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Microsoft's Israeli partner sees a remote-less world [09/06/10] "Inon Beracha envisions a world where your movements control the gadgets and devices around you. There's no remote control to lose, no buttons to push. The air conditioner senses your presence and changes the temperature to your liking.  Controlling your surroundings with the wave of a hand sounds like magic, but Beracha's company, PrimeSense, is already making headway, thanks to a little help from video games. PrimeSense's 3-D camera is a key component of Microsoft Corp.'s Kinect motion- and voice-control technology for the Xbox 360 game system. Coming this fall, Kinect will let people play games and watch movies on the Xbox with no wand, controller, mat or remote. It recognizes users' gestures and voices, so you can control on-screen characters in racing, action and sports games simply by speaking or moving your body. If it's a hit, it could pave the way for a remoteless future. Beracha and his PrimeSense colleagues see their technology as an integral part of the home of the future. PrimeSense already has other collaborations in the works, with TVs and PCs fitted with its device targeted for next year. "Our vision is to see this technology become ubiquitous, in every consumer device," said Beracha, PrimeSense CEO. [...]"   

Now You See It, Now You Don’t — an Invisibility Cloak Made of Glass  [09/04/10] "From Tolkien’s ring of power in The Lord of the Rings to Star Trek’s Romulans, who could make their warships disappear from view, from Harry Potter’s magical cloak to the garment that makes players vanish in the video game classic “Dungeons and Dragons, the power to turn someone or something invisible has fascinated mankind. But who ever thought that a scientist at Michigan Technological University would be serious about building a working invisibility cloak?  That’s exactly what Elena Semouchkina, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan Tech, is doing. She has found ways to use magnetic resonance to capture rays of light and route them around objects, rendering those objects invisible. Semouchkina and colleagues at the Pennsylvania State University, where she is also an adjunct professor, recently reported on their research in the journal Applied Physics Letters, published by the American Institute of Physics. Her co-authors were Douglas Werner and Carlo Pantano of Penn State and George Semouchkin, who works at Michigan Tech and Penn State. They describe developing a nonmetallic cloak that uses identical glass resonators made of chalcogenide glass, a type of dielectric material (one that does not conduct electricity). In computer simulations, the cloak made objects hit by infrared waves—approximately one micron or one-millionth of a meter long—disappear from view. Earlier attempts by other researchers used metal rings and wires. “Ours is the first to do the cloaking of cylindrical objects with glass,” Semouchkina said. Her invisibility cloak uses metamaterials, which are artificial materials having properties that do not exist in nature, made of tiny glass resonators arranged in a concentric pattern in the shape of a cylinder. The “spokes” of the concentric configuration produce the magnetic resonance required to bend light waves around an object, making it invisible. " 

Scientists develop Star Trek-style diagnosis device [09/03/10] "A team of British scientists have developed a Star Trek-style medical "tricorder" that they claim can diagnose diseases such as breast cancer in minutes. [...]"  

Bacteria could make self-healing concrete [09/03/10] "Concrete might heal its own hairline fractures -- as living bone does -- if bacteria are added to the wet concrete during mixing, European researchers say. [...]"  

Eye-Roll:  Amateur Math Wiz Calculates Pi to 5T Digits [09/03/10] "A Japanese math enthusiast has shattered the record for calculating the value of Pi. Shigeru Kondo, 55, spent roughly $17,800 building the homemade computer that helped him accomplish the feat—it boasted 32 terabytes-worth of hard drive, and had to have fans blown on it at all times to keep it cool. The calculation took 90 days and seven hours, and once was nearly ruined when Kondo’s daughter tripped a circuit breaker, the Daily Telegraph reports. When the dust cleared, Kondo had calculated Pi to 5 trillion digits, shattering the 2.7 trillion digit record set by a French engineer late last year. He intends to apply to the Guinness Book of World Records, then do it all over again. He says he only used 60% of the computer’s capacity, and thinks he could get it up to 10 trillion digits if he tried. [...]"  

China corners world 'rare earth' supply [09/02/10] "China's monopoly on elements used in computer disc drives, electric cars, military weapons and other key products could mean a crisis for the West, experts say. [...]"  Note: Not exactly. There are rare earth deposits in Wyoming.

As Usual, MSM Gushingly “Predicts” Fascist Future [09/02/10] [2:02]  "It always starts out with the MSM doing a puff piece on some “wonderful” new technology which will make our lives “safer” and more “efficient.” From the broadcasting arm of the number one New World Order industrial corporation, General Electric, comes this story about the “convenience” of being microchipped for identification. [...]"  

Eye-Roll: 'Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium' [09/01/10] "If  Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years. Dr Rubbia says a tonne of the silvery metal – named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor’s day or Thursday - produces as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium, or 3,500,000 tonnes of coal. A mere fistful would light London for a week. Thorium eats its own hazardous waste. It can even scavenge the plutonium left by uranium reactors, acting as an eco-cleaner. "It’s the Big One," said Kirk Sorensen, a former NASA rocket engineer and now chief nuclear technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering. "Once you start looking more closely, it blows your mind away. You can run civilization on thorium for hundreds of thousands of years, and it’s essentially free. You don’t have to deal with uranium cartels," he said. [...]"  Note:  This naive person describes precisely WHY it's not going to happen. Look at the BHP Billiton uranium cartel in Australia ... 

"Nanotechnology: Small wonders" [09/01/10] "The US National Nanotechnology Initiative has spent billions of dollars on submicroscopic science in its first 10 years. Corie Lok finds out where the money went and what the initiative plans to do next. [...]"  

"Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chips Again" [08/31/10] "Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory that has been the basis for the consumer electronics revolution. In recent years the limits of physics and finance faced by chip makers had loomed so large that experts feared a slowdown in the pace of miniaturization that would act like a brake on the ability to pack ever more power into ever smaller devices like laptops, smartphones and digital cameras. But the new announcements, along with competing technologies being pursued by companies like IBM and Intel, offer hope that the brake will not be applied any time soon. In one of the two new developments, Rice researchers are reporting in Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society, that they have succeeded in building reliable small digital switches — an essential part of computer memory — that could shrink to a significantly smaller scale than is possible using conventional methods.  [...]"  Related: Quest for more computer memory ongoing  

Scientists see uses for odd 'dry water' [08/27/10] "Scientists say a substance dubbed "dry water" resembling powdered sugar could absorb and store carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas causing global warming. "There's nothing else quite like it," researcher Ben Carter said. "Hopefully, we may see 'dry water' making waves in the future." The substance earned its "dry water" nickname because it is 95 percent water and yet is a dry powder, Carter said. Each powder particle contains a water droplet surrounded by modified silica, the material that makes up ordinary beach sand. The silica coating prevents the water droplets from combining and turning back into a liquid, he said. The result is a fine powder that can slurp up gases like carbon dioxide or methane. Dry water has also been shown to speed up catalytic reactions in processes used to make drugs, food ingredients and other consumer products, researchers say.  [...]"  

Project will sequence all human bacteria [08/27/10] "U.S. scientists say they will undertake a project to sequence the genetic content of all the bacteria that live in the human body -- about 900 types. [...]"   

'Fused' people eager to die and kill for their group, research shows [08/27/10] "People with extremely strong ties to their countries or groups are not only willing, but eager, to sacrifice themselves to save their compatriots, according to new psychology research from The University of Texas at Austin. In a study to appear in Psychological Science, Bill Swann, professor of psychology, and a team of researchers found the majority of "fused" people, those who view themselves as completely immersed in a group (be it ethnic, national or other), are willing to commit extreme acts for the good of their compatriots. [...]"  Note: Yeah, and this is a surprise because ....? 

 Commentary: "The "Big Bang" Is Just Religion Disguised As Science" [08/26/10] " .... The Big Bang is currently imagined to have occurred 14 billion years ago.  The farthest object seen in the sky by the Hubble and Keck Telescopes is 13 billion light-years distant, and is assumed to have been created when the universe was just 750 million years old. It would take at least that long (if not longer) for the material from the theorized Big Bang to coalesce into stars and for those stars to form a rotating galaxy. But here is the problem. We are seeing that object 13 billion light-years distant not as it is today and where it is today but as it was and where it was, 13 billion years ago, 13 billion light-years distant from earth. In other words, for this galaxy to lie 13 billion light-years away from Earth only 750 million years after the Big Bang, it would have had to travel 13 billion light years in just 750 million years' time. That requires the galaxy in question to travel more than 17 times faster than the speed of light, a speed limit which according to the Big Bang supporters was in effect from the moment the universe was 3 seconds old. [...]"    

New artificial lung keeps toddler alive [08/26/10] "A 2-year-old Missouri boy has become the first person in the United States to be kept alive by a new type of artificial lung, doctors say. [...]"  

"Aliens Could Operate Via Thinking Robots" [08/24/10] "The hunt for extraterrestrial life should take into account the possibility that aliens could be operating through sentient robots, a senior astronomer has said.  [...]"  Note: This is true. It happens all the time. See the book "Alien Interview" for an example. Of course, they're ET sequentials, they have their agenda and predispositions, and aren't to be blindly trusted.

 Commentary: Space War Update: Secretive Mini-Shuttles, Dirty Tricks Spy Sats, and More [08/23/10] "While centrist political hacks, crypto-fascist block heads and know- nothing déclassé “mama grizzlies” are intent on destroying what little remains of American democracy (I refer of course, to the slow-motion pogrom against U.S. Muslims, targets of the sordid “ground zero mosque” affair, and yes, Senator Reid, former speaker Gingrich and Ms. Palin, I mean you), Pentagon militarists and the corporate gangsters they so lovingly serve are moving forward with plans to enlarge the precincts of that “shining city on a hill” into orbital space.  [...]"     

MSM: "Beyond City Limits: The Age of Nations is Over" [08/20/10] "The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not -- and will not be -- one global village, so much as a network of different ones. Time, technology, and population growth have massively accelerated the advent of this new urbanized era. Already, more than half the world lives in cities, and the percentage is growing rapidly. But just 100 cities account for 30 percent of the world's economy, and almost all its innovation. Many are world capitals that have evolved and adapted through centuries of dominance: London, New York, Paris. New York City's economy alone is larger than 46 of sub-Saharan Africa's economies combined. Hong Kong receives more tourists annually than all of India. These cities are the engines of globalization, and their enduring vibrancy lies in money, knowledge, and stability. They are today's true Global Cities. At the same time, a new category of megacities is emerging around the world, dwarfing anything that has come before. A massive influx of people has not only spurred the growth of existing cities, but created new ones virtually from scratch on a scale not previously imagined, from the factory towns in China's Guangdong province to the artificial "knowledge cities" rising in the Arabian desert. The defining feature of this new urban age will be megalopolises whose populations are measured in the tens of millions, with jagged skylines that stretch as far as the eye can see. [...]"  Note: And that's how a sequentialized world would develop .... if there were time, and things were not so much in typical sequential disarray ... 

Hidden Properties of Crystals Uncovered [08/20/10] "Brant West traveled to Singapore to study the unique properties of crystals."

Eye-Roll: "Ocean Garbage Patch Still a Mystery" [08/19/10] "A garbage patch of unknown origins in the North Atlantic Ocean contains thousands of tiny plastic pieces. [...]"  Note:  How can it be a mystery, when there have been 'patches' in the Pacific for years, in the news? Do these people live in a box? This is common knowledge.

Car that goes 200 miles on Compressed Air [08/14/10]  [3:23] " Europe and the rest of the world are developing new technologies that will give them the economic edge in technology and products, as America unthinkingly erodes into a third world nation as our politicians who are beholden to fossil fuel companies, legislate for them to make billions of dollars.  A car that runs on compressed air (that should be an American idea and benefit America's economy), is a French invention that orchestrates old technologies into a new chassis. Behold this newsworthy clip (that is not ready for U.S. corporate controlled prime time news or even political debate) edited from HD Theater, "The Future Car: Fuel". Just another example of how corporations who control our legislative and executive branches of government are misallocating our resources, treasury and wealth, to insure their short term wealth and global domination, as we deteriorate economically and do nothing to preserve our economic leadership. [...]"   

Video: Small wonder of a singer leaves some in disbelief [08/13/10] "When a little girl from the outskirts of Pittsburgh exploded onto the national stage this week, she delivered a performance so breathtaking that it left many wondering whether her singing is the real deal. NBC's Kristen Welker reports. [...]"  Note: Sequential child opera singer. An adult individual in a child's body. She's cute, but she's a cheater. You, too, could be this good if you had experienced a string of previous lives perfecting your falsetto.

Photoblog: World's largest clock in place [08/12/10] "The world's largest clock, which towers over the Grand Mosque, is under construction in Mecca. [...]"  Note: A monument to the rotation of the planet, and nothing more. 

Quest for a speedy solution to Rubik's Cube solved? [08/11/10] "A 30-year quest to find the minimum number of moves needed to solve every configuration of a Rubik's Cube may have ended. Any scrambled cube can be solved in 20 moves or fewer, researchers claim. The international team used a bank of computers at Google to help crank through the solutions. The figure is known as "God's number" because an all-knowing entity would know the optimal number of steps needed to solve the puzzle. "We now know for certain that the magic number is 20," Professor Morley Davidson, a mathematician from Kent State University, told BBC News. The results suggest that there are more than 100,000 starting positions - of a possible 43 billion billion - that can be solved in exactly 20 moves.  However, the majority of solutions take between 15 and 19 moves to solve. The the initial results have already been published online and Prof Davidson said they would now be submitted to peer-reviewed journals. [...]"   

NASA: Future Strategic Issues: Detonate Seabed Methane to “Produce Tactical/Strategic Level Tidal Waves Against Littoral Regions” [08/11/10] "Here’s a 1999 New Zealand Herald article about the development of a tsunami bomb in the 1940s: Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal. An Auckland University professor seconded to the Army set off a series of underwater explosions triggering mini-tidal waves  [...]"   

Proposed Law Would Put Video Cameras In Cars [08/11/10] "Lawmakers are considering controversial new legislation this week that would allow vehicles to be equipped with dashboard cameras to record the moments leading up to accidents. The proposed law, AB1942, would promote safer driving habits and reduce accidents by permitting video recorders to be installed on the windshield. The bill currently allows devices to record video, audio, how fast and which direction the vehicle is traveling, a history of where your car has been, steering and brake performance and seat belt usage. The devices would record in a continuous loop and would only save information if there is unusual vehicle motion or a crash. They could also be capable of transmitting the information to a central control center the moment of the accident. Proponents say there are enough safety measures to avoid an invasion of privacy, but others call the proposal a huge overreach of government power. [...]"   Note: Of course, there's no time for this to happen. There is no connection between being 'seen' and 'reducing accidents'. True 'accidents', by definition, are unplanned. It may reduce 'misadventures' if the driver cares that the camera records 'the last moments', but I doubt it. So, it's another stupid sequential idea.

"Stephen Hawking urges humans to leave Earth to avoid disaster" [08/11/10] "Stephen Hawking is suggesting the survival of the human race will likely depend on changing neighbourhoods and moving to another planet. The famed physicist says in the centuries ahead, it will be hard for Earthlings to avoid a disaster of biblical proportion on their home turf, and he recommends they avoid putting all [...]"   Stephen Hawking: Abandon the Earth " Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has some advice for the people of Earth - it's time to get off. "I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space," Hawking said to Big Think , a global forum that includes interviews with experts. "It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load." [...]"  Note:  This stupid sequential is oblivious to the fact that the resources, technology and time do not exist to make this happen. 

Nao: the robot that expresses and detects emotions [08/10/10]  "The humanoid machine, called Nao, hunches its shoulders when it feels sad and raises its arms for a hug when it feels happy.  It has been designed to mimic the emotional skills of a one-year-old child and is capable of forming bonds with people who treat it with kindness. Nao is able to detect human emotions through a series of non-verbal “clues”, such as body-language and facial expressions, and becomes more adept at reading a person’s mood through prolonged interaction. It uses video cameras to detect how close a person comes and sensors to work out how tactile they are. The wiring of the robot’s “brain”, designed to mirror the neural network of the human mind, allows it to remember its interactions with different people and memorise their faces. [...]" Video clip  [2:53] 

UK: "Global hunt begins for 'extinct' species of frogs" [08/09/10] "Conservationists begin a series of expeditions aimed at finding remnants of amphibian species believed to be extinct. [...]"  Note:  Must be stupid sequentials. If they're extinct ... by definition ... they aren't there. More 'make work' boondoogle projects for useless sequential academics who need to 'spend it or lose it' ...

Assessments: This Civilization Will Wither and Disappear - To The Delight of Apocalyptic Religious Groups [08/08/10] "A few years back, Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Royal Astronomer, published a book titled Our Final Century, in which he put the odds of human survival through this century at no better than 50-50. Now, biologist Frank Fenner, who played a key role in ending the scourge of smallpox, says the end is certain. Surveying the carnage humanity has inflicted on the ecosphere, the 95-year-old Australian scientist says nothing can change our fate now. "It's an irreversible situation," he's quoted as telling the press. "I think it's too late." Many of the best-informed scientists agree that we have left it too late to prevent anthropogenic climate change from bringing on a global catastrophe. Whether this results in actual extinction or merely the ruin of civilization is a matter they are still debating. Preacher Tim LaHaye and his potboiler copilot Jerry Jenkins have made a vast fortune describing the gory biblical end they gleefully anticipate. Their Left Behind novels have been bestsellers, but don't get the idea they think this is mere fiction. In a recent Fox News interview with Governor (and former Republican presidential candidate) Mike Huckabee, LaHaye says the End Times are due to start, and that President Obama's "socialism" is speeding the day: [...]" Note:  Infantile and naive minds, and dumb as a stone. 

Commentary: "Tesla Had Free Energy; Why Don’t We?" [08/07/10]   Note: Because Telsa was an incarnated sequential, bringing vital components of electrical infrastructure to the planet ... but Earth is not meant to develop into a full sequential civilization, per se ... it would never make it out of the 'oil' age before disappearing ... no star trek scenarios .. nothing, especially because technology was paired with the military/death/war scenarios which internally ate away at the civilization, preventing growth and development, in order to feed the predispositions of a bunch of seedy, greedy reincarnating sequentials who want to own and control everything here .... when in fact ... they control very little .

Ancient croc had cat-like features, scientists say [08/08/10] "Scientists have unearthed the 100 million-year-old fossilized remains of an African creature that resembled a cross between a crocodile and a cat. [...]"  Note:  ET sequential genetic experiments ...? 

Other Perspectives: "Predictions for 2010" John Hogue [08/07/10] ".... World War Three begins in 2010 but not the war anyone imagined ... ' Mother' Nature declares war on humanity.  [...]"  Note: Lightsider Hogue plugs his new book on "Predictions for 2010". The interesting aspect of this 'plug' is that he correctly sees the nature of a dynamic in play, in a way ... but of course doesn't ascribe the dynamic as involving a reaction to the sequential HS efforts to halt the departure of the planetary spirit, which is due to leave, by creating this energetic monstrosity in the center of the Gulf of Mexico. Another failure on their part.

RFID chips snooped from 66 metres [08/04/10] "RFID tags can be read at a surprising range, a researcher has found. When he's not listening in to GSM phone calls, Chris Paget has been busy seeing at what distance an RFID tag can be read, managing a respectable 217 feet. Paget also reckons the US military could read an EPC Gen2 tag from 80 miles off, though the connection would likely time out before any data was retrieved. Which is a shame as his calculations put the theoretical maximum read range at 317 miles, if you've got a big enough dish. [...] Generation 2 tags aren't what we use in credit cards, or NFC-equipped phones, at least not yet. EPC Gen2 tags don't rely on magnetic induction for power and can thus be read at a much greater distance making them ideal for packaging and product labels, and the US Passport Card, among other things. As Paget explains in his report (pdf) Gen2 readers are more akin to radar in that they send out a radio signal (around 900MHz) and listen to the reflection which comes encoded with the tag's identification code, which is created using the power of the radio signal. So increase the power of the signal and you can increase the read range, though signals that don't make it back within 100 microseconds get discarded: providing a theoretical cap of about 10 miles. [...] "   

Army’s Vaccine Plan: Inject Troops With Gas-Propelled, Electro-Charged DNA [08/04/10] "The Army’s got a one-two punch to perfect vaccinations and offer scientists the ability to quickly develop inoculations that stave off new dangers. First, they’ll shoot troops up using a “gene gun,” that’s filled with DNA-based vaccines. Then they’ll follow it up with “short electrical pulses to the delivery site.” The Pentagon’s still after a comprehensive way to inoculate troops and civilians against existing illnesses, rapidly respond to emerging threats, and even predict pathogenic mutations before they happen. To that end, the military’s already funding a handful of projects, from plant-based vaccine production to genetic signatures for ultra-early diagnosis. In a small business solicitation released last week, the Army put out a call for “Multiagent Synthetic DNA Vaccines Delivered by Noninvasive Electroporation.” The program would start by transforming conventional development methods, like standard egg-based vaccines. [...]"   

Rare Earth Elements: World is Rapidly Running Out, China has Most of Remaining Supply [08/02/10] "Most people have no idea what rare earth elements are, but a wide array of the technologies that we use every single day are dependent on them. Without rare earth elements, we would have no hybrid car batteries, flat screen televisions, cell phones or iPods. Without rare earth elements, the entire "green economy" would not be able to function, because almost all emerging green technologies use them. Not only that, but rare earth elements are used by the U.S. military in radar systems, missile-guidance systems, satellites and aircraft electronics. Without rare earth elements, the U.S. military (and militaries all over the globe) would not be able to function. There are 17 key rare earth elements that we rely on every day. But there is a huge problem. China owns more than 85 percent of the known global reserves of rare earth elements. Right now, the rest of the world is absolutely dependent on China's exports of these metals. Without these Chinese exports, the western world would quickly run out of these precious resources. But in just a few years, the rapidly expanding Chinese economy will gobble up the entire domestic production of Chinese rare earth elements.  [...]" Related:  Afghanistan Mineral Deposits was 'Economic Prize' All Along - Brzezinski 

A solar salamander [08/02/10] "Photosynthetic algae have been found inside the cells of a vertebrate for the first time. [...]"  Note: It's a fine line in nature... 

Truck-borne laser weapon to be on way soon [07/29/10] "A powerful laser weapon fitted on a light truck is set to be the military's answer to the dilemma of overreacting to enemy attack and harming friendly forces in the process. [...]"   

UK nanotech centres 'may be axed' [07/25/10] "Britain's 24 nanotechnology centres could be among the casualties of cuts to the UK science budget, science minister David Willetts has said. [...]"     

'Eternal plane' returns to Earth [07/24/10] "The record-breaking Zephyr unmanned solar-powered plane touches down in AZ after two weeks of non-stop flight. [...]"   

Emotive Systems Neural Interface [07/23/10] Video clip [10:37] "Tan Le’s astonishing new computer interface reads its user’s brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications. [...]"  

Vibrations 'to replace batteries' [07/22/10] "A Japanese electronics firm has shown off a vibration-harvesting generator that could replace standard batteries. The Vibration Energy Cell batteries deliver power after a vigorous shake Brother Industries, better known for its line of printers, claims the devices could be used in place of AA or AAA batteries for some applications. [...]"   

Laser Weapon Used to Shoot Down Planes [07/21/10] "Laser beams have been used for the first time in naval warfare to shoot down aircraft, it can be disclosed. The weapon, mounted on a warship’s missile, shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in secret testing carried out off the California coast, The Daily Telegraph has learned. In a joint enterprise between US Navy and Raytheon Missile Systems the technology has now got to the stage where lasers will be deployed on warships as part of their short-range defence. For the first time a ‘solid state’ 32 mega watt laser beam of directed energy has been fired from a warship to a distance of more than two miles burning into a drone travelling at about 300mph. The laser is mounted on a Phalanx close in weapons system that has a radar detection system. The targeting system was used in Iraq, to train fire from a Gatling onto rockets and mortars raining down on British bases. Raytheon developed the system after buying six off-the-shelf commercial lasers from the car industry and joining them to make a single, powerful beam guided by the Phalanx’s radars. Unlike other tests which have been conducted on aircraft it uses a solid state laser rather than a chemical generated beam. [...]"  

Sequentials At Large:  3 Yr Old Italian Reads, Gives Medical Advice [07/21/10]  "Italian doctors say they're amazed by a 3-year-old prodigy who reads newspapers, operates the family's television remote and even gives medical advice. ... We would never have imagined his abilities would develop like this," Ettore's father Francesco Grillo, a 44-year-old artist, said...  

Update: UFO over Chinese airport  [07/19/10] Video clip [0:37]  Related: Large, Brightly Lit, Elongated Object in the Sky Shuts Down China Airport: Military Link? [07/09/10] "Was it a UFO or secret military aircraft that caused the shutdown of China’s Xiaoshan Airport for an hour on Wednesday night? Whatever it was, it was recorded on airport radar at about 9 p.m.  According to the Xinhua news agency, after the unidentified flying object was spotted, airport authorities stopped passengers from boarding planes, and outgoing flights were grounded for an hour in Hangzhou, the capital city of China’s Zhejiang province. When officials closed the airport, incoming flights were rerouted to other airports. So far, no explanation has been offered to explain the UFO. However, several hours before the airport incident, many Hangzhou residents described seeing a large, brightly lit, elongated object in the sky. China Daily reported that authorities may know more about the mystery UFO than they’re letting on, hinting that there might be a military connection and that a final explanation may be forthcoming today. [...] This is certainly not the first time an unexplained object has been observed in China. In July 2009, during the viewing of a solar eclipse in China, scientists at the Purple Mountain Astronomical Observatory in Nanjing filmed 40 minutes of a UFO reportedly near the sun. No definitive explanation of the event has emerged. In a Jan. 11, 2000, article, The New York Times reported that many UFOs were seen in the skies above China, noting that “the normally conservative official news media have been lavishing attention on UFO news.” The Times added that “this is an extraordinary reversal in a country where, 25 years ago, life was so focused on Communist politics that most people could not imagine anything so ethereal as an unidentified flying object, and expressing belief in them might have been a ticket to jail.”"  Note: Interesting pictures ... see the main story link.

 Commentary: Pentagon's Expansion of Robot Fighters Ominous Development [07/18/10] "The Pentagon is rapidly improving its ability to fight wars with robots. This capability is “bringing about the most profound transformation of warfare since the advent of the atom bomb,” says Scientific American, and raises “a host of ethical and legal issues.” “Robots are pouring onto battlefields as if a new species of mechanotronic alien had just landed on our planet,” the publication says in an editorial on their development in its July issue. “The prospect of androids that hunt down and kill on their own accord (shades of Terminator) should give us all pause. An automatic pilot that makes its own calls about whom to shoot violates the ‘human’ part of international humanitarian law, the one that recognizes that some weapons are so abhorrent that they just should be eliminated.” [...]"   

Plants 'can think and remember' [07/18/10] "Researchers in Poland say plants are able to remember and react to information on light intensity and quality by transmitting information from leaf to leaf.  The scientists, led by Professor Stanislaw Karpinski of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, used fluorescence imaging to view the response of specimens of the Arabidopsisa plant to light shone on them. They found that when light was shone on one leaf at the bottom of the plant the entire plant responded. The response, in the form of a cascade of chemical reactions induced by the light, continued even after the light source was removed, suggesting the plant was remembering the information contained in the light. Karpinski and colleagues discovered that when light is shone on a leaf a chemical reaction begins in one leaf cell and the reaction is immediately signaled to the rest of the plant by photo-electro-physiological signals (PEPS) from specialized cells called bundle sheath cells. Karpinski said the cells function in a similar way to a nervous system in animals. [...]"  Note:  Ultimately, a discussion which moves toward things which relate to the perceptive stream which is experienced by 'nature spirit'.

Lockheed Using Gravity to Spot ‘Subterranean Threats’ [07/17/10] "Lockheed Martin has received a $4.8 million, 12-month contract to create a prototype sensor that spots, categorizes and maps man-made facilities concealed underground. And does it all from the safety of the sky, embedded in a drone and linked to cameras that’d stream the data in real-time.  Pentagon blue sky R&D arm, Darpa, is behind this one. Last year, the agency’s Gravity Anomaly for Tunnel Exposure (GATE) program sought proposals for a system that used a gradiometer to measure miniscule variations in the pull of gravity. Those variations detect differences in the earth’s density, indicating underground space. And the sensors would even be attuned enough to “discriminate a man-made void from naturally-occurring features such as topography and geology,” according to Lockheed’s press release. The final product should be able to “detect tunnels [and] offer a mapped outline of their pathways.” And this is only the latest in a series of Pentagon-backed projects to map the planet, dig deep, and then destroy. Darpa’s actually got an entire division of projects dedicated to “Underground Facility Detection & Characterization,” which pairs nicely with initiatives to develop bores that punch through 60 feet of concrete, and “rocket balls” that can propel themselves into deep earth — without blowing up hidden WMDs at the same time. [...]"  

