Any honest scientist knows that the radiation of outer space is deadly to humans.
We just do not have any way at this time to negate the radiation.
Therefore man is limited to near earth orbit in the protection of the earth's magnetic field which shields astronauts from the radiation.
When they first started the project to see if it were even possible to send men to the moon there was one major hurtle.
A man, James Van Allen, the space scientist, stands in front of the National Academy in Washington, D.C., and announces that they’ve just discovered something new about the planet, May 1, 1958.
You see there is these belts of high intensity radiation surrounding the earth. Men can not go through it without lead protection.
Feet of heavy lead in thickness. Space craft have to be light to get to the moon and back. Not good.
So the wonderfully intelligent blokes decide to see if they can blow up the God installed radiation belts.
Didn't work, only added more radiation to an already dangerous barrier to human space travel.
This is why living man has never and will never leave earth's near orbit...of course the spin doctors tell another story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128170775
Ok... so we can't go to the moon. No problem, we will simulate it and...
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm
Congress Can't Make Asteroid Mining Legal (But It's Trying, Anyway)
Earlier this week, the House Science Committee examined the American Space Technology for Exploring Resource Opportunities in Deep Space (ASTEROIDS) Act, a bill that would ensure that "any resources obtained in outer space from an asteroid are the property of the entity that obtained such resources."
The problem is, that idea doesn't really mesh at all with the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, a document that suggests space is a shared resource: "Unlike some other global commons, no agreement has been reached at to whether title to extracted space resources passes to the extracting entity," Joanne Gabrynowicz, a space law expert at the University of Mississippi said (PDF).
"There is no legal clarity regarding the ownership status of the extracted resources. It is foreseeable that the entity's actions will be challenged at law and in politics."
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As always...early adopters take the financial hit to be the first to own the latest innovation...
SanDisk has announced the world's highest capacity SD card, a 512GB model that represents a 1,000-fold increase over the company's first 512MB card that it shipped a decade ago.
The SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card has a max read/write rate of 95MB/s and 90MB/s, respectively.
The card is rated to function in temperatures from -13 to 185 degrees Fahrenheit.
The 512GB model retails for $800. The card also comes in 128GB and 256GB capacities.
***
Protect your freedom of access to internet sites!
***
This could be another layer of protection for police officers. If anyone were to wrestle a weapon from an officer during an altercation, they could not use it on the officer.
Or if a citizen were protecting their home from an intruder and lost their weapon to the intruder, it could not be used against them...
If a child accidentally got access to a gun they would not be able to trigger it and would be safe.
Kai Kloepfer has solved a very hugh problem!
Kai Kloepfer is a 17-year-old high school student from Colorado who just won the Smart Tech for Firearms Challenge. Kloepfer designed and built a smart gun that will only unlock and fire for users who supply the proper fingerprints.
"The gun works by creating a user ID and locking in the fingerprint of each user allowed to use the gun. The gun will only unlock with the unique fingerprint of those who have already permission to access the gun. ...
According to him, all user data is kept right on the gun and nothing is uploaded anywhere else so it would be pretty hard to hack."
The gun can have up to 999 authorized users, and its accuracy at detecting fingerprints is 99.99%.
For winning the challenge, he won $50,000 in funding to continue developing the smart gun. Some of the fund have already gone toward 3-D printing portions of the prototype.
***
My dog, Peedee boy, had a cancer on one of his teats. It swelled up and leaked fluid.
I had read online how DMSO could kill cancer cells. And I had also read online how a lady cured breast cancer with glucose mixed with the high alkalinity of baking powder.
(I make no comment as to whether or not these things are true or any kind of a cure for anything.)
I read that cancer cells take in glucose to survive instead of oxygen like normal cells.
I read that the Trojan horse of the sugar bringing in high alkalinity apparently kills cancer cells.
I read that DMSO carries anything in it through the skin barrier.
