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News Briefs 08-09-2016

Station to station…

Quote of the Day:

Live long and prosper.

Spock

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  1. There Is No Moon
    Curiously, the popularly proffered “conspiracy theory” of the faked moon landings continually misrepresents what Jay Weidner pointed out in his analysis of the laughably glaring symbolism in The Shining – that it was the first moon landing putatively hoaxed and not the subsequent ones (The “7-UP” bottle scene) – the idea being that the panicked US imperative was to be “first” on the moon before the Russians, and that the subsequent landings were all genuine.

    We have no idea as to whether or not Kubrick may have just been “having some fun with us,” but have some fun he did one way or the other.
    It may have been that he was approached with the idea as a trial balloon at some point and that it came to nought, but it would be just like Kubrick to make some hay of it and “run with it” cryptically. Besides, it’s great technique for hyping a film by innuendo, and there is a large audience that enjoys picking and parsing Kubrick films.

    1. Over the Moon
      It makes sense that the first would have to be faked. As with any engineering project, especially one of that scale, schedules slip. Remember Scotty’s estimation to repair algorithm on Star Trek? It was something like, “I decide what a reasonable amount of time would be and then multiply by four.”

  2. Speaking Of “Barriers”
    http://preventdisease.com/news/12/091812_Neurosurgeon-Shows-How-Low-Levels-of-Radiation-Such-As-Wi-Fi-Smart-Meters-And-Cell-Phones-Cause-The-Blood-Brain-Barrier-To-Leak.shtml

    “An argument is sometimes made (not necessarily accurately) to those who express concern about radiation from “smart” meters, Wi Fi, etc, that the radiation emitted from these devices is at such a low level that the public needn’t worry about it. However Dr. Salford’s studies showed opening up of the blood brain barrier from very low levels of radiation. In fact, Cindy Sage and Dr. David Carpenter write in a 2008 paper (Public Health Implications of Wireless Technologies) it was “the weakest exposure level [which] showed the greatest effect in opening up the BBB [blood brain barrier].”

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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19345073

    “Microwaves were for the first time produced by humans in 1886 when radio waves were broadcasted and received. Until then microwaves had only existed as a part of the cosmic background radiation since the birth of universe. By the following utilization of microwaves in telegraph communication, radars, television and above all, in the modern mobile phone technology, mankind is today exposed to microwaves at a level up to 10(20) times the original background radiation since the birth of universe. Our group has earlier shown that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones alters the permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), resulting in albumin extravasation immediately and 14 days after 2h of exposure. In the background section of this report, we present a thorough review of the literature on the demonstrated effects (or lack of effects) of microwave exposure upon the BBB. Furthermore, we have continued our own studies by investigating the effects of GSM mobile phone radiation upon the blood-brain barrier permeability of rats 7 days after one occasion of 2h of exposure. Forty-eight rats were exposed in TEM-cells for 2h at non-thermal specific absorption rates (SARs) of 0mW/kg, 0.12mW/kg, 1.2mW/kg, 12mW/kg and 120mW/kg. Albumin extravasation over the BBB, neuronal albumin uptake and neuronal damage were assessed. Albumin extravasation was enhanced in the mobile phone exposed rats as compared to sham controls after this 7-day recovery period (Fisher’s exact probability test, p=0.04 and Kruskal-Wallis, p=0.012), at the SAR-value of 12mW/kg (Mann-Whitney, p=0.007) and with a trend of increased albumin extravasation also at the SAR-values of 0.12mW/kg and 120mW/kg. There was a low, but significant correlation between the exposure level (SAR-value) and occurrence of focal albumin extravasation (r(s)=0.33; p=0.04). The present findings are in agreement with our earlier studies where we have seen increased BBB permeability immediately and 14 days after exposure. We here discuss the present findings as well as the previous results of altered BBB permeability from our and other laboratories.”

    1. What’s a Little Radiation!
      One of my favorite lines from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

      I use two routers now. One is a direct cable router (Arris Surfboard SB6141) that stays connected to my computer. No radiation for that one. This router also acts like a “pass through” to my WIFI router. When I want WIFI for my tablet or TV use, I just unplug the Ethernet cable going from the Arris router and plug in the Ethernet cable that is already connected to a Netgear AC1750 WIFI router. That way I don’t have a WIFI router beaming at me for hours on end from only a few feet away.