Hydrogen-powered spy plane unveiled [07/17/10] "U.S. manufacturer Boeing unveiled a hydrogen-powered surveillance aircraft that company officials say can stay aloft for days without refueling. The unmanned Phantom Eye craft can fly at 65,000 feet and stay airborne for four days at a time, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. A prototype, unveiled in St. Louis, will be shipped to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California to start testing. [...]"  Related:  Solar plane flies for seven days  "A UK unmanned solar-powered plane called Zephyr has flown continuously for seven days, and is still in the air. [...]"  

Malaria-proof mosquito engineered [07/17/10] "Geneticists successfully introduce a gene to mosquito larvae that blocks the development of the malaria parasite. [...]"  

Microsoft brings 'virtual boy' out to play in Oxford [07/14/10] "Microsoft shows off a 'virtual boy' that reacts to human emotions, body movements and voice, designed for Xbox consoles. [...]"  Note:  Sequentials just can't achieve the emotional spectrum that develops with simultaneous incarnational processes, so trying to get people to relate to a facsimile 'boy' is not surprising. It's also something the Japanese would easily do ... and in fact are doing ... maybe they'll all grow up, someday, playing in another game scenario.

Taranis (Or Tyrannis): Unmanned Stealth Jet Takes Flight [07/13/10] "Looming ominously like a space ship from Star Wars, this is the future of unmanned flight. Defence firm BAE Systems today officially unveiled its first ever high-tech unmanned stealth jet. The Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, is about the same size as a Hawk jet and is equipped with stealth equipment and an 'autonomous' artificial intelligence system. The plane will test the possibility of developing the first ever autonomous stealthy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) that would ultimately be capable of precisely striking targets at long range, even in another continent. The trial aircraft cost £143 million pounds to construct and spearheads BAE's drive to convince the Ministry of Defence to invest in the next generation of unmanned aircraft. Almost invisible to ground radar, it is designed to travel at high jet speeds and cover massive distances between continents. The plane is built to carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance on enemy territory using onboard sensors. And it has been designed to carry a cache of weapons - including bombs and missiles -, giving it a potential long-range strike capability. It can be controlled from anywhere in the world with satellite communications. Experts say the cutting-edge design is at the forefront of world technology and as advanced as any US development. The plane began development in December 2006, and is intended to prove the UK's ability to produce a stealthy UAV. Taranis will be stealthy, fast, able to carry out use a number of on-board weapons systems and be able to defend itself against manned and other unmanned enemy aircraft. [...]"   

New Technology Turns Water Drops into 3-D Display [07/13/10] "A new display “screen” made out of water droplets creates 3-D images that can be viewed without special glasses. The new technology involves flashing images from a projector onto the display. But instead of pixels, this display is made out of layers of falling water droplets, which are precisely controlled to create 3-D images. The more layers of falling water, the higher the resolution. “There is nothing special about the particular projector we are using,” said Srinivasa Narasimhan, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who helped develop the display. “Our technology controls the drop layers so that when the projector switches an image it follows the pattern of drops, lighting them up as they fall." [...]"  

'Star Trek' Warp Speed? Physicists Have New Idea That Could Make It So [07/13/10] "Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and Dr. Richard Obousy, a Baylor post-doctoral student, theorize that by manipulating the space-time dimensions around the spaceship with a massive amount of energy, it would create a “bubble” that could push the ship faster than the speed of light. “Think of it like a surfer riding a wave,” said Cleaver, who co-authored the paper with Obousy about the new method. “The ship would be pushed by the bubble and the bubble would be traveling faster than the speed of light.” [...]"  Note: Not going to happen, here.

Waves could 'see' hidden explosives [07/13/10] "Hidden explosives, chemical or biological agents and illegal drugs could be detected from as far as 65 feet away using a new technique, U.S. researchers say. [...]"  Note: Then they ought to leave people who don't carry any, alone, since they're able to tell, 65 feet away. More Tetrahertz applications.

Counter Surveillance Camera Detects Binoculars, Cameras, Rifle Scopes, Even People Staring [07/12/10] "he sniper is without doubt the most fearsome of opponents – capable of taking your life from great distance. Current anti-sniper counter measures depend on the sight or sound of the initial shot, and by that time, it may be too late. Now a new device which uses the same “red-eye” effect of flash cameras and projects it hundreds of meters, can identify binoculars, sniper scopes, cameras and even human eyeballs that are staring at you. It is hence the first machine that can offer 24/7 warning that you are being watched or targeted, before a shot is fired. [...]"  

UK:  Choir to sing the 'code of life' [07/11/10] "Scientists and composers produce a new choral work in which singers sing parts of their own genetic code. [...]"  Note: For people identifying with their physical body, they can 'be all they can be' by 'singing a facsimile of themselves". Ha!  Dumb as a box of rocks. 

With Magnetic Nanoparticles, Scientists Remotely Control Neurons and Animal Behavior [07/10/10] "Clusters of heated, magnetic nanoparticles targeted to cell membranes can remotely control ion channels, neurons and even animal behavior, according to a paper published by University at Buffalo physicists in Nature Nanotechnology. The research could have broad application, potentially resulting in innovative cancer treatments that remotely manipulate selected proteins or cells in specific tissues, or improved diabetes therapies that remotely stimulate pancreatic cells to release insulin. The work also could be applied to the development of new therapies for some neurological disorders, which result from insufficient neuro-stimulation. "By developing a method that allows us to use magnetic fields to stimulate cells both in vitro and in vivo, this research will help us unravel the signaling networks that control animal behavior [...]"    Related: Flashback: Downloading Data Directly Into Your Brain?  ".... So far, scientists seem to have had more success transmitting transmit information in the other direction, with brain machine interfaces that translate human brain-wave activity into digital form, so that people can operate machines with their thoughts. (Here’s my recent blog on that subject.) But they’re also exploring ways to use the same interfaces to put information into the brain. Electronics giant Sony, for example, reportedly has patented a device for transmitting sensory data — ranging from moving images to tastes and sounds — into the brain by firing pulses of ultrasound."

Disease detection in the palm of your hand: Biosensor [07/09/10] "University of New Mexico researchers brought sci-fi technology to the doctor's office by creating a device that can diagnose a number of ills in seconds.  Best of all, researchers said, the hand-held "biosensor" eliminates the need for expensive and time-consuming tests, The Albuquerque Journal reported Friday. And it runs on AA batteries.  Researchers determined biosensor can identify hepatitis B and C, HIV, hantavirus, flu, and other viral and bacterial pathogens, said David Larson, vice president for research at UNM Health Sciences Center and the project's lead researcher.  The biosensor can test blood, saliva, urine or any other water-based compound, Larson said, returning results in a few minutes to as soon as five seconds. The device's ability to detect blood-borne illness would be a godsend during disasters, such as the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti where health officials needed to quickly identify safe blood donors, Larson said. "In a situation like Haiti, you can't easily test someone's blood for infection, and you can't ship blood units in and out of the area," Larson said. R&D Magazine Thursday recognized the biosensor as one of the 100 most technologically significant new products of the year, the Journal said.  [...]"   

Over 5 billion mobiles worldwide [07/09/10] "More than a billion mobile phone connections have been added in 18 months, surpassing five billion [...]"   

Darpa’s Genetically Engineered Blood Starts Pumping [07/08/10] "In 2008, Darpa, the Pentagon’s blue sky research arm, launched the Blood Pharming program, with the goal of manufacturing mega doses of universal donor red blood units (O-negative) using a compact, self-contained system. “Pharming” is the process of genetically engineering animals or plants to generate mass quantities of medically useful substances, like hormones or antibodies. In this case, Darpa wants a synthetic platform that’s engineered to cultivate blood cells.  Now Arteriocyte, the biotech firm that got $1.95 million for the project, has sent off an initial shipment of their pharmed blood product to the Food and Drug Administration, in hopes of passing muster with agency’s safety regulators. The blood was produced using hematopoietic cells, derived from embryonic cord blood units. Currently, it takes Arteriocyte scientists three days to turn a single umbilical cord unit into 20 units of RBC-packed blood. The average soldier needs 6 units during trauma treatment. Because most blood used in military operations is donated on U.S ground, it’s usually three weeks old by the time it hits the front lines. The shelf-life of donated blood is still disputed. The Red Cross tosses RBC units after 42 days, but some medical experts think that fresh blood “expires” after 28 days, and cite increased risk of infection and organ failure once blood is older than two weeks. [...]"  

Meet the Eyeborg: Canadian Man Replaces Eye with Video Camera [07/05/10] "A Canadian man has replaced his own false eye with a camera-eye of his own invention - and will let the world see what he sees via a live video link. Rob Spence, a Toronto-based film-maker, lost his right eye in a shooting accident on his grandfather's farm when he was a teenager. Now 36, he decided some years ago to build a miniature camera that could be fitted inside his false eye. A prototype was completed last year, and was named by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2009. He calls himself "the Eyeborg guy". The eye contains a wireless video camera that runs on a tiny three-volt battery. It is not connected to his brain, and has not restored his vision. Instead it records everything that he sees. More than that, it contains a wireless transmitter, which allows him to transmit what he is seeing in real time to a computer.  [...]"  Note: Story includes Video clip [0:59] 

Concepts and Practices: "Copyright bill could digitally lock us all" [07/05/10] "Do you see what I see in the new copyright Bill C-32? Amid all the noise about new rights for users, upon closer scrutiny, this bill, rather than granting new rights, can effectively block users from making use of any and all of their rights, even existing ones.  [...]"   

"Brain freezer in Russia claims secret of eternal life" [07/02/10] "I don't ever want to die... It wouldn't suit me," said Innokenty Osadchy. Fortunately, the 35-year-old investment banker is certain he has found a loophole out of death. Osadchy is ready to pay a small fortune to freeze his brain until future technology allows him to continue his life -- after being transplanted into a new body and resuscitated. [...]"  Note:  In their simplistic and convoluted immaturity, they think the individual is a 'product' of the brain. Related:  Genes hold clues on who may live long and prosper Note:  Preoccupation with genetic patterns is another sequential HS incarnational predisposition.

Fringe : "Web Bot: 1.2 billion dead in BP oil spill, Nov. 2010 nuclear war" [07/01/10] "The Web Bot technology is now predicting a 1.289+ billion mega-death resulting from an “ill-wind” and the BP Gulf oil disaster. Researcher Clif High has published a prediction expecting a ‘tipping point’ around November 8, 2010 into global nuclear war, triggered by a mistaken Israeli-influenced attack on Iran that could come anytime after July 11, 2010.  [...]"  Note:  July 11th, of course, is a Solar Eclipse in Cancer. Interesting that one of the sources mentioned, on this page, uses a Terrance McKenna's time-wave program graph and overlays concepts as annotations on that. I really don't know what to make of this stuff. However, astrological influences to correspond to some of the 'tipping points'. Who knows.

Nintendo, Samsung, and Digit warn about the dangers of 3D video [07/01/10] "The fact of the matter is, the hazardous effect that the viewing of 3D video has on the human eye is well noted, and the information has existed since the early 1990s, when Sega perfected and then ditched its VR headset, after being alerted to its harmful possibilities by the Stanford Research Institute, who said: “You can’t give this to kids”. [...]"  Note: Yet they allow the film "Avatar" to be made in 3D and distributed worldwide, as well as other 3D films. 

DARPA’s homeland security sister working on device that ‘detects’ intent [06/29/10] "Since its inception, the Department of Homeland Security has promoted modern technology as a way to save the nation from terrorism, and it’s done so in part by emulating the Pentagon’s preoccupation with science and experimentation. Some of the country’s most significant achievements, in fact, were conceived by pioneering researchers the government hired to help give warfighters an advantage over their enemies. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, performed many of those tasks, taking credit in part for the Stealth Fighter and pilotless drones, as well as other advancements that are slightly more civilian in nature, like the Internet. DARPA is also frequently cast in popular culture and science fiction as the government’s secret laboratory for building disturbing tools that can do things like read our minds.  That distinction now belongs to DARPA’s sister, the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, and officials are suggesting they’re closer to making the unthinkable a reality. Here at Elevated Risk, we’re reluctant to lead the tin-foil hat and 9/11 Truth crowds into fanciful conspiracy theories, but there’s no doubt the Department of Homeland Security believes it’s possible for the right technology to “sense” human intentions.   Among a list of experimental achievements listed in the department’s budget request this year is the testing of a “real-time malintent detection capability,” or machinery that can measure things like heart rate, micro-facial expressions, breathing patterns and body heat as an individual walks through a security portal. Software algorithms would determine if a combined set of behaviors and physiological qualities amounted to someone hiding plans to carry out a terrorist attack. [...]"  Note: Of course, analyzing behavior patterns does not equal being able to 'read thoughts', and 'intent' is only expressed, fleetingly, in thought. So, their 'conclusion' and what they are promoting, is nothing but bullshit, but, since it's a bullshit society, now, they think it has 'validity'.  Losers.

Study: "New drugs may come from deep ocean" [06/28/10] "A drug to treat malaria, one of the world's deadliest diseases, could come from sponges, sea worms and other undersea creatures, a scientist says...."  Note: Not a chance, thanks to BP. That this doesn't dawn on the people at UPI, that current events make this story moot, says how much they take current context into consideration. 

"Weird Antimatter Particles Discovered Deep Underground" [06/25/10] "Exotic particles called geuneutrinos could reveal secrets behind earthquakes and volcanoes. [...]" 

Quantum computing moves closer to reality [06/24/10] "British and Dutch scientists say they have, for the first time, demonstrated the ability of an electron to exist in two places at once in silicon. [...]"  Note: Sequentials sometimes forget which life they're living, too. 

EU MP Mario Borghezi, introduces EU Parliament declaration to 'end UFO/ET secrecy' [06/21/10] "As of June 18, 2010 seventeen members of the European Union Parliament, led by Italian EU MP Mario Borghezi, have reportedly signed and tabled a “Written declaration on the declassification of documentation on UFOs” calling on member states to disclose documents relating to UFOs, and end UFO secrecy. [...] EU MP Mario Borghezi has worked to expose the presence of the Bilderberger and Trilateralist factions in the European Parliament. The Bilderbergers and Trilateralists are both clubs that employ policy-makers, media executives and personalities, politicians, and public office holders to implement the anti-disclosure policies adopted by an insider group of substantial asset owners, including principals in the Rothschild and Rockefeller groups, and the British and Dutch royal houses.  In this video, EU MP Mario Borghezi participates with Canadian expert Daniel Estulin on Bilderberger infiltation of global public policy."  Note:  2 Video clips  included with article.    

U.S. Testing Pain Ray in Afghanistan [06/21/10] "The U.S. mission in Afghanistan centers around swaying local to its side. And there’s no better persuasion tool than an invisible pain ray that makes people feel like they’re on fire. Okay, okay. Maybe that isn’t precisely the logic being employed those segments of the American military who would like to deploy the Active Denial System to Afghanistan. I’m sure they’re telling themselves that the generally non-lethal microwave weapon is a better, safer crowd control alternative than an M-16. But those ray gun advocates better think long and hard about the Taliban’s propaganda bonanza when news leaks of the Americans zapping Afghans until they feel roasted alive. Because, apparently, the Active Denial System is “in Afghanistan for testing.”  [...]"  

Existential risk [06/19/10] "In futures studies, an existential risk is a risk that is both global (affects all of humanity) and terminal (destroys or irreversibly cripples the target). Nick Bostrom defines an existential risk as a risk "where an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life or permanently and drastically curtail its potential." [1] The term is frequently used in transhumanist and Singularitarian communities to describe disaster and doomsday scenarios caused by bioterrorism, non-friendly artificial intelligence, nuclear war, misuse of molecular nanotechnology, current climate change and ongoing global warming, or other sources of danger. Among the grimmest warnings of existential risks from advanced technology are those of computer scientist Bill Joy, who envisages the possibility of global destruction as new technologies become increasingly powerful and uncontrollable, and Martin Rees who has written about an extensive range of risks to human survival. [...]"   

Other Perspectives: "Navigating the Collapse of Civilization: a Spiritual Map" by Carolyn Baker [06/19/10] "... So what might be some of the gifts of collapse?  First, collapse strips us of who we think we are so that who we really are may be revealed. "Secondly, collapse will decimate our anti-tribal, individualistic, Anglo-American programming by forcing us to join with others for survival. Collapse dictates that we will depend on each other, or we will die. [...]   Moreover, collapse may bring meaning and purpose to our lives which might otherwise have eluded us. In our linear, progress-based existence, we rarely contemplate words like “purpose.” With civilization's collapse, we may be forced to evaluate daily, perhaps moment to moment, why we are here, if we want to remain here, if life is worth living, if there is something greater than ourselves for which we are willing to remain alive and to which we choose to contribute energy. These decisions probably will not be made in the cozy comfort of our homes, but in the streets, the fields, the deserts, the forests, and beside forgotten rivers and trails. Purpose will rapidly cease being about what we can accomplish and will increasingly become more about who we are. In a collapsing world, the so-called “purpose-driven life” will no longer exist. Humans will be “driven” by only one issue: the determination to survive and assist loved ones in surviving. From that quest for survival will emerge authentic purpose, which will undoubtedly not resemble anything we can imagine today.  [...]"  Note: Of course, by Carolyn Baker doesn't have information about, or awareness of, the actual larger context of reality, so her perspective is limited to logical extensions of activity within the cultural picture of the nature of reality. Still, she addresses a terminal civilization scenario ... everywhere would be like Detroit.

Microbiologist says humans would become extinct within 100 years [06/18/10] Note: Too many bodies on the planet ...

UK: Gene scientist asks public 'where do I draw the line?' [06/16/10] "Members of the public are to give their views on controversial genetic modification techniques in use in Scotland – from creating fluorescent pigs to intentionally developing [...]"  Note:  Only a sequential would have to ask  Related: What action should Obama take? 

Scientists Rescue Voyager 2 Probe on Edge of Solar System [06/15/10] "Voyager 2 was launched 33 years ago and currently remains on course, traveling out of the solar system. It is currently 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth, passing through the heliosphere, a magnetic bubble that surrounds our solar system. It continues to transmit data, even as it passes through this volatile region.  However, three weeks ago the probe started transmitting garbled messages to Earth. NASA program administrators put the spacecraft in an engineering mode, restricting it to only sending health updates to Earth, while they diagnosed the issue. It turns out the problem was caused by a single bit in the probe's memory that had flipped. The memory was successfully reset to the proper value and normal operations resumed. In near-Earth satellites, bit flip occasionally occurs due to solar radiation. Since Voyager 2 was so far from the Sun, though, it's unclear exactly what caused the bit flip instance. [...]"   

New prototype US spy satellite rushed into active use: ‘Hyperspectral cube’ eye can spot buried bombs, tunnels [06/14/10] "An experimental "hyperspectral" spy sat which is able to detect buried roadside bombs and concealed cave or tunnel entrances has been handed over to the US forces for operational use in the Wars on Stuff. Hyperspectral imaging works differently. It's based on the same principle as the spectrometry used in astronomy and other scientific fields - that some classes of objects and substances will emit a unique set of wavelengths when stimulated by energy. In this case, everything on the surface below the satellite is being stimulated by sunlight to emit its unique spectral fingerprint. [...]"  Related: Sifting the 'hyperspectral cube' [06/14/10] "...By scanning across a wide spectrum all at once across a wide area, it's then possible to use a powerful computer to crunch through all wavelengths coming from all points on the surface below ... Exactly what sorts of objects and substances ARTEMIS is able to pick out of its region-spanning hyperspectral cubes is a military secret. However this briefing (PDF) given in 2006 by US airforce lab officials suggests that it was expected to pierce overhead camouflage that would deceive optical or thermal sensing; that it would be able to spot disturbed earth and "concealed adits" (that is cave or tunnel entrances invisible from above) and generally "detect and identify" unspecified "targets".  Evidently the TacSat-3 can do at least some of this, as we now learn that following a year as an experiment it has proved so successful that it is now being handed over to US air force Space Command to become a full-time operational asset - America's first hyperspectral spy sat. "ARTEMIS can detect various man-made and natural materials, which adds a fundamentally new capability," according to Bill Hart, veep at ARTEMIS maker Raytheon. [...]"  

Investigations: "The Strange Story of Sally Hartman" [06/11/10] "On 26 October, [redacted], an employee of the [redacted], contacted the Office of the Inspector General here at the Agency and related the following information. His wife, whose maiden name is [redacted], was previously married from 1955 until 1960 to [redacted], who was employed by CIA at that time. In the summer of 1956, according to [redacted], she accompanied her husband to the farm of her husband's supervisor for dinner, drinks and wine. She believes her husband worked for Dr. Gottlieb, who was chief of the Technical Services Staff Chemical Division and heavily involved in MKULTRA activities. Her next recollection is receiving electric shock treatment at George Washington University Hospital for some time ...  - Letter from CIA assistant general counsel to John Gavin Esq., Office of Legal Counsel, US Department of Justice, November 2, 1977. [...]"  

Commentary: "Food and Depopulation: Rockefeller Family" [06/09/10] "The purpose of this article is to give a brief outline of how the elites, and the Rockefellers in particular, are using food as a weapon. Since the Rockefeller family came to power (especially after gaining a monopoly with Standard Oil) they have manipulated our government into ruining our financial system by way of the Federal Reserve, energy through oil dependency and food with GMOs (Genetically Engineered Organisms). The intention is to rob us blind and kill us. It’s time to wake up. The official name of this program is Agenda 21 Sustainable Development.  It the overarching blueprint for depopulation and total control over America and the rest of the world. There is no question that Americans are targeted for depopulation: GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) food has saturated American farmlands. GMOs are dangerous and the proliferation of corn crops (used as sweetener, animal feed, processed food, etc) in America is shortening our life spans.(1) Our water is polluted, containing over 60,000 chemicals, most of which have never been tested for safety.(2) Our air is toxic, and the US is one of the most targeted areas for chemtrails.(3) This is just the tip of the iceberg, the things we know about. The focus of this article is revealing the link between the Rockefellers and their intended use of food as a weapon, which is more powerful than military domination and energy control. [...]"  Note:  Bill Gates has teamed with the Rockefellers, Monsanto and the government of Norway in the Doomsday Seed Vault, in which organic seed is stored for some vague anticipated world catastrophe.

Sequentials At Large: Largest Supercomputers to Simulate Life on Earth, Including Economies and Whole Societies [06/08/10] "Scientists are planning to use the largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including the financial system, economies and whole societies. The project is called "Living Earth Simulator" and part of a huge EU research initiative [...]" 

  "Despite increased attempts at conversation, biodiversity loss continues" [06/07/10] "The Convention on Biological Diversity came into being many years ago. Most nations are party to the convention and agreed to meet a 2010 target to reduce biodiversity loss. Unfortunately, most indicators show those targets have not been met, despite increased conservation efforts. This update includes additional details, numbers, graphs and charts on the scale of biodiversity issues, including new sections on the impact to inland water systems, additional information about deforestation, dwindling fish stocks, climate change impacts on lizards, how indigenous communities can often be guardians of nature, and an overview of attempts to address many aspects of biodiversity. [...]"  Note: The sequentials have no clue about the nature of 'nature', the planetary 'spirit', and experiences. Just as any spirit experiences ... the spirit and the experiences are never 'lost' ....

Ancient velvet worm uses adhesive unlike anything seen before in nature [06/06/10] "The velvetworm's slime is simple, but highly effective. CSIRO Entomology scientist Dr Victoria Haritos, who uncovered the worm's secret, says "it's a case of using disorder as a weapon". [...]"  

Criminal Charges Being Considered in Fatal U-Wisconsin Sheep Experiments [06/06/10] "Nine researchers and officials from the University of Wisconsin-Madison could face criminal charges for violating a state law that makes it illegal to kill animals through decompression in its experiments funded by the U.S. Navy." [...]" 

Scientists Grow Cells in 3-D Using Magnetic Fields [06/03/10] "In an effort to more accurately mimic the effect of drugs or toxic chemicals on real living tissue, scientists from Rice University and the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have developed a new laboratory technique that uses magnetic levitation to grow cells in three- dimensional shapes. Compared with cell cultures grown on flat surfaces, these 3-D cell cultures form tissues that more closely resemble those inside the body. The technique has the potential to drastically reduce the cost of developing new drugs, as well as to reduce the use of animals when testing the safety of manufactured chemicals. The team's results were published in March, 2010, in Nature Nanotechnology. [...]"     

Human Mind 'Time Travels' When Pondering Movement [06/02/10] "Just thinking about moving through space can make your mind wander in time as well, called mental time travel. [...]"  

Meat claimed as invention by multinational company of Monsanto [06/01/10] "There is a process going on, multinationals are trying to gain increasing control of the whole chain of food production. Consumers, farmers and food producers are all caught by the same trap. This has to be regarded as an immoral attempt to abuse patent law. The company is heading for maximising its profits by filing patents on food while at the same time one billion people is suffering from hunger,” says Francois Meienberg from the Berne Declaration. As experience from the US shows, patents on seeds and increasing market concentration are leading to drastic increase in seed prices, reduced choice in seeds and soaring dependencies for farmers. Meanwhile the Department of Justice and state attorneys general in several US states are investigating whether Monsanto Company has abused its market power to lock out competitors and raise prices in seeds. The coalition of ‘No Patents on Seeds is warning that market concentration will even increase if the abuse of patent law is not stopped. The coalition is supported globally by more than 200 organisations. The organisations are demanding a clear change in policy and practise of patent offices. Governments are urged to to revise the patent laws in order to exclude patents on seeds, animals and parts thereof. [...]"  Note: Sick people.

Navy’s Drone Death Ray Takes Out Targets at Sea [06/01/10] "For years, the U.S. Navy has been pursuing a workable ray gun that could provide a leap ahead in ship self-defenses. Now, with a series of tests of a system called the Laser Weapon System, or LaWS), it may be one step closer to that goal.  Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the service’s technology development arm, announced today that LaWS had “successfully tracked, engaged, and destroyed” a drone in flight, during an over-the-water engagement at San Nicholas Island, Calif.  It’s certainly not the first time lasers have shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle — last year, the Air Force zapped several drones with beam weapons in a series of tests at China Lake, Calif. — but this test brings an additional bit of realism — and an extra technical challenge. Laser beams can lose strength as they move through the moist, salty sea atmosphere above the sea, so the Navy needs directed-energy weapons that can work effectively on ships. [...]" 

U.S. Department of Defense Wants "Terminator" Autonomous Robot Army by 2034 [05/30/10] "“It will save lives”, or so the argument goes. Sending a robot warrior onto the battlefield instead of humans seems like the logical next step in a world moving toward greater efficiency and automation. Everyone seems in love with this new technological trend of automated devastation: from the corporations that will profit  [...]"  Note:  Yeah ... another 'wet dream' for delusional nut cases ... thankfully, the civilization will have been gone for more than 20 years by the time '2034' came about.

Darpa’s Beady-Eyed Camera Spots the ‘Non-Cooperative’ [05/30/10] "Soon, keeping your head down won’t be enough to stump high-tech security cameras, thanks to Pentagon-funded researchers developing mini-cameras that can nab threats by hunting down — and scanning — their eyeballs. [...]"   

Sequentials At Large: Detecting a crime before it happens [05/29/10] "scientists are researching whether video game boards, biometric sensors and other high-tech devices can be used to detect distinct nonverbal cues from people who harbor "mal-intent," or malicious intent. "We're looking pre-event," said Burns, the No. 2 at the Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency, a counterpart of the fabled Pentagon agency that developed Stealth aircraft and the Internet. "We're trying to detect a crime before it has occurred. OK, roll the sci-fi thriller "Minority Report," in which Tom Cruise and other "pre-crime" cops use psychic visions to arrest murderers before they kill. Or maybe "The Men Who Stare at Goats," a George Clooney comedy inspired by real military experiments with supposedly psychic soldiers. The work on mal-intent, which has cost $20 million so far, represents the future in screening: trying to find the bomber, not just the bomb."[...]"   

Is Synthetic Life Dangerous? [05/28/10] "The first synthetic life created accusations that J. Craig Venter is playing God. But scientists and ethicists disagree. Yet they say synthetic cells could be dangerous. [...]"    

Key to Humans' Big Brains Discovered [05/28/10] "A new type of stem cell has been discovered in the human brain that might partly explain why humans have bigger brains than other animals, a new study finds [...]"   

