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Post by swamprat on Jul 15, 2019 20:46:36 GMT
Science Vibe
"Science is a way of thinking." Carl Sagan “One Day Robots Will Take Over & Kill Us” warns Dr. Kaku! May 27, 2019
Some people fear that one day machines will take over and put us humans in zoos. Is that possible? Yes, says Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Physics at City College of New York, but not for awhile. “First of all, robots are not going to take over any time soon. They have the intelligence of a cockroach – a retarded, lobotomized, stupid, idiotic cockroach. They can barely walk across the road. But I assume in the coming decades they will be as smart as a mouse, then as smart as a rabbit, then as smart as a cat, a dog and eventually – maybe by the end of the century – a monkey. I think at that point they are potentially dangerous so we’ll put a chip in their brain – a failsafe button – so we can just shut off these monkey-like robots if they start to get too intelligent for their own good.”
But then there’s the question of what to do when they go beyond simian intelligence? What if they become smarter than us? Again, Kaku’s infinite optimism means he’s unperturbed by the prospect of super-intelligent robots roaming around eyeing our stuff. “What do we do? We merge with them,” he says. “Otherwise they could literally become smarter than us, put us in zoos and throw peanuts at us.”
Scientific advancements in the form of robots are challenging the concept of what it means to be human. For instance, we may take control of our own evolution by taking advantage of scientific and medical breakthroughs. Scientists believe that we will soon augment and repair our own biology – far exceeding where we are today.
Kaku believes that we need safeguards working in our favor in order to stay one step ahead of our intelligent robotic creations. For one, “We’ll have plenty of time—decades—to put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts,” Dr. Kaku says. But others question what will happen when the robots become intelligent enough to short-circuit our safety systems.
“At that point,” says Dr. Kaku, “I think we should merge with them. Why compete with robots when we can take the best attributes of robots and incorporate it into our body?”
Watch Michio Kaku's talk: www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=202&v=JPVOPzYiCeg
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 15, 2019 23:14:23 GMT
Scientific American
Silica Blankets Could Make Mars Habitable
Thin layers of lightweight aerogel might be the main ingredient for making regions of the Red Planet more Earth-like
By Mike Wall July 15, 2019
Transforming Mars into a life-friendly world doesn’t have to be a herculean planet-wide effort.
Humanity could make patches of the Red Planet habitable relatively cheaply and efficiently by placing thin layers of silica aerogel on or above the Martian surface, a new study suggests. The insulating aerogel would warm the ground enough to melt water ice and would also block harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation, potentially creating an environment where plants and other photosynthetic life could flourish.
And we could start doing this relatively soon, study team members said.
“We wanted to think about something that’s achievable on a decadal time scale rather than something that would be centuries in the future—or perhaps never, depending on human capabilities,” lead author Robin Wordsworth, an associate professor of environmental science and engineering at Harvard University, told Space.com.
The Martian surface was eminently habitable in the ancient past, featuring lakes, rivers and even a huge ocean. But things changed dramatically after the planet lost its global magnetic field about 4 billion years ago.
Charged particles from the sun began stripping away Mars’ once-thick atmosphere, eventually reducing it to a thin sliver that cannot keep much heat in or UV radiation out. The surface became extremely cold and dry as a result, leaving subterranean aquifers as perhaps the only potential abodes for Earth-like life. (And some researchers do think there’s a decent chance the Martian underground supports microbial life today.)
Many discussions about making the Martian surface more hospitable focus on restoring that atmosphere to its former glory—beefing it up by vaporizing huge amounts of water ice and frozen carbon dioxide, for example. But such “terraforming” efforts would be extremely difficult, expensive and time-consuming, as Wordsworth referenced above.
He and his colleagues may have found an alternate path. They were inspired by observations of dark spots in the carbon-dioxide ice caps at the Martian poles, Wordsworth said. These spots are thought to result from a “solid-state greenhouse effect”—sunlight gets absorbed into, and warms, the interior of translucent snow and ice, melting the stuff.
