I wanted to renew my faith that we should all have in Jesus Christ.  And hopefully I will inspire others to revisit their faith and feel the connection I am trying to make.

I would like to begin with a prophecy that Jesus made that is not very popular but was among one of the most amazing prophecies that he should have been known for.  It was a prophecy that was given to the King Abgar of Edessa.  Here is a famous picture of him holding the Shroud of Turin with a picture of Jesus on it.

  King Abgar of Edessa wrote a letter to Jesus asking him to cure his illness and Jesus sent him a letter back.  This is something to make note of because may naysayers of Jesus try to say that Jesus had never written anything.  I think this is one example that proves that Jesus did have the ability to write, and he must have been an intelligent man in those days to be able to write.   I’m not here to debate with atheist so I want to jump right back on track, Jesus replies by letter saying that after he completed his earthly mission and ascended to heaven, he would send a deciple to heal King Abgar.  At this time there was no mention of any shroud or image.  Jude Thaddeus came with a mission to heal Abgar simply through the faith of Jesus.  Legend has it that this cloth was the famous Shroud of Turin that we all know of today.  My view on this is that the shroud itself has the power to heal because it was wrapped around Jesus in the tomb before the time of his resurrection, and the shroud would also have been anointed by the holy blood of Jesus Christ.  So in my view, it was not Thaddeus that had the power to heal, but it was the blood on the cloth that covered his body, and Jesus would have to have known that he would be covered by a cloth after his death and during his resurrection, and that his disciple would give King Abgar the cloth  that covered his body soaked by the blood of his crucifiction.   That level of insight, that was the son of the Almighty God, that was Jesus our savior fulfilling the ministry of his life even after his death and resurrection.

By Andrew Moran.

Harvard – The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed one of the fastest stars ever recorded after the super hot blue star shot out of the Milky Way galaxy at 1.6 million mph (2.5 million kph) by a black hole. The astronomy world is still in shock after a star 320 times the mass of our Sun was discovered this week. A couple of days later, scientists, once again, found an incredible star that reached an astronomical speed. According to Space, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed a star shooting out of our Milky Way Galaxy at a speed of 1.6 million MPH (2.5 million KPH). The star’s speed is three times faster than our Sun’s orbital velocity. Astronomers believe the star is part of a triple-star system that traveled through the Milky Way galaxy more than 100 million years ago but wandered too close to a black hole that captured one of the stars and ejected the other two, which then formed a super hot blue star. “The star is traveling at an absurd velocity, twice as much as it needs to escape the galaxy’s gravitational field,” said Warren Brown of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, reports Wired News. “There is no star that travels that quickly under normal circumstances — something exotic has to happen.” According to a Hubble news release, the star is named HE 0437-5439 and is traveling 200,000 light-years high above the whirling disk of the Milky Way.

UFO 2009

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–> A city is made of a million tons of concrete, steel and stone. A great deal of people lives in it, some of them make a living by digging in the ground or detonating explosions underground. What are the risks of man’s subterranean activities? The Committee for Science and Technologies under the Moscow government has been trying to get an answer to this question. The Committee is holding meetings with some scientists who claim that old-fashioned methods in construction may cause cataclysms. It keeps a low profile on the issue that is likely to give a scare to the city residents, but “Izvestia” has managed to get to know the scientists’ arguments at first hand. All the scientists are confident that everything would crumble without money allocated for science.

Russian Plateau Bursting At Seams

A research center “Geon” was the first to warn about the threat of earthquake in Moscow. Ida Pomerantseva, deputy director of the center, has some amazing stories to tell:

“From 1988 to 1992 about 400 earthquakes were entered in our files, local earthquakes including. It’s a very ominous sign. There were no earthquakes in Moscow in the past.”

At school they used to tell us that Moscow was sitting on a Russian plateau, an ancient static formation protecting us against the earthquakes. Pomerantseva believes that her colleagues and herself have disproved that concept using as an example Almetyevsk, a town located in southeastern part of the plateau.

“Back in the sixties we forecast an earthquake in that area,” says Ida Pomerantseva with a hint of pride. “But nobody believed us. Then a local earthquake measuring between 2 and 3 points by Richter’s scale was recorded in 1983, plus two more earthquakes of 5-6 points occurred in 1986 and 1992. The causes of the earthquakes are man-made. They draw oil out there. They pump water underground. Therefore pressure builds up, fracture zones of the earth’s crust start to get moving. It’s even worse as far as Moscow is concerned. A fracture zone is located underneath at the depth of 40 km. It’s set in motion by water being pumped in and out by the heat power plants, by the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy and by the industrial works.”

Research fellows at the Kurchatov Institute brush off those arguments. They believe that the earth’s crust fractures have been around for million years and can’t be affected by human activity near the earth’s surface. They don’t think that the Almetyevsk case is by any means applicable to Moscow. The city takes drinking water as well as water for technical purposes from the Volga river; water volumes that are pumped underground in Moscow area can’t even be compared to those in Almetyevsk.

Blame It All on the Builders

Scientists from one of the most trustworthy geophysical research institutes in this country, the Schmidt Joint Institute of Earth Physics are not afraid of any earthquakes.

Oleg Khavroshkin, Doctor of Physico-mathematical Sciences, says:
“There have never been, nor will be any local earthquakes in Moscow. It’s true that we can feel a magnitude ranging from 1.5 to 2 points due to earthquakes happening in the Carpathian Mountains. Some shaking will be felt at the twentieth floor. A chandelier will swing, but that’s all.”

Pomerantseva doesn’t assert that Moscow will be struck as hard as Turkey and Algeria.

Yet she cites a couple of incidents involving the cave-in of an asphalt paving in Peschanaya and Bolshaya streets, and an apartment building in Novokhoroshevski Proezd, it cracked in two, residents had to be evacuated. Her opponents blame the slapdash builders, and say that earthquakes are out of question. But there’s one more story up her sleeve.

“Do you remember what happened to an apartment building in Michurinski Prospect in 1997?” says she and stresses that for her it’s the perfect evidence of her Moscow earthquake theory. “We recorded two earthquake shocks with an epicenter in that area on September 8 and September 9. On September 10 a section of the building under construction collapsed.”

People at the Schmidt Joint Institute of Earth Physics have a different opinion.

Oleg Khavroshkin: “The damage was caused by the mistake made by the planners of Ramenki area. There was a deep ravine out there, it was filled, but they failed to take into consideration the soil’s special properties. They should have built a footing on long piles, but they made a regular, strip footing instead. We conducted an examination on site and we were never paid for it, because our findings showed that the builders did nothing wrong. At the end of the day, the planners can’t be held responsible either.

They did the job in compliance with the Construction Standards and Regulations. But in that particular case those standards and regulations turned out to be inapplicable.”

For the record – they don’t build over ravines any more. Research Institute of Foundation Engineering and Subterranean Works is still in charge of developing the Construction Standards and Regulations. They have a true story of their own.

Valery Petrukhin, deputy director of the institute, speaks out: “The building in Ramenki fell down not because of the soil or any kind of earthquake. They simply made a few mistakes while building it. Geologists today are not in great demand. That’s why they make up stuff to ask money for the research.”

Money Is Too Tight To Mention

Everybody understands that a research should be backed up by money. But what exactly should be researched and how much will it cost?

Ida Pomerantseva:
“Sometimes I feel like saying: dear Muscovites, you can easily finance our earthquake forecasts by sparing one ice-cream a year. We need to prepare a map of the Moscow danger zones. It will take between 2 or 3 years and will cost 35 million roubles.” Nobody argues over the importance of such a map.

Igor Khavroshkin agrees: “ Even the distant earthquakes damage the gas pipelines and power lines. Should something similar to the 1927 earthquake in the Crimea happen again, we will survive, and our houses will be still standing. But major gas pipelines will be disrupted and a fire might break out.”

According to Igor Khavroshkin, so-called continuous factor of a man-caused impact on the environment poses a real threat to Moscow. “The environment slackens, soil gets tighter or reacts like a viscous fluid. Mexico City sunk by 6 meters over the period of 50 to 70 years. Moscow is descending too, our study of the embankments tell us so. Moscow is not New York where it’s safe to do anything because the city is sitting on the rock. Our construction requirements should take it into account.”

Valery Petrukhin gets really excited over the last remark: “Your scientists have no idea of foundations nor the Construction Standards and Regulations. We are the experts, professionals. Do you really think that it wasn’t taken care of by thousands of specialists?”

It’s only logical for “the real professionals” to put a blame on science. Science that nowadays looks like a nuisance with its hand outstretched. Especially if scientists try to get a hold of the same coffers. Ida Pomerantseva is ready to render services of her institute for the planning of each new building project in Moscow. 2-5 percent of the total amount of financing would be a fee for services rendered. Hundreds of thousands roubles. Daydreaming. So far the institute is given 50 thousand roubles per year by courtesy of the Moscow government.

“An agency for monitoring the geological environment should be comprised of many organizations,” says Oleg Khavroshkin. “It should be truly independent, without links to power brokers. Monopolism is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in Moscow.”

Monopolism is not so terrible as an earthquake can be. “Geon” researchers paint gloomy pictures for the Moscow governments trying to get more funds. They say Moscow might follow suit of Neftegorsk that was destroyed by the earthquake in 1995. The town used to be located in a seismically sensitive area. Moscow is on top of the Russian plateau.

But that’s alright. Every scientist wants a slice of the pie and absolute trust of the city officials. Science marches on its stomach.
see transcripts of the article in Russian

A flying saucer-shaped cloud has been spotted in the skies above Romania just weeks after a similarly striking formation appeared over Moscow. Notice to the left of the screen, two objects are darting in and out of the clouds.

HAARP at work?

RUSSIA: MOSCOW OFFERS EARTHQUAKE FORECAST SYSTEM.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, August, 2000

Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry has begun to offer its services to forecast earthquakes around the world, Interfax reported on 31 July. The system, which recently won a contest held under Council of Europe auspices, not only seeks to predict where earthquakes will occur but also how much damage they will do.

A ministry official said that the system has already been successfully applied in Turkey, Japan, and Iran. PG Copyright (c) 1999. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

A “HAARP” attack in China?

Over a period of almost two days (May 9-10, 2008) numerous prominences and extensions danced above the Sun’s edge as seen in the extreme UV wavelength by the STEREO (behind) spacecraft. Some of these broke away from the Sun and others were forced by magnetic forces back into the Sun. But near the clip’s end a narrow burst of material can be seen shooting out of an active region near the Sun’s edge. Scientists describe it as a small coronal mass ejection.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/pickof…
Solar Explosion (wikipedia)
Solar flares are an example of explosion common on the Sun, and presumably on most other stars as well. The energy source for solar flare activity comes from the tangling of magnetic field lines resulting from the rotation of the Sun’s conductive plasma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare

UFO Cloud Ships? or EarthQuake Clouds?

Very strange phenomena in the Saudi Arabia sky

I am a scientific, Logical-thinking person
My question not about the shape, I have seen many strange shape clouds, I have been to Sapporo, Japan, temperature. About -35 and sky have very beautiful colors,
Shape of clouds can vary because of the wind direction and temperatures
I wonder about the LIGHT source, see it carefully, it is strange, you may see there are 2 sources, one beneath the dark object the other is at its left side between the clouds

UFO Lights In Washington D.C. on Live Broadcast on BBC – Oct. 3 – Thanks To: DanielofDoria

Please Visit: http://earthquakecloudpredictions.com/earthquake_cloud_predictions_most_recent_earthquakes.php?mmin=8.00&mmax=12.99\

Dr. Zonghou Shou, a chemist from China, has long advanced the idea that certain cloud formations may in fact be percusors to earthquakes. This is not a new idea. It’s been around for over 5,000 years. Anecdotal written evidence exists from before and after many signifacnt quake events in human history, including many startly accounts from the New Madrid quakes of the last century in the United States.
Dr. Shou’s predictions advanced the idea into the 21st cenntury, by using cloud observations from weather and evironmental earth-orbiting satellites, something never before attempted. His successes in predicting large, devastating earthquakes in places such as Iran are well noted, and have been recognized by the affected governments.

One difficulty in learning more about this phenomenon has been the amount of time needed to check satellite images and loops from across the planet on a constant basis. It’s too much for one person!

On this site we will attempt to solve this, in a fun way, with your help, to see if we can all find answers that may save thousands of lives every year.

First, we’ll be saving satellite cloud data worldwide. When a new earthquake is reported, the last 60 days worth of images over that exact location will be available in a loop for anyone to view. If you see an earthquake cloud? Click and report it! Over time perhaps we can build up a library of strange cloud formations over known earthquake sites to help us define what an earthquake cloud really is!

We’ll also make available all images planet wide, by area, for anyone to view to look for earthquake clouds in areas that have not yet experienced a quake. With a click, you can alert everyone viewing to your sighting! If an earthquake follows? We’ll keep track of your ‘prognosticators’ score, and archive the prediction so everyone will know you’re a master earthquake cloud predictor.

Bear with us! This is a hobby, born of a belief in what Dr. Shou has begun. We want to help, and continue his work, and do so as our time as enthusiasts permits. Donations are appreciated. No amount is too small, just click the PayPal link. You can also help by clicking and visiting our Google sponsored links.

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Today I sent a message directly to the white house. I have a solution to clean up the oil spill. Many news sources are claiming that we don’t know how to clean up the oil. But I know how. The method is very simple. However, will take a lot of cooperation from people in the current administration to help speed up the process… Here is the proposed method(s): You would fill up a pillow case full of hair. Animal Hair, and or Human hair, donated from haircuts from salons for example. The pillow cases would be dropped over the oil spill and immediately start absorbing the oil. However, it would take a lot of pillow’s full of hair for it to be effective considering the quantity of oil filling up the gulf. If everyone takes part in this we can solve the crisis. I believe we need to take this solution seriously as it is a viable solution.

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Obama, Medvedev sign treaty to reduce nuclear weapons

President Obama joined Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday to sign a historic “New START” treaty to reduce stockpiles of deployed, strategic nuclear weapons and set new procedures to verify which weapons each country possesses.

Arms control advocates have expressed disappointment in the treaty, saying it does not go far enough in reducing the dangerous weapons on both sides. Some conservatives have raised questions about the treaty’s impact on the American nuclear deterrent.

But experts from the right and the left agree the treaty extends a verification plan that has allowed the world’s two nuclear giants to maintain stability that has existed for the past 20 years.

In the United States, attention will soon turn to the Senate, where the White House is pushing for ratification of the pact by the end of 2010.

In a briefing on Air Force One en route to Prague, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs expressed optimism that the Senate will act despite the partisan rancor of the past year.

“We are hopeful that reducing the threat of nuclear weapons remains a priority for both parties,” Gibbs said. White House officials said they will begin formally briefing senators Thursday.

Senior U.S. officials said Obama’s trip to Prague is designed to set the stage for further efforts by the president to argue for reductions in the spread of nuclear weapons around the globe.

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There is one key factor that makes the difference between those who fully eliminate panic attacks from their lives and those who do not. The key ingredient is not medication, lifestyle changes, or relaxation exercises. It is when the individual no longer fears the thought of having a panic attack..

This may seem like a simplified and obvious observation but give it careful consideration. The one thing that has you searching for a solution to anxiety and panic attacks this very moment is the fear of having another one.
The first time a person experiences a panic attack it can feel like their world is falling down around them. Nowhere feels safe as the anxiety becomes like a stalker lurking in the background.

When this happens people begin to either avoid situations that make them anxious or they medicate themselves to the point where they are numb to the fear. I am sure you will agree neither of the above is a satisfactory solution.
What my program (Panic Away ) does, and in particular the One Move Technique™, is give people the ability to immediately stop fearing another panic attack. It is very simple yet amazingly effective. Here is how it works:

After a person experiences a panic attack for the first time, the experience can be so impacting that it leaves a strong imprint on the persons psyche. This mental imprint generates a cycle or loop of anxiety (see diagram) whereby the person develops an unhealthy fear of having another panic attack. People can spend anywhere from months to years caught in this repetitive cycle of anxiety.

Panic Away teaches a technique that now allows that person to break the cycle of anxiety and return to normal everyday living.

The really unique element of the technique, is that there is no need for you to regress into your past and find out why you had your initial panic attack in order to get results. All that is needed is your willingness to break out of the anxiety cycle. Are you ready to try this right now ?

In the end you must:

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From The Feedback I Get It Is Very Obvious That Other Courses and Treatments Out There Are Not Showing People How To End Their Anxiety

Rather than fully empowering you, they teach coping mechanisms and strategies on how to get over a panic attack once it happens.That is not good enough. Just coping with this condition is not good enough. People need a program that teaches them how to free themselves from ever having a another panic attack again.

That I am sure is the only kind of result you are interested in?
Ever Wondered What Exactly Is Happening In Your Brain When You Have A Panic Attack?

The University College London have recently published findings in the journal Science (2007), demonstrating that when people experience extreme anxiety or panic, the activity in their brain moves from the front of their brain to the mid brain. This was demonstrated by scans showing higher blood flow to the section of the brain that was most active. The front of the brain (prefrontal cortex) is where decision making and rationalization takes place. The midbrain (periaqueductal grey area) is where survival mechanisms such as fight or flight originate from.

You are probably well aware that a panic attack is a ‘fight or flight’ response to a perceived threat. The reason the human brain responds like this goes back to our prehistoric past where humans needed their bodies to respond quickly to a perceived physical threat. What this new research is telling us, is that people’s mental activity during a panic attack is suddenly moving to the mid brain, resulting in the heightened state of fear and panic. In short, a separate part of your brain becomes more active during a panic attack.

The problem, as you well know, is that once the panic attack begins and that heightened state of fear starts, it is very difficult to calm yourself down. In order to restore calm you therefore need the brains mental activity to change. This is the reason why deep breathing is so ineffective in helping people control a panic attack. All deep breathing does is try and restore calm to the body. Trying to mentally calm the body is like shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.

Your brain is the control center and that is where the change needs to happen. During a panic attack your brain has moved into panic mode and in order to really restore order you need to learn how to switch your mental activity back to the rational part of your brain. What’s more is that you need to learn a technique that will allow you to do so in a split second, regardless of where you are or what you are doing.

Sounds complicated? Well it is not. When someone feels reassured that they are safe the mental activity reverts back to the forebrain.The One Move Technique™ teaches you to feel safe in a very simple and easy to apply manner. The One Move is called so because it is in effect a movement of mental activity. It is a technique that moves mental activity away from the impulsive mid brain back to the forebrain.

Why do you need to know all this? You don’t.

In fact I make little reference to the science of the brain in the course because it can put people off or make them feel uncomfortable but suffice to say that the Panic Away course is based on well tested cognitive psychology and science. It is simple and safe to apply. There are no side effects and once you grasp the concept you eliminate your panic attacks. The rest of the course then teaches you how to eliminate any general anxiety you may be feeling throughout the day.

If you read through the testimonials on this site you will hear from many people who have been to well established psychologists only to be told the same coping techniques you read in anxiety forums all over the internet. Most of these approaches date back to the early 1970’s. The reason for this is because most psychologists have never had to try these ineffective techniques themselves.

After a few sessions the person gives up on the psychologist and the psychologist presumes the client got better as they never came back. It takes a long time for radical new ideas to filter down to your local psychologist.

If you visit a doctor or psychiatrist you are almost always going to be given a prescription for medication simply because they are short on time and believe it to be the fastest solution to your anxiety problem. I am not judging these professions, many do an excellent job but are sadly too short on time to investigate the issue further and try a different drug free approach with you. That different approach is what you find here.

I Barry Joe McDonagh, have been teaching this new revolutionary approach to dealing with anxiety and panic attacks for over seven years now and the results are astounding people.

To give you a little background, I was in my second year of debilitating panic attacks when I discovered this powerful technique that stopped panic attacks in their tracks

I had been studying the cognitive behavior approach for dealing with panic attacks from some of the top psychologists when I discovered this technique.The real breakthrough came when I made some startling observations about how a panic attack fuels and generates itself. I developed the technique on the principle that if you extinguish the fuel that powers the panic attack, you eliminate its reoccurrence.

I began teaching small groups of people my discovery and started getting immediate results. This surprised me as I was initially unsure if I could replicate the same results. People were reporting instant panic elimination and further research confirmed that the technique I taught was not only instantly effective but also a permanent solution to panic and anxiety disorders.

I have since taught the One Move Technique™ to thousands of people in over 30 different countries.

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6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes California, “It was strong enough to be felt in San Francisco”, Residents Said.  Over 275 Miles Away!

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California at about 12:20 p.m. local time today 4th Febuary 2010.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude-6.0 quake struck about 35 miles northwest of the community of Petrolia and nearly 50 miles west of Eureka. The shaking was felt within a 150-mile radius, as far north as southern Oregon and as far south as Sonoma County, according to the USGS Web site.

Lisa Girsback, a Humboldt County Sherriff’s Office spokeswoman in Eureka, said there were no reports of major injury or damage and a tsunami warning hasn’t been issued.

The powerful Magnitude earthquake (magnitude 6.0) struck Northern California region. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 miles and centered on the 35-mile coast of Petrolia, Ca on Thursday afternoon as the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

According to KTLA news, the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said that the magnitude was such that a tsunami is not expected. “However, in coastal areas of intense shaking, locally generated tsunamis can be triggered by underwater landslides.”

There are no reports of damage or injuries as of yet.

Editor’s note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.” Read more of his writing at www.schneier.com.

(CNN) — Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn’t that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated — we knew that already — it’s that the U.S. government inadvertently aided the hackers.

In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access.

Google’s system isn’t unique. Democratic governments around the world — in Sweden, Canada and the UK, for example — are rushing to pass laws giving their police new powers of Internet surveillance, in many cases requiring communications system providers to redesign products and services they sell.

Many are also passing data retention laws, forcing companies to retain information on their customers. In the U.S., the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act required phone companies to facilitate FBI eavesdropping, and since 2001, the National Security Agency has built substantial eavesdropping systems with the help of those phone companies.

Systems like these invite misuse: criminal appropriation, government abuse and stretching by everyone possible to apply to situations that are applicable only by the most tortuous logic. The FBI illegally wiretapped the phones of Americans, often falsely invoking terrorism emergencies, 3,500 times between 2002 and 2006 without a warrant. Internet surveillance and control will be no different.

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Official misuses are bad enough, but it’s the unofficial uses that worry me more. Any surveillance and control system must itself be secured. An infrastructure conducive to surveillance and control invites surveillance and control, both by the people you expect and by the people you don’t.

China’s hackers subverted the access system Google put in place to comply with U.S. intercept orders. Why does anyone think criminals won’t be able to use the same system to steal bank account and credit card information, use it to launch other attacks or turn it into a massive spam-sending network? Why does anyone think that only authorized law enforcement can mine collected Internet data or eavesdrop on phone and IM conversations?

These risks are not merely theoretical. After September 11, the NSA built a surveillance infrastructure to eavesdrop on telephone calls and e-mails within the U.S. Although procedural rules stated that only non-Americans and international phone calls were to be listened to, actual practice didn’t match those rules. NSA analysts collected more data than they were authorized to and used the system to spy on wives, girlfriends and notables such as President Clinton.

But that’s not the most serious misuse of a telecommunications surveillance infrastructure. In Greece, between June 2004 and March 2005, someone wiretapped more than 100 cell phones belonging to members of the Greek government: the prime minister and the ministers of defense, foreign affairs and justice.

Ericsson built this wiretapping capability into Vodafone’s products and enabled it only for governments that requested it. Greece wasn’t one of those governments, but someone still unknown — A rival political party? Organized crime? Foreign intelligence? — figured out how to surreptitiously turn the feature on.

And surveillance infrastructure can be exported, which also aids totalitarianism around the world. Western companies like Siemens and Nokia built Iran’s surveillance. U.S. companies helped build China’s electronic police state. Just last year, Twitter’s anonymity saved the lives of Iranian dissidents, anonymity that many governments want to eliminate.

In the aftermath of Google’s announcement, some members of Congress are reviving a bill banning U.S. tech companies from working with governments that digitally spy on their citizens. Presumably, those legislators don’t understand that their own government is on the list.

This problem isn’t going away. Every year brings more Internet censorship and control, not just in countries like China and Iran but in the U.S., the U.K., Canada and other free countries, egged on by both law enforcement trying to catch terrorists, child pornographers and other criminals and by media companies trying to stop file sharers.

The problem is that such control makes us all less safe. Whether the eavesdroppers are the good guys or the bad guys, these systems put us all at greater risk. Communications systems that have no inherent eavesdropping capabilities are more secure than systems with those capabilities built in. And it’s bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bruce Schneier.

Known mainly from the Philippines and Brazil, psychic surgery is a supposedly paranormal medical practice where tissue is removed from the patient’s body by a ‘psychic doctor’ in a painless operation, performed without the use of anaesthetics or antiseptics. The procedure is often undertaken with bare hands or extremely basic medical instruments and leaves little if any trace of the skin having been broken. Most of the medical profession today considers psychic surgery a complete fraud, an irresponsible practice giving false hope to those suffering from fatal diseases. It’s not known whether it’s the greatest bluff or perfect poker hands these doctors hold. However, there have been one or two psychic surgeons who have baffled medical doctors both with their methods and with their skills.

In Brazil in the late 1950s many ‘spiritual doctors’ were associated with the philosophical doctrine of ‘spiritism’, founded in in the mid 19th Century by French school teacher Léon Rivail, using the pseudonym Allan Kardec. One of the first and most famous of these Brazilian psychic surgeons was an ex-miner known as Arigó. José Pedro de Freitas (he took the name Arigó when he became famous as a healer in 1950) was born in October 1921, on a farm 6km outside the mining town of Congonhas do Campo, east-central Minas Gerais, in the Brazilian Highlands. Arigó came from a poor family, he left school at 14 to begin work in the local mines.

When he was 30 years old Arigó began suffering from depression, and experienced fierce headaches, nightmares, sleep-walking and hallucinations. Unable to get any relief from the town doctors the distraught young man went to a local spiritist named Olivera, who prayed for him and told him that the cause of the problem was a spirit attempting to work through him. One dramatic event was to convince Arigó of the truth of this statement.

Arigó’s early Psychic Surgery

According to the story, in 1950, state senator Bittencourt apparently invited Arigó along with some other miners to attend a rally in the city of Belo Horizonte. Arigó was staying at the same hotel as the senator, who had recently learned that he was suffering from a cancerous tumour which required immediate treatment. The senator was intending to travel to the US to undergo surgery after the rally. That night Arigó entered Bittencourt’s room apparently in a state of trance, carrying a razor. The senator passed out only to awake the next morning to find his pyjama top slashed, blood on his chest and a neat incision in his ribcage. In a state of profound shock the senator went to find Arigó who remembered nothing of the incident but helped the dazed man to a taxi which took him to his physician. After taking several x-rays senator Bittencourt ‘s doctor informed him that the tumour had inexplicably disappeared.

Overwhelmed by his seemingly miraculous cure Bittencourt started talking about it to his friends and associates and even included it in his political speeches, thus leading to instant fame for Arigó.

Another spectacular case occurred some time in 1956. Apparently, Arigó and his family were gathered round the bed of a female relative dying from cancer of the uterus. With the priest about to administer the last rites Arigó suddenly ran out of the room into the kitchen, grabbed a knife came back and thrust it swiftly into the woman’s vagina. Twisting the knife around for a few seconds he rapidly extracted the bloody tumour which he threw, together with the kitchen knife, into the sink. He then collapsed, and subsequently stated that he could remember nothing of the operation. The understandably stunned relatives immediately called a doctor, who confirmed that Arigó had indeed removed a tumour from the woman, without apparent pain or haemorrhaging. The relative soon recovered completely from the disease. The account of this miraculous cure is, like the majority in the case of Arigó, anecdotal, so it is impossible now to verify the truth of most of the stories.

The Spirit of Dr. Fritz

Arigó claimed that he performed his operations whilst in a trance state possessed by (or channelling) the spirit of a German doctor called ‘Dr Adolphus Fritz’, who had apparently died in 1918, during World War I. This was the spirit that Olivera had said was trying to work through him, and after Arigó began his work as a psychic surgeon his severe headaches stopped and only returned when he later decided to temporarily discontinue his surgery.

To perform his surgeries Arigó opened a small clinic in his home town of Congonhas do Campo, where he would carry out his swift operations free of charge. He possessed no medical knowledge whatsoever, worked in unsanitary conditions, and used only his hands, a rusty knife or occasionally a pair of scissors; his only concession to cleanliness was to wipe his knife on his shirt before and after surgery. Despite these apparently dangerous conditions he performed perhaps a million successful operations over a twenty-year period, regularly treating hundreds of people a day in his surgery. During the operations there would be little bleeding and the patients would feel no pain. There was no need for stitches and wounds would heal remarkably fast; there is also no record of a patient ever having become infected, despite the unsterile conditions.

Carlos Paranhos da Costa Cruz, a dentist who worked in Belo Horizonte, reported how his sister-in-law Sonja had been diagnosed by several physicians, including her own father, with cancer of the liver. The condition being inoperable, in desperation she, her father and Cruz travelled to see Arigó at his primitive surgery. They waited in line with everybody else and when Sonja’s turn came, before she could say anything, Arigó informed her she had cancer of the liver and that he would perform a quick operation. He lay her down on the newspaper covered floor and made a quick incision, apparently into the girl’s liver, with his penknife. Stunned, Cruz and the girl’s father waited for the expected hemorrhaging, only to see a mere trickle of blood coming out of the wound.

According to Cruz, things then got even stranger, as Arigó inserted a pair of scissors into the wound and immediately took away his hand. The scissors appeared to move of their own accord. After a few seconds Arigó pulled out the scissors, reached into the wound and removed the tumorous growth, slapping it into Cruz’s hand when he was finished. He wiped the incision with a piece of cotton, quickly placed a crucifix against it,  and without stitches it closed up. Sonja was dazed but not in any pain, and was able to get up and walk around. She was cured. A biopsy of the growth which Arigó had removed confirmed that the growth was indeed cancer. Neither Cruz nor the girl’s father had any explanation for what they had witnessed.

Other eminent individuals taken to Arigó to be treated were Brazilian President Kubitschek’s daughter, his pilot and the head of his security police, all of whom reportedly came back cured from the great healer. Arigó always operated in bright light, and allowed anyone who was interested to come and watch his surgery, including doctors. One of the many physicians who witnessed Arigó’s psychic surgery was Dr. Ladeira Margues of Rio. During an operation on a Mrs. Maria Silveiro, Margues saw Arigó remove a piece of tissue 78.7 cm (31 inches) long and 38 cm (15 inches) wide from her ovaries. During the brief operation Margues also claimed he saw the scissors moving alone, as if being taken by another hand, and described hearing ‘the sound of metals and tissues being cut.’ When Arigó saw that the wound had begun to bleed, he immediately stopped what he was doing and said ‘Lord, let there be no more blood.’ From that moment on there was no further hemorrhaging during the operation.

Unfortunately, the publicity and fame which Arigó’s abilities attracted brought him the unwanted attention of the Brazilian government, who, in the spring of 1957, arrested him for practicing medicine without a license, despite pleas from thousands of his patients.  Perhaps due to friends in high places Arigó was subsequently pardoned and released without serving his sentence. However, in 1964 he was arrested again, this time on charges connected with witchcraft, and given 16 months in jail, despite the fact that the authorities were unable to find anyone to testify against him amongst the hundreds of thousands he had treated by that time. He was to serve seven months of a 16-month prison sentence, though he was allowed to continue treating people while held in jail.

One example of Arigó’s psychic surgery performed whilst in prison was witnessed by a Roman Catholic Judge called Filippe Immesi, who went to investigate the legendary psychic surgeon for himself. He described an eye operation as follows –

‘I saw him pick up … a pair of nail scissors. He wiped them on his shirt and used no disinfectant. I saw him then cut straight into the cornea of the patient’s eye. She did not flinch, although perfectly conscious. The cataract was out in seconds … Arigó said a prayer and a few drops of liquid appeared on the cotton in his hand. He wiped the women’s eye with it and she was cured.’