Sequentials At Large: IBM Patent Application Describes “Intelligent” Stop Lights That Turn Off Cars [05/27/10] "What could possibly go wrong?  IBM has filed a patent application that outlines a system that would turn the motors of a car off at a traffic light to conserve fuel. Few will take issue with green technology that conserves fuel, saves them money, and reduces pollution. However, there is a dark side to the patent application that privacy advocates will not like. The system IBM is proposing has to have access to the engine of the vehicles at the light to stop the engine. With access to the engine, the traffic lights can not only stop the engine of a driver’s car, but it can also determine the duration that the engine is stopped and then when the light is over it can start the motors of the cars up in sequential order so the first cars at the light get to go first. The system would use GPS data to know where vehicles were located at the light. [...]"  Note: What a bunch of control freaks who just can't stay out of people's lives.

Fringe Research: Keyhole & Arrow (Pyramid & Eye) Crop Circle Decoded? [05/26/10] "'I would say due to the alchemical/symbolic nature of the crop circle I would say the "shit is going to hit the fan" around August 6th...Maybe.  [...]"  Note: Interesting, because that date is where the Cardinal Cross T Square happens. See the Astrological panel. 

Atomic transistor sets the pace [05/25/10] "Researchers show off a transistor made from just seven atoms that could be used to create smaller, more powerful computers. [...]"   

Call for 'artificial life' (Synthetic control of DNA) ban [05/23/10] "The success of scientists in the US in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA has led to a call for a ban on the research. The scientists constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species "dictated" by the synthetic DNA. Experts agree that the technology could radically change the world but some are objecting to its use on safety and ethical grounds. [...]"   

 Sequentials At Large: Researchers Hunt Down Antarctic Microbes [05/21/10] "Scientists from Louisiana State University travel to Antarctica to study to look for hardy microbes living in ice sheets. [...]"  Note:  Talk about incarnations with no real lives ... the same thing goes for cosmologists ...

Ray Guns Near Crossroads to the Battlefield [05/21/10] "After more than a century of popular sci-fi fantasies that feature deadly energy weapons, including War of the Worlds, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Star Trek and Star Wars, it looks like the ray gun has finally arrived in the real world.  And even if the first ray guns out of the lab can barely fit on the bed of a 30-ton off-road truck rather than in a soldier’s palm, the novel, “speed-of-light” capabilities that lasers could bring to the battlefield has drawn the keen interest of the Pentagon brass, which spends about $400 million a year on directed-energy beam weapons.  At the end of this year, which marks a half-century of amazing progress in lasers, defense contractors Northrop Grumman and Boeing plan to test-fire a prototype mobile laser weapon against examples of the lethal ordnance—rockets, artillery, mortars—that insurgents in Afghanistan and elsewhere shoot at U.S. troops every day, says Mark Neice, director of the Department of Defense’s High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office in Albuquerque, N.M. As long as such an area-defense system is fed electrical power (from the grid or battery packs), its 100-kilowatt, solid-state, or electric, laser should be able to use its “unlimited magazine” of low-cost shots and ultra-precision tracking/targeting system to zap out of the air multiple inbound munitions from several kilometers away, he explains. [...]"   

Junk Science: Scientist creates synthetic life form [05/20/10] "Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world's first synthetic life form. [...]"  Note: If it wasn't living by itself BEFORE incorporation into an already living cell, than it IS NOT 'synthetic life'.... if it ain't movin', it ain't groovin' ... they created a biological method of CONTROLLING life ... NOT creating life itself ...  Sizing up the 'synthetic cell' [05/20/10] "A synthesized genome has been assembled, modified and implanted into a DNA-free bacterial shell to make a self-replicating Mycoplasma mycoides bacterium1. Here, Nature presents short extracts from eight comment pieces on what this achievement means for biotechnology, evolutionary biology, regulation and philosophy.  [...]"  Related: Researchers start up cell with synthetic genome  | "US team creates first ’synthetic life’ 

Quantum crack in cryptographic armour [05/20/10] "A commercial quantum encryption system has been fully hacked for the first time. [...]"  Note: Well, that's it, then. Keep the secret to yourself.

To Infinite Spending, and Beyond! [05/20/10] "“It’s futile to resist new military technology,” says Slate: Telepathic helmets. Grid-computing swarms of cyborg insects, some for surveillance, some with lethal stingers. New cognitive-enhancement drugs. (What? Adderall and Provigil aren’t good enough for you?) Lethal autonomous robots. Brain-chip-to-weapon platform control systems on a “future force warrior” platform. American military technology is getting very frisky. [...] "  Note: "The article, a defense of sci-fi war, is a reminder, not only of how much loot is taken from us for these murderous purposes, but how many scientific and engineering brains are enlisted into Starship Trooperism. How much freer, wealthier, and more advanced our civilization would be without the Pentagon, the CIA, the whole military-industrial complex."  

'Metamaterial' Could Lead to See Through Cameras [05/20/10] "A new class of man-made materials could hold the key to creating X-ray-like cameras that can see through walls and clothing. Called metamaterials, these substances could harness terahertz radiation, light with energies between infrared waves and microwaves. Terahertz waves are essentially low-level heat created by the movement of molecules. They’re largely unexplored as a regime of energy because they are very difficult to detect, but if harnessed could lead to devices with some remarkable abilities.  [...]"  

Virtual Reality Mind Control Experiments [05/20/10] "Ultra-creepy mind-control experiments now go mainstream. The video of this experiment looks like a scene from the Manchurian Candidate. I’m sure the souped-up version of this “experiment” with the “volunteer” on psychosis-inducing pharmaceuticals is much more effective. Notice how the video involves all the classic elements of mind control: loss of identity, infantile regression, caressing to nurture feelings of security, and pay special attention to the VIOLENT SLAPPING part at the end of the video.  Also, after looking into one of the main authors of the paper, Olaf Blanke, I looked up one of his previous papers. In the acknowledgements section it states “O.B. is supported by the Sandoz Family Foundation.” Yes, THAT Sandoz; the same company that Albert Hoffman worked at in Switzerland when he discovered LSD; and, the same company that manufactured LSD for the CIA’s MKUltra experiments in the 50’s and early 60’s. Of course, this is all purely coincidental. [...]"   

New Transistor Bridges Human-Machine Gap [05/20/10] "Humans and machines could be one step closer to merging thanks to a new transistor controlled by the molecule that powers biological cells. [...]"  Note:  Interesting development ... fortunately, we'll never see this go far, on this planet.

Sequentials At Large:  Gates Foundation Suggests Sterilizing Males with Ultrasound [05/18/10] "Among the 78 research projects to receive $100,000 grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation earlier this week as part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, is an effort by researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to develop a non-invasive, reversible form of birth control for men  [...]"     

"Agent Buried Alive": A Survivor of NSA Genetic Enhancement and Occult Warfare Projects Speaks Out [05/16/10] "James Casbolt is a former MI6 agent who worked in 'Black ops' drug trafficking operations in London between 1995 and 1999. He comes from a line of intelligence people. His grandfather was naval intelligence, his father was MI6 who was also involved in 'Black ops' and his uncle was an MI5 officer in Logistics. From Cornwall England, James wishes to make amends for his part in these operations and blow the whistle on the crimes against Humanity that the intelligence agencies are involved in. MI6 and the CIA have cornered the global drugs trade (which is worth at least £500 billion a year, this is more than the global oil trade) and are now bringing the majority of illegal street drugs into America and Britain.  They are using this drug money to fund projects classified 'Above top secret' which include the building and maintaining of deep underground military bases (DUMBS). There are now over 4000 of these bases worldwide and the average depth of these bases is four and a quarter miles. Some are shallower and some are deeper. The bases are on average the size of a medium sized city and yes, he says there are aliens in them. James is connected to ex intelligence people who have worked in these underground bases and on other ET related projects. There are vast numbers of children and adults disappearing around the world and ending up in these underground bases.  [...]"    

Documentary: "Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?" [05/15/10] [9:56]  "There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner. Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: ‘It left us quite unsettled and jittery’ he says, ‘because this is not something we planned to find’. The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called ‘dark flow’ not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies – it also means that large numbers of scientists might have to find a new way of understanding the universe. Dark flow is the latest in a long line of phenomena that have threatened to re-write the textbooks. Stars nearer the edge of a galaxy move just as fast as those in the centre. This made cosmologists think that galaxies needed more gravity, but the only way to get more gravity was to create it. Astrophysicist Dan Bauer is hunting for dark matter half a mile under the dark plains of Minnesota in order to trace and record it more effectively. The discovery that the universe is speeding up suggests that a new force is powering the universe. This force is known as dark energy, and cosmologists have no idea what it is. The combination of the standard model, inflation and dark matter has given way to a new theory called dark flow. The nature of this theory could show that our universe isn’t the only one. The standard model of cosmology has withstood much criticism, therefore making the theory stronger; however it could still be totally wrong. [...]"  Part 2 [9:55]| Part 3 [9:56]| Part 4 [9:56]| Part 5 [9:55] | Part 6 [9:44]  Note: Interesting update on the dynamics in astrophysics and related fields. Now, from advanced perspectives, here we have sequentials who are baffled ... and intrigued by evidence that there are parallel universes ..... Related: Dark Matter Dark Energy & the Unknown Universe  Rhawn Joseph. [5:07]  

Bloomberg Wants ‘Big Brother Britain’ For NYC [05/13/10] "Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his eye on more security against terror attacks. He went to London Tuesday to check out their surveillance camera system, one of the largest in the world.  Ever since the Times Square car bomb scare on May 1, the mayor’s been looking to build up New York’s camera network. That means adding to the ring of steel in Times Square, similar to central London’s. The mayor said more NYPD surveillance cameras may prevent another terror scare. London has 500,000 surveillance cameras, more than any other city in the world. Bloomberg visited London’s mayor to see how these help Britain fight terror. “We live in a world of suicide bombers. We live in a world of international terrorism,” Bloomberg said. [...]"  Note: Bloomberg is a sociopath and a delusional sequential control freak who lives in his little stupid world of fear and manipulation. 

Pentagon Developing Brain Implants That Use Fiber Optics to Stimulate Neurons [05/10/10] "Significant progress has already been made in understanding brain injury. Scientists can create conceptual, mathematical models of brain activity, and are also able to record the electrical pulses emitted by individual neurons in the brain, which offers insight into how those neurons communicate. That knowledge has spurred rapid progress in neural-assisted prosthetic devices, [...]"   

 Commentary:  Is “Avatar” Raelian Cult Indoctrination? [05/09/10] "... Last week, the eminent theoretical physicist, Professor Stephen Hawking, warned that alien extra-terrestrials should not be contacted, as their intentions would probably be destructive to the human race. Rael has responded to that article also: “Unfortunately, Stephen Hawking was “perfectly UN-rational” when he stated “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans” . By what standard of logic and reasoning can he make this absurd and ridiculous statement?…” [...]"  Note: Layer upon layer of delusionary sequential clusterfucks, nested in a delightful icing. 

NASA Seeks 'Warp Drive', Anti-Gravity Space Craft [05/09/10] "The state of Texas and NASA hope to take an early lead in interstellar space travel with technologies that sound like dialogue from Star Trek or Star Wars peppered with terms like 'Warp Drive' and, prominently, 'anti-gravity'. Simplistically, a new generation of space-craft may be capable of producing 'tuned' gravity waves by which it may literally surf a veritable 'grid' of gravity waves that form a cosmic, universal 'net'. [...]"     

Can You Really 'Die in Your Nightmares?'  [05/08/10] "Wes Craven’s horror movie "A Nightmare On Elm Street" (1984) remains one of the most popular horror movies of all time. But for all its outlandish content, a real disease called “sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome” (SUNDS) inspired the movie, Craven said in an interview with Cinemafantastique magazine in 2008. SUNDS strikes otherwise healthy young people dead in their sleep, not unlike a certain claw-handed villain in the Elm Street movies.  In SUNDS, which is genetic disease, the body fails to properly coordinate the electrical signals that cause the heart to beat, said Matteo Vatta, an assistant professor of cardiology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The disease primarily strikes young adult men, especially those of Southeast Asian descent.  “The heart can be normal for quite some time, and then it may stop unexpectedly,” Vatta told Life’s Little Mysteries. “Usually, the heart stops at night, and in Southeast Asia it once caused more deaths amongst young males than car accidents.”  There have been some theories that link the onset of SUNDS to the stress caused by nightmares, but no scientific studies have shown a correlation between SUNDS deaths and the content of dreams. [...]"  Note: Of course. Is someone who died going to come back and say .... I had a dream ....    

"Lie-Detecting Brain Scan May Debut in Court" [05/06/10] "Who needs Perry Mason when we've got neuroscience? A Brooklyn attorney wants to prove someone is telling the truth by introducing a scan of her brain activity into evidence this week, reports Wired. It would be a legal first and could open the door to more such evidence being used in courtrooms, writes Alexis Madrigal. It's far from a done deal, however. The companies who sell these so-called fMRI scans say they're foolproof because they measure blood-oxygen levels in the brain and can show when fibbers are in action. But says one neuroscientist critic: “The data in their studies don’t appear to be reliable enough to use in a court of law." We'll see if the judge agrees. "   

Human-looking ETs secretly in U.S.? [05/02/10] "According to accounts released Saturday, April 24, 2010, by the coordinator of an e-mail news and information service, officials of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and other U.S. government agencies have been involved in security activities involving human-appearing extraterrestrial beings in the U.S.  Victor Martinez, the e-mail information coordinator, is a former federal employee with an interest in space, defense and current affairs. Recipients of his e-mail news items include a wide variety of people interested in emerging and leading-edge scientific and other developments.  [...]" 

 UK: Grandmother, Grandson To Have Child Together  [05/02/10] Note: Sequentials. They were no doubt husband and wife in another incarnation.  

UK: Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens [04/26/10] "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," he said.  Prof Hawking thinks that, rather than actively trying to communicate with extra-terrestrials, humans should do everything possible to avoid contact. He explained: "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet." ..." Scientist forbids contacting aliens "Hawking described working out "what aliens might actually be like" as the real challenge. Aliens have been portrayed as two-legged herbivores or yellow, lizard-like predators, but Hawking believes extra-terrestrial species most probably consist of simple microbes. ..."  Note: And Hawking is a relatively sheltered sequential who is supposed to be this whiz. 

UK: Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new weapon [04/26/10] "Somewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build.  The mysterious X37B, launched successfully by the US Air Force from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, using an Atlas V rocket, looks like a mini-Space Shuttle — but its mission is top secret.  It is officially described as an orbital test vehicle. However, one of its potential uses appears to be to launch a surge of small satellites during periods of high international tension. This would enable America to have eyes and ears orbiting above any potential troublespot in the world.  The X37B can stay in orbit for up to 270 days, whereas the Shuttle can last only 16 days. This will provide the US with the ability to carry out experiments for long periods, including the testing of new laser weapon systems. This would bring accusations that the launch of X37B, and a second vehicle planned for later this year, could lead to the militarisation of space. ... Thursday’s launch was more about testing the craft, a new generation of silica tile and a wealth of other advances that make the Shuttle look like yesterday’s space technology. The flight of the X37B is being managed by the US Air Force Space Command’s 3rd Space Experimental Squadron. With all the focus on the launch of the secret X37B, another space launch by a Minotaur IV rocket from Vandenberg Air Force base in California received less attention. It was carrying the prototype of a new weapon that can hit any target around the world in less than an hour. The Prompt Global Strike is designed as the conventional weapon of the future. It could hit Osama bin Laden’s cave, an Iranian nuclear site or a North Korean missile with a huge conventional warhead."  

Military Tests Hypersonic Global Strike Vehicle [04/24/10] "U.S. Air Force and DARPA have test launched a Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle [HCV] called the Falcon HTV-2 at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. HCV is a vehicle that has the capability to strike anywhere in the world with a conventional warhead in less than an hour – known as the Conventional Prompt Global Strike Vehicle. This autonomous aircraft is capable of taking off any military runway and striking targets 9,000 nautical miles away in 3,000 seconds at speeds up to Mach-8. An HCV is capable in waging a sustained campaign [at possibly Iran] on an array of time-critical targets that are large in number and diverse in nature. The U.S. seeks full-spectrum military dominance of space, air, land and sea by 2020, where everything is automated and military vehicles and soldiers communicate with each other to lift ‘the fog of war’ especially in an urban battlefield. ‘Full-spectrum dominance’ comes from US Space Command’s “Vision for 2020” written in 1998, which spoke of “dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US interests and investment.”Meanshile, the highly secret X-37B robotic space plane launched into space from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for a mystery mission that is expected to take months testing the spacecraft’s technologies. The X-37 is an un-piloted demonstration space plane built by Boeing Phantom Works that is intended to test future launch technologies while in orbit and during atmospheric re-entry. The spacecraft will be placed into low Earth orbit for testing, following which it will be de-orbited for landing. ..."  Related: DARPA Tested Hypersonic Glider Related to Quick-Response Global Strike System, and Then Claims to Have Lost Contact with It  "There has been a lot of coverage of the launch of the X-37b, but as the right hand was waving at us, did you notice what the left hand was up to? The same day, the U.S. launched a Minotaur rocket that reportedly carried a Hypersonic Test Vehicle, which is a test platform for the Prompt  ..."  Note: No, they didn't lose contact with it ... it's certainly a diversion meant to end discussion of it. 

Pentagon looks to revive Nazi space-bomber plan [04/24/10] "The US military appears to have temporarily given up on exotic scramjet powered hyper-plane and -missile notions for the purpose of suddenly blowing things up at short notice anywhere in the world. Rather, Pentagon boffins are now re-examining a plan once considered by the Nazis for the purpose of bombing America. The boffins in question are our old friends at DARPA, the US military asylum for mad scientists, who see further into the future of warfare by standing on the shoulders of giants - if necessary, immense robot colossi or genetically engineered titanoid abominations of their own manufacture. In this case, however, they seem to be following a more conventional Isaac Newton-style policy of basing their work on that of great past practitioners in their field.  Very few groups have been more illustrious in the field of mad futuristic weapons than the Nazi rocketeers of World War II, and thus it is no surprise to find DARPA making a new push to resurrect one of their notions: that of the Boost-Glide  extra- atmospheric suborbital weapons platform.  German boffins of the 1940s developed detailed plans (pdf) for a so-called Silbervogel ("Silver Bird") rocket bomber which would have soared high into space and then travelled many thousands of miles by skipping like a flung stone on water around the top of the atmosphere. It was thought by its designers that the amazing machine might be able to circumnavigate the globe like this, dropping off a bomb en route as it sailed above America; or at any rate make a landing in Japanese-held territory after such a raid. These abilities led to it being dubbed the "antipodal bomber" in some circles.. In general, though, the mission of global strategic strike is already well covered by more conventional ICBMs, as global surveillance is by spy satellites. .....  But with the newly-announced "ArcLight" programme, DARPA aren't talking about flight in the atmosphere at all. Instead, a less ambitious BGRV type of effort is requested, with a smallish naval launch tube type rocket firing the pocket, unmanned Silbervogel/X-20 into space followed by hypersonic re-entry no more than 2,000 miles away. The US Navy's 8,500 Mark 41 tubes, distributed around the world aboard its cruisers, destroyers and submarines, should thus more or less blanket the planet with ArcLight coverage able to deliver an unstoppable 100-lb hypersonic warhead in less than half an hour from go...."   

Groups ask DHS to suspend full-body imagers [04/23/10] "More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to. ...More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of full body imagers at airports, saying there is evidence that privacy safeguards don't work and the devices are not effective.  In a petition filed Wednesday, the groups also said the machines -- which see through travelers' clothes -- violate people's "deeply held religious beliefs." The Transportation Security Administration has sped up deployment of the machines after a man with explosives sewn into his underwear attempted to bomb a plane on Christmas Day. About 46 machines are in place in 23 airports, and the agency plans to have about 1,000 set up by the end of 2011. The TSA has steadfastly defended the effectiveness and safety of the machines and says extensive precautions are taken to protect the identities of those who go through them."  Note: Michael Chertoff has a vested financial interest in promotion of these machines, as I seem to remember.  Related: Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says "leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install "useless" imaging machines at airports across the country.  "I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada. "That's why we haven't put them in our airport," Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world. ..."   

'Scientists measure atomic nudge' [04/19/10] "At 174 trillionths of a trillionth of a newton, new 'yoctoforce' is smallest yet measured. ..."  Note: No. It's a' yuckyuck'.

Documentary: Water – The Great Mystery [04/17/10] 8 Video clips "This is an informative video-documentary. ...discusses the memory capability of water and more."   

3D-TV can cause dizziness, twitching and seizures [04/16/10] "The world’s biggest electronics company has issued an extraordinary health warning about the dangers of watching 3D television. Pregnant women, the elderly, children and those suffering from serious medical conditions are among a wide range of people said to be at risk. The alert extends to those who have been sleep deprived or drinking. It highlights alarming side effects such as confusion, nausea, convulsions, altered vision, light-headedness, dizziness, and involuntary movements such as eye or muscle twitching and cramps. Samsung says there are also concerns that those with epilepsy could be at risk of fits – as they are from strobe lighting and photographers’ flashes on normal television. Watching 3D on TV, which involves wearing special glasses like those used for 3D movies, bombards the eyes and brain with a succession of flashing images that appear for a fraction of a second. It is a new way of seeing things and so puts unusual strain on the body. ..."    Related: Man dies after watching Avatar "A 42-year-old Taiwanese man with a history of high blood pressure has died of a stroke likely triggered by over-excitement from watching the blockbuster Avatar in 3D, a doctor says. The man, identified only by his surname Kuo, started to feel unwell during the screening earlier this month in the northern city of Hsinchu and was taken to hospital. Mr Kuo, who suffered from hypertension, was unconscious when he arrived at the Nan Men General Hospital and a scan showed that his brain was haemorrhaging, emergency room doctor Peng Chin-chih said today. “It’s likely that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms,” the doctor said. ..."  Note: Right. 

New Zealand: Scientists Given Permission to Put Human Genes Into Goats, Sheep and Cows [04/16/10] "Scientists have been given permission to put human genes into goats, sheep and cows for the next 20 years, to see if the animals will produce human proteins in their milk. But people will not be pouring the genetically modified milk on their Weetbix just yet – the milk will be discarded. ..."  Note: As it is alleged to be in Atlantean times ... straying into this area was but one of the dynamics that heralded a major shift in things. 

Energy Emitted From Eyes Responsible for That “Stared At” Feeling [04/14/10] 2 Video clips   "A new study by psychiatrist Colin A. Ross suggests that our eyes emit an energy that is measurable, and is ultimately responsible for the eerie feeling of being “stared at” that many people have claimed to have felt.  Ross´s new study entitled “The Electrophysiological Basis of Evil Eye Belief” has been published in the peer reviewed journal Anthropology of Consciousness and claims to have found a “human ocular extramission” in the form of  electromagnetism.  Though traditional science does not accept that human eyes can emit any energy whatsoever, Ross claims to have used a custom-made device to prove that the “human eye emits an electromagnetic signal that can be measured scientifically.” ..."   

 Croatian teenager wakes up from a coma speaking fluent German [04/13/10] "Croatian doctors are baffled after a teenage girl who fell into a mysterious coma woke up speaking fluent German.  The parents of the 13-year-old from the southern town of Knin said their daughter had only just started studying German at school and had been trying to read German books and watch German television - but had never been that good in German. But since waking up the teenager has been unable to speak Croatian and even refused it, but communicates only in perfect German far superior to her mastery of the language she had when she was taken ill. ..."  Note: Actually, I have heard of this happening before.  Note: My assessment: Sequential HS 'resetting' the memory track from a newly defunct mode to another life memory track ... a defensive act ... 

The Electromagnetic Spectrum [04/08/10]    Video clip [2:15]  Note: This is an amazing short clip. If you took a piece of film 2500 miles long to represent the electromagnetic spectrum, only about 2-3 inches would represent Visible light .... just imagine the realities we don't perceive... 

European Parliament: question on aircraft condensation trails which no longer only contain water  [04/07/10] ") Is the Commission aware that, since 1999, members of the public in Canada and the USA have been complaining about the growing presence in the air of aircraft condensation trails of a new type, which sometimes persist for hours and which spread far more widely than in the past, creating milky veils which are dubbed 'aerial obscuration', and that the new type has particularly come to people's attention because it is so different from the short, pencil-thin white contrails which have been a familiar sight ever since jet engines came into use and which remain visible for 20 minutes at most and can only be produced if steam condenses on dust particles due to low temperatures and high humidity?  ...  Is the Commission aware that investigations by these complainants, observations by pilots and statements by government bodies increasingly suggest that what is happening is that aircraft are emitting into dry air small particles consisting of barium, aluminium and iron, a phenomenon which in public debate in America has come to be known as chemtrails? ...."    

Sequentials At Large: ‘The Separation Between Science and Human Values is a Dangerous Illusion’ [04/06/10]  Video clip [23:07] "Harris, who wrote “An Atheist Manifesto” and “Letter to a Christian Nation,” defends science’s usefulness in helping us answer the biggest questions about “what constitutes a good life”  ..."  Note: Interesting to evaluate this sequential perspective and see where he's way off ... and see where his message is intended to place science in the forefront of live, as sequentials will do, etc. 

Stunning Research Shows High Potential for DNA Damage from Nanoparticles [03/30/10] "Nanoparticles may be able to damage the DNA of cells without ever coming into contact with it, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Bristol Implant Research Center and published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Nanoparticles are particles so small that they have fundamentally different physical and chemical properties ..."  Note: They're so hot-to-trot about their 'nanoparticles' and 'nanotubes' that they want to integrate into every aspect of human society, if they could. Again, it's another 'development' which would prove problematic. 

Israel unveils “green” strategy to defeat 'enemies' [03/30/10] "Under cover of a sudden interest in developing new green technologies, and with strong support from US neo-conservatives, the Israeli government hopes to weaken the Gulf states by making their oil redundant and thereby defeating “Islamic terror”. ..."    

"Scientists able to manipulate morality" [03/30/10] "Morality is not based on social conscience or religion, but a brain region just above and behind the right ear, research suggests. Scientists found they were able to alter people's moral judgments by directing magnetic pulses at a knot of nerve cells known as the right temporo- parietal junction (RTPJ). ..."  Note: There is no future in giving the governments technology to manipulate people's brain activities.  "Government is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get into a position of controlling them."  Milton Friedman

"Evidence Grows for Multiverse" [03/26/10] "The find adds to the case that chunks of matter got pushed outside the known universe shortly after the big bang —which in turn hints that our universe is part of something larger: a multiverse. ..."  Note:  Geeze, these people are like simplistic children ... of course ... what stupid people. Another nail in the coffin of the 8th grade educational level they try to maintain with the American public.

Iron-Nitrogen Compound Forms Strongest Magnet Known [03/24/10] "Possible solution to peak neodymium doom? Via: PhysOrg: A group of scientists from the University of Minnesota say that Fe16N2 crystals are more magnetic than the most magnetic material previously known, and its magnetism exceeds the predicted limit of magnetism for a material.  ..."     

Controlling the waves: FCC shows off spectrum map [03/23/10] "The Spectrum Dashboard allows new ways for citizens to search spectrum in the United States. Use the dashboard to find out how spectrum is being used, who owns spectrum licenses around the country, and what spectrum is available in your county. ..."  

Microfluidic channels offer promise of cheap, portable desalination [03/22/10] "Disaster-struck areas desperate for fresh water could benefit from an ion-repelling device that cleans up contaminated salt water. Jongyoon Han at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and his colleagues have come up with a device that could be used as a simple, portable water-desalination system run from a battery or on solar power.  ..."  

Physical Oddities With the Denver Airport  [03/17/10] Video clip "Denver International Airport is the largest international airport in the United States, and the second largest international airport in the world. However, its most notable features are concealed beneath ground level, including an inaccessible 88.5 square mile base buried 150 feet underground, and five large underground "storage buildings" which are mysteriously undergoing intermittent construction, all being strikingly resemblant of Nazi underground detention camps, and inexplicably interconnected via a complex tunnel system. The tunnel system is equipped with an ominous sprinkler system which seemingly was deliberately installed for an yet undisclosed purpose. Intriguingly, European geopolitical leaders, including Queen Elizabeth II, have individually purchased property nearby under different aliases. ..."  Note: This link is timed to start the clip at 6:44, after the mural descriptions and preface. 

