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Fringe Science
Nik, I read the article about call center workers being able to change their accents. My takeaway from it was this quote: "“It allows us to avoid social reality, which is that you are two human beings on the same planet, that you have obligations to each other. It’s pointing to a lonelier future.” If we can't tell what's real, or if we even suspect that we're being duped by technology, if we know that's a possibility, we just give up on having honest human interaction. That's the way we're headed, isn't it, with this virtual reality stuff? I find it depressing.
Scout wrote: "....we just give up on having honest human interaction. That's the way we're headed, isn't it, with this virtual reality stuff? I find it depressing...."Maybe not completely, but to a large degree homo sapiens will turn into a homo virtual. It has sad sides, but positive ones too. To feel what is lost, one needs to experience an alternative to compare. Digital generations won't know the analogue era like we do. Hope they'll do fine though.
I found one for Papaphilly, and it isn't the Jersey Devil. Did the Vikings make it to New Jersey?Mystery of ‘Viking’ Figurehead Found Locally Continues
https://www.thesandpaper.net/articles...
Skeleton of female "vampire" unearthed at cemetery in Poland: "Pure astonishment"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vampire-...
Should be interesting, but I suspect not very definitive
Won’t be too surprised now, if I run into a mammoth or a sabertooth tiger 🐅
Fringe science: invisibility. The US military has inviso. We got it two ways, one by absorbing light, the other by deflecting it. Fringe science: large heavy lifting bodies. Yep, USA has that too. I have no idea how some of it works, but it does.
Bigfoot and Sasquatch however do not exist. Too bad, I needed them for my dinosaur cavalry.
Damnit. I just blabbed about dino cav. WE TOTALLY DON'T HAVE DINO CAV, I SWEAR!
Eric wrote: "Fringe science: invisibility. The US military has inviso. We got it two ways, one by absorbing light, the other by deflecting it. Fringe science: large heavy lifting bodies. Yep, USA has that too..."
South African Pastor Farts on Congregants to 'Heal' and 'Cure' Them, Photo Goes Viral
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/sout...
Spontaneous human combustion in the light of the 21st centuryhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22269...
And now I discover I am probably a contributor to the fringe :-(Today Alain Aspect won a Nobel prize for his work showing pronounced violations of Bell's Inequality. In my ebook "Guidance Waves" published about ten years ago I showed that while this was a fantastic experiment (no argument about the results) he showed no such thing because he had insufficient true variables. Had he used a polarized source, obtained by passing the source light through polarizing filters, the results would comply with Bell's Inequality. Further, if with a motor the filters were rapidly rotated to give the impression of a rotationally invariant background, then violations would appear. Aspect assumed a fixed background but it had to be rotationally invariant, and consequently he did not have enough real variables to put into the inequalities.
This has been a weird morning for me.
Ian wrote: "And now I discover I am probably a contributor to the fringe :-(Today Alain Aspect won a Nobel prize for his work showing pronounced violations of Bell's Inequality. In my ebook "Guidance Waves" ..."
I have a lot of reading to do before I can comment. Any recommendations?
Leaving aside my ebook, if you want to understand the standard position a reasonably user-friendly book is "Beyond Measure" by Jim Baggot. The part specifically about Bell's Inequality is only a small part of the book, so try for a library first
These Massachusetts communities have reported a surprising number of ghost sightingshttps://www.boston25news.com/news/loc...
Fact Check: Does 'Alien' Video Show UFO Drawing Energy From the Sun?https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-d...
J. wrote: "Fact Check: Does 'Alien' Video Show UFO Drawing Energy From the Sun?https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-d..."
If an image is taken of material at several million degrees C and the amount of light is stopped down so as to get an image, ordinary "sun-material" at 5,300 degrees C will look black because the amount of light it is emitting is far less.
If an alien space ship was drawing energy from the sun, the ship would be far too small to see. These enthusiasts probably don't realise how big the sun actually is.
Most people don't understand scales beyond their personal experiences.
War has a way of creating ghost stories. This is one from US Marines, serving in Afghanistan, which made it into the New York Times.An Ancient Hill and Forgotten Dead: Afghanistan’s Haunted Outpost
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/wo...
The history of carnage in Ukraine is as long as in Afghanistan. I wonder how many ghosts will be stirred up by the current combatants.
I have traveled into the future. It is wild. I ly my head down and when I raise it again, it is eight hours later....8^)
Neat. Just remember that thanks to Relativity, from their perspective, the astronauts aboard the ISS are getting to the future in less time than you are.
Papaphilly wrote: "I have traveled into the future. It is wild. I ly my head down and when I raise it again, it is eight hours later....8^)"Relish it. When you get older you will wake up more than once during those 8 hrs. :-(
Ian wrote: "Papaphilly wrote: "I have traveled into the future. It is wild. I ly my head down and when I raise it again, it is eight hours later....8^)"Relish it. When you get older you will wake up more tha..."
I am older
Multiverse Model: External Universe(s) as Source of Dark Energyhttps://www.scirp.org/journal/paperin...
Ian wrote: "Yet you may get older still."I plan to live long enough to become an embarrassment to the family....8^)
Great ambition :-) As they say, live long and try to prosper, and if you can't. well, there's the family to embarrass.
For some reason, Great Britain has a history of panther sightings.Is a PANTHER on the loose in the Peak District? Camper says his mobile phone has captured big cat feeding on dead sheep
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
6,000-year-old skull found in Taiwan may confirm ancient local legendshttps://www.jpost.com/archaeology/art...
J. wrote: "The Myth of Fingerprintshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc..."
An interesting insight. Gotta remember that nothing is perfect
The real vampires of New Orleans and Buffalo: a research note towards comparative ethnographyhttps://www.nature.com/articles/palco...
Biden and National Archives sued over JFK assassination recordshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawsuit-...
Bioethicists must rethink the concept of death: the idea of brain death is not appropriate for cryopreservationhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti....
'Unsolved Mysteries': 1994 Michigan UFO Still Puzzling Today—Here's Whyhttps://www.newsweek.com/unsolved-mys...
J. wrote: "Bioethicists must rethink the concept of death: the idea of brain death is not appropriate for cryopreservationhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti......"
Cryopreservation is an exciting theme per se, important inter alia for long distance space travel soon to begin
I'm not sure that being frozen for hundreds to thousands of years is a great way to travel. You won't rot because at those temperatures you are nearly chemically inert. But nuclear decay doesn't care about the cold.You are constantly hit with low level background radiation. In fact, you are yourself very slightly radioactive.
https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate...
These levels of radiation are irrelevant to you because you are constantly repairing or replacing damaged cells. However, if you're a Nik-cicle all of that damage is just piling up, day after day for centuries. If you're on ice long enough, you could literally wake-up dead.
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