So I figured that I would try mixing the glucose and baking powder with DMSO and apply it topically to the cancer area on Peedee daily with a Qtip and see what happens if anything.
When the Vet did a lab certified biopsy of the cancer he was totally amazed, as were the lab techs, that all of the cancer cells were dead!
So he asked for permission to check Peedees lymph nodes. Upon inspection of Peedees lymph nodes he discovered that there was no cancer cells present in the test samples.
Apparently the type of cancer that Peedee had was a very fast spreading type that the vet and the lab techs had never seen any animal survive before.
I am not suggesting that this is a cure for anything, only sharing my own experience with my dog Peedee's situation.
Peedee lived until I had to put him down because of his advanced old age...
"If We Can't Kill Cancer, Can We Control It?"
In April, [Dr. Eytan Stein] presented his findings to a packed auditorium at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, in San Diego.
It was the first public airing of the results of AG-221; patients with progressive [acute myelogenous leukemia] had never improved so quickly and definitively. ...
The breakthrough is notable in part for the unconventional manner in which the drug attacks its target.
There are many kinds of cancer, but treatments have typically combated them in one way only: by attempting to destroy the cancerous cells.
Surgery aims to remove the entire growth from the body; chemotherapy drugs are toxic to the cancer cells; radiation generates toxic molecules that break up the cancer cells' DNA and proteins, causing their demise.
A more recent approach, immunotherapy, co-opts the body's immune system into attacking and eradicating the tumor.
The Agios drug, instead of killing the leukemic cells — immature blood cells gone haywire — coaxes them into maturing into functioning blood cells. Cancerous cells traditionally have been viewed as a lost cause, fit only for destruction.
The emerging research on A.M.L. suggests that at least some cancer cells might be redeemable: they still carry their original programming and can be pressed back onto a pathway to health.
***
Everyone keeps talking about drones
being an issue.. They are just the side show and distraction. We don't
need to regulate drones, we need to regulate big data.
Reality is that the NSA didn't need drones to know everything about you.
They could collect all payment information, all internet presence, own your smartphone with spy apps, own your PC, and track your every relationship through meta data from your telecom provider.
They know who you talk to and how frequently and in fact and have in fact "stopped revolutions" while they were small when it comes to terrorism.
The notion that we live in a free and open society is long gone. People have ended up on watch lists for being aware of TOR, linux and other technologies.
All on~line discussions are "watched."
That's just your US government.
Companies track your spending, and manipulate your environment to try an get you to consume more.
There are records on your credit, what services you buy, what you read, where you shop, where you live that are traded and bought and sold as profiles between corporate entities for the sole purpose of their profitability.
Practical surveillance is here.
They don't know when you pass gas and belch yet but with exercise sensors and smart watches that report to the cloud, and the internet of things they'll know those things soon too.
All they need is a big enough data center to consolidate the data builds complete profiles on you.
If stores (e.g Target) can start sending you diaper coupons because your purchasing habits suggest you might be pregnant believe me they will (in fact they already have).
***
Apples new watch is very innovative
***
A new app that let's you expire automatically a picture or video in 24 hours that you share with others. Make goofy faces to share with others that you know expires.
***
Dan Abate doesn’t have diabetes nor is he aware of any obvious link to the disease. Try telling that to data miners.
***
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke on Thursday to faculty and students at the University of Oklahoma City about the privacy perils brought on by modern technology.
She warned that the march of technological progress comes with a need to enact privacy protections if we want to avoid living in an "Orwellian world" of constant surveillance.
She said, "There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property.
That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy and how far we want to protect it and from whom. Because people think that it should be protected just against government intrusion, but I don't like the fact that someone I don't know can pick up, if they're a private citizen, one of these drones and fly it over my property."
The new iPhone is being purchased by young video producers because it can do what much more expensive professional video equipment does at a fraction of the cost!
***
Historically speaking, we typically see impressive performance gains each time Apple releases a new custom processor for its mobile products.
