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[quote=over the mountain;1014695]this is scaring the crap out of me right now.[/quote]

I'm guessing it's a huge weapon triangulating on our planet.

At least it will be over in a flash.

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[quote=RedskinRat;1014707]I'm guessing it's a huge weapon triangulating on our planet.

At least it will be over in a flash.[/quote]

I am sure there are notices at our local planning commission in Alpha Centauri

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;1014732]I am sure there are notices at our local planning commission in Alpha Centauri[/quote]lol.

"What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? For heaven’s sake mankind, it’s only four light years away you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that’s your own lookout."

RR, are you a fan of the rogan podcast by chance? Seems it would be up your alley if you've never listened...

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;1014732]I am sure there are notices at our local planning commission in Alpha Centauri[/quote]

well played sir.

i need to re-read that book.

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[quote=BleedBurgundy;1014747]RR, are you a fan of the rogan podcast by chance? Seems it would be up your alley if you've never listened...[/quote]

No, but I'll give it a listen. Thanks for the recommendation.

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The birth of a new massive star is witnessed.

[url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Worlds-most-powerful-radio-telescope-sees-birth-of-biggest-ever-star-in-Milky-Way/articleshow/21005406.cms]World's most powerful radio telescope sees birth of biggest ever star in Milky Way - The Times of India[/url]

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BO5VtZnCUAAdmfh.jpg[/IMG]

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A planet is found where it rains glass.

[url=http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Blog/2013/07/11/Deep-blue-planet-looks-like-Earth-rains-glass/3101373575772/]Deep blue planet looks like Earth, rains glass - UPI.com[/url]

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[URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/07/15/the-rise-of-the-digital-nanny-state/?hpid=z4"]The rise of the digital nanny state[/URL]

[I]Health and wellness wristbands may not be nannies today. But what about down the line? Health insurance companies and employers are beginning to see the potential cost benefits of clients and employees mining their activity data.

Health insurance company Aetna launched CarePass – a fitness app it made available to consumers in June. The app can import data from Withings‘s Wi-Fi-enabled scales, Jawbone’s Up and Fitbit’s Flex. The app doesn’t replace your physician, but it can help you be a bit more honest about your habits between appointments.

“They realize that this is stuff that they’ve never had,” said Jawbone’s Bogard of health insurance companies, “they’re starting to realize there’s this whole aspect of observations of daily living that’s not necessarily something you’re making a diagnosis on.”[/I]

Ah, technology, how I love thee.....

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Oh RR, just sit back, relax and be assimilated. You know resistance is futile.

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And now the good news!

[URL="http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/may/cd47.html"]Anti-CD47 antibody may offer new route to successful cancer vaccination[/URL]

[I]In the new study, the Stanford team showed that after engulfing the cancer cells, the macrophages presented pieces of the cancer to CD8+ T cells, which, in addition to attacking cancer, are also potent attackers of virally infected or damaged cells. As a result, the CD8+ T cells were activated to attack the cancer cells on their own. “It was completely unexpected that CD8+ T cells would be mobilized when macrophages engulfed the cancer cells in the presence of CD47-blocking antibodies,” said MD/PhD student Diane Tseng, the lead author of the study. Following engulfment of cancer cells, macrophages activate T cells to mobilize their own immune attack against cancer, she said.[/I]

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[URL="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/genetics-of-iq/"]Cow's vagina![/URL]

[I]Zhao’s goal is to use those machines to examine the genetic underpinnings of genius like his own. He wants nothing less than to crack the code for intelligence by studying the genomes of thousands of prodigies, not just from China but around the world. He and his collaborators, a transnational group of intelligence researchers, fully expect they will succeed in identifying a genetic basis for IQ. They also expect that within a decade their research will be used to screen embryos during in vitro fertilization, boosting the IQ of unborn children by up to 20 points. In theory, that’s the difference between a kid who struggles through high school and one who sails into college.[/I]

[I]Some people are smarter than others. It seems like a straightforward truth, and one that should lend itself to scientific investigation. But those who try to study intelligence, at least in the West, find themselves lost in a political minefield. To be sure, not all intelligence research is controversial: If you study cognitive development in toddlers, or the mental decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease, “that’s treated as just normal science,” says Douglas Detterman, founding editor of Intelligence, a leading journal in the field. The trouble starts whenever the heritability of intelligence is discussed, or when intelligence is compared between genders, socioeconomic classes, or—most explosively—racial groupings.[/I]

[I]For the most part, an IQ test—the most common of which today is called the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—is a series of brainteasers. You fit abstract shapes together, translate codes using a key, sort numbers or letters into ascending order in your mind. It’s a weirdly playful exercise, the sort of test you would expect to have no bearing on anything else. But studies make it clear that IQ is strongly correlated with the ability to solve all sorts of abstract problems, whether they involve language, math, or visual patterns. The frightening upshot is that IQ remains by far the most powerful predictor of the life outcomes that people care most about in the modern world. Tell me your IQ and I can make a decently accurate prediction of your occupational attainment, how many kids you’ll have, your chances of being arrested for a crime, even how long you’ll live.
[/I]
I am very excited at the convergence of so many scientific advances that will eventually clean our planet of this infestation known as 'Mankind'.

