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Advanced Science Made Public?

(Note: 11/30/02- We may have overloaded the Angelfire link by pointng to it. If so, try this link as an alternative.)

The anonymous tipster who made us aware of this link also advised us:

"I thought you guys should get first crack at this before 'it' disappears from the web. Check it out for yourself. Scroll down to get the information. It might be a good idea to save this information as soon as possible if you like, however due to "problems" with backing this information up on the web before it likes to 'disappear'. I hope this information guides all of us into a better world and understanding of the physics of nature and reality."

From the website in question: From 1993 to 1996 I was involved in research at a Government facility on developing a machine capable of materializing or manifesting objects , circumstances and acclerating thought forms.

Please mirror this information on as many servers as you can. Hereby permission is granted to freely distribute this information with the restriction that you do not take credit for the machine, technology or research described herein. Reference can be made to Deepstar - California for the author / inventor of this machine.

I've nicknamed this machine "the ark of the covenant"

Noted side effects while being in the presence are:

1: Machine tends to "come alive" or begins to display a consciousness of it's own.
2: Amplification of thoughts, feelings and emotions while near or around the machine.
3: Computer operations are affected and you can have fun with this. Most noted computer malfunctions are programs that open/close on their own, and other odd things.
4: The room, when activated will achieve a warmer temperature.
5: Healing while near the machine.

...and just in case it really does dissapear: http://disclosure.topcities.com/index.html

BLOGula Commentary: Gotta love those pics!

Bold technology predictions for 2012

Smart devices that talk to each other without human intervention, store merchandise that rings itself up for purchase and machines that finally understand the spoken word are just some of the new technologies awaiting us in the year 2012.

Pychedelic Musings: Robert Forte

You've met our Poet Laureate, now meet our Ethnogenist Laureate; Robert Forte. If you read the book, you recognize Robert's name from the forward. Now there's new things in the wind. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be fun. We're not going to tell...just yet. It's a surprise.

My Face Or Yours? Transplanting Faces A Reality

"As it turns out, with a case of life imitating art, the human face transplant is just waiting to happen. 'It is not "Can we do it?" but "Should we do it?"' says Peter Butler, a prominent British plastic surgeon. Current surgical techniques can rebuild a badly burned face into a semblance of normalcy, but feeling and movement are limited. The transplanted face offers sensation and mobility, and the only drawback is that your new face belonged to a person now dead. Oh, and people are going to start stealing celebrities faces and using them for their own nefarious reasons." So much for the rubber mask industry.
If life has to imitate movies, why does it have to be BAD movies?

...and on the drums...CTHULHU!!

Settling down for a good creep-out courtesy of H.P. Lovecraft, but lacking sufficiently haunting and bizarre avant-garde chamber music to properly set the mood? Check out Yuggoth Records, which boasts darkly malevolent and unthinkably alien song samples and paintings. Also featuring the ten-year Yuggoth Set Project, which has to date worked its way to Azathoth. via memepool

From the LibertyThink Archives:

Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution, March 20, 1962

A recorded lecture in which the author of Brave New World discusses using terrorism to create willing slaves out of the population.

[Coming soon to LibertyThink Radio]

And You Call Yourself a Scientist!

Liz is a scientist and a woman, and examines how B-movies handle both.
With all the science posted today, we needed a little "sorbet" as a palette cleanser first...

Adaptive Camouflage

Sensor-and-display systems would create illusions of transparency.
Lightweight optoelectronic systems built around advanced image sensors and display panels have been proposed for making selected objects appear nearly transparent and thus effectively invisible. These systems are denoted "adaptive camouflage" because unlike traditional camouflage, they would generate displays that would change in response to changing scenes and lighting conditions.
The basic overall function of an adaptive camouflage system would be to project, on the near side of an object, the scene from the far side of the object. Although adaptive camouflage was conceived for use in battlefield settings (see figure), there are also potential commercial uses — for example, as an electronic "window" that would display a nearby outdoor scene in an office that lacks a real window, or as a home security system in place of a door peephole.
A typical adaptive camouflage system would likely include a network of flexible electronic flat-panel display units arrayed in the form of a blanket that would cover all observable surfaces of an object that one seeks to cloak. Each display panel would contain an active-pixel sensor (APS) [or possibly another advanced image sensor] that would look outward from the panel through an aperture that would occupy only a small fraction of the area of the panel. The blanket would also contain a wiring harness that would include a cross-connected fiber-optic network, through which the image from each APS would be transferred to a complementary display panel on the opposite side of the cloaked object.