Wordsworth and his team set out to achieve a similar effect with silica aerogels, which are composed of silica clusters connected into networks on the nanoscale. This material, which is more than 97% air by volume, is used widely as an insulator here on Earth and beyond. Silica aerogels are common features of passively heated buildings, for example, and thin layers of the stuff helped keep NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers warm during frigid Red Planet nights.
The researchers subjected silica aerogels to Martian conditions in the laboratory, hitting the material with the same amount of solar energy that reaches the Red Planet’s surface. They found that an aerogel layer just 0.8 inches to 1.2 inches thick (2 to 3 centimeters) can boost the temperature of the ground beneath it by a whopping 90 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius). That’s enough to melt subsurface ice, and keep it melted, to a depth of several meters year-round on Mars. And silica aerogels block UV light, so they would also shield anything under them from harmful radiation, team members said.
The aerogel could be placed directly on the planet’s surface, paving the red dirt like tiles. Or it could be used to build greenhouses, which could host food crops and other plants, Wordsworth said.
“Spreading it over a larger area would make the solid-state greenhouse effect more efficient, as the proportional amount of heat emitted from the sides would be less, but you could still get substantial warming in a greenhouse,” Wordsworth told Space.com via email. “Whether you place the layer on or above the surface does not have a huge influence on the basic physics of the effect.”
This strategy could likely be employed across a wide swath of Mars, the researchers said. Pretty much anywhere between 45 degrees north latitude and 45 degrees south would get enough sunlight to produce substantial warming. And there are lots of areas within this huge midlatitude band that have abundant near-surface water ice and dependable winds (to blow light-blocking dust off the aerogel).
The new study, which was published online today (July 15) in the journal Nature Astronomy, is just a first step, Wordsworth stressed. If all goes according to plan, step No. 2 will involve testing the aerogel technique at a Mars-analogue locale, such as the Arctic or Chile’s Atacama Desert.
There would be additional challenges to address even if such field trials went well. For example, how exactly would a mission deploy the silica aerogel on Mars? Would the stuff be transported from Earth (which would not be terribly expensive, given that silica aerogels are extremely light and commercially available) or fabricated on the Red Planet from locally available materials?
Wordsworth and his team did not address such engineering issues. But, he said, the team doesn’t see any showstoppers at this point.
There are also significant ethical considerations. For example, is it right for humanity to take Earth organisms to another planet, especially one that may have had its own biosphere in the past—and may even have one today?
But researchers and mission planners have been debating such planetary-protection issues for years. And the conversation is only going to get more heated as the quest to put astronauts, and their trillions of hitchhiking microbes, on the Martian surface edges from sci-fi dream to reality.
The aerogel idea should be less controversial than a planet-wide terraforming effort, Wordsworth said.
“I think the advantage of taking the local and scalable approach, as opposed to globally modifying the atmosphere, is that you can study the region where you plan to try this carefully beforehand,” he told Space.com. “And it’s reversible.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/silica-blankets-could-make-mars-habitable/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 16, 2019 11:07:44 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Massive, Human-Size Jellyfish Stuns Divers Off the Coast of England
By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer July 16, 2019 06:37am ET
The barrel jellyfish is the largest species of jelly found in UK waters, sometimes growing longer than 5 feet (1.5 meters).
A pair of divers swimming off the southwestern tip of England hit the jelly jackpot last week after crossing paths with a hulking barrel jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo) — a rarely seen species that can grow about as large as a full-grown human. Luckily, they filmed the whole thing.
The divers — biologist Lizzie Daly and underwater cinematographer Dan Abbott — shared the encounter in a Facebook video posted Saturday (July 13) as part of the Wild Ocean Week campaign — a series of videos showcasing the oddities of the deep to help raise money for the United Kingdom's Marine Conservation Society.
Daly and Abbott were diving off the coast of Cornwall, U.K., when they saw the giant jelly emerge from the murky water. Also called the dustbin-lid jellyfish, the species is characterized by eight puffy arms capped by stinging tentacles and a large, globular head that lends the creature its unglamorous nickname. Barrel jellyfish sometimes wash up on the shore, Daly told Vice, but it's rare for a diver to swim face-to-faceless-head with one of the massive blobs.