DARPA Mind's Eye Program  [03/16/10] PDF "The Mind’s Eye program seeks to develop in machines a capability that currently exists only in animals: visual intelligence. Humans in particular perform a wide range of visual tasks with ease, which no current artificial intelligence can do in a robust way. Humans have inherently strong spatial judgment and are able to learn new spatiotemporal concepts directly from the visual experience. Humans can visualize scenes and objects, as well as the actions involving those objects. Humans possess a powerful ability to manipulate those imagined scenes mentally to solve problems. A machine‐based implementation of such abilities would be broadly applicable to a wide range of applications. ..."  Note: Bid

Sony, Samsung detail 3D TV plans [03/10/10] "Sony and Samsung announced plans to introduce 3D televisions in coming months, betting they will become the next hot products in an increasingly crowded electronics industry. Sony Corp (6758.T) hopes 3D models will make up 10 percent of more than 25 million LCD TVs it aims to sell in the next fiscal year. The maker of the PlayStation 3 game console also plans to release 3D game software in time for its 3D TV launch in June. ..."  Related:  First 3-D TV Channels from DirecTV Available in June 2010 "In June, DirecTV will become the first pay-TV provider to offer 3-D channels compatible with the new 3-D TVs. ..."  Note: Shit with more ambient 'presence' than the old shit, it still shit. 

Unused TV channels bring broadband to rural U.S. [03/09/10] "Due to its availability and range, TV white spaces have proved to be a very cost-effective way to distribute high-speed Internet in this heavily forested and hilly rural community,” said Peter Stanforth, CTO of Spectrum Bridge. “The non-line of sight conditions, coupled with long distances between radios, would have posed significant challenges to existing unlicensed alternatives. TV white spaces could prove to be invaluable to those striving to bring broadband access to under-served and unserved rural communities.” ..."  

Time Technology & Research: Art Bell Jan 31, 2010 Interview With Dr. David Anderson [03/07/10]  [10:15] 15 Video clips [240:00]  "Joining Art Bell for the entire 4-hour program, physicist Dr. David Anderson discussed the state of time technology from his research, as well as other labs around the world. He recapped his work from 2002, when he last appeared with Art on the show. At that juncture, his team had created small time warp fields that he said could accelerate time by 300% within the field, as well as reversing time. He described the initiation of a time warp field as quite spectacular to witness, "between the combinations of different chemical reagents and high energy lasers we use to excite or initiate a time warp field...a lot of light, a lot of energy." Since 2002, the effects have increased by "two orders of magnitudes," both in time acceleration and retardation rates, and living organisms have been successfully tested in the warp fields, he detailed. By regenerating "closed timelike curves" (bending spacetime so time loops back on itself) we're finding it "just as easy to move backwards in time as well as forward," Anderson explained. Currently countries such as Japan, China, and especially India have been experimenting with time technologies, Anderson reported. Through a device called the Temporal Tremor Detector (TTD), his team is able to track such experiments by observing disruptions in the spacetime fabric, he said. As time technology becomes further developed, moral and ethical issues are arising, he pointed out. Benefits of the technology include accurate historical studies of the past, but on the negative side, we could experience "Time Wars," with deliberate destruction of parts of the timeline. Anderson advocated for more transparency and disclosure of the technology, so the public can have input on how it's used.  ..."  Note: [All About 10:15 long ] Part 2  | Part 3 | Part 4  | Part 5  | Part 6 | Part 7  | Part 8  | Part 9   Part 10 | Part 11  | Part 12  | Part 13 | Part 14  | Part15   Related:  Anderson Institute |   Quick Overview Excerpt of the Situation from the above Interview  Key Phrases: Inertial Frame Dragging | Time Warped Field |  Time Control Technologies and Methods PDF |

UK:  Deny all knowledge: How the Ministry of Defence now handles reported UFO sightings  [03/01/10] "The murky world of alleged alien activity has become even more secretive because defence officials have been instructed to destroy all UFO reports they receive, it was revealed today. The bid to prevent publication of the sightings is contained in a previously secret memo. Britain's official UFO investigation unit and hotline were closed down at the start of December. ...Since then reports of strange sights in the skies sent to the MoD have been kept for 30 days before being thrown out, the newly released policy document shows. This stance was adopted so defence officials would not have to publish the information in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests or pass it to the National Archives. The memo, dated November 11, 2009, sets out the MoD's reasons for shutting its UFO unit and ceasing to invite the public to send in details of sightings. It notes that the number of reports the department received soared last year, taking up extra resources and diverting staff from 'more valuable' defence-related activities. The MoD recorded 634 UFO sightings in 2009, the second-highest annual total after 1978, when there were 750, according to UFO expert Dr David Clarke. This compares with an average of about 150 reports a year over the past decade. "  

It's raining fish ... no really  [03/01/10] "WHILE the Top End and Central Australia have been battered by torrential rains, a Territory town has had fish falling from the sky. The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine .... But it's not the first time the remote community has been bombarded by fins from above. In 2004, locals reported fish falling from the sky, and in 1974, a similar incident captured international headlines. The small white fish are believed to be spangled perch, which are very common through much of northern Australia. Weather bureau senior forecaster Ashley Patterson said the geological conditions were perfect on Friday for a tornado in the Douglas Daly region. He said it would have been an ideal weather situation to allow the phenomena to occur - but no tornados have been reported to the authority. "It's a very unusual event," he said. "With an updraft, (fish and water picked up) could get up high - up to 60,000 or 70,000 feet. ..."   

US to increase numbers at Pine Gap [02/25/10] The United States Ambassador to Australia says his country will increase the number of US personnel in Alice Springs. Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich this week went on his first tour of the Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility near Alice Springs. He says the US and Australian Governments are investing significant amounts of money upgrading infrastructure at the base. Mr Bleich says he would expect the number of US personnel serving in Alice Springs to increase over the coming years. "It's a wonderful relationship and all I see is it continuing to grow and move forward," he said. "We have an agreement which goes in perpetuity unless one side or the other wants to end it and I don't see any sign of either nation wanting to end it. "It's been very productive and a wonderful example of what the United States and Australia can do when we put our minds to it." Mr Bleich says the base upgrades include work on its power station. "There is going to be improvements in the kind of fuel which is used, moving off of diesel and into natural gas and they've also done a number of refinements within the facility in order to make it more environmentally-friendly. "In fact it's recently met the Australian environmental certification standards." " ..."  Note:   Academic assessment of Pine Gap Facility

Sun-powered water splitter makes hydrogen tirelessly  [02/23/10] "Sunlight + water = hydrogen gas, in a new technique that can convert 60 per cent of sunlight energy absorbed by an electrode into the inflammable fuel. To generate the gas Thomas Nann and colleagues at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, dip a gold electrode with a special coating into water and expose it to light. clusters of indium phosphide 5 nanometres wide on its surface absorb incoming photons and pass electrons bearing their energy on to clusters of a sulphurous iron compound. This material combines those electrons with protons from the water to form gaseous hydrogen. A second electrode – plain platinum this time – is needed to complete the circuit electrochemically. ...Organic molecules have been used before to perform the same feat. But they are quickly bleached by the sunlight they are collecting, rendering them inefficient after a few weeks. The inorganic materials used in the University of East Anglia's system are more resilient. Their first generation proof of concept is "a major breakthrough" in the field, they say, thanks to its efficiency of over 60 per cent and ability to survive sunlight for two weeks without any degradation of performance. "In fact the 60 per cent figure is probably a worst-case scenario," says Nann. "This is still a preliminary study. That high efficiency is largely thanks to the indium phosphide clusters being better at grabbing photons than organic molecules. "Think of them as a butterfly net for catching photons," says Nann. By the standard measure of the probability that a material will absorb a photon that hits it, each cluster is 400 times better at netting photons than organic molecules used in previous systems. "That's why it works so well," says Nann. He and colleagues now plan to refine the system, including lowering the cost by making it with less expensive materials. "There is no major reason for using gold or platinum," he says: those materials were used simply because they are common in the laboratory. The Nann team's experiment has been welcomed by others in the field. "It's a significant result," says Vincent Artero at the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France. There is still room to improve efficiency and reduce materials costs, but "my overall appreciation of this work is highly positive, both regarding the scientific level and the promises that are held by the new result", he says. Licheng Sun at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, agrees. "It will certainly [provide] future research topics for water splitting," he says."  Journal reference: Angewandte Chemie International  Note: So will this be used to power desalination plants and create energy to cope with social adjustment to climate change? No. There will be a few people with a lot of wealth from 'carbon credits', a concept just as ludicrous as financial derivatives, and no one will actually DO anything. The people in charge are too stupid to accomplish anything.

A Power Plant for the Backyard? [02/23/10]  60 Minutes "The impresario behind this newfangled clean-energy box sees one of his mini power plants in every home, but it’s not clear if the little miracles even work.  ..."   

Darpa Plans Test for Hypersonic Weapon [02/23/10] "Sometime in late April, the Pentagon’s far-out science arm is planning a test flight for a prototype of a hypersonic weapon that — in theory — could cross the Pacific Ocean in under two hours. ..."  Note: A telephone call with a reasonable dialog is faster, cheaper, less messy and has good aftereffects.

New Surveillance Drones With Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Tasers [02/18/10] " ....The fact that every one of these fascistic and futuristic tools of enslavement is being primed to be used mainly against protesters only confirms that the police state is not coming, it’s not some future threat, it’s here in 2010 – we’re living in a world that does not tolerate dissent against its overlords, we’re truly living on a prison planet. ..."  

Patent Complaint on Vehicle Snoopers [02/17/10] "Two foreign companies that created vehicle-tracking technologies say 11 U.S. companies have copied their systems, infringing on seven patents. The tracking systems can notify users if a vehicle is approaching, and can be programmed to indicate when the vehicles pass by as many as 1,000 pre-selected landmarks. ..."  

Atlantis Revisited: Genetic code 2.0: Life gets a new operating system [02/16/10] "A new way of using the genetic code has been created, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world. The breakthrough could eventually lead to the creation of new or "improved" life forms incorporating these new materials into their tissue. ..."   

Shortage of Rare Earth Elements Could Thwart Innovation [02/15/10] "Rare earth elements hold the key to hybrid cars, wind turbines and crystal-clear TV displays."  Note:  They mostly come from China, which the US has alienated.

Surveillance Drones To Zap Protesters Into Submission [02/13/10] "Illustrating once again that the prison planet being built around us far outstrips anything Aldous Huxley or George Orwell ever imagined, a Wired News report details how police forces worldwide are preparing to unveil drone aircraft that can not only conduct surveillance of protesters, but also zap them into submission with non-lethal weapons. ... As part of their ongoing mission to “protect and serve” the new world order, cops across the world are getting access to military drones which allow them to “carry out surveillance on everyone from protesters and antisocial motorists to fly-tippers,” reports Wired News .... The fact that every one of these fascistic and futuristic tools of enslavement is being primed to be used mainly against protesters only confirms that the police state is not coming, it’s not some future threat, it’s here in 2010 – we’re living in a world that does not tolerate dissent against its overlords, we’re truly living on a prison planet."   

"Our world may be a giant hologram" [02/07/10] ".... For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century. For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan. If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram." ..."   A comment:  Yes, but the "surface" is integral not distant. The reality is nonlocality. The hologram is x,y,z.

 Pentagon draws plans for immortal ’synthetic organisms’ [02/06/10] "The Pentagon's advanced research division has set aside $6 million from its next budget for research on the creation of "synthetic organisms" whose DNA can be altered to make them live forever, or die on command, and even keep a genetic record of what they have been doing. ... In its 2011 budget (PDF, 522 pages), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency lays out its intention to create "BioDesign," a project to create artificial life, presumably with military purposes in mind. "BioDesign eliminates the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement primarily by advanced genetic engineering and molecular biology technologies to produce the intended biological effect," the DARPA document states. The agency says it wants to develop "a robust understanding of the collective mechanisms that contribute to cell death" so as to "enable a new generation of regenerative cells that could ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely. ...."   

Holes In Heaven: HAARP and Advances in Tesla Technology [02/05/10] VIDEO [51:47]  "The late Carl Sagan said (which is related to this documentary) “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We’ve also arranged things so that almost no one understands science or technology. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later, this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces”. This documentary film poses the question: Are we making Holes in Heaven? HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a controversial high frequency radio transmitter, or “ionospheric heater,” which is believed to be descended from the works of Nikola Tesla and is operated by the U.S. Navy/Air Force and Phillip Laboratories in remote Gakona, Alaska. Using HAARP, the military can focus a billion-watt pulsed radio beam into our upper atmosphere, ostensibly for ionospheric research. This procedure will form extremely low frequency waves and send them back to the Earth, enhancing communications with submarines and allowing us to “see” into the Earth, detecting anything from oil reserves to underground missile silos. However, several researchers claim HAARP poses many dangers, including blowing thirty-mile holes in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. They also warn of possible disruption of the subtle magnetic energies of our Earth and ourselves. Holes in Heaven? is a prime example of grassroots filmmaking by producer Paula Randol-Smith and Emmy-winning director Wendy Robbins. Narrated by Martin Sheen, the documentary, investigates HAARP, its history and implications, and examines the dangers and benefits of high and low frequencies and of electromagnetic technology. ..."  Note: HAARP instrument readings  

Stunning discovery brings sci-fi weapons a step closer [02/05/10] "Kirk's famous command to "set your phasers to stun" could go from science fiction to science fact after a breakthrough discovery to develop lasers capable of harmless paralysis. In what sounds like the kind of raygun technology of Star Trek, the researchers found a way of firing a laser beam that stuns a living creature. The beam paralyses the creature and then, when the beam is turned off, it recovers without any ill-effects. ... Canadian scientists, reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, believe they have developed a similar system using ultraviolet light. All animals, including humans, are sensitive to light. Doctors take advantage of this by firing beams into the body to destroy cancer cells, for instance. However, until now this has not been reversible. The new discovery suggests the body has an on-off switch, so that the effects of light can be reversed in a process known as photoswitching. The scientists carried out tests on hundreds of tiny worms by feeding them dithienylethene, a light-sensitive chemical compound. Then they exposed more than 600 of the creatures to ultraviolet light. The transparent worms turned blue and became paralysed. The beam was turned off and the worms exposed to natural light again. They went from blue back to transparent, and the paralysis ended with most, though not all, surviving the process."  

Vegetative Man 'Talks' Using His Thoughts [02/05/10] "Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them – findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for such people. The new research suggests that standard tests may overlook patients who have some consciousness, and that someday some kind of communication may be possible. In the strongest example, a 29-year-old patient was able to answer yes-or-no questions by visualizing specific scenes the doctors asked him to imagine. The two visualizations sparked different brain activity viewed through a scanning machine. "We were stunned when this happened," said one study author, Martin Monti of Medical Research Council Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England. "I find it literally amazing. This was a patient who was believed to be vegetative for five years." ..."  Related: Brain scan allows unconscious patient to communicate "Imaging technique pierces vegetative state ..."  Note: Imagine what they could do with politicians!

U.S. Plans Crewless Anti Submarine Warfare Ships [02/04/10] "Those splendid brainboxes at DARPA – the Pentagon’s in-house bazaar of the bizarre – have outdone themselves this time. They now plan an entirely uncrewed, automated ghost frigate able to cruise the oceans of the world for months or years on end without human input. The new project is called Anti-submarine warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned [...] ..."  Note:  Betcha they're brainless, too.

Navy Plans Flying Submarine [02/03/10] "Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater. The Cormorant, a stealthy, jet-powered, autonomous aircraft that could be outfitted with either short-range weapons or surveillance equipment, is designed to launch out of the Trident missile tubes in some of the U.S. Navy’s gigantic Cold War–era Ohio-class submarines. These formerly nuke-toting subs have become less useful in a military climate evolved to favor surgical strikes over nuclear stalemates, but the Cormorant could use their now-vacant tubes to provide another unmanned option for spying on or destroying targets near the coast. This is no easy task. The tubes are as long as a semi trailer but about seven feet wide—not exactly airplane-shaped. The Cormorant has to be strong enough to withstand the pressure 150 feet underwater—enough to cave in hatches on a normal aircraft—but light enough to fly. Another challenge: Subs survive by stealth, and an airplane flying back to the boat could give its position away. The Skunk Works’s answer is a four-ton airplane with gull wings that hinge around its body to fit inside the missile tube. The craft is made of titanium to resist corrosion, and any empty spaces are filled with plastic foam to resist crushing. The rest of the body is pressurized with inert gas. Inflatable seals keep the weapon-bay doors, engine inlet and exhaust covers watertight. The Cormorant does not shoot out of its tube like a missile. Instead an arm-like docking “saddle” guides the craft out, sending it floating to the surface while the sub slips away. As the drone pops out of the water, the rocket boosters fire and the Cormorant takes off. After completing its mission, the plane flies to the rendezvous coordinates it receives from the sub and lands in the sea. The sub then launches a robotic underwater vehicle to fetch the floating drone. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is funding tests of some of the Cormorant’s unique systems, including a splashdown model and an underwater-recovery vehicle. The tests should be completed by September, after which Darpa will decide whether it will fund a flying prototype. ..."    

Pentagon’s Black Budget Tops $56 Billion [02/03/10] "The Defense Department just released its king-sized, $708 billion budget (PDF) for the next fiscal year. Much of the proposed spending is fairly detailed — noting exactly how many helicopters the Pentagon plans to buy and how many troops it plans on playing. But about $56 billion goes simply to “classified programs,” or to projects known only by their code names, like “Chalk Eagle” and “Link Plumeria.” That’s the Pentagon’s black budget. Cobbling together this round figure for the military’s hush-hush projects is easier than it seems. The Pentagon’s separate ledgers for operations, research and procurement all contain line items for “classified programs.” Add those to the nonsensically-named programs, and you’ve got yourself an estimate for the Pentagon’s secretive efforts. Last year, that budget grew to more than $50 billion – ”the largest-ever sum,” according to Aviation Week’s Bill Sweetman, a longtime black-budget seer. A few more billion were added for wartime operations, for a total of $54 billion. This year’total would be $2 billion higher, a 3.7 percent increase. ..."  Related: Pentagon Master Plan: Super-Size My Drone Fleet [02/03/10] "The U.S. military already has plans in the works to grow its fleet of Predators and Reapers, the long-loitering, armed surveillance drones that have become a defining feature of the air war over Central Asia and the Middle East. Now, according to a draft version of the Pentagon’s new master strategy plan, the military wants to dramatically up the number of “orbits,” or air patrols, of the unmanned aircraft. ..."  Note: It's like the world of the Terminator series coming to life ...  

2010: Verichip is now called PositiveID [02/02/10] "To "mark' a new year, Verichip is now called PositiveID!. If you have followed this company's progress as we have and cited the damning evidence showcasing a casual link between microchipping and cancer , Verichip is certainly not positive. But in this world of semantics and double speak, no doubt a CEO meeting along with other top execs decided that throwing the word "Positive" in the title would make Alzheimer patients who get microchipped without their consent less hesitant as their sleeve was rolled up in the name of "wander protection'.  ..."  

SETI:  What if aliens decide they don’t like us?  [02/01/10] "Scientists may be making a colossal mistake by deciding to contact extraterrestrial life rather than just listening. One of my favourite films is Mars Attacks!, the 1996 science-fiction comedy from Tim Burton, in which Martians with Blairite grins swoop to Earth and pick off the suited earthlings that have assembled to welcome them. “Nice planet. We’ll take it!” they snigger, as the body count rises. Science doesn’t work like the movies, though, and the idea of hostile aliens, armed with metal and malice, seems laughable. Or does it? Fifty fruitless years of scanning the heavens for signals has prompted some astronomers to abandon their roles as passive listeners and to start shouting across the cosmos. There are plenty of observers who believe such hopeful hollering to be deeply unwise. Sir Bernard Lovell, the founding director of Jodrell Bank, together with the physicist Freeman Dyson and the intellectual Jared Diamond, believe that the terrestrial hand of courtesy should be extended with extreme caution. Their hesitancy is based on uncertainty about whether any extraterrestrials belong to the Spielberg school of cute’n’cuddly, or the Tim Burton institute for the murderously deranged. This week’s Royal Society conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) mostly circumvented the issue, although Simon Conway Morris, the evolutionary biologist, did suggest that any life out there is likely to have followed the same evolutionary path and therefore be just as potentially nasty as humankind. The conference chose instead to discuss whether the hunt for alien lifeforms should focus on inhospitable niches on Earth, or on other planets. But this pressing question — the wisdom of proclaiming our existence to other inhabitants of the cosmos, of whom we know nothing — refuses to go away. Two years ago two scientists resigned from a SETI study group, pointing out that the potential risks of deliberate transmissions to other planets was being ignored. ...So there has grown a contingent of impatient alien-hunters who, instead of just listening, want to talk. If ET won’t come to them, runs their logic, then they must go to it. This approach, called active SETI or METI (Messages to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), involves pumping out powerful signals, essentially turning our planet into a highly visible beacon — or a target ....."  Related:  Aliens can't hear us, says astronomer "... Fainter broadcasting signals and digital switchover mean Earth will soon be undetectable to extraterrestrials ..."   

Fox News: Former Area 51 Employees Speak Out On Top Secret Facility [02/01/10] VIDEO [6:10]  

Levitating Magnet Brings Nuclear Fusion Closer to Reality [01/30/10] "Physicists may be one step closer to achieving a form of clean energy known as nuclear fusion, which is what happens deep inside the cores of stars. A recent experiment with a giant levitating magnet was able to coax matter in the lab to extremely high densities — a necessary step for nuclear fusion.  ..."   

Documentary Film:  It Runs on Water [01/30/10] VIDEO [50:25]  "On Sunday, 17 December 1995, viewers in U.K. saw an hour-long T V. program which, at long last, puts across the clear message that "free energy" is on the way. In the opening stages Arthur C. Clarke explained how there were four stages in the way scientists react to the development of anything of a revolutionary nature. "Free energy" was now working its way through these four stages of reaction, which were: a: "It's nonsense," b: "It is not important," c: "I always said it was a good idea," and d: "I thought of it first." The scene moved to Rome, Georgia where Jim Griggs of Hydrodynamics, Inc. demonstrated the assembly and operation of a "hydrosonic water pump" which operated over-unity by producing hot water or steam with energy in excess of the electrical energy input to the pump motor. "Over-unity" was confirmed by satisfied customers, including the Albany Fire Station, where engineers from the "local university" and the "local power company" had been called in to verify the over-100% efficiency.  ..."   

Commentary:  Haiti and the seismic weapon  [01/28/10] "The controversy that followed the publication on our website of an article entertaining the possibility that the earthquake in Haiti was caused artificially, calls for clarification. Yes, seismic weapons do exist and the United States, among others, have them. Yes, the U.S. military forces were pre-positionned to be deployed to the island. These facts are not conclusive in themselves but they certainly warrant heightened scrutiny into this matter. ......  One of our collaborators attempted to trace the origin of the allegation regarding the possible artificial causes of the earthquake in Haiti. He was concerned that the whole thing might have been a hoax launched by a certain David Booth (alias Sorcha Faal), which then penetrated government circles throughout the world. In the end, we are not sure exactly who is behind the allegation, but what we know for certain is that this issue is being heatedly discussed at the highest level in several countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia. As editor-in-chief of Voltaire Network, I made the decision to research and translate the dispatch from VivéTv, which had been disseminated as a communiqué on the website of the Communications Ministry of Venezuela, and to publish it together with the related video from Russia Today, preceded by the remark: "Oddly enough, the Venezuelan channel designates the Russian Army as the source of these claims whereas the Russian channel attributes them to President Chávez." While these elements were faithfully relayed by numerous newspapers, especially in the Middle East, they were distorted by the Atlanticist media which chose to reflect Sorcha Faal’s article. Faal pulled certain fragments from the VivéTv text, and by adding inverted commas put them into Hugo Chávez’s mouth. What was initially intended as a working hypothesis has been converted into the Government’s position. Some of these media outlets went so far as to completely fabricate the context in which President Chávez expressed himself, pointedly implying that the President and his audience suffer from acute anti-american frenzy and that Voltaire Network shares the same ailment. But instead of yielding to this manipulation, let us go deeper into this hypothesis ....."   Please see our Haiti 2010 news link on the Special Articles page.

Plans for "alien contact" found wanting: Governments lack frameworks to respond to discoveries [01/28/10] "Enormous satellite dishes make up the search party for extraterrestrial life, but in the event of success, should a welcome party follow? Astronomers and biologists involved in the search for life on other planets are worried about a lack of regulatory and ethical policies to guide them. ..."  Note: Of course, and that's because the sequentials don't plan on telling anyone ... regulations and laws are already on the books ... and all of it would be classified ... so why have plans for dissemination ... and yes, they also lack frameworks to respond to discoveries because their minds are occupied and overwhelmed dealing with their own sequential predispositions for control, suppression of spirit, etc. They're dumber than a box of rocks.

"Large Spherical Objects in Suns Corona" [01/27/10]  VIDEO [1:32] "These huge spherical UFO's started appearing around January 18, 2010. They are on both the forward and rear images taken by NASA's Stereo Spacecraft in space. They appear to be moving as they are in different positions on many photos. Remember these are huge possibly at least the size of Earth. Further, if they were planets or some type of huge asteroid comets, they would already have been pulled into the sun by the strong gravity the sun produces as in the case of the recent comet. Notice also that they are reflecting the suns light just like a metal constructed ship would do.  " Note: The still pictures have been pulled from the internet. Someone make a decent video clip of them.

Alien Life Could Already Be On Earth, Scientist Says [01/27/10] "For decades, scientists have scanned the heavens in search of extraterrestrial life. Perhaps they should have looked closer to home. Variant life forms – most likely tiny microbes – could still be hanging around "right under or noses – or even in our noses," Paul Davies, an award-winning Arizona State University physicist, told a group of scientists Tuesday. ..."  Note:  Boy, are these people SLOW ...

"Senior Military Behind Flying Saucers" [01/27/10] VIDEO [46:16]  "This film shows the history of flying saucer technology and how the CIA was behind linking advanced military technology to “Aliens.” ..."   

Planet Earth As Weapon and Target: Outer Space, Exotic Weaponry And The New World Order [01/26/10] "The Historical Roots Of The New World Order And Its Permanent War Economy ... The ‘permanent US war economy’ of the USA traces its roots in organisations and “a culture of death” back to the China opium wars, and through the current Iraq war. Samuel Russell, the primary American opium smuggler, acquired a vast fortune by launching the first clipper ship in 1823. Leading British and American families made vast fortunes with clippers smuggling opium from Turkey and India to China. The illicit proceeds of expanded drug-trafficking today are proliferating wars and influencing the foreign policy of modern nation-States. Many researchers tie former President George H W Bush to the CIA as far back as the 1950s, and indicate that one of his jobs was to consolidate and coordinate the world’s biggest industry—the global narcotics trade. The Vietnam ‘war’ may have been a cover for US consolidation of the ‘Golden Triangle’, formerly under the control of the French. This seems to have been confirmed by Ross Perot when he was appointed by President Reagan to be a special presidential investigator looking for POWs and MIAs from the Vietnam ‘war’, and found himself on the wrong side of Vice President George H. W. Bush..... "   

Opinion: Chavez and the Russian Fleet: U.S. Used “Earthquake Weapon” On Haiti [01/25/10] "Earlier this week, a Spanish newspaper quoted Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez as saying the U.S. Navy caused the Haiti earthquake with a tectonic weapon. The Venezuelan media reported that the earthquake “may be associated with the project called HAARP, a system that can generate violent and unexpected changes in climate,” Press TV reported on January 21. ...Chavez cited a report from Russia’s Northern Fleet. According to the report, the U.S. Navy made a mistake with a secret “earthquake weapon” and the result was the Haitian earthquake. The Russians believe the intended target was Iran. “Though Russian Northern Fleets’ report was not confirmed by official sources, the comments attracted special attention in some US and Russian media outlets including Fox news and Russia Today,” writes Pragmatic Witness blog. “Russia Today’s report said that Moscow has also been accused of possessing and utilizing such weapons. ...... In 1997, former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen made the following statement: Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts. Cohen was talking about longitudinal EM wave interferometers (LWI) technology (also known as “Tesla howitzers”). LWI waves can effortlessly pass through the ocean and earth. Experts claim LWI waves can in fact pass through the earth and emerge on the other side. The United States and Russia have possessed this technology for decades. Cohen would have you believe it is a technology that only terrorists would use. It depends on who you would call a terrorist. In 1966, Professor Gordon J. F. MacDonald, associate director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, was a member of the President’s Science Advisory Committee. MacDonald published papers on the use of environmental-control technologies for military purposes, including “earthquake engineering” (he also wrote about weather manipulation, climate modification, polar ice cap melting or destabilization, ozone depletion techniques). “The revealed secrets surprised legislators,” writes Dr. Nick Begich. “Would an inquiry into the state of the art of electromagnetic manipulation surprise lawmakers today? They may find out that technologies developed out of the HAARP experiments in Alaska could deliver on Gordon MacDonald’s vision because leading-edge scientists are describing global weather as not only air pressure and thermal systems, but also as an electrical system. ......"   Related: History Channel Confirms HAARP Technologies Can Generate Large Artificial Earthquakes [01/23/10] VIDEO [10:32]    Related: Hugo Chavez: US 'Tectonic Weapon' Caused Haiti Quake [01/23/10] VIDEO [0:41]    Note: We'll see. 