Certainly that was true of the A7 SoC, the world's first 64-bit smartphone processor. So, can we expect the same kind of performance bump from the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, both of which sport the new custom A8 SoC?
Maybe not.
The iPhone 6 recently surfaced in results for the Basemark X benchmark and armed with a dual-core 1.4GHz Cyclone CPU and A8 GPU, the iPhone 6 scored 21,204.26 and a earned a place at the top of the chart, though not by much.
By comparison, the iPhone 5s scored 20,253.80 in the same benchmark. In other words, the iPhone 6 is currently less than 5 percent faster than the iPhone 5s, at least as far as the Basemark X benchmark is concerned.
Having said that; the benchmarks do not take into consideration the video and camera capabilities of the new iPhone 6, which are over the top and worthy of commercial movie making!
I anticipate a whole new flock of videos made on the new iPhones.
***
Word that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the NSA's ability to collect bulk metadata about U.S. citizens' phone calls.
In April, the House of Representatives passed a bill to limit the NSA's collection of metadata, but the Senate has been working on their version of the bill since then without yet voting on it.
Because of this, and the alleged importance of continuing intelligence operations, the government sought a 90-day reauthorization of the current program.
The court agreed. Senator Patrick Leahy said this clearly demonstrates the need to get this legislation passed.
"We cannot wait any longer, and we cannot defer action on this important issue until the next Congress. "
This announcement underscores, once again, that it is time for Congress to enact meaningful reforms to protect individual privacy.
***
The U.S. House of Representatives has substantially reduced the effectiveness of the USA FREEDOM Act, a surveillance reform bill that sought to end mass collection of U.S. citizens' data.
House Leadership was pressured by the Obama Administration to weaken many of the bill's provisions. The EFF and the Center for Democracy & Technology had both given their backing to the bill earlier this month, but they've now withdrawn their support. CDT Senior Counsel Harley Geiger said, "The Leadership of the House is demonstrating that it wants to end the debate about surveillance, rather than end bulk collection.
As amended, the bill may not prevent collection of data on a very large scale in a manner that infringes upon the privacy of Americans with no connection to a crime or terrorism.
This is quite disappointing given the consensus by the public, Congress, the President, and two independent review groups that ending bulk collection is necessary."
Robyn Greene of the Open Technology Institute added, "We are especially disappointed by the weakening of the language intended to prohibit bulk collection of innocent Americans’ records.
Although we are still hopeful that the bill’s language will end the bulk collection of telephone records and prevent indiscriminate collection of other types of records, it may still allow data collection on a dangerously massive scale.
Put another way, it may ban ‘bulk’ collection of all records of a particular kind, but still allow for ‘bulky’ collection impacting the privacy of millions of people.
Before this bill becomes law, Congress must make clear—either through amendments to the bill, through statements in the legislative record, or both—that mass collection of innocent people’s records isn’t allowed."
***
Quoted as found...
Atheism and science face a real challenge: To frame an account of science, or nature, that leaves room for meaning.
According to this article, atheists have pinned their flag to Mr. Spock's mast. But they need Captain Kirk.
Quoting: "I'm pro-science, but I'm against what I'll call "Spock-ism," after the character from the TV show Star Trek. I reject the idea that science is logical, purely rational, that it is detached and value-free, and that it is, for all these reasons, morally superior.
Spock-ism gives us a false picture of science. It gives us a false picture of humankind's situation. We are not disinterested knowers.
The natural world is not a puzzle. ... The big challenge for atheism is not God; it is that of providing an alternative to Spock-ism. We need an account of our place in the world that leaves room for value."
***
African tourism and Chinese incursion of Africa slowing down...
Despite recent advances in medicine to treat Ebola, epidemiologists are not hopeful that the outbreak in west Africa will be contained any time soon.
Revised models for the disease's spread expect the outbreak to last 12 to 18 months longer, likely infecting hundreds of thousands of people.