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[URL="http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/8/1/harvard-creates-brain-to-brain-interface-allows-humans-to-control-other-animals-with-thoughts-alone-extremetech#"]Researchers at Harvard University[/URL] have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human… and a rat.
[I]
Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail. This is one of the most important steps towards BBIs that allow for telepathic links between two or more humans — which is a good thing in the case of friends and family, but terrifying if you stop to think about the nefarious possibilities of a fascist dictatorship with mind control tech.

In recent years there have been huge advances in the field of brain-computer interfaces, where your thoughts are detected and “understood” by a sensor attached to a computer, but relatively little work has been done in the opposite direction (computer-brain interfaces). This is because it’s one thing for a computer to work out what a human is thinking (by asking or observing their actions), but another thing entirely to inject new thoughts into a human brain. To put it bluntly, we have almost no idea of how thoughts are encoded by neurons in the brain. For now, the best we can do is create a computer-brain interface that stimulates a region of the brain that’s known to create a certain reaction — such as the specific part of the motor cortex that’s in charge of your fingers. We don’t have the power to move your fingers in a specific way — that would require knowing the brain’s encoding scheme — but we can make them jerk around.[/I]


Not responsible for any of my future posts.

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[quote=RedskinRat;1017592]Not responsible for any of my future posts.[/quote]LOL, it was all the robots fault!

[URL="http://www.newser.com/story/144709/meet-the-robot-you-control-with-your-mind.html"]But a team of Swiss scientists yesterday demonstrated a robot that could do just that. They tapped into the brain of partial quadriplegic Mark-Andre Duc, who was in a hospital 60 miles away, the AP reports. A laptop decoded the electrical signals his brain was emitting almost instantaneously, then transmitted his commands to the bot. [/URL]

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[quote=HailGreen28;1017617]LOL, it was all the robots fault!

[URL="http://www.newser.com/story/144709/meet-the-robot-you-control-with-your-mind.html"]But a team of Swiss scientists yesterday demonstrated a robot that could do just that. They tapped into the brain of partial quadriplegic Mark-Andre Duc, who was in a hospital 60 miles away, the AP reports. A laptop decoded the electrical signals his brain was emitting almost instantaneously, then transmitted his commands to the bot. [/URL][/quote]

Just think of all the possible unintended consequences.

"I am in a very boring meeting. This guy just wont stop talking. I daydream about getting up and punching this guy in his face.

Crash! My robot kicks in the conference room door and punches the guy in his face instantly killing him.

I say ****, Im going to jail and have instant thoughts about being butt raped in prison. My robot interprets my mental image as a command and proceeds to fulfill command .."

wait a minute. this will never happen. Robots in I-robot were programmed to never accept an order that would endanger another human being .. problem solved.

This is why some people will be excluded from technological advances once I'm in charge.

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[quote=over the mountain;1017619]Just think of all the possible unintended consequences.

"I am in a very boring meeting. This guy just wont stop talking. I daydream about getting up and punching this guy in his face.

Crash! My robot kicks in the conference room door and punches the guy in his face instantly killing him.

I say ****, Im going to jail and have instant thoughts about being butt raped in prison. My robot interprets my mental image as a command and proceeds to fulfill command .."

wait a minute. this will never happen. Robots in I-robot were programmed to never accept an order that would endanger another human being .. problem solved.[/quote]Well, like you said there's inadvertent thoughts. "Officer, I really don't know why my robot tried to have sex with that woman over there." (guiltily bows head as everybody glares at me.)

If we get that far technologically while I'm alive, I hope there's some filter or manual on/off control available. Otherwise, like you said, oh the possibilities for all kinds of stuff to go wrong.

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If we get that far technologically while I'm alive, I hope there's some filter or manual on/off control available. Otherwise, like you said, oh the possibilities for all kinds of stuff to go wrong.[/QUOTE]

No worries, we'll have the Thought Crimes Police for that.

