Skynet Continues...

We seem to be heading full tilt into the "Skynet" senario.

Building a Holometer

I've always wondered if I'm a figment of somethings imagination.

The Future of Lighting

The future is here and it's bright and moving fast.

DARPA Does Butterflys

Every day, I am amazed.....

DNA Robots

I can't even extrapolate where this is going.
I'll just have to go along for the ride.

Hypersonic Multi-warhead Cruise Missle

Now you're gone if you blink.

What Is Life ??

If we can ask what is life about ourselves.
Someday the machines will make themselves in our image.

X-51 Waverunner

Here we go...
The flight tests of a missle/aircraft that will
eventually go mach 25.
A missle that will get to its destination faster
to be more leathal when it arrives.
Who needs nukes. The velocity and impact that this
thing will make is like an incoming comet.
Unless of course the Russians or North Koreans or
Iranians get into a missle race and start flinging
EMP devices that knock the Waverunner out.
Bigger better faster.....

DARPA's Brain Implants

This is actually more profound than anything the financial end
of the military has ever done. The possibilities will alter life
as we know it. Soon.

Extra-Dimensional Universes in the Lab

Ya see, this is why we don't see any aliens.
They are eather "cloaked" or they are so advanced
that they easily move among us as at will.

Snipers Get A New Gun

I hope it's aim is true and it saves American lives.

Trapping Giant Rydberg Atoms

I like anything quantum. I think a lot of questions we
don't even know to ask lye in quantum physics.

DNA Time Travel - Species Discovered that Sleep for Millennia

Huhmm.... Resurrection technology. Interesting.

Lanthanide Mining

The reason for the "Lanthanide Mining" link above.
A more technical article below.
http://www.vsep.com/pdf/LanthanideMining.pdf

The Worlds Fair in Shanghi China

Scroll down and see all the pavilions.
It's amazing how much they put into all this.

Virus Trained to Seek and Destroy Cancer

Now this would be a quantum leap.
I wonder about the side affects tho.
I worry about those "suicide” genes.

Noahs Ark

Ok, this would have been a more valid historical
find if it had been found by somebody else.

A Million Year Old Alien Technology

Article by: THE DAILY GALAXY
Arthur C Clarke made the famous observation that any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. Following in his footsteps, world renowned experts from physicist Sir Martin Rees of Cambridge University to Astrobiologist Paul Davis of Arizona State have asked if we were to encounter alien technology far superior to our own, would we even realize what it was. A technology a million or more years in advance of ours could well appear miraculous.
In fact, Davies writes in his new book, Eerie Silence, that advanced technology might not even be made of matter. That it might have no fixed size or shape; have no well-defined boundaries. Is dynamical on all scales of space and time. Or, conversely, does not appear to do anything at all that we can discern. Does not consist of discrete, separate things; but rather it is a system, or a subtle higher-level correlation of things.
Are matter and information, Davies asks, all there is. Five hundred years ago, he writes, “the very concept of a device manipulating information, or software, would have been incomprehensible. Might there be a still higher level, as yet outside all human experience, that organizes electrons? If so, this "third level” would never me manifest through observations made at the informational level, still less at the matter level.
We should be open to the distinct possibility that advanced alien technology a billion years old may operate at the third, or perhaps even a fourth or fifth level.

The Billion Year Technology Gap

If you were a lizard looking at a human, would you know
what you were looking at?
A fly that lands on a fried chicken wing doesn't know
what a chicken is.
A flea sitting on a cows ass when a car goes by at
70 miles per hour thinks the cows ass is it's whole
world. The car going buy was an unknown blur.
Like the wind.
There are so many things we look at and don't see.

Hawking Says Aliens Will Probably Want To Conquer Us

He's probably right. I just wonder what information
he correlated and extrapolated to come to that conclusion.
There may be ET's out there. Some people think they are already
amungst us. Studying us, changing our culture, our societies,
enhancing our technologies and pushing us toward a singularity.
As Ray Kurzweil indicates.
Our AI technologies are swiftly connecting a lot of
possibilities now.
Everything seems faster.

Living With Eyjafjallajokull

Fantastic pictures of the Iceland volcano.

Milky Way's Center Yield Clues

I love this kind of science.

Solar Dynamics Observatory

Great video and pictures of our sun.

Fungus Among Us

There will probably be more of this sort of thing
as the temp gets warmer.