UK: Live pigs blasted in terror attack experiments [01/25/10] "LIVE pigs are being blown up with explosives at Porton Down, the government’s secret military research laboratory, to simulate the effect of terrorist attacks on civilian targets. In a series of tests at the biological and chemical research centre in Wiltshire, 18 large pigs were wrapped in protective blankets before bombs were detonated a few feet away. The scientists allowed the pigs to bleed until almost a third of their blood was gone to see how long they could be kept alive. ..." 

Commentary: Oops, that was a bad call, Earth [01/25/10] " “Calling all aliens, this is Earth. Are you receiving me?” Rather than simply listening for signals of extra-terrestrial life, some scientists are preparing to take a much more active approach to finding alien intelligence on other planets. They believe we should start beaming regular signals into space specifically to find intelligent life, even though other scientists believe it could be an invitation to danger. ..."    Related: Aliens might not be friendly, warns astronomer  "Scientists searching for alien life should get governments and the UN involved lest we unwittingly contact hostile extraterrestrials, a British astronomer has warned.  ..."   

Transparent Walls [01/21/10] "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are going to bring you Superman’s X-ray vision.  ...Using multiple cameras and new video transformation software, the CMU team can let you see through a wall in a specialized form of augmented reality. The image from the camera behind the wall is skewed so that it makes sense from your perspective in front of the wall. The result is a seamless transfer from one side of the wall to the other, making it look transparent .... "   

Israel Developing Semi-Lethal Sonic Cannon To Control Rioters [01/21/10] "A desert people have developed a new weapon that uses sound instead of bullets.  ...But this time, it will be used to control crowds instead of fighting giant worms or devious members of House Harkonnen. The Israeli Defense Ministry has contracted for the production of sonic-boom stun-guns called "Thunder Generator cannons," which they hope to use in crowd-control situations. The cannons are built by farming company PDT Agro, which originally designed the sound blasters as a means of warding birds away from crops. Eventually, someone realized the powerful sonic blasts could do the same to people. The weapon runs on LPG, a common cooking gas, which mixes with oxygen to generate powerful bursts of sound. Each sound burst lasts around 300 milliseconds, and generates a shockwave that travels from the cannon at almost six times the speed of sound. Although it's intended to be less than lethal, the Thunder Generator cannon can cause death to people within 30 feet of the blast. For people farther away than 30 feet, the sonic boom will deafen them and knock them back, and hopefully disperse an unruly crowd. The Israeli military hopes to use the sound blaster as an alternative to the rubber bullets and caustic chemicals they currently deploy against rioting Orthodox settlers and rock-throwing Palestinians alike. Either way, it sounds less dangerous than a weirding module. "  

Sheep Gives Birth to Human-Faced Lamb in Turkey [01/16/10] "A sheep gave birth to a dead lamb with a human-like face. The calf was born in a village not far from the city of Izmir, Turkey. ...Erhan Elibol, a vet, performed Cesarean section on the animal to take the calf out, but was horrified to see that the features of the calf’s snout bore a striking resemblance to a human face. “I’ve seen mutations with cows and sheep before. I’ve seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf. But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes. His mother could not deliver him so I had to help the animal,” the 29-year-old veterinary said. The lamb’s head had human features on – the eyes, the nose and the mouth – only the ears were those of a sheep .... In Zimbabwe, a goat gave birth to a similar youngster in September 2009. The mutant baby born with a human-like head stayed alive for several hours until the frightened village residents killed him. The governor of the province where the ugly goat was born said that the little goat was the fruit of unnatural relationship between the female goat and a man. “This incident is very shocking. It is my first time to see such an evil thing. It is really embarrassing,” he reportedly said. “The head belongs to a man while the body is that of a goat. This is evident that an adult human being was responsible. Evil powers caused this person to lose self control. We often hear cases of human beings who commit bestiality but this is the first time for such an act to produce a product with human features,” he added. The mutant creature was hairless. Local residents said that even dogs were afraid to approach the bizarre animal. The locals burnt the body of the little goat, and biologists had no chance to study the rare mutation. " Note: Yes, indeed. It would appear that Uncle Azul Wasoo was guarding those sheep very well, months and months ago. Interesting picture and article.  Regular minions are less offensive looking, even though they are still sheep at heart. ....

DARPA Takes on Suspended Animation: Zombie Pigs, Squirrels, and Hypersleep [01/15/10] "Remember all those SF movies where it takes suspended animation to travel to a distant planet or galaxy? Ripley, the buff female protagonist in the film Aliens, spends 57 years in “hypersleep” — without aging — before being rescued. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now funding research that may one day bring humans to a zombie-like form of hibernation. The motivation, however, is not so much space travel as emergency trauma care for wounded soldiers on the battlefield. ... Actual hibernation occurs when an animal such as a squirrel goes into a state of suspended animation: heart rate, metabolism and body temperatures drop significantly. When a mammal is in hibernation, its body temperature is usually only 2-4ºC above freezing (as opposed to perhaps 38ºC), oxygen consumption is 2% of normal rates, and heart rate decreases by a factor of one hundred. DARPA is committing $9.9 million to the Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies (TIPS) to research how hydrogen sulfide can block the body’s ability to use oxygen and induce a state of suspended animation. Because they have a cardiovascular system similar to humans, TIPS researchers Theresa Fossum and Matthew Miller think they can accurately predict human results from trials with anesthetized pigs. Using swine, the researchers are testing various compounds — some containing hydrogen sulfide — to find one that can safely keep the hemorrhaging animals “as close to death as possible.” Here’s a video on the TIPS research:...."   

Green sea slug is half animal, half plant [01/15/10] "Scientists have identified a sea slug Elysia chlorotica able to synthesize chlorophyll like a plant as the first animal with herbal characteristics. ..."  Note: Now there's a variation as a life form for the planetary spirit .... so there is a full spectrum ...

Altering Animal Behavior With Fiber Optics and Genetic Engineering [01/15/10] "Although optogenetic control of human behavior may be years away, Deisseroth comments that the longer-range implications of the technology must be considered ...Most compelling, however, are experiments that have demonstrated te relevance of optogenetics to both basic science and medicine. At the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago last October, Michael Häusser of University College London reported on an optogenetics experiment that showed how 100 neurons could trigger a memory stored in a much larger ensemble of about 100,000 neurons, suggesting how the technique may be used to understand memory formation.  Last spring Deisseroth’s group published an optogenetics study that helped to elucidate the workings of deep-brain stimulation, which uses electrodes implanted deep in the brain to alleviate the abnormal movements of Parkinson’s disease. The experiment called into question the leading theory of how the technology works—activation of an area called the subthalamic nucleus. Instead the electrodes appear to exert their effects on nerve fibers that reach the subthalamic nucleus from the motor cortex and perhaps other areas. The finding has already led to a better understanding of how to deploy deep-brain electrodes. Given its fine-tuned specificity, optoelectronics might eventually replace deep-brain stimulation.
Although optogenetic control of human behavior may be years away, Deisseroth comments that the longer-range implications of the technology must be considered: “I’m not writing ethics papers, but I think about these issues every day, what it might mean to gain understanding and control over what is a desire, what is a need, what is hope....”"    

X-Ray Devices That Scan Your Body on the Streets [01/13/10] "Naked body scanners are being readied to go mobile and scan you on the street, at football games and any other event where masses of people are congregated, according to a leaked paper written by Dutch authorities. As we have been warning all along, the tyranny now being metered out at airports was always intended to be rolled out onto the streets, with mobile metal detectors already being stationed at various transport hubs in the UK in the name of stopping knife crime. Now Dutch police have announced that they are developing a mobile scanner that will “see through people’s clothing and look for concealed weapons”. According to a confidential document, “The scanner could first be used as an alternative to random body searches in high risk areas. The mobile detector would enable the search to be carried out more quickly and would only be used on people suspected of carrying concealed weapons,” reports Dutch News.nl. The device would also be used from a distance on groups of people “and mass scans on crowds at events such as football matches.” “The biggest challenge is making it portable and ensuring it can carry out a scan in seconds,” Giampiero Gerini, a professor at Eindhoven University, told the paper. The aim is to develop and deploy the device within three years. With police in major American and British cities already carrying out random searches of innocent people under routinely abused terrorism laws, mobile scanners are likely to be added to their arsenal, especially if people have been trained to accept their use as routine in airports. Three years ago, leaked documents out of the Home Office revealed that authorities in the UK were working on proposals to fit lamp posts with CCTV cameras that would X-ray scan passers-by and “undress them” in order to “trap terror suspects”. “The questions are when is this a useful addition to security and when does it become unduly intrusive and worrying to the public?” said Professor Paul Wilkinson, a terrorism expert. ..."  

Taser Now Peddling Mobile Phone Surveillance System [01/12/10] "Stun gun maker Taser wants to help parents, not with jolts of electricity but with a tool which allows parents to effectively take over a child’s mobile phone and manage its use. “Basically we’re taking old fashioned parenting and bringing it into the mobile world,” Taser chairman and co-founder Tom Smith said at the Consumer [...]  

Briton jailed for four years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe [01/11/10] "A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison. Keith Brown, a council youth development officer, was travelling through the United Arab Emirates on his way back to England when he was stopped as he walked through Dubai's main airport. A search by customs officials uncovered a speck of cannabis weighing just 0.003g - so small it would be invisible to the naked eye and weighing less than a grain of sugar - on the tread of one of his shoes ... ..."Customs authorities are using highly sensitive new equipment to conduct extremely thorough searches on travellers and if they find any amount - no matter how minute - it will be enough to attract a mandatory four-year prison sentence."  "We even have reports of the imprisonment of a Swiss man for 'possession' of three poppy seeds on his clothing after he ate a bread roll at Heathrow."  Note: The Dubai government makes use of slavery and consists of the most rabid control freaks you will find anywhere ... almost psychopathic in nature. I hope the country goes broke and gets stuck growing melons for camels. A number of other bizarre examples are also in the article ... talk about rabid sequential control freaks ... one guy got imprisoned because a few poppy seeds fell off his bun that he ate back in England ... another for having melatonin ... that they sell over the counter IN Dubai. Go figure. 

"Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen" [01/10/10] "A computer program was used to search for links between the configuration of shapes, colors and movements in the videos, and patterns of activity in the patients’ visual cortex. "It was later fed more than 200 days’ worth of YouTube internet clips and asked to predict which areas of the brain the clips would stimulate if people were watching them. "Finally, the software was used to monitor the two patients’ brains as they watched a new film and to reproduce what they were seeing based on their neural activity alone. "Remarkably, the computer program was able to display continuous footage of the films they were watching — albeit with blurred images." ..."  Note: Nope ... electrical impulses from visual cortex ... not thoughts. The person who titled the news item (in the UK) is stupid.

The Ultimate Sequential Wet Dream?  One man's mission to create a living mind inside a machine [01/05/10] "His words staggered the erudite audience gathered at a technology conference in Oxford last summer.  Professor Henry Markram, a doctor-turned-computer engineer, announced that his team would create the world's first artificial conscious and intelligent mind by 2018. And that is exactly what he is doing. On the shore of Lake Geneva, this brilliant, eccentric scientist is building an artificial mind. A Swiss - it could only be Swiss - precision- engineered mind, made of silicon, gold and copper. The end result will be a creature, if we can call it that, which its maker believes within a decade may be able to think, feel and even fall in love. Professor Markram's 'Blue Brain' project, must rank as one of the most extraordinary endeavours in scientific history. If this 47-year-old South-African Israeli is successful, then we are on the verge of realising an age-old fantasy, one first imagined when an adolescent Mary Shelley penned Frankenstein, her tale of an artificial monster brought to life - a story written, quite coincidentally, just a few miles from where this extraordinary experiment is now taking place. Success will bring with it philosophical, moral and ethical conundrums of the highest order, and may force us to confront what it means to be human. But Professor Markram thinks his artificial mind will render vivisection obsolete, conquer insanity and even improve our intelligence and ability to learn.  ..."  Note: This guy isn't smart enough to realize how stupid he really is.

Secret mobile phone codes cracked  [12/30/09] "A German computer scientist has published details of the secret code used to protect the conversations of more than 4bn mobile phone users. ...Karsten Nohl, working with other experts, has spent the past five months cracking the algorithm used to encrypt calls using GSM technology. GSM is the most popular standard for mobile networks around the world. The work could allow anyone - including criminals - to eavesdrop on private phone conversations. Mr Nohl told the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin that the work showed that GSM security was "inadequate" .... Mr Nohl, working with a "few dozen" other people, claims to have published material that would crack the A5/1 algorithm, a 22-year-old code used by many carriers. The code is designed to prevent phone calls from being intercepted by forcing mobile phones and base stations to rapidly change radio frequencies over a spectrum of 80 channels..... "    

UK: Telecom firms' fury at plan for 'Stasi' checks on every phone call and email [12/28/09] "Telecoms firms have accused the Government of acting like the East German Stasi over plans to force them to store the details of every phone call for at least a year. Under the proposals, the details of every email sent and website visited will also be recorded to help the police and security services fight crime and terrorism. But mobile phone companies have attacked the plans as a massive assault on privacy and warned it could be the first step towards a centralised ‘Big Brother’ database. They have also told the Home Office that the scheme is deeply flawed. The criticism of Britain’s growing ‘surveillance culture’ was made in a series of responses to an official consultation on the plans, which have been obtained by The Mail on Sunday. T-Mobile said in its submission that it was a ‘particularly sensitive’ time as many people were commemorating the 20th anniversary of the protests that led to the collapse of ‘surveillance states in Eastern Europe’. Martin Hopkins, head of data protection and disclosure, said: ‘It would be extremely ironic if we at T-Mobile (UK) Ltd had to acquire the surveillance functionality envisaged by the Consultation Document at the same time that our parent company, headquartered in Germany, was celebrating the 20th anniversary of the demise of the equivalent systems established by the Stasi in the federal states of the former East Germany.’ Since October 2007, telecoms companies have been obliged to keep records for a year. Under the new legislation, however, they will also be required to organise it better – for example, by grouping calls made by the same person. Internet service providers have been required to hold records on emails and website visits since April. Police and security services can already obtain such information if they are given permission by the courts. The public will reimburse internet service providers and telecoms companies for the costs associated with storing the billions of records. ..."  

German "strato-sperm" airship prototype flies [12/26/09] "A 111-foot unmanned, sperm-like airship prototype - which uses long-forgotten tech from the 1930s golden age of the zeppelin - has completed initial flight testing, according to its makers. ...Sanswire-TAO, a partnership between Sanswire of Florida and TAO Technologies GmbH of Stuttgart, intends to develop so-called "stratellite" droid dirigibles able to hover for long periods in the relatively calm "wind bucket" found between 65,000 and 70,000 feet up. This avoidance of the usually punishing stratospheric winds would allow much less fuel to be burned while maintaining position. The resulting long endurance and large area beneath covered by line-of-sight would allow the robot strato-ships to compete with satellites as communications relay platforms - hence the "stratellite" tag." .....  The unique tadpole-esque appearance of the TAO airships comes from their "segmented" design, said to allow them to flex with wind gusts and so avoid the control and structural issues which can plague more conventional lighter-than-air craft. Apart from segmentation, the other main trick offered by TAO is the "unique weightless Fuelgas system", though in fact it is far from unique. The same technology was employed successfully aboard the famous Graf Zeppelin airship liner of the 1930s, which ran on a similar gaseous fuel called Blaugas. "Fuelgas" or the zeppelin's Blaugas are simply gas fuels mixed to have the same density as air, stored in cells within the ship's hull instead of hydrogen or helium lift gas. The old Graf filled up to a quarter of her hull with Blaugas; in the STS-111 only the "head" segment holds helium, the tail is full of fuel. As the fuel weighs the same as the surrounding air, its buoyancy supports its own weight - it is effectively weightless. As it is burned in the ship's engines, its disappearance doesn't make the ship lighter as would be the case with normal liquid fuel. This is good news, as it means that the ship needn't vent off lifting gas to maintain neutral buoyancy as a flight goes on. This meant that the Graf Zeppelin didn't need to top up with hydrogen at poorly-equipped airfields, and will mean that TAO's tadpolecraft don't require frequent replenishments of expensive helium...." Note: Ha! Besides a flying condom, or just a cheap thrill phallic symbol, these things are eerily similar to those living organisms that live in the upper atmosphere. These could also be used for surveillance platforms ... not just communication relay stations. 

First Functional Molecular Transistor Comes Alive [12/26/09] "...Despite the significance of the latest breakthrough, practical applications such as smaller and faster molecular computers could be decades away ..."  Note: Then it doesn't matter, does it? Geeze ... sequentials get so excited about discovering something with no practical application in the foreseeable future! Hahaha!

Tiny TV could make billions for FCC [12/26/09] "The Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) and Consumer Electronics Association (CES) have produced a white paper outlining how to extract 180MHz of TV-broadcast spectrum without impacting TV quality or coverage, and it's worth reading. The paper proposes replacing centralised TV transmitters with a network of small, low power stations which would work with existing set-top boxes and free up between 100 and 180MHz of spectrum - spectrum which the CTIA's members would love to get their hands on. ....... Proposals from the CTIA often verge on the hysterical - such as predicting the downfall of American industry if more radio spectrum isn't allocated post haste .....Even this one can't help pointing out that only ten per cent of Americans rely (exclusively) on broadcast TV. But after the usual rant, the document sets out a surprisingly reasonable plan for shrinking TV spectrum usage, though a few technical barriers do remain. Broadcast TV is based around huge transmitters, normally atop massive towers, which pump out enormous signals that can be picked up 40 miles away. Frequencies can be reused, but only for transmitters at least 80 miles apart - actually much further due to variability in signal propagation. So in the USA there are around 1800 towers, which blanket the country with between 15 and 20 6MHz-wide channels (to carry one analogue channel or a digital multiplex) despite the fact that there are 49 slots available. That disparity is down to the "near-far problem", whereby the strength of signal necessary to reach 40 miles or more, causes the channel to leak into neighbouring channels for users sitting beside the transmitter. That reduces the channels which can be used, and the CTIA reckons it's using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. ..."  Note:  Yeah ....  hysterical proposals are a dime a dozen since the Bush administration came into office .... 911 and patriot act ... bank bailout ... they're up to something again .... a mind or behavior control network ... or a way to kill everyone ... who knows what their little sequential minds have dreamed up!  Sounds like a repeat of the GWEN network mentioned in Matrix 3 volume 1.

"Avatar": or What It's Like To Be A Sequential Pod Person  [12/22/09] VIDEO CLIP [4:14]  "James Cameron launched his 3-D science-fiction epic "Avatar" into a safe orbit as the costly film soared to No. 1 with $73 million... ..."  Note: A Behind the scenes look at the film, where consciousness of individuals in bodies is shared or transferred to cloned genetic bodies which are a mixture of DNA between two humanoid species, while the original body stays in stasis ... sort of like an advanced version of the Matrix movie, except willingly... for purposes of conflict peculiar to sequential societies. Related: BING: Cross Section of 'Avatar' Dynamic  ‘Avatar’ director on making 3-D film - 60 Minutes |  Today Show Interview With Cameron |  [12/22/09] VIDEO CLIP    | Gene Shallit Comment 

Video Compilation: Best UFO Footage for 2009 [12/22/09]  VIDEO [9.35]     

It is not the size that counts: Intelligence poorly related to brain size [12/21/09] "British scientists say they've found brain size is much less related to the complexity of an organism's thought and behavior than is currently assumed. ..."  Note: That's because the brain is not a 'producer' of thought, as it is a transducer for thought. They're still stuck in the 'brain-mind paradox' because they're body-id oriented, of course.

U.S. Army Lightning-Gun ‘Approaching Weaponisation’ [12/19/09] "The Pentagon continues to pour funding into Arizona-based laser plasma lightning blaster-gun firm Applied Energetics, formerly known as Ionatron. The US Army says that the firm’s lightning guns are “approaching the level of maturity needed to begin weaponization”. The military assessment came as the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (ARDEC) inked a new $3.1m deal with Applied last week. “Now that the technology is approaching the level of maturity needed to begin weaponization we will be more closely coordinated with Applied Energetics through this contract to fulfil Army mission needs,” said Ben Lagasca, chief of “Advanced Energy Armaments” at ARDEC. The technology in question is a fairly old idea: that of using a laser beam to create a plasma “tunnel” or “channel” through the atmosphere which would be more conductive than ordinary air. This would allow a powerful electric spark discharge – an artificial lightning bolt – to be directed onto a target with some precision. Arizona firm Ionatron began work on this plan in 2002. Originally the company thought that it would soon develop lightning blasters so portable and powerful that they would supersede conventional small arms. Any desired electric intensity from lethal force down to circuitry-disabling-but-harmless-to-people could be selected on one’s battery-powered electric blaster pistol. There would also be a wireless-Taser stun option in between. ..."    Related: Military Science: Hack Stormy Skies to Lord over Lightning "The military’s scientific fringe has toyed with weather manipulation and geo-engineering for years. Recently, ideas like adding iron to the ocean, or covering the Arctic with dust, have been floated in a bid stave off global warming. But the Pentagon’s also got a long track record of plotting to screw with enemy climates and improve their own operational abilities. Now, Darpa’s got a new target for geo-hacking science, and if they can make it work, we might see modern firearms making way for weapons of the mythological variety. The out-there research agency is soliciting proposals that would harness control over “the natural mechanism of lightning initiation” by coming up with a way to launch manmade lightning bolts, and prevent or redirect natural lightning strikes — and their accompanying destruction. ..."    

Dede Koswara, 'Tree Man'  [12/16/09] "Getty recently caught up with Dede Koswara, better known as "tree man," in his home village of Bandung, Java, Indonesia, where he is continuing treatment for his rare condition. Koswara spent much of his life covered in tree-like warts until he underwent surgery in 2008 to have over 4-pounds of them removed from his body. A 2008 story in the Telegraph explained Koswara came to be covered in warts: Dede's ordeal began when he was 15 and cut his knee in an accident. A small wart developed on his lower leg and spread uncontrollably. Eventually he had to give up work as a builder and fisherman, and scratch a living in a traveling freak show. His wife of ten years left him as it became impossible for him to support her and their two children. Due to a rare genetic problem, Koswara's immune system has made him unable to fight the Human Papilloma Virus infection causing his body to produce the warts. ..."   

Bacteria Engineered to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Liquid Fuel [12/13/09] "In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline alternative. The reaction is powered directly by energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis. ..."  Note:  Wouldn't this be THE answer to a LOT of things, today?

Airport security secrets revealed by TSA [12/09/09] "The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets regarding airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday. The 93-page TSA operating manual details procedures for screening passengers and checked baggage and reveals technical settings used by X-ray machines and explosives detectors. It also includes pictures of identification cards used by members of Congress, CIA employees and federal air marshals, and it identifies 12 countries whose passport holders are automatically subjected to added scrutiny. TSA officials said the manual was posted online in a redacted form on a federal procurement Web site, but the digital redactions were inadequate. They allowed computer users to highlight and copy blacked-out passages and paste them into a new document or an e-mail. ..."   GET DOCUMENT (PDF in ZIP)

  Robobees: Insect-like robots are creating a buzz [12/09/09] VIDEO   [3:15] 

Sequential Studies: "The Boy Who Lived Before" [11/26/09] VIDEO [46:10] "Ever since he could talk, Cameron has been telling stories of his life on Barra, a remote island in the Outer Hebrides, some 220 miles from his current home in Glasgow. He describes in detail his childhood on the island: the white house he lived in, the black-and-white dog he walked on the beach. He talks about his mother, seven siblings and his father, Shane Robertson, who died when he was run over by a car. Nothing strange about all that. Except the fact that Cameron is only five years old now; his memories seem to be of a former life. Cameron’s stories have become increasingly more detailed since he first started telling them, and the shock of him insisting “I’m a Barra boy, I’m a Barra boy” has worn off a little. But his emotional attachment to his ‘Barra mum’ concerns his mother, and there’s clearly something going on in the poor kid’s head when he says, “My real barra dad doesn’t look left and right.” Intrigued by her enigmatic son, Cameron’s mother Norma has decided to investigate his claims. Everyone who comes across Cameron is sceptical, but his stories are just so consistent. In her search to find a rational explanation for Cameron’s tales of his Barra childhood, Norma first visits psychologist Dr Chris French, editor of The Skeptic magazine. French suggests that Cameron might simply have acquired knowledge about Barra through TV or a family friend, and thus invented the stories himself. Norma isn’t satisfied by this. Her next port of call is educational psychologist Karen Majors, who tells her that the way that Cameron describes his Barra world is similar to the way in which some children speak about imaginary places and people, except that Cameron really seems to believe that he has seen the things he describes first-hand; he also doesn’t seem to be able to control his ‘fantasy’ as other children do. Norma decides to investigate the possibility of reincarnation, contacting leading expert Dr Jim Tucker at the University of Virginia. ..."  Note:  A real eye-opener into the world of sequential children. Two sequential children give specifics on their past lives. One child says he 'is" his own grandfather - and gives details that only his grandfather could know, according to the child's father. The other child visits the home he says he lived in in a former life. When his mother and doctor take this one FAR (they take him to the house and have him meet a "former relative"), the child seems to become psychologically distressed. Understandable. This one is one for the record books, if you know what I mean.

Norway unveils world's first salt power generator [11/26/09] "The world's first salt power generator was today unveiled in Norway. The system which harnesses the energy produced when fresh water and sea water mix was devised by the energy company Statkraft. It has been estimated that globally, salt power could produce 1,600-1,700 terawatt hours, equivalent to half of the European Union's total annual power production. The Norwegian prototype was built for testing and development purposes in an old paper mill. State-owned Statkraft said it hopes to be able to build 'a commercial osmotic power plant within a few years'.  ..."    Too late ...

Conscious man 'in coma' for 23 years  [11/24/09] "A Belgian man diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time. Rom Houbens was simply paralysed and had no way to let doctors caring for him what he was suffering. "I dreamt myself away," says Houben, now 46, who was misdiagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state after a car crash. Doctors and nurses in Zolder deemed him a hopeless case whereby his consciousness was considered "extinct". The former martial arts enthusiast and engineering student was paralysed after a car crash in 1983. He was finally correctly diagnosed three years ago and his case has just come to light in a scientific paper released by the man who "saved" him. ..."  

More than 17,000 new underwater species found [11/23/09] "A ten-year compilation of a census of the deepest seas has discovered sea angels, jewel squid and a 2m-wide octopod ..."  Note: The eternal parade of sequentials who think they know everything, being 'surprised', over and over ...  Related: Giant ancient crocodiles found in Sahara | Will the sequentials ever learn?: Evolution to be compulsory subject in primary schools Note: What a double entendre; they can't 'evolve' themselves beyond their selfish little mind sets and their predispositions to offer myth instead of reality .... to controlled populations. The sequential school string pullers might want to consider evolving, themselves; they would have less time on their hands to worry about teaching kids stupid shit.  Lure of deep proves irresistible to science   Note: And they're going to tell us what they 'think' .... they're NOT 'experts' ... they are observers who have set themselves up as 'experts' ... and policy is 'socialized' to give the impression they're 'authorities'.

Babies Cry in Their Parents' Language [11/23/09] "It maybe possible to actually distinguish which country a baby is from simply from hearing him or her cry. Results of a new study suggest that after only 3 days of birth, a baby’s cry begins to take on the accent of its parents. For the study, researchers compared the cries of newborn French and German babies, to try to determine if they could distinguish any indication of language of the parents of each child. In total, 60 babies were analyzed for the study, with the researchers analyzing their crying patterns, pitch and other relevant factors. All the babies were born healthy and born after full term. Babies born into French families had a cry which included a rising melody contour, with German babies crying in a way speech and language experts refer to as a falling melody contour. A rising melody contour means that the cry went from low to high, and a falling melody contour means the opposite. This study proves that infants are very receptive, even at a very early age when it comes to adapting to their environment. ..."   

