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LinkedInOne of the sites that I like to subscribe to is Mitch Battros' Earth Changes Media, and this past week, while I was away on my business trip, Mr. Battros reported on an interesting conference on space weather sponsored by NASA: NASA and Space Weather The paragraphs that grabbed my attention were these: "Bolden began his address with the acknowledgement that space weather events (such as solar flares, cmes, coronal holes, filaments, gamma ray burst, and galactic cosmic rays) - which he further emphasized the fact that 'space weather can be as devastating to the planet as serious … [Read more...]
PLAYING DARPA IN THE TRANSHUMANIST SCRAPBOOK OF MON(STER)SANTO
June 2, 2013 By
Ok, I admit, the title of this blog - "Playing DARPA in the Tranhumanist Scrapbook of Mon(ster)santo" - reflects my profound personal confusion over where to file this one. Do I file it under the apocalyptic absurdist arabesques of DARPA, or do I file it under the galloping goofiness of transhumanism, or ascribe it to the latest corporate witchcraft and government-bribing sorcery of "agribusiness"? I admit, I'm at a complete loss, so perhaps you can help me. Where would you file this?: Glowing Plants: Street Lights of the Future? Now, you can readily imagine the nice clean green … [Read more...]
DARPA AT IT AGAIN: ROBOTS WITH BRAINS
April 14, 2013 By
Quite a few of you sent me this one, and I think it's definitely worth posting, especially in the context of yesterday's blog about NASA's plan to drag asteroids to the Moon and mine them. There is a new architecture coming out for the enhancement of robotic performance, an architecture that will allow robots to be "independent," i.e., to learn in a fashion, and to perform tasks, in an almost human fashion: DARPA Building Robots With ‘Real’ Brains Take note of a couple of paragraphs here: "What sets this new device apart from any others is that it has nano-scale interconnected wires … [Read more...]
STRANGE STUFF ON ASTEROID?
April 13, 2013 By
If you were following the blogs last week, you'll recall I speculated a bit - well, a lot actually - on NASA's announcement that it wants to mine asteroids by hauling those in near Earth orbits to the Moon, to "park" them in orbits there and mine them from bases on the Moon. And you'll recall I spoke to this on last week's News and Views from the Nefarium, where I indicated a BBC News article about the mineral wealth scientists believe to be stored on Eros 433, which just happens to be one of those asteroids NASA is thinking about "mining." But the real question might be, "mining for what?" … [Read more...]
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM APRIL 11, 2013
April 11, 2013 By
Joseph talks about asteroid mining, secret space programs, the breakaway civilization, and the new movie Elysium. … [Read more...]
SECRET SPACE PROGRAM ANYONE? NASA WANTS TO MOVE AND MINE ASTEROIDS
April 10, 2013 By
Now this one, folks, is really really interesting... Ms. P.H. kindly send this one to me and I had to do a double take and rub my eyes, because it is roundabout corroboration of a suspicion I entertained in my book Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations, and don't be surprised if this gets a mention in the sequel, Covert Wars and the Clash of Civilizations. So exactly what is it a roundabout corroboration of? (Patience, we'll get around to what we're talking about eventually) For those of you who haven't read Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations, in that book I reviewed at some … [Read more...]
NASA, ASTEROIDS, AND DEATH STARS
April 3, 2013 By
A few days ago I blogged about an unusual negotiation between Japan and the USA to monitor "space debris"... or, space "whatever," a blog that was based on an article in a Chinese news service (presumably of Communist, not Nationalist, China). There I pointed out that one of the unusual points about the negotiation was that one provision apparently was to cover both countries monitoring "space ships" and reporting their data to each other: "But there is that “second interpretation” that hovers over the words “Japan and the United States on Monday held their first meeting of the … [Read more...]
WARP DRIVE CAPABILITY AMONG THE GOALS OF DARPA: PART TWO
March 30, 2013 By
Yesterday I talked about the public admissions by DARPA and NASA that they were conducting actual experiments on the notion of a warp drive for deep space exploration and (though not stated, always an implication) colonization by humans. Such a practical capability would, as I suggested yesterday, give humanity not merely a practical interplanetary capability but a practical interstellar one. All this was made possible by the publication of the equations for such space-warping by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre. But I ended by suggesting that maybe we're simply being publicly … [Read more...]
WARP DRIVE CAPABILITY AMONG THE GOALS OF DARPA: PART ONE
March 29, 2013 By
Many of you sent this to me, Mr. VT, Ms P.H....so many in fact I cannot thank you all, but I agree with all of you, this is one that is highly significant in so many ways. Here's the article: Warp Factor In one sense, the sequence of events is predictable. Newton had to publish the equations for gravity and optics before reliable technologies could be constructed on their basis, but once he did, he unwittingly unleashed the industrial revolution. By the same token, the equations of space warps are already out there and have been since the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre published … [Read more...]
TIDBIT: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT ALL THE STRANGE STUFF ON MARS WAS JUST A TRICK OF LIGHT AND SHADOW…
February 10, 2013 By
Now, just when you thought all that talk about strange anomalous artificial-looking "stuff' on Mars had been emptied(we would argue, unsuccessfully), NASA's Mars Curiosity rover takes this little picture (and our thanks to Ms. P.H. for sharing this with us): NASA's Mars Curiosity's "Shiny Little Thing"; the anomaly is visible toward the top center of the picture and looks like a couple of Screws bored into the rock; the link to the actual NASA image is : http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00173/mcam/0173MR0926020000E1_DXXX.jpg … [Read more...]