While the barrel jellyfish is the largest species of jelly found in U.K. waters, it's a mere shrimp when compared to the lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), the largest known species in the world. This coldwater jelly is known for its galaxy of 1,200 long, trailing tentacles, which can bring an individual creature's total body length to up to 120 feet (36.5 meters) — which is longer than the average blue whale.
This tangle of tentacles is so massive that a single lion's mane jelly may be able to sting 50 to 100 people in just a few minutes if currents carry the jelly too close to a populated coast — a fun fact that a group of unlucky New Hampshire beachgoers learned the hard way in 2010.
www.livescience.com/65946-human-size-jellyfish-found-in-uk.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 16, 2019 11:22:26 GMT
COAST TO COAST AM OFFICIAL
Published on Jul 15, 2019
COAST TO COAST AM June 24, 2019. With a background that includes twenty years in law enforcement and the tech sector, David Paulides has focused his attention on the compelling evidence for the existence of Bigfoot as well as the growing cases of people who have mysteriously vanished.
Featured guests also include: Paul Selig
News segment guests: John M. Curtis, Steve Kates
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Post by swamprat on Jul 16, 2019 14:32:39 GMT
A Facebook post by Sean Dietrich It’s night and I am on a beach in Destin, Florida. I am sitting on the shore, watching the mighty Gulf of Mexico. It never stops moving.
Never.
A few hours ago, I was in a beach bar having dinner with an old friend. He looked good. He’s a family man now, with a good job in Birmingham. Two kids. A nice wife. I haven’t seen him in decades. Not since we were ugly young men, operating nail-guns together.
Long ago, we had things in common. His father left before he was born. Mine died when I was a boy.
Back then, we had the same idea on life. Namely, that life wasn’t fair.
We had fun tonight. There was a band playing Top Forty hits. The lead guitarist sang “Brown Eyed Girl” like a donkey with a sinus infection. And people danced.
My friend and his wife ordered fruity drinks and two-stepped until they were sweaty. I said “Goodnight, Gracie” and left early.
On my way home, I stopped here. And the memories came back by the metric ton.
This used to be my beach. I haven’t been here in years. We lived a few streets over. Our family’s old house was yellow. And tiny. I slept on a pull-out sofa. My sister slept with my mother.
I would sit on the back porch steps when I couldn’t sleep, and look at the night. And I’d wonder things. Important things.
Things like: why does the Pope wear pointy hats? Who invented drive-thru liquor stores? Is it bad luck to be superstitious? And why does it seem like life is out to get me?
Anyway, this town has changed. Once upon a time, Destin was a sleepy fishing village. It had one traffic light—two at the most. It wasn’t swallowed by chain restaurants. There were only a few dives, a Shell Station, and the docks on the harbor.
But progress brought thousands of traffic lights, high-rise condos, and two Walmarts, located ten miles apart.
Two.
The old docks on the harbor were where I first got kissed. It was during the annual Fishing Rodeo. I sat on wood planks. My feet dangling. A girl sat beside me.
I was the most UN-handsome boy in four counties, and she knew it. She felt bad for me. And, since people our age were kissing, she kissed me.
As soon as she planted one on me, I could tell that she wished she hadn’t. I’ve never felt so hideous.
Those docks are gone now. They tore them down to build an amusement park resort with zip lines, jugglers, fire swallowers, and funnel cakes.
But at least this little patch of sand is still mine. It’s the same place where I celebrated the five-year anniversary of my father’s death, a lifetime ago.
I’ll never forget it. It was two in the morning. I was a teenager. I waded into black water until I was chest-deep. I got lost in the stars.
That night, I stared at the Big Nothingness that hovers over the face of the Gulf. And I told the sky I wanted to start over. I wanted to begin again. I wanted to be someone else. Someone who wasn’t ugly. I wanted a different life—one that wasn’t unfair.