Mystery Of Death Valley's Gliding Rocks Continues [11/19/09] "Amid the eerie silence and the 50C heat of California's Death Valley these giant boulders appear to move smoothly - and unaided - across the desert. The rocks, some as heavy as 17 stone, edge along in bizarre, straight-line patterns across the ultra-flat surface of the valley. They can travel more than 350 yards a year ..."   

‘V’ review: Resistance is (mostly) futile [11/04/09] "The remake of “V” that lands amid heavy promotion by ABC on Tuesday gets a lot of things right. It sets up its story quickly, draws at least a few of its characters in more than one dimension and looks very good. ... The remake of “V” that lands amid heavy promotion by ABC on Tuesday gets a lot of things right. It sets up its story quickly, draws at least a few of its characters in more than one dimension and looks very good. But. Or maybe a small-b “but,” because in part my feelings about the prospects for “V” as a series are colored by having re-watched some of the 1984-85 series (thanks, Syfy!) that grew out of the two “V” miniseries that aired in 1983 and ‘84. The weekly series, to put it charitably, was not good — even my 13-year-old, alien-loving self recognized how thinly plotted and spottily executed it was. So if I have reservations about the new “V,” they come mostly from memories of how the original went off the rails and not from what I’ve seen of the new show. Because Tuesday’s premiere is really quite good. The setup is the same: Giant alien ships appear over the planet’s major cities, causing awe, panic and wonder in the population. The leader of the Visitors, Anna (”Firefly’s” Morena Baccarin), appears to the world and assures us that they’ve come in peace and are eager to help us. The Visitors inspire intense devotion in much of the populace, although a small band of dissidents discovers the Vs have more sinister purposes."  

How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA [10/31/09] "Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and "frisk" people at distance. The way terahertz waves are absorbed and emitted can also be used to determine the chemical composition of a material. And even though they don't travel far inside the body, there is great hope that the waves can be used to spot tumours near the surface of the skin. With all that potential, it's no wonder that research on terahertz waves has exploded in the last ten years or so. But what of the health effects of terahertz waves? Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they've found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication. That's a jaw dropping conclusion..."   

'We have broken speed of light' [10/28/09] "A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory. The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart. Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences. For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving. The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws. Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of ..."  

Germany:  Pilot monitoring the production of chemtrails by 2 C-17 Globemaster cargo planes in 6000 m height over Germany [10/28/09]  

Apple: 'Windows 7 is antiquated technology' [10/23/09] "The criticism comes from Brian Croll, vice president of Apple's Mac OS X worldwide product marketing. He said that Microsoft users were tired of the "headaches" caused by the Windows operating system, and expects some disillusioned Windows users to switch to Apple's Mac platform. "For the consumer, there's a lot of headache and annoyance built in to Windows 7. It's built on a lot of antiquated technology... that doesn't change from release to release. We think that most people probably aren't going to make that jump [from Windows XP to Windows 7], and as a result, are going to be looking for new computers." .... He also denied claims from some critics that Apple had launched its most recent operating system, Snow Leopard, before it was ready. Scores of Mac users have reported compatibility issues between Snow Leopard and other software, and Apple itself had to confirm that a bug in the software was wiping crucial files, folders, music and data from some users' computers. PC World has reported strong first day sales of Windows 7, with demand for the new software outstripping similar early demand for Windows Vista, which was released in 2007. ..."  Note: When I had my last computer built, I bought the OS  (Windows XP, SP2) , so when I just paid to have a new machine built in Oct 2009, I installed the same OS as before, since I owned the software, and I was set for at least another 4 years, without having to venture into new systems. The only difference was that I installed the SP3 update. Beyond that, I don't trust Microsoft and their 'updates'.

Magnetic electricity discovered [10/19/09] "Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones. The work is the first to make use of the magnetic monopoles that exist in special crystals known as spin ice.... Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones. The work is the first to make use of the magnetic monopoles that exist in special crystals known as spin ice. Writing in Nature journal, a team showed that monopoles gather to form a "magnetic current" like electricity. The phenomenon, dubbed "magnetricity", could be used in magnetic storage or in computing. Magnetic monopoles were first predicted to exist over a century ago, as a perfect analogue to electric charges. Although there are protons and electrons with net positive and negative electric charges, there were no particles in existence which carry magnetic charges. Rather, every magnet has a "north" and "south" pole. In September this year, two research groups independently reported the existence of monopoles - "particles" which carry an overall magnetic charge. But they exist only in the spin ice crystals. These crystals are made up of pyramids of charged atoms, or ions, arranged in such a way that when cooled to exceptionally low temperatures, the materials show tiny, discrete packets of magnetic charge. Now one of those teams has gone on to show that these "quasi-particles" of magnetic charge can move together, forming a magnetic current just like the electric current formed by moving electrons. .... by engineering different spin ice materials to modify the ways monopoles move through them, the materials might in future be used in "magnetic memory" storage devices or in spintronics - a field which could boost future computing power. "    

First black hole for light created on Earth [10/16/09] "The full-wave simulation result when light is incident to the black hole An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity. A theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed in a paper published earlier this year by Evgenii Narimanov and Alexander Kildishev of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Their idea was to mimic the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards. Narimanov and Kildishev reasoned that it should be possible to build a device that makes light curve inwards towards its centre in a similar way. They calculated that this could be done by a cylindrical structure consisting of a central core surrounded by a shell of concentric rings ....."    

2012 is not the end of the world, Mayan elder insists [10/13/09] "Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the end of the world. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff," he said. A significant time period for the Mayans does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years. ... Mr Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas. But hysteria surrounding 2012 does have some grains of archaeological basis. One of them is Monument Six. Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s, the stone tablet almost did not survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted. The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation. However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible. Guillermo Bernal, an archaeologist at Mexico's National Autonomous University, believes the eroded message is: "He will descend from the sky". But Mr Bernal also notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 - including one that roughly translates into the year 4772. ..."    

Two Year Old Sequential Lauded in the UK [10/11/09] "Oscar Wrigley, a two-year-old with the same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has become the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted into Mensa ... Assessors at the Gifted Children's Information Centre in Solihull said Oscar, with an IQ of at least 160, is one of the brightest children they have every come across. He has been ranked in the 99.99th percentile of the population and has been ranked off the scale as the Stanford-Binet test cannot measure higher than 160 .... The youngest British child to join Mensa is Elise Tan Roberts, from Edmonton, North London, at two years, four months and 14 days, with an IQ of 156."  Note: Ha! These are sequential incarnations, fresh from an incarnation on another world, and they have had many lives to come in here so 'smart'  (read 'planetarily acclimated' to the Orion way). It's pretty preposterous, isn't it? 

Water-Based Glasses:  No Optician Required [10/10/09]   Note: Interesting. Video: Synchronization

Warning on surge in wireless traffic [10/09/09] "The head of the US Federal Communications Commission warned on Wednesday that there is not enough room in the airwaves for the “explosion” in wireless data traffic, setting the stage for a big realignment of spectrum usage as the government tries to help mobile carriers keep up with consumer demand. “The biggest threat to the future of mobile in America is the looming spectrum crisis,” said Julius Genachowski, the Obama administration appointee who took over as head of the five-member FCC in late June. Mr Genachowski noted that what had been seen as a big auction of spectrum last year helped cap a three-fold surge in the amount of commercial spectrum available. “The problem is, many anticipate a 30-fold increase in wireless traffic,” he said at the CTIA wireless industry convention in San Diego. ..."   

IBM Builds ‘Bar Code Reader’ for DNA [10/07/09] "Essentially a bar code reader for genes, the DNA Transistor is part technique and part device. It consists of a 3-nanometer wide hole, known as a nanopore, in a silicon microchip. A sensor in the pore can read DNA and determine its unique makeup. The challenge scientists face is controlling the rate at which a strand moves through that nanopore: A DNA molecule needs to spend enough time in it for the sequencing to work. By cycling voltages to the transistor's poles, IBM aims to move the DNA through the nanopore at a consistent rate one nucleotide (molecule of DNA) at a time ..."  Note: Fortunately, this capability and all extension of it will never occur, because there is not enough time.  

Commentary: Windows 7 Will Let Microsoft Track Your Every Move [10/07/09] "From FireEagle to iPhone apps that use your current location, everyone it seems is racing to get on the geo-aware software bandwagon. So far most geo-aware features have been opt-in and offer reasonable privacy controls (FireEagle is a good example of this), but Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 plans to offer developers location tools at the operating system level and the company doesn’t seem to think users care about control or privacy. ..."  Related:  NSA Had Access Built into Microsoft Windows  "A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA "help information" trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled ..."   

Wi-Fi Signals Used To See Through Walls [10/04/09] "Scientists at the University of Utah in the United States have found a way to harness Wi-Fi signals to 'see' through solid walls. The researchers say that the variation of radio signals in a wireless network can reveal the movements of people behind closed doors or even a wall. Joey Wilson and Neal Patwari, from the University of Utah, have used the principle of variance-based radio tomographic imaging. The system works by measuring interference between the nodes of wireless devices. If someone passes through that field, the device registers a change in the levels of resistance, and feeds that information back to a computer. The system can currently only see about three feet through a wall, and is so far only capable of sensing motion. At this stage, it is not sophisticated enough to generate an actual image of what lies beyond the wall, but the research team is confident that this feature could be developed in time. The researchers said the technology could be used in search and rescue operations, with emergency teams using the same radio technology used by Wi-Fi networks to build a web of sensors around a disaster site, revealing the location of victims and survivors. ..."   

UFO Sightings Over UK More Than Triple This Year  [09/21/09] "The so-called "X Files" show that there have been 394 claims reported to the MoD's UFO desk from January until the end of last month, making it by far the "busiest" year on record. Last year, there were only 118 sightings over the same period. The previous highest number was in 1997 – the first for which figures are available – when there were 331 reports over the same period. Experts say Britain is experiencing a "flap" – the term Ufologists use to describe a concentrated period of sightings. ... Gary Heseltine, a British Transport Police officer and UFO expert, said: "There has certainly been a big increase in sightings in Britain over the last 12 months. "We are in the midst of a flap. The sightings reported to the MoD will give an indication, but the actual numbers of sightings will be much higher, because many will not contact officials, for fear of ridicule."   

MoD In Bid For ET Technology [09/21/09] "The Ministry of Defence ordered an investigation of thousands of UFO sightings in the 1990s to examine whether alien spaceship technology could be exploited to build advanced engines for the RAF, according to a new official history. The book, based on the ministry’s “X-files” of thousands of sightings, shows that an unnamed wing commander initiated the project in 1993 because he believed it was wrong to assume extra-terrestrial craft did not exist. Nick Pope, who has written on UFOs and was a colleague of the officer at the MoD, confirmed the book’s account: “I remember him saying he believed there was evidence of an exotic propulsion system and the bottom line was that if they had it, we sure as hell wanted it.” Pope would not disclose the man’s name. Alien engines, if they existed, were apparently “stealthy” and “do not use conventional reaction propulsion systems”. The wing commander wanted to explore possibilities for “technology transfer”. The new book, The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings, is published by the National Archives in Kew, west London, and is based largely on MoD files released there. It traces the story of UFO sightings in Britain from the first decade of the 20th century. ..."     

Bulgaria: 'Identical lottery draw was coincidence' [09/20/09] "The draw of the same six winning numbers twice in a row in Bulgaria's national lottery was a freak coincidence, officials said Thursday ..."    

Mysterious ruins may help explain Mayan collapse [09/20/09] "Ringing two abandoned pyramids are nine palaces "frozen in time" that may help unravel the mystery of the ancient Maya, reports an archaeological team. Hidden in the hilly jungle, the ancient site of Kiuic (KIE-yuk) was one of dozens of ancient Maya centers abandoned in the Puuc region of Mexico's Yucatan about 10 centuries ago. The latest discoveries from the site may capture the moment of departure. "The people just walked away and left everything in place," says archaeologist George Bey of Millsaps College in Jackson Miss., co-director of the Labna-Kiuic Regional Archaeological Project. "Until now, we had little evidence from the actual moment of abandonment, it's a frozen moment in time." The ancient, or "classic" Maya were part of a Central American civilization best known for stepped pyramids, beautiful carvings and murals and the widespread abandonment of cities around 900 A.D. in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador. They headed for the northern Yucatan, where Spanish conquistadors met their descendants in the 1500s (6 million modern Maya still live in Central America today). Past work by the team, led by Bey and Tomas Gallareta of Mexico's National Institute of Archaeology and History, shows the Maya had inhabited the Puuc region since 500 B.C. So why they headed for the coast with their brethren is just part of the mystery of the Maya collapse. ..."    

Scientist Dies, Possible Plague Bacteria Link [09/20/09] "The University of Chicago Medical Center says the infection that killed a scientist may be connected to bacteria he researched ..."  

"Alien Abduction In Italy - A Sad Story" [09/18/09] "Pier Fortunato Zanfretta’s is one of the best documented abduction cases ever recorded in Italy. Zanfretta was born in 1952 in Nova Milanese and worked as private guard: between 1978 an 1981 he had close encounters with alien being 11 times. The night between 6 and 7 december 1978 he was found on the ground in state of shock near Marzano di Torriglia (Genoa). Let me present you this case with the words of Rino di Stefano, an Italian journalist who followed the case in first person and wrote a lot of articles and one book about it: Shortly after midnight on December 6th, 1978, Zanfretta was on duty in Torriglia, a village near Genoa. It was a dark and moonless night. It was also very cold and snow had fallen during the day so that there was a dangerous film of ice on the roads ..."  Note: "An enormous green, ugly and frightful creature, with undulating skin, no less than ten feet tall". Huh.  

Argentina: Man Photographs Aerial Engima  [09/10/09] "I stopped the car that I drove to the location and some 200 meters  away, I saw a strange object hovering above the lake surface. For this reason I decided to get out of the car and take a picture of it with my cell phone. It was suspended in the air, barely a meter over the surface, and was completely silent," said the witness in a handwritten note. He added that while he tried to photograph it with his cellphone, the object began to emit a buzzing sound and, blowing powerfully over the water's surface, stirring it, began to ascend. At that time, and while the object rose into the air, he took photos of its strange silhouette. As shown in the image (the low resolution is due to the fact that a cellphone was used to take it) the man must have applied the camera's zoom to get a closer look at what was going on. Four pictures later, the object vanished into the skies above. ..."  Note:  It seems to me I have something like this in our online pictures of Unusual Aerial Objects. 

Capitalizing Security: "Non-Lethal" Weapons and the Market  [ 09/08/09 ] "According to a blurb on Raytheon's web site, the commercial version of ADS known as Silent Guardian "is a revolutionary less-than-lethal directed energy application that employs millimeter wave technology to repel individuals or crowds without causing injury." Touted as providing a "zone of protection that saves lives, protects assets and minimizes collateral damage" the system is marketed as the ideal tool to "establish intent and de-escalate aggression." Commercial and military application envisaged for the system "include law enforcement, checkpoint security, facility protection, force protection and peacekeeping missions." Some "peace," eh?! It appears that the US government is getting ready to confront massive unrest, potentially due to economic upheavals ..." 

UFO 'filmed for 40 minutes' by Chinese scientists during solar eclipse  [ 09/08/09 ]   

DARPA program can selectively block personal cell phones, wireless internet, GPS  [ 09/01/09 ] "US military researchers are looking to build networks of small, low-power transmitter boxes which together can perform "surgical jamming" of digital signals - shutting down cellphones and sat nav receivers within an area "on the order of a city block corner" ..."  

Artificial life will be created 'within months' as genome experts claim vital breakthrough  [ 08/22/09 ] "Scientists are only months away from creating artificial life, it was claimed yesterday. Dr Craig Venter – one of the world’s most famous and controversial biologists – said his U.S. researchers have overcome one of the last big hurdles to making a synthetic organism. The first artificial lifeform is likely to be a simple man-made bacterium that proves that the technology can work. But it will be followed by more complex bacteria that turn coal into cleaner natural gas, or algae that can soak up carbon dioxide and convert it into fuels. They could also be used to create new vaccines and antibiotics ...."   Note: Yep .. that makes no frankincense ... 

  Australia and New Zealand join in super telescope bid [ 08/21/09 ] "Australia and New Zealand announced a joint bid Friday for a giant radio telescope project which will reach for the earliest traces of the universe in a search for intelligent life ..."  Note: They certainly haven't found much on this planet.

 Expert Warns Of Mind-Altering Biological Drugs In Warfare [ 08/20/09 ] "A leading expert on chemical and biological arms control called Wednesday for urgent efforts to stop new mind-altering drugs developed for medical purposes from being adopted by the military for use in warfare. In an article in the U.S. journal Nature, British academic Malcolm Dando said civilian researchers in many countries seemed largely unaware of the danger and urged quick action to adapt a key arms pact to head it off. "In the past 20 years, modern warfare has changed from predominantly large-scale clashes of armies to messy civil strife," wrote Dando, citing the Bosnian conflict of the mid-1990s and current fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chemical agents and even gene therapy being developed in civilian life science laboratories "are particularly suited to this style of warfare; it is not hard to find people in the military world who think they would be useful," he declared. Dando, Professor of International Security at Britain's Bradford University, is a regular participant in U.N.-sponsored arms conferences and is due in Geneva next week for a meeting of experts on the 1972 biological weapons pact ..."   Related: Biologists napping while work militarized  "In October 2002, Chechen rebel fighters held more than 750 people hostage at a Nord-Ost production in a theatre in Moscow. The siege was broken only after special military forces used what the Russian Health Minister, Yuri Shevchenko, later described as a mixture of substances derived from fentanyl — an opiate developed in the 1950s as an anaesthetic. Widespread relief that many of the hostages were saved was tempered by 124 of them being killed by the gas. Chemicals with effects like those of fentanyl are often known as 'incapacitating agents'. These substances affect biochemical processes and physiological systems to produce a disabling condition such as unconsciousness, and in higher concentrations can cause death. With effects that last from hours to days, they are distinct from standard riot-control agents such as CS gas, which cause sensory irritation that disappears shortly after termination of exposure. That Russian special military forces resorted to using fentanyl in Moscow is a possible harbinger of the wider militarization of advances in the biological sciences. Designer weapons: Attempts to exploit benignly intended research for hostile purposes are not new ..."

 Giant rat-eating nepenthes plant named after David Attenborough  [ 08/18/09 ] "He may be best known for his mellifluous tones and gentle manner, but for one group of botanists Sir David Attenborough clearly conjures up different associations. Explorers who discovered a new species of giant rodent-eating carnivorous plant have named it after the TV naturalist. Nepenthes attenboroughii, a previously unknown variety of pitcher plant discovered on a remote mountain in the Philippines, is so big that small rodents could be trapped inside and slowly dissolved by flesh-eating enzymes. It is thought that only a few hundred of the plants exist, growing only on one mountain on the island of Palawan. The species was discovered by a team of scientists who had heard reports from missionaries who got lost in the dense jungle ..."

  World’s smallest laser unveiled  [ 08/18/09 ] "The world’s smallest laser, contained in a silica sphere just 44 nanometres across, and about 10 times smaller than the wavelength of light, has been unveiled. According to a report in Nature News, the laser has been named as the ‘spaser’. Whereas a laser amplifies light, using a mirrored cavity to intensify it, a spaser amplifies surface plasmons — tiny oscillations in the density of free electrons on the surface of metals, which, in turn, produce light waves ..."   Note: Can we then use the spasers to form the words, in miniature, "THIS PLACE SUCKS"?

  US space review panel says moon, Mars out of reach  [ 08/16/09 ] "The US plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 will not happen without a big boost in NASA's budget, leaving only the International Space Station as a viable target for the country's human space program, according to a presidential review panel ..." 

Secrets of District 9's Grungy Alien Realism [ 08/15/09 ] "District 9, the new movie about insectlike aliens stranded in South Africa, pulls off its fantastic premise through a clever mix of documentary-style cinematography and convincing visual effects. “I very purposefully wanted all of District 9 to feel as real as possible, even though, you know, 50 percent of the film is presented in a cinematic way,” director Neill Blomkamp told Wired.com in a video interview. “The environment is 110 percent real. It’s pure, pure Johannesburg.” District 9’s creative team then inserted the movie’s giant CGI aliens into the live-action background, using creative camerawork to turn the movie into a persuasive piece of science fiction. A conscious decision not to put the special effects on a pedestal adds to the movie’s gritty, realistic feel, Blomkamp said. Greg Broadmore, designer at New Zealand effects company WETA Workshop, said that sense of alien vérité extended to crafting District 9’s prop weapons, costumes and the 10-foot-tall extraterrestrials themselves. “The aliens actually went through a huge design process,” Broadmore told Wired.com. “Niell came down to one design, and he actually went away and did some test footage with that, came back, designed a completely new alien that looked nothing like the first one…. We just wanted to make something more imposing, more threatening, more dangerous.” Watch the full video for more fascinating details on how Blomkamp and crew injected realism into District 9 ..."  Related:  Xenophobia, Racism Drive Alien Relocation in District 9 "District 9 is a sci-fi spectacle with a giant spaceship, stranded extraterrestrials and plenty of alien technology, but it’s also an allegory about segregation. It’s a subject director Neill Blomkamp (pictured) understands on a visceral level: He grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era. “Really, what I wanted to do was just mix science fiction with Africa, and that’s what District 9 is,” Blomkamp told Wired.com in an interview during last month’s Comic-Con International in San Diego. See the full interview, in which Blomkamp and District 9 star Sharlto Copley reveal more about the making of the film ..."  Note: alien sequentials on  Earth, this summer, in a movie with sequential perspectives. See trailer. 

Caves underneath Giza  [ 08/15/09 ] "Collins, who will detail his findings in the book "Beneath the Pyramids" to be published in September, tracked down the entrance to the mysterious underworld after reading the forgotten memoirs of a 19th century diplomat and explorer ..." 

Major setback for US return to moon [ 08/15/09 ] "NASA doesn't have nearly enough money to meet its goal of putting astronauts back on the moon by 2020 -- and it may be the wrong place to go anyway. That's one of the harsh messages emerging from a sweeping review of NASA's human spaceflight program. ... Although it is just an advisory panel, the Human Space Flight Plans Committee could turn the entire space program upside down. Appointed by President Obama and headed by retired aerospace executive Norman Augustine, the 10-person panel has held a series of marathon meetings in recent weeks to try to Velcro together some kind of plausible strategy for NASA. The agency's trajectory over the next two decades, as well as the fate of thousands of civil servants and private contractors, could be affected by the group's report, due at the end of this month. ... The committee members will meet with administration officials Friday and are likely to say that under current funding, there's no realistic way to get Americans back on the moon by 2020, which has been the goal since President George W. Bush signed off on the "Vision for Space Exploration" in 2004. The current NASA plan makes a moon landing in 2020 possible under the budget only if the agency de-orbits the international space station -- crashing it into the South Pacific -- in 2016. ... Moreover, the current strategy involves retiring the space shuttle in 2010 and replacing it with the new Ares I rocket and the Orion crew capsule, which NASA hopes would be ready to take astronauts to low Earth orbit in 2016. During the long gap in NASA's human spaceflight ability, American astronauts would have to hitch rides into space on Russian rockets. The awkward plan has been seen as a budgetary necessity, with shuttle program money flowing into the new Constellation program that features the new space hardware that could eventually put astronauts on the lunar surface. 
... The committee has chewed over a basic paradox in the plan, which is that, even if everything went smoothly, the new rocket would not be able to get astronauts to low Earth orbit until just about the time that the space station would be fireballing its way back to Earth. ... Although the station has never been terribly popular with scientists, its $100 billion price tag and role in international aerospace cooperation makes its early demise politically unpalatable. The Augustine panel assumes the station's life will be extended to 2020. But under that budgetary scenario, according to the panel's just-completed analysis, the current NASA budget would not permit the launch of a new heavy-boost moon rocket, the Ares V, until 2028 -- even without any funding for key lunar-base components ..."   Related: NASA experts scale back moon and Mars plans in face of Obama funding cut fears  

NASA Falling Short of Deadly-Asteroid Detection Goals   [ 08/13/09 ] "Without more funding, NASA will not meet its goal of tracking 90 percent of all deadly asteroids by 2020, according to a report released today by the National Academy of Sciences. The agency is on track to soon be able to spot 90 percent of the potentially dangerous objects that are at least a kilometer (.6 miles) wide, a goal previously mandated by Congress. Asteroids of this size are estimated to strike Earth once every 500,000 years on average and could be capable of causing a global catastrophe if they hit Earth. In 2008, NASA’s Near Earth Object Program spotted a total of 11,323 objects of all sizes. A summary of the report’s findings: [1] Congress has mandated that NASA discover 90 percent of all near-Earth objects 140 meters in diameter or greater by 2020. The administration has not requested and Congress has not appropriated new funds to meet this objective. Only limited facilities are currently involved in this survey/discovery effort, funded by NASA’s existing budget. [2] The current near-Earth object surveys cannot meet the goals of the 2005 NASA Authorization Act directing NASA to discover 90 percent of all near-Earth objects 140 meters in diameter or greater by 2020. [3] The orbit-fitting capabilities of the Minor Planet Center are more than capable of handling the observations of the congressionally mandated survey as long as staffing needs are met. [4] The United States is the only country that currently has an operating survey/detection program for discovering near-Earth objects; Canada and Germany are both building spacecraft that may contribute to the discovery of near-Earth objects. However, neither mission will detect fainter or smaller objects than ground-based telescopes.  ..."

Tiny Cell Antennas Get Respect for Role in Brain Health, Cancer  [ 08/11/09 ] "... Hair-like antennas known as cilia that protrude from almost every cell in the body. Once viewed as irrelevant leftovers from some earlier stage of evolution, they’ve lately gained respect from researchers who have published reports describing their role in everything from cancer to growth of neural stem cells. “People thought they were just evolutionary remnants, like the tailbones we never bothered to get rid of,” said Joseph Gleeson, a neurologist and researcher at the University of California, San Diego. “But these cilia that seem to just sit there and do nothing are actually doing very important things and they underlie many diseases ..."

Radioactive rays photographed from Nagasaki nuclear 'death ash' [ 08/11/09 ] "A team of researchers has succeeded in photographing radioactive rays coming from the cells of people who died in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki ..."

Flying surveillance robots coming soon from Aeryon [ 08/11/09 ] "Aeryon plans to sell to private security forces, and eventually police departments. Kroetsch is doing things in this order because it's easier to get a contract from a private firm than from a cash-strapped police department or grant-funded program at one ... The company is headquartered in Canada and hopes to have United States FAA approval for its flying robot within six months. Sadly, until that approval comes, the Scout is grounded Stateside. And that means no demos for reporters or buyers unless they head up to Canada ..."

ABC announces V will debut in November 2009 [ 08/10/09 ] "The cast and creators of ABC's upcoming V announced Saturday that the show would premiere Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. in a news conference at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif.  The new series is a re-imagining of Kenneth Johnson's classic 1980s sci-fi miniseries, about the arrival of alien "visitors" who promise to share advanced technology in exchange for friendship, but turn out to have a darker agenda ..."  Note: fascist ET sequentials to go with the fascist Obamanation sequentials. How apropos.  There is also another film about alien sequentials on  Earth, this summer, called 'District 9'.  See trailer.

Scientist: 'Finger' was neither human nor animal [ 08/09/09 ] "New Jersey authorities say a human finger wasn't dropped on a deck at the Jersey shore after all. A forensic anthropologist has determined the object, which resembled a decaying finger with an acrylic french-manicured nail, is neither human nor animal. Brielle police were called July 30 after a homeowner made the discovery. Officials suspected it may have been dropped by a bird. The Monmouth County medical examiner could not verify whether the object was a human finger. State Police Sgt. Stephen Jones says a forensic anthropologist X-rayed it and determined it was made of an unidentified substance ..."

White House Panel narrows down NASA’s future options [ 08/09/09 ] "A White House panel tasked with re-evaluating NASA's plans for future space exploration has begun culling a list of potential options — one that ranges from staying the current course to taking direct aim at sending humans to Mars. The 10-member Review for U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee has trimmed a larger list of 3,000 options down to about seven general scenarios, which it plans to cull even further before presenting them to Barack Obama later this month. NASA's current plan is to retire its aging space shuttle fleet in 2010 after completing construction of the international space station, and replace it with a new Orion vehicle ..."  Related: Longer Life for the Space Station Advised "Members of the government panel reviewing NASA’s human spaceflight program said Tuesday that the life of the International Space Station should be extended past its planned demise in 2016. After the shuttle Endeavour, which undocked from the space station Tuesday afternoon, returns to Earth, NASA has seven flights left on its schedule before the shuttle fleet is to be retired in September 2010. At that point the space station, under construction since 1998, would finally be complete, but current plans call for operating it only through 2015 before it is deliberately disposed of in the ocean the following year."  Note: So they want to de-orbit the ISS six years after its completion. This shows that it was all a front for public consumption. 