Puharich’s Investigations

In 1963 American psychical researcher Henry (Andrija) Puharich, M.D, and businessman Henry Belk visited Brazil to begin a detailed 5-year-long investigation into Arigó’s alleged healing powers. Puharich claimed to have witnessed thousands of Arigó’s operations during the investigations and himself had a benign tumour removed from his arm in a few seconds, completely without pain. This example of psychic surgery was filmed, along with many of Arigó’s operations at this time, and showed Arigó slitting Puharich’s arm with an unsterilised penknife, removing the growth and slapping it in Puharich’s hand. The whole operation had taken five seconds, there was little bleeding and no infection afterwards. Puharich’s research into the Arigó revealed that such operations as he had undergone himself were commonplace.

Puharich’s studies included tests on the blood from tissue Arigó had removed from patients, in order to ascertain that it did indeed belong to the person who had been operated on. He also taped interviews with numerous patients and observers, made audio tapes and films of Arigó’s surgeries and diagnoses, and took numerous photographs, some of which can be found in J.G. Fullers book about the case (see sources). Puharich found that apart from his psychic surgery, Arigó was also able to diagnose illnesses, advise appropriate treatment at a glance, and write out complex prescriptions, often for dangerously high doses of drugs, or for medicines that were obsolete or even illegal. Investigations showed that Arigó’s prescriptions worked, even on terminal cases, although, as with his surgery, there was no known medical reason why they should do so.

Some time in early January 1971 Arigó began telling his friends and associates, including former President of Brazil Kubitschek, that they would not see him again, as he would soon die a violent death. A few days later on 11 January he was killed in a car crash. Arigó’s hometown of Congonhas do Campo reportedly came to a standstill at the tragic news, flags flew at half mast and the mayor declared two days of mourning for the great healer.

Other Psychic Surgeons

Apparently the death of Arigó did not mean the end of the shadowy Dr. Fritz, the Brazilian’s supposed spirit guide. Other Brazilian psychic surgeons claimed to be channelling the spirit of the German doctor, including Oscar and Edivaldo Wilde, and a gynaecologist from Recife called  Edson Queiroz. The Wilde brothers both died violently in car crashes, while Queiroz was stabbed to death in 1991. Currently, Rubens Farias Jr, a former São Paulo engineer and computer programmer, claims to be the channel for the spirit of Dr. Fritz,  who has chillingly predicted a violent death for Farias.

The Sceptics

Understandably, considering the startling nature of the subject, there are those who believe that Arigó’s psychic operations were a complete fraud, and that the wily Brazilian accomplished his ‘miracles’ by relatively basic conjuring tricks, combined with the willingness of his patients to believe he was blessed with some kind of divine healing power. Psychic surgery is admittedly fairly easy to duplicate, at any rate for a trained stage magician like James Randi (who on his website mistakenly attributes J.G. Fuller’s book Arigó: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife to Puharich), so the theory goes that it must also have been easy to fake for the uneducated Arigó. Debunkers have suggested that Arigó never pierced the patient’s skin at all, but probably pinched or rolled it back over the area to be operated on, placed his hand under the roll of skin and ‘removed’ a piece of bloody animal tissue he had concealed in his clenched fist, or perhaps under the operating table.

Whilst this is undoubtedly true of a host of fake psychic surgeons, it is difficult to believe that Arigó was able to fool a million or so patients, not to mention the numerous doctors and other qualified observers who witnessed and verified his operations over a twenty year period. It must be borne in mind that in all this time Arigó was never detected in fraud; he was accused of it, but never by anybody who actually saw him at work. How, for example could Arigó have faked the eye surgery mentioned above, especially in front of other medical practitioners?

The evidence, in the form of thousands of testimonies by patients and doctors, photographs and movie films, is certainly impressive in the case of Arigó. But sceptics remain unconvinced that an uneducated working man with no knowledge of medicine could perform complex surgery, often on people given up as hopeless by physicians, whilst in some sort of trance state, which resulted in the restoration to health of the patients. More incredible perhaps is that Arigó apparently did these operations usually in less than a minute, more often a few seconds, without using sterilised instruments or antiseptics. According to published accounts, there was little bleeding, no infection and the wound never required stitches. It also must be borne in mind that Arigó never at any time accepted payment for his services, he had to maintain his day job in order to provide for his family. While this does not seem to be the behaviour of a hoaxer, sceptics remain unconvinced.

How Arigó accomplished his surgical feats is a disputed point. If his healing abilities were faked, which is a distinct possibility, he was still able in some way to remove all sense of fear and pain from his patients, to affect their minds in an extremely powerful way. Beyond this, all is conjecture. On one occasion, when Arigó was shown a film of himself operating, he fainted. When asked for his own explanation of this incredible ability his reply was disarmingly straight forward – ‘I simply listen to a voice in my right ear and repeat whatever it says. It is always right.’

It is bewildering, but perhaps predictable, that no professional medical body ever thought it worthwhile to undertake a detailed study of this unique man, even to disprove his alleged abilities.

Sources and Further Reading

Fuller, J.G. Arigó: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife. Crowell, 1974.

North, A. The Supernatural. Blandford. 1998. pp124-6.

Playfair, G. The Infinite Boundary. Souvenir Press.1976. pp42-43.

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Brain Wave Machine

Commercial brain-wave machines cost hundreds of dollars, but you can build your own using only a few dollars worth of components. There are even some websites that offer instructions on how to create a brain wave machine to achieve altered states of consciousness, using LED’s, parallel port connectors, and wire.

Brain Waves “Write” to Computer

Brain waves used to type alphanumerical characters on a computer screen. … Dr. Shih wanted to study a mind-machine interface in these patients because he hypothesized that feedback from electrodes placed directly on the brain would be much more specific than data collected from electroencephalography (EEG), in which electrodes are placed on the scalp. Most studies of mind-machine interaction have occurred with EEG, Dr. Shih says. “There is a big difference in the …

HOW TO – Make the “Brain machine”

What would happen if you could play a recording of brain waves into someone’s brain? That question popped into my mind one day while I was meditating, and it turns out that there are devices that can do this. Sound and Light Machines …

Read more on: http://paranormal-phenomena.com/977/brain-wave-machine/

At the close of 1889, having worked one year in the shops of George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, I experienced so great a longing for resuming my interrupted investigations that, notwithstanding a very tempting proposition by him, I left for New York to take up my laboratory work, But owing to pressing demands by several foreign scientific societies I made a trip to Europe where I lectured before the Institution of Electrical Engineers and Royal Institution of London and the Societe de Physique in Paris. After this and a brief visit to my home in Yugoslavia I returned to this country in 1892 eager to devote myself to the subject of predilection on my thoughts: the study of the universe.

During the succeeding two years of intense concentration I was fortunate enough to make two far-reaching discoveries. The first was a dynamic theory of gravity, which I have worked out in all details and hope to give to the world very soon. It explains the causes of this force and the motions of heavenly bodies under its influence so satisfactorily that it will put an end to idle speculations and false conceptions, as that of curved space. According to the relativists, space has a tendency to curvature owing to an inherent property or presence of celestial bodies. Granting a semblance of reality to this fantastic idea, it is still self-contradictory. Every action is accompanied by an equivalent reaction and the effects of the latter are directly opposite to those of the former. Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing curvature of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces must react on the bodies and, producing the opposite effects, straighten out the curves, Since action and reaction are coexistent, it follows that the supposed curvature of space is entirely impossible. But even if it existed it would not explain the motions of the bodies as observed. Only the existence of a field of force can account for them and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are also all attempts to explain the workings of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena.

My second discovery was a physical truth of the greatest importance. As I have searched the scientific records in more than half dozen languages for a long time without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment. On my 79th birthday I made a brief reference to it, but its meaning and significance have become clearer to me since then. I applies rigorously to molecules and atoms as well as the largest heav-enly bodies, and to all matter in the universe in any phase of its existence from it: very formation to its ultimate disintegration.

Being perfectly satisfied that all energy in matter is drawn from the environment, it was quite natural that when radioactivity was discovered in 1896 I immediately started a search for the external agent which caused it. The existence of radioactivity was positive proof of the existence of external rays. I had previously investigated various terrestrial disturbances affecting wireless circuits but none of them or any others emanating from the earth could produce a steady sustained action and I was driven to the conclusion that the activating rays were of cosmic origin. This fact I announced in my papers on Roentgen rays and Radiations contributed to the Electrical Review of New York, in 1897. However, as radioactivity was observed equally well in other widely separated parts of the world, it was obvious that the rays must be impinging on the earth from all directions. Now, of all bodies in the Cosmos, our sun was most likely to furnish a clue as to their origin and character. Before the electron theory was advanced, I had established that radioactive rays consisted of particles of primary matter not further decomposable, and the first question to answer was whether the sun is charged to a sufficiently high potential to produce the effects noted. This called for a prolonged investigation which culminated in my finding that the sun’s potential was 216 billions of volts and that all such large and hot heavenly bodies emit cosmic rays. Through further solar research and observation of Novae this has been proved conclusively, and to deny it would be like denying the light and heat of the sun. Nevertheless, there are still some doubters who prefer to shroud the cosmic rays in deep mystery. I am sure that this is not true for there is no place where such a process occurs in this or any other universe beyond our ken.

A few words will be sufficient in support of this contention. The kinetic and potential energy of a body is the result of motion and determined by the product of its mass and the square of velocity. Let the mass be reduced, the energy is diminished in the same proportion. If it be reduced to zero the energy is likewise zero for any finite velocity. In other words, it is absolutely impossible to convert mass into energy. It would be different if there were forces in nature capable of imparting to a mass infinite velocity. Then the product of zero mass with the square of infinite velocity would represent infinite energy. But we know that there are no such forces and the idea that mass is convertible into energy is rank nonsense.

While the origin and character of the rays observed near the earth’s surface are sufficiently well ascertained, the so-called cosmic rays observed at great altitudes presented a riddle for more than 26 years, chiefly because it was found that they increased with altitude at a rapid rate. My investigations have brought out the astonishing fact that the effects at high altitudes are of an entirely different nature, having no relation whatever to cosmic rays. These are particles of matter projected from celestial bodies at very high temperature and charged to enormous electrical potentials. The effects at great elevations, on the other hand, are due to waves of extremely small lengths produced by the sun in a certain region in the atmosphere. This is the discovery which I wish to make known. The process involved in the generation of the waves is the following: The sun projects charged particles constituting an electric current which passes through a conducting stratum of the atmosphere approximately 10 kilometers thick enveloping the earth. This is a transmission of energy exactly as I illustrated in my experimental lectures in which one end of a wire is connected to an electric generator of high potential, its other end being free. In this case the generator is represented by the sun and the wire by the conducting air. The passage of the solar current involves the transference of electric charges from particle to particle with the speed of light, thus resulting in the production of extremely short and penetrating waves. As the air stratum menticned is the source of the waves it follows that the so-called cosmic rays observed 3t great altitudes must increase as this stratum is approached. My researches and calculations have brought to light the following facts in this connection: (1) the intensity of the so-called cosmic rays must be greatest in the zenithal portion of atmosphere; (2) the intensity should increase more and more rapidly up to an elevation of about 20 kilometers where the conducting air stratum begins; (3) from there on the intensity should fall, first slowly and then more rapidly, to an insignificant value at an altitude of about 30 kilometers; (4) the display of high potential must occur on the free end of the terrestrial wire, that is to say, on the side turned away from the sun. The current from the latter is supplied at a pressure of about 216 billion volts and there is a difference of 2 billion volts between the illuminated and the dark side of the globe. The energy of this current is so great that it readily accounts for the aurora and other phenomena observed in the atmosphere and at the earth’s surface.

For the time being I must content myself with the announcement of the salient facts, but in due course I expect to be able to give more or less accurate technical data relating to all particulars of this discovery.

To go to another subject, I have devoted much of my time during the year to the perfecting of a new small and compact apparatus by which energy in considerable amounts can now be flashed through interstellar space to any distance without the slightest dispersion, I had in mind to confer with my friend George E. Hale, the great astronomer and solar expert, regarding the possible use of this invention in connection with his own researches. In the meantime, however, I am expecting to put before the Institute of France an accurate description of the devices with data and calculations and claim the Pierre Guzman Prize of 100,000 francs for means of communication with other worlds, feeling perfectly sure that it will be awarded to me. The money, of course, is a trifling consideration, but for the great historical honor of being the first to achieve this miracle I would be almost willing to give my life.

My most important invention from a practical point of view is a new form of tube with apparatus for its operation. In 1896 I brought out a high potential targetless tube which I operated successfully with potentials up to 4 million volts from ’96 to ’98. This device was adopted by many imitators and with slight modifications it is employed even now in all research laboratories and scientific institutions here and in other countries, and virtually all atomic investigations are carried on with it. At a later period I managed to produce very much higher potentials up to 18 million volts, and then I encountered unsurmountable difficulties which convinced me that it was necessary to invent an entirely different form of tube in order to carry out successfully certain ideas I had conceived. This task I found far more difficult than I had expected, not so much in the construction as in the operation of the tube. For many years I was baffled in my efforts, although I made a steady slow progress. Finally though, I was rewarded with complete success and I produced a tube which it will be hard to improve further. It is of ideal simplicity, not subject to wear and can be operated at any potential, however high, that can be produced. It will carry heavy currents, transform any amount of energy within practical limits, and it permits easy control and regulation of the same. I expect that this invention, when it becomes known, will be universally adopted in preference to other forms of tubes, and that it will be the means of obtaining results undreamed of before. Among others, it will enable the production of cheap radium substitutes in any desired quantity and will be, in general, immensely more effective in the smashing of atoms and the transmutation of matter. I am hopeful that it will be possible by its use to carry out a process in which there should be no misses whatever, but only hits. However, this tube will not open up a way to utilize atomic or subatomic energy for power purposes. According to the physical truth I have discovered there is no available energy in atomic structure, and even if there were any, the input will always greatly exceed the output, precluding profitable, practical use of the liberated energy.

Some papers have reported that I had promised to give a full description of my tube and its accessories on the present occasion. This has caused me a considerable annoyance-as, owing to some obligations I have undertaken regarding the application of the tube for important purposes, I am unable to make a complete disclosure now. But as soon as I am relieved of these obligations a technical description of the device and of all the apparatus will be given to scientific institutions.

There is one more discovery which I want to announce at this time, consisting of a new method and apparatus for the obtainment of vacua exceeding many times the highest heretofore realized. I think that as much as one-billionth of a micron can be attained. What may be accomplished by means of such vacua is a matter of conjecture, but it is obvious that they will make possible the production of much more intense effects in electron tubes. My ideas regarding the electron are at variance with those generally entertained. I hold that it is a relatively large body carrying a surface charge and not an elementary unit. When such an electron leaves an electrode of extremely high potential and in very high vacuum, it carries an electrostatic charge many times greater than the normal. This may astonish some of those who think that the particle has the same charge in the tube and outside of it in the air. A beautiful and instructive experiment has been contrived by me showing that such is not the case, for as soon as the particle gets out into the atmosphere it becomes a blazing star owing to the escape of the excess charge. The great quantity of electricity stored on the particle is responsible for the difficulties encountered in the operation of certain tubes and the rapid deterioration of the same.

Nikola Tesla

The Norway Spiral incident turns out to be a HAARP experiment called TEQUILA SUNRISE …

The Norway Spiral incident Was Not A Rocket. Norway Spiral was actually an experiment called “tequila sunrise”

This is a direct-link from the EISCAT(HAARP type facility) official website.  http://www.eiscat.se/raw/schedule/comment.cgi?fileName=200912099145&Start=0700&End=1000

There is also detailed information about HAARP Research on the Navy.Mil website here, http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsn…ew/haarp/

Please checkout this animated model of the vertical electric field. http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsnew/haarp/absez.html

This completely refutes any claims that it is a rocket.

Like most of you I was in awe when I saw the spiral on CNN as soon as news got out.  It really looked strange, and I had my question.  It really seemed unnatural that it was just sitting in one spot.  I started searching the internet for information on the anomaly. I found what seemingly explained the spiral incident.  That it was a rocket spinning out of control.  Initially I accepted that theory and went about informing my friends that it was just a rocket.  However, something in my gut didn’t accept that expiation.  The spiral just seemed too perfect.
Before we start to dissect the Norway Spiral let’s take a look the official-accepted explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8i5EfmYU4&feature=player_embedded

Here is a still from Doug Ellison’s computer simulation shows how the spirals may have been created by a missile tumbling through the air and leaking fuel. A video of the simulation is below This is a set of rendered views using 3DS Max to produce a coarse simulation of what may have occured to produce the beautiful formation in the sky over Norway earlier today.

But what about contrails?!

So when I saw this expiation I thought to myself.  Yep. That pretty much sums it up.  Then, I went about my business.  As the day pressed on I was watching a jet fly overhead high in the stratosphere.  It was then that I thought to myself, wait a minute contrails don’t keep a very solid shape.

At this point I decided to do more research.  I thought to myself, there’s got to be some better expiation for this.
So I went back to the CNN website and started looking at the spiral over and over.  Just wondering, what is going on here?  For somebody that’s passionate about science I should be able to answer this question.  I started reading everybody’s comments claiming it was a UFO or something like a Black Hole.    My attitude was, “I’m not going to waste my time with this if it means I’m going to look like one of these crack-pots…”

The other thing I realized about the Norway Spiral Incident was the Obama Factor.  President Obama was accepting his Nobel Prize in Norway at the same time.  Wow.  That’s got to be some kind of coincidence as well!

As I started investigating more about the possibility of it being a rocket launched by the Russian’s, I learned that the Russians did claim to launch a missile, but they also stated that it has nothing to do with what created the Spiral/Vortex.
(Source: CNN Rocket, not Santa, blamed for Norway spiral By Doug Gross Url: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/10/norway.ufo.light/index.html )
So as you can tell this started to become quite the interesting topic, and stay turned because it’s about to become A LOT more interesting…
I started digging for answers, and a lot of people were talking about HAARP, I thought wait HAARP is nowhere near Norway.  But then I remembered Russia also has their own HAARP facility Just over the hill from Tromso in Norway called EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association). But what could EISCAT possibly have to do with a spiral.  So I did some searching on the EISCAT website and found this.

http://www.eiscat.se/raw/schedule/comment.cgi?fileName=200912099145&Start=0700&End=1000
This is an experiment called “Tequila Sunrise” Notice the date and time match up perfectly.  So I started wondering what is this, “Polar Mesophere Winter Echos (PMWE)”
Polar mesosphere winter echoes (PMWE) are strong radar returns from heights between 50 and 80 km recorded by high-latitude VHF radars during the winter months. They are seen when ionization is increased above background levels during solar protons events or by high-energy electron precipitation from within the magnetosphere. Interest in PMWE has increased substantially in recent years since it has been suggested that the traditional explanation for their existence – turbulence in the neutral atmosphere – cannot explain their characteristics. An alternative theory has been proposed in which PMWE are caused by infrasound from the oceans being reflected at wind-shears and temperature gradients in the mesosphere. The observed characteristics of PMWE are reviewed in relation to the two theories. Although some characteristics of PMWE are consistent with either theory, other characteristics are not, particularly the spectral characteristics of the radar echoes at 224 MHz and the high horizontal travel velocity of the scatterer diffraction pattern at 52 MHz. The theory based on infrasound can qualitatively explain these characteristics but much remains to be done to test whether there is also quantitative agreement.

The magnetosphere of Earth is a region in space whose shape is determined by the extent of Earth’s internal magnetic field, the solar wind plasma, and the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). In the magnetosphere, a mix of free ions and electrons from both the solar wind and the Earth’s ionosphere is confined by electromagnetic forces that are much stronger than gravity and collisions.
A magnetic tail or magnetotail is formed by pressure from the solar wind on a planet’s magnetosphere. The magnetotail can extend great distances away from its originating planet. Earth’s magnetic tail extends at least 200 Earth radii in the anti-sunward direction well beyond the orbit of the Moon at about 60 Earth radii, while Jupiter’s magnetic tail extends beyond the orbit of Saturn. On occasion Saturn is immersed inside the Jovian magnetosphere.
The extended magnetotail results from energy stored in the planet’s magnetic field. At times this energy is released and the magnetic field becomes temporarily more dipole-like. As it does so that stored energy goes to energize plasma trapped on the involved magnetic field lines. Some of that plasma is driven tailward and into the distant solar wind. The rest is injected into the inner magnetosphere where it results in the aurora and the ring current plasma population. The resulting energetic plasma and electric currents can disrupt spacecraft operations, communication and navigation.

Could the Magnetotail be the blue jet stream coming from the center of the spiral, down towards the EISCAT Facility?

As I started to do more searching I finally found the AH HA!

SOURCE:
United States Naval Intelligence.  http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsnew/haarp/absez.html
Simulations of ELF radiation generated by heating the high-latitude D- region H.L. Rowland, Beam Physics Branch, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.

http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsnew/haarp/ (Read On…)

By modulating the ambient current flowing in the ionosphere, e.g., the auroral electrojet, it is possible to generate extremely low frequency (ELF) and very low frequency (VLF) radiation. This ionospheric modification technique can provide such waves for probing both the Earth and the ionosphere- magnetosphere. The modification occurs in the lower D-region and can provide information about the ambient conditions in one of the least diagnosed regions of the ionosphere.

There’s that word again!  Magnetosphere… I think I’m onto something…

On page 478 of SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

We notice a definite relevance to the information above.

Now that there’s no denying who created this anomaly, the real question is what is their purpose?  What do they plan to accomplish with this research?

There’s no way of knowing exactly what they are doing with the magnetosphere via speculation, however, for the latter part of this expnation we turn to the man that created all the technology for the 20th century, yes you got it! Nikola Tesla.

Tesla said he had fully developed his Dynamic Theory of Gravity and “worked it out in all the details“. This aether-based theory, which initially was developed between 1893-94, explained gravity and directly linked it to electromagnetic phenomena, explaining also that the sun and all stars emit “primary solar rays” which in turn produce secondary radiations. Tesla’s theory states that the phenomena produced by electromagnetic forces is the most important phenomenon in the universe. According to portions from his theory, mechanical motions are universally a result of electromagnetic force acting upon and through media. Unfortunately, no mathematical details of the theory have officially surfaced.

Tesla demonstrated that all bodies have electrical content and as such, are all moving charges as our earth hurls through space at incredible speed (hence ‘dynamic’). He demonstrated, through the use of his particular evacuated tubes and high voltage coils powered by specifically designed high frequency alternators, how earth emanates “microwaves” and how it behaves as a charged sphere. Based on these discoveries and their confirmation at Colorado Springs, he developed and tested his first electromagnetic machine that could fly “devoid of sustaining wings, propellers or gas bags“.

(Source: http://truedeity.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/teslas-dynamic-theory-of-gravity/ )

So I begged this question, what happened to Nikola Tesla’s Dynamic Theory Of Gravity?

A Memo was sent out from J Edgar Hoover instructing that ‘all matters connected with the late Nikola Tesla are to be handled in a most secret fashion in order to avoid any publicity in respect to Tesla’s Inventions and that every precaution be taken to preserve the secrecy of those inventions’. So Tesla’s life’s work was declared TOP SECRET and discussion of it forbidden.

Ironically, Tesla’s Death Ray was real, and it is only in the last few years that science has caught up with him. On 18 October 1993, the US Department of Defence announced it was starting to build an experimental ionospheric research facility in Gakona, Alaska. This facility, known as HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) was built by the Raytheon Corporation and involves the Universities of Alaska, Massachusetts, Stanford, Penn State, Tulsa, Clemson, Maryland, Cornell, UCLA and MIT in its program of experiments to study the resonant properties of the earth and its atmosphere. The link with Tesla’s work is clear. HAARP is studying exactly the same phenomena which Tesla first considered nearly 100 years ago in Colorado.
HAARP is based on the ideas of Bernard Eastlund, who holds three US patents (4,686,605 – 4,712,158 – 5,038,664), all of which have been issued as improvements on the patents-first issued to Tesla after his Colorado tests. The titles of the patents, which have to be shown to be practical before a patent is issued, are: method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere and/or magnetosphere; method and apparatus for creating an artificial electron cyclotron heating region of plasma; and method for producing a shell of relativistic particles at an altitude above the earth’s surface.

Recently the FOIA declassified some ufo documents proof that: On july 10th 1947, J Edgar Hoover classifying Flying Saucers Around Los Angelos. (Source: http://foia.fbi.gov/ufo/ufo1.pdf from page 45.)

What we have is a document bearing J. Edgar Hoover’s handwritten note stating that the Army “grabbed” a disk in LA and wouldn’t share it with the FBI for cursory inspection.

The rest has become history… History that has yet been declassified…

A hypothetical “tunnel” connecting two different points in spacetime in such a way that a trip through the wormhole could take much less time than a journey between the same starting and ending points in normal space. The ends of a wormhole could, in theory, be intra-universe (i.e. both exist in the same universe) or inter-universe (exist in different universes, and thus serve as a connecting passage between the two).

Wormholes arise as solutions to the equations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. In fact, they crop up so readily in this context that some theorists are encouraged to think that real counterparts may eventually be found or fabricated and, perhaps, used for high-speed space travel and/or time travel. However, a known property of wormholes is that they are highly unstable and would probably collapse instantly if even the tiniest amount of matter, such as a single photon, attempted to pass through them. A possible way around this problem is the use of exotic matter to prevent the wormhole from pinching off.

Interest in so-called traversable wormholes gathered pace following the publication of a 1987 paper by Michael Morris, Kip Thorne, and Uri Yertsever (MTY) at the California Institute of Technology.4, 5 This paper stemmed from an inquiry to Thorne by Carl Sagan who was mulling over a way of conveying the heroine in his novel Contact across interstellar distances at trans-light speed. Thorne gave the problem to his Ph.D. students, Michael Morris and Uri Yertsever, who realized that such a journey might be possible if a wormhole could be held open long enough for a spacecraft (or any other object) to pass through. MTY concluded that to keep a wormhole open would require matter with a negative energy density and a large negative pressure – larger in magnitude than the energy density. Such hypothetical matter is called exotic matter.

Although the existence of exotic matter is speculative, a way is known of producing negative energy density: the Casimir effect. As a source for their wormhole, MTY turned to the quantum vacuum. “Empty space” at the smallest scale, it turns out, is not empty at all but seething with violent fluctuations in the very geometry of spacetime. At this level of nature, ultra-small wormholes are believed to continuously wink into and out of existence. MTY suggested that a sufficiently advanced civilization could expand one of these tiny wormholes to macroscopic size by adding energy. Then the wormhole could be stabilized using the Casimir effect by placing two charged superconducting spheres in the wormhole mouths. Finally, the mouths could be transported to widely-separated regions of space to provide a means of FTL communication and travel. For example, a mouth placed aboard a spaceship might be carried to some location many light-years away. Because this initial trip would be through normal spacetime, it would have to take place at sublight speeds. But during the trip and afterwards instantaneous communication and transport through the wormhole would be possible.

This article was first published as ‘the essay’ in the Independent Magazine of 21^st August 1999

Nikola Tesla could have gone down in history as the man who invented the 20^th century. Instead his theories were ridiculed and he died alone in a hotel bedroom.

Robert Lomas recalls the lost prophet of electrical science.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Nikola Tesla

Back in the 1960s, all young electrical engineers habitually practised walking around with one hand placed in their pocket. This was not because they were slovenly or making an anti-establishment statement, but because of a warning they were always given in the first practise labs they attended: ‘If you get an electric shock across your chest, it will kill you; get the same shock down one side of your body and it will just give you a jolt’. Thanks to this advice, electrical engineers who want to stay alive, automatically put one hand in their pocket whenever they are near live electricity.

Nikola Tesla’s Colorado Springs notes reveals that he was the first engineer to advise this safe working practise and, as a result, many electrical engineers owe him their lives. He also invented the automobile speedometer, the mechanical rev counter, radio broadcasting, AC power and the bladeless turbines.

How was such a versatile talented man, whose inventions make our modern civilization possible, forgotten? The names of his contemporaries, Edison, Marconi, Westinghouse and even JP Morgan, all became legends and live on, but Tesla is largely unknown to a public who still benefit from his works.

The scientific community has honoured him, and his name has been given to a unit for measuring magnetism. In one way, this is a fitting memorial, because he has been placed in the same hall of fame as Volta, Ampere, Gilbert, Henry, Hertz, Ohm and Faraday, great scientists who have all had electro-magnetic units named after them. But, although he has achieved this recognition by the informed, I can’t help thinking that he would also have liked a more popular accolade.

After all, the quality of our modern life depends on a constant supply of electricity and it was his vision that made this possible. Yes, some engineers know his name, are taught it as a unit for measuring magnetic flux, but few know the story of the man who invented our twentieth century, and most hardly remember our debt to him.

I was a small boy, fascinated by electricity and desperately wanting my own wireless set, when I first heard about Nikola Tesla. I didn’t want just any old wireless, I wanted an ex-navy AR88 radio receiver for my very own and spent many Saturday afternoons haunting the numerous second-hand radio shops of Manchester, searching for this coveted instrument.

I had friends who had their own wireless sets and was sometimes allowed to use my parents’ large radiogram in the sitting-room, but that was not the same as having my own set. Tuning the radiogram to the very bottom of its tuning dial, right down below Radio Luxembourg, I could hear people who had their own wireless stations, talking to each other about the vast distances their radio short waves could go and bragging about the distant operators they could talk to. I wanted to know more – and curiosity drove my quest for an affordable short-wave radio of my own.

Wandering from shop to shop, carefully guarding the pocket that held my small savings, I sifted through pile after pile of junk and spent hours looking longingly at unaffordable new radios. Late in the day of one Saturday’s unsuccessful search, I saw something that looked out of place on a dusty shelf – a gleaming polished lid of a wooden box which I just had to open and investigate. And this was how I came to spend all my carefully hoarded pocket-money on a Tesla Therapeutic Electrotherapy Machine.

As I carefully opened the lid, an accumulation of dust tickled my nostrils and made me sneeze. Looking inside, the machine, protected by a red velvet lining, seemed to be complete. There was a gleaming coil of enamelled wire, two copper cylinders connected to flexible wire leads, a brass switch and the empty space where a big battery went. The faded label on the underside of the lid praised the virtues of the high-frequency currents that this strange contraption had obviously once produced:

The currents furnished by this apparatus are an ideal tonic for the human nervous system. They promote heart action and digestion, induce healthful sleep, rid the skin of destructive exudations and cure colds and fever by the warmth they create. They vivify atrophied or paralysed pails of the body, allay all kinds of suffering and save annually thousands of lives.

The wireless set, I decided, could wait a while. Here was a real piece of electrical magic! Riding home with it on the electric train, I dreamed of the experiments I would do and, in the event, that crude but effective electric-shock machine was the source of much childish satisfaction. Once I had a new battery, a large six-volt lantern battery that had to be specially ordered at the local radio shop, the coil buzzed and sparked in a spectacularly satisfactory manner, and, holding the copper cylinders, one in each hand, produced a strange tingling.

Enthusiastic about the benefit of Mr Tesla’s high-frequency therapeutic currents, I persuaded some of my friends to form a circle. We all then linked hands with the two copper electrodes of the machine closing our loop. The electric tingling spread from hand to hand round the ring, evoking squeals of surprise as it passed through our twitching limbs.