Choose Oil or Rare Minerals

While we are so concerned about where we get oil
and worry about those that hate us.
China is quietly making sure that all our high tech
purchases are made of minerals that can be found
mostly in China.
There's only one company in the USA that even mines
these rare minerals.

Sheep on Meth ? Where's PETA

I don't think I have enough crumbs to find my way back home.......

137 Years of Robotic Fascination

In the next 25 years they will be smarter than us.

Behind the Air Force's Secret Robotic Space Plane

I think it's strange that our one government can't seem to
cross these vehicles into different agencies. Airforce to NASA.
Same vehicle. Different missions. Save money. What a consept.

Gene Traits

I like the direction this is going in.
I like the idea of genetic improvements.
After all we are spiritual beings in
Earthbound bodies. We might as well have
the best bodies possible. We would live
longer and experience life on a more
consistent level of awareness.

Dr. Cargill Endorses Genetic Transplant

This guy proves there is a shift in religious ideas.

Health Insurers Cooking Their Books

Any way you look at it, the insurance industry is gonna screw us.

Conscious Robots

This is going to get really interesting.

Geminoid F Bot

Well, all I can say is we know where this is gonna go.
Talk about changing society.
Talk about paradym shift.
Talk about Stepford wives.
Talk about relationships.
Talk about the gaming industry.
Talk about the IT industry.
Talk about the service industry.
Talk about obsolete porn industry.
Talk about obsolete hookers.
Talk about obsolete slaves.
Talk about downloading your soul into one of these.

Quantum Spin Liquid

I think our next big evolutionary step will be because of an understanding
in quantum physics.

Another Asteroid Missed Us This Week

Stephen Hawking is correct.
Hopefully we will live long enough to have a portion
of our civiliztion in space when the next impact comes.

Nuclear Sub Rammed USS New Orleans

This happened last year.
I wonder if Oprah will ask them to sign the "no texting" petition?
Oh wait, the navigator was just listening to his Ipod. That's not a
distraction. That's just kicking back and relaxing.
Oh wait. He was studying for a test too.
What about doing his freaking job !!!

Electric Bicycles

A great idea but expensive.
Not really when compared to the price
of a car.

The Bees Restored

It's hopeful that maybe this can happen all over the world.
If we don't restore the bees we're screwed.

Global Map of Human Gene Expression

I love this kind of stuff.

Israel Defense Shield

I think they need all the help they can get.

Vultures Picking Rubber From Cars

Maybe it's a collective response toward humans for:
1. Invading their territory?
2. They are hinting for food?
(like throw me some frys and I won't screw up you car)
3. Something changed in their environment?
4. It's like Lassie trying to get the humans attention
to go save the kid in the woods?
5. Something in the rubber composite makes them think its food?
(like the "love bugs" think the road is a swamp)
6. They have aquired a taste for rubber because they have eaten
road kill for so many years? (it's a generational thing)

Near Record Temps

It's April.
What happened to spring ??

How Your Brain Remembers The Future

My brain definately does this.

1 Year Before The 1906 Earthquake

(thanks to John "the Boston jarhead" for bringing this to my attention)
"In 1905, an unknown cameraman filmed a streetcar trip along San Francisco's Market Street. The following year, the Great Earthquake struck, and he filmed the trip again. This is a five-minute silent film that edits together excerpts of his two films. Footage from the Prelinger Archives, edited by Matt Lake
Music from the live recording of "Ennio After Dark", recorded at Eyedrum in Atlanta, Georgia by the Atlanta band "dp3".

When you think about it this is probably one of the most
profound things you'll ever see. All these people are dead.
from the quake or WW1 six years later or the depression from
1939 or WW2 from 1941 or from old age if they were lucky.

I saw a movie once called "The Grand Tour"
It was about people popping in from the future at
points in the past when disasters were about to take
place. The disasters (earthquakes, wars, sinking ships, floods,
plane crashes, etc..) were a tourist attraction. The time
travelers were tourists from the future coming back for
the experience. The excitement of living thru the event.
Actually, there is probably more truth in that than we know.
I mean, look at the gaming industry. See how we mimic all these
events in games. Our entire history will one day be a game.
It's like looking into an infinity mirror.
You can have an avatar now in a place called "Second Life".
That doesn't even include the games. See "Gamer" or "Surrogate".
If you extrapolate this stuff into the future you have to know that
at some point we upload and download into avatars. Maybe that's
who we really are now. Maybe we should ask Ronald D. Moore about it.
Just one of my radical thoughts. Besides, you are just a figment
of my imagination.

