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.