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[B][URL="http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/8/7/science-is-not-your-enemy-an-impassioned-plea-to-neglected-novelists-embattled-professors-and-tenure-less-historians-new-republic#"]Science Is Not Your Enemy[/URL][/B]

[I]An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians [/I]

[I]One would think that writers in the humanities would be delighted and energized by the efflorescence of new ideas from the sciences. But one would be wrong. Though everyone endorses science when it can cure disease, monitor the environment, or bash political opponents, the intrusion of science into the territories of the humanities has been deeply resented. Just as reviled is the application of scientific reasoning to religion; many writers without a trace of a belief in God maintain that there is something unseemly about scientists weighing in on the biggest questions. In the major journals of opinion, scientific carpetbaggers are regularly accused of determinism, reductionism, essentialism, positivism, and worst of all, something called “scientism.” The past couple years have seen four denunciations of scientism in this magazine alone, together with attacks in Bookforum, The Claremont Review of Books, The Huffington Post, The Nation, National Review Online, The New Atlantis, The New York Times, and Standpoint.[/I]

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[url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/malaria-vaccine/index.html?hpt=hp_t2]U.S. reports malaria vaccine breakthrough - CNN.com[/url]

ive been praying for a vaccine, looks like the man upstairs is gonna deliever

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[URL="http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/this-company-will-transform-you-into-an-incredibly-detailed-3-d-printed-figurine/"]Feed the Ego[/URL]

[IMG]http://www.wired.com/design/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/MODELSS.jpg[/IMG]

[I]Using the latest in 360-degree scanning and 3-D printing technologies, Twinkind, a new company based in Hamburg, Germany, will turn you, your loved ones, or your pets into a marvelously detailed little statues. It might seem a bit gimmicky if the results weren’t so stunning. The final figurines, which can range in size from roughly 6″ (around $300) to 13″ (around $1,700), are strikingly, maybe even a little unsettlingly realistic, capturing everything from poses and facial expressions down to hair styles and the folds in clothes, all in full, faithful color.[/I]

So I'm guessing that Matty and SS have spent the server funds on 24 karat gold versions of themselves, Lotus has one made of unicorn horn (or Sasquatch fur), FD went with melted down fleshlights and JR's is made of the hearts of puppies and kittens. Who did I forget?

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And better yet.....

[URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/surge-of-brain-activity-may-explain-near-death-experience-study-says/2013/08/12/47026016-0105-11e3-9a3e-916de805f65d_story.html"]Surge of brain activity may explain near-death experience, study says[/URL]
[I]
Scientists from the University of Michigan recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in nine anesthetized rats after inducing cardiac arrest. Within the first 30 seconds after the heart had stopped, all the mammals displayed a surge of brain activity that had features associated with consciousness and visual activation. The burst of electrical activity even exceeded levels during a normal, awake state.

In other words, they may have been having the rodent version of a near-death experience.

“On a fundamental level, this study makes us think about the neurobiology of the dying brain,” said senior author and anesthesiologist George A. Mashour. It was published Monday online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [/I]

More superstitious nonsense can be flushed away. As the great Richard Dawkins stated, "Science, bitches!"

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The Sports Gene - David Epstein

[I]What’s wrong with the 10,000-hour rule? In part, Mr. Ericsson’s research was oversimplified by Mr. Gladwell in “Outliers,” leading everyone from sports athletes to Wall Street hedge-fund managers to employ it in their explanations of success. (The supposedly triumphant example in “Outliers” was the Beatles, who Mr. Gladwell claims owed their success largely to the 10,000 hours they played in dingy nightclubs in Liverpool and Hamburg, Germany—selectively ignoring the thousands of garage bands who put in their 10,000 hours and still stink.) As Mr. Epstein notes, 10,000 hours is an average. What is more revealing is the range. A 2007 study on chess players, for example, found that the average number of hours logged to make it to the level of “master” was 11,000 hours, but the range spanned from 3,000 hours for one player to 23,000 hours for another. Even more telling, several players in the study put in more than 25,000 hours of practice and study and never made it to the master level. That is the mystery that The Sports Gene explains so well.[/I]

And:

[I]The Sports Gene is bound to put the cat among the pigeons in the blank-slate crowd who think that we can all be equal as long as we equalize environmental inputs such as practice. But the science says that it just ain’t so. Not even 10,000 hours of wishful thinking will change nature.[/I]

Cursed from birth, damn it!

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rat - i think i learn more here than anywhere else. thank you. of course i do not accept what is posted as 100% true but its a good way to stretch the brain in the thoughts and possibilities.

