2064 THE DAWN OF UNITY
Are we being hypnotized by technology while artificial intelligence is tempting us down a road that will lead us in over our human heads?
2064 THE DAWN OF UNITY
Are we being hypnotized by technology while artificial intelligence is tempting us down a road that will lead us in over our human heads?
Memory-built-in quantum teleportation between photonic and atomic qubits |
The Teleportation Physics Study was done by Eric Davis of Warp Drive Metrics. Its purpose -
"This study was tasked with the purpose of collecting information describing the teleportation of material objects, providing a description of teleportation as it occurs in physics, its theoretical and experimental status, and a projection of potential applications. The study also consisted of a search for teleportation phenomena occurring naturally or under laboratory conditions that can be assembled into a model describing the conditions required to accomplish the transfer of objects."
Federation of American Scientists: Teleporation Physics Study
Credit: Adrian Mann. Daedalus was conceived as a two-stage vehicle, which would attain a speed of 12 percent of the speed of light, for a 50-year voyage to reach Barnard's Star |
Space.com: Interstellar Starship Meeting Warps Into Houston This Week
BBC Science News - Artist's conception of White Dwarf pair and Gravity Waves |
BBC Science News: Gravitational waves spotted from white-dwarf pair
Granted, no metals or weapons, but the Prada 2012 Men's Fall Collection has grasped the Edwardian theme (which is a major touchstone for the fashion of steampunk) and pushed it to its most "fabulous" exteme.
The stills located at http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2012/01/prada-fall-2012-menswear-colle... are incredible.
I can imagine Peter Mensah, Denis Haysbert, Roger Cross and even l'il Don Cheadle rockin' this look!
The actual runway show is equally impressive.
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So if you are going to dress "steampunk" or "steamfunk" in the coming months - Prada has got you covered!
Check out my older bro's comic book novel the DS418
A marble mosaic of Greek goddess Minerva in the Library of Congress symbolizes the preservation of civilization as well as the promotion of the arts and sciences. |
Judging from the LA Times, the reason for the tepid jobs numbers yesterday was because "OGs" are being called back to the work force, or not leaving it for younger workers, more apt to purchase stuff in our consumer-driven economy. So they stay home longer, having as much sex as before and procreating less (and those that do bring the bundle home), mooching off mom, dad cable TV and Internet access. So much for Carrousel. A simple math question: is 96,000 greater than zero? It's not ideal, but far better than where we've been.
I fear our ignorance, our worship of without-flaw market deities and hostility to reality will not lead to a blissful end.
This is a challenging time for the US and for US science. The economy, though it is beginning to show some positive signs, is still in bad shape. Extraordinary numbers of Americans are without jobs. The public holds a record-low opinion of government. The integrity of the scientific process is being questioned, and pressure to reduce federal spending is fierce.
The irony is that the demand for services provided by agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is at an all-time high and growing. Our ability to deliver those services depends in part on our scientific enterprise. One significant reason why demand for services is growing is the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Last year, new records were set in the US for tornadoes, drought, wind, floods, and wildfires. Heat records were set in every state. At one time last summer, nearly half of the country’s population was under a heat advisory or heat warning. In late November, hurricane-force winds hit parts of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and California, with winds reaching 97 mph in Pasadena.
Another quote from Jefferson before I go:
Physics Today: Predicting and Managing Extreme Weather Events
American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick and their contribution to the discovery of the DNA structure, photo and article in Nature |
The ENCODE project (Encyclopedia of DNA elements), which involved hundreds of researchers in dozens of labs, also produced what some scientists are saying is like Google Maps for the human genome.
"So the most amazing thing that we found was that we can ascribe some kind of biochemical activity to 80 percent of the genome. And this really kind of debunks the idea that there's a lot of junk DNA or really if there is any DNA that we would really call junk," NHGRI's Feingold said.
What has been called junk DNA is actually teeming with an intricate web of molecular switches that play crucial roles in regulating genes. The ENCODE project scientists found at least 4 million of these regulatory regions so far.
NPR: Scientists Unveil 'Google Maps' For Human Genome, Rob Stein
Technology Review: Quantum Entanglement Holds DNA Together, Say Physicists
You Tube Channel: Space Lab
Interestingly, they have a list of banned books (1990 to 1999) written by POC authors: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedauthors/authorsofcolor
When I perused the list of banned books, I was really surprised at a couple. The Lord of the Rings? Really? Yep, burned as being satanic, despite the fact that Tolkien was a devout Christian. And the Call of the Wild by Jack London? REALLY? Are they kidding?
Sadly, no they're not. It seems that ignorance is bliss in some places.
The list of the most banned classics: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/reasonsbanned
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Dr. Z - MySciNet |
While working on her Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics at the University of Maryland at College Park, Dr. Aziza received a Mass Media Science & Engineering fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and was assigned to CNN’s science and technology unit in Atlanta Georgia. During her fellowship, she gained hands-on experience producing science news video segments which aired on CNN’s newscasts. This experience launched her career as a TV science producer and on-air correspondent.