This early success was the start of my life-long interest in the hidden workings of all things electric. Electricity, which has only become important to society fairly recently, is still a comparatively new thing. My generation was probably the first to take it for granted. For instance, in the south-west of Ireland there is a small valley still known today as the Black Valley because, until a few years ago, it was the only place left in Ireland without a public electricity supply. Only 100 years ago, the simplicity of lighting our homes by pressing a switch would have seemed impossible magic – and without electricity the world would have remained a much harsher darker place.

Ask any well-informed person ‘Who invented Electricity?’ and they will probably answer ‘Michael Faraday’. Visit any power station and do the children’s quiz in the reception hall, and you will be convinced that this must be the case. But Faraday didn’t invent our electrically powered world of today. He simply carried out experiments that showed that electricity and magnetism always appeared together and wrote an important book Researches in Electricity. The man who gave electricity to the world was Nikola Tesla – the man who made the electric-shock machine that so intrigued me as a boy – the man whose story this book celebrates.

How then did he come to die alone and poor in an hotel room? Why was his body not found for two days, so that the date of his death is as uncertain as he considered the date of his birth? Why do most of the beneficiaries of his inventiveness not know his name?

Partly, his lack of fame was his own creation. Unlike Edison, Westinghouse, Marconi and Morgan whose companies preserve their names and keeps their achievements in view, Tesla left no such monuments. The general public, if it remembers him at all, only remembers him as an outrageous contributor to newspaper columns. Look at of some of the titles of his later writings:

Tesla’s Tidal Wave to Make War -Impossible. Sleep From Electricity. How to Signal Mars. Mr Tesla on The Future. Nikola Tesla Plans to Keep ‘Wireless Thumb’ on Ships at Sea. – Wonders of the Future. Famous Scientific Illusions. Nikola Testa Tells I-low We May Fly Eight Miles High at 1,000 Miles an Hour. Can Radio Ignite Balloons? Signals to Mars Based on Hope of Life on Planet. Interplanetary Communication. Chewing Gum More Fatal Than Rum, Says Tesla. Breaking Up Tornadoes. Nikola Tesla Tells How He Would Defend Ethiopia Against Italian Invasion. Sending Messages to planets Predicted by Dr Tesla on Birthday.

In the twenty-six years between getting the Edison Medal and his death in 1943, the public’s view of Tesla changed completely. He ceased to be regarded as a serious engineer and became a ‘wild’ old man who predicted miracles. The fact that most of these miracles eventually happened never seems to have counted in his favour. He never understood how to deal with people, either as individuals or in a crowd. His wildest statements were always based on theoretical reasoning. Sometimes he explained his thoughts, at other times he played the ‘Great Man’ and expected his readers to accept everything he said. He often moved on to a new idea without ever completing his work on an earlier one, and this gained him a reputation as a ‘butterfly’ mind. Occasionally, however, the world did remember and honour him.

On his seventy-fifth birthday, for example, he made the cover of Time magazine when he was traced to the Grosvoner Clinton Hotel where he was living on the goodwill of the manager after having been evicted from previous hotels for non-payment of his bills. Soon after this, he left the Grosvoner Clinton without paying his bill and had to forfeit his luggage. The Great Depression had clearly not helped his finances, and he only found a ‘home’ for the rest of his life when the Yugoslavian Government, taking pity on its most famous son living in poverty, awarded him a small pension of $7,200 per year. Even so, he still had to change hotels regularly because he encouraged pigeons into his room by feeding them on his desk.

He often claimed that he had taken a vow as a child to devote himself to work and never to waste time on marriage. But, as he got older, more garrulous and less respected, he must have regretted the lack of a close family to provide him with an audience. His sisters all died before him, and the only member of his family he saw in his final years was a nephew, Sava Kosanovich, whom he did not seem to get on well with. Obviously lonely, he took to befriending young male science reporters and ringing them up to talk for hours at all times of the day and night.

Starting to celebrate the birthday, he claimed not to have, he hosted dinners he could not afford, taking over popular New York restaurants to feed reporters and then making them ‘pay’ dearly for their dinner by forcing them listen to his long speeches about the future. He remained physically active until his eighty-first year when, struck by a New York taxi cab while crossing the street, his health started to decline.

On this birthday, instead of speaking at a dinner party, he issued a written statement. Although this was soon after the auto accident, his mind was obviously still capable of mounting an attack on Einstein’s theory of relativity:

I have worked out a dynamic theory of gravity in all details and hope to this give to the world very soon. It explains the causes of this force and the motions of heavenly bodies under its influence so satisfactorily that it will put an end to idle speculations and false conceptions, as that of curved space. According to the relativists, space has a tendency to curvature owing to an inherent property or presence of celestial bodies.

Granting a semblance of reality to this fantastic idea, it is still self-contradictory. Every action is accompanied by an equivalent reaction and the effects of the latter are directly opposite to those of the former. Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing curvature of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces must react on the bodies and, producing the opposite effects, straighten out the curves. Since action and reaction are coexistent, it follows that the supposed curvature of space is entirely impossible – But even if it existed it would not explain the motions of the bodies as observed. Only the existence of a field of force can account for them and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is _futile and destined to oblivion.

It is a great pity that Tesla never published his dynamic theory of gravity. Modern thinking about gravity suggests that when a heavy object moves it emits gravitational waves that radiate at the speed of light. These gravity waves behave in similar ways to many other types of wave. Tesla’s greatest inventions were all based on the study of waves. He always considered sound, light, heat, X-rays and radio waves to be related phenomena that could be studied using the same sort of maths. His differences with Einstein suggest that he had extended this thinking to gravity.

In the 1980s he was proved to be right. A study of energy loss in a double neutron star pulsar called PSR 1913 + 16 proved that gravity waves exist. Tesla’s idea that gravity is a field effect is now taken more seriously than Einstein took it. But, unfortunately, Tesla never revealed what had led him to this conclusion, never explained his theory of gravitation to the world. The attack he made on Einstein’s work was considered outrageous by the scientific establishment of the time, and only now do we have enough understanding of gravity to realize that he was right.

Tesla subsequently went on to make another outrageous claim, and the following statement helped to consign him to total obscurity after his death:

I have devoted much of my time during the year to the perfecting of a new small and compact apparatus by which energy in considerable amounts can now be flashed through interstellar space to any distance without the slightest dispersion. I am expecting to put before the Institute of France an accurate description qf the devices with data and calculations and claim the Pierre Guzinan Prize of 100,000 francs for means of communication with other worlds, feeling perfectly sure that it will be awarded to me. The money, of course, is a trifling consideration, but for the great historical honour of being the first to achieve this miracle I would he almost willing to give my life.

He didn’t get the prize and never explained the work. The French Government never heard from him as events overtook them both. Hitler was starting to expand his influence in Europe and France was invaded by 1940.

The device Tesla was talking about was either an early laser or a plasma gun to produce high-energy particles in the upper atmosphere. His Colorado notes show that he was aware of both possibilities, and these devices would have been a logical consequence of his lightning experiments.

In 1940, just after his eighty-fourth birthday, he gave an interview to the New York Times that was published on 22 September:

Nikola Tesla, one of the truly great inventors, who celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday on July 10, tells the writer that he stands ready to divulge to the United States Government the secret of his ‘teleforce’ with which he said, airplane motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles, so that an invisible Chinese Wall of Defence would be built around the country.

The article passed without comment by fellow scientists. By now his reputation for seeking publicity far out-weighed his ability to be believed, and with Hitler’s advances in Europe causing concern there were other things to worry about.

By 1941, the US had entered World War 11 and Tesla must have been concerned when his native land also fell to German invaders about this time. What was he to do about his ‘Death Ray’, as the popular paper had dubbed his ‘teleforce’ weapon? He wanted to give it to the US Government to help support both his adopted country and his homeland.

On 5 January 1943, Tesla rang the US War Department and spoke to a Colonel Erskine, offering him the secrets of his ‘teleforce’ weapon. Erskine, not realizing who Tesla was, assumed he was crazy, promised to ring him back and forgot about him This was Tesla’s last message to anybody. Quite ill by this time, his weak heart causing regular dizzy attacks, he was living in the Hotel New Yorker. On the evening of 5 January, he gave orders that he was not to be disturbed and went to bed. He often told staff to leave him undisturbed for two or three days at a time, but this was to be the last time he would be seen alive.

The story now unfolds like a bad thriller. Tesla died of heart failure some time between the evening of Tuesday, 5 January and the morning of Friday, 8 January. He was found by a maid on the Friday morning. His only known relative, his nephew Sava Kosanovich, a refugee from Yugoslavia who had fled to the US to escape the German invasion, was, like many other refugees, under observation by the FBI as a possible spy.

On the night of 8 January, Sava Kosanovich and two other men, George Clark, and Kenneth Sweezey (a young science reporter) went to Tesla’s hotel room with a locksmith to open his safe. Kosanovich told the other two men he was looking for Tesla’s will. Three assistant managers of the New Yorker Hotel and a representative of the Yugoslavian Consulate were present as witnesses. Sweezey took a book from the safe, and the safe was then re-closed with a new combination that was given to Sava Kosanovich. If Kosanovich found a will he never produced it because Tesla is recorded as dying intestate. (Kosanovich did, however, eventually collect together all Tesla’s remaining writings and equipment, which is now housed in the Tesla Museum in Belgrade.)

On the same evening, Colonel Erskine called the FBI to tell them that Tesla had died and that his nephew, Kosanovich, had seized papers which might be used against the US Government. The FBI made an immediate inquiry in New York, confirmed that Kosanovich and others had entered Tesla’s room with the aid of a locksmith and contacted the Alien Property Custodian to retrieve the items seized on behalf of the Government.

Mr Fitzgerald of Alien Property Control then went to the hotel and took away all Tesla’s remaining property, which consisted of about two truckloads. The articles were then sealed and transferred to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Co. NY, where other Tesla effects, a further thirty sealed barrels and bundles, had been stored since 1934. The Alien Property Custodian then seized all Tesla’s effects on Saturday morning, and called in naval authorities to make microfilm copies of all his papers.

The FBI also discovered that Tesla had stored an invention in a safe deposit box at the Grosvoner Clinton Hotel in 1932, but when the agents tried to claim it, the hotel refused to release the contents of the box unless Tesla’s unpaid bill was paid The hotel did agree, however, to notify the FBI if anybody else tried to get at it.

FBI records state that Sava Kosanovich was trying to gain possession of Tesla’s effects, and that it was concerned that Kosanovich might make this information available to the enemy. The FBI consulted the scientific advisor to Vice President Wallace, and was told to lose no time in doing whatever. was necessary to preserve Tesla’s effects. It was were also told that Tesla had completed and perfected his experiments in connection with the wireless transmission of power and had developed a new torpedo. The plans and a working model that cost $10,000 to build, were in the safety deposit box of the Grosvoner Clinton hotel. The model was connected with Tesla’s Death Ray or the wireless transmission of electrical current.

The Bureau, ordered to keep the Vice President informed of what actions it took, decided to approach the State’s Attorney concerning the possibility of arresting Kosanovich on a burglary charge and therefore getting back the papers he had taken from the safe. At that point, the Alien Property Custodian took over responsibility for the securing of Tesla’s property and the FBI record ends.

A Memo was sent out from J Edgar Hoover instructing that ‘all matters connected with the late Nikola Tesla are to be handled in a most secret fashion in order to avoid any publicity in respect to Tesla’s Inventions and that every precaution be taken to preserve the secrecy of those inventions’.

So Tesla’s life’s work was declared TOP SECRET and discussion of it forbidden.
Ironically, Tesla’s Death Ray was real, and it is only in the last few years that science has caught up with him. On 18 October 1993, the US Department of Defence announced it was starting to build an experimental ionospheric research facility in Gakona, Alaska. This facility, known as HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) was built by the Raytheon Corporation and involves the Universities of Alaska, Massachusetts, Stanford, Penn State, Tulsa, Clemson, Maryland, Cornell, UCLA and MIT in its program of experiments to study the resonant properties of the earth and its atmosphere. The link with Tesla’s work is clear. HAARP is studying exactly the same phenomena which Tesla first considered nearly 100 years ago in Colorado.

HAARP is based on the ideas of Bernard Eastlund, who holds three US patents (4,686,605 – 4,712,158 – 5,038,664), all of which have been issued as improvements on the patents-first issued to Tesla after his Colorado tests. The titles of the patents, which have to be shown to be practical before a patent is issued, are: method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere and/or magnetosphere; method and apparatus for creating an artificial electron cyclotron heating region of plasma; and method for producing a shell of relativistic particles at an altitude above the earth’s surface.

This last patent, which describes an anti-missile shield which could destroy the electronics of hostile missiles or satellites, is the realization of Tesla’s Death Ray. It works by creating a plasma packet of high energy particles – Tesla’s Colorado ball lightning on a large scale.

So, on two counts, Tesla had the last laugh: his ‘teleforce’ has finally been built and he won a patent battle with Marconi, after he had been dead for six months, the US High Court confirmed it was Nikola Tesla who really invented radio! This was, however, a hollow victory. Both patents had expired, both men were dead and nobody could talk about it because there was a Top Secret order forbidding all talk of Tesla’s work.

The end result of this sad chain of events is that one of mankind’s greatest benefactors is almost forgotten. Tesla died as he lived, alone, lonely and Top Secret, consigning himself to years of obscurity because of his last alarming offer to the US Government.

He was a scientist of dazzling brilliance, a prophet who really did see into the future but was unrecognized in his own time. He was such an individualist, so self-centred that he never formed a close relationship with anybody, man or woman. Yet he was an enormously cultured: spoke many languages and was very well read. In his later years, he partly made his living by translating literature into Eastern European languages. But he never formed any lasting businesses or links with institutions which would have preserved a record of his achievements. The Tesla Museum in Belgrade was only established long after his death.

Any chance of celebrating his life’s achievements was lost by the panic that his death caused in wartime USA – his life’s work filed as Top Secret by the FBI, US Navy and Vice-President Wallace, and it is only now, almost 100 years later, that we can remember him openly. He must have been difficult man to work with, his workaholic attitude and his failure to suffer fools gladly would have meant that lesser engineers suffered from his tongue. But what a splendid companion he must have been at the dinner parties that he held in his prime.

I sit here surrounded by this man’s legacy: my electric-powered computer at my side in my study, lit by fluorescent electric light, heated by water pumped by an AC induction motor, listening to music broadcast on my mains-powered radio. As my scanner and Internet modem sit on the desk, ready to send and receive pictures and messages round the world, I am using Tesla’s legacy.

As the sun sets over the Pennine hills, I look out on an array of Tesla’s monuments carrying electricity around the country. In the distance I can see the megavolt cables of the National Grid strung between their high pylons as they hiss and crackle in the damp evening air. Across the valley runs a twin-stranded 11,000 volt local distribution line strung between its T-shaped wooden poles, and I can just see the transformer which drops the voltage to a safe 240 volts for the short cable run into my house.

When you next see a line of electricity pylons carrying the power that grants you a civilized life, put one hand in your pocket and spare a moment to thank Nikola Tesla, the lonely, forgotten, long-winded, obsessive, brilliant man who gave this to you.

Tesla summed up his own life in these few words:

I continually experience an inexpressible satisfaction from the knowledge that my polyphase system is used throughout the world to lighten the burdens of mankind and increase comfort and happiness, and that my wireless system, in all its essential features, is employed to render a service to and bring pleasure to people in all parts of the world.

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The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century: Nikola Tesla, Forgotten Genius of Electricity. Published by Headline at £12.99
Dr Robert Lomas, lectures in Engineering Management at Bradford University Management Centre.

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Photograph of Prof. Hannes Alfvén, courtesy of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Hannes Alfvén, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics,acknowledged as one of creative and intuitive intellect’s of the 20th century, died  peacefully Sunday evening, April 2, 1995 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was 86 years old. In the world of specialized science, Alfvén was an enigma. Regarded as a heretic by many physicists, Alfvén made contributions to physics that are today being applied in the development of particle beam accelerators, controlled thermonuclear fusion, hypersonic flight, rocket propulsion, and the braking of reentering space vehicles. At the same time, applications of his research in space science include explanations of the Van Allen radiation belt, the reduction of the earth’s magnetic field during magnetic storms, the magnetosphere (a protective plasma envelope surrounding the earth), the formation of comet tails, the formation of the solar system, the dynamics of plasmas in our galaxy, and the fundamental nature of the universe itself. Alfvén was the first to predict (in 1963) the large scale filamentary structure of the universe, a discovery that confounded astrophysicists in 1991 and added to the woes of Big Bang cosmology. Hannes Alfvén has played a central role in the development of several modern fields of physics, including plasma physics, the physics of charged particle beams, and interplanetary and magnetospheric physics. He is also usually regarded as the father of the branch of plasma physics known as magnetohydrodynamics.

In addition, Alfvén’s contributions to astrophysics have been as important as his contributions to physics. His postulation in 1937 of a galactic magnetic field forms the basis today for one of the fastest growing areas of research in astrophysics – Cosmic Magnetism. In 1950, together with his colleague N. Herlofson, Alfvén was the first to identify nonthermal radiation from astronomical sources as synchrotron radiation, which is produced by fast-moving electrons in the presence of magnetic fields. The recognition that the synchrotron mechanism of radiation is important in celestial objects has been one of the most fruitful developments in astrophysics, as nearly all the radiation recorded by radio telescopes derive from this mechanism.

In spite of these fundamental contributions to physics and astrophysics, Alfvén, who retired his posts of professor of electrical engineering at the University of California at San Diego and professor of plasma physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1991, was still viewed as a heretic by many in those very fields. Alfvén’s theories in astrophysics and plasma physics have usually gained acceptance only two or three decades after their publication. Characteristically and also concomitant with his 80th birthday in 1988, Alfvén was awarded the most prestigious prize of the American Geophysical Union, the Bowie medal, for his work three decades earlier on comets and plasmas in the solar system. Disputed for 30 years, many of his theories about the solar system were only vindicated as late as the 1980′s through measurements of cometary and planetary magnetospheres by artificial satellites and space probes.

Alfvén’s lifetime achievements earned him worldwide recognition- including the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1967), the Nobel Prize in physics (1970), the Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute (1971), and the Lomonosov Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1971). Several academies and institutes claimed his name in their membership rosters: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (life fellow), the European Physical Society, the Royal Swedish Academy, the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences. Alfvén also was one of the very few scientists who are foreign members of both the U.S. and Soviet Academies of Sciences.

Although Alfvén received these singular honors from many parts of the world -and a rash of scientific journals scheduled special issues in honor of his 80th birthday- for much of his career Alfvén’s ideas were dismissed or treated with condescension. He was often forced to publish his papers in obscure journals; and his work was continuously disputed for many years by the most renowned senior scientist in space physics, the British-American geophysicist Sydney Chapman. Even among physicists today there is little awareness of Alfvén’s many contributions to fields of physics where his ideas are used without recognition of who conceived them.

Attempting to explain the resistance to his ideas, Alfvén pointed to the increasing specialization of science during this century. “We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy,” he said in 1986. “Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.”  Among the causes of this transition, Alfvén believed, are territorial dominance, greed, and fear of the unknown. “Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.”

Education

Hannes Olof Gosta Alfvén was born on May 30, 1908, in Norrkorping, Sweden. He received his doctor’s degree from the University of Uppsala in 1934. His thesis was entitled “Investigations of the Ultra-short Electromagnetic Waves.” The same year Alfvén was appointed a docent in physics at both the University of Uppsala and the Nobel Institute for Physics in Stockholm. In1940 he became professor of electromagnetic theory and electrical measurements at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and in 1945 he was elected to a newly created Chair of Electronics at the same institute which was converted to a Chair of Plasma Physics in 1963.

In 1967 Alfvén issued a stinging condemnation of Sweden’s nuclear research program, protesting what he considered to be insufficient funds for projects on peaceful uses of thermonuclear energy, and he left, saying, “My work is no longer desired in this country.” He was immediately offered chairs in both the Soviet Union and the United States. After two months in the Soviet Union, he moved to America, testing the professorial waters in the departments of electrical engineering at two universities in Southern California, the University of California at San Diego in La Jolla and the University of Southern California. Having made his peace with the Swedish government soon after he left, Alfvén spent the remainder of this life alternating between California and Sweden; October to March in La Jolla and April to September in Stockholm.

Alfvén’s approach to physics

Alfvén’s approach to physics was based on insight and intuition. He was quick to understand how nature works and he was able to place new observations into a framework larger than that required to explain the observations themselves. For example, in the early 1930′s, cosmic rays were commonly thought to be gamma rays filling the entire universe. However, when they were discovered to be charged particles, Alfvén offered in 1937 the novel suggestion that the galaxy contained a large-scale magnetic field and that the cosmic rays moved in spiral orbits within the galaxy, owing to the forces exerted by the magnetic field. He argued that there could be a magnetic field pervading the entire galaxy if plasma was spread throughout the galaxy. This plasma could carry the electrical currents that would then create the galactic magnetic field.

Such a hypothesis, based on a great leap of creative intuition but without grounding in apparent rational thought or inference, left Alfvén’s proposal open to much criticism; his theory was dismissed on the grounds that interstellar space was known to be a vacuum and that it certainly could not support the electrical currents and particle beams he was proposing. But Alfvén had started the scientific community thinking about an idea that was to become very fashionable in the 1980′s and 1990′s.

Alfvén’s discovery of hydromagnetic waves is another example of an original idea having a far-reaching impact on multidisciplinary science. On purely physical grounds, Alfvén concluded that an electromagnetic wave could propagate through a highly conducting medium, such as the ionized gas of the sun, or in plasmas anywhere. However, in 1942 when Alfvén published his discovery, Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism was a well-established edifice, a subject for textbook pedagogy and engineering applications. It was “well known” that electromagnetic waves could penetrate only a very short distance into a conductor and that, as the resistance of a conductor became smaller and smaller, the depth of penetration by an electromagnetic wave would go to zero. Thus, with an ideal electrical conductor, there could be no penetration of electromagnetic radiation. But Alfvén was proposing a form of electromagnetic wave that could propagate in a perfect conductor with no attenuation or reflection. Alfvén’s discovery was generally dismissed with such remarks as “if such waves were possible, Maxwell himself would have discovered them.”
His work was not recognized as both correct and significant until six years later, when he gave several lectures on hydrodynamic waves during his first visit to the United States. An oversimplified statement of what occurred has been provided by University of Arizona professor Alex Dessler, former editor of the prestigious journal, Geophysical Research Letters. “During Alfvén’s visit he gave a lecture at the University of Chicago, which was attended by [Enrico] Fermi. As Alfvén described his work, Fermi nodded his head and said, ‘Of course.’ The next day the entire world of physics said. ‘Oh. of course.”‘

Alfvén versus Chapman

Alfvén became active in interplanetary and magnetospheric physics at a time when a contrary viewpoint prevailed. Alfvén’s views were consistent with those of the founder of magnetospheric physics, the great Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland. At the end of the nineteenth century Birkeland had laid out a compelling case-supported by theory, laboratory experiments, polar expeditions, and a chain of magnetic-field “observatories” around the world -that electric currents flowing down along the earth’s magnetic fields into the atmosphere were the cause of the aurora and polar magnetic disturbances.

However, in the decades following Birkeland’s death in 1917, Chapman became the acknowledged leader in interplanetary and magnetospheric physics. Chapman proposed, in contradistinction to Birkeland’s ideas, that currents were restricted to flow only in the ionosphere with no downflowing currents. Chapman’s theory was so mathematically elegant that it gained wide acceptance over the Birkeland theory. Based on Chapman’s theory, algebraic expressions of the ionospheric current system could, with complete mathematical rigor, be derived by any student of the subject. Birkeland’s ideas might have faded completely had it not been for Hannes Alfvén, who became involved well after Chapman’s ideas gained predominance. Alfvén kept insisting that Birkeland’s current system made more sense because downflowing currents following the earth’s magnetic field lines were required to drive most of the ionospheric currents. The issue was not settled until 1974, four years after Chapman’s death, when earth satellites measured downflowing currents for the first time.

This story was typical of the difficulties Alfvén faced in his scientific career. Interplanetary space was commonly considered to be a good vacuum, disturbed only by occasional comets. This viewpoint was widely accepted because space “looked” that way, having been viewed only by using telescopes at optical wavelengths. In contrast, the electrical currents proposed by Alfvén generated a telltale signature only in the radio portions of the electromagnetic spectrum so they had not yet been observed. Thus Alfvén’s proposal that there were electrical currents in space was received with great skepticism.

In 1939 Alfvén advanced a remarkable theory of magnetic storms and auroras that has widely influenced contemporary theories of plasma dynamics in the earth’s magnetosphere. He used the notion of electric charges spiraling in magnetic fields to calculate the motions of electrons and ions. This method came to be universally adopted by plasma physicists and remained in use until the tedious task was assigned to computers in the mid-1970s. Yet in 1939, when Alfvén submitted the paper to the leading American journal Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, the paper was rejected on the ground that it did not agree with the theoretical calculations of Chapman and his colleagues. Alfvén was forced to publish this seminal paper in a Swedish-language journal not readily accessible to the worldwide scientific community. Restrictions such as this were imposed on several of Alfvén’s other key articles as well.

It is usual in science that one or two major discoveries place their author in the rank of leading authorities with great influence and continuing funding commonly following. This was certainly not the case with Alfvén. At no time during his scientific career prior to winning the Nobel Prize was Alfvén generally recognized as a leading innovator by those in the scientific communities who were using his work.

Dessler has written of his own realization that Alfvén’s contributions were being overlooked.

“When I entered the field of space physics in 1956, I recall that I fell in with the crowd believing, for example, that electric fields could not exist in the highly conducting plasma of space. It was three years later that I was shamed by S.Chandrasekhar into investigating Alfvén’s work objectively. My degree of shock and surprise in finding Alfvén right and his critics wrong can hardly be described. I learned that a cosmic ray acceleration mechanism basically identical to the famous mechanism suggested by Fermi in 1949 had [previously] been put forth by Alfvén.”

Alfvén and Astrophysics

Because his ideas often conflicted with the generally accepted or “standard” theories, Alfvén always had trouble with the peer review system, especially as practiced by Anglo-American astrophysical journals. “I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals,” Alfvén once disclosed, “but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.” In fact, he never enjoyed the nearly automatic acceptance generally afforded senior scientists in scientific journals. “The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo,” explains Alfvén.
Part of the reason that Alfvén’s work is neglected in astrophysics may be that Alfvén considered himself, first and foremost, an electrical power engineer and rather enjoyed the accusation of encroachment in astrophysics leveled by other cosmologists and theoreticians. Plasma physics has traditionally been neglected in astrophysics, Alfvén claimed. “Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century,” he argued. “The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.”

Alfvén VERSUS THE BIG BANG

For 30 years, based on plasma physics, Alfvén and his colleagues proposed an alternative cosmology to both the Steady State and the Big Bang cosmologies. While the Big Bang theory was preferred by most astrophysicists for nearly 30 years, it is being challenged by new observations, especially over the last decade. In particular, the discovery of coherent structures of galaxies hundreds of millions of light years in length and the large-scale streaming of superclusters of galaxies at velocities that may approach 1,000 kilometers per second present problems that are difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile with the Big Bang theory.

To Alfvén, the problems being raised were not surprising. “I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.”

The problem with the Big Bang, Alfvén believed, is similar to that with Chapman’s theories, which the scientific community accepted mistakenly for decades: Astrophysicists have tried too hard to extrapolate the origin of the universe from mathematical theories developed on the blackboard. The appeal of the Big Bang, said Alfvén, has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the world – what perfect principles must have been used.”

To Alfvén, the Big Bang was a myth – a myth devised to explain creation. “I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaitre first proposed this theory,” he recalled. Lemaitre was, at the time, both a member of the Catholic hierarchy and an accomplished scientist. He said in private that this theory was a way to reconcile science with St. Thomas Aquinas’ theological dictum of creatio ex nihilo or creation out of nothing.

But if there was no Big Bang, how -and when- did the universe begin? “There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time,” Alfvén explained. “It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.”

“Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion he said. An infinitely old universe, always evolving, may not, he admited, be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end. Creatio ex nihilo, even as religious doctrine, only dates to around AD 200″ he noted. The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.”

Alfvén admited that his plasma universe theory may take a long time to penetrate the popular consciousness. “After all,” he asserted to a group of physicists, “most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe.” The group, at first incredulous, quickly nods in agreement as Alfvén continueed, “every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.”

PERSONAL AND PUBLIC LIFE

In counterpoint to his often turbulent scientific career, Hannes Alfvén’s home life was quiescent, a tranquility that has been attributed to his wife of 67 years, Kirsten, who preceded him in death. They raised five children: a son who is a physician and four daughters, one a writer well-known in Sweden and one a lawyer.

Besides his scientific papers, Alfvén wrote popular science books, sometimes with his wife. These include Worlds-Antiworlds: Antimatter in Cosmology (1966), and The Great Computer: A Vision (1968). The latter book, written under the pen name Olof Johannesson, describes how increasingly sophisticated computers gain control first over government, then the earth. Alfvén’s distrust of computers is long-standing, and only recently, when plasma simulations on supercomputers started reproducing the noise measured in real physical systems, did he take an interest in this aspect of analysis. Other popular books include Atom, Man, and the Universe: A Long Chain of Complications (1969) and Living on the Third Planet (1972).

Alfvén strongly identified with a variety of social issues. He was, for example, an activist in the worldwide disarmament movement, having served as president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. In addition, his son is the Swedish Secretary of the Physicians for Social Responsibility. Alfvén enjoyed studying the history of science and oriental philosophy and religion.

He was known for his sense of humor and for having an anecdote for every occasion. Alfvén enjoyed travelling, especially to exotic lands such as Sri Lanka, the Fiji Islands, and the Amazon River. He claimed residence according to the equinoxes -vernal to autumnal in Europe and autumnal to vernal in North America. He was fluent in English, German, and French, and nearly so in Russian; and spoke some Spanish and some Chinese. He remained physically active until the last four years of his life. Even at age 82 he would entertain visitors with wine at his apartment in La Jolla, hurrying them to the beach at sundown in hopes of catching a glimpse of the green flash” the phenomenon that sometimes occurs as the sun drops below the ocean horizon.

Anthony L. Peratt, ‘Dean of the Plasma Dissidents’, The World & I, May 1988, pp. 190-197.

Like most of you I was in awe when I saw the spiral on CNN as soon as news got out.  It really looked strange, and I had my question.  It really seemed unnatural that it was just sitting in one spot.  I started searching the internet for information on the anomaly. I found what seemingly explained the spiral incident.  That it was a rocket spinning out of control.  Initially I accepted that theory and went about informing my friends that it was just a rocket.  However, something in my gut didn’t accept that expiation.  The spiral just seemed too perfect.

Before we start to dissect the Norway Spiral let’s take a look the official-accepted explanation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8i5EfmYU4&feature=player_embedded

Here is a still from Doug Ellison’s computer simulation shows how the spirals may have been created by a missile tumbling through the air and leaking fuel. A video of the simulation is below

This is a set of rendered views using 3DS Max to produce a coarse simulation of what may have occured to produce the beautiful formation in the sky over Norway earlier today.

So when I saw this expiation I thought to myself.  Yep. That pretty much sums it up.  Then, I went about my business.  As the day pressed on I was watching a jet fly overhead high in the stratosphere.  It was then that I thought to myself, wait a minute contrails don’t keep a very solid shape.

At this point I decided to do more research.  I thought to myself, there’s got to be some better expiation for this.

So I went back to the CNN website and started looking at the spiral over and over.  Just wondering, what is going on here?  For somebody that’s passionate about science I should be able to answer this question.  I started reading everybody’s comments claiming it was a UFO or something like a Black Hole.    My attitude was I’m not going to waste my time with this if it means I’m going to look like one of these crack-pots…

The other thing I realized about the Norway Spiral Incident was the Obama Factor.  President Obama was accepting his Nobel Prize in Norway at the same time.  Wow.  That’s got to be some kind of coincidence as well.