Scientists condemn new gene technique

Researchers have developed a technique to speed evolution by inserting human cancer-causing genes into animals and plants.
Hundreds of mutant breeds - which would normally take nature millennia to produce - could be developed in months by the method, known as hypermutability.
But the technique - designed to improve production of new animal and crop breeds - has shocked many scientists and environmentalists. Some say the process could result in organisms with human cancer-causing genes being released into the environment. Others worry that attempts to accelerate evolution could be dangerous.

Britain to Publish Files on UFO Sightings

As usual, UFOologists are optimistic and giddy.

Antigravitation in Biology: Natural Phenomena of Biological AntiGravitation Associated with Invisibility in Insects - Grebennikov's Cavity Structural Effect

Can you say that in English please?
Antigravity scooter uses bug shell mojo to hover
In 1988 scientist Viktor S. Grebennikov discovered that some types of insect chitin contain anti-gravitational properties.
Based on this opening and by using bionics principles, the author designed and builded antigravitational platform, and also, practically, developed principles manned flight with the speed up to 25 km/min. Since 1991-92 years the device was used by the author as a means of fast movement. Do you think he's for real or just buggin'? Via BB

Scalar Wars The Brave New World of Scalar Electromagnetics

For the past six months I have been undergoing the greatest paradigm shift I have ever had to go through. It has rattled my nerves and shaken my bones. This intense adjustment of my "world"has come about by studying the information given by Col. Tom Bearden at his website Cheniere. The new knowledge there has necessitated a total revision of my ideas about physical reality, the world we live in, and the future of humanity.
This paradigm shifting even actually made me dizzy on certain days as I tried to absorb and digest Bearden's vast amount of information. I am not a scientist at all, just a layman, and I have little comprehension of the math and high physics of this new science called "Scalar Electromagnetics."But there is a great deal of information at Cheniere which needs to become common knowledge as fast as possible, for the sake of the survival of life on earth.
To that end I have put together this small primer of Bearden's ideas, as a kind of "beginner's guide" to his website. (I have tried to underline certain words and phrases which are part of the new "jargon" of talking about these "new" phenomena. Also I have taken the liberty of bolding certain words and phrases to help them stick in the mind). DW

Uncle Sam is Watching You Very Carefully

Is psycho-killer Charlie Manson counseling the Pentagon? Does Admiral John Poindexter, the convicted brains behind the Iran-Contra Reagan Administration fiasco, commune each evening with the spirit of George Orwell?
The answer is a resounding "yes," and "yes."

Obey Chomsky - GIANT & Noam Together At Last

The GIANT sticker campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. Heidegger describes Phenomenology as "the process of letting things manifest themselves." Phenomenology attempts to enable people to see clearly something that is right before their eyes but obscured; things that are so taken for granted that they are muted by abstract observation.

The FIRST AIM OF PHENOMENOLOGY is to reawaken a sense of wonder about one's environment. The Giant sticker attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the sticker and their relationship with their surroundings. Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the product or motive is not obvious, frequent and novel encounters with the sticker provoke thought and possible frustration, nevertheless revitalizing the viewer's perception and attention to detail. The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker. Because Giant has a Posse has no actual meaning, the various reactions and interpretations of those who view it reflect their personality and the nature of their sensibilities.

Golden Turkey Awards

In 1978, Randy Dreyfuss, and Harry Medved co-authored a book called The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. The book was an instant hit, and and it was discovered that bad film fanatics comprise a flourishing American subculture. Harry, and his brother Michael Medved (who edited the first book) decided to further study this phenomenon and come out with a book establishing the worst of Hollywood's worst. This project would eventually involve lots of hard work, many more people, the casting (and counting) of 3000 ballots in a public vote, and the painful viewing of over 2,000 of the worst films to ever come out of Hollywood. Thus were The Golden Turkey Awards born.