"While previous outbreaks have been largely confined to rural areas, the current epidemic, the largest ever, has reached densely populated, impoverished cities — including Monrovia, the capital of Liberia — gravely complicating efforts to control the spread of the disease. ...
What worries public health officials most is that the epidemic has begun to grow exponentially in Liberia. In the most recent week reported, Liberia had nearly 400 new cases, almost double the number reported the week before.
Another grave concern, the W.H.O. said, is 'evidence of substantial underreporting of cases and deaths.'
The organization reported on Friday that the number of Ebola cases as of Sept. 7 was 4,366, including 2,218 deaths."
Scientists are urging greater public health efforts to slow the exponential trajectory of the disease and bring it back under control.
***
This just in...
Uneducated people remain uneducated.
Dan Friedman at TechCrunch is ready to call Massive Open Online Courses a failure. Originally hailed as a revolution in learning, MOOCs have seen disappointing course completion numbers.
Coursera and Udacity, two of the most prominent online learning hubs, have seen about 8 million enrollments in the past few years.
Unfortunately, half of those students didn't even watch a single lecture, and only a few hundred thousand completed the course they signed up for.
Friedman says, "[N]ew technologies enable methods of "learn by doing" that just weren't possible before we could deliver immersive experiences to people's laptops and phones.
In the 1960's, Jerome Bruner expanded an educational theory known as constructivism with the idea that students should learn through inquiry under the guidance of a teacher to grasp complex ideas intuitively.
That process of trial, failure, and then being shown the correct path has been proven to drive student motivation and retention of learning.
What we don't yet know is if that process of trial and failure can become 10x more engaging when delivered through a new medium such as Minecraft or Oculus.
...These new immersive worlds promise to hold the attention of students in ways textbooks never could."
***
Friendless Christians
For decades, the Middle East’s increasingly beleaguered Christian communities have suffered from a fatal invisibility in the Western world. And their plight has been particularly invisible in the United States, which as a majority-Christian superpower might have been expected to provide particular support.
***
The public and their cams
***
Geopolitical crises abound, but oil producers are still pumping — and pumping more than the world needs. But of course the greed factor keeps prices high.
***
Their world is in the grip of a lethal outbreak. A mysterious blue substance is leading to catastrophic destruction. Who is behind it all?
***
Been here all my life...only saw the show a handful of times over the many years.
***
The density is so high that we had to give them their own walking lane to use their cell phones while walking.
Reality is that the NSA didn't need drones to know everything about you.
They could collect all payment information, all internet presence, own your smartphone with spy apps, own your PC, and track your every relationship through meta data from your telecom provider.
They know who you talk to and how frequently and in fact and have in fact "stopped revolutions" while they were small when it comes to terrorism.
The notion that we live in a free and open society is long gone. People have ended up on watch lists for being aware of TOR, linux and other technologies.
All on~line discussions are "watched."
That's just your US government.
Companies track your spending, and manipulate your environment to try an get you to consume more.
There are records on your credit, what services you buy, what you read, where you shop, where you live that are traded and bought and sold as profiles between corporate entities for the sole purpose of their profitability.
Practical surveillance is here.
They don't know when you pass gas and belch yet but with exercise sensors and smart watches that report to the cloud, and the internet of things they'll know those things soon too.
All they need is a big enough data center to consolidate the data builds complete profiles on you.
If stores (e.g Target) can start sending you diaper coupons because your purchasing habits suggest you might be pregnant believe me they will (in fact they already have).
***
Apples new watch is very innovative
***
A new app that let's you expire automatically a picture or video in 24 hours that you share with others. Make goofy faces to share with others that you know expires.
***
***
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke on Thursday to faculty and students at the University of Oklahoma City about the privacy perils brought on by modern technology.
She warned that the march of technological progress comes with a need to enact privacy protections if we want to avoid living in an "Orwellian world" of constant surveillance.