13000 Years Ago

This gives a sense of how fragile we are.

Artifical Human Brain

I think we're about to find our origins.

Starlite

I love the progression of knowledge.

The Worlds Most Expensive Cow

Well, it's Canada not India but I think "holy cow" is appropriate.

Anthropocene Epoch

A new age of geological time.
I'm glad someone told us.

Dating of Ancient Treasures

More accurate history. As time goes on, hopefully, politicians
won't be able to re-write history or skew it.

Human Population Down To 10000

This is one of the reasons why I think we need to establish off planet populations.

Oldest Living Thing In The World

I love trees.
I don't hug trees.
I think of them the way native Americans do.
Trees have spirits. Maybe not like ours but they
are alive and who knows wheather they are aware.

India Owns Gulf Of Mexico Oil

The next time you hear politicians screaming to drill
off shore in the Gulf of Mexico, remember this article.
The oil is not going to us.

New Use For Nanoids

I really like this.
We are getting close to the techno convergence.

How Cars Are Made

No budget problems at this auto factory!!

This is where the insidious mind conditioning starts.
Where the youngsters learn the desire to drive.
I was fortunate. My desire to drive started when my
dad turned my brother and I loose in a 4x4 weapons
carrier with no brakes (that was 1963).
We ran over trees and into ditches.
I can still remember my dad rolling on the ground laughing.
It was a hoot. Ahh the good old days.

NATO And Russian Co-operation

Let's get around a campfire and have a
sing along. Can we all get along?

Aircruise Concept

I like the idea of slowing down
for a voyage around the world.

Corp. Entity Murray Hill, Inc., Runs For Congress

Well, I suppose the next step is for Congress
to create a new law voiding this possibility.
Or, maybe I'll create an S corporation for 50
dollars and run it for congress. It would be
great. The corporation protects me from any
liabilities or at least limitied liability.
It would have a golden parachute which would
of course take care of me in my old age.
The possibilities are endless.....

Library of Congress

Great source of information.

Drones On Our Border

Actually this has been going on for a while.
And it's not just on the border.

New Energy Source

Here come the tricorders, phasers, lazers,
robots, avatars, holodecks.......

NOAA Website Hazards Map

This is a great tool for exploring the locations
of earthquake, volcanoes, and tsunami information.

Book Police

Now this is to much government.
This country is becoming very unstable.

Caulking Womens Buttocks

Maybe waterproof ?
Not healthy.
Not sanitary.
Probably not very comfortable after it sets. (not sits, har har, get it?)
(pun intended)

Flying Assassin

Sooner or later this will bite us all in the ass.

U.S. Awards 107 Billion To Firms Breaking Iran Sanctions

Do we still have the kitchen sink??

Unemployed Because They Want To Be ???

Open mouth.
Insert foot.

Climate Change Adaptation

I think looking into our past is the best
way to see the future. It's where we see
cycles.

Knowing The Mind of God

I love reading this stuff.
I like to extrapolate ideas with my imagination.
I don't understand a lot of it but I like to try.

New Frontier In Physics

Paradigm Shhhiiifffftttt...

U.S. Military Interventions

I mean for this blog to be mostly about science and technology.
I don't care much for politics. Politicians are all mostly idiots
with power. I like looking at things in a positive light.

I'm posting this link because a friend I call The Boston Jarhead
(a Marine) sent it too me. That's the amazing part.
I have another friend that I call The South Florida Jarhead (a Marine)
that would have ranted at me for a month if I had sent him this article.
It's very controversial.

Robots: Problem of Consciousness

God I love this stuff.

The Future For UAV's In The Air Force

Since Congress killed the FCS program we
should expect that technology to morph into
a lot of this.

Earth Axis Shifted

How many of these would it take to turn the USA
into the Sahara Desert?

Antartic Glacier On The Move

Does this mean the conveyor is about to shift.
In the northern hemisphere this is what happens
before the ice age arrives.

Pesticide Turns Males Frogs Into Female Frogs

You know what they say about the food chain.
It will eventually get to us.

Quantum Physics Puzzle

This should speed things up everywhere.

How Scared Should We Be ?

There are so many things we should be afraid off
that we don't even know about.

No, To The Airborne Laser

That was a waste of over 8 billion dollars. Of oourse, if it follows
the same fate as the Crusader tank (early 1990's) and the FCS project
(killed last year), the airborne laser will simply morph into another
project funded with billions of dollars.