As I started investigating more about the possibility of it being a rocket launched by the Russian’s, I learned that the Russians did claim to launch a missile, but they also stated that it has nothing to do with what created the Spiral/Vortex.
(Source: CNN Rocket, not Santa, blamed for Norway spiral By Doug Gross Url: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/10/norway.ufo.light/index.html )

So as you can tell this started to become quite the interesting topic, and stay turned because it’s about to become A LOT more interesting…

I started digging for answers, and a lot of people were talking about HAARP, I thought wait HAARP is nowhere near Norway.  But then I remembered Russia also has their own HAARP facility Just over the hill from Tromso in Norway called EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association).  But what could EISCAT possibly have to do with a spiral.  So I did some searching on the EISCAT website and found this.

http://www.eiscat.se/raw/schedule/comment.cgi?fileName=200912099145&Start=0700&End=1000

This is an experiment called “Tequila Sunrise” Notice the date and time match up perfectly.  So I started wondering what is this, “Polar Mesophere Winter Echos (PMWE)”

Polar mesosphere winter echoes (PMWE) are strong radar returns from heights between 50 and 80 km recorded by high-latitude VHF radars during the winter months. They are seen when ionization is increased above background levels during solar protons events or by high-energy electron precipitation from within the magnetosphere. Interest in PMWE has increased substantially in recent years since it has been suggested that the traditional explanation for their existence – turbulence in the neutral atmosphere – cannot explain their characteristics. An alternative theory has been proposed in which PMWE are caused by infrasound from the oceans being reflected at wind-shears and temperature gradients in the mesosphere. The observed characteristics of PMWE are reviewed in relation to the two theories. Although some characteristics of PMWE are consistent with either theory, other characteristics are not, particularly the spectral characteristics of the radar echoes at 224 MHz and the high horizontal travel velocity of the scatterer diffraction pattern at 52 MHz. The theory based on infrasound can qualitatively explain these characteristics but much remains to be done to test whether there is also quantitative agreement.

The magnetosphere of Earth is a region in space whose shape is determined by the extent of Earth’s internal magnetic field, the solar wind plasma, and the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). In the magnetosphere, a mix of free ions and electrons from both the solar wind and the Earth’s ionosphere is confined by electromagnetic forces that are much stronger than gravity and collisions.

A magnetic tail or magnetotail is formed by pressure from the solar wind on a planet’s magnetosphere. The magnetotail can extend great distances away from its originating planet. Earth’s magnetic tail extends at least 200 Earth radii in the anti-sunward direction well beyond the orbit of the Moon at about 60 Earth radii, while Jupiter’s magnetic tail extends beyond the orbit of Saturn. On occasion Saturn is immersed inside the Jovian magnetosphere.

The extended magnetotail results from energy stored in the planet’s magnetic field. At times this energy is released and the magnetic field becomes temporarily more dipole-like. As it does so that stored energy goes to energize plasma trapped on the involved magnetic field lines. Some of that plasma is driven tailward and into the distant solar wind. The rest is injected into the inner magnetosphere where it results in the aurora and the ring current plasma population. The resulting energetic plasma and electric currents can disrupt spacecraft operations, communication and navigation.

Could the Magnetotail be the blue jet stream coming from the center of the spiral, down towards the EISCAT Facility?

As I started to do more searching I finally found the AH HA!

SOURCE:

United States Naval Intelligence.  http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsnew/haarp/absez.html

Simulations of ELF radiation generated by heating the high-latitude D- region H.L. Rowland, Beam Physics Branch, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.

http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsnew/haarp/ (Read On…)

By modulating the ambient current flowing in the ionosphere, e.g., the auroral electrojet, it is possible to generate extremely low frequency (ELF) and very low frequency (VLF) radiation. This ionospheric modification technique can provide such waves for probing both the Earth and the ionosphere- magnetosphere. The modification occurs in the lower D-region and can provide information about the ambient conditions in one of the least diagnosed regions of the ionosphere.

There’s that word again!  Magnetosphere… I think I’m onto something…

On page 478 of SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

We notice a definite relevance to the information above.

Now that there’s no denying who created this anomaly, the real question is what is their purpose?  What do they plan to accomplish with this research?  

This is a direct-link from the EISCAT(HAARP type facility) official website.  http://www.eiscat.se/raw/schedule/comment.cgi?fileName=200912099145&Start=0700&End=1000

There is also detailed information about HAARP Research on the Navy.Mil website here, http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsn…ew/haarp/

Please checkout this animated model of the vertical electric field. http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsnew/haarp/absez.html

This completely refutes any claims that it is a rocket.

FDA Approves Lung Valve to Control Some Air Leaks after Surgery

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved an implantable and removable valve system designed to control some air leaks in the lungs that persist after certain kinds of lung surgery.

While air leaks are generally common after lung surgery, prolonged air leaks, which are leaks present seven days after surgery, occur less frequently and make it difficult for patients to breathe. Prolonged leaks also can increase the length of hospital stays and require additional surgeries to close.

The IBV Valve System consists of an implantable valve, a catheter for valve insertion, and a sizing kit, which can be used to measure the target area for valve implantation. The FDA approved this system under the Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) program, which supports the development of medical devices intended to benefit patients in the treatment of diagnosis of diseases or conditions affecting fewer than 4,000 people in the United States per year.

This device is approved for use in patients who have undergone partial or total removal of a lung lobe or lung volume reduction surgery and who experience prolonged air leaks or significant air leaks that may become prolonged.

Most air leaks heal themselves. An air leak still present on the seventh day after surgery is considered prolonged, unless it is only noticed during forced exhalation or cough.

An air leak present on the fifth day after surgery is considered a significant air leak that may become prolonged if the leak is always present, present during normal inhalation, or present during normal exhalation and accompanied by emphysema or other respiratory problem.

“This valve may ease post-operative recovery of patients undergoing certain kinds of lung surgery,” said Daniel Schultz, M.D., director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.  “This approval is an example of the agency’s commitment to addressing unmet medical needs through the HDE program.”

The IBV valve is inserted through a bronchoscope, and placed in the airway of the lung area affected by the air leak. Once inserted, the valve allows air to flow in only one direction, preventing air from entering the affected area but allowing air and mucus to escape.

Potential adverse events include collapsed lung, bleeding, bronchitis and damage to the airway in which the valve is placed. The valve should not remain implanted for longer than six weeks. Patients who cannot tolerate bronchoscopy should not be treated with the device.

The IBV Valve System helped heal air leaks in a small number of patients undergoing lung surgery. A pivotal trial, where the valve system was used to treat emphysema, provided additional safety information as did other studies, such as animal studies, biocompatibility tests, sterilization validation, and packaging and shelf life studies.

The IBV Valve System is manufactured by Spiration, Inc., located in Redmond, Wash. The company will conduct a post-approval study to collect additional safety and benefit information that may be used to enhance labeling for the device.

Drug Discovery & Development – November 04, 2009

WARNING: This video contains graphic footage of eye surgery. Viewer discretion is advised. In 1949, Jo Ann Lewis began losing her sight to retinis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that destroys light-detecting cells in the eye. Today, microelectronic implants have allowed her to recapture a vestige of vision.

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I stopped eating pork about eight years ago, after a scientist happened to mention that the animal whose teeth most closely resemble our own is the pig. Unable to shake the image of a perky little pig flashing me a brilliant George Clooney smile, I decided it was easier to forgo the Christmas ham. A couple of years later, I gave up on all mammalian meat, period. I still eat fish and poultry, however and pour eggnog in my coffee. My dietary decisions are arbitrary and inconsistent, and when friends ask why I’m willing to try the duck but not the lamb, I don’t have a good answer. Food choices are often like that: difficult to articulate yet strongly held. And lately, debates over food choices have flared with particular vehemence.

In his new book, “Eating Animals,” the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer describes his gradual transformation from omnivorous, oblivious slacker who “waffled among any number of diets” to “committed vegetarian.” Last month, Gary Steiner, a philosopher at Bucknell University, argued on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times that people should strive to be “strict ethical vegans” like himself, avoiding all products derived from animals, including wool and silk. Killing animals for human food and finery is nothing less than “outright murder,” he said, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “eternal Treblinka.”

But before we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed vegetarians” and “strong ethical vegans,” we might consider that plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my Christmas clay pot. This is not meant as a trite argument or a chuckled aside. Plants are lively and seek to keep it that way. The more that scientists learn about the complexity of plants — their keen sensitivity to the environment, the speed with which they react to changes in the environment, and the extraordinary number of tricks that plants will rally to fight off attackers and solicit help from afar — the more impressed researchers become, and the less easily we can dismiss plants as so much fiberfill backdrop, passive sunlight collectors on which deer, antelope and vegans can conveniently graze. It’s time for a green revolution, a reseeding of our stubborn animal minds.

When plant biologists speak of their subjects, they use active verbs and vivid images. Plants “forage” for resources like light and soil nutrients and “anticipate” rough spots and opportunities. By analyzing the ratio of red light and far red light falling on their leaves, for example, they can sense the presence of other chlorophyllated competitors nearby and try to grow the other way. Their roots ride the underground “rhizosphere” and engage in cross-cultural and microbial trade.

“Plants are not static or silly,” said Monika Hilker of the Institute of Biology at the Free University of Berlin. “They respond to tactile cues, they recognize different wavelengths of light, they listen to chemical signals, they can even talk” through chemical signals. Touch, sight, hearing, speech. “These are sensory modalities and abilities we normally think of as only being in animals,” Dr. Hilker said.

Plants can’t run away from a threat but they can stand their ground. “They are very good at avoiding getting eaten,” said Linda Walling of the University of California, Riverside. “It’s an unusual situation where insects can overcome those defenses.” At the smallest nip to its leaves, specialized cells on the plant’s surface release chemicals to irritate the predator or sticky goo to entrap it. Genes in the plant’s DNA are activated to wage systemwide chemical warfare, the plant’s version of an immune response. We need terpenes, alkaloids, phenolics — let’s move.

“I’m amazed at how fast some of these things happen,” said Consuelo M. De Moraes of Pennsylvania State University. Dr. De Moraes and her colleagues did labeling experiments to clock a plant’s systemic response time and found that, in less than 20 minutes from the moment the caterpillar had begun feeding on its leaves, the plant had plucked carbon from the air and forged defensive compounds from scratch.

Just because we humans can’t hear them doesn’t mean plants don’t howl. Some of the compounds that plants generate in response to insect mastication — their feedback, you might say — are volatile chemicals that serve as cries for help. Such airborne alarm calls have been shown to attract both large predatory insects like dragon flies, which delight in caterpillar meat, and tiny parasitic insects, which can infect a caterpillar and destroy it from within.

Enemies of the plant’s enemies are not the only ones to tune into the emergency broadcast. “Some of these cues, some of these volatiles that are released when a focal plant is damaged,” said Richard Karban of the University of California, Davis, “cause other plants of the same species, or even of another species, to likewise become more resistant to herbivores.”

Yes, it’s best to nip trouble in the bud.

Dr. Hilker and her colleagues, as well as other research teams, have found that certain plants can sense when insect eggs have been deposited on their leaves and will act immediately to rid themselves of the incubating menace. They may sprout carpets of tumorlike neoplasms to knock the eggs off, or secrete ovicides to kill them, or sound the S O S. Reporting in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Hilker and her coworkers determined that when a female cabbage butterfly lays her eggs on a brussels sprout plant and attaches her treasures to the leaves with tiny dabs of glue, the vigilant vegetable detects the presence of a simple additive in the glue, benzyl cyanide. Cued by the additive, the plant swiftly alters the chemistry of its leaf surface to beckon female parasitic wasps. Spying the anchored bounty, the female wasps in turn inject their eggs inside, the gestating wasps feed on the gestating butterflies, and the plant’s problem is solved.

Here’s the lurid Edgar Allan Poetry of it: that benzyl cyanide tip-off had been donated to the female butterfly by the male during mating. “It’s an anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, so that the female wouldn’t mate anymore,” Dr. Hilker said. “The male is trying to ensure his paternity, but he ends up endangering his own offspring.”

Plants eavesdrop on one another benignly and malignly. As they described in Science and other journals, Dr. De Moraes and her colleagues have discovered that seedlings of the dodder plant, a parasitic weed related to morning glory, can detect volatile chemicals released by potential host plants like the tomato. The young dodder then grows inexorably toward the host, until it can encircle the victim’s stem and begin sucking the life phloem right out of it. The parasite can even distinguish between the scents of healthier and weaker tomato plants and then head for the hale one.

“Even if you have quite a bit of knowledge about plants,” Dr. De Moraes said, “it’s still surprising to see how sophisticated they can be.”

It’s a small daily tragedy that we animals must kill to stay alive. Plants are the ethical autotrophs here, the ones that wrest their meals from the sun. Don’t expect them to boast: they’re too busy fighting to survive.

Frozen Light Stays Fresh Longer,trapping light

Frozen Light Stays Fresh Longer – Science News

Frozen light stays fresh longer Researchers trap beam in an ultracold cloud of atoms for 1.5 seconds By Laura Sanders Web edition : Friday, December 18th, 2009

Forget about ziplock bags. A cloud of ultracold atoms can store a beam of yellow light for 1.5 seconds. That timescale isn’t impressive for frozen peas, but it’s enough time for light to circle the Earth 10 times under normal conditions, researchers led by Lene Hau of Harvard University report.

This ability to store light may lead to more efficient ways to communicate, as well as new ways to explore quantum mechanical properties such as entanglement.

The new study is “a beautiful demonstration,” says Irina Novikova, a physicist at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Before this result, she says, light storage was measured in milliseconds. “Here, it’s fractional seconds. It’s a really dramatic time.”

Researchers knew that the information carried in light pulses could be transferred to clouds of ultracold atoms, called Bose-Einstein condensates. In this technique, a laser called a control laser prepares the atomic cloud for an incoming light beam. As the photons fly in, they leave an imprint in a subset of the atoms. This imprint, stored in a quantum property known as spin, contains all the relevant information needed to reconstitute the light beam. But the imprint is fragile and deteriorates in milliseconds. The light’s information is lost as other atoms in the cloud interfere with the imprint.

Hau and colleagues overcame this problem by sequestering the matter imprint from the rest of the atoms in the cloud. The team shone a pulse of laser light — which looks like the yellow light from street lamps, Hau says — into a small cloud of sodium atoms. A three-microsecond pulse produced a stretch of light about a kilometer long, but as the pulse entered the atom cloud, it began to compress. Like an accordion closing, the light folded up and crammed itself into a space just 0.02 millimeters long. The spin states of the sodium atoms in the light’s path were changed, forming the matter imprint. By turning off the control laser, the researchers were able to freeze the matter imprint.

Next, the researchers strengthened the magnetic field applied to the atom cloud to protect the imprint from interfering atoms. At a certain magnetic field, Hau says, interactions between the imprint and the rest of the atoms start to become repulsive, and the imprint separates from the cloud like a drop of oil in water. “This matter imprint digs a little hole for itself in the condensate,” Hau says. “It can snugly sit there for long periods of time.”

After waiting 1.5 seconds, the team revived the light beam. First, the researchers coaxed the matter imprint to the outside of the cloud by changing the magnetic field, and then they turned the control laser back on. The light beam that emerged from the atom cloud was weaker than the light beam that went in but similar in other regards, such as frequency and polarization, Hau says. Improving the stability of the magnetic field will likely lead to longer storage times, she adds.

This new method is a vast improvement over earlier methods, the researchers report in their paper, published December 4 in Physical Review Letters. The fidelity of the reconstructed light beam is 100 times better than earlier attempts, Hau says.

Transferring information between light and atoms could one day lead to better communication networks. Light-storage devices could also enable quantum communication, says quantum physicist Ortwin Hess of the University of Surrey in Guildford, England, who calls the new study “elegant and impressive.”

Wi-Fi to the highway

Ford brings Wi-Fi to the highway

By Chuck Squatriglia December 26, 2009 9:26 a.m. EST

Starting next year, Ford will bring increased connectivity to selected cars. STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Starting next year, Ford enters fray of automakers offering in-car Internet access
• No fees will apply since consumers use own USB mobile broadband modems
• Japanese drivers have enjoyed in-car connectivity since 1997; others have folllowed
• One-third of people surveyed want to check e-mail, surf Web from car, association says

Ford is making its cars into mobile Wi-Fi hot spots.

The next generation of the Sync in-car entertainment and information system will use a USB mobile broadband modem to establish a secure wireless connection capable of supporting several devices simultaneously.

The system will be available next year on selected models — no word yet which ones — and you won’t need a subscription or hardware beyond the modem.

“While you’re driving to grandma’s house, your spouse can be finishing the holiday shopping and the kids can be chatting with friends and updating their Facebook profiles,” said Mark Fields, Ford president of the Americas. “And you’re not paying for yet another mobile subscription or piece of hardware because Ford will let you use technology you already have.”

Several automakers already offer in-car Internet access — Japanese drivers have been using it since 1997 — and many others are rushing to bring it to us. Ford‘s announcement follows General Motors’ promise last week to make in-car connectivity available in seven models of trucks and SUVs. They’re the latest automakers to bring the infobahn to the autobahn.

Mercedes recently announced it has successfully tested in-vehicle Internet applications — including web browsing, vehicle software updates and VOIP — on a prototype 4G network. It follows BMW’s Internet-connected iDrive system and Chrysler’s Uconnect Web in-vehicle mobile hotspot. With so many automakers getting in on the action, there’s a push to introduce hardware standards.

Ford is taking a decidedly different approach, opting to allow consumers to plug in their own USB modem to get connected.

General Motors, on the other hand, offers a dealer-installed system called Chevrolet Wi-Fi by Autonet Mobile. It creates a Wi-Fi hot spot 300 feet in diameter around the vehicle, and GM claims the 3G network achieves speeds of up to 1.5 mbps. The hardware costs $199 after the $200 mail-in rebate, and the service costs $29 a month.

Given how connected we are, it makes sense for automakers to put the Internet in our cars. The number of iPhones and other mobile devices being used to connect to the Internet jumped 75 percent in the third quarter of this year, according to JiWire Mobile Audiences Insights Report.

Letting people log on from the road will be a big selling point among 20-something buyers, the so-called Millennials who have propelled much of Sync’s success. Millennials will make up 28 percent of the driving population next year, a nine-point increase from 2004.

Kids aside, Ford says interest in in-car connectivity is high among the general public, with one-third of people surveyed by the Consumer Electronics Association expressing interest in being able to check e-mail or surf the Web from the car.

That’s Right People Today’s The 10th Year Anniversary Of Mambo Number 5!

Perspective on ‘Conscious events as orchestrated space-time selections’

by Hameroff and Penrose

in

The Nature of Nature:

Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science

Bruce L. Gordon and William A. Dembski, eds., (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009).

Stuart Hameroff

Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology

Director, Center for Consciousness Studies

The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

www.quantumconsciousness.org

The article ‘Conscious events as orchestrated space-time selections’ was written by Sir Roger Penrose and me for a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to the ‘hard problem’ [1]. Coined by philosopher David Chalmers [2], the term ‘hard problem’ refers to the enigmatic question of how the brain produces conscious awareness, subjective feelings and phenomenal experience – composed of what philosophers call ‘qualia’.

On the other hand, non-conscious cognitive brain functions including sensory processing and control of habitual behaviors can be explained by computation among brain neurons in which axonal firings and synaptic transmissions play the roles of ‘bit’ states and switches. Though complex, these non-conscious brain functions are referred to as ‘easy problems’ [2], ‘zombie modes’ [3], or ‘auto-pilot’ [4]. Many neuroscientists and philosophers dispute or disregard the hard problem and assume and assert that consciousness emerges as an epiphenomenon of neuron-based complex computation. Indeed, the idea that consciousness involves something in addition to neuronal computing has been derided as dualism, as expecting a ‘ghost in the machine’ [5]. Accordingly, proponents of ‘strong’ artificial intelligence (AI) argue that silicon computers will inevitably attain brain equivalence including conscious awareness [6].

In his 1989 book The Emperor’s New Mind, Roger Penrose [7] laid out an argument against strong AI through Gödel’s theorem, contending that consciousness required something beyond classical computation, some ‘non-computable’ element which influenced or augmented the computation. The missing ingredient in consciousness, Penrose suggested, was a specific form of quantum computing in the brain.

Quantum computing utilizes strange properties of the quantum world, differing markedly from those of our everyday classical world. Quantum properties include quantum superposition in which particles exist in multiple states or locations simultaneously, e.g. as quantum bits, or ‘qubits’ which interact/compute with other qubits by entanglement. In a quantum computer, superpositioned, entangled qubits eventually reduce (‘collapse’) to classical bits as the solution. Mechanisms underlying quantum state reduction – ‘collapse of the wave function’ – in quantum computing (and nature in general) are not understood, although numerous theories exist. One view stemming from Niels Bohr is that quantum systems persist until consciously observed – that conscious observation causes collapse of the wave function. This pragmatic view puts consciousness outside science.

Penrose turned this view around. He introduced a new theory of self-collapse – quantum state reduction due to a specific objective threshold (‘objective reduction’, ‘OR’). Rather than being caused by conscious observation, each OR event entails a conscious perception or choice. To identify the threshold for such conscious OR events, Penrose first characterized superpositions as separations in fundamental space-time geometry, the level of quantum gravity at the Planck scale [8]. He further proposed that such objective reduction/conscious events could be influenced by Platonic information, e.g. mathematical truth, but also perhaps ethical and aesthetic values embedded in Planck scale geometry. These Platonic values could influence (‘non-computably’) the output of a quantum computation mediated by this type of OR. Penrose thus placed consciousness in nature, precisely on the edge between quantum and classical worlds.

Penrose was calling for a particular form of quantum computation in the brain to explain consciousness. As qubits, he suggested that neurons could exist in superposition of both firing and not firing, but worried that neurons were too large for quantum effects and left the door open for a biomolecular qubit. When I read The Emperor’s New Mind in the early 1990s, I was struck and somewhat bewildered by the breadth and depth of Penrose’s arguments leading to this seemingly strange conclusion. He was obviously brilliant, and he had a theory which portrayed consciousness as actual physical events, if as yet theoretical physical events.

I readily agreed that consciousness involved something other than computation among neurons, having worked for twenty years on the premise that consciousness extended inside neurons. In medical school I had become obsessed with the notion of molecular-scale computing in cytoskeletal structures called microtubules which regulate synapses and axonal firings from within neurons [9-11]. I believed that viewing neurons as simple input-output devices was an insult to neurons, but also realized that extending computation inside neurons (and increasing brain computational capacity enormously) didn’t solve the hard problem. As an anesthesiologist, I had also studied how anesthetic gases selectively erase consciousness through quantum London forces [12,13], and knew the work of Herbert Fröhlich [14,15] who had proposed biochemically-driven quantum coherence in biomolecular lattices such as microtubules. I was open to new ideas, including quantum computing in the brain. Maybe tubulins were qubits, and microtubules were the quantum computers Penrose sought?

I contacted Penrose, and we soon met in his cluttered Oxford office. He was, and is, a remarkable man, both gentle and strong with an open but critical mind. As I described microtubules he was most impressed by their symmetry and geometry. We began collaborating toward a theoretical model [1, 16-19].

We faced difficult issues. Technological quantum computers required isolation and extreme cold to avoid environmental decoherence, so quantum computing in the warm brain seemed extremely unlikely [20,21]. And even if quantum computing could occur in one neuron, how could it extend globally across cell boundaries throughout the brain? And if quantum systems were isolated within the brain, how could they interact with the external world for input and output? Regarding the latter, Penrose and I described consciousness as a sequence of discrete OR-mediated quantum computations occurring at frequencies compatible with brain electrophysiology, such as EEG rhythms ranging from 2 Hz to 40 Hz or higher. In the classical intervals between such isolated quantum events, neurons could express outputs to the external world, and synaptic inputs could ‘orchestrate’ OR-mediated quantum computing via microtubule-associated proteins (‘Orch OR’).

Casting consciousness as sequences of discrete events made Orch OR compatible not only with brain electrophysiology and OR quantum physics, but also with the work of process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead [22]. Consciousness, according to Whitehead, was a series of ‘occasions of experience’ occurring in a ‘wider, basic field of proto-consciousness’. As quantum state reductions, Orch OR events qualified as Whitehead ‘occasions’. Regarding the ‘wider, basic field’, Penrose and I pointed to fundamental spacetime geometry at the Planck scale in which Orch OR was suggested to occur. Penrose had placed Platonic values there, and for our ‘hard problem’ paper reproduced here, we added proto-conscious qualia, or experience as an irreducible component of fundamental spacetime geometry, akin to other irreducible components like mass, spin or charge. Orch OR became consistent with Whitehead’s philosophical construct containing consciousness.

Orch OR came under heavy attack, primarily on the issue of decoherence in the warm brain [20,21]. But evidence in recent years has revealed quantum coherent superposition in warm biomolecules and proteins, specifically in the type of non-polar hydrophobic pockets which mediate anesthetic effects and are foci of tubulin quantum states in Orch OR [23,24]. Fröhlich coherence has been demonstrated in microtubules at 8 MHz [25]. Penrose OR is being tested as an explanation for quantum state reduction [26].

In 1998 I published a list of 20 testable predictions of Orch OR [18], some of which have been corroborated [27]. For example, to account for extension of isolated quantum states in one neuron to global neuronal assemblies spanning the brain, neurons involved in conscious processes were proposed to require linkage by gap junctions, window-like connections which fuse and synchronize neighboring neurons and glia, and through which quantum states could extend by quantum tunneling. In recent years, gap junctions between brain neuronal dendrites have been shown to be essential for gamma synchrony EEG (~40 Hz), the best measurable correlate of consciousness [28,29]. Considering that habitual cognitive brain functions like driving or walking could at times be non-conscious easy problems (zombie modes, auto-pilot), and at other times be accompanied by conscious perception and control, I proposed a ‘conscious pilot’ model in which gap junction-defined spatiotemporal envelopes of gamma synchrony (within which Orch OR can occur) move through the brain as a mobile agent (the ‘conscious pilot’) to consciously perceive and control otherwise non-conscious auto-pilot modes [30]. The Orch OR conscious pilot may be seen as an actual quantum ‘ghost in the machine’.

Orch OR encompasses aspects of philosophy, neuroscience and physics, goes out on several limbs simultaneously, and contains much to criticize. But as yet, Orch OR has weathered every objection [31,32] and remains the most ambitious and complete theory of consciousness yet put forward. Most importantly, it characterizes consciousness not as epiphenomenon, but as intrinsic component of the universe, a process of actual events, of Whitehead ‘occasions of experience’ occurring on the edge between quantum and classical worlds. Moreover non-computable Platonic information in spacetime geometry can influence not only conscious thoughts and behaviors, but also life and evolution through quantum-level mutations in DNA [33].

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In this book, Jaynes theorizes that ancient consciousness was radically different from modern consciousness. He suggests that ancient human beings had no sense of an interior, directing self. Rather, they accepted commands from what appeared to them to be an externalized agency, which they obeyed blindly, without question.This externalized self was a consequence of the split between the two halves of the brain. Jaynes suggests that the left and right brains were not integrated—”unicameral”—they way they are today. Rather, the ancient brain was “bicameral,” with the two brains working essentially independently of each other. The left half of the brain, the logical, language-using half, generated ideas and commands, which the right brain then obeyed. These commands were subjectively perceived by the right brain as coming from “outside”—as if a god was speaking.

Jaynes adduces evidence for this astonishing hypothesis from several sources. One is the “voices” heard by schizophrenic patients, which Jaynes interprets as a throwback to the bicameral mind of ancient times. Another is evidence from neurosurgery, where patients hear “voices” upon having their brains electrically stimulated. Another is the polytheistic gods of ancient civilizations, which spoke directly and intimately to individuals:

“Who then were these gods who pushed men about like robots and sang epics through their lips? They were voices whose speech and directions could be as distinctly heard by the Iliadic heroes as voices are heard by certain epileptic and schizophrenic patients…The gods were organizations of the central nervous system”(73-4).

Jaynes suggests that each person had his own individual “god”, which always told them what to do. The theory further accounts for why the gods were so naturalistic and anthropomorphic, rather than supernatural and otherworldly.

Where did the gods go, then? Jaynes proposes that a series of unprecedented environmental stresses in the second millennium B.C. forced the two halves of the brain to merge into unicamerality. (This was a cultural, rather than a biological, transformation, Jaynes notes.) The stresses might have included natural disasters (the story of the Flood comes to mind), population growth, forced migrations, warfare, trade, and the development of writing. A common denominator among all these is the introduction of complexity and difference, things the bicameral mind deals with only with difficulty. Jaynes suggests, among other things, that traders in contact with other cultures might have been forced to develop a “protosubjective consciousness” to cope with the gods of unfamiliar people.

Jaynes suggests that the unprecedented stresses of the 2nd millennium B.C. forced the individual into isolation, within which a sense of I-ness appeared to fill the void left by the inadequacy of the god. This hypothesis posits a relatively homogeneous and stress-free existence prior to the development of consciousness. In short, Jaynes must posit that there really was an Eden, from which humanity Fell.

To establish the gods’ disappearance, Jaynes cites a number of illustrations and cuneiform tablets dating from Sumerian times. He shows a stone-carven image of the King of Assyria kneeling in supplication before an empty throne, from which his god is conspicuously absent. The accompanying cuneiform script reads, “One who has no god, as he walks along the street,/ Headache envelopes him like a garment.” Another tablet reads,

My god has forsaken me and disappeared,My goddess has failed me and keeps at a distance.

The good angel who walked beside me has departed.

Jaynes interprets this as evidence of a new subjectivity in Mesopotamia. The bicameral mind has begun to collapse into the modern unicameral mind of the self-willed, self-aware “I”, and as a consequence the gods no longer speak to people, as they did in the days of old (223).

These lamentations sound remarkably like the nam-shubs mentioned in Snow Crash.

The nam-shubs also mourn something precious, and speak of confusion and loss. It is not at all hard to guess that the loss of bicameral tranquility may have been accompanied by unprecedented linguistic disruption (irrespective of any causal relationship between the two.) The Tower of Babel story—which the nam-shubs strongly resemble—may have happened at a time when bicamerality was breaking down.

Be this historical truth or not (and the thesis has not been widely accepted), Jaynes has fashioned a brilliant myth of human origins. Like the authors of Snow Crash and Macroscope, Jaynes reaches far back into the past for an authentic story of a Fall from wholeness. And like them, he reaches specifically for Mesopotamian myth.

The Mind Consciousness, And Singularity Theory by TrueDeity.

I have to begin with a simple thesis here.  I would like to redefine the meaning of Universe and instead give it a new name “The Singularity”.  Fortunately I am able to describe what this means in understandable terms!

There is already some information regarding the singularity.  However, before I can lead you into this definition, I have to say that I take my research very seriously, and mostly private until now.  My personal break through has enabled me to share this important aspect of science.

Analysis:

Our conscious vehicles (Our Body) are constantly and continually pulsing waves of thought, waves of energy, interacting as a Magnetic field of energy.  Our body’s are electromagnetic vehicles.  We are made of atoms, particles, electrons, protons, neurons, etc…  In quantum physics there is a lot of mysterious science study.  How does physics work at the atomic level?  This is the question scientists have been working out for years.  We know now that the universe isn’t really actually made of substances.  It is all potential, and it is all energy.  When we look in though an atom, to its subatomic components we find NOTHING!  We only know the negative electron is there, however, its fixed position can never be established.  All matter is, Energy.  Now, considering that the universe is made of these things, “Atoms” we must be made of them too…  Which is a simple point, we all learned this in 8^th grade.  But keep in mind for later that there is no substance; there is only, potential, and energy.

