complex structures | Raw Story
University researchers create networked flying robots that build complex structures | Raw Story: "Imagine a future where massive, flying robots assemble complex structures like skyscrapers or houses, with all the machines working as one, coordinated through a wireless network and custom algorithm.
Granted, a similar process already takes place today on a much smaller scale, albeit guided by human pilots.
But with the potential for human error eliminated, construction times could be drastically reduced. Ultimately, a hyper-streamlined system could result in thousands of construction jobs being eliminated and a surge in urban sprawl.
Such an invention, properly scaled upward, would be simply revolutionary -- and that radical vision, scarcely imagined even in science fiction, took its first step toward becoming a reality in 2011."
Granted, a similar process already takes place today on a much smaller scale, albeit guided by human pilots.
But with the potential for human error eliminated, construction times could be drastically reduced. Ultimately, a hyper-streamlined system could result in thousands of construction jobs being eliminated and a surge in urban sprawl.
Such an invention, properly scaled upward, would be simply revolutionary -- and that radical vision, scarcely imagined even in science fiction, took its first step toward becoming a reality in 2011."
Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion (w/ Video)
Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion (w/ Video): "(PhysOrg.com) -- Few areas of science are more controversial than cold fusion, the hypothetical near-room-temperature reaction in which two smaller nuclei join together to form a single larger nucleus while releasing large amounts of energy. In the 1980s, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishmann claimed to have demonstrated cold fusion - which could potentially provide the world with a cheap, clean energy source - but their experiment could not be reproduced. Since then, all other claims of cold fusion have been illegitimate, and studies have shown that cold fusion is theoretically implausible, causing mainstream science to become highly speculative of the field in general."
Friday, January 21, 2011
Transhuman Topics: Unethical Nanotechnology
Transhuman Topics: Unethical Nanotechnology: "Nanotechnology is my own field of research for 12 years now. It is one of the, if not the most important emerging technology, and it is widely believed to be the vital ingredient to many by transhumanists desired transformations, be it slowing down aging, computer to brain network-neuron interfaces, or the development of ever faster (quantum) computers. Nano is still the big buzz word and I am afraid to be the uninvited party-pooper."
SPLICE OF LIFE: Genetically modified food at ‘center’ of debate | The Red and Black
SPLICE OF LIFE: Genetically modified food at ‘center’ of debate | The Red and Black: "Some call it frankenfood. Others call it playing God. But at the core of the matter, genetically modified food and crops are at the center of a debate between government, science and humanity.
“You get a variety of plant that says ‘new and improved’ — we’re the people who make new and improved plants,” said Wayne Parrott, a professor in the crop and soil sciences department. “From an academic perspective, a [genetically modified organism] is any of the plants that have been new and improved over the past century or so. From a sort of popular perception and media perception, a GMO is a plant that has become new and improved not by traditional methods but by splicing a new gene into it.”
There is a fine line between traditional breeding and gene splicing technology, Parrott said."
Apocalypse | Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012
Apocalypse | Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012: "FIRST the bad news: come December 21, 2012, the world as we know it will end. On this ill-starred date, the solar system will swing into alignment with the midpoint of the Milky Way, precipitating tsunamis, the cracking of continental shelves, the shifting of the magnetic poles, solar flares and other cosmic mayhem not recorded since the planetary upheavals that rendered the dinosaur extinct.
This is a bumper period for end-of-the-world buffs. Based on their reading of ancient prophesies and celestial alignments, many groups are expecting the apocalypse.
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The good news: the world's leading astrophysicists, whose job it is to map the vaults of heaven, to search the galaxy for stray cosmic missiles, don't believe a word of it."
This is a bumper period for end-of-the-world buffs. Based on their reading of ancient prophesies and celestial alignments, many groups are expecting the apocalypse.
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The good news: the world's leading astrophysicists, whose job it is to map the vaults of heaven, to search the galaxy for stray cosmic missiles, don't believe a word of it."
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