Few of these results are easily brought to mind, with the exception of a few winners in the main categories of worst director and worst film, for example, but can you remember who won the worst animal performance? Was it Dinky the Chimp, or Muki the Wonder Hound? Did you know that Marlon Brando and Paul Newman have each won a Turkey? No? Well, for those who wish to refresh their knowledge of bad films, and reminisce about Hollywood's "worst of times", here is the complete list of nominees and winners in all the original 31 categories.

THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED: Quite possibly, the worst movie never made.

The infamous "lost" film of Jerry Lewis, which was buried due to a legal dispute between him and the writers of the original screenplay.

It tells the story of a self-centered circus clown, Helmut Doork, who is sent to a concentration camp after a drunken impersonation of Hitler. There, he befriends the Jewish children of the camp, and performs for them, angering the camp Commandant. He is accidentally sent with the children on a train to Auschwitz, and there, he is expected to lead the children, like a Pied Piper, to the gas chambers.

The film remains sealed away in Lewis' vault, and may never see the light of public showings. However, his rewritten SCREENPLAY has turned up, and Ive finally located it (with the help of Greywizard from unknownmovies.com). I have painstakingly transcribed it, and now, at last, YOU can read this ultrarare script for FREE.

Eternal life rings

An oldie, but still strange - a little something to wear with your tinfoil hat: Eternal life rings. - Chiaroscuro

Eyes in the Back of Your Mouth
The brain doesn’t care where visual input comes from. So why not see with a camera jacked into your tongue?

Bach-y-Rita has been experimenting with brain plasticity since the 1960s, but only in the last few years has the hardware become compact enough to create practical sensory input devices. His latest technology sends visual data through the tongue, which is jam-packed with nerves and coated with conductive saliva. A video camera worn on the forehead sends images to a laptop, which dumbs down the picture to 144 pixels. That signal is sent to a soviet-gray box, called a Tactile Display Unit, which converts the image to electrical impulses. The current winds up on a matrix of electrodes that tingle the image onto the tongue. In lab tests, the system enabled blind people to recognize letters, catch rolling balls, and watch candles flicker for the first time." - Chiaroscuro

New Ozric today: psychozoic

Are You a Man or a Mouse?
First human clone soon to be born, doctor says
DOCTOR REFUSES TO IDENTIFY MOTHER, GIVE EVIDENCE OF PROVOCATIVE CLAIM

The world's first human clone should be born in about seven weeks, an Italian gynecologist said at a news conference Tuesday.

Severino Antinori offered no evidence for his assertion.

During a feisty give-and-take with reporters at Rome's Foreign Press Club, he repeatedly declined to say where the mother was living, citing the need to protect her.

"I receive a lot of threats,'' he said.

Antinori -- who in 1994 helped a 62-year-old Italian woman become the oldest new mother in history -- is part of a consortium of doctors that announced last year it would attempt human cloning. In April, he told an interviewer that the group had successfully implanted cloned embryos in three women.

Tuesday, Antinori said the mother of what would be the first human clone was 33 weeks pregnant.

"I expect it during the first week in January,'' he said. "An absolutely healthy baby will be born.''

He said ultrasound scans -- which he did not provide -- indicated the fetus weighed between 5.5 pounds and 5.9 pounds.

Antinori refused to identify the woman who was to give birth or give her nationality. When asked where she was going to give birth, he said only, "Countries where this is permitted.''

With all the bombast he could muster, Antinori also blasted the Vatican, which has roundly condemned him, and expressed concern that the Italian secret services might put a tail on him.

He scolded a German reporter, complaining that German newspapers had likened him to Adolf Hitler.

And he accused a rival scientist of planting a spy in the consortium.

While we're on the subject...
Stem-cell experts debate plan to create human-mouse hybrid

American and Canadian biologists are debating whether to recommend conducting stem-cell experiments that would involve creating a human-mouse hybrid.

The goal would be to test different lines of human embryonic stem cells for their quality and potential usefulness in treating specific diseases. The best way to do that, some biologists argue, is to see how the cells work in a living animal. For ethical reasons, the test cannot be performed in people.

