Archive for May, 2008

Yes, Nanotechnology is coming.

It’s the most complicated science ever attempted. At this time we must wait patiently for the explosion. Something this big doesn’t happen all at once but if past trends in technology are any indication, this one will be huge. When Molecular NanoTechnology (MNT) hits the knee of the curve, the adoption rate will be even faster and larger than any technology before it.

It’s important to know that our entire economy is based on progress. The fact that it’s based on Evolution is amazing itself. You see, if corporations don’t expand into new markets, or, in the case of MNT, create new markets, then they die. This is due to the mechanics of our economy: private investors seek profit and if they don’t get profit they pull their money out and the corporation dies. In order for corporations to create more profit than before, they (normally) must create more wealth. They do this by opening up new market territory, in other countries for example, or by making new markets altogether through invention, like cell phones and computers and all those things we don’t *really* need.

Our necessities are taken care of. We know how to build homes, feed each other, and clothe each other. The unfortunate part is that these necessities are commodities, not rights, and therefore much is denied to many people. That is just the way it is right now. Individuals do not truly matter, though, as the individual has evolved into a higher organism already: the corporation.

And just as individuals blindly evolved into corporations, corporations are blindly evolving into the next level of evolution. You could say that they have already done that with global entities such as the U.N., World Bank, and World Trade Organization.

What’s next?

The Singularity is the point in the tunnel where the light ends. It’s where not only technology, but evolution has accelerated so fast that we have no clue what happens after that point. We might not even be able to understand it.

From the U.S. Governments National Nanotechnology Initiative website:

May 2008 — The nano world offers exponential surface area upon which to work. Through the funding support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Services (CREES), land-grant university researchers are learning how to manipulate matter like never before.

* New Skin: Scientists in Illinois are using corn protein to create new skin and deliver medicine through nanotubes.
* Following the Flow: Researchers are discovering how nano-scale tracers can uncover the sources of pollution in America’s farm fields and waters.
* Super Cloth: Using nanotechnology, Cornell scientists created a fabric that can detect biohazards like E. coli and other pathogens.
* Disease Detectors: Scientists have developed nanoscale biosensors that can help detect diseases on farms and in hospitals.

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Iron and Nickel didn’t just bang out of the violent birth of the Universe.

All of the heavy elements were formed in the bursting death of a star who’s time had come. Those heavy elements are where planets, and ultimately, we came from.

You were a star in the heavens at one point in time. Seeing how we are all on the same planet it’s safe to say that we were all a single star together. It is from the death of that star that many of our surrounding solar systems came from.

Somehow I think we’ll meet again. Let us hope that our next life is as beautiful as our life as a star and our lives here as Earth.

And thanks for reading!

-Chris

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Hubble looks for missing matter

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Tue May 20, 3:17 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers have found some matter that had been missing in deep space and say it is strung along web-like filaments that form the backbone of the universe.

The ethereal strands of hydrogen and oxygen atoms could account for up to half the matter that scientists knew must be there but simply could not see, the researchers reported on Tuesday.

Scientists have long known there is far more matter in the universe than can be accounted for by visible galaxies and stars. Not only is there invisible baryonic matter — the protons and neutrons that make up atoms — but there also is an even larger amount of invisible “dark” matter. more>>>

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In a strategic game, the success of any player depends not just on his or her own actions, but on the behavior of every other player in the game. To be successful, players must not only pay attention to what other players do, but also how they are thinking.

Understanding how the brain functions during this strategizing is at “the core of studies of adaptive social intelligence,” says John P. O’Doherty of the California Institute of Technology and the subject of a recent series of brain studies by O’Doherty and his colleagues that offer new insight into how the brain works in social situations. more>>>

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Go ahead and fight for what you think is right. That is how history unfolds. Right and might engaged in a struggle to form the best solution for order. Raise your flags and say your prayers but behold the man with the gun.

We all like to think we’re different. The only reason humans have an ego is because at some point the ego must abdicate the throne. Change is the only constant. You didn’t think it was going to be this way forever, right? With everything moving so fast these days, you can’t imagine the rEvolution as that far off now did you? It’s only moving faster, compelled by our own greed we are forming the basis for the next form of life.

It won’t be a revolution from the bottom. Individuals have already been left behind. The revolution will be the child of nations, incubated within the corporations. Let us pray that this child god will have mercy on us all. Earth is soon becoming One.

Imagine a child growing in a belly. It takes just nine months in human time frame experience. Think outside of that box for just one moment and see what the technological growth of the last century means. We are simply cells in corporations and corporations are the organs of nations and soon enough nations will be the organs of Her. She is growing and we are only a step in a chain of events that must occur. Isn’t it beautiful, the miracle of life?

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Lost is what we are. Lost in a world, in a Universe with no answers. Reality is just another form of dreaming.

Our daily reality are dreams to the nightly mind. Weird and strange. And dreams don’t understand Conscious thought. It doesn’t make sense to them. Nightly dreams are the animal of the human mind, Conscious thought is the machine.

Torn between the past and the future, we know that the future must continue because it is all we have. The past is dead. This very second is dying and I say a short prayer for every moment behind me.

And then I will look to the future, although no one is behind the wheel, we must continue. It is all that we have.

“Where did all the time go?”, we say when we’re old. Has it vanished into nothingness? No, it’s still here. We’re only human. Look at it from a gods’ point of view. Pull yourself away from this tiny spec of a planet, away from the solar system, the galaxy, the galaxy cluster, and change time to go faster…what happens?

No one knows. Life is but a dream.

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The Earth is a single organism of which we are a part. You are the Earth, we ARE the Universe. You are Korean, You are African. You are the rivers, the trees, the galaxies, and the fire. You are every animal, every burning star and every square inch of the vastness of space. You are the most beautiful thing because existence is beautiful and enchanting.

Lonely it may be,
confined within our nervous systems
remember,
communication binds us
and extends your reach and understanding
to the vast corners of existence.

Do not feel lonely,
for you are One
with all things
small and large
alive and dead
and connected
with understanding
to all.

We are One, All
travellers
wherever time takes us.
A Universe alive.
A fate unfolding.

Toward only
God knows what.

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Puff…the hazy exhale from my lips drifted upward and shimmers through the dim light from the porch light. Staring East. Lightning cracks open the sky and I see. We’ve captured lightning in a bottle. Beautiful. My mind finds focus.

We have been pushed from the cliff. Momentum. Diving deeper into this world we push forth. Transforming into a single global entity. We are Her (Earth). We are Him (Universe). The Ultimate. Together. One. Swoosh. We sail forward. Splash.

Our society is plugged into the machine. “I can’t live without my computer.” Don’t like the idea? Let’s change what a computer is. Destroy that concept for a new, more palatable one. Paradigms fall like dominos.

War. Who thinks this. Who thinks that. This and That. Torn apart but the more powerful will no doubt prevail when its time has come. I know of no one with the answer. That is why we are building the answer. God(s). That is why we are compelled forward. My minds reflect what I see and process thee. My eyes reflect reality. Redundancy and meaning. Reverse the ‘engineering’ and join the new beginning.

I give my wrist a flick. The current carries me away and I drift. Everything moves in one direction because Everything is One. One cannot separate itself. Where do I end and You begin, anyway? We are still attached via the laws of physics.

Inside now. Inspired. I type. Compelled. Like an electron toward a Load, where the Transformation takes place. The place of the Next. Where destruction and rejuvenation meet. A place of Singularity.

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