Kepler detects previously known exoplanet; it’s ready to seek alien Earths [ 08/08/09 ] "NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft is in good shape to begin discovering Earthlike planets, according to its first science results, released on Thursday. The space telescope, launched in March 2009, detected the giant extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b within its first 10 days of taking data. Although this planet was previously discovered by ground-based telescopes, the fact that Kepler found it and measured it in such great detail bodes well. Kepler is on a quest to root out distant worlds that resemble our own Earth, and which might be hospitable to life ..."  Note: Good luck with that.  As you can see at the bottom of the article, they are finding NO planets capable of supporting life forms as we know them.

'Pain Ray’ First Commercial Sale Looms [ 08/06/09 ] "The military isn’t about to deploy its pain ray to the battlefield. But someone in the commercial sector is about to one. We don’t know who. The sale is mentioned in a presentation (PDF) by Raytheon, who built the microwave weapon for the Defense Department ..."

Japan launches experts' debate on moon exploration [ 08/05/09 ] "A group of experts held an inaugural meeting here to discuss how Japan should explore the moon following the formulation of a national space development project in June that underlined the country's ambition to send its first manned moon probe. A private panel set up under Seiko Noda, state minister for Science and Technology Policy, and Food Safety, plans to consider how Japan can bring moon exploration to realisation. The panel plans to produce a report around June next year ..."

Chemicals can turn genes on and off; new tests needed, scientists say  [ 08/04/09 ] "Each of us starts life with a particular set of genes, 20,000 to 25,000 of them. Now scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence that pollutants and chemicals might be altering those genes—not by mutating them, but by sending subtle signals that silence them or switch them on at the wrong times. Last week, several dozen researchers and experts convened by the National Academies tackled this complicated topic, called epigenetics, at a two-day workshop in Washington, D.C. They discussed new findings that suggest chemicals in our environment and in our food can alter genes, leaving people vulnerable to a variety of diseases and disorders, including diabetes, asthma, cancer and obesity. They also considered whether regulatory agencies and industry should start testing the thousands of chemicals in use today for these effects. “There is little doubt these epigenetic effects are important. The next question is how we test for effects," said William H. Farland, professor of environmental and radiological health sciences at Colorado State University. "We don’t need to abandon current approaches to chemical testing. When testing chemicals in animals, we may just need to add some new endpoints ..."

Journal retracts study that claimed to make sperm  [ 08/04/09 ] "The editor of a scientific journal that published a controversial paper claiming to have created human sperm from embryonic stem cells for the first time has retracted the study ..."

Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning   [ 08/02/09 ] "An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue ... The Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, was officially declared extinct in 2000 when the last-known animal of its kind was found dead in northern Spain. Shortly before its death, scientists preserved skin samples of the goat, a subspecies of the Spanish ibex that live in mountain ranges across the country, in liquid nitrogen. Sadly, the newborn ibex kid died shortly after birth due to physical defects in its lungs. Other cloned animals, including sheep, have been born with similar lung defects. But the breakthrough has raised hopes that it will be possible to save endangered and newly extinct species by resurrecting them from frozen tissue ... attempts to bring back species such as woolly mammoths and even the Dodo are fraught with difficulties. Even when preserved in ice, DNA degrades over time and this leaves gaps in the genetic information required to produce a healthy animal. "  

Two-Headed Baby Born In Philippines [ 07/31/09 ] "In an extremely rare instance, a baby girl born at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in the Philippines Tuesday night has two heads, CBS News reports ... Named "Baby Girl Arciaga," the infant has two spines, two brains and two hearts, encased in one cavity, but she shares everything else, including lungs and kidneys, according to the CBS report. "This is a very rare case. It's new even to us," Dr. Ruben Flores, FMH's director, said in a television interview. The condition is called dicephaly monozygotic conjoined birth, and it occurs in only one out of 80,000 live births. Officials at the hospital said the extra head appeared to be a twin of the girl who failed to fully separate during the development stage in early pregnancy ..."

Whale saves drowning diver  [ 07/30/09 ] "A beluga whale saved a drowning diver by hoisting her to the surface, carrying her leg in its mouth ..."  Note: Now here's a higher self intervention to talk about and mull over ....

(Tesla) - Wireless Power System Shown [ 07/25/09 ] "A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference. The technique exploits simple physics and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices over many metres. Eric Giler, chief executive of US firm Witricity, showed mobile phones and televisions charging wirelessly at the TED Global conference in Oxford. He said the system could replace the miles of expensive power cables and billions of disposable batteries. "There is something like 40 billion disposable batteries built every year for power that, generally speaking, is used within a few inches or feet of where there is very inexpensive power," he said ... The system is based on work by physicist Marin Soljacic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It exploits "resonance", whereby energy transfer is markedly more efficient when a certain frequency is applied. When two objects have the same resonant frequency, they exchange energy strongly without having an effect on other, surrounding objects. For example, it is resonance that can cause a wine glass to explode when a singer hits exactly the right tone. But instead of using acoustic resonance, Witricity's approach exploits the resonance of low frequency electromagnetic waves ..."  Extensive article with video report.

Microwave Weapon Will Rain Pain from the Sky [ 07/24/09 ] "The Pentagon's enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be fired from an aircraft. ...."  Note: How cowardly is this?

New Technology to Make Digital Data Self-Destruct  [ 07/22/09 ] "A group of computer scientists at the University of Washington has developed a way to make electronic messages “self destruct” after a certain period of time, like messages in sand lost to the surf. The researchers said they think the new software, called Vanish, which requires encrypting messages, will be needed more and more as personal and business information is stored not on personal computers, but on centralized machines, or servers. In the term of the moment this is called cloud computing, and the cloud consists of the data — including e-mail and Web-based documents and calendars — stored on numerous servers ... The idea of developing technology to make digital data disappear after a specified period of time is not new. A number of services that perform this function exist on the World Wide Web, and some electronic devices like FLASH memory chips have added this capability for protecting stored data by automatically erasing it after a specified period of time. But the researchers said they had struck upon a unique approach that relies on “shattering” an encryption key that is held by neither party in an e-mail exchange but is widely scattered across a peer-to-peer file sharing system. Public key cryptography makes it possible for two parties who have never physically met to share a digital secret and as a result engage in a secure electronic conversation sheltered from potential eavesdroppers. The technology is at the heart of most modern electronic commerce systems ..."

DNA Not The Same In Every Cell Of Body: Major Genetic Differences Between Blood And Tissue Cells Revealed  [ 07/18/09 ] "Research by a group of Montreal scientists calls into question one of the most basic assumptions of human genetics: that when it comes to DNA, every cell in the body is essentially identical to every other cell ..."

Argentina - Cattle Mutilations On The Rise  [ 07/17/09 ] "Seven bovines were found mutilated last week in a farm near Puelches, in Southwestern La Pampa ... "strange lights were seen maneuvering over the area for several nights throughout the region." ... It should be noted that throughout this area, the presence of "lights" and "vehicles" is so common that on several occasion, local residents contacted CEUFO to witness the maneuvers of "strange vehicles" that are even visible over the area during the daytime hours ­ a region that is being scourged by a remarkable drought. The eyewitness accounts include those by police officers and community authorities of the southern communities  ..." Note: Don't ask me what this means ... who knows for sure what's involved, and I'm not in the mooood. Whatever it is, sequentials are involved.

Ex Astronaut Charles Bolden New NASA Chief  [ 07/17/09 ] "Charlie Bolden, a former astronaut, took over the reins at Nasa today ..."  Related: NASA Plans To De-Orbit $100B International Space Station In 2016

UK Guardian:  Houston, we have a problem: moon walk footage erased   [ 07/17/09 ] "NASA probably taped over its only high resolution images of the first moon walk with electronic data from a satellite  ... Loss of tapes went unnoticed for 35 years ..." Note: Yeah, right.  Related: Aldrin: 'A race to the moon is a dead end'   

New military robots 'could feed on corpses'  [ 07/16/09 ] "Wonderful: your most horrible military-death-cyborg-synergy dreams come true. A Maryland company under contract with the Pentagon is developing a robot that can burn organic material and use collected debris as fuel -- including, but not limited to, things like sticks, grass, debris -- and dead bodies. Robotic Technology Inc.'s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" — "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable," reads the company's Web site ..."   Note: It's amazing how they can come up with shit to foster killing people ... but not for living people. It's a total death-oriented culture. Notice how christians, who have a death-oriented religion, are so afraid to die? 

Microsoft Office to go online — for free  [ 07/15/09 ] "It’s too early to say Microsoft has checkmated Google in online documents – the latest version of Office hasn’t shipped yet. But the sleeping giant in Redmond has clearly woken up to the Internet threat. Get this: Microsoft – the king of paid software – will announce today that it is going to give a version of Office away for free online. Both the online and desktop versions are scheduled to arrive in the first half of next year. Yes, you read that right. The latest version of its ubiquitous productivity software, dubbed Office 2010, will come as both a piece of software you can buy for your computer, and as a service you can access in your browser. [UPDATE: Microsoft says it will support the Firefox and Safari browsers as well as IE.] For free. From Microsoft ..."

Cyberattacks came from UK  [ 07/15/09 ] "The denial-of-service attacks launched on Web sites in South Korea and the United States earlier this month appear to have come from a master server in the United Kingdom, according to security researchers in Vietnam ..."

Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips  [ 07/14/09 ] "According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and products throughout the world."

Modified invisibility cloak could make the ultimate illusion  [ 07/09/09 ]  They may be invisible, but they're still stupid.

 Insect Drones ‘Spotted’ on U.S. Streets (Updated)  [ 07/07/09 ]  ""I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects ..."

  Pentagon seeking 'Genesis-style godware capability'  [ 07/06/09 ]  "US military wacky-professor bureau DARPA has outdone itself this time, issuing a request for "intelligent" electronic components and chemicals which can "self-organise" themselves to form complex items such as routers, fuel cells, biofuel factories or medical drugs. Indeed, reading between the lines it appears as though the American killboffins are seeking nothing less than the creation of artificial intelligent lifeforms. The Pentagon crazytech chiefs' name for this initiative is "Physical Intelligence", and full details were released last week. According to DARPA, humanity at present has only a dim grasp of what intelligence actually is and how it came into existence ..."

 Smart, Flat Camera Is Packed With Beady Eyes  [ 07/03/09 ]  "A key feature of the system is that is made up of a large number of tiny imagers. These are small, simple cameras, each directed independently by a MEMS-controlled micro-mirror. Because there is no large lens, Pantoptes can be made flat, unlike other cameras ..."

Sony Pictures "2012" Movie Release moved from July to November 2009 [ 06/15/09 ] "Roland Emmerich delivers another large-scale disaster picture with 2012, a Sony Pictures Entertainment production detailing the year when many ancient scribes predicted that the world would end, with John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt filling out the cast. The director co-wrote the script with his 10,000 B.C. writer/composer Harald Kloser."  Note: Danny Glover plays the 'black' president of the United States. Hmmm

 Watching the watch lists  [ 06/15/09 ] "Less than 24 hours after a security guard at the Holocaust Museum was shot and killed by a man on the Secret Service watch list, D.C.-area authorities gathered to discuss the importance of watch lists and intelligence communication groups called fusion centers. More than 70 fusion centers, or government-created intelligence centers, exist nationwide. Created after the Sept. 11 attacks, the centers aim to gather intelligence used to prevent criminal or terrorist activity. “There are 1.1 million people on the terrorist watch list, and there’s a 35 percent error rate, minimum, for that list,” said German, a former FBI agent ... As of Thursday afternoon, the ACLU Web site’s terrorist watch list meter read 1,218,421 people ... “It’s important to have them, but they have to be run well and they have to be scrubbed regularly,” he said. DiGenova cited examples such as a 4-year-old boy or an Air Force pilot mistakenly being placed on the watch list. In order to effectively use fusion centers and watch lists, he said, they have to be organized and run well, with strict guidelines. “Things can get out of control quickly if they’re not supervised well.”

 US police could get 'pain beam' weapons  [ 06/08/09 ] "The research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects. The two devices under development by the civilian National Institute of Justice both build on knowledge gained from the Pentagon's controversial Active Denial System (ADS) - first demonstrated in public last year, which uses a 2-metre beam of short microwaves to heat up the outer layer of a person's skin and cause pain...."

 Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all  [ 06/06/09 ] "A UK researcher has spent years interviewing people about whether DRM has affected their ability to use content in ways ordinarily protected by the law. Surprise! It has, even leading one sight-impaired woman to piracy....."   Note: Of course, kowtowing to corporations is involved with the DRM aspects of MS Vista, etc. ... and compiling possible 'charges' to use against you in the future, if they don't like what you do in life.

 CDC advisor pockets a cool $29 million to push vaccines  [ 06/06/09 ] "Dr. Paul Offit of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) received at least $29 million from his share of royalties for Merck's Rotateq vaccine after using his position with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ensure that childhood vaccination with the vaccine became compulsory ...."   

 "Earth Gets Billion-Year Life Extension"   [ 06/02/09 ] "The Earth could be habitable for another 2.3 billion years, extending previous estimates of life’s horizon by more than 1 billion years. King Fai Li and his colleagues at Caltech hypothesize that Earth’s atmospheric pressure has always varied, and that it could fall in the distant future, keeping Earth from frying for far longer than previous research had shown.   Note: Dream on about stuff that doesn't matter, dear sequentials, if it soothes your existential crisis by redefining earlier speculations. Astronomy does NOT even 'qualify' as a potential 'immortality strategy' ... geeze...."

 CIA Equips Pakistanis With Mysterious Drone Targeting 'Chips' To Plant on Those to Be Killed  [ 06/02/09 ] "... Herndon, Virginia-based defense contractor EWA Government Systems, Inc. is one of several firms that boasts of making tiny devices to help manhunters locate their prey. The company’s “Bigfoot Remote Tagging System” is a “very small, battery-operated device used to emit an RF [radio frequency] transmission [so] that the target can be located and/or tracked ... "  

 US firm says handheld puke ray is ready to go   [ 06/02/09 ] "The so-called Dazer Laser™ technology comes from Laser Energetics Inc, of New Jersey, which has been supplying more conventional laser equipment since 1991. Now, however, the company is pleased to announce its new Defender™ and Guardian™ chunder-beam weapons ... The Defender™ is the ray-pistol model, perhaps effective to 2400m; the Guardian™ is the cylindrical job which emits its belly-scrambling dazer rays from one end like a torch. The Guardian™ will work out to 100m, according to the Laser Energetics pdf brochure. Both models also have a "searchlight" illumination mode - presumably without the nauseating special sauce. There's no word yet on price."  

 To Survive Cancer, Live With It  [ 05/29/09 ] "For all the weapons deployed in the war on cancer, from chemicals to radiation to nanotechnology, the underlying strategy has remained the same: Detect and destroy, with no compromise given to the killer. But Robert Gatenby wants to strike a peace. A mathematical oncologist at the Moffitt Cancer Center, Gatenby is part of a new generation of researchers who conceive of cancer as a dynamic, evolutionary system. According to his models, trying to wipe cancer out altogether actually makes it stronger by helping drug-resistant cells flourish. Rather than fighting cancer by trying to eradicate its every last cell, he suggests doctors might fare better by intentionally keeping tumors in a long-term stalemate ... Instead of fixing the dose of the drugs, you fix the size of the tumor. Your whole goal is to keep the tumor stable. You continuously alter the drug, the dose, the timing of the dose, with that goal in mind."  

 Iraq-born teen cracks math puzzle  [ 05/29/09 ] "A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in Sweden has cracked a maths puzzle that has stumped experts for more than 300 years, Swedish media reported on Thursday ... In just four months, Mohamed Altoumaimi has found a formula to explain and simplify the so-called Bernoulli numbers, a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, the Dagens Nyheter daily said."

Calf In Colorado Born With 7 Legs, 2 Spines [ 05/24/09 ]  "The Steamboat Pilot & Today of Steamboat Springs reports that a veterinary hospital helped deliver a seven-legged calf Thursday. The staff at the Steamboat Veterinary Hospital said the Black Angus  calf, which was delivered by cesarean section, had two spines but one head. One leg also had two hooves. The calf lived for only about 10 minutes. Veterinarian Lee Meyring says the birth was an incomplete splitting of the embryo into twins. He says he had previously seen a calf with a fifth leg, but the seven-legged calf was the most bizarre he has seen. The hospital says the calf's owners do not want to be identified... “I’ve been in practice for 14 years, and I’ve only seen one other calf with a fifth leg,” Meyring said. “And so this one’s definitely the most bizarre I’ve seen. It’s just a twinning process that had an incomplete splitting of the embryo, then the fetus.” The mother seemed to be OK, Lynn said. The calf lived only 10 minutes, she said. One of the seven legs had two hooves. The calf had two spines but just one head. The veterinarians don’t plan to examine its organs. “We’re not going to open it up because it’s not really worth it, so we’re going to try to get it preserved,” Lynn said. “It’s the weirdest thing we’ve seen, ever ever.” The hospital is trying to reach Ripley’s Believe it or Not or Animal Planet to find out whether they were interested in the calf. It also will provide an interesting lesson for 4-H members, Lynn said. “We’ve had calls already from Fort Collins, Denver,” she said. “There must have been 12 people here yesterday.”

All your movies on a single DVD: new technology that can store data in five dimensions [ 05/22/09 ]  "Australian scientists have unveiled new DVD technology that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2000 movies onto a single disc. A team of researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, have used nanotechnology to boost the storage potential nearly 10,000-fold compared to standard DVDs, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. "We were able to show how nanostructured material can be incorporated onto a disc in order to increase data capacity, without increasing the physical size of the disc," said Min Gu, who led the team. Discs currently have three spatial dimensions. By using gold nanorods Gu and colleagues were able to add two additional dimensions, one based on the colour spectrum, and the other on polarisation. Because nanoparticles react to light depending on their shape, it was possible to record information in a range of different colour's wavelengths at the same physical location on the disc. Current DVDs record in a single colour wavelength using a laser. The fifth dimension was made possible by polarisation. When light waves were projected onto the disc, the direction of the electric field within the waves aligned with the gold nanorods. "The polarisation can be rotated 360 degrees," explained co-author James Chon. "We were, for example, able to record at zero degree polarisation. Then on top of that, were able to record another layer of information at 90 degrees polarisation, without them interfering with each other," he said in a statement. The researchers are still working out the speed at which the discs can be written on, and say that commercial production is at least five years off. They have signed an agreement with Korea-based Samsung, one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers. Last month, US technology giant General Electric said its researchers had developed a holographic disc which can store the equivalent of 100 standard DVDs." Note: We will never see this in use. Not enough time.

Triangular UFO rotates through British Neighborhood  [ 05/15/09 ]  "A man in Bristol has captured video footage."

Life’s First Spark Re-Created in the Laboratory  [ 05/14/09 ]  "A fundamental but elusive step in the early evolution of life on Earth has been replicated in a laboratory."

Optical invisibility materials [ 05/02/09 ]  "... Previous work by Zhang and his group with invisibility devices involved complex metamaterials – composites of metals and dielectrics whose extraordinary optical properties arise from their unique structure rather than their composition. They constructed one material out of an elaborate fishnet of alternating layers of silver and magnesium fluoride, and another out of silver nanowires grown inside porous aluminum oxide. With these metallic metamaterials, Zhang and his group demonstrated that light can be bent backwards, a property unprecedented in nature..."

Mylow Defies the BlackOps; Posting more Videos of his Magnet Motor [ 05/02/09 ]  "This story may be the most interesting yet in the amazing Mylow Saga that began last March 17 when a guy who goes by "Mylow" at YouTube posted a video showing an all-magnet motor starting, accelerating, then reaching equilibrium speed ..."  Related:  MYLOW's Magnetic Motor  

NASA to begin layoffs as 2010 shuttle retirement nears [ 05/01/09 ]  "The U.S. space agency NASA plans to eliminate 900 manufacturing jobs over the next five months as it prepares to retire its space shuttle fleet in 2010, NASA officials said on Thursday. The first 160 layoff notices go out on Friday, primarily to contractors producing the space shuttle fuel tanks outside New Orleans and the shuttle solid rocket boosters in Utah."

NASA may abandon plans for moon base [ 05/01/09 ]  "NASA will probably not build an outpost on the moon as originally planned, the agency's acting administrator, Chris Scolese, told lawmakers on Wednesday. His comments also hinted that the agency is open to putting more emphasis on human missions to destinations like Mars or a near-Earth asteroid. NASA has been working towards returning astronauts to the moon by 2020 and building a permanent base there. But some space analysts and advocacy groups like the Planetary Society have urged the agency to cancel plans for a permanent moon base, carry out shorter moon missions instead, and focus on getting astronauts to Mars."

Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up [ 05/01/09 ]  " ... When Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist, wrote the code that transformed a private computer network into the world wide web in 1989, the internet appeared to be a limitless resource. However, a report being compiled by Nemertes Research, a respected American think-tank, will warn that the web has reached a critical point and that even the recession has failed to stave off impending problems. Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer. It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for several minutes at a time. The amount of traffic generated each month by YouTube is now equivalent to the amount of traffic generated across the entire internet in all of 2000 ..."

G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc  [ 04/28/09 ]  ".... General Electric says it has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs. The promising work by the G.E. researchers is in the field of holographic storage. Holography is an optical process that stores not only three-dimensional images like the ones placed on many credit cards for security purposes, but the 1’s and 0’s of digital data as well. The data is encoded in light patterns that are stored in light-sensitive material. The holograms act like microscopic mirrors that refract light patterns when a laser shines on them, and so each hologram’s recorded data can then be retrieved and deciphered. Holographic storage has the potential to pack data far more densely than conventional optical technology, used in DVDs and the newer, high-capacity Blu-ray discs, in which information is stored as a pattern of marks across the surface of a disc. The potential of holographic technology has long been known. ... To date, holographic storage has not been on a path to mainstream use. The G.E. development, however, could be that pioneering step, according to analysts and experts. The G.E. researchers have used a different approach than past efforts. It relies on smaller, less complex holograms — a technique called microholographic storage ...." 

Robots: Matching human skills and intelligence, however, is impossible  [ 04/21/09 ] "robots are getting smarter, more capable, more like flesh-and-blood people .. matching human skills and intelligence, however, is an enormously difficult — perhaps impossible — challenge ..."  Related:  Terminator: Pentagon exploring robot killers that can fire on their own

Triangular-shaped UFO's reported in several states  [ 04/21/09 ] "There has been an increase in triangular-shaped UFO reports coming in over the past couple of days. While the reports are scattered from all across the U.S., there are some similarities in descriptions. Many people are reporting that the lights seem foggy, hazy, and dim, while the objects appear to be somewhat transparent." Related: Four witnesses chase Illinois UFO into Indiana "A second report surfaced recently that seems to match the April 1, 2009, report of a triangular-shaped UFO near Frankfort, IL, where the witnesses chased the object into Indiana. They described the object as a "large triangular object in the sky."

Heavy Watergate - Suppression of Cold Fusion Technologies - [04/21/09 ]  [45:20] "The War Against Cold Fusion This cheap and practical power source was derailed by none other than Professor Steven Jones who used his 1-trillionth as powerful demonstration as a way of preventing commercial production of the Pons Fleishmann method."

Navy Takes Next Step Towards Laser 'Holy Grail'  [ 04/17/09 ] "U.S. Navy ships could one day knock down incoming missiles with energy weapons that never run out of shots, and tune themselves to slice through the ocean air."

An Encounter With Men In Black At NYC LaGuardia Airport  [ 04/13/09 ] "This is about an encounter with two men in black (MIB.) They don't act the same as those portrayed in Hollywood films. That's too bad, because someone like Tommy Lee Jones or Will Smith would be a lot of laughs to interact with too. Since I had great fun of encountering two real life clowns in black, I thought this should be shared with others. Their appearance is all about visual intimidation of the highest order. The uniform of these clowns is part of a psychology trick, not all that different as to why the average person inherently trusts anyone wearing a white lab coat. (Doctors already know this.) The black suit imparts a sense of formality and authority, while the sunglasses create an air of mystery and fear. Normally human beings make eye contact when meeting often without realizing it, as part of establishing a dialogue with someone else. When the eyes are concealed, this disturbs the human psyche by interfering with normal body language interchange ..."

UK To Use Google Cam Cars To Fine Drivers   [ 04/07/09 ] "Police are taking a leaf out of Google's book with their latest weapon in the war on motorists. They are using cars with spy cameras on a mast. Drivers talking on their mobile phones, eating, applying make-up or otherwise driving illegally will be pictured. And as the telescopic cameras can zoom in from some distance, the first inkling that they have been snapped could be when a £60 fine lands on the doorstep. Police say the new cars – similar to those used by Google to map town and city streets – will help reduce road deaths. But motorists say the Big Brother vehicles will merely be another cash cow for the Government and a further 'tax' on hard-pressed motorists."   Note: Remember the movie entitled "Fahrenheit 451"? That took place in Britain, as well. Monitoring the population closely is typical of sequential paranoia and control.

Japan's dream machine  [ 04/03/09 ] [Video 2:02] "A Japanese science lab is developing technologies to visualise images and dreams - and eventually read people's minds. Toshi Maeda reports."  Note: They wish they had a real idea how to to that. 

DARPA wants 'clandestine' 3D building-interior mapping kit  [ 04/02/09 ] "Pentagon bizarro-tech chiefs have issued a requirement for mysterious sensor systems which would be able to peer through concrete walls to produce a complete internal picture of a building. US Forces would use such kit for "overseas urban building interior awareness". The new plans are known as "Comprehensive Interior Reconnaissance", and come - of course - from famed off-the-wall military tech bureau DARPA, where they believe it's better to invent a head-mounted multispectral imaging device than curse the darkness. The Pentagon brainiacs note: As overseas military and peace-keeping operations have expanded in urban environments, our adversaries have adopted asymmetric strategies such as hiding in and operating out of civilian buildings ... it is imperative that we develop technologies to allow US Forces to confidently manoeuvre within urban interiors whether above or below ground ... Once specific buildings have been identified as deserving closer scrutiny, our forces [will] concentrate specific resources on these buildings to support tactical planning. Deployed sensors can spend more time providing detailed situational awareness of a single building, determining its floor plan, underground extent, and underground ingress and egress ..."

U.S. Expanding 'Virtual Fence' on Canadian Border  [ 04/02/09 ] "The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help secure parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, awarding the contract to a company criticized for faulty technology with its so-called "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico boundary."

UK: 'TV License" Concept Extended to Watching Internet  [ 04/02/09 ] "Viewers who watch television only through their computers could be forced to pay the licence fee, it has been revealed. Currently, those who solely use catch-up services, such as the BBC's iPlayer, do not need to pay the annual £139.50 charge. But a law could be introduced to change this, amid growing evidence that more television viewers are migrating online ... " Note: I was in England for 4 years and I thought a 'tv license' was insane ... and this extends the 'experiential control' paradigm.  

UK: Drivers face having their every move tracked by a 'spy in the car' black box  [ 04/02/09 ] "Drivers face having their every move tracked by a 'spy in the car' black box. The system will constantly check a vehicle's speed - making cameras redundant - and allow for pay-as-you-go tolls. The £36million EU project is partly funded by the UK Government and backed by car makers and the telecoms industry. It will be unveiled later this year with a view to its integration into future cars. Manufacturers suggest this could be as early as 2013. Vehicles fitted with the system will emit a constant 'heartbeat' pulse revealing their location, speed and direction of travel. But civil liberties campaigners say it will have profound implications for privacy by creating a Europe-wide system of Big Brother surveillance. Engineers say the system will be able to track cars to within a yard, making it significantly more accurate than existing satellite navigation technology ...." Note: Obviously, this will never come to fruition.

Could a Massive "False-Flag" Cyberattack Be On The Horizon?  [ 03/30/09 ] "Since the attacks on September 11th, 2001, which many have called a "false-flag operation", meaning elements within the Federal Government carried out the attacks while blaming it on its enemies, there has yet to be a massive Internet attack which would, no doubt, cripple the global infrastructure, especially in these unstable times. But could one be in the works in order to usher in complete worldwide government control of the Internet?"