I closed my eyes. I held my breath.
I dunked myself.
I leaned backward into the Gulf. When I emerged again, I cried. Not because I felt different, but because I felt nothing.
I thought it would be a baptism of sorts. I’d hoped I’d feel different. But that’s not the way life works. You get what you get and you don’t pitch a fit. There’s no use fighting it.
So I walked home in wet clothes and fell asleep on a cheap sofa bed in a yellow house.
That was a hundred eons ago. And tonight, I realize that I was wrong. So wrong, in fact, I had to write about it.
People do get to start over. Every day, you get a brand new sunrise. Nobodies become somebodies. Ugly people discover there’s no such thing as ugliness. Fatherless boys with nail-guns become family men who dance with their wives. And the magnificent Gulf of Mexico will never stop moving.
Life isn’t fair. But it’s beautiful.
And so are you.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 16:37:29 GMT
Salvini says he flagged ‘Ukrainian group’s death threat,’ leading to neo-Nazi missile bust Italy’s Deputy PM Matteo Salvini has said that an investigation into a “Ukrainian group’s” plot to kill him was what led to a major seizure of weapons, including an air-to-air missile and neo-Nazi memorabilia, by police this week. Speaking in Genoa, Salvini told media that Italian secret services had alerted him to a Ukrainian group planning an attempt on his life and that he “flagged it up” with the police. “It was one of several death threats against me that arrive every day,” Italy’s ANSA news agency quoted him as saying. He said he was happy the threat had “served to uncover the arsenal of some madmen.” Italian police said on Monday that a cache of weapons, including a French-made air-to-air missile, (From Qatar)had been seized from a neo-Nazi gang operating in northern Italy. The police statement originally said the group had fought against Donbass separatists in Ukraine’s eastern breakaway region. The statement was later amended, however, to say that the extremists in question had “taken part in the armed conflict” in Ukraine, without specifying a side. READ MORE: Italy police ALTER news on neo-Nazi missile for Ukraine after MSM misreport busted cell as pro-rebel Western media had a field day with the news, immediately linking the neo-Nazi gang to what they said were “Russia-backed separatists,” apparently misquoting the initial police statement that said just the opposite.
Maybe Soros and the EU sending Salvini a Message..
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Post by swamprat on Jul 17, 2019 1:24:55 GMT
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Post by nyx on Jul 17, 2019 2:19:08 GMT
Well,
They had news coverage all day long on TV news about the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing.
Nixon had all kinds of speeches prepared if they were successful, or died or stranded on the moon.
Aldrin said NASA gave them a 60% success rate.
Armstrong said there were always cockpit problems in the past, and was surprised everything worked on that day.
On the moon lander, Armstrong broke the engine start button to get them off the moon with his space suit.
Aldrin was able to rebuild the firing button.
Luck was on their side.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 17, 2019 11:17:24 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
Crazy Cody's Creatures
Published on Jul 16, 2019
At around 9:17pm while driving on highway 62 we saw a long strip of light in the sky. We were able to drive up to it and get under it. It appeared to be about 6 feet long and did not seem to make any noise. We witness it for over 30 minutes and multiple other cars stopped and came over to watch. At times it was very still even though it was windy and would climb straight up in the sky. I am not sure if this was a light bar on a kite or a drone. There are power lines around where it was in the sky so if it was a kite it would seem dangerous to fly it at night in that area. It started to move away from us and climb quickly so we tried to get a better shot of it from another street and it appeared to come straight down in the middle of open desert and turn off. Other people that stopped to look and myself went out into the desert to try and find it but were unsuccessful. Any information or guesses would be greatly appreciated as I would like to know what we saw in the sky tonight.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 17, 2019 11:22:03 GMT
VideoFromSpace
Started streaming on Jul 15, 2019
Follow NASA's historic Apollo 11 moon landing mission in real time as it happened 50 years ago in July 1969 with this epic livestream from Ben Feist of ApolloinRealTime.org!