But if the human stem cells were tested this way in mice, any animals born from the experiment would be chimeras -- organisms that are mixtures of two different kinds of cells -- with human cells distributed throughout their body. Though the creatures would probably be mice with a few human cells obeying mouse rules, the outcome of such an experiment cannot be predicted. A mouse with a brain made entirely of human cells would probably be discomforting to many people, as would a mouse that generated human sperm or eggs.
Blogula commentary: Don't tell me you haven't contemplated where this is leading...

Spectres of the Spectrum: A Culture Jammer's Cinematic Call to Action

In his recently completed collage essay film Spectres of the Spectrum San Francisco's Craig Baldwin posits a time traveling telepathic media pirate called BooBoo who enters a wormhole and sees all the TV shows from when they first began to be broadcast. She travels through all of the last century's decades of broadcast media history. A psychic media archeologist and angry, intrepid chrononaut, BooBoo witnesses the gradual takeover of the electromagnetic spectrum from within by both the U.S. military-industrial complex and Big Business.

Pioneers and brilliant inventors like Nikola Tesla were robbed of their ideas by financially more powerful entities. Philo T Farnsworth's radical television ideas were appropriated by a team led by David Sarnoff, head of RCA, who then used them to finance the development of national television. As BooBoo traverses the airwaves, she is guided by her father, Yogi, who keeps her updated with dispatches from his illegally broadcast pirate TV station code called TV Tesla.

BooBoo eventually 'crashes the system' of the New Electromagnetic Order (NEO) by retrieving a hidden message from her mother in and old episode of Science in Action, flying into the sun and redirecting its 'free' energy to destroy the infrastructure of the military/entertainment complex. The film itself is made from the materials the onscreen characters themselves examine for clues: corporate training and propaganda, educational materials and old TV programming. Haunting and strange, early television pictures were once recorded on 16mm film from a TV tube, via a process known as kinetoscope. Never destined for use anytime beyond the days they were broadcast, 1950s black and white shows like Science in Action and Korla Pandit ended up on the trash heaps and landfills of post cold war era television.

// BROKEN WRIST PROJECT \\

BWP is a collective of creative ink sniffers...It's as if a Juxtapoz magazine heroes club strolled into the brightest bookshop on the block and yelled pictures at pages. Also check out 3AM for more fun reading.

Some of the best comics online

Some of the best comics ever are online. Some independent, some ubiquitous, and all too cool for syndication. Does anyone else know any good online comics?
metafilter discussion

RIAA punishing Navy cadets 'because it can'

The RIAA may be "I demand the story be taken down immediately" - RIAA shocked (shocked!) by our satirical treatment of the US Navy Academy's confiscation of PCs containing MP3s, but Register readers are just as shocked that the RIAA has gone for a soft target.

Scientific American: Throwing Einstein for a Loop

Physicist Fotini Markopoulou Kalamara has developed a way to connect relativity with quantum theory--while making sure that cause still precedes effect. - Chiaroscuro

CBS sells fake news

How low can TV "journalism" sink? For years CBS (and all the other networks) have run fake news stories in the form of Video News Releases (VNRs). But now, CBS is also in the business of creating, producing and distributing fake news! Every day phony TV news stories appear on TV networks and their affiliates. Viewers believe that they are watching real news reports, but are fooled into viewing VNRS produced by PR firms on behalf of their clients.

Thousands of VNRS are produced and aired every year. TV news directors save money by filling air time with PR disguised as news. VNRs of course are slanted "news" stories, subtly biased to promote a product or idea in stealth fashion. VNRs constitute plagiarism and an unethical deception perpetrated by TV news directors upon viewers who mistakenly trust them.

Now CBS has taken this outrage to a new level by entering the profitable business of selling, producing and distributing VNRs. A CBS Media Group advertisement in the current PR Week urges potential clients to hire CBS and "put one of the world's leading media companies to work for you" producing video news releases.

CBS even guarantees "placement on the CBS Newspath VNR feed." Karen L. Kapnick, formerly an account manager with MediaLink, runs CBS's business of selling and distributing fake news. (via)

God is a Hacker: Stephen Wolfram argues (at Comdex) that the universe is composed of code

Physicist Stephen Wolfram took the stage this week at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, evangelizing a computing-centric view of the universe that might sit better with the technology industry than it has with some other audiences.