Intruder alert: Tel Aviv University's 'Smart Dew' will find you  [ 03/28/09 ] "A remarkable new invention from Tel Aviv University — a network of tiny sensors as small as dewdrops called "Smart Dew" — will foil even the most determined intruder. Scattered outdoors on rocks, fence posts and doorways, or indoors on the floor of a bank, the dewdrops are a completely new and cost-effective system for safeguarding and securing wide swathes of property. Prof. Yoram Shapira and his Tel Aviv University Faculty of Engineering team drew upon the space-age science of motes to develop the new security tool. Dozens, hundreds and even thousands of these Smart Dew sensors - each equipped with a controller and RF transmitter/receiver - can also be wirelessly networked to detect the difference between man, animal, car and truck. "We've created a generic system that has no scale limitations," says Prof. Shapira. This makes it especially useful for large farms or even the borders of nations where it's difficult, and sometimes impractical, to install fences or constantly patrol them. "Most people could never afford the manpower to guard such large properties," explains Prof. Shapira. "Instead, we've created this Smart Dew to do the work. It's invisible to an intruder, and can provide an alarm that someone has entered the premises." Each individual "dew droplet" can detect an intrusion within a parameter of 50 meters (about 165 feet). And at a cost of 25 cents per "droplet," Prof. Shapira says that his solution is the cheapest and the smartest on the market. A part of the appeal of Smart Dew is its near-invisibility, Prof. Shapira says. "Smart Dew is a covert monitoring system. Because the sensors in the Smart Dew wireless network are so small, you would need bionic vision to notice them. There would be so many tiny droplets over the monitored area that it would be impossible to find each and every one." Unlike conventional alarm systems, each droplet of Smart Dew can be programmed to monitor a different condition. Sounds could be picked up by a miniature microphone. The metal used in the construction of cars and tractors could be detected by a magnetic sensor. Smart Dew droplets could also be programmed to detect temperature changes, carbon monoxide emissions, vibrations or light. Each droplet sends a radio signal to a "base station" that collects and analyzes the data. Like the signals sent out by cordless phones, RF is a safe, low-power solution, making Prof. Shapira's technology extremely cost-effective compared to other concepts. "It doesn't require much imagination to envision the possibilities for this technology to be used," says Prof. Shapira. "They are really endless."   Note: Basically, this is an application which is parroting some of the new RFID applications and connectivity. Basically, I would characterize the 'dew' as a 'particulate RFID surveillance application'."

Military jets chase 300' Triangular UFO over AZ town  [ 03/22/09 ] "A boomerang or triangular-shaped craft 300 feet in the air made four passes over this town beginning at 7 p.m. March 18, while "fighter jets" followed in formation ..."

Smart Grid: Government spying targets Rural America   [ 03/21/09 ] "Smart Grid is part of a global initiative to manage information, all information. This is not some dire fictional prediction; it exists right now, right here in the United States, and thanks to President Obama, the Secretary of the Treasury can lend the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a division of the Department of Energy, $3.25 billion to implement Smart Grid ... Smart Grid is closely related to the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), and both programs are designed to spy on Americans. Even more disturbing than the purpose of these government-condoned intrusions into our lives is the fact that the Obama Administration feels that Smart Grid is so important that it had to be funded in the stimulus package—which is supposed to be used for emergencies only. What’s the emergency? Why does Smart Grid need to be implemented within 60 days of the bill passing? Here come the answers, and none of them are good."

Navy officer has UFO 'Close Encounter' along secluded CA highway [ 03/18/09 ]  "An off duty Navy petty officer second class had just gotten off duty at California's then Naval Air Station Miramar when his vehicle suddenly shut off along a dark and secluded piece of Interstate 15.

The Puzzle of the 3 Hats [ 03/18/09 ]  "Three wise men are told to stand in a straight line, one in front of the other. A hat is put on each of their heads. They are told that each of these hats was selected from a group of five hats: two black hats and three white hats. The first man, standing at the front of the line, can’t see either of the men behind him or their hats. The second man, in the middle, can see only the first man and his hat. The last man, at the rear, can see both other men and their hats. 

None of the men can see the hat on his own head. They are asked to deduce its color. Some time goes by as the wise men ponder the puzzle in silence. Finally the first one, at the front of the line, makes an announcement: “My hat is white.” 

He is correct. How did he come to this conclusion?" There are no mirrors on the walls or anything like that.

Physicist develops battery using new source of energy [03/16/09 ] "Researchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, have been able to prove the existence of a "spin battery," a battery that is "charged" by applying a large magnetic field to nano-magnets in a device ..." 

Brain Symmetry and Sexual Orientation  [03/14/09 ] "... biological factors help determine sexual orientation and leave a specific neuroanatomical signature ..."

Artificial life ‘could be created within five years’  [03/13/09 ] "Laboratories across the world are closing in on a “second genesis” - an achievement that would be one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time."  Note: there are no shortcuts to responsible creation.  

Science of 'time': What makes our 'internal clock' tick   [03/12/09 ] "In warp-speed modern America, time has become one of our most precious resources. We manage it, and we expend it carefully. Ironic, then, that a resource as precious as seconds, minutes and hours is so poorly understood and so routinely misestimated by modern humans -- by 15% to 25% in either direction, depending on the individual and the acuity of his or her time perception. But understanding our ability to perceive time -- and to use time to make sense of our world -- is one of the newest and most sweeping frontiers of neuroscience ... In a healthy human brain, researchers believe that every second we are conscious, a circuit involving three distinct regions of the brain -- the cerebellum, basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex -- is essentially checking and cross-checking incoming information and its time stamp. In real time, that circuit builds a logical sequence of events out of information coming from different sources at different speeds ..."

US Researchers Predict Artificial Intelligence Within 5 Years  [ 03/12/09 ] Actual intelligence and rationality possible someday.

Britain ‘nation of form fillers watched by quarter of world’s CCTV cameras’   [03/09/09 ] "Britain has become a bureacratic and authoritarian state watched over by a quarter of the world’s CCTV cameras, a study of Labour’s decade in power claims ... National debt is running at £175,000 per household, five times more than thought, while each year the Government has passed 3,500 regulations, along with 100,000 pages of rules and explanation ... A new form of centralised government and authoritarian government has been created that is worse than ever in Britain's recent history ... taxes have risen by 51 per cent since 1997." 

Two scientists threatened after the publication of scientific article condemning use of lie detectors  [03/07/09 ] "Francisco Lacerda, a professor of phonetics at Stockholm University, is one of two scientists threatened with legal action after the publication of a scientific article condemning the use of lie detectors. The Israeli company Nemesysco, which manufactures detectors, has written in a letter to the researchers' publishers that the researchers may be sued for libel if they continue to write on this subject in the future ..."

3D TV: Television with a new dimension  [03/06/09 ] "This week, at another gadget showcase in Germany, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications have demonstrated a 3D television that can be controlled by gestures. Viewers of the iPoint 3D TV don’t need to wear silly glasses to watch, and can change channels simply by flicking a finger towards the screen. There’s real momentum building behind 3D. Movie studios are investing heavily, particularly in animated films. The recent Disney movie Bolt was shot in 3D, and forthcoming releases Shrek Goes Fourth and Toy Story 3 will also get the three-dimensional treatment. Even older films are being buffed up to cash in – reversioned re-releases of Chicken Little and The Nightmare Before Christmas made significant profits. "

Mind the crevasse: The amazing 3D pavement art that has pedestrians on edge [02/25/09 ] Now, imagine the poor guy who has had a few too many turning onto one of these streets.

That Buzzing Sound: The mystery of tinnitus  [02/23/09 ] "Tinnitus—the false perception of sound in the absence of an acoustic stimulus, a phantom noise—is one of the most common clinical syndromes in the United States, affecting twelve per cent of men and almost fourteen per cent of women who are sixty-five and older...."

New space probe designed to seek out Earth-like planets  [02/22/09 ] "The hunt for extraterrestrial life is about to enter a new dimension with the launch of a space probe designed to seek out Earth-like planets. The Kepler telescope will spend 3½ years locating planets by measuring the brightness of stars and the slight dimming as objects pass in front of them."  This article should be titled "Sequentials Launch New Fruitless Half-Trillion Dollar Effort to Find Next Simultaneous World"

FAA: Falling Piece of Hot Cast Iron Did Not Come From Airplane  [02/20/09 ] "The Federal Aviation Administration says a piece of hot metal that crashed through the roof of a Jersey City business did not come from an airplane. FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac says investigators examined the metal and determined it is made of cast iron, which is not used in airplanes. She says it's up to local authorities to determine where the object came from."

Tuberculosis A Contributing Factor in Mastodon Extinction  [02/20/09 ] "Tuberculosis was rampant in North American mastodons during the late Ice Age and may have led to their extinction, researchers say. Rothschild, a practicing physician and an expert on ancient diseases, went on to study 113 mastodon skeletons across the continent. He found that 59 of them, or 52 percent, had the tuberculosis lesions. Based on the finding, it's likely that virtually every late Ice Age mastodon in North America had tuberculosis, Laub says. Tuberculosis causes grooved erosion in bones. While the disease didn't kill the ancient animals directly, it certainly weakened them, Rothschild said.  Related: TB's Jump From Humans to Mongooses Studied

New Navy-funded Report Warns of War Robots Going “Terminator”  [02/16/09 ] "A new Navy-funded report warns against a hasty deployment of war robots, and urges programmers to include ethics subroutines — a warrior code of sorts. The alternative they say, is the possibility of a robotic atrocity, akin to the Terminator or other sci-fi movies."

UK: "We are not alone: 'trillions' of planets could be supporting life"  [02/15/09 ] "Trillions of planets that are capable of harbouring life are probably orbiting Sun-like stars, making it almost certain that humanity is not alone in the Universe, a leading astronomer said yesterday".  Related: AAAS: 'One hundred billion trillion' planets where alien life could flourish "... Life on Earth used to be thought of as a freak accident that only happened once. But scientists are now coming to the conclusion that the universe is teeming with living organisms (Yes, look at the NASA STS footage for other life teaming out there) The change in thinking has come about because of the new belief there are an abundant number of habitable planets like Earth ..."

Evidence of human presence over 200,000 years ago  [02/12/09 ] "Hairs that likely belonged to humans living 195,000 to 257,000 years ago in Africa have been identified in fossilized brown hyena dung, according to a new study that describes the first non-bony material in the early human fossil record. Until now, the oldest known human hairs were from a 9,000-year-old Chinchorro mummy from Arica, northern Chile. This latest discovery, made at Gladysvale cave, South Africa, exceeds the mummy's age by about 200,000 years. The date of the hyena waste "encompasses the known temporal range in Africa of archaic human species, such as Homo heidelbergensis and the emergence of the first anatomically modern humans."

Cylinder UFO filmed above Somerset coastline by holidaymakers  [02/11/09] "Video footage of a UFO hovering above the British coastline has been captured by holidaymakers in Somerset."

Army Orders Pain Ray Trucks; New Report Shows 'Potential for Death'  [02/11/09] "After years of testing, the Active Denial System -- the pain ray which drives off rioters with a microwave-like beam -- could finally have its day. The Army is buying five of the truck-mounted systems for $25 million. But the energy weapon may face new hurdles, before it's shipped off to the battlefield; a new report details how the supposedly non-lethal blaster could be turned into a flesh-frying killer. The contract for the pain ray trucks is "expected to be awarded by year's end," Aviation Week notes. "A year after the contract is signed, the combination vehicle/weapons will start be fielded at the rate of one per month ....  the ADS provides the technical possibility to produce burns of second and third degree. Because the beam of diameter 2 m and above is wider than human size, such burns would occur over considerable parts of the body, up to 50% of its surface. Second- and third-degree burns covering more than 20% of the body surface are potentially life-threatening – due to toxic tissue-decay products and increased sensitivity to infection – and require intensive care in a specialized unit. Without a technical device that reliably prevents re-triggering on the same target subject, the ADS has a potential to produce permanent injury or death ...."  Related: Pain Beam to Get Smaller, More Powerful

 "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century  [02/06/09 ] Democracy Now clip. "The Predator attacks highlight the US military’s increased use of unmanned aerial vehicles and other robotic devices on the battlefield. At the start of the Iraq war, the US had only a handful of drones in the air. Today the US has over 5,300 drones. They have been used in Iraq, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, as well as here at home. The Department of Homeland Security uses drones to patrol the US-Mexico border. There has been a similar boom in the use of ground robotics. When US forces went into Iraq in 2003, they had zero robotic units on the ground. Now they have as many as 12,000. Some of the robots are used to dismantle landmines and roadside bombs, but a new generation of robots are designed to be fighting machines. One robot, known as SWORDS, can operate an M-16 rifle and a rocket launcher. A new book has just come out examining how robots will change the ways wars are fought. It’s called Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. The author, P.W. Singer, joins me here in the firehouse ..."

NASA agent spills UFO beans: McKinnon defender says the truth is there  [01/31/09]"A VETERAN NASA agent who says he processed the real X-Files has come clean with the inside story on the Roswell aliens. Joseph Richard Gutheinz Jr, a practising criminal lawyer and decorated former NASA special agent, spoke out in defence of UFO hacker Gary Mckinnon last week. Having also spent the last four years on the Texas Criminal Justice Advisory Committee on Medical and Mental Impairments, he felt qualified to call on the US government to cease its unfair hounding of the UFO hacker. But Gutheinz, it turns out, is himself a poster-boy for UFO conspiracists, just like McKinnon: he is famous for telling a mysterious tale of dead Roswell aliens being kept in Building 265 at NASA's Johnson Space Centre where he used to work in Houston, and of a sinister government cover up. Gutheinz led a team of agents in NASA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG). They worked from a secret bunker with grass and trees covering it. It had cypher doors leading to secluded rooms furnished with nothing but a desk, a lamp and a single telephone. Beyond the steel doors to the outside world, astronauts were training for Space Shuttle missions. "It was kind of a spooky building. People always wondered what went on there," Gutheinz told The Inquirer. "Except for Mission Control, it was the most highly secured building at Johnson Space Centre ... (continues)"  

Jets on Red Alert as object sped across German airspace Jan 19 [01/31/09]"... pilots were put on red alert in a UFO drama over Germany, it emerged yesterday. Air traffic controllers tracked a mystery object speeding across the entire country. Investigators have checked and excluded conventional aircraft, weather balloons and freak atmospheric conditions. Axel Raab of Germany’s air traffic safety office, the DFS, said: “We have ruled out all the conventional possibilities — it is a mystery.” There were dozens of reports of the object as it flew across southern Germany on January 19. It vanished above an area used by US troops on training exercises. Mr Raab said: “It confused radar operators because it kept flicking on and off the screen. Then it simply vanished.”  Related: UK UFO Spotted Three Times in One Night  "Ministry of Defence experts were making a thorough investigation into a report plus video evidence of a UFO sighting that a shocked soldier and two of his squaddie mates had witnessed at Market Drayton, Shropshire. The three were on guard duty when they claimed to have seen some objects above the military barracks. After capturing the unusual object on a mobile phone, they took the evidence to a senior officer. The top brass have since put the solder in question under strict silence. Two hours after the sighting, police officers in Cardiff, 80 miles away from Market Drayton, had an encounter with a strange craft in the sky."

Flying Object crashes in Saudi Arabia   [01/21/09 ] "... On Wednesday 7th of January after evening prayers a loud noise was heard in the sky followed by the sighting of an intense large light heading from the west above the Al-Qasim region east of Saudi Arabia’s capital city Riyadh. Many locals had seen meteors prior to this but claimed this one did not fit the typical description at all: it was a blue green colour and was shooting out green lasers. One witness Khalid commented ‘No one has ever seen anything like it’ Amazingly for an incident that hasn’t even made the news in the West, the object was seen as far away as Kuwait. The complete absence of this story within western media is truly surprising as this was not your average incident involving a few people seeing strange things in the sky, the Saudi police received thousands of calls about this one incident alone. It was also reported that thousands of people were terrified by what they saw and heard and many even began to pray. Some have even posted messages on the web warning that this might be a sign from God for the Kingdoms silence on Gaza. Locals in the region where the object appeared to be heading claim they heard an explosion and felt a large tremor indicating that the object crashed. The Saudi government has not released information regarding the crash site but is reported to have sealed the area ..."

Whistleblowers’ evidence of NASA UFO fraud might kill UK hacker case   [01/19/09 ] "Evidence that U.S. space agency NASA has defrauded U.S. taxpayers for billions of dollars could scrap NASA’s case against UK hacker Gary McKinnon. Credible witnesses have claimed that NASA has altered or destroyed its photos containing images of UFOs. This could become a legal and public relations nightmare for NASA. The space agency is attempting to prosecute McKinnon for hacking into NASA computer files. McKinnon has stated that he saw UFO-related files in NASA’s computers. But NASA has denied any “cover-up”. NASA’s claim of innocence faces a serious challenge. Some of the whistleblowers are former NASA employees and contractors with inside knowledge of NASA’s operation. If NASA’s destruction of public property is confirmed, the alleged cost of McKinnon’s hacking would be insignificant compared to NASA’s annual funding of more than $17 billion. Even worse, NASA’s year 2000 mission statement boasted that it is “ethical and honest” in all that they do. Part of NASA's mission is to look for signs of intelligent life in outer space. So asking for more money to 'look', after they've already destroyed evidence that they 'found', is a not going to be easy. Among these whistleblowers are US Air Force Sergeant Karl Wolfe, former NASA employee Donna Hare, and former NASA engineer John Schuessler. Wolfe and Hare exposed some of NASA’s misdeeds at the May 9, 2001 Disclosure Project press conference in Washington, D.C. They both offered to give similar testimony before the U.S. Congress ...."

Space: Erasing the distinction between civilian and military programs  [01/12/09 ] "President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China. Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agency’s planned launch vehicle, which isn’t slated to fly until 2015, according to people who’ve discussed the idea with the Obama team." Note: Forget the 2015 bullshit .... the point of erasing the distinction between civilian and military programs has to do with implementation of programs which exist now without the pretenses ... not for some program 7 'years' out that will never happen. Related: Pentagon is muscling in everywhere ".. We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian government."

 How NASA Became Massively Dysfunctional  [12/27/08 ]  "At the highest levels of the agency, there seems to be a belief that you can mandate reality ..." 

Lunar surveyor satellite ready for launch  [12/23/08 ] "NASA has announced completion of thermal vacuum testing on its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which will map landing sites on the Moon for America's planned new wave of manned space exploration. Launching in 2009, the LRO will orbit the Moon just 30 miles up, allowing it to scan the surface with great precision ... LRO will be giving the polar regions a particularly hard stare as it passes over ... A base established in a permanently illuminated region might be able to largely do without nuclear power, which would otherwise be necessary for any longterm presence..."  I am sure there's more to this proposal. Why bother, considering the expenditure, unless there was a reason to want to see what's happening on the moon beginning in 2009? Why the concern over nuclear powered bases on the moon ... unless they're 'not supposed to' use that by agreement with someone else? There is no real reason for NASA to do anything more in space, as a public cover for other ongoing operations; 'moon surveillance' is the only apparent agenda between now and 2012. 

Digital TV: Mind Control by the Sound of Silence  [12/16/08 ] "Overviews a secret Pentagon psychotronics technology known as Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS) that has been fully operational since the early 1990s, used during the first Iraq war, geared to implant thoughts, emotions and prompt actions by people sensitive to this technology ... It was developed for military use by Dr. Oliver Lowery of Norcross, Georgia, and is described in US Patent #5,159,703 — “Silent Subliminal Presentation System” for commercial use in 1992. The patent abstract reads: “A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low (ELF) or very high audio-frequency (VHF) range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum, are amplitude- or frequency-modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers, earphones, or piezoelectric transducers. The modulated carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be conveniently recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic, or optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the listener.” In layman’s terms, this device, this “Sound of Silence” simply allows for the unwarranted implantation of specific thoughts, emotions, and even prescribed physical actions into unsuspecting human beings. In short, it has the very real ability to turn human beings into mere puppets in the hands of certain “controllers,” or puppet-masters .... .... Saddam Hussein’s vaunted “Republican Guard” crack troops were promising Bush “the mother of all battles” with many thousands of dead coalition troops. On paper, it looked convincing. Hussein’s Republican Guard troops were battle-hardened veterans of the 10 year war with Iran, while coalition troops were unblooded. The Iraqis had modern weaponry and were well trained in how to use it .... Something very strange happened, however. The “mother of all battles” ended before it began, as literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers surrendered en masse without even firing a shot! Here is what the British press reported on the incident (while the American press was censored): “… an unbelievable and highly classified psy-ops program utilizing ‘Silent Sound’ techniques was successfully deployed. The opportunity to use this method occurred when Saddam Hussein’s military command-and-control system was destroyed. The Iraqi troops were then forced to use commercial FM radio stations to carry encoded commands, which were broadcast on the 100 MHz frequency. The US psy-ops team set up its own portable FM transmitter, utilizing the same frequency, in the deserted city of Al Khafji. This US transmitter overpowered the local Iraqi station. Along with patriotic and religious music, psy-ops transmitted ‘vague, confusing and contradictory military orders and information. “Subliminally, a much more powerful technology was at work, however. A sophisticated electronic system designed to ‘speak’ directly to the mind of the listener; to alter and entrain his brainwaves, to manipulate his brain’s electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns and thus artificially implant negative emotional states —- feelings of intense fear, anxiety, despair and hopelessness were created in the Iraqi troops. This incredibly effective subliminal system doesn’t just tell a person to feel an emotion, it makes them feel it; it implants that emotion in their minds.” ... the Sound of Silence machine technology was patented for “privatization” commercial applications by Dr. Lowery on October 27, 1992 , it clearly opened the door to private defense contractors such as BDM to develop their own “intelligence systems” .... Suppose also that a young, black man from Illinois was given access to, and was able to utilize the S-quad Sound of Silence technology in his public speeches, radio and 30-minute television “infomercials” — all programmed and designed by “handlers” to illicit strong emotional responses from audience members who then are merely “hearing without listening.” ... But why is the government so anxious to help American citizens experience a clearer and more highly defined television picture? Does that make sense to you? Since when is the government so concerned about the visual quality of our televised entertainment that congress would pass an undebated statutory proclamation which mandated that the HD conversion take place on Feb. 17, 2009 and and then subsidze about 90% of the associated cost? I’m only guessing, but if there are 200 million “regular” televisions in America to be converted into HD, then that $40 in government subsidy per TV × 200,000,000 = $8 billion. Why is the government so anxious to spend 8 billion dollars on her citizens to improve the clarity of a TV picture? Or is the recently touted “additional bandwidth” cover story that supposedly is to be gained with the HD technology the only and genuine reason for spending so much taxpayer dollars on HD conversion? .... Moreover, what if televisions across the US and Canada all went 100% digital [to be mandatory in Feb. 2009] in their signals (in order to successfully link to GWEN towers) which would allow the unrestricted use of the Sound of Silence frequencies in a complete and massive control of the nation’s mind and consciousness? .... "

Morgellon’s Disease is no longer rare, nor is it mysterious any longer  [11/16/08 ] "Very little can be found regarding this disease. Originally, sufferers were told that their problem was imaginary. This was of little comfort to the people who were suffering ... Morgellons Disease sufferers report strange, fiber-like material sticking out of sores or wounds that erupt on the skin. This is accompanied by painful, intense itching, that has been described as “an ever present sensation as if something is crawling under the skin.” As a physician, I have a great deal of difficulty explaining how a 'delusion' can produce colored fibers which protrude from the skin and continue to grow in a petri dish. The multicolored fibers produced by the “delusion” have been analyzed and we now know that Morgellon’s Disease is no longer rare, nor is it mysterious any longer. A study of the fibers shows that they contain DNA from both a fungus and a bacterium which are used in the commercial preparation of genetically modified foods and non-food crops (such as cotton). The fibers themselves are primarily cellulose, which the human body cannot breakdown or manufacture. So GM technology apparently has, like Professor Frankenstein, found a way to animate the non living. These fibers twist and twine, grow and divide. In short, living beneath the skin of people, they form parasitic lesions out of what should be non-living material but which, through the horror of genetic modification, has taken on the characteristics of a living thing ... If the hypothesis is accurate and the disease is caused by sowing, growing and eating FrankenFood, that would, however, make sense. 75-80 % of all US food contains unlabeled GM ingredients. We have no enzymes or other mechanisms to digest these unnatural components of the materials which the FDA says are the same as food and prohibits labeling of. We have no way of getting rid of the indigestible, toxic or even lethal materials injected into the nucleus of our food by high energy guns and biochemical tricks that nature never thought of ...."

Triangular Craft Caught on Google Earth Latitude: 30°30'38.82"S Longitude:115°22'56.14"E   Video  [ 1:22]  [12/13/08]    
Discoidal Plasma Lifeform Caught on infrared camera Video over Great Britain  Video  [ 1:06]  [12/02/08]    
Video Negative of Life Forms in Space Around STS-75 Tether  Video  [ 0:23]  [12/02/08]  Related:  STS-80 Life Forms
Circles of Power Behind UFO Secrecy   [12/01/08 ]  PDF "An extract from the new book by UFO disclosure advocate Dr Steven Greer, in which he recounts his brushes with the inner circles of a shadowy transnational cabal." 
Video: Huge Craft Hovered Over Minneapolis-St. Paul  Video  [ 3:17]  [11/29/08]  On Aug 19, 2004, a huge object hovered over the city for six hours in a 30 knot wind. A really noteworthy item at the time. Consider how brazen these things have become during the period of late Endgame.
A strange spraying cylinder UFO  Video  [ 1:56] [11/28/08 ]  There is no reason for this flying object to have a 'contrail', so what's going on? Is it similar to, or an adjunct for, the chemtrail operations?
Strange Blimp Configuration: Secret Project or Homeland Security?  Video  [11/28/08 ]  See time ref 1:04+  Closeup video 4:31+   Note the strange collection of wicked-looking things projecting from the rear of this thing. This could be one of the new surveillance DHS things talked about.
Documents say feds can track cell phones' locations without telecoms help  [11/17/08 ] "Using "triggerfish" technology, mobile phones are tricked into transmitting their serial numbers, phone numbers and other data by posing as a cellular phone tower. Until now, it's been believed that such technology could only be successfully employed with the help of the telecoms themselves, because the specific location of the phone couldn't be traced with enough accuracy ..."
The Most Life-like Android Ever Built...  [11/17/08 ]   A million dry witty phrases come to mind. See what you come up with.
Large Disk Shown on Slovenian News Broadcast  [11/14/08 ]  Video. The title says "UFO Landing ..." There's no landing, however the video does show about 5 seconds of an impressive looking machine that seems to be quite real, before the stuff suddenly goes to a night footage clip which is of no value.
U.S. Army Researching Futuristic Technologies, Official Says  [11/12/08 ]   ".“We’ve decided to showcase a number of very important areas that we believe will give rise to disruptive technology in the future,” Dr. John A. Parmentola, director of research and laboratory management, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology said to bloggers. Parmentola addressed such topics as regenerative medicine, nanotechnology, immersive technology, and molecular electronics when speaking about topics that will be on display at the 26th Army Science Conference. “We’re making Science Fiction into a reality,” Parmentola said." 
See TR3-B Astra in Flight  Video  "The TR3-B Astra, which is 600 feet per side, which uses magnetic field disruption, using technology reminiscent of what is described in the ancient Vedic manuscripts, in terms of using mercury in a doughnut-shaped tube, pressurized to 250,000 atmospheres, and rotated in the tube at 50,000 rpm, producing enough force to make the craft about 89% weightless, requiring only 11% of the weight to be dealt with by thrusters ..."  Another Video | TR3-B Engineer Discussion
It's Classified!  [11/07/08 ] Video  ".... On Classfied Aircraft Clip 1 hr. Let it start loading and go do something for a while until the stream bar is about 75% loaded .... enough to get you to the time reference 44:45. Discussed are the F100 Super Sentinel triangular craft, which uses magnetic field propulsion, and the TR3-B Astra

Chemtrails Explained: Putting the Pieces Together  [11/06/08 ]  ".... Simply put, the whole thing is a battle between the Darkness and the Light for the ultimate control of the Universe. If this sounds like you are living in another episode of the Star Wars series, welcome to reality and the biggest thing going on in Creation right now. This bigger war, which is raging in the macrocosm of the Universe, is also raging within each and every one of us, also called the microcosm. And the chemtrails can be a fearful weapon in this war, as long as we remain in the victim state of consciousness. Planet Earth and its inhabitants, as the prizes in this latest and final battleground of the Galactic war, are crown jewels to the victor, not only because of the position this planet holds on the outlying edge of the galaxy, but as is explained further in my upcoming book, because it is a microcosm of the galaxy. Much like the United States is on planet Earth — Earth itself is a melting pot of so many different alien races, that it’s conquest represents a conquest of all the home planets as well ... "

Huge UFO, size of 'Shopping Mall and parking lot', reported near Ohio River [11/02/08 ]