She said, "There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property.
That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy and how far we want to protect it and from whom. Because people think that it should be protected just against government intrusion, but I don't like the fact that someone I don't know can pick up, if they're a private citizen, one of these drones and fly it over my property."
The new iPhone is being purchased by young video producers because it can do what much more expensive professional video equipment does at a fraction of the cost!
***
Historically speaking, we typically see impressive performance gains each time Apple releases a new custom processor for its mobile products.
Certainly that was true of the A7 SoC, the world's first 64-bit smartphone processor. So, can we expect the same kind of performance bump from the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, both of which sport the new custom A8 SoC?
Maybe not.
The iPhone 6 recently surfaced in results for the Basemark X benchmark and armed with a dual-core 1.4GHz Cyclone CPU and A8 GPU, the iPhone 6 scored 21,204.26 and a earned a place at the top of the chart, though not by much.
By comparison, the iPhone 5s scored 20,253.80 in the same benchmark. In other words, the iPhone 6 is currently less than 5 percent faster than the iPhone 5s, at least as far as the Basemark X benchmark is concerned.
Having said that; the benchmarks do not take into consideration the video and camera capabilities of the new iPhone 6, which are over the top and worthy of commercial movie making!
I anticipate a whole new flock of videos made on the new iPhones.
***
Word that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the NSA's ability to collect bulk metadata about U.S. citizens' phone calls.
In April, the House of Representatives passed a bill to limit the NSA's collection of metadata, but the Senate has been working on their version of the bill since then without yet voting on it.
Because of this, and the alleged importance of continuing intelligence operations, the government sought a 90-day reauthorization of the current program.
The court agreed. Senator Patrick Leahy said this clearly demonstrates the need to get this legislation passed.
"We cannot wait any longer, and we cannot defer action on this important issue until the next Congress. "
This announcement underscores, once again, that it is time for Congress to enact meaningful reforms to protect individual privacy.
***
The U.S. House of Representatives has substantially reduced the effectiveness of the USA FREEDOM Act, a surveillance reform bill that sought to end mass collection of U.S. citizens' data.
House Leadership was pressured by the Obama Administration to weaken many of the bill's provisions. The EFF and the Center for Democracy & Technology had both given their backing to the bill earlier this month, but they've now withdrawn their support. CDT Senior Counsel Harley Geiger said, "The Leadership of the House is demonstrating that it wants to end the debate about surveillance, rather than end bulk collection.
As amended, the bill may not prevent collection of data on a very large scale in a manner that infringes upon the privacy of Americans with no connection to a crime or terrorism.
This is quite disappointing given the consensus by the public, Congress, the President, and two independent review groups that ending bulk collection is necessary."
Robyn Greene of the Open Technology Institute added, "We are especially disappointed by the weakening of the language intended to prohibit bulk collection of innocent Americans’ records.
Although we are still hopeful that the bill’s language will end the bulk collection of telephone records and prevent indiscriminate collection of other types of records, it may still allow data collection on a dangerously massive scale.
Put another way, it may ban ‘bulk’ collection of all records of a particular kind, but still allow for ‘bulky’ collection impacting the privacy of millions of people.
Before this bill becomes law, Congress must make clear—either through amendments to the bill, through statements in the legislative record, or both—that mass collection of innocent people’s records isn’t allowed."
***
Quoted as found...
Atheism and science face a real challenge: To frame an account of science, or nature, that leaves room for meaning.
According to this article, atheists have pinned their flag to Mr. Spock's mast. But they need Captain Kirk.
Quoting: "I'm pro-science, but I'm against what I'll call "Spock-ism," after the character from the TV show Star Trek. I reject the idea that science is logical, purely rational, that it is detached and value-free, and that it is, for all these reasons, morally superior.
Spock-ism gives us a false picture of science. It gives us a false picture of humankind's situation. We are not disinterested knowers.