Our electromagnetic (bio-electromagnetic if you want to get technical) bodies require an energy field to sustain itself for all of its vital living functionalities.  Present during neurogenesis, present during the chemical messaging from neuron to synaptic cleft, it’s the primary sparkplug of our life force motor.  All that it is, and every will be, is energy….  Biological Electromagnetic Energy…

Last year I was conducting an experiment on myself; in order to track and process other research.  Most my research was purposed to prove why we can only remember shades of our dreams, or vivid dreams, or no dreams, and or even dreaming while we are awake (Like sleep walking… But not quite…) Part of my experiment also proves that the longer it takes for our Brain to switch from Alpha, to Theta brain wave frequencies the better the opportunity to remember and process our dream states under during the Theta (conscious) brain activity switching from Alpha dream states…  Hence, the downloading of information from the sub-conscious, state systems to our conscious state system!

During my researching I had more premonitions which is to become our topic…

Our bodies radiate energy waves of thought, on not only one, but several frequencies. A presumable five actually…  I have conducted some experiments within my means, but lack the liquidity, and resources, to take this research to the next step; for publication.  Serious initiation with finances would be required for me to make that leap.  I am asking for anyone’s help, in any way possible, for the next important matters to be consummated.

We use electromagnetic devices every day, eg. microwaves for example in- fact, most new technology has a dependency on electromagnetism.   Our bio-molecular vehicles have sensory organs designed to process the reality we exist in.  Such as visible spectra, that is really part of the electromagnetic spectra.  Our electro magnetic biological vehicles (body’s – ha, we should actually call them embv’s.) only use sensory adaptation to interpret variant types of electromagnetic spectra and or frequency!

Now.  As your existing in this state of consciousness, you’re having thoughts.  Your very specific thoughts ripple though your body’s invisible bio-electromagnetic energy field and broadcast infinitely though the entire electromagnetic universe on these varying frequencies.  We use EEG to study the measure of thought frequency as it pertains to waking consciousness and sleeping unconsciousness/sub-consciousness.  Delta waves operate at the lowest hertz; (1-4 Hz) it is therefore the most unconscious state.   The frequency of your thoughts in this state would be a different frequency than Theta, Alpha, or Beta.  Respectively, this rule applies.

Thoughts produce a current that affect the ELF around our body.  Technology in the future will allow us to record these complex wave patterns and process the detailed data for each thought.   Given time the advent of computer engineering, human engineering, ingenuity and the inspiration of science we will be able to accomplish this task.  Already, we have engineered software to produce what we call Spatiotemporal Isoserfaces  (http://truedeity.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/spatiotemporal-isosurfaces-of-physioinformatic-data-eeg-emg-eog-jeff-sale/).  Gives us an idea of what thoughts would look like, as an electromagnetic pattern.

BETA When we are active, our minds function at the beta level which is measured as being in a range of 20-14 cycles per second or 14-20 Hz.

ALPHA When we begin to relax and focus our thinking, we enter more of an alpha state of 8-13 Hz.  Alpha contributes to such things as meditation, hypnosis, REM sleep, dreaming, day dreams ect.

THETA This is a deeper level of brain wave activity 5 – 7 Hz.  Deep sleep, deep hypnosis and lack of waking consciousness is common in theta brain wave patterns.

DELTA The deepest of the brain wave frequencies. 1-4Hz.  No evidence of waking consciousness, deep sleep, drug induced sleep with anesthetics.

(Lesser Established)

MU

GAMA

…

“According to the worlds leading neuroscientist there is a set frequency of conscious/subconscious wavelength(s).”

Imagine for a moment that thoughts are their own electromagnetic fields, that can pass though any other conducting field, though space and time in a linear manner.   If you accept precognition there are points when thoughts vibrate at the cellular molecular level that our consciousness slips off of the space-time continuum stream.  When our brains operate on Theta and Detla waves (aka Sleep.) we actually exceed the physical dynamic of space and time.  Entering “Singularity” (finally coning the phrase…) as a non-linear, non-physical version of our expanding universe.  In part my experiment was attempting to disturb my consciousness (Theta) with Delta or Alpha waves.  I predicted that the effect would be indescribable.  That I would have a feeling of being here, and everywhere…  I did, however, feel very strongly that it would have an overloading effect on my conscious state.

Here is where it gets confusing.  If it can be true that all of space, and all of time, is nothing more than organized systems of electromagnetic patterns, it seems more probable that thought is in fact multi-dimensional, that can and will create time and space as a product of consciousness.  It is self evident, that human consciousness creates the mental reality of which our consciousness exists.   Our mind processes data collected through our five senses to create tactile visual aspects of reality.   The illusion of time moving forward, is yet another example; in reality it’s much different.  This might be confusing but if this theory is were true it means that light is really the measurement our mind uses for perception of space and time.  This is why quantum physics is unable to determine if light is a particle or a wave.  And also describes why we cannot locate a particle, electron, and why Atoms are understood to be like empty forces of energy potential.

If our consciousness begins to increase in frequency, to such a level that it begins to exceed even the rhythms of light waves, which our mind is accustomed to measuring time, psychological time would speed up, and physical time would slow down.  This kind of effect is common during sleep, and also common during a drug induced state from hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, Psilocybin, and Mescaline etc.  ( J Ballin… ) your brain begins to turn off its cognitive wave frequencies pasterns while under a CONSCOUS state actually process and perceptually Alpha and Delta wave forms of our reality.

[An extension to this thesis is coming]

It will illustrate:

• An individual perceptual reality skills, synesthesia, etc…
• The universes consciousness…
• A possible way to transcending space and time, AKA.  Harnessing our mental ability to consciously linkup to any place within the singularity.  The by consciously interacting with delta reality, and finding a vehicle that we can latch onto. (Possible other compatible human, and or past, and or future instances of oneself.)
• Realistic explanations of the nature of all things that exist within our preperceptualized realities(s)…

We have to look at Precognitive Dreams for the answers.  Dreams any way we look at them are expressively a language much like our own inner dialogue we have with ourselves when we think about things in our Beta state.  They are constructed by a system of highly organized thought and planning.  Evidently, the deeper we go into our consciousness, the more organized and creative our consciousness becomes.  Precognitive dreams are part of this Creative Process.  And what is the Creative Process?  It is exactly what it reads, a process of creating.  What does it create?  This reality…        Now we get into a the part of how thinking at this super-dream level can start to effect reality in a physical sense.  Hyper-thought that exists outside time/space is quite powerful.  We can in an instant create and destroy a universe of our own design.  Space and Time at this level is created by our understanding of how to generate a synthetic reality at a super-subconscious level.  All the laws which govern the non-physical pocket reality of a dream are totally belief dependant.  That is, the dream reacts to what we believe the laws of that dream’s physics should be.  Most of the time, these dreams are self-contained by our sub-conscious in a highly organized and efficient manner.  Our waking consciousness has a difficult time accessing this information, and understanding that it is even there in the first place.

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Scientists expected to unveil the discovery of dark matter

By Claire Bates
Last updated at 9:13 AM on 10th December 2009

Physicists have detected a particle of dark matter for the first time in human history, according to rumours buzzing around the internet.

Should it prove correct the finding would have an Earth-shattering effect on our understanding of how galaxies form.

 

This dark matter map was created by the Hubble Telescope by measuring light from distant stars thought to have been deflected by dark matter. The map of half the Universe reveals dark matter filaments, collapsing under the relentless pull of gravity and growing clumpier over time

Dark matter is believed to make up 90 per cent of the mass of the Universe. We can’t see it but scientists think it is there due to the gravitational force it exerts.

It could help account for the ‘missing mass’ in the Universe that would explain why galaxies rotate at their current speeds.

Scientists have searched for evidence of the hypothetical matter since the 1970s both on Earth and in space.

A number of experiments have focused on finding Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), which are thought to make up dark matter.

If dark matter exists then a large number of these particles, released by the Big Bang, must pass through the Earth each second.

The difficulty is they are thought to barely register when they pass through matter.

One of the experiments searching for WIMPs is taking place in the Soudan Underground Laboratory, half-a-mile down a Minnesota mine.

This protects the ultra-cold germanium and silicon detectors from the hail of cosmic rays that strike Earth every day. It is believed these crystals, the size of hockey pucks, will vibrate if struck by a WIMP.

The Large Hadron Collider is expected to create Big Bang conditions next month. It is hoped the accelerator will create dark matter particles

This week news leaked onto a physics blog that researchers from this Cryogenic Dark Matter Search will publish some important results in the next edition of the journal Nature.

Physics papers rarely appear in that journal, except to announce a new discovery.

The New Scientist has also reported that talks have hurriedly been scheduled for 18 December at SLAC National Laboratory, the University of California Santa Barbara and Fermilab – all prominent institutions within the CDMS collaboration.

If the rumours turn out to be false, scientists must wait for the Large Hadron Collider to get up and running in January next year. It is hoped the particle accelerator will produce conditions that existed straight after the Big Bang, including dark matter particles.

Hulk Hogan Is Engaged!

Hulk Hogan Is Engaged!

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Confirmed: Hulk Hogan Is Engaged!

Monday – December 07, 2009 – 4:29pm

Hulk Hogan is tying the knot again.

The wrestler, 56, and his girlfriend of nearly two years, Jennifer McDaniel, are engaged, a source close to the couple confirms to Usmagazine.com.

New York’s Daily News also reported that the two are getting married. “He is engaged and very happy,” a source told the paper.

See who else got engaged this year

It is happy news for Hogan (nee Terry Bollea), who had been engaged in a bitter divorce battle with his ex-wife, Linda, for nearly two years. Linda, who wed Hulk in 1983, filed for divorce in November 2007.

A newspaper reporter was the first person to inform him about the split. “Holy smokes,” he said upon hearing the news. “Wow, you just knocked the bottom out of me.”

Look back at Hollywood’s ugliest divorces

The split grew increasingly ugly a short time later when Linda publicly began dating Charlie Hill who was one of their daughter Brooke’s former classmates.

Hogan even complained to Rolling Stone about Linda leaving him for “some shaggy-haired pool boy 30 years her junior.”

See celebs who found love again

At one point in their split, Linda even accused Hulk of stalking her.

But in July, they settled their divorce. Terms of the agreement were not made public.

See unforgettable celeb wedding photos

“The war is over,” Linda told The Tampa Tribune. She evenkissed her ex on the cheek in the courtroom. “I still love him. He’s the father of my children.”

Hulk and Linda have two children together, Nick, 19 and Brooke, 21.

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AFP/Australian Antarctic Division/Ho – A NASA satellite image of iceberg B17B (C), floating southwest off the West Australian coast. Australian … Fri Dec 11, 2:34 am ET

SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian authorities Friday issued a shipping alert over a gigantic iceberg that is gradually approaching the country’s southwest coast.

The Bureau of Meteorology said the once-in-a-century cliff of ice, which dislodged from Antarctica about a decade ago before drifting north, was being monitored using satellites.

“Mariners are advised that at 1200 GMT on December 9, an iceberg approximately 1,700 kilometres (1,054 miles) south-southwest of the West Australian coast was observed,” it said, giving the iceberg’s coordinates.

“The iceberg is 140 square kilometres in area — 19 kilometres long by eight kilometres wide.”

Experts believe the iceberg — known as B17B — is likely to break up as it enters warmer waters nearer Australia, creating hundreds of smaller icebergs in a hazard to passing ships.

“It’s still 1,700 kilometres away, so it’s quite a long way away, it’s not really on our doorstep yet but it’s been heading steadily towards us,” glaciologist Neal Young said Thursday.

Young earlier told AFP that an iceberg of that size had probably not been seen in the area since the days when 19th century clipper sailing ships plied the trade route between Britain and Australia.

The iceberg has been floating around Antarctica since shearing off the icey continent but had lately begun heading north because of ocean currents and weather conditions.

Its discovery comes after two other large icebergs were spotted further east, off Australia’s Macquarie Island, followed by more than 100 smaller chunks heading towards New Zealand.

Young described the icebergs as uncommon, but said they could become more frequent if sea temperatures rise through global warming.

There were some pretty strange UFO lights seen over Norway last night!

Thats right, you saw the footage, now find out what is really going on. Is this a UFO? Well, we know at least that its an object in the sky creating some kind of spiral effect. some doomsday seekers want to believe that this is a UFO. However, there may be another explanation to this really strange phenomina seen over the skys in Norway on December 8th. Initially I could not wrap my brain around this mysterious and compelling footage of a beautiful looking spiral over the skys of Norway. Ya know, I never get to see these kinds of things first hand. Oh well, I’ll stop complaining. The really freaky thing is how vivid this thing looks. Whats more amazing is the “blue tail” that you can see clearly from comming from the spiral. For a moment it appears that the spiral is spinning before suddenly dissapearing.That makes people wonder if it is some kind of black hole or soemthing. Hardly, a black hole. And hardly a UFO.

Russian Militants also denied any missle launch. However, there is a pretty good explanation as to how this effect can be seen overskys when a missle does spiral out of control. Another matter to consider is why the cheif russian scientific adviser on balastic missles has resigned his position after several failed missle launches. Anyway, just take a look at this amazing footage.

If you dont think that is amazing then I dont know what is! Here is A still from Doug Ellison’s computer simulation shows how the spirals may have been created by a missile tumbling through the air and leaking fuel. A video of the simulation is below

This is a set of rendered views using 3DS Max to produce a coarse simulation of what may have occured to produce the beautiful formation in the sky over Norway earlier today. Not an ‘official’ answer Comments closed to avoid people posting missinformation and conspiracist junk- please see http://www.bautforum.com/space-astron… to discuss the video.

Although the strange Spiral Lights Over Norway may not be a UFO, Or a Black Hole, what is more interesting is how this event corresponds with President Obama accepting his Nobel peace prize.

But as far as supporting UFO skeptics, the only thing I can say is that the light lasted from 10-12 minutes.  Which is a rather long time for a missle to be in the air…

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A hypothetical “tunnel” connecting two different points in spacetime in such a way that a trip through the wormhole could take much less time than a journey between the same starting and ending points in normal space. The ends of a wormhole could, in theory, be intra-universe (i.e. both exist in the same universe) or inter-universe (exist in different universes, and thus serve as a connecting passage between the two).

Wormholes arise as solutions to the equations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. In fact, they crop up so readily in this context that some theorists are encouraged to think that real counterparts may eventually be found or fabricated and, perhaps, used for high-speed space travel and/or time travel. However, a known property of wormholes is that they are highly unstable and would probably collapse instantly if even the tiniest amount of matter, such as a single photon, attempted to pass through them. A possible way around this problem is the use of exotic matter to prevent the wormhole from pinching off.

Interest in so-called traversable wormholes gathered pace following the publication of a 1987 paper by Michael Morris, Kip Thorne, and Uri Yertsever (MTY) at the California Institute of Technology.^{4, 5} This paper stemmed from an inquiry to Thorne by Carl Sagan who was mulling over a way of conveying the heroine in his novel Contact across interstellar distances at trans-light speed. Thorne gave the problem to his Ph.D. students, Michael Morris and Uri Yertsever, who realized that such a journey might be possible if a wormhole could be held open long enough for a spacecraft (or any other object) to pass through. MTY concluded that to keep a wormhole open would require matter with a negative energy density and a large negative pressure – larger in magnitude than the energy density. Such hypothetical matter is called exotic matter.

Although the existence of exotic matter is speculative, a way is known of producing negative energy density: the Casimir effect. As a source for their wormhole, MTY turned to the quantum vacuum. “Empty space” at the smallest scale, it turns out, is not empty at all but seething with violent fluctuations in the very geometry of spacetime. At this level of nature, ultra-small wormholes are believed to continuously wink into and out of existence. MTY suggested that a sufficiently advanced civilization could expand one of these tiny wormholes to macroscopic size by adding energy. Then the wormhole could be stabilized using the Casimir effect by placing two charged superconducting spheres in the wormhole mouths. Finally, the mouths could be transported to widely-separated regions of space to provide a means of FTL communication and travel. For example, a mouth placed aboard a spaceship might be carried to some location many light-years away. Because this initial trip would be through normal spacetime, it would have to take place at sublight speeds. But during the trip and afterwards instantaneous communication and transport through the wormhole would be possible.

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Best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places, Mitch Altman is interested in any technology that gives people more choices for improving their lives.

You don’t have to be a Buddhist monk to meditate, or a Sleeping Beauty to sleep well. Achieve these altered states of consciousness, and others, with this simple microcontroller device.

What would happen if you could play a recording of brain waves into someone’s brain? That question popped into my mind one day while I was meditating, and it turns out that there are devices that can do this. Sound and Light Machines (SLMs) produce sound and light pulses at brain wave frequencies, which help people sleep, wake up, meditate, or experience whatever state of consciousness the machine is programmed for. The first time I tried one was a trip! Not only did I follow the sequence into a deep meditation and then out again (feeling wonderful!), but along the way I had beautiful, outrageous hallucinations.

RIDE YOUR OWN BRAIN WAVES

This article shows you how to build an SLM for much cheaper than you can buy one. We’ll do it the easy way, by hacking a microcontroller project that already exists: Limor Fried’s MiniPOV kit. This cool toy blinks pictures and words in the space you wave it through, and we can transform it into an SLM simply by changing the firmware and some minor hardware.

HOW SOUND AND LIGHT HACK THE BRAIN

The brain produces varying proportions of brain wave types, depending on its current levels of relaxation, focus, and other mental states. Each type of wave has its own characteristic frequency range, which can be read by electroencephalography. Many people’s brain waves will synchronize to lights and sounds pulsing at brain wave frequencies, and this makes the brain change its state — a process called “entrainment.” By playing sequences of pulses into your eyes and ears, you can program your brain to follow any brain wave experience you like.

Illustrations by Timmy Kucynda

HOME ENTRAINMENT SYSTEM

We’ll program our SLM to follow a 14-minute sequence that tracks the meditation experience. Since the device generates only one frequency at a time, it phases in new brain states by switching fre- quencies back and forth. For example, to go from fully awake to somewhat dreamy, we generate beta for a while, then alpha, then toggle between beta and alpha, reducing the duration of beta and increasing that of alpha with each iteration. Our code’s brainwave Tab array defines the full sequence.

1. Brain entrains to the programmed wave sequence, and alters its state accordingly.

2. Battery pack powers the electronics.

3. LEDs in front of user’s (closed) eyes pulse light at 2. 2, 6.0, 11. 1, or 14.4Hz, in order to elicit delta, theta, alpha, or beta waves, respectively.

4. Headphone speakers play different tones into right and left ears, to produce binaural beats (see below) that match the LED pulse frequencies.

5. Microcontroller on circuit board runs the firmware, the program that resides in the microcontroller, which controls the LEDs and headphones.

6. Serial port connector writes the firmware into the microcontroller, letting you program your own brain wave frequency sequences.

7. Graphics simply look cool.

BINAURAL BEATS

Instead of simply playing the entraining wave frequency through both headphone speakers, we employ a more effective method. When we play different frequencies into each ear, the brain perceives a binaural beat frequency just as if the two tones were played next to each other on guitar strings. The beat results from the two tones cyclically reinforcing and canceling each other out, at a rate that equals the difference between the frequencies.

To generate a beta binaural beat, we play a 400Hz tone in one ear and a 414.4Hz tone in the other. The user perceives a sound, sort of like “wah-oo-wah-oo-wah,” that fades in and out 14. 4 times per second.

MATERIALS

[A] Safety glasses from your favorite hardware store

[B] Headphones Cheap ones, like the free ones on airplanes

[C] MiniPOV v3 kit $18 from makezine.com/go/povkit. SLM firmware downloadable with full documentation from makezine.com/10/brainwave

[D] 1k resistors, ¼ W ( 2) Mouser Electronics (mouser.com) part #660- CF1/4C102J

[E] 1.0µF capacitors, bipolar ( 2) Mouser #647-UVP1H010MDD

[F] 3.5mm stereo jack that mates with your headphones, Mouser #161-3402

[G] AA batteries ( 2)

[H] Kynar wire Also known as 30-gauge wire-wrap wire, any 2 colors; I used blue and yellow, RadioShack #278-502 and #278-503.

[I] Silicone adhesiveAlso known as RTV (room temperature vulcanizing); clear or any other color, about $5 from your favorite hardware store

[J] Toothpicks for spreading silicone adhesive

[K] Cable ties, 4″ long x 0.1″ wide ( 6) Mouser #517-41932

[L] 4″ length of 5″ heat-shrink tubing Mouser #5174-11161

[M] Permanent or dry-erase marker

[N] 3M Magic Tape

Eye graphics (optional) Download and print the template I used at makezine.com/10/brainwave.

Rubbing alcohol and toilet paper for removing permanent marker marks, if you make a mistake

Total materials cost should be $23–$56, depending on what you can scrounge.

TOOLS

Computer with 9-pin serial port or a USB port and a USB/serial adapter based on the PL2303-chipset, about $15 for port

Soldering equipment and solder

Needlenose pliers

Diagonal cutters

Wire strippers

Drill and 6″ drill bit

Small, sharp nail

“Third hand” tool (optional) Very handy

Scissors, hobby knife, printer(optional) for graphics

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Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, accused 9/11 ringleader, as he reportedly looks now. (AP)

After seven years of the Bush administration arresting paint ball afficionadoes, wayward gang members, and oddly religioned karate-men, we’re finally going to see justice done to some of the people actually involved in 9/11. And isn’t that a change of pace… From the WaPo:

Khalid Sheik Mohammed — the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — and four co-defendants will be tried in federal court in New York instead of a military commission, with prosecutors likely to seek the death penalty, U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Friday.

The long-awaited decision, part of President Obama’s quest to close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, sparked immediate outrage from Republican lawmakers, who said military commissions are a more secure and appropriate place to try suspected terrorists. But the announcement drew praise from civil rights advocates, who argue that the detainees’ civil rights have been violated by years of detention without trial and the use of military commissions.

“Our nation has had no higher priority than bringing those who planned and carried out the attack to justice,” Holder said.

He said the detainees will be transferred to the United States after all legal requirements, including a 45-day notice and report to Congress are fulfilled, and after state and local authorities have been consulted. They will be housed in maximum-security units in New York that have held other terrorism suspects. Once federal charges are filed against the five men, military charges now pending against them will be withdrawn.

“They’ll be charged for what we believe they did, and that is to mastermind and carry out the 9/11 attacks,” Holder said of the five defendants.

“For over 200 years, our nation has relied on a faithful adherence to the rule of law to bring criminals to justice and provide accountability to victims,” Holder said. “Once again we will ask our legal system to rise to that challenge, and I am confident it will answer the call with fairness and justice.”

Amen, and amen. The trials will take place — appropriately enough — in New York, and Holder will seek the death penalty. Meanwhile, two other accused terrorists, linked to the U.S.S. Cole bombing, will face trial by military commission, which makes sense as that’s a military case.

Meanwhile, the Gitmo bugaboo has apparently taken down White House Counsel Greg Craig, who has resigned amid grumbling that he botched the plan to close the symbol of America’s darkest hour, by January. He’s being replaced by a guy called Bob Bauer, who up to now has been President Obama’s personal attorney. The fact that the two announcements came on the same day, I think sends a clear message that this administration is serious about finally closing Guantanamo, and removing the stain the prison has placed on our national honor. Somewhere, Dick Cheney’s black heart just shriveled up a little more. The president had this to say from Japan:

“I’m absolutely convinced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice,” Mr. Obama said. “The American people insist on it, and my administration insists on it.”

UPDATE: Holder defends Craig on Gitmo.

I’ve been one of those who has been dismayed by this administration’s lack of bold action, to demonstrate that they’re actually bringing about the change Mr. Obama promised. This, I must say, is a very, very good sign.

… Let’s just hope the Bush torture madness doesn’t screw up the trials.

UPDATE: Of course, there will be Lieberman…

(Amy Davidson, The New Yorker) Not everyone seems to be happy that a man believed to be a mass murderer is going on trial, strange to say. Senator Joe Lieberman, on cue, said that the proceedings would give KSM a chance to “mock” his victims. Mock? KSM will be the one on trial; we, free people with a new tower being built at Ground Zero, will be the ones judging. (The tower’s construction delays may, on reflection, be the one mockable aspect of this.) One of the shabbier arguments one hears is that we shouldn’t put KSM on trial a civilian court because he will walk right out of there—some liberal judge will throw out the case, just because he was tortured. Oddly, this is presented as a vindication of places like Guantánamo, rather than as one of their flaws. But it is all less about logic than about scaring people. There was an indictment against KSM for terrorist activities even before September 11, 2001—an indictment, one assumes, that had evidence to back it up. There is no good reason he should not have been put on trial long ago. If his trial reveals details of his detainment that are embarrassing, then that’s just one more reason to go ahead with it—we deserve as much as anyone to know what our government has done.

Amen, Amy. Shut up, Joe.

And the AP has some intriguing insights into how the Obama administration might be able to get the trials done, without using evidence gleaned from Bush-Cheney-era torture:

Prosecutors say Lazhar Ben Mohamed Tlil may hold the key to prosecuting Guantanamo Bay prisoners in Italy and may be crucial to U.S. prosecutions, too.

But now he’s threatening to clam up.

Tlil’s Italian court-appointed lawyer says he has already provided important details to a team of U.S. investigators and identified from photos fellow Tunisian trainees in the Afghan camps. While the cases are confidential, authorities say he also has provided important information to the Italians about several detainees at Guantanamo who might be brought to Italy and tried in a criminal court.

Italian prosecutors say the 40-year-old Tunisian is one of only two extremists held in Europe who actually trained in the camps and are therefore able to provide critical court testimony, should the Obama administration put Guantanamo prisoners on trial in civilian courts.

And it now appears that such trials will take place. On Friday, an Obama administration official said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind, and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court.

But Tlil is unhappy with Italy’s witness protection program and feeling “abandoned,” according to his lawyer. He is threatening to withhold testimony — not only with American authorities but also, potentially, with Italian prosecutors who may one day prosecute Guantanamo prisoners in Italy. Italy is one of the nations that has agreed to accept Guantanamo prisoners as part of President Barack Obama’s plans to close the prison.

If Italy can work out the problems, this guy may be a big help… Meanwhile, the Huffpo reports that the feds are also looking to strike plea deals with some defendants, to secure their testimony against others. And this is truly sad:

The plea bargaining exposes the difficulty the government faces in bringing prosecutable cases against these defendants and others still in Guantanamo. Most of the remaining detainees are considered too difficult to prosecute, mostly because the evidence against them is thin or based on statements obtained through coercion.

One defense attorney said federal prosecutors had so little on his client that they asked the detainee to suggest a charge he would be willing to plead guilty to.

The unusual, competitive nature of the government’s efforts, which pit the Justice Department against the Pentagon, was described by both defense attorneys and senior government officials. The officials acknowledged that the flurry of offers underscores the weaknesses in the cases against many of the Guantanamo inmates whom the Obama administration had hoped to prosecute.

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Rings Around The Moon

The moon can produce interesting optical effects when conditions are right. The most common of which are moon rings, moon bows, which are similar to rainbows, moon dogs and moon pillars. A rainbow is produced when sunlight is refracted through water droplets – A similar effect is produced when moon light refracts through ice crystals. Below are a few photographs and examples about this interesting phenomena. Thanks to everyone that helped me put together this simple explanation of moon light effects.

A Ring Around The MoonThe ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is almost always the same size.Less typical are the halos that may be produced by different angles in the crystals. They can create halos with an angle of 46 degrees.

Moon Ring Weather Folklore Folklore has it that a ring around the moon signifies bad weather is coming, and in many cases this may be true. So how can rings around the moon be a predictor of weather to come? The ice crystals that cover the halo signify high altitude, thin cirrus clouds that normally precede a warm front by one or two days. Typically, a warm front will be associated with a low pressure system which is commonly referred to as a storm.It is believed that the number of stars within a moon halo indicate the number days before bad weather will arrive. Give it a try the next time you observe a moon halo.Rings Around The Sun – The same phenomena that causes lunar halos can also be observed around the sun. A few photos of solar halos using a Coolpix 995 digital camera.   NOTICE: Never look at or photograph the sun directly.

Anatomy of a Moon HaloThe ring that appears around the moon arises from light passing through six-sided ice crystals high in the atmosphere. These ice crystals refract, or bend, light in the same manner that a camera lens bends light. The ring has a diameter of 22° , and sometimes, if you are lucky, it is also possible to detect a second ring, 44° diameter. Thin high cirrus clouds lofting at 20,000 feet or more contain tiny ice crystals that originate from the freezing of super cooled water droplets. These crystals behave like jewels refracting and reflecting in different directions.Cloud crystals are varieties of hexagonal prisms, (6 sides) and range in shapes from long columns to thin plate-like shapes that have different face sizes.

Moon Dogs

Moon dogs are the paler version of sun dogs: bursts of light often in reds and blues that appear on both sides of the moon. Both phenomena are the work of almost invisible clouds that reside in the atmosphere where commercial airliners cruise, at about 30,000 feet. The clouds are composed largely of ice crystals, known as diamond dust. The official name for a moon dog is a paraselene if seen at 22 degrees. If the image is at 90, 120 or 140 degrees then it’s known as a parantiselene.

Thanks to Jim Bell for the moon dog photo !!! Visit Jim’s Homepage for more great photographs.

Moon CoronaAnother interesting effect caused by moon light is the corona. Just like lunar halos, coronas are produced by high thin clouds. But unlike halos coronas are very small in size.Thanks to Mats Mattsson for the moon corona photo !!! Visit Mats Homepage for more great photographs.

AUSTRALIA Moon CoronaA typical corona is only couple degrees in diameter and closely fringes the moon. Although not as intense as a solar rainbow, coronas may appear in several colors. On rare occasions lunar halos and lunar coronas can appear together. This great photo of a moon corona was captured by Robert Studdert of Hurtsville Australia.Thanks to Rob Studdert at Digital Image Studio for the moon corona photo !!!

Moon PillarsMoon pillars can be seen when the moon is rising or setting near the horizon. They are pale shafts of light that extend out either above or below the moon. Pillars appear in the sky when ice crystals reflect light forward from a strong light source such as the moon. Those crystals with plate or column shapes provide an excellent surface from which the light may reflect toward the viewer’s eyes. Because the light rays forming pillars are reflected, and not refracted, they take on the colour of the incident light.   View a few Sun Pillar examples.

Moon BowsA night time rainbow is sometimes called a moon bow because it is a reflection of the light of the moon. The same thing during the day is called a rainbow. It works the same way as its daytime counterpart, it just uses moonlight instead of sunlight. Any rainbow comes from light hitting drops of rain and going into the drop and being reflected off of the inside edge. As the light leaves the drop on it’s return journey the other side of the drop acts like a prism and separates it into the colors of the rainbow. Daytime rainbows work great because of the intensity of the sun light, but with moon light it makes something shaped like a rainbow with just a hint color. Moon bows occur in the side of the sky opposite the moon.Thanks to Matt BenDaniel for the moon bow photo !!! Visit Matt’s Homepage for more great photographs.

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Shocking H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Stories From Pregnant Women – Tell Your Doctors That Vaccines And Pregnancy Do Not Mix! | ORGANIC HEALTH

Shocking H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Stories From Pregnant Women – Tell Your Doctors That Vaccines And Pregnancy Do Not Mix!

U.S. health authorities have made pregnant women one of the highest priority groups for getting the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, but is it actually safe for pregnant women and their babies? Well, the truth is that miscarriage reports from pregnant women who have taken the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are starting to pour in from all over the nation. Vaccines and pregnancy simply do not mix safely. In fact, the package inserts for the swine flu vaccines actually say that the safety of these vaccines for pregnant women has not been established.

What you are about to read below should shock and anger you. If they are telling us that the swine flu vaccine is not safe for children under 6 months of age, then why in the world would it be safe for pregnant women and their babies? That doesn’t make an ounce of sense, does it?