Bloom; The Power Industry Revolution

This should have an intersting impact on the energy industries.

Band of Bots

The machines are rising.

Brains Response To Inequality

There's something algorythmicly profound about this.

Last Unexplored Mountain Range On Earth

Good luck with that exploration.

Space Junk

I guess it's getting really messy up there.

Israel One Ton UAV

Hum, this will ramp things up.

Before The Bang

I don't know if it's true. Knowbody does.
Not even the guys that created the theory.
But it continues my state of wonder, which
is all that really matters to me. I like
being in a state of awe.

Robotswarm

This reminds me of Michael Crichton's "Prey".
The study of lifeform behavior transfered
to artificial lifeforms.
We're getting there.

Endeavour Is Home Safe and Sound

Welcome home.

Cancer Fighting Nanobubbles

This sounds promising.
Give me some nanoids.

Codex Sinaiticus

Do the Russians have archives on everything.
I don't know wheather to think they have a nack for
research or they have a collective paranoia.

Mental Exercise

Yeah, this is gonna keep me grounded, sane,
mentally nembal and other wise jokular.
Maybe it will keep me from being a drulling idiot.
No, wait, it's too late......phhhhthuurppp..

China Develops Military Space Technology

Don't tell me there's anybody out there that didn't see this coming.

E-waste Medals For 2010 Winter Olympics

Hey if I could harvest the metals from electronics. I would certainly do it.

Search For Extraterrestrial Genom

They'll figure it out sooner or later.

Suicide From Homemade Gas

Is the world so overpopulated?
Are people so desperate?

Control

The implants are next............
Then you become a machine.
Then you upload your soul to a cloud server.
Then you download your soul to a new body.
Then you can live forever. Oh, wait. Doesn't this sound familiar?

Demolition Man

I'm glad this guy is on our side, I think.

Airborne Laser

I hope this works when the missles fly...

The Drake Equation for the Multiverse

Todays mind boggler........I am boggled.

Psychiatry Revisions

Sooner or later were all gonna be nuts.....

Campaign Funds

I hope this is bipartisan and negates the Supreme Court ruling.
If they would only take special interests, lobbiests and corporations
totally out of the process. Only individual people should be able to
contribute.

An Oil-Less Recovery

I understand the consiquence of this but I hope the trend continues.
We don't need to be hostage to entities that are hostile to our
way of life. However, we do need to lead in the energy alternative.

Tranquility To The ISS

It was a beautiful launch of the Endeavour at 4:14am this morning.
An eventful night with the Super Bowl game and the Saints win.
Lots of screaming going on around here last night.

Corporations Changing Names

To take attention away from their mistakes.
(Remember when Valujet Airlines changed bought Airtran
to get a name change after the everglades crash ?)

Immortal Synthetic Organisms

Oh, this should be good. I mean, it's in the hands of the Pentagon.

Assassinating Americans

This article goes on as if this idea is not entrinched in our society.
I live in a state with a law that says if you threaten me I can kill you.

As they said back in the 90's.....Blah, blah, blah, yadha, yadha, yadha.....

MRI Brain Scans Show Signs of Consciousness

Next the may be able to detect your soul.

Wild Design

Popular Mechanics has a great article on architecture.

Computers That Use Light Instead of Electricity

Now we're getting somewhere. I want one NOW !

Starburst Galaxies

It's amazing.......The human pace of gaining knowledge about everything.
It just keeps getting faster and faster.

Careerbuilder Commercials

Vote on your favorite. They are all funny.

Chicken Playing Chicken

I guess things are sooooo dull in Hollywood that the
poperatzi will flash anything that moves. Although,
I'd rather read about a chicken than say, Brittney Spears.

The Geezers' Crusade by David Brooks

This is an insightful article.
It's probably going to be true.
Ban together all my fellow curmudgeonly geezers !!!!!

Global Brain

I actually think we are going in this direction
full tilt. As Ray Kurzweil says "The Singularity
is Near".

Top Gear - General Motors hy wire

I wouldn't mind having one of thes NOW !!

America's Infrastructure

If this keeps billions of dollars a year in the USA
instead of Middle East pockets, I'm all for it.

Ma Earth Healing Herself

Very Interesting........
If I were an old guy sitting on a tricycle
I'd fall over. Oh, wait, I am an old guy.
I just don't have a tricycle........yet......

Poll Says Americans Clueless About World And Politics

The Media and Polls:
If they aren't trying to make us afraid of it,
they are trying to make us apathetic about it.

