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News Briefs 13-07-2010

The latest absurdities for you…

  • Ideas having sex.
  • How facts backfire.
  • Life on Earth gets wiped out every 27 million years.
  • King Tut’s DNA is western european.
  • Until cryonics do us part.
  • A scientist takes on gravity.
  • Revised theory of gravity does not predict a big bang.
  • Historians claim to have finally located the site of King Arthur’s Round Table.
  • Dark matter may be building up inside the sun.
  • Scientists create army of tumor-fighting immune cells.
  • Red hot chillies arrive at Doomsday seed vault.
  • Scientists admit chemtrails are creating artificial clouds.
  • According to cosmologists, the Universe is made mostly of dark matter and dark energy, but they do not know what either is.
  • Homeopathy and Dr James Le Fanu.
  • Computer automatically deciphers ancient language.
  • The language of brainwaves.

Quote of the Day:

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Jane Wagner

  1. Holders and hiders of ancient truths?
    That Tutankhamen appears to have been of European origin or decent, should come as no real surprise. And that the High Priest of Egyptian Oldness, Zahi Hawass, would attempt to quash this data is equally expected.

    This is not isolated to Egypt or Lord Hawass. So much of our mainstream archeology/science often seems to try and bury as much as they uncover.

    1. The other way around
      So, in the end, it’s not so much that Tut had European genes; rather, it’s the people currently living in Europe the ones who have an Egyptian ancestry 🙂

  2. Until cryonics do us part
    The very title of the article reflects the core of the issue that creates all that tension among the spouses of cryonics’ advocates: the fact that we, as a society, still view marriage as a life-time contract.

    That’s why the wives of these guys get so mad: because they can’t tolerate the idea that their husbands are willing to seek a whole new life that does *not* include them; psychologically, it’s as if the hubby is asking that they become a swinging couple!

    But, even without cryonics, shouldn’t this social idea of ‘marriage as a life-time contract’ be revised anyway?

    In Childhodd’s End, Arthur C Clarke envisioned the marriages of the future as 10-year-long contracts, with a chance for continual extensions. I suspect that things like medical breakthroughs in stem cell therapies, robotic assistants, as well as more ‘mundane’ developments as globalization & nomadic life-styles, could make such a social contract very appealing in the years to come.

    Likewise, it wouldn’t surprise me if an opportunistic law firm came up with some customized legal clauses specifically tailored for marriages with a cryonic-advocate spouse.

    PS: And in case you were wondering: YES, I’m hopelessly single 🙂

    1. Marriage
      Is about Love and so much more. That so many marry for love today is an odd moment in the history of marriage that we know of. Normally it was more business then pleasure. But your right, a life time commitment is not for everyone. And people need to be more honest with themselves before that happens. I could see all sorts of marriage contracts. A year and a day. Same sex marriage. A marriage between 3 or more people. One women 2 husbands. All sorts of variations between consenting adults should be possible. The Muslim faith allows I believe 4 wives, but they are to be treated equally (sure). Its against the laws in the US. But I’m sure just as some Mormons do, people get around the law.

  3. death doesn’t part
    A real problem with the cryo-dead is that they tie up money to be kept cold. They also assume that they will have some rights to their own inheritance if and when they are alive again.

    Especially the last part is a problem for those that inherit from. That is probably another factor in the disagreement with their spouses.

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