The natural world is not a puzzle. ... The big challenge for atheism is not God; it is that of providing an alternative to Spock-ism. We need an account of our place in the world that leaves room for value."
***
African tourism and Chinese incursion of Africa slowing down...
Despite recent advances in medicine to treat Ebola, epidemiologists are not hopeful that the outbreak in west Africa will be contained any time soon.
Revised models for the disease's spread expect the outbreak to last 12 to 18 months longer, likely infecting hundreds of thousands of people.
"While previous outbreaks have been largely confined to rural areas, the current epidemic, the largest ever, has reached densely populated, impoverished cities — including Monrovia, the capital of Liberia — gravely complicating efforts to control the spread of the disease. ...
What worries public health officials most is that the epidemic has begun to grow exponentially in Liberia. In the most recent week reported, Liberia had nearly 400 new cases, almost double the number reported the week before.
Another grave concern, the W.H.O. said, is 'evidence of substantial underreporting of cases and deaths.'
The organization reported on Friday that the number of Ebola cases as of Sept. 7 was 4,366, including 2,218 deaths."
Scientists are urging greater public health efforts to slow the exponential trajectory of the disease and bring it back under control.
***
This just in...
Uneducated people remain uneducated.
Dan Friedman at TechCrunch is ready to call Massive Open Online Courses a failure. Originally hailed as a revolution in learning, MOOCs have seen disappointing course completion numbers.
Coursera and Udacity, two of the most prominent online learning hubs, have seen about 8 million enrollments in the past few years.
Unfortunately, half of those students didn't even watch a single lecture, and only a few hundred thousand completed the course they signed up for.
Friedman says, "[N]ew technologies enable methods of "learn by doing" that just weren't possible before we could deliver immersive experiences to people's laptops and phones.
In the 1960's, Jerome Bruner expanded an educational theory known as constructivism with the idea that students should learn through inquiry under the guidance of a teacher to grasp complex ideas intuitively.
That process of trial, failure, and then being shown the correct path has been proven to drive student motivation and retention of learning.
What we don't yet know is if that process of trial and failure can become 10x more engaging when delivered through a new medium such as Minecraft or Oculus.
...These new immersive worlds promise to hold the attention of students in ways textbooks never could."
***
Friendless Christians
For decades, the Middle East’s increasingly beleaguered Christian communities have suffered from a fatal invisibility in the Western world. And their plight has been particularly invisible in the United States, which as a majority-Christian superpower might have been expected to provide particular support.
***
“So,
your kids must love the iPad?”
I asked Mr. Steve Jobs...,
The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves.
“They
haven’t used it,” he told me.
“We limit how much technology our kids use
at home.”
I’m
sure I responded with a gasp and dumbfounded silence.
I had imagined
the Jobs’s household was like a nerd’s paradise: that the walls were
giant touch screens, the dining table was made from tiles of iPads and
that iPods were handed out to guests like chocolates on a pillow.
Nope, Mr. Jobs told me, not even close.
***
Nope...not Benny Hinn...
At a concert on Friday in Sydney, Australia, the acclaimed rapper called
out a pair of fans for not standing up at the show. One had a
prosthetic limb, and the other was in a wheelchair.
***
I have a very close friend who constantly uses the newest 'buzz words' that are making the rounds in conversations like a set of new clothes he just purchased.
I can always count on him to use the latest trending words.
I first heard "Phenomenal" and "All- my- ducks- in- a- row" used in conversations with him.
***
The public and their cams
***
Geopolitical crises abound, but oil producers are still pumping — and pumping more than the world needs. But of course the greed factor keeps prices high.
***
Their world is in the grip of a lethal outbreak. A mysterious blue substance is leading to catastrophic destruction. Who is behind it all?
***
Been here all my life...only saw the show a handful of times over the many years.
***
The density is so high that we had to give them their own walking lane to use their cell phones while walking.
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