The following H1N1 swine flu vaccine miscarriage horror stories are from a June 2010 birth club…..

EBWashington:

I am so upset. I was so excited to be pregnant after trying for a year. As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I joined this birth club and I was due June 25th. We have two healthy boys with no history of miscarriage. Everything was going great. Last Monday, I got the H1N1 vaccine thimerosal reduced (mercury reduced for pregnant women). On Tuesday morning, I started cramping and on Wednesday I started bleeding heavily. My hcg was 50 on Wednesday and I was almost 6 weeks along so it was low. They still thought that I might be pregnant but on Friday my hcg was down to 22. I am an emotional wreck. I feel like I had a healthy baby and I caused this by getting the H1N1 vaccine. My doctors pushed it. I researched online and there have been many miscarriages after the H1N1 vaccine but they haven’t been reported since it is hard to say what caused the miscarriages. I hope that I did not cause this. I wish everyone the best.

Tayla08

I don’t have an answer for you, but a friend of a friend just had a miscarriage 2-3 days after getting the shot. She was 7weeks. She had no previous history of m/c… No one can answer if they’re related…it hasn’t been out long enough and there haven’t been any studies done on pregnant women. I will tell you, that it has made up my mind on getting it…I won’t and I’m not going to get it for my DD either. My daughter and I both had H1N1 last week, and although it truly sucks…I think I’ll take my chances. One doctor will tell you to get it and the next will tell you not too…you have to do what’s in your heart.

90707

my heart goes out to you as i recently miscarried as well and was due in june. i had a healthy heart beat at 6wks. then at 7.5 wks my son got the h1n1 mist vaccine which has live vaccine in it. the nurse said to be careful b/c it could technically spread if he rubbed his nose and touched a surface etc. the next night i miscarried and 5 days later was diagnosed with h1n1. i work from home, kids are home, hadnt been anywhere during that time. so the chances that it is all related are very high. the flu mist vaccine warns for immunocompromised patients (which includes prego) to stay away from recipients of the flu mist for 21 days.

This next set of H1N1 swine flu vaccine miscarriage horror stories is from an About.com page about miscarriage…..

Jo:

I got the flu vaccine (regular not H1N1) at 8 weeks pregnant. Three days later I miscarried. I am not going to get the H1N1.

Regrets:

I got both vaccines on Thursday. I was 9 weeks pregnant. I miscarried on Sunday. I was told by several doctors to get these vaccines. Now I wish I followed my gut feeling and not get them at ALL!

:

i work in a hospital like setting and was told ‘the benefits outweigh the risks” 1am i got the vaccine, 3am i started bleeding and craming, 3pm miscarried. you decide

sue:

I had the H1N1 vaccination and 24 hours later had a miscarriage.

Linda Hill:

My daughter in law was 10 weeks pregnant and had the H1N1 vaccine on Friday that night she miscarried.

SoSorry:

I was so ready to get the H1N1 vaccine last week and they were only giving them to pregnant women. I was 6 weeks along and got it and the next day I started cramping and miscarried. I already had two healthy pregnancies and never miscarried or had any problems. My doctors think I am crazy to think it was the H1N1 but if no one looks into this than other women will not know. I am so sorry that I got it.

Connie:

I also received the H1N1 vaccination on October 22nd, 2009 and went into labor on October 25th, at 16 weeks pregnant and we just heard the heartbeat and everything was fine with my pregnancy on October 16th, 2009, then on October 28th my water broke then on October 29th, I delivered a stillborn baby boy, and no one can tell me why…Everyone wants to say it did not come from the shot but I believe it did. My baby was growing at the correct pace and everyone wants to brush off the vaccination. I say if you have the vaccination and suffer a miscarriage if they are able to perform an autopsy have it done.

I also agree something needs to be done and looked more into with this vaccination because most women are being advised it’s just something that happens, but I also had two healthy children normal pregnancies and when I received this vaccination with my third pregnancy, my baby is gone.

sioux falls, south dakota:

I received the H1N1 vaccine on October 16th and started experiencing cramping on the 22nd. I was nearly 17 weeks pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby boy on the 23rd. Like many of the other women here, the first thing I suspected was the H1N1 vaccine. I immediately asked a nurse at the hospital if that would have anything to do with it. Without hesitation, she told me “absolutely not.” I had reservations about getting the vaccine, but followed the advice of my long trusted family doctor. In a follow up appointment with my doctor 3 days after I lost my baby, I asked him if the vaccine would have had any adverse effects on my baby. He also said that it was not possible. I don’t believe that my doctor was necessarily lying to me, he was simply following the accepted practices and opinions of his field. I do, however, believe that as a nation, we are being lied to. This vaccine is NOT safe during pregnancy. There has not been enough testing done to determine this and there are far too many “coincidences” for this to be anything but a result of a vaccine that was hastily pushed into production and distribution in an effort to stop widespread panic. I have read so many stories in defense of the vaccine that will talk about how common miscarriages are, but I would challenge you to ask ANY health care professional how common second trimester miscarriages are. My baby was doing perfect developmentally and I had felt him move earlier that day. My heart goes out to all of you out there who have had to go through the same heartache and loss that I have had in the last couple of weeks. There is no reason that any woman or family should have to go through this. Get the word out to all of the pregnant women that you know. I know that if I had heard that women had been losing their babies shortly after they received the vaccine, I would have followed my gut and not gotten it myself. Maybe then Wyatt would have had a chance at life.

Marina Rossi:

I recently got the H1N1 vaccine and miscarried 3 days later. I thought it could have been the vaccine but didnt ask. After finding this site I believe it was the vaccine. Sorry to everyone else out there who has just experienced a miscarriage.

kathy-sd:

I’m from a town of 2000 in SD, there are several women pregnant and we are all due within a few weeks of each other. Four of us got the H1N1 vaccine 2 weeks ago and one by one each of us started to have preterm contractions. We are all due in Nov and Dec so we are further along than most of the people that lost their babies. There is no way you can tell us that our preterm labor was not caused by the H1N1 vaccine. It may look like a “fluke” to some people when these women are scattered all over the country but we are talking about 4 of us in our small community. My heart goes out to all of you that lost your babies.

ashley:

Im not sure but not only myself, i know someone that withing 4 days of getting the shot we both miscarried, i was only 6 weeks and she was 4 months along, not sure if the shot caused it and cant find any other information but i am a little concerned about this coincidence.

Time Machine:

I got a flu shot in pregnancy, developed incredibly strange symptoms immediately (numb hands, feet and mouth, heart palpitations, sudden weakness in my legs, a bright red face), began bleeding and miscarried by 11 weeks. I had no idea there was mercury in most flu shots but once I found out after the fact, I was assured that I’d had the “mercury free” form. As it turned out, the shot wasn’t completely mercury free and, according to the EPA website, it still had 5,000 times the limit for mercury in drinking water– not to mention a list of other toxins (MSG, formaldehyde, etc.).

I’d had no idea the shots were so dirty. I guess I’d been under the impression they were something like sterile water and a dead virus, that’s it.

The strange symptoms– which I’d been told were “just pregnancy” lasted six months. No one could figure out what was wrong with me, why I couldn’t make stairs, why I felt like I’d been shot with novocaine. I learned later from a book by Jane Hightower that these were all symptoms of mercury exposure. I guess I’m one of those susceptible people. No one in my family is getting the H1N1– no one even gets regular flu shots anymore, we all read labels.

If you are a pregnant mother, please do not take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.  Instead, do everything that you can do to avoid public places and make sure to wash your hands more than you usually would.  Take extra large doses of immunity building vitamins and research many of the great natural ways for fighting the flu that are out there on the Internet.

The truth is that if you do take the vaccine and then something happens, you will NOT be able to sue anyone (thanks to Congress).  You will have to bear all the responsibility yourself.  That doctor who kept pushing and pushing it on you will tell you that it could not have been the vaccine and that you probably would have miscarried anyway. 

Do you honestly want to inject a vaccine that may contain mercury, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (associated with infertility), triton X100 (a strong detergent), phenoxyethanol (antifreeze) and a whole bunch of other toxic ingredients into your system when you know that your baby will absorb it too and has no defenses against most of these things?

In the very short video posted below, you will see one health expert explain to Sean Hannity that not even the swine flu vaccine package insert says that it is safe for pregnant women…..

The reality is that if you are pregnant, you need to hear what both sides have to say before ever subjecting your baby to the swine flu vaccine.  You do NOT want to end up like one of the mothers above.  Please help us out by sharing this information with as many people as you can.  If you know of any additional H1N1 swine flu vaccine miscarriage horror stories please post them below in the comments section.

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Natural Disasters captured from Space  

Natural Disasters captured from Space

 

Natural Disasters captured from Space

by Shahid on August 14, 2009 

Satellites have been responsible for providing weather news for the past 50 years, and they heralded an era of global communication. From commercial communication satellites to spy satellites to weather satellites, they are awe inspiring in all forms. Natural disasters strike in many forms, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, avalanches and floods. Today, we present a portfolio of natural disasters as photographed from the Space.

 

 

 

 

 

Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004

Horrific pictures of people running away from towering waves flashed across newspapers across the globe on Christmas 2004. An earthquake of magnitude 9.1 triggered the Tsunami which travelled from Indonesia to Somalia and Seychelles. The scale of destruction was massive and the videos of the tsunami were horrific. 

Total fatalities : 230,000
Cost of Damage : exceeds USD 25 Billion 

 

 

Hurricane Katrina — August, 2005

It was not the strongest hurricane ever recorded, yet it was the costliest. The failure of the levee system in New Orleans led to widespread damage and loss of life. The rest as most of us know, is history. 

Total fatalities : 2000+
Cost of Damage : USD 90.9 Billion  

Katrina at Peak Intensity  

Eyewall of Hurricane Katrina captured on August 28, 2005, from a NOAA WP-3D “Orion” Hurricane Hunter  

Chandeleur Islands before and after Hurricane Katrina 

Typhoon Tip — October, 1979

The most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, Typhoon Tip at its peak strength had a diameter of 2,220 km (1380 miles) and sustained wind speeds in excess of 190mph. It also set the record for the lowest ever sea level pressure recorded. The super typhoon is one of the most widely photographed typhoon’s in history thanks to the 60 flights U.S. Air Force Reconnaissance flew into it. 

Total fatalities : 68
Cost of Damage : Moderate, mostly at sea  

At Peak Intensity  

Colour Image of the Super Typhoon 

Hurricane Ike — September 13, 2008

As a category 2 Hurricane, it made landfall on Galveston, Texas on September 13, 2008. It is categorized as the third worst hurricane in US history. 

Total fatalities : 195
Cost of Damage : USD 32 Billion  

Ike at Peak Intensity  

Captured from the ISS  

Eye of the Hurricane is clearly visible 

Chaitén Volcano — May 2, 2008

Chile’s Chaitén Volcano became active after a dormancy period of over 9,000 years. The evacuation zone established around the volcano was 50km wide and the plume from the volcano went as far as 30km in the sky. Nearby villages were covered in nearly 1.5m of volcanic ash after the eruption. 

Total fatalities : Thankfully none
Cost of Damage : Unestimated  

Infrared Image shows smoke plume rising  

Enhanced True Color Image shows smoke plume rising 

Hurricane Isabel — September, 2003

It was the costliest and deadliest hurricane in 2003 and when it made landfall on the east coast of the US, it caused severe damage. Sustained wind speeds were in excess of 165mph. 

Total fatalities : 51
Cost of Damage : USD 4.28 Billion  

The Eye of the Cyclone as seen from the ISS  

Captured from the ISS  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2009 H1N1 Flu Swine Flu and You,Swine Flu and You,CDC H1N1,2009 H1N1 Flu,009 H1N1 Flu in Humans,Exposures Not Thought to Spread 2009 H1N1 Flu

CDC H1N1 Flu | H1N1 Flu and You

2009 H1N1 Flu (“Swine Flu”) and You

November 5, 2009 7:00 PM ET

 

 

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2009 H1N1 Flu

What is 2009 H1N1 (swine flu)?
2009 H1N1 (sometimes
called “swine flu”) is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. This new
virus was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. This
virus is spreading from person-to-person worldwide, probably in much the same
way that regular seasonal influenza viruses spread. On June 11, 2009, the World Health
Organization
(WHO) signaled that a pandemic of 2009 H1N1 flu was underway.

Why is 2009 H1N1
virus sometimes called “swine flu”?
This virus was originally
referred to as “swine flu” because laboratory testing showed that many of the
genes in this new virus were very similar to influenza viruses that normally
occur in pigs (swine) in North America. But further study has shown that this
new virus is very different from what normally circulates in North American
pigs. It has two genes from flu viruses that normally circulate in pigs in
Europe and Asia and bird (avian) genes and human genes. Scientists call this a
“quadruple reassortant” virus.

2009 H1N1 Flu in Humans

Are there human infections with 2009 H1N1 virus in the
U.S.?
Yes. Human infections with 2009 H1N1 are ongoing in the United
States. Most people who have become ill with this new virus have recovered
without requiring medical treatment.
CDC routinely works with states to
collect, compile and analyze information about influenza, and has done the same
for the new H1N1 virus since the beginning of the outbreak. This information is
presented in a weekly report, called FluView.

Is 2009 H1N1 virus contagious?
The 2009 H1N1 virus is
contagious and is spreading from human to human.

How does 2009 H1N1 virus spread?
Spread of 2009 H1N1
virus is thought to occur in the same way that seasonal flu spreads. Flu viruses
are spread mainly from person to person through coughing or sneezing by people
with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected by touching something –
such as a surface or object – with flu viruses on it and then touching their
mouth or nose.

Can I get 2009 H1N1 more than once? Nov 5
Getting infected with any influenza virus,
including 2009 H1N1, should cause your body to develop immune resistance to that
virus so it’s not likely that a person would be infected with the identical
influenza virus more than once. (However, people with weakened immune systems
might not develop full immunity after infection and might be more likely to get
infected with the same influenza virus more than once.) However, it’s also
possible that a person could have a positive test result for flu infection more
than once in an influenza season. This can occur for two reasons:

1. A person may be infected with different influenza viruses (for example, the
   first time with 2009 H1N1 and the second time with a regular seasonal flu virus.
   Most rapid tests cannot distinguish which influenza virus is responsible for the
   illness. And,
2. Influenza tests can occasionally give false positive and false negative
   results so it’s possible that one of the test results were incorrect. This is
   more likely to happen when the diagnosis is made with the rapid flu tests. More
   information about flu diagnosis is available at http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/diagnosis/.

Don’t Get, Don’t Spread Video

Dr. Joe Bresee describes how to keep from getting the flu, and
spreading it to others.

What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in
people?
The symptoms of 2009 H1N1 flu virus in people include fever,
cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and
fatigue. Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea. People may be infected with
the flu, including 2009 H1N1 and have respiratory symptoms without a fever.
Severe illnesses and deaths have occurred as a result of illness associated with
this virus.

How severe is illness associated with 2009 H1N1 flu
virus?
Illness with 2009 H1N1 virus has ranged from mild to severe.
While most people who have been sick have recovered without needing medical
treatment, hospitalizations and deaths from infection with this virus have
occurred.

In seasonal flu, certain people are at “high risk” of serious complications.
This includes people 65 years and older, children younger than five years old,
pregnant women, and people of any age with certain chronic medical conditions.
About 70 percent of people who have been hospitalized with this 2009 H1N1 virus
have had one or more medical conditions previously recognized as placing people
at “high risk” of serious seasonal flu-related complications. This includes
pregnancy, diabetes, heart disease, asthma and kidney disease.

Young children are also at high risk of serious complications from 2009 H1N1,
just as they are from seasonal flu. And while people 65 and older are the least likely to be infected with 2009 H1N1 flu, if
they get sick, they are also at “high risk” of developing serious complications
from their illness. See People at High Risk of Developing Flu-Related
Complications for more information about who is more likely to get flu
complications that result in being hospitalized and occasionally result in
death.

CDC laboratory studies have shown that no children and very few adults
younger than 60 years old have existing antibody to 2009 H1N1 flu virus;
however, about one-third of adults older than 60 may have antibodies against
this virus. It is unknown how much, if any, protection may be afforded against
2009 H1N1 flu by any existing antibody.

How does 2009 H1N1 flu compare to seasonal flu in terms of its
severity and infection rates?
With seasonal flu, we know that
seasons vary in terms of timing, duration and severity. Seasonal influenza can
cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. Each year, in the
United States, on average 36,000 people die from flu-related complications and
more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu-related causes. Of those
hospitalized, 20,000 are children younger than 5 years old. Over 90% of deaths
and about 60 percent of hospitalization occur in people older than 65.

When the 2009 H1N1 outbreak was first detected in mid-April 2009, CDC began
working with states to collect, compile and analyze information regarding the
2009 H1N1 flu outbreak, including the numbers of confirmed and probable cases
and the ages of these people. The information analyzed by CDC supports the
conclusion that 2009 H1N1 flu has caused greater disease burden in people
younger than 25 years of age than older people. At this time, there are
relatively fewer cases and deaths reported in people 65 years and older, which
is unusual when compared with seasonal flu.  However, pregnancy and other
previously recognized high risk medical conditions from seasonal influenza
appear to be associated with increased risk of complications from this 2009
H1N1. These underlying conditions include asthma, diabetes, suppressed immune
systems, heart disease, kidney disease, neurocognitive and neuromuscular
disorders and pregnancy.

How long can an infected person spread this virus to
others?
People infected with seasonal and 2009 H1N1 flu shed virus
and may be able to infect others from 1 day before getting sick to 5 to 7 days
after. This can be longer in some people, especially children and people with
weakened immune systems and in people infected with the new H1N1 virus.

Prevention & Treatment

Influenza Round Table: Take 3 Video

Dr. Joe Bresee describes how to keep from getting the flu, and
spreading it to others by taking these three steps.

What can I do to protect myself from getting sick? Oct 8
This season, there is a seasonal flu vaccine
to protect against seasonal flu viruses and a 2009 H1N1 vaccine to protect against the 2009 H1N1
influenza virus (sometimes called “swine flu”). A flu vaccine is the first and
most important step in protecting against flu infection. For information about
the 2009 H1N1 vaccines, visit H1N1 Flu Vaccination Resources. For information
about seasonal influenza vaccines, visit Preventing Seasonal Flu With
Vaccination.

There are also everyday actions that can help prevent
the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like the flu.

Take these everyday steps to protect your health:

Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the
tissue in the trash after you use it.

• Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not
  available, use an alcohol-based hand rub.*
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
• If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends
  that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to
  get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without
  the use of a fever-reducing medicine.) Keep away from others as much as possible
  to keep from making others sick.

Other important actions that you can take are:

• Follow public health advice regarding school closures, avoiding crowds and
  other social distancing measures.
• Be prepared in case you get sick and need to stay
  home for a week or so; a supply of over-the-counter medicines, alcohol-based
  hand rubs * (for when
  soap and water are not available), tissues and other related items could help
  you to avoid the need to make trips out in public while you are sick and
  contagious.

What is the best way to keep from spreading the virus through
coughing or sneezing?
If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends
that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to
get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without
the use of a fever-reducing medicine.)
Keep away from others as much as
possible. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. Put
your used tissue in the waste basket. Then, clean your hands, and do so every
time you cough or sneeze.

If I have a family member at home who is sick with 2009 H1N1 flu,
should I go to work?
Employees who are well but who have an ill
family member at home with 2009 H1N1 flu can go to work as usual. These
employees should monitor their health every day, and take everyday precautions
including covering their coughs and sneezes and washing their hands often with
soap and water, especially after they cough or sneeze. If soap and water are not
available, they should use an alcohol-based hand rub.* If they
become ill, they should notify their supervisor and stay home. Employees who
have an underlying medical condition or who are pregnant should call their
health care provider for advice, because they might need to receive influenza
antiviral drugs. For more information please see General Business and Workplace Guidance for the
Prevention of Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Flu in Workers.

What is the best technique for washing my hands to avoid getting the
flu?
Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. CDC
recommends that when you wash your hands — with soap and warm water — that you
wash for 15 to 20 seconds. When soap and water are not available, alcohol-based
disposable hand wipes or gel sanitizers may be used.* You can find them in most supermarkets and
drugstores. If using gel, rub your hands until the gel is dry. The gel doesn’t
need water to work; the alcohol in it kills the germs on your hands.

What should I do if I get sick?
For information about
what to do if you get sick with flu-like symptoms this season, see What To Do
If You Get Sick: 2009 H1N1 and Seasonal Flu. A downloadable
flyer
containing this information also is available at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/freeresources/2009-10/pdf/what_to_do_if_you_get_sick.pdf .

What are “emergency warning signs” that should
signal anyone to seek medical care urgently?

Influenza Round Table: Warning Signs
Video

Dr. Joe Bresee describes the main symptoms of flu,
including the new H1N1 flu, and when it is serious enough to seek medical help.

In children:

• Fast breathing or trouble breathing
• Bluish skin color
• Not drinking enough fluids
• Not waking up or not interacting
• Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
• Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
• Fever with a rash

In adults:

• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
• Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
• Sudden dizziness
• Confusion
• Severe or persistent vomiting

Are there medicines to treat 2009 H1N1 infection?

Influenza Round Table: Antiviral Drugs
Video

Influenza Round Table: Antiviral Drugs Dr. Joe Bresee explains the
nature of antiviral drugs and how they are used.

Yes. There are drugs your doctor may prescribe for treating both seasonal
and 2009 H1N1 called “antiviral drugs.” These drugs can make you better
faster and may also prevent serious complications. This flu season, antiviral
drugs are being used mainly to treat people who are very sick, such as people
who need to be hospitalized, and to treat sick people who are more likely to get
serious flu complications. Your health care provider will decide whether
antiviral drugs are needed to treat your illness. Remember, most people with
2009 H1N1 have had mild illness and have not needed medical care or antiviral
drugs and the same is true of seasonal flu.

What is CDC’s recommendation regarding “swine flu
parties”?
“Swine flu parties” are gatherings during which people
have close contact with a person who has 2009 H1N1 flu in order to become
infected with the virus. The intent of these parties is for a person to become
infected with what for many people has been a mild disease, in the hope of
having natural immunity 2009 H1N1 flu virus that might circulate later and cause
more severe disease.

CDC does not recommend “swine flu parties” as a way to protect against 2009
H1N1 flu in the future. While the disease seen in the current 2009 H1N1 flu
outbreak has been mild for many people, it has been severe and even fatal for
others. There is no way to predict with certainty what the outcome will be for
an individual or, equally important, for others to whom the intentionally
infected person may spread the virus.

CDC recommends that people with 2009 H1N1 flu avoid contact with others as
much as possible. If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24
hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other
necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing
medicine.) Stay away from others as much as possible to keep from making others
sick.

Contamination & Cleaning

How long can influenza virus remain viable on objects
(such as books and doorknobs)?
Studies have shown that influenza
virus can survive on environmental surfaces and can infect a person for 2 to 8
hours after being deposited on the surface.

What kills influenza virus?
Influenza virus is destroyed
by heat (167-212°F [75-100°C]). In addition, several chemical germicides,
including chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, detergents (soap), iodophors
(iodine-based antiseptics), and alcohols are effective against human influenza
viruses if used in proper concentration for a sufficient length of time.

*What if soap and water are not available and
alcohol-based products are not allowed in my facility? Updated on Sept 14
If soap and water are not
available and alcohol-based products are not allowed, other hand sanitizers that
do not contain alcohol may be useful.

What surfaces are most likely to be sources of
contamination?
Germs can be spread when a person touches something
that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or
mouth. Droplets from a cough or sneeze of an infected person move through the
air. Germs can be spread when a person touches respiratory droplets from another
person on a surface like a desk, for example, and then touches their own eyes,
mouth or nose before washing their hands.

How should waste disposal be handled to prevent the spread of
influenza virus?
To prevent the spread of influenza virus, it is
recommended that tissues and other disposable items used by an infected person
be thrown in the trash. Additionally, persons should wash their hands with soap
and water after touching used tissues and similar waste.

What household cleaning should be done to prevent the
spread of influenza virus?
To prevent the spread of influenza virus
it is important to keep surfaces (especially bedside tables, surfaces in the
bathroom, kitchen counters and toys for children) clean by wiping them down with
a household disinfectant according to directions on the product label.

How should linens, eating utensils and dishes of persons infected
with influenza virus be handled?
Linens, eating utensils, and dishes
belonging to those who are sick do not need to be cleaned separately, but
importantly these items should not be shared without washing thoroughly
first.
Linens (such as bed sheets and towels) should be washed by using
household laundry soap and tumbled dry on a hot setting. Individuals should
avoid “hugging” laundry prior to washing it to prevent contaminating themselves.
Individuals should wash their hands with soap and water or alcohol-based hand
rub immediately after handling dirty laundry.

Eating utensils should be washed either in a dishwasher or by hand with water
and soap.

Exposures Not Thought to Spread 2009 H1N1 Flu

Can I get infected with 2009 H1N1 virus from eating or preparing
pork?
No. 2009 H1N1 viruses are not spread by food. You cannot get
infected with novel HIN1 virus from eating pork or pork products. Eating
properly handled and cooked pork products is safe.

Is there a risk from drinking water?
Tap water that has
been treated by conventional disinfection processes does not likely pose a risk
for transmission of influenza viruses. Current drinking water treatment
regulations provide a high degree of protection from viruses. No research has
been completed on the susceptibility of 2009 H1N1 flu virus to conventional
drinking water treatment processes. However, recent studies have demonstrated
that free chlorine levels typically used in drinking water treatment are
adequate to inactivate highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. It is likely that
other influenza viruses such as 2009 H1N1 would also be similarly inactivated by
chlorination. To date, there have been no documented human cases of influenza
caused by exposure to influenza-contaminated drinking water.

Can 2009 H1N1 flu virus be spread through water in swimming pools,
spas, water parks, interactive fountains, and other treated recreational water
venues?
Influenza viruses infect the human upper respiratory tract.
There has never been a documented case of influenza virus infection associated
with water exposure. Recreational water that has been treated at CDC recommended
disinfectant levels does not likely pose a risk for transmission of influenza
viruses. No research has been completed on the susceptibility of 2009 H1N1
influenza virus to chlorine and other disinfectants used in swimming pools,
spas, water parks, interactive fountains, and other treated recreational venues.
However, recent studies have demonstrated that free chlorine levels recommended
by CDC (1–3 parts per million [ppm or mg/L] for pools and 2–5 ppm for spas) are
adequate to disinfect avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. It is likely that other
influenza viruses such as 2009 H1N1 virus would also be similarly disinfected by
chlorine.

Can 2009 H1N1 influenza virus be spread at recreational water venues
outside of the water?
Yes, recreational water venues are no
different than any other group setting. The spread of this 2009 H1N1 flu is
thought to be happening in the same way that seasonal flu spreads. Flu viruses
are spread mainly from person to person through coughing or sneezing of people
with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected by touching something with
flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose.

2009 H1N1 in Companion Animals

What animals can be infected with the 2009 H1N1 virus?
In
addition to humans, live swine and turkeys, we know that ferrets (which are
highly susceptible to influenza A viruses) and a domestic cat have been infected
with 2009 H1N1 virus. CDC is working closely with domestic and international
public and animal heath partners to continually monitor this situation and will
provide additional information to the public as it becomes available.

How do companion animals become infected with 2009
H1N1?
All available information suggests that the ferrets and
domestic cat with 2009 H1N1 infections acquired the virus through close contact
with ill humans. Transmission of 2009 H1N1 virus from humans to animals appears
similar to human-to-human transmission

Can I get 2009 H1N1 influenza from my pet?
Available
evidence suggests that transmission has been from ill humans to their companion
animals. No evidence is available to suggest that animals are infecting humans
with 2009 H1N1 virus.

What do I do if I am sick with flu-like symptoms and I have
pets?
If you are sick with influenza-like-illness, take the same
precautions with your pets that you would to keep your family and friends
healthy:

• Cover your coughs and sneezes
• Wash your hands frequently
• Minimize contact with your pets until 24 hours after your fever is gone

What should I do if I suspect my pet has 2009 H1N1 influenza
virus?
If members of your household have flu-like symptoms, and your
pet exhibits respiratory illness, contact your veterinarian.

Is there a vaccine available for my pet?
Currently, there
is not a licensed and approved 2009 H1N1 vaccine for companion animals. (There
is a canine influenza vaccine, which protects dogs from the H3N8 canine flu
virus, but it will not protect pets against the 2009 H1N1 virus and should not
be used in any species other than dogs.)

How serious is this disease in companion animals?
Pet
ferrets with naturally occurring 2009 H1N1 infection have exhibited illness
similar in severity as seen with ferrets exposed to seasonal influenza viruses
and 2009 H1N1 virus in laboratory settings, including sneezing, inactivity, and
weight loss. The single confirmed cat exhibited respiratory illness and
recovered with supportive care.

Additional Information

American Veterinary Medical Association
http://www.avma.org/public_health/influenza/new_virus/default.asp

United States Department of Agriculture
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/?navid=USDA_H1N1

Note: Much of the information in this document is based on studies and
past experience with seasonal (human) influenza.  CDC believes the
information applies to 2009 H1N1 (swine) viruses as well, but studies on this
virus are ongoing to learn more about its characteristics. This document will be
updated as new information becomes available.

For general information about influenza in pigs (not 2009 H1N1 flu) see Background Information on
Influenza in Pigs.

 

to bee or not to bee,bee disappears,If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth,man would have no more than four years to live

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To Bee, or not to Bee? That is the question.

http://globalclimatechange.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/einstein-on-bees/

Albert Einstein once said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!” He wasn’t an entomologist, but entomologists around today agree that the sudden and mysterious disappearance of bees from their hives poses serious problems!

Bits and pieces of information about farmers’ concerns for bee disappearance (or colony collapse disorder) in 24 states around the U.S. have bubbled up to the surface, over the last year and a half, but hardly any large-scale media attention has been drawn to this potentially serious problem. Recently bees have gone missing from hives around Europe as well. The East Coast of the U.S. is reporting a 70% loss in commercial bee hive habitation, the West Coast 60%; these figures are staggering.

An article in The Independent discusses a theory that cell phone radiation seriously interferes with bees’ ability to navigate through the air. Regardless of the cause, the implications of this phenomenon are enormous – and it is alarming how rapidly this is occurring. From a NYT article on 2/27/07: “…one study says that honeybees annually pollinate more than $14 billion worth of seeds and crops in US, mostly fruits, vegetables and nuts.”

Element 115,Robert Lazar,UFO,element 114,superheavy element 114,superheavy elements

U.S. scientists say they have confirmed the production of the superheavy element 114, 10 years after a Russian group first claimed to have made it.

BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 29 (UPI) — U.S.scientists say they have confirmed the production of the superheavy element 114, 10 years after a Russian group first claimed to have made it.

The researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, led by University of California-Berkeley Professor Heino Nitsche and and Berekely Lab senior staff scientist Ken Gregorich, independently confirmed the production of the new element, which was first published by the Dubna Gas Filled Recoil Separator group.

Using an instrument called the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron, the researchers said they were able to confirm the creation of two individual nuclei of element 114, each a separate isotope having 114 protons, but a different numbers of neutrons, and each decaying by a separate pathway.

“By verifying the production of element 114, we have removed any doubts about the validity of the Dubna group’s claims,” Nitsche said. “This proves that the most interesting superheavy elements can in fact be made in the laboratory.”

The verification of element 114 is reported in the journal Physical Review Letters.

“People have been dreaming of superheavy elements since the 1960s,” Gregorich added. “But it’s unusual for important results like the Dubna group’s claim to have produced 114 to go unconfirmed for so long. Scientists were beginning to wonder if superheavy elements were real.”