When you delve into the world of Facebook or other such social links, you come to notice, at least I did, anyway, that there are blinded cullerds and out and out fools in great numbers. The ingrained hypocrisy of this joint doesn't matter to them, because they have been Accepted.
The reason? They have Accepted everything put out by the oligarchs. When the actor Terry Crews indulges in tomfoolery, 'Oh quit being so touchy!' When some obscure pol from the South shouts a disparaging remark during the President's State of the Union, 'He was just expressing his right of free speech!' And, 'Treyvon Martin should not have scared that poor misunderstood armed bullyboy!' These are the people who nod their heads when cloaked foul remarks are made and then say 'I understand what they meant'. One of the ironies of the Civil Rights Movement has been the rise of the House cullerds. 'Well, well, being conservative is part of our group character!'
It is what led to our ancestors enslavement. It is why some stay in positions of authority long past they're effective expiration date. It is why too many embrace such negative and denying thoughts, 'All that stuff in school don't mean nuthin', because they have no desire to "change and challenge" their place.
At the opposite end is the group who wallow in the mire of socalled 'Accepted' attitudes. "I'm a member of the country club, and my wife wears big hats for the Kentucky Derby, and it has been because of those rowdy nonrestrained others, that we are not welcome to the class reunion, but I understand, because I have gone out of my way to show I'm on their side. And the business I work for smiles when it denies another a raise or a loan, because there can be only so many of us succeding else it might cause trouble."
The Atlanta Compromise's line "...cast your bucket where you may!" was not answered with "What if you pull up a bucketload of shit?" The Talented Tenth ideal reeks of a placid elitism. Yet in some circles that is an ideal that has taken hold. Aren't the Accepted Talented Tenth the Howards, Allens, and Condis?
I almost turned around and walked away from Dragoncon. I waited for three hours in a line wrapped around the Sheraton Hotel. Both my husband and I were exhausted, hot, and tired. What kept me going were the energetic people around me. They were dressed in costumes, laughed loudly, and were there to have a great time.
I'm so glad that I stayed. Dragoncon was an amazing adventure. I enjoyed meeting all those neat weirdos, hanging out with my fabulous writing buddies, and participating in the State of Black Science Fiction author panel. I was proud and excited to be seated with LM Davis, Alan Jones, Wendy Raven McNair, and Milton Davis. I think we shared our viewpoints and opinions well. What I enjoyed was that we each had our own unique ideas and were able to share our diverse opinions. If you'd like to take a look, here's the Youtube video. BTW, feel free to leave a comment or post, if something about the panel made you think.
An international team of scientists led by Thornton Glover of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to mix a pulse of superbright x-rays with a pulse of lower frequency, “optical” light from an ordinary laser. By aiming the combined pulses at a diamond sample, the team was able to measure the optical manipulation of chemical bonds in the crystal directly, on the scale of individual atoms.
The researchers report their work in the August 30, 2012 issue of the journal Nature.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory: Synchronized Lasers Measure How Light Changes Matter
I got my headphones on watching a video about AutoCad's SketchPad pro, thought I heard a sound. I called out to my wife, "you say something hon?" "No that's the cat scratching the carpet." Listened to a whale song video for a while, all the while thinking what it would sound like sped up, like dolphins or chipmunks or maybe some ancient language. Man I got to stop this line of thinking. What if all the sounds in the background were speaking to us. The PC clicks, fan whirl, wind blows the shade and the cat knocks a cup over. The sound of chips crunching in my head as I chew and the way I turn my head to catch the sounds better. I tape them all, slow them down, speed them up and collect the syllables into phrases and arrange them end to end. I play them back, "Arnold, Arnold, quit trying to ease drop on my conversations."
Popular Mechanics |
Geoengineering aims to mitigate man-made climate change by making large-scale modifications to the Earth's surface or atmosphere. One of the main proposals discussed by scientists is stratospheric albedo modification: changing the reflective power of the atmosphere 10–50 km above the Earth's surface so that more solar radiation is reflected back into space. Such a modification would be achieved by pumping tiny particles known as aerosols into the upper atmosphere.
Physics World: Geoengineering is 'comparatively inexpensive'
(c) 2 September 2012, the Griot Poet
"We want our country back!"
The question is: back to when; to what?
Gil Scott-Heron rests in peace
Yet, his piece "B-Movie" might as well be prophesy,
Predicting a looking forward two-faced like the Roman Deity Janus: facing forward while looking back at least to last week (or, our own anus),
To a majority utopia existent only in your Amygdala fear-driven reptilian minds...
Descendants of migrants from Europe to Plymouth Rock and Ellis Island
Dependent on newer ones from Africa or Central America as servants until the PIE: performance, image and exposure, has to eventually be upturned in 2042 when you are no longer a numerical majority.
The White House, so named in 1901because it was easier than “Executive Mansion”
Became a symbol of what you’d refer to as American Exceptionalism
And like fascism, cloaked it in a flag, and carrying a cross.