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcQuEw0oY8]Before the Big Bang - Loop Quantum Cosmology Explained - YouTube[/ame]

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Great website about robots being developed. [URL="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/watch-jpls-robosimian-do-pullups"]LINK[/URL]

[YT]YsLQ__ycsNU[/YT]

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[URL="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/265569.php"]Malnutrition causes violence - Medical News Today[/URL]

[I]Deficiencies of vitamins A, D, K, B1, B3, B6, B12 and folate, and of minerals iodine, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc, chromium and manganese can all contribute to mental instability and violent behavior, according to a report published in the Spring 2013 issue of Wise Traditions, the journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation.[/I]
And:

[I]"Making things worse are excitotoxins so prevalent in the food supply, such as MSG and Aspartame," says Onusic. "People who live on processed food and who drink diet sodas are exposed to these mind-altering chemicals at very high levels." In an effort to curb child obesity, the dairy industry recently petitioned FDA to include aspartame and other artificial sweeteners in dairy beverages featured in school lunches, without appropriate labeling. Recent research has established the fact that aspartame actually leads to weigh gain because of its effect on insulin.

Other ingredients in the food supply linked to violent behavior include sugar, artificial colors and flavorings, caffeine, alcohol and soy foods. The toxic environmental burden includes mercury, arsenic, lead, fire retardants, pesticides, heavy metals and Teflon. Adding psychiatric drugs to this mix puts everyone at risk.

[/I]And then there's this:[I]

PeTA - Keep Pregnant Women Out for the Sake of Their Sons' Sex Organs, PETA Tells Buffalo Wing Festival

Findings published by the Study for Future Families showed that eating poultry during pregnancy may lead to smaller penis size in male infants. Looking at dairy products, eggs, fish, fruit, bird meat, potatoes, tomatoes, vegetables, and red meat, researchers found the most significant link between chicken consumption and decreased penis size because of a chemical compound found in the meat.[/I]

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[url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/new-lightsaber-molecule/index.html?hpt=hp_t3]Scientists create light-matter like Darth Vader's lightsaber - CNN.com[/url]


Soon.

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[url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/26/nasa-curiosity-rover-mars-soil-water]Nasa's Curiosity rover finds water in Martian soil | Science | The Guardian[/url]

Would have been interesting to have seen what Mars looked like a billion or so years ago.

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[quote=NC_Skins;1028890][url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/new-lightsaber-molecule/index.html?hpt=hp_t3]Scientists create light-matter like Darth Vader's lightsaber - CNN.com[/url]


Soon.[/quote]The comments for the article are hilarious too.

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[IMG]https://scontent-b-vie.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q75/s720x720/1173642_675182795836068_1035583859_n.jpg[/IMG]

^ My people!

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The Sasquatch Genome Project claims to have film of bigfoot and to have sequenced the sasquatch genome DNA.

Here is the site:
[url=http://sasquatchgenomeproject.org/]Home - The Sasquatch Genome Project[/url]

I have not studied the DNA part but the film is like other bigfoot films: blurry, not definitive, and possibly hoaxed.

I beg them to produce a body. Habeus corpus, as they say.

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Question that came up at work today got me thinking.
What are there more of? Gallons of water, or blades of grass? Cups of water or grains of sand?

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[quote=CultBrennan59;1030643]Question that came up at work today got me thinking.
What are there more of? Gallons of water, or blades of grass? Cups of water or grains of sand?[/quote]

Are we going under the assumption of water as a molecule or water as the liquid form of the molecule? In molecular form I would say gallons of water. There is a rock known as serpentine and water is part of it's structure (unfortunately (or fortunately?) we don't have the ability to isolate it), but apparently there is enough rocks like serpentine, that there are three pacific oceans of water locked into their structure.

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A British geneticist says that the yeti existed and was a hybrid between a polar and a brown bear.

[url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Himalayan-mystery-solved-The-Yeti-existed-finds-British-geneticist/articleshow/24293069.cms]Himalayan mystery solved? The Yeti existed, finds British geneticist - The Times of India[/url]

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[url=http://news.yahoo.com/astronomers-discover-most-distant-galaxy-yet-213425193.html]Astronomers discover most distant galaxy yet[/url]

Finding yet more galaxies. Hurry up and develop warp engines!!

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[url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131030142915.htm]Lava world baffles astronomers: Planet Kepler-78b 'shouldn't exist'[/url]

The beauty of science! New discoveries and mysteries to solve!

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Science!

[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/robot-handjobs-vr-tenga_n_4261161.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003]Robot Handjobs Are The Future, And The Future Is Coming (NSFW)[/url]