Ironically enough some of the first people to theorize the existance of this and the other elements within the range of 114 and to 118, in the claims of UFO anti-gravity drives (though they usually mention SPECIFICALLY element 115, which is rather precise, based on a claim by physicist Robert Lazar who calimed to have seen an alien reactor at a place called “S4″ in groom lake; or as it more commonly know Area 51). particlarly because they have their OWN gravity that exists beyond the individual atoms and hence can distort space/time, and thusly their effects.

element 118 was also “offically” made, back in the 80..s, and they decayed into elemeent 116 “almost instantly”, which then decays into element 114 (silimilarly element 115 when made decays into element 113)… amazing how its only news, when certian “crazy” physicists and ufologists have long since known this and been trying to make the existence of such elements public.

invisible galaxy,dark matter,first dark matter galaxy,first dark galaxy,VIRGOHI21,Cardiff University,Dr. Jon Davies,CERN

Quoted from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050224101540.htm#:

Seeing The Invisible. First Dark Galaxy Discovered?

Seeing The Invisible. First Dark Galaxy Discovered?

ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2005) — A British-led team of astronomers using The University of Manchester’s Lovell Telescope in Cheshire have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter — the first ever detected.

The ellipse shows the region of sky where the dark galaxy was found – image taken by Cardiff Astronomers using the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma.

23rd February 2005

A British-led team of astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter – the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area in the universe containing a large amount of mass that rotates like a galaxy, but contains no stars. Without any stars to give light, it could only be found using radio telescopes. It was first seen with the University of Manchester’s Lovell Telescope in Cheshire, and the sighting was confirmed with the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico. The unknown material that is thought to hold these galaxies together is known as ‘dark matter’, but scientists still know very little about what that is.

Dr. Jon Davies, one of the team of astronomers from Cardiff University, says; “The Universe has all sorts of secrets still to reveal to us, but this shows that we are beginning to understand how to look at it in the right way. It’s a really exciting discovery!”

When astronomers observe the visible Universe it is like looking out at the darkest night from a well-lit room. It is easy to see the street lights, car headlights and other well-lit rooms, but not the trees, the hedges and the mountains because they don’t emit any light. We live on a planet close to a star, so as astronomers our observing ‘room’ is always well-lit. This can make it difficult to find the dark, hidden objects.

The international team from the UK, France, Italy and Australia has been searching for dark galaxies using not visible light, but radio waves. They have been studying the distribution of hydrogen atoms throughout the Universe. Hydrogen gas emits radiation that can be detected at radio wavelengths. In the Virgo cluster of galaxies, about 50 million light years away, they found a mass of hydrogen atoms a hundred million times the mass of the Sun.

Dr Robert Minchin from Cardiff University is one of the UK astronomers who discovered the mysterious galaxy, named VIRGOHI21. He explains, “From the speed it is spinning, we realised that VIRGOHI21 was a thousand times more massive than could be accounted for by the observed hydrogen atoms alone. If it were an ordinary galaxy, then it should be quite bright and would be visible with a good amateur telescope.”

Similar objects that have previously been discovered have since turned out to contain stars when studied with high-powered optical telescopes. Others have been found to be the remnants of two galaxies colliding. However, when the scientists studied the area in question using the Isaac Newton Telescope in La Palma, they found no visible trace of any stars, and no nearby galaxies that would suggest a collision. The astronomers first took observations of the dark object back in 2000 and it has taken almost five years to rule out all the other possible explanations. VIRGOHI21 appears to be the first dark galaxy ever detected.

Professor Andrew Lyne, Director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, said that “he was very pleased that the efforts by engineers at the Observatory and Cardiff University in building the Multi-Beam receiver system used for these observations had proved so fruitful.” He praised those involved in the very complex data reduction required to analyse the data and said that “this exciting discovery shows that radio telescopes still have a very major role in helping to understand the Universe in which we live.”

Professor Mike Disney, a member of the team said: “As Sherlock Holmes famously said, ‘When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left – however improbable – must be the truth’”

Astronomers have been measuring the way in which stars and galaxies move for many years. These measurements indicate that there must be far more matter in the Universe than can be accounted for by the visible light we see. This ‘dark matter’ still holds many mysteries for astronomers – is it well mixed up amongst the stars, or is it separate from the stars? Another puzzle is that the current ideas about how galaxies form predict that there should be many more galaxies in the Universe than are visible to us. So, these two ideas – dark matter and the lack of galaxies – have led some astronomers to predict that there must be unseen ‘dark’ galaxies hidden in the Universe.

Finding a dark matter galaxy is an important breakthrough because, according to cosmological models, dark matter is five times more abundant than the ordinary (baryonic) matter that makes up everything we can see and touch.

The presence of dark matter in the Universe can be inferred by looking at the rotation of galaxies and measuring how fast their visible components are moving. The amount of matter in a galaxy dictates the gravitational force needed to hold it together. Astronomers have seen galaxies where the material is moving so fast that they should fly apart – as they don’t, there must be a stronger gravitational force acting than can be accounted for using visible matter. This has led astronomers to believe that there is more matter unseen – the mass of this ‘dark matter’ can be calculated from the gravitational force that must be acting to hold the galaxy together.

Dark galaxies are thought to form when the density of matter in a galaxy is too low to create the conditions for star formation. The observations of VIRGOHI21 may have other explanations, but they are consistent with the hydrogen being in a flat disc of rotating material – which is what is seen in ordinary spiral galaxies.

The Cardiff-led team hope to continue their unique observations to probe the hidden extent of the Universe that we live in.

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Editors notes:

1. The attached images (click for full resolution) are:

a) The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory where the dark galaxy was first detected. The graph shows the signal that was picked up by the telescope showing the peak at the 21 cm Hydrogen-Line emitted by the Hydrogen gas in the dark galaxy. Copyright University of Manchester.

b) The ellipse shows the region of sky where the dark galaxy was found – image taken by Cardiff Astronomers using the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma.

c) The type of galaxy that astronomers would have expected to see, based on the measurements taken. Image of Galaxy NGC 7479 taken by Nik Szymanek. Image obtained with the Faulkes Telescope North, Maui, copyright FTLLC.

A selection of time-delay webcam movies of the Lovell telescope carrying out the Multibeam Survey which produced the detection of the dark galaxy are available at http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/webcam/.

2. The research was funded by PPARC – the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. PPARC is the UK’s strategic science investment agency. It funds research, education and public understanding in four broad areas of science – particle physics, astronomy, cosmology and space science. PPARC is government funded and provides research grants and studentships to scientists in British universities, gives researchers access to world-class facilities and funds the UK membership of international bodies such as the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory. It also contributes money for the UK telescopes overseas on La Palma, Hawaii, Australia and in Chile, the UK Astronomy Technology Centre at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh and the MERLIN/VLBI National Facility.

3. The scientific paper “A Dark Hydrogen Cloud in the Virgo Cluster” will be published in the Astrophysical Journal. Authors of the paper are Minchin, R. et al., an online preprint of the paper can be found at www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502312

4. For an interview or further technical comment please contact:

Dr Robert Minchin – Cardiff University Tel: 029 20 875177,mobile: 07866 356584

Email: Robert.Minchin@astro.cf.ac.uk Dr Jon Davies – Cardiff University Tel: 029 20 875255, mobile 07765 703281

Email: jonathan.davies@astro.cf.ac.uk Prof Mike Disney – Cardiff University Tel: 029 20 874289

Email: mike.disney@astro.cf.ac.uk Prof Mike Edmunds – Cardiff University Tel: 029 20 874785 Email: mike.edmunds@astro.cf.ac.uk

Prof. Andrew Lyne – Jodrell Bank Observatory Tel: 01477 572640 Email: agl@jb.man.ac.uk

Julia Maddock – PPARC Press Office Tel: 01793 442094 Email: julia.maddock@pparc.ac.uk

 

 

Spatiotemporal Isosurfaces,Physioinformatic Data,EEG,EMG,EOG,Jeff Sale

Quoted from http://www.banyantree.org/jsale/isosurfaces/:

Spatiotemporal Isosurfaces

Spatiotemporal Isosurfaces of Physioinformatic Data (EEG, EMG, EOG) – Jeff Sale

Spatiotemporal Isosurfaces of Physioinformatic Data A guide to spatialization of information to enhance perceptualization JeffSale San Diego State University Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering

These are images of human bioelectric activity, such as electroencephalographic (EEG) and electrocardiographic (ECG) spatiotemporal isosurfaces rendered using the powerful AVS data rendering software on a Stardent Titan 3000 workstation (MIPS 3000 cpu). We did this work a few years ago and are belatedly getting it up on the web for you to see. Your comments and suggestions are welcomed.

What are these images? Click for an explanation.

Alpha Bursts: The image to the left was created by calculating power in the alpha band (8-13 Hz) using a fast fourier transform (fft) on the eeg in Matlab, and outputing to AVS.

EEG Evoked Potential: Created from EEG data acquired using the P300 “oddball paradigm”. This image comprises roughly one second of data. The blue region is N100, the red region is P300.

EEG Evoked Potential – Detail: Detail of same data as above.

Alpha Bursts: Created by calculating power in the alpha band (8-13 Hz) using a fast fourier transform (fft) on the eeg in Matlab, and outputing to AVS.

Raw Alpha Waves: These are alpha waves acquired from a human subject, relaxed, eyes closed, comprising roughly 3-4 seconds of activity. This particular subject had especially clean and strong alpha activity with eyes closed.

Raw Alpha Waves – Detail: This is a detail of the same waves, with a fancy gradient added in the background (which probably detracts, you decide)

EEG from Electroconvulsive Therapy: This data was acquired intraoperatively from a patient undergoing ECT. Note the “helical” pattern as time increases from left to right.

Electrocardiogram (ECG): This is two heartbeats worth of electrocardiographic data (ECG) acquired by placing a 5×5 grid of electrodes on the subject’s chest. Note the repeating pattern of the beats.

EEG Correlation Dimension: This is my personal favorite. The others were easy to create compared to this one. It took me a week to write the code and the Stardent 2 weeks to calculate the values. I wrote the algorithm to calculate the correlation dimension, similar to the fractal dimension, which is a measure of the complexity of a system, or more generally, a measure of how a system fills a space, real or abstract. The rest was simple. The data consists of one minute of EEG, the first 30 seconds the subjects eyes were open, then they shut their eyes for the remaining 30 seconds. Time goes from left to right. As usual, the visual cortex corresponds to the lower half of the volume, which is where one would expect to see the most significant change when the eyes are closed, and this is in fact quite distinct.

It is difficult to explain what these images are, but click here to get a glimpse…

What is a Spatiotemporal Isosurface of P300 Evoked Potential data?The term “spatiotemporal” implies that the data is of a spatially distributed nature rendered as a function of time, as seen in the diagram. “Isosurfaces” are a graphical rendering technique available on the more powerful computer visualization programs like AVS (Application Visualization System, Developed by AVS, Inc.), which creates 2D contours in 3D space by interpolating between stacked sequential datasets, such as the 2D brain maps which comrise a cross section of the 3D data volume. Normally, neurodiagnostic technicians look at a series of 20 or so squiggly lines representing electrical data from the scalp, and must then develop an abstract image in their mind which hopefully, but probably rarely, provides the detail seen in this image. This image was rendered on a Stardent Titan 3000 (MIPS 3000 cpu) using AVS. I wrote some C code which translates the EEG data from a QSI 9000 EEG data acquisition system and conforms it to the required “3D field” format in AVS.

The image on the right, which we fondly refer to as “volcano-head”, illustrates what you might see if you could perceive and capture a still image of the electrical information “flowing” off the scalp. The squiggly line represents EEG from a single point on the scalp, such as the EEG acquired from a single electrode. Standard clinical EEG consists of as few as 8 electrodes and as many as 64, distributed across the scalp. This squiggly line from a single data point and the isosurface itself are color-coded with red corresponding to higher values in microvolts and blue as the lower values across a range of about 10-100 microvolts peak-to-peak for normal EEG. In reality, the electrical activity extends only a short distance (a few mm) from the scalp before it becomes undetectable. This image is simply intended as sort of a conceptual graphic for understanding these isosurfaces.The data in this image is actual alpha EEG from a subject relaxed with their eyes-closed.

The image above represents 20 seconds of raw EEG data (squiggly lines below) which includes 4 alpha bursts rendered as spatiotemporal isosurfaces (top). If you look closely at the areas in the raw data (bottom) which are circled in light blue, you can see the alpha bursts as an increase in activity, but it requires considerable visualization skills to render in one’s mind what is easily rendered with the right software. The deep blue flow lines in the isosurface image represent the gradient (direction of maximum first derivative), enhancing the dynamic nature of this information.

Hurricane Rick,Rick Category 5,Category 5 Hurricane,Largest Hurricane In North Pacific Ocean

Quoted from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tropical_weather:

Strongest Hurricane In The Eastern North Pacific Ocean In More Than A Decade.

Rick continues as Category 5 hurricane off Mexico – Yahoo! News

MEXICO CITY – Hurricane Rick churned up potentially dangerous surf along a swath of Mexico’s coast early Sunday as an “extremely dangerous” Category 5 storm, the strongest in the eastern North Pacific Ocean in more than a decade.

Rick continues to pack howling winds near 180 mph (285 kph) and its eye was centered about 555 miles (890 km) south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas as of 5 a.m. EDT Sunday (0900 GMT), the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

Rick was moving toward the west-northwest at about 14 mph (22 kph) and was expected to begin turning toward the northwest over the coming 48 hours, the center said.

Forecasters called on all those in Mexico’s southern Baja California peninsula and along the mainland coast to closely monitor the storm, adding Rick would remain an extremely dangerous hurricane for the next day or two before losing some punch over cooler waters.

The hurricane was projected to stay well off the Mexican coast for days before closing in on the Baja California Peninsula as a Category 1 or Category 2 hurricane sometime Wednesday, forecasters said.

Early Sunday, the center said hurricane-force winds extended outward from Rick’s eye up to 60 miles (95 km) and forecasters said large swells generated by Rick would continue to pummel Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast over the coming days.

Authorities in the resort city of Acapulco closed the port to small craft after Rick kicked up heavy waves and gusts of wind.

Acapulco’s Civil Protection Department had warned that rains from the outer bands of the storm could cause landslides and flooding in the resort city, but no such effects were reported.

Rick was the second-strongest hurricane in the eastern North Pacific since 1966, when experts began keeping reliable records, said Hurricane Center meteorologist Hugh Cobb.

The strongest was Hurricane Linda, which generated maximum winds of 185 mph (296 kph) in September 1997.

“Rick is probably going to go into the record books as one of the most rapidly intensifying hurricanes,” Cobb said.

The storm was generating some waves up to 50 feet (15 meters) high near its core, Cobb said, adding there were ship reports of 16-foot (5-meter) seas elsewhere off the Mexican coast.

He said the storm’s danger should not be underestimated, however, as Rick will still have the potential as a Category 1 or Category 2 storm to provoke heavy rains and unleash mudslides.

Cobb said it is still uncertain whether the eye of the storm will make landfall.

Rick was forecast to pass early in the week near Socorro Island, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of Cabo San Lucas. The island is a nature reserve with a small Mexican Navy post and it hosts scuba-diving expeditions in winter months.

HAARP,Holes In Heaven,Truth Junkie,Advances In Tesla Technology,Nichola Tesla,Navy And Airfoce HAARP

Quoted from http://truthjunkievideos.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/haarp-holes-in-heaven/:

HAARP – Holes In Heaven « Truth Junkie Videos

HAARP And Advances In Tesla Technology

H.A.A.R.P. is a scientific research facility, located near Gakona, in the remote Alaskan outback and is a joint Navy and Air Force project. This facility is used to study the earth’s Ionosphere, the electrically-charged belt surrounding our planet’s upper atmosphere, ranging between 40 to 60 miles from its surface. More specifically, H.A.A.R.P. is a controversial high frequency radio transmitter, or “ionospheric heater”. The military intends to use this billion-watt pulsed radio beam in our upper atmosphere, which will create extremely low frequency waves, or ELF waves. This technology will enhance communications with submarines and will allow us to “see” into the Earth, detecting anything from oil reserves to hidden underground military targets. H.A.A.R.P.’s roots can be traced back to work of Nikola Tesla, a Yugoslavian scientist, who’s achievements include the Tesla Coil or “magnifying transmitter” which is still used in televisions and radio today.

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First Black Hole Built On Earth,Black Hole On Earth,black hole,electromagnetic black hole,Nanjing China

Quoted from http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/17/first-electromagnetic-black-hole-built-on-earth-nobody-raps-a/:

First electromagnetic ‘black hole’ built on earth, nobody raps about it

First electromagnetic ‘black hole’ built on earth, nobody raps about it

by Laura June posted Oct 17th 2009 at 10:24AM

An electromagnetic black hole — which sucks in the light surrounding it — has been built at Southeast University in Nanjing, China for the first time. The device works like cosmological black holes in that it has gravity which is intense enough to bend the surrounding space-time, causing any matter in the neighborhood to spiral inward and create the hole itself. The earth-built ‘black hole’ for microwave frequencies is constructed of 60 annular strips of meta-materials (yes, that’s the stuff of invisibility cloaks). Each strip is an intricately etched circuit board which seamlessly and smoothly connects to the strips next to it, creating both a shell and absorber section to the device. When an electromagnetic wave hits the device, it is trapped and guided through the shell region toward the core, where it is absorbed. The device, which was created by Tie Jun Cui and Qiang Cheng, converts that absorbed light into heat, meaning that future possible applications could include new ways of harvesting solar energy. Hit the read link for a fuller description of this truly bad dude.

Earthquake Cloud,2012,Project Blue Beam,UFO In Clouds Over Moscow,A halo over moscow,Satanist Aliester Crowley LAM 1920,H.A.A.R.P,Earthquake In Moscow

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The Buzz Log – A Halo Over Moscow – Yahoo! Buzz

A Halo Over Moscow

by Mike Krumboltz

22 hours ago

And you thought rainbows were cool. A few days ago, a mysterious cloud shaped like a halo appeared over Moscow, and the buzz has yet to break.

We’re the first to admit that a photograph of the heavenly cloud appears to be photoshopped. It’s just so…perfect. But meterologists have spoken up and said the cloud wasn’t digitally altered. However, it wasn’t exactly what it appeared to be, either.

When the cloud initially formed, some UFO enthusiasts declared it to be a “true mystery.” Some even compared it to the giant spaceship hovering over Earth in the movie “Independence Day.” Reality quickly dashed any predictions of an alien invasion. An article from the Daily Mail explains that the “luminous ring-shaped cloud” was simply an optical effect.

An official spokesperson for Moscow’s weather department said, “Several fronts have been passing through Moscow recently, there was an intrusion of the Arctic air too, the sun was shining from the west — this is how the effect was produced.”

The cloudloomed last week, but the searches are still soaring. Lookups on “halo cloud” and “moscow cloud” are both booming, and a video clip has garnered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. You can check it out for yourself below…

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This was posted on the Yahoo Buzz Log.

It’s actually a “Earthquake Cloud” rather a new discovery.

Chinese scientists think they may have discovered a link between cloud formations and seismic activity, which may help in the prediction of earthquakes.

According to research published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing, geophysicists Guangmeng Guo and Bin Wang of the Nanyang Normal University in Henan, China, identified abnormal cloud formations above an active fault line in Iran after studying satellite images of the region taken in December 2004. These showed a gap in the clouds that stretched for hundreds of kilometres directly above the fault and lasted for several hours, while surrounding clouds continued to move. Concurrent ground-surface measurements showed that the temperature along the fault line was higher than in the surrounding areas.

Sixty-nine days later, an earthquake that measured 6A on the Richter scale occurred, killing more than 600 people. The following year, a similar pattern of events occurred, culminating in an earthquake of magnitude six 64 days later.

The authors suggest that the gap in the clouds may be caused by the release of gases from the fault that are warmer than the surrounding air and cause moisture within the clouds above to dissipate.

‘This is a clear difference between an earthquake cloud and a meteorology cloud,’ said the researchers. ‘A reasonable explanation is that stresses may build up in tectonically active regions and may bring about subsurface degassing. Upon their escape to the atmosphere, these gases may be cooled and formed into clouds above the fault line that look very much like smoke emitted from a chimney.’

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Voice chat coming to Facebook

• Story Highlights
• Sometime in next few weeks, Facebook’s users will be able to do voice chats
• New technology is not being offered by Facebook itself
• Even non-Facebook users will be able to participate, Vivox company says
• “I guarantee you this is going to bite into Skype,” social media expert says

By Daniel Terdiman

Fook out, Facebook users: Here comes voice chat. Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network’s tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications.

Vivox plans to offer free dial-in numbers that will allow anyone to call into an existing conversation.

The new technology is not being offered by Facebook itself, however. Instead, it’s from Vivox, a Boston-based company that provides the integrated voice service for virtual worlds like Second Life and EVE Online, and which already has more than 15 million users worldwide.

The service, which is currently in closed beta, will allow Facebook users to have high-fidelity conversations with anyone on their friends list. Each user, however, will have to download Vivox’s plug-in. But once installed, the service works almost seamlessly with Facebook, and is intended for everything from one-to-one chat to large group discussions.

Further, even non-Facebook users will be able to participate, as Vivox plans to offer free dial-in numbers that will allow anyone to call into an existing conversation, much as is possible today with call-in phone conferences.

Perhaps more importantly, according to Vivox co-founder Monty Sharma, the company is making its technology available to any third-party Facebook application developer, meaning that almost any app, from games to utilities, can have a voice component.

For now, it’s not clear how many of Facebook’s users will choose to adopt Vivox’s technology, and for the time being, at least, Facebook is not involved in any way in promoting the new service. But while some people may decide that they don’t want to use a tool that requires a plug-in, many others may well find that it’s worth the trouble in order to be able to easily start a conversation that rivals, or even betters, phone call quality.

One person who may be an early adopter is Charlene Li, a well-known social media consultant, and the co-author of the book Groundswell.

“I would (use voice service on Facebook),” Li said, “because I see it as a continuum of communications with the people I want to stay in touch with.”

Another social media expert, Gnomedex organizer Chris Pirillo, was even more effusive about the potential for a full-fledged Facebook voice chart system.

“It is about time,” Pirillo said. “I guarantee you this is going to bite into Skype.”

For Pirillo, the Vivox system will provide a valuable incentive for Facebook users to streamline their friends lists since it’s likely that they won’t want to be getting voice chat invites from people they’ve friended but might know only peripherally.

“When these tools come about,” Pirillo said, “it becomes less valuable (to have too many friends) and actually promotes a cleaner ecosystem.”

Great for retailers To Li, giving third-party Facebook developers the ability to integrate voice chat into their applications may mean a big victory for retailers. She pointed out that a company like Overstock.com may find it extremely valuable to put out a Facebook app with voice built-in–without having to build the voice system themselves–because it would give people a way to quickly and easily chat with their friends about products they see.

“Retailers don’t have to put in chat themselves,” Li said. “They can just put in Facebook chat. That’s where it starts getting very interesting.”

And to Pirillo, the ability for Facebook friends to have a voice chat during, say, a game of Scrabble, is a very “smart” innovation that means users can streamline the number of different tools they’re running simultaneously.

To be sure, Vivox’s offering is not the first to make voice possible for Facebook users, though it may well be the most seamless.

Other options have included Equals’ Party Line, which offers group chat for up to five people, and, of course, a work-around like Skype.

Vivox argues that its technology rises above anything else available today because of its scope and scalability. For one, the Vivox system has been proven on services like Second Life and EVE Online — and is about to be built into a series of online Electronic Arts games, beginning with Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight — and has been shown to support thousands of simultaneous users on a single channel.

Further, the company said that because it already has more than 15 million users, it doesn’t anticipate any problems handling the flood of new users that could come when the Facebook system is rolled out.

But while experts like Li and Pirillo think that voice chat is a natural extension for Facebook, there are some who feel that the technology make take some time to catch on in certain segments of the Facebook ecosystem, particularly one of the most popular, social games.

There are millions of people who play social games from developers like Zynga, Playfish, and others, and together the segment makes up one of the largest on the social network. But because social gaming is largely asynchronous–meaning users don’t have to be online at the same time to enjoy playing games against each other–voice chat may not present as much utility.

“For social games, I don’t see a strong need for (voice chat) yet,” said Siqi Chen, the CEO of Social Business, a leading Facebook social games developer. “I do see a shift for more synchronous game play over time, but it hasn’t really been happening for most games.”

In part, Chen said, that’s because among friends who like to play games together, it’s fairly uncommon to be online at the same time. In addition, social games are built around short play sessions.

But he allowed that over time, as people spend more and more time on Facebook, there may well be an opportunity for social game developers to launch more engaging games that are built around longer session times, and which might work well with voice chat.

At Vivox, no one is expecting that tens of millions of users will immediately start using its voice chat technology. But the company is aware that it will likely see a significant spike in usage, and is ready to handle it when it comes, said co-founder Sharma.

And Sharma suggested that while it may be too early to know exactly how the company will monetize its Facebook integration, there are some obvious opportunities in microtransactions and audio ads that users would hear before being put into a voice channel.

For now, it’s also too early to tell just how much of a game-changer any new voice chat system will be. But based on Vivox’s track record, it is certainly one of the few companies well-positioned to jump headlong into a community as large as that of Facebook.

And to Pirillo, adding a seamless voice chat system is a natural, and just one step on the path toward where we may well be going in the near future: fully functional video chatting across the entire social network.

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Elijah Wood on ’9,’ ‘The Hobbit’ and Being a Child Star

PRINT EMAIL MORE Elijah Wood first broke into movies at the age of 7 as “Video Game Boy” in 1989′s ‘Back to the Future: Part II’ and quickly shot to stardom with leading roles in ‘Paradise,’ ‘Forever Young’ (with Mel Gibson) and ‘The Good Son’ (opposite fellow child star Macaulay Culkin).

But while the careers of so many young actors — including a certain ‘Son’ co-star — peter out as they hit that rocky patch known as puberty, Wood’s began to thrive. He bolstered his indie cred with Ang Lee’s ‘The Ice Storm,’ headlined one of the most successful franchises in movie history with his turn as Frodo Baggins in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and voiced the lead penguin in $197 mil-grossing 2006 animated flick ‘Happy Feet.’

In an exclusive interview, Wood dishes on his latest role, playing a “mechanized rag doll” fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world in Shane Acker’s feature adaptation of his own Oscar-nominated short ’9′ (in theaters Sept. 9); reveals whether we’ll see Frodo (and who should play Bilbo) in the ‘Rings’ prequel ‘The Hobbit’; and waxes nostalgic about his ‘Future’-istic big-screen debut.

In ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ you were one of nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring, and you and your co-stars each got a tattoo of the Elvish symbol for 9. Now you’re in the movie ’9,’ which opens on 9-9-09, playing a character named 9, one of nine “stitchpunks.” This is just a shot in the dark, but does the number 9 hold a special significance for you?
[Laughs] I know! It does. It’s following me around. It’s so funny, too, because I didn’t even make that connection. When I signed onto the movie and I fell in love with Shane’s short and we were doing the movie, for some reason that was lost on me. And I’m doing these interviews and people are like, “Don’t you realize how you were part of the nine members of the Fellowship and you have a tattoo of 9?” And I’m like, “Oh yeaaaah.”

The movie has some similarities to ‘Lord of the Rings,’ in that it’s a band of nine underdogs on a quest to save a war-ravaged world from evil forces — did that appeal to you?
Yeah, it did. Like I said, it was the short film that really made an impression on me … I was just so blown away by the short. I thought its art style was so unique and beautiful and unlike anything I’d seen. I was so intrigued by these characters that Shane had created, that were sort of inexplicable. I guess they’re sort of mechanized rag dolls. But I also loved how organic everything was — that they kind of appropriated old, ruined, organic elements from humans’ past and turned them into something else — very resourceful. I just loved that world that he created, and I loved the idea of being a part of it and then ultimately the idea of being a part of something that would flesh that out. Taking into consideration the journey that they all took, certainly there were similarities, but I definitely liked the characters and I think the character of 9 was interesting. They’ve already established a community, and he comes in with all these questions about who they are and what they are and that we need to get to the bottom of what these machines are about and what does this talisman do. They’ve all stopped asking those questions. I really liked that about him — that he shakes them loose a little bit to get at who they are and get at solving the dangers that face them.

The movie has a star-studded voice cast. Did you get to work off of each other, or was it more like you sitting alone in a recording studio reading lines by yourself?
There were a couple of days where we got to record in groups. I got to record with John C. Reilly, which was awesome. I’m a huge fan of his. And I got to record a little bit with Jennifer Connelly as well. But that’s the unfortunate thing about doing voiceover work. More often than not, you’re by yourself. I think we recorded all of my dialogue for the movie in the initial sessions in like one day. And then after that we had a couple of sessions with different actors. It’s always more fun and rewarding to work with other actors. It’s just for obvious reasons. You’re getting to have more of an interplay, and the scene takes on a life of its own. It feels like it has more life to it because there’s more of an interaction. But you do get used to the fact that you don’t have that most of the time. Most of the time, after the initial sessions, we’ll do sessions where I’ll be by myself, but I’ll get to hear the recording of the other cast that they’ve gotten so far — so at least there’s that reference, which definitely helps.

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You voiced the titular dragon in the ‘The Legend of Spyro’ video game. Will you be lending your voice to the film adaptation as well?
You know, it’s funny. People have mentioned that to me. I’m not attached to do that. I know that there’s talk of that. I did the video game [laughs]. I don’t know if I’ll do that or not. It’d be fun to carry on the character, but I’m not officially attached to that yet.

You’ve also been linked to the Iggy Pop biopic ‘The Passenger’ for a while now — has that gotten the go-ahead yet?
It has not gotten a green light. I’ve been attached to that for four years. It’s one of those projects that’s looking for financing perpetually [laughs]. It happens. But I sort of feel like that one will eventually happen, but I’m not sure as to when.

Dominic Monaghan mentioned a while back that he might somehow be involved in ‘The Hobbit.’ Do you know anything about that?
That was something that was talked about [when] we thought there might be … a [movie that would be a] bridge chronologically between ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ but I don’t think they’re going to do that now. From what I understand they’re going to be splitting ‘The Hobbit’ over two films. And then they’re going into some of the extended writings within ‘The Lord of the Rings’ that deal with some of the stuff that happens in ‘The Hobbit.’ For instance, the stuff with Gandalf — like where Gandalf goes in between. So I think it’ll be more those kinds of things, as opposed to getting into any period of time where characters from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ could exist. Certainly Frodo — I don’t think Frodo would exist during anything they would explore. It’s seriously doubtful, but I’m super excited that they’re doing it, and I’m really excited that Guillermo del Toro is directing it. I think it’s going to be awesome.

Who do you think should play Bilbo in the movies?
That’s a tough one. I think Ian Holm really set a high bar for that performance. He really did an extraordinary job, and he really made it his own. There’s a lot of quirkiness to that character. It’s not the easiest character to play. One couldn’t really do it straightforward — there’s some odd quirks to him. So it’ll be interesting to see who they get. Nobody really comes to mind. They’ve mentioned a few people so far. James McAvoy is great. I think he could be interesting. But as far as they’re concerned, they have not been thinking about anybody yet.

Of all the roles you’ve played, which is your favorite?
Well, ‘Sin City’ was a pretty awesome role to play. Getting a chance to play a character like that, and also being a fan of the graphic novel, it was a real treat — not something that comes around often. So that’s definitely one of my favorites. Frodo would be another of my favorites, for so many reasons. I also love the character in ‘Everything Is Illuminated’ — just so different from anything I’ve really played before, so it was just fun. He’s a very strange oddball [laughs]. I kind of enjoyed inhabiting that character for a couple of months.