So, while you’re still culturally “the boss”
You're willing to put out obfuscations and outright lies,
Whacked-out conspiracy theories on falsified birth certificates, death panels, “he’s going to take away our guns,” “secret-Muslim-in-the-church-house-Resurrection-Sunday,” etcetera’s,
Voter ID cum Diebold voter purge cum 21st century poll taxes...
In a February appearance on The Daily Show, Bruce Bartlett (former Reagan Economic Policy Advisor), said "Frankly one of our political parties is insane, and we all know which one it is.'
"They have descended from the realm of reasonableness that was the mark of conservatism…"
"They dream of anarchy, of ending government.''
Bartlett argues a new radical right in the Republican Party will oppose anything - even good conservative policy - if Democrats agree to it.
Tell me: since when did obliterating the 8th commandment constitute a "family value?"
Or, running from your own policies because your opposite tries to reach consensus constitute reason and governance? Sounds like tyranny…
You rail against gays and lesbians, yet have them prominently in your Grand Old Party, for one (no, two): George W’s reelection campaign manager and Dick (Darth Vader) Cheney’s daughter and her companion.
Hell, Rush Limp-bah had Elton John perform at his fourth “traditional marriage” from-the-previous-train-wrecks wedding ceremony with notably his beau from the UK in tow.
(And Rush: we THANK YOU for practicing good birth control/safe sex and not procreating!)
Let’s not forget: Newt-the-scoot’s blood sister,
You blithely dog whistle at the tin edges of racial insurrection, yet think yourself a big tent because you have Condi Rice and Allen West? Keep ‘EM!
And when disturbed minds take your wit as holy writ resulting in a congresswoman’s recovery from a murderous attempt, or your pundit’s caustic rhetoric causes an abortion doctor’s assassination in a house of worship, you’re quick to quip: NOT ME!
If you have an argument, voter ID cum Diebold voter purge cum 21st century poll taxes is completely unnecessary.
The electorate in a representative democracy votes rationally, not like text-in adherents to American Idol.
No wonder you ride the train of “limited government,” by which you mean:
- Education
- Police protection
- EMS and Fire Departments
Or, the very bedrock of representative government
Because your avarice Mammon billionaire gods can afford that,
(And wonders why the rest of us can’t)
Kissing butt on Scrooge McDuck is the height of idolatry (and hypocrisy)
And idiocy to the “trickle-down” fantasy
You listen to lobbyists outnumbering you five-to-one senator or congress member
And you can’t remember
Any promise you made beyond the grace of their campaign donations
To “protect and defend The Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic”
And have the “Audacity of Dopes”
To not see
That enemy
Is in your own
Reflection!
We is so funny, we get caught up, then fed up then change up. We change or try to change the insides, failing we change the outside. I can't tell you the changes I've been through from afro to fro to no fro to less fro to fro mind to fro on the sides. The truth is I had wild nappy hair and now I'm bald.
Clothes really makes the manikin. You too can be made up into any genre and feel the part. Don't get caught, or you'll play the part too. It'll get imprinted on your soul. That description will haunt you for ever. Did you see Jimmy's boy? He ain't changed from when he went off the deep end. Wasn't satisfied with being somebody, had to be something else.
I look at every person to see if my reflection is there (watch where you look). I watched the Olympic parade of nations, hoping some recognizable faces go past the screen. You know we are from Africa, so I watched Africa go by, not many resembled me. In college I sported wild hair (a fro), played a conga, owned two dashiki. In my mind every African wore a dashiki like clothes. Damn, sports jerseys and tee shirts are common. I was looking at them, they were looking at us. Tee shirt and baseball cap is the international black apparel.
We adorn ourselves, bling bling, bling ink, bling paint, remote bling (cars, homes, cellphones) and inward bling (musics, education, philosophies, histories). Man, we bust all out, then with equal force we bust back in. Yeah I'm a very conservative all out liberal. I found my self one day and didn't recognize him. He appears just before I step into the change of the day. Before I step into the world where everybody is putting on. He always complains about having to put up with others putting on. Hey dude what's that clone you're wearing? That's not a clone, that's me. You're much older that I thought. You see, this is why I have to put on. Yeah buddy but who is the real me? Damn, got caught up again. I'll never live this down. Gotta stop talking to myself in the mirror. Let's see, baseball cap, check, tee shirt, check, man I'm really Black today!
Technology Review |
Now Seth Caliga and pals at the University of Colorado and National Institute for Standards and Technology in Boulder have built a version of this kind of circuit that works with atoms rather than electrons.
Their atomtronic circuit generates an oscillating atom current that emits matter waves in which atoms carry energy through space.
The heart of their device is an atomtronic transistor--an optomagnetic trap with three compartments that can hold a Bose Einstein Condensate of rubidium atoms cooled almost to absolute zero.
In an analogy with electronic transistors, Caliga and co call these compartments the source, gate and drain (with the gate sandwiched between the source and drain). The optical barrier between the compartments prevents atoms from moving freely between them.
Physics arXiv: A Matterwave Transistor Oscillator