Source: apolloinrealtime.org/
Ben Feist painstakingly stitched together NASA audio files, transcripts, Mission Control loops, images and video to create an immersive experience for the Apollo 11 mission. To experience the interactive elements firsthand, visit apolloinrealtime.org/
For the story behind Feist's ApolloinRealTime site, read: www.space.com/website-replays-apollo-11-audio-real-time.html
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Post by ZETAR on Jul 17, 2019 18:45:05 GMT
China teleports photon to SPACE in breakthrough that paves the way for ultra secure 'quantum internet' www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4686720/China-teleports-photon-SPACE.html
Physicists in China have revealed the details on their ground-breaking experiment to achieve ‘ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation,’ which could pave the way for a global quantum internet.
In a major breakthrough, the team established the first ground-to-satellite quantum network, which allowed them to transmit a photon from an entangled pair up to 870 miles (1,400 kilometers).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 21:59:43 GMT
Gullivers Travels incorporated Native American Tales of Sasquatch!
Australian National University researcher Debbie Argue may have solved one of English literature’s most enduring mysteries: Jonathan Swift’s inspiration for the Yahoo characters in his famous novel Gulliver’s Travels. In a paper Dr. Argue published in the Relict Hominoid Inquiry she suggests that Swift based the Yahoo on a creature called sasquatch that is derived from the ethnography of North American indigenous peoples. Gulliver’s Travels is a political and social satire by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726. Part IV of this fictional work is an account of Lemuel Gulliver’s voyage to the country of the Houyhnhms, in which he discovers two animal populations. One comprises horses, the articulate Houyhnhms, and the other is a subservient humanoid group called Yahoos. “Swift gave quite a detailed description of what the Yahoos looked like, how they acted and what they ate,” said Dr. Argue, a visiting fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. “As I read about the Native American descriptions of the sasquatch I noticed they had similar descriptions.” “Both represent a large, hairy, tailless, strong and agile humanoid form with tough skin; both have an offensive odor and are variously described as an ugly monster,” she said. “Hands and feet have sharp claws or nails and the skin on their palms is coarse; females have pendulous breasts; both males and females may have beards.” “Neither has capacity for speech but they vocalize by chattering, howling, grinning, roaring (the sasquatch is said to yell, whinny, scream, gibber and chatter, and make a sound like a crying child).” “They both eat herbs, roots, berries, carrion, fish, and a wild rat-like animal.” England had a lot of involvement with Native American Indians in the early 1700s, and it’s conceivable that Swift could have been inspired by their stories. The book makes reference to three specific dates, two of which are known to correspond with significant events in Swift’s own life, but the relevance of the third has remained a mystery. “I think the date relates to the visit of the four Native American ‘Kings’ who arrived for a visit to England on 10 April in 1710,” Dr. Argue said. “The ‘Kings’ were actually four Native American leaders who visited for diplomatic reasons.” “They were received in London by Queen Anne at the Court of St. James Palace, hosted by the nobility, and transported around the city in Royal carriages.” “I think Swift used the date of the ‘Kings’ arrival after he heard about their beliefs in these beings. These mystical beings became the model for the Yahoos.” Dr. Argue said the theory was given further weight when you look at the placement of the date within the book. “Swift uses this date for the arrival of Gulliver back in London following a voyage, and he places this date within three sentences of introducing us to the Yahoos,” she added. _____ Debbie Argue. 2018. Does the Yahoo in Gulliver’s Travels Represent an Eighteenth Century Description of the Sasquatch? The Relict Hominoid Inquiry 7: 97-106
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 22:32:41 GMT
DOD Ticks off Readers Again
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 22:33:49 GMT
China teleports photon to SPACE in breakthrough that paves the way for ultra secure 'quantum internet' www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4686720/China-teleports-photon-SPACE.html
Physicists in China have revealed the details on their ground-breaking experiment to achieve ‘ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation,’ which could pave the way for a global quantum internet.
In a major breakthrough, the team established the first ground-to-satellite quantum network, which allowed them to transmit a photon from an entangled pair up to 870 miles (1,400 kilometers).
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