Mr. Wolfram believes the universe is composed not of particles and waves, but of simple tiny programs. He believes these myriad programs, or algorithms, give rise to physical phenomena as fundamental as space and as complicated as human beings.
Scientists accustomed to explaining the universe's workings through mathematical equations haven't always received Mr. Wolfram's ideas warmly. But the computer industry, whose inventions allowed Mr. Wolfram to develop his philosophy, could be an easier sell. Mr. Wolfram elevates the seemingly mechanistic computing tasks to the central role in the origin and functioning of the cosmos.

Ultimately, technologists will be able to harness this constant computational churning for practical purposes, he predicted in remarks after the speech. Via weblogsky

Bush signs Homeland Security bill

President Bush signed legislation Monday creating a new Department of Homeland Security devoted to preventing domestic terror attacks. He promised it "will focus the full resources of the American government on the safety of the American people." The president picked Tom Ridge as the department's first secretary.
Bush's signature launched the most sweeping federal reorganization since the Defense Department's birth in 1947, a process that his spokesman said could take up to two years to complete.
See the executive summary here.

Roswell Smoking Gun?

Roswell Smoking Gun? Army General said to be holding document in press photo (Not the one they used obviously) that reveals proof of cover-up: "Using a digital photo scanner to enlarge and enhance words printed on the folded piece of paper Ramey held, and using another computer program to select the most likely words, researcher David Rudiak, who has a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley, found two key phrases: "the victims of the wreck" and "in the 'disc' they will ship."
Blogula commentary: "Our analysis shows that they missed a word; simulacrum."
The show on Sci-Fi? Can anyone say, Al Capone's Vault?
metafilter discussion

Strange Quakes from Strange Quarks?

It sounds stranger than fiction: particles the size of red blood cells but weighing a metric ton, slicing through Earth like bullets through cotton. That's the scenario envisioned by geophysicists who found two bizarre earthquakes that apparently shot clear through the planet. The culprits, they believe, were "strange quark nuggets"--exotic bits of matter hypothesized to drift through space, but never detected.

Prangstgrüp

Prangstgrüp are a bunch of folks from Columbia University who go out in public and do funny things, like performing musical theater in the middle of a library. Via memepool

KEEP BIG BROTHER'S HANDS OFF THE INTERNET
USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, October 1997
By Senator John Ashcroft

Welcome to the American Gestapo

Famed Primatologist Declares Bush Administration a Bunch of Damn Dirty Apes!
The Bush Administration has been accused of being many things ever since it started the War on Terror , and now it looks like yet another colorful description can be added to the list : that they are nothing more than a bunch of hairless apes, specifically chimpanzees.

That is , if a recent comparison between the Bush Administration and chimpanzees by famed primatologist Richard Wrangham , author of 1996's Demonic Males is to be believed .

According to Wrangham , who for years observed that chimpanzees in the Kibale Forest of Uganda were capable of the same violent warring behavior as humans , says that "America, as the dominant power in the world, is involved in more aggressive interactions than any other country," he says. "It’s the same with chimpanzees: the alpha male is always involved in putting down threats they see about them; they’re always breaking up alliances, challenging rivals."

Furthermore , he claims that far from being a new kind of warfare , the current tactics in vogue among terrorists such as the Sept.11 attack are actually merely a back-to-basics retro-style of fighting,"In primitive society, this is what war consisted of. Setting fire to a hut with 50 people in it, or attacking the World Trade Center."

The U.S. too has reverted back to primitive type by employing the same military strategies used by stealthy chimp patrols in Uganda , in the form of it's covert "quick-hit-raid " Special Operations, which he warns , will only worsen the situation. "This is very alarming," Wrangham says. "Traditional warfare — mutual raiding — is very difficult to stop. It is much more punishing on everybody. There is just much more suffering.

What we need, he argues , is to perhaps give peace another chance.

"People have to recognize that the old systems of protection are not going to be adequate. This is the message from Al Qaeda. The message is that now more than ever, we need a moral agreement in the world, because military agreements and military tactics are going to be very ineffective against mutual raiding."