Soldier Impaled By RPG in Afghanistan

The book WAR HEROES: Voices from Afghanistan.
One of the stories is about PVT Channing Moss, who was
impaled by a live RPG during a Taliban ambush while on patrol.
Army protocol says that medevac choppers are never
to carry anyone with a live round in him. Even though they
feared it could explode, the flight crew said damn the protocol
and flew him to the nearest aid station.
Again, protocol said that in such a case the patient is to be put
in a sandbagged area away from the surgical unit, given a shot
of morphine and left to wait (and die) until others are treated.
Again, the medical team ignored the protocol. Here's a seven-minute
video put together by the Military Times, which includes actual
footage of the surgery where Dr. John Oh, a Korean immigrant
who became a naturalized citizen and went to West Point, removed
the live round with the help of volunteers and a member of the EOD
(explosive ordinance disposal) team.
Moss has undergone six operations but is doing well at
home in Gainesville, GA.
                               Military Times

Getting Deep in Russia

That's a lot of water.....

Sinus Surgery

I'm sure lots of folks would benefit from this.
I know I would......

Energy Gathering Gadgets

I want all of these........

Defense Contractors Avoiding Taxes

Hummm, they take the money from our government and move the jobs offshore.
When will people realize that our infrastructure (tax base) is crumbling.......

Education and The Future of Technology

If you haven't had your mind boggled lately,
look at this video file. I don't know if it's true.
I don't know who compiled or extrapolated
the information but just think about it. The
direction is true. Our world is in the middle
of a transformation.
(keep your mouse cursor over the pause button)
You might want to ponder some of this.

Fuel Injected UAV's

I think that Aurthur Clark and Stephen Baxter had
great insight into our society in the book Light of Other Days.
Ronald D Moore had great insight when he created Caprica,
The Plan, and the latest iteration of Battlestar Galactica.
Ray Kurzwell is on target when he wrote The Age Of
Spiritual Machines and The Singularity Is Near.
We are in the middle of a transformation and it is like
"you can't see the forest for the trees".

Is There Anybody Out There ??

I hope it's in my lifetime.........
I hope they are friendly and I hope they
don't see me as food.

Stongest Scientific Power will be China by 2020

Better brush up on your Mandarin.........

No Big Bang ??

Oh, well, we should have known.......
This hurts my head....... Headache going on here.....
When you consider that there are less than a handful
of people on this rock that even have an inkling of
understanding about where we are in the universe........
(earth, solar system, Orion arm of galaxy, constellation ? group?)
I'm not gonna worry about it......

Ferry The Astronauts to Space

I live about 6 miles from the shuttle launch pads.
I can look out my front window and see the
VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building). It's very large.
These articles are like nails in the coffin of an old
friend.
I know everything passes.
I know we must move on.
It still hurts. It's still sad.
After the February 7th shuttle launch there will only
be 5 shuttle launches left.

From The American People

If you have an interest in knowing how and where the USA has a
presence in the world, helping, mending, promoting good will.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

I think I'll participate !!!.....

Space Diver to Break Sound Barrier

A new description for insanity..............
Sounds like fun.
I'd do it.

Not Enought Protection From Meteors ??

Well, I think this is a DUHH moment.
Considering the catastrophic impacts of the past,
what makes us safe now?
We barrely know where we are in our own galaxy.
We are just becoming aware of the dynamic encounters
of our Solar System  as we move thru space.
There are cycles that we don't even know about..........

Human "bed-warmers"

Well, as long as it is sanitary...........
I tell ya what. I lived in Northern Indiana
a couple winters in the 1990's.
When there is a -60 below zero wind chill you will
crawl in bed with anything that is warm.

787 Dreamliner Tests

I hope this thing starts a trend in saving fuel......
I dought the price of airline tickets will come down......
Maybe it is safer......

Meteor Hits Doctors Office

Imagine being in the examination room having
a colonoscopy or eye exam.
I think you know where I'm going with this.....
(s___ or go blind) har har har

Private Clouds

Actually, I think this is exciting.
I have no idea where this takes us as a civilization.
But, it is where we are going at full tilt.......

One Person Hovercraft

I want one......

Liquid Diamonds on Uranus..........Oh, and Neptune......

Some things just go without saying........I'm being silent now.....

Stealth Plane "Puffin"

I guess sooner or later there will be a "stealthy" invisible plane..............

Stephen Hawking, Is The Universe Finetuned for Life?

Looks like a big middle finger to me......