      1. Surfboard
        [quote=Charles Pope]One of my favorite lines from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

        I use two routers now. One is a direct cable router (Arris Surfboard SB6141) that stays connected to my computer. No radiation for that one. This router also acts like a “pass through” to my WIFI router. When I want WIFI for my tablet or TV use, I just unplug the Ethernet cable going from the Arris router and plug in the Ethernet cable that is already connected to a Netgear AC1750 WIFI router. That way I don’t have a WIFI router beaming at me for hours on end from only a few feet away.[/quote]
        No issues at all with the “Surfboard?”

  3. super bugs
    sadly the video is blocked in my country ;_;

    If we had just stopped using the pesticides and poisons we do than this would not have happened. However at the same time I wonder if bees will be able to adapt and become super bugs to combat Monsanto. And I do mean whatever was in the clip I couldn’t watch! Big ass bugs that destroy Monsanto with their hair feet!

    Also you mention David Bowie and Spock on the same page! THE FEELS!!!

    😉

  4. StarTrek50
    It is important to the typical ‘Star Trek’ fan that there is a tomorrow. They pretty much share the ‘Star Trek’ philosophies about life: the fact that it is wrong to interfere in the evolvement of other peoples, that to be different is not necessarily to be wrong or ugly.

    Gene Roddenberry

    Happy 50th Anniversary, Star Trek

    @NASA
    From all of us at NASA, we wish the entire Star Trek family a happy #StarTrek50! Thanks for the inspiration!

    Astronauts and ‘Star trek’: How a TV show inspired real space travelers at Space.com

    How NASA is making ‘Star Trek’ tech a reality

    Apparently N. Korea has a sense of humor. Who knew?
    @DPRK_News
    Pyongyang demonstrators burn “Doctor Spock” in effigy to mark fiftieth anniversary of US space imperialism fable “Star Trek.”

    What if Star Trek had never existed? from Wired.

    Science fiction: Boldly going for 50 years

    At Nature, Sidney Perkowitz scans the impacts of Star Trek on science, technology and society.

    Is this a standard orbit, Mr. Sulu?
    NASA is run by a bunch of ‘Star Trek’ nerds, and this photo proves it.

    Mission controllers at NASA on Thursday are watching a tiny Starship Enterprise fly around the world instead of Space Station.

    The making of Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s greatest episode, ‘The Inner Light’.

    As commenter Steve says:

    This story explores a concept I have wondered about several times. At what point does a simulation stop being just a simulation, just a book, just a game, just a story? At the point where it changes you. At the point where it makes you take your soul out and look at it (my thanks to Robert Heinlein), and you become more than you were. When the story becomes part of you. That’s what happened to Picard, and what happens to me every time I see that episode.

    The enduring lessons of “Star Trek”

    And what a future! At the end of [The Next Generation’s] first season, the new captain, Jean-Luc Picard, laid bare his world’s parameters. In “The Neutral Zone,” a reverse-time-travel episode, cryogenically preserved twentieth-century humans awake on the Enterprise. One of them, a take-charge Wall Street tycoon, is particularly eager to reclaim his stock portfolio and his status as master of the universe. “People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things,” Picard tells him—and us, the audience—sternly. “We’ve eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We’ve grown out of our infancy.”

    Picard and his crew did so with the help of an extraordinary machine, the replicator. It is nothing more than a background prop, the unassuming gadget that dispenses the captain’s favorite drink (“Tea, Earl Grey, hot”). Yet, unlike the show’s other striking technologies—the virtual-reality holodecks and the faster-than-light warp engines—the replicator has fundamentally changed the moral calculus of being human. It stands as a metaphor for the distant endpoint of the Industrial Revolution. You simply ask for something, anything (food, clothing, medicine, instruments), and it automatically produces it, on the spot, with a whizzing special effect. With such a tool, what is the benefit of owning objects or accumulating wealth? What becomes of life’s meaning when machines have abolished the necessity to work? To its own weighty interrogations, “The Next Generation” offered a simple yet powerful answer: humans, once unburdened from material need, would be truly free to devote themselves to higher pursuits, like knowledge, justice, and mutual understanding.

    Cheers! — to the future of Star Trek, Earthlings, and the universe’s grand experiment in evolution of consciousness!

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