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In Joseph Conrad's classic Heart of Darkness , Kurtz dies tragically after being dehumanized in the African wilderness after learning the truth of the dark side of human nature which he ultimately succumbed to. This discovery so disturbs Marlow , that he is loathe to share this with anyone else , especially Kurtz's wife , whom he lies to regarding the nature of her husband's final words.

Now it seems science has apparently validated Joseph Conrad's theories of human nature , based on observations made by Harvard professor and chimpanzee expert Richard Wrangham and fellow scientists on the" warfare " behavior of chimpanzees in the Kibale forest of Uganda.

According to Wrangham , author of 1996's Demonic Males , not only were male chimpanzees found to actually be using sticks as weapons in fighting among each other , a phenomenom among animals which had been unheard-of-till-now, they also exhibited an eeriely virtually humanlike capacity for group aggression, as he notes that .

"One of the amazing things is how there are these similarities between nation-states and chimpanzees in a group. We are the only two species of mammals who raid territories."

In one excerpt from his book , Demon Males , he describes one such encounter:"The raiders rushed madly down the slope to their target. While Goliath screamed and the patrol hooted and displayed, he was held and beaten and kicked and lifted and dropped and bitten and jumped on.... His aggressors showed their excitement in a continuous barrage of hooting and drumming and charging and branch-waving and screaming.

Even more disturbing , chimpanzees were also seen to be capable of the human tendency toward wanton barbarity ,

" In Wrangham’s office there is a picture of a corpse — a chimpanzee who has been set upon by aggressors. The animal is lying face down, frozen into a kind of crucifixion pose, as if he had died while being pinned down. Strips of skin have been peeled from his body. He bears the marks of countless puncture wounds and contusions. In another photograph, one of the victim’s blue-gray testicles lies nestled in the brush. The chimpanzee had been tortured to death."

Wertham concludes that the evidence means that human beings are then thus stuck with being naturally hard-wired for violence,

"There is that implication, that’s right. We’re stuck with the propensity for violence, at least. That is the slightly alarming thing about this. It is daunting.".

This is so he says, because chimpanzees are "time machines", so genetically similar to us that they are in fact most likely what our own ancestors looked and acted like 6 million years ago , "The underlying emotional systems that guide humans," he says, "are almost certainly very similar to those that guide chimpanzees."

Furthermore , Wertham asserts that the blame for the high level of violence in both human and chimp societies can be attributed primarily to males , saying that " In the course of our evolution,aggressive males have enjoyed greater reproductive success; therefore, the process of natural selection has favored violent behavior.By extension , patriarchal societies exhibit similar tendencies . This leads to an interesting assessment of the Bush Administration and it's War on Terror in comparison with chimpanzees.

Obviously , a theory like this which is as seemingly radical to the current scientific orthodoxy , as Darwinian Evolution was in it's day,would have difficulty getting accepted by the mainstream, which Wertham rails against .

"This seems to me to be foolish optimism. Even in the scientific area, there’s a tendency to allow hope to overcome reason. So you have people writing that humans are basically good and cooperative, and where we have aggression and war it’s all an abnormal mistake that we can easily overcome. I see that they would get a readier reception than someone like me, and I understand that, because nobody wants bad news. But it’s putting our heads in the sand. Therefore, it’s dangerous."
Recycled from Plastic

Chaos Never Died.
Nice resource page at KAAOS.ORG that includes free Ebooks on the subject of Kaos, Chaos, and Kaos Magick.

Yeah, if it Wasn't for the Masons...You'd All Be Speaking English Right Now!
The early American territories were a refuge for groups with unorthodox ideas about things. So it comes as not unexpected that Freemasonry would find an outlet for its ideals in the Great Experiment of governance, the American republic.
The origin of American Freemasonry like the beginning of the "craft" itself is a historical mystery. Records exist of individual Freemasons emigrating to North America and of a ship christened "Freemason." But the first documentation of Freemasonry's organized existence in America was a December 8, 1730 article by Benjamin Franklin in his Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper. Franklin must have stumbled on to something while digging for the story. Two months later he joined the Brotherhood himself. Read On->