Having been a child star, do you ever go back and watch some of your earlier movies and go, “Wow, I can’t believe that was me”?
Sometimes. Yeah, I watched ‘Avalon’ not long ago. I watched it last year, and I hadn’t seen it in years. And I was 8 years old when I made that. There’s a sense of detachment now, which is interesting, so I can kind of watch it like I’m not watching myself because I’m so much older. That was 20 years ago. But it’s kind of great. It’s interesting now to look back because it’s like looking at a different person, in a way.

Watch Elijah Wood in a clip from ‘Avalon’

A lot of actors who get as famous as you did at such a young age basically just implode or fade away once they hit puberty — how have you managed to stay so levelheaded and keep your career on track?
I credit my mother [laughs]. Growing up doing what I do, she was always making it so important for me to maintain a sense of normalcy. Life outside of the work I was doing as an actor was very normal. I had strict rules that I had to abide by. I was always kept grounded. I was never allowed to believe that what I was doing was making me any more important than anybody else. It was ingrained at me at a young age.

What do you remember about your big-screen debut in ‘Back to the Future: Part II’?
Oh, actually the memories are pretty vivid. I was a huge fan of ‘Back to the Future,’ as so many people were. So, for me, getting to go on that set was such a head trip [laughs]. Because I was so familiar with that big huge square that you see in the future, but I was familiar with it from the context of it being in the past or the present. Walking onto that set, I knew that world, but I was seeing it in the future. Plus, I was so obsessed with anything futuristic, and I’d never really been on a movie set like that before. So I was totally blown away. I got to meet Michael J. Fox and [Robert] Zemeckis, and all of that just blew my mind. It was like the fantasy coming to life in front of my eyes. It was almost too much to handle. It was pretty awesome.

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800m Womens Final Berlin Winner Caster Semenya – 2009 IAAF

Hypothetically speaking, lets suppose someone is born a Hermaphrodite and associates with themselves as a female individual, however, they are actually more masculine in nature, and they wish to compete in the female Olympics. How would we categorize that person in the Olympics?

I actually posted this question on yahoo answers.  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090821162445AAJjM62

One person says:

If I were to be truly fair and scientific about it, I’d test the individual’s blood for the circulating levels of testosterone. That’s really the main thing that they’re looking for in those situations. Since women have about 40x less testosterone than men (manufactered by the adrenals), I would check the serum testosterone levels and if they are more than 2 standard deviations above the upper limit for a female, I’d categorize them as male for purposes of athletic competition.

Another good reply is:

it would depend on their chromosomes, even hermaphrodites have either the male or the female chromosome they don’t have both. so regardless of whether they feel as if they are male or female in order to compete their chromosomes will have to match which ever gender they feel they are, if they don’t match then they can’t compete.

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One of my friends even say’s, “Put em in the special olympics.” ha.   Well, there are some interesting things to consider here.  What if Semenya were in the Male Olympics?  Would it be a such a controversial topic?

A good chess player is evaluated over time by his performance rating over the years if he has played chess in a competitive nature.  The Russians have always been the Top chess players in the world until Bobby Fischer emerged and became the only US Citizen to win a world chess championship.  So, I see much comparison in the united states vs. S. Korea in that regard for 2D/3D fighting games.  Without a ranking system we will never be able to compete against Korea.

The United States Chess Federation uses a rating system for each player during tournament games.  For years and years people have been trying to figure out who is better than who in 2D/3D fighting games.  I really think that the Tekken Ziabatsu crew should lead the way in setting up a rating system for player performance starting with Tekken 6.  I believe we can build an industry of our own if we put some focus on this, huge companies like Microsoft will endorse us.  We will be able to compete more and prize funds for tournaments would skyrocket.  Legends from the past would start playing again.  It would be a riot. But for the greater good.

The USCF also keeps track of tournament history.  It’s the tournament directors job to report tournament results to the USCF.  The USCF also standardizes tournament rules and regulations.  So that players cant be fools and get away with craziness.  Every month the USCF puts together Chess Life Mag. and sends it out to each of its members, with their updated rating posted on the mailing label on the mag.  it also has reporting on upcoming chess tournaments, tournament results, rating lists, players games, misc. stories, etc…  They charge between $20-40 for a year membership depending on the age bracket.  They really have things put together.  So in order to participate in the tournament you must be a member of the USCF. I think we should do the same.

Most people think they know how to play chess, because they beat some bums off the street, their family members, or maybe even won a high school chess tournament.  So they brag about their skills.  But they really don’t know how bad they suck until they start competing at rated tournaments versus other rated players. A rating really puts a players skill into perspective.  It also gives the player some time to contemplate about his opponent, what opening he’s going to use, etc…  Which is what we need, some players don’t want to expose their Ace characters versus some unknown, but that player should have the right to know who he’s up against.  What’s the caliber of the opponent that he’s facing…  Should he use Jin, Steve, or Hwoarang? etc…

The USCF breaks the rating category up like this.

USCF Rating System
Grand Master 2400+
Master        2200-2399
Expert        2000-2199
Class A       1800-1999
Developed Player (1700)           Class B       1600-1799
Class C       1400-1599
Class D       1200-1399
Class E       1000-1199
Class F       800-999
Undeveloped Player (650)   Class G       600-799
Class H       400-599
Class I       200-399
Class J       Under 200

So how could we possibly beg the question, who are our Grand Master tekken gamers?

Also note, that no chess player has ever broken the 3000 rating.  We are close, just not there yet…  So I believe it would be a good thing if we all used a rating system to track player performance in our tournament games.  Not just to know who the top dogs are, but to get an idea about our opponent.  So we can ask, “Whats your rating?”

USCF Rating System Formula…

http://math.bu.edu/people/mg/ratings/approx/approx.html

Veil of tears
It was you who gave me the eyes to see with unparalleled understanding; yet you smite me for seeing the truth.  It was you’re doing to bring me here to fulfill nothing.  These are my greatest fears!  You laugh at my suffering as if you are getting revenge for vengeance you never had.  I feel I have been fighting for many, many years.  I am exhausted, I want to give up.  I can’t because I vow that you will never have my veil of tears.  So I think its bitter sweet, all the things that you put me through.  Yet another fucking challenge, just so you can squeeze a tear.  So I smoked that blunt and drank that beer because fuck these fucking fears.  And I hate you god you son of a bitch for wasting all of these years.  So watch this, “Cheers!” and fuck these fears as I drink MY Veil of tears.

My Sunshine
Sunshine so bright and fills me with delight.  It’s the only reason that I have left to fight.  Her rays are so vibrant, yet blinding at times; but time is so timeless with never ending rhymes.  She rises for me in the morning; and falls slowly at night.  God!!! I miss her never ending light.  I wake up in the morning too her majestic glow.  Soothing and satisfying my never ending needs.  I cling to her body.  She smiles then winks and opens her thighs with a welcoming surprise. It’s so warm, it’s so tight, it fits so right… fuck! I cannot contain this surge of delight.  I can’t take it… I give up… No holding back…  Like once said before, “its better to burn out than to fade away”

I ask.
I ask. Who am I? I live a life so incomplete so docile where deep down in the dark sea is the silence that you hear in my heart.  What’s the purpose of purpose if manifest destiny replaces your soul?  Who am I? I ask.  The only one question to me from I.  Who am I?  That lives this life so hollow and vial, I scream my name out to heavens that care where oh where is my soul wont you spare?

After Nikola Tesla’s work with AC electricity he began understanding the influence of wireless electricity though use of radio frequencies.  In 1964 an experiment was conducted and shown on CBS News with Walter Cronkite where a microwave model helicopter received all the power needed for flight from the radio wave beam.  Over a distance of 1 mile, 30 kW of power transmitted with 84% efficiency!!!  That was 1964…  The premise of my idea has stemmed from this research with almost 200 years of unappreciated scientific study.  Even Thomas Edison had taken most of credit for Telsa’s research.  JP Morgan Chase his investor was not trying to pursue the idea, and ..Edison.. wanted it banned.  Tesla was forced “out of the loop” but he did not give up on his research.

Now take a moment to stand outside of the box and imagine the endless possibilities.  In the same way that your car can tune to an FM station and interpret the radio waves for your music player.  Take this idea:  Wireless electricity broadcasting from a transmitter from on set frequency (frequencies) and arriving at the receiver (your car) this frequency or frequencies of wireless electricity can power a device in your car designed to create a magnetic field.  Since we already know that magnetism can attach itself to any electrical current; you car, essentially could be “magnetized” at a specific location suspended in air.  Through the manipulation of magnetic fields you could easily configure the magnetic device to propel the car forwards or backwards in any desirable direction (Not up or down! I will explain why in a moment.  But let me continue painting this picture for you.)

By creating a device similar to a rectenna (basically, its elements are usually arranged in a multi element phased array with a mesh pattern reflector elements).  This can be constructed by use of a hot carrier diode or also known as the Schottky diode…  When placed between antenna dipoles (which are basically the separation of positive and negative charges) the rectenna itself uses switching and conduction and is very efficient at converting microwave to electrical energy.  This powers the device that is your car!  Furthermore, the varying frequencies should be designed to broadcast in parallel with other frequencies at different latitudes.  I will explain why in a moment.  In the same way that you tune your radio, the magnetic pull would attach itself to its set frequency.

I said earlier, your car would not be able to go up or down, however, that can be controlled by the frequency your car is magnetically tuned in with.  Imagine a grid of varying wireless frequencies the lowest frequency would be closer to the ground, and the highest would be at the maximum allowable latitude.  By tuning your frequency it alters the latitude where that frequency is located, your cars magnetic pull is now attracted to the magnetic frequency at that latitude.

Another question remains… And I am getting ahead of myself but this is an important topic. How would we prevent chaos in aerodynamic traffic when the magnetic fields of cars traveling along one frequency could attract cars traveling along another frequency?  I want to spend a moment to shed my light on how this can be prevented.  The reason for a grid of frequencies at varying latitudes allows for greater control of the mechanics in operation here.  I’d rather write than draw a diagram at this stage so; I’ll try my best to explain.  Cars traveling above and below each other should have rules governing each its magnetic polarity.  The “Wireless Frequency” the car is magnetically hooked onto should dictate the cars magnetic polarity.  No matter what happened the cars would oppose rather than attract another car.  Anyway, I am over this topic for the moment.  Let me know what you think and point me in a helpful direction in the exposure of this topic.

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Hulk Hogans Career In A Nutshell

1984
1/23 MSG – beat The Iron Sheik to win the WWE Championship
2/20 MSG – beat Paul Orndorff by DQ
5/21 MSG – beat David Schultz
7/23 MSG – beat Greg Valentine
9/22 MSG – lost to John Studd by count out
10/22 MSG – beat John Studd
12/28 MSG – beat The Iron Sheik

1985
2/18 The War to Settle the Score – beat Roddy Piper by DQ
3/1 WrestleMania – w/Mr. T beat Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorff
5/11 SNME – beat Bob Orton
10/5 SNME – beat Nikolai Volkoff
11/2 SNME – w/Andre the Giant beat King Kong Bundy & John Studd by DQ
11/7 Wrestling Classic – beat Roddy Piper by DQ

1986
1/4 SNME – beat Terry Funk
3/1 SNME – beat Don Muraco by DQ
4/7 WrestleMania 2 – beat King Kong Bundy in a steel cage match
5/3 SNME – w/Junkyard Dog beat Terry & Dory Funk
10/4 SNME – beat Paul Orndorff by DQ
11/29 SNME – beat Hercules Hernandez

1987
1/3 SNME – beat Paul Orndorff in a cage match
3/29 WrestleMania III – beat Andre the Giant
10/3 SNME – beat Sika
11/26 Survivor Series – w/Bam Bam Bigelow, Paul Orndorff, Don Muraco, & Ken Patera lost to Andre the Giant, One Man Gang, King Kong Bundy, Butch Reed, & Rick Rude
11/28 SNME – lost to King Kong Bundy by count out

1988
1/22 SNME – beat King Kong Bundy
2/5 Main Event – lost the WWE title to Andre the Giant
3/12 SNME – beat Harley Race
3/27 WrestleMania IV – fought Andre the Giant to a double DQ
8/29 SummerSlam – w/Randy Savage beat Andre the Giant & Ted DiBiase
10/29 SNME – beat Haku
11/24 Survivor Series – w/Randy Savage, Koko B Ware, Hillbilly Jim, & Hercules beat Haku, Ted Dibiase, Terry Taylor, Akeem, & The Big Bossman

1989
1/7 SNME – beat Akeem by DQ
2/3 Main Event – w/Randy Savage beat Akeem & The Big Bossman
3/11 SNME – beat Bad News Brown
4/2 WrestleMania V – beat Randy Savage to win the WWE title
7/29 SNME – beat The Honkytonk Man
8/2 SummerSlam – w/Brutus Beefcake beat Randy Savage & Zeus
10/14 SNME – beat Ted DiBiase
11/23 Survivor Series – w/Demolition & Jake Roberts beat Ted DiBiase, Zeus, & The Powers of Pain
11/25 SNME – lost to Lanny Poffo by count out
12/27 No Holds Barred – w/Brutus Beefcake beat Randy Savage & Zeus in a steel cage

1990
1/21 Royal Rumble – won the rumble
1/27 SNME – w/Ultimate Warrior beat Curt Hennig & Lanny Poffo
2/23 Main Event – beat Randy Savage
4/1 WrestleMania VI – lost the WWE title to The Ultimate Warrior
4/28 SNME – beat Curt Hennig
8/27 SummerSlam – beat Earthquake by count out
10/13 SNME – w/Tugboat beat Greg Valentine & The Honkytonk Man by DQ
11/22 Survivor Series – w/Jim Duggan, Big Bossman, & Tugboat beat Earthquake, Dino Bravo, Haku, & The Barbarian
11/22 Survivor Series – w/Ultimate Warrior & Tito Santana beat Rick Martel, Power & Glory, The Warlord, & Ted DiBiase

1991
1/19 Royal Rumble – won the rumble
1/28 Main Event – w/Tugboat beat Earthquake & Dino Bravo
3/24 WrestleMania VII – won the WWE title from Sgt. Slaughter
8/26 SummerSlam – w/Ultimate Warrior beat Sgt. Slaughter, Col. Mustafa, & Gen. Adnan
11/27 Survivor Series – lost the WWE title to The Undertaker
12/3 Tuesday in Texas – regained the title from The Undertaker
12/7 – Jack Tunney announces that the title is vacant due to the way the 12/3 match ended

1992
1/19 Royal Rumble – eliminated by his friend Sid Justice
1/27 SNME – w/Sid beat The Undertaker & Ric Flair by DQ
4/5 WrestleMania VII – beat Sid by DQ

1993
4/4 WrestleMania IX – w/Brutus Beefcake lost to tag team champs Ted DiBiase & IRS by DQ
4/4 WrestleMania IX – beat Yokozuna to win the WWE title
6/13 King of the Ring – lost the WWE title to Yokozuna
1994
7/17 Bash at the Beach – beat Ric Flair to win the WCW title
8/24 Clash of Champions – lost to Ric Flair by count out
10/23 Halloween Havoc – beat Ric Flair in a steel cage retirement match
11/16 COC – w/Sting beat The Butcher, Avalanche, & Kevin Sullivan
12/27 Starrcade – beat The Butcher

1995
1/26 COC – w/Randy Savage beat Kevin Sullivan & The Butcher
2/19 Superbrawl – beat Big Van Vader by DQ
3/19 Uncensored – beat Vader in a strap match
5/21 Slamboree – w/Randy Savage beat Vader & Ric Flair in a cage match
7/16 Bash at the Beach – beat Vader in a cage match
8/6 COC – beat Kamala
9/17 Fall Brawl – w/ Randy Savage, Sting, & Lex Luger beat Zodiac, Meng, Kamala, & Shark in a Wargames match
10/29 Halloween Havoc – beat The Giant in a monster truck battle
10/29 Halloween Havoc – lost to The Giant by DQ, due to a pre-match stipulation Hulk lost the WCW title

1996
1/23 COC – w/Randy Savage lost to Ric Flair & The Giant
2/11 Superbrawl – beat The Giant in a cage match
3/10 Uncensored – in a Doomsday Cage match w/ Randy Savage beat Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, Kevin Sullivan, The Barbarian, Meng, The Ultimate Solution, & Z-Gangsta
7/7 Bash at the Beach – Kevin Nash, Scott Hall & mystery partner fought to a no decision against Sting, Lex Luger, & Randy Savage. Hulk Hogan was the mystery partner and the NWO was formed after this match.
8/10 Hog Wild – beat The Giant to win the WCW title
8/15 COC – lost to Ric Flair by DQ
9/15 Fall Brawl – War Games: w/Scott Hall, Kevin Nash & Fake Sting beat Sting, Lex Luger, Arn Anderson, & Ric Flair
10/27 Halloween Havoc – beat Randy Savage
12/29 Starrcade – lost to Roddy Piper in a non-title match

1997
1/25 NWO Souled Out – fought to a no contest with The Giant
2/23 Superbrawl – beat Roddy Piper
3/16 Uncensored – Team NWO (Hogan, Hall, Nash & Savage) beat Team WCW (The Giant, Luger, The Steiners), & Team Piper (Piper, Jarrett, Benoit, & McMichael)
7/13 Bash at the Beach – w/Dennis Rodman lost to Lex Luger & The Giant
8/4 Nitro – lost the WCW title to Lex Luger
8/9 Road Wild – regained the WCW title from Lex Luger
10/26 Halloween Havoc – lost to Roddy Piper in a non-title steel cage match
12/28 Starrcade – lost WCW title to Sting

1998
2/22 Superbrawl – lost to Sting
3/15 Uncensored – fought Randy Savage to a no contest
4/19 Spring Stampede – w/Kevin Nash beat The Giant & Roddy Piper in a bat match
4/20 Nitro – beat Randy Savage to win the WCW title
6/14 Great American Bash – w/Bret Hart beat Randy Savage & Roddy Piper
7/6 Nitro – lost WCW title to Goldberg
7/12 Bash at the Beach – w/Dennis Rodman beat Karl Malone & Dallas Page
8/8 Road Wild – w/Eric Bischoff lost to Dallas Page & Jay Leno
9/13 Fall Brawl – War Games: Dallas Page won the match for Team WCW (Page, Piper & Warrior) beat Team Hollywood (Hogan, Hart, & Stevie Ray) & Team Wolfpac (Sting, Luger, & Nash)
10/25 Halloween Havoc – beat The Warrior

1999
1/4 Nitro – beat Kevin Nash in the infamous finger poke of doom to win the WCW title
2/21 Superbrawl – beat Ric Flair
3/14 Uncensored – lost the WCW title to Ric Flair
4/11 Spring Stampede – Dallas Page beat Ric Flair, Sting, & Hollywood Hogan
7/12 Nitro – beat Randy Savage to win the WCW title
8/14 Road Wild – beat Kevin Nash in a retirement match
9/12 Fall Brawl – lost WCW title to Sting
10/24 Halloween Havoc – lost to Sting

2000
2/20 Superbrawl – beat Lex Luger
3/19 Uncensored – beat Ric Flair in a strap match
5/27 Slamboree – beat Billy Kidman
6/11 Great American Bash – beat Billy Kidman
7/9 Bash at the Beach – won WCW title when Jeff Jarrett laid down
7/9 Bash at the Beach – stripped of title by Vince Russo who went on a tirade that led Hulk to sue the company

2002
3/17 WrestleMania X8 – lost to The Rock
4/21 Backlash – beat Triple H to win the WWE title
5/19 Judgment Day – lost the WWE title to The Undertaker
6/23 King of the Ring – lost to Kurt Angle
7/4 SmackDown! – w/Edge won the tag team titles from Billy & Chuck
7/21 Vengeance – lost the tag team titles to Lance Storm & Christian

2003
2/23 No Way Out – lost to The Rock
3/30 WrestleMania XIX – beat Vince McMahon
5/18 Judgment Day – as Mr. America beat Roddy Piper

2005
5/1 Backlash – w/Shawn Michaels beat Muhammad Hassan & Daivari
8/21 SummerSlam – beat Shawn Michaels

2006
8/20 SummerSlam – beat Randy Orton

Sources: PWI Almanac, thehistoryofwwe.com, Onlineworldofwrestling.com, wwe.com

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(http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36971&highlight=truedeity)

Reviving the debate…

Truedeity:

I want to offer my “theory of the day” to the community for scrutiny. I offer it as is… I do not claim to have a complete understanding of quantum physics; however, I am interested in the concepts and discussions it creates. All that I ask is that I would be credited as the first person whom presented this concept to the scientific community (Incase I got lucky “needle in the milky way”).

My theory of the day:
Maybeverse.
What if the essence of matter is “the observer” and the electron only existed within space and time during observation. And the particle(s) state exists in a present time state, yet only existing wherever the electron was present within the subatomic fractures of a multi-verse. Could you imply that dark matter/dark energy is our observation of extra potential gravity interacting with the present time state as if it were not affected by the observer, eg. The wave potential…
End.

iNow:

Interesting idea. I need to think some about it. Hopefully, others will respond in the meantime.

You might have put this into Speculations, as that’s really more what you have. In science, the word “theory” has a very definite meaning, and it’s about as close to absolute truth as you get. What you’ve got is a hypothesis, a conjecture, an idea that needs serious discussion to see where it can be improved and what can be discarded.

Enjoy.

Collapsing wave function through observation, did the wave exist before being collapsed… Interesting.

SkepticLance:

A query
If something does not exist without an observer, how can it create outcomes that are observable later, if those outcomes are created while not being observed?
For example : If a terrorist plants a bomb with a time fuse and walks off, that bomb is not being observed. Yet the terrorist can wander in later and observe the devastation. The action occurred while not being observed.
This is a crude example, but the principle also operates on a quantum level. Quantum phenomena operate without being observed and the results are later seen. Without an observer, by the speculation above, how can this happen?

Truedeity:

Adding more to the speculation…
Well I don’t believe we are the only observer in the universe. The observation function is thought of as an action. That’s the act of observing.

I want to beg this question. What is present time? The right answer is that we cannot know. We have never seen present time. Present time cannot be captured in a photograph. You can suggest that in exactly 0.000000000009 of a millisecond from, or before now is very close to a present instance of time. The only way to capture an instance of present time is to stop time. But we are still working on that one.

But what if the electron only exists in present time? Then particles only exist in present time. Manifesting our physical universe…

It is said that for every subatomic fracture a new universe is created. Every possibility that can exist, exists.
So what if the particle exists in all realms of it’s possibilities? And the act of observation suggests that within the wave of possibilities there once existed a particle here, or there. But now that particle is gone. And so is its electron. And observation merely implies that only the possibilities until “present time” existed. So the electron faded in and out of all possibilities only existing in present time, and instantly vanished into the next issue of present time. Thus a particle and its electron has no fixed position in the universe.

Tom Vose:

Was my objection here noted?

By the way, a camera always captures present time.

Secondly, you cannot destinguish actual occurances in spacetime, where something does not experience present time. EVERYTHING occurs in present time (apart from photons and tachyons). That is what makes this time the present. An electron, a camera and even a car all experiences present time, even if we never get a section of a present time that we want, anything that we process through, thought, action or changes all occur in present time. It’s the only REAL time ever in existence.

So get it right mate.

Truedeity:

The time will inevitably come when mechanistic and atomic thinking will be put out of the minds of all people of wisdom, and instead dynamics and chemistry will come to be seen in all phenomena. When that happens, the divinity of living Nature will unfold before our eyes all the more clearly.
Johann von Goethe, 1812

You do not experience present time!!!!!!!!! It is gone before your neurophysiology is able to perceputalize our holographic reality. Yes, I believe present time is rendered in the physical universe. However, I believe electrons materialize in present time at the point of subatomic fractures. Exemplifying, my point. That all waves of possibility that can be expressed by the particle, are expressed in a multiverse of realities.

To claim that a photograph is one instance of present time, is stupid… The amount of light that enters the shutter of the lens, is manifested into a photograph. You don’t have to be a quantum guru to comprehend photography class. A Genius is not someone who can perform calculations. Foresight is the rare genius, it is the likes of Nikola Tesla that humanity is longing for. The best knowledge, is not knowing. Let intuition run its course, otherwise, you will learn yourself into a Box of impossibility.

All cameras that develop a photo have the fading effect. One moving object can be seen in multiple places on the picture. Even the best stop-motion camera in the world cannot capture a single instance of present reality. Your suggesting the object existed in two places at once…

I have been made angry. To anyone that cares. I have no more time for toddler minds. So here is my last vent… If you wish to offer evidence to refute my claim, or either from associated presses, and or bits of established science; provide forceful proof. In the words of Richard Feynman, “It’s not inconceivable? I just conceived it!”

In my opinion, Quantum Physicists have formed their own religion. They believe only a few of their elite are able to even discuss physics. What a determent to humanity. Claiming they have the ineffable experience, after submerging themselves in long division. As they experience higher dimensions. What a(n) ego trip they are on. So does every fundamental Christian experience the same thing in deep prayer… (see, Richard Dawk for reason explanation.) You guys attack all external possibilities. Hiding behind the complexity of Quantum Physics, don’t over gratifying your own IQ. Physicists try so hard sowing the quilt of math around broken theory. There are so many KNOWN gaps, that science has to reinvent a new particle to explain something else without well known supported theories crumbling… To the extent that they are unable to perceive with intuition; All they know how to do is understand is the math they have spent their whole lives trying to grasp. The inaccuracy though “publish or perish” has mentality clouded their intuitions under the lime lights of obtaining a Nobel Prize.
Besides, some of you responded as if you didn’t understand what I wrote initially anyway. Can anyone smarter post?

We think of science as being based on observation and being open to change, but as you learn more about it and about the scientists themselves, you realize how much it is a religion. It is very closed [and] resistive to changing its fundamental principles…

-Paul LaViolette

To SkepticLance
If something does not exist without an observer, how can it create outcomes that are observable later, if those outcomes are created while not being observed?

Clarification:
What I intend to mean, is that the universe is a part of the observation function. For which, there is no previous definition, or discussion. This is a completely new idea that has never been considered. And there are practical implications. But I believe it is the barrier that creates the universe of substance.

Atoms are considered to be empty forces of energy. So if you’re asking me how can manifest destiny exist? In my view, all possibilities that can exist do exist.
But I ask, which of you can explain why Atom’s materialize a physical universe at all? Atoms are considered empty forces of energy potential.

Ophilite:

I’m going to take a wild assed guess here, Truedeity. Your opening post was interesting and its tenor excellent. You offered a speculation, but you did so in a self-deprecating manner. That was very encouraging.

Why was that important? This and other forums have been filled with nonsense by people who ‘have a theory’. (iNow and Phi for All both offered friendly advice on the dangers of calling your own speculation a ‘theory’.)

Then, enter stage left, the banned and discredited Tom Vose. In apparent response to his post you offer up a lengthy piece that includes the words “I have been made angry. To anyone that cares. I have no more time for toddler minds.”

Whether you intended it or not, that pretty well identified you as a classic “I have a theory” woo-woo. Then you resurface 3 months later as if nothing had happened.

Status? No one gives a damn. You might try apologising to iNow and Phi for All for implying that they were toddler minds. You might try reining in your ego. You might try keeping a clamp on your temper. I don’t think it will do much good, but I suspect it’s the only course of action that might.

Kaeroll:

Question/problem: looking at your basic premise – electron/observer interaction as the basis of, well, everything – it seems somewhat anthropocentric. The only observer we know of is ourselves; we are made up in part of electrons. If these electrons don’t exist until observed, how can they ‘observe’ the rest of the universe to make that spring into being?

I don’t buy the notion that everything vanishes when you close your eyes,which is what your speculation suggests. If an electron only exists when you measure it with some scientific method, which is what the term observe means in this context, what’s to stop my body turning to steam and dust?

Kaeroll

Truedeity:

we are not the observer.

Ophiolite:

Earlier you said “What if the essence of matter is “the observer” and the electron only existed within space and time during observation. And the particle(s) state exists in a present time state, yet only existing wherever the electron was present within the subatomic fractures of a multi-verse.”

There seems to be some cirularity in your cause and effect. Would you clarify your meaning please.

Truedeity:

Nothing said is redundant here, just a different age of knowledge. For every sub atomic fracture a new universe of possibilities is created. Which literally means every second there are billions of possibilities as stated above. What I am implying, is that only those possibilities that are observable exist. All other possibilities do exist, but fade out of existence as the electron leaves that parallel universe instance and into a new instance. Since time is an aspect of the 7th dimension (and gravity), we are only able to comprehend a single aspect of it. All of these possibilities exist for us, but which of these possibilities will we observe? This is a time of great importance, and we need to not observe ourselves out of existence because there is a threshold.

I have known about this, oh, roughly 8 years now… I can’t even explain how I know certain things. Sometimes, when you think, you think, it’s not just you……………….

There’s more of a shared thing happening here…
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I’d love to illustrate aspects of something that’s ineffable….. But it can only be experienced….
….
You might be surprised that even you, can figure this out…
….
The more you try to get detailed about what’s really happening behind the curtains, the more you get locked into impossibility. Although, this is not the only thing, I feel we should have caught up long ago….

It’s less Left, and more Right…. If you get my drift… You get to a point where you have to look inward for the best answers…….

Observation is actually an aspect of consciousness, for the universe as a living organism. Yes, I said the universe is a living organism… -,- well, It is…

Think about this, the most elaborate creation in the universe is the human brain. Do you think it’s just a coincidence? The universe didn’t just start out with that advancement. It merely observed all of its possibilities along the way… The question is what is our role? And what’s next? And why is the universe hiding its singularity?

I believe the universe is trying to evolve in order to save its own life. As the photosphere is seeping outside of the static layers… (That means its dieing.) So it stimulates billions of observational possibilities, until it reaches its threshold. Now that we are aware of that, its death is nearing. Because we are limiting its options by having comprehension of this concept…

A thought is made of sound, frequency, energy, and vibration. If you ask yourself what atoms are made of, you would have to agree that they are made of the same thing thoughts are made of. And everything else for that matter… Only difference is that we have a bio-electromagnetic field around our body, and our thoughts ripple though that field and though other conducting fields in the universe. But its not “in-delay” as you would think. The universe is knowledgeable of itself fully…

I hold nothing against agnostic people, as I used to be somewhat agnostic when I was younger. Until I started grasping these concepts and meditating about them for years. Let’s that God as we “Believe” him to exist, and observe that he exists with belief, we taunt his essence into existence. I think that the universe is more less “Godding” in some since. If you consider some of the Biblical passages, it might seem creepy how perfectly this lines up.

Ask yourself this question, “if god was an all loving creator, why would he allow genocide to exist?”

What if the answer to that is a bit more complicated than most fundamental Christians try to tackle and wrap into “he gave us free choice”… What if the answer is a paradox? What if God doesn’t exist yet… What if he exists in the future? What if he is cultivated as a consciousness with our thoughts, and the universe becomes that essence. Because time is a concept of the 7th dimension it means that it had already occurred, however, the sequence of events that designed his existence allowed for the universe to exist via. Observational omnipresent functions…

I wager that evolution does exist, as a co-operative force that helps the universe survive for itself and inadvertently creates the loving concept of god with 6000+ years of human belief in God. Thus evolution does exist, just not in the same aspect that most categorize it with.

So we are helping the self awareness of the universe in a particular since.

“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

—- Seemly, the passage is more than just God created man in his image…

its also,
—- god created man in his image. In that image god created him… male and female he created them.—

Think … look it up. Elohim…………….

Also consider, I am the alpha and the omega, the being, and the end.

Nothing in the bible suggest that God was not created in the future and presently here since the beginning… Watching, waiting for the opportunity to step in so that he can do his work.. but he has to wait, so that he can exist first….

As we mature, and observe, we harness more and more of these reality implication’s from a comprehensible point of view… This is observation that can be tested, with implication that can be expected…

The time is now for people to wake up. I could debate this, but would waste way to much time. If you want to know how deep this rabbit hole really is:

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