News Briefs 06-09-2012
Posted by Greg at 12:42, 06 Sep 2012A late-notice gathering of news briefs, as RPJ's internet connection has been taken down by the Blue Pill supporters...
- ESP evidence fails key test of repeatability. Except for these little details.
- Mystery parts of DNA found to be far from 'junk' in massive new study.
- Should we go to Venus before Mars?
- Finding aliens by looking for their spaceships.
- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton backs 100 Year Starship project.
- Time slows down when we prepare to move.
- Dybbuk stops here (see what they did there?) - discussing the paranormal object at the centre of this year's horror hit, The Possession.
- Why do schizophrenics hear voices.
- How consciousness evolved, and why a planetary ubermind is inevitable.
- Sir Roger Penrose's foreword to A Computable Universe, on consciousness, hypercomputation and a new type of physics.
- Cheetah-bot outpaces Usain Bolt. Hey, if Pistorius can run the 400m, surely cheetah-bot has a chance at the next Olympics?
- Recent Loch Ness Monster photo prompted a disappointing response from the skeptical community.
- The science of the subjective.
Quote of the Day:
consciousness is indeed functional and is not an “epiphenomenon” that simply
happens to accompany certain kinds of cognitive processes.
Sir Roger Penrose
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12 April 2007
2 hours 19 min
Those Blue Pill cabrones, man :(
Thanks a mil, skipper. Sorry for the inconvenience.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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21 February 2006
18 weeks 16 hours
Nice to hear that former President Clinton is behind the 100 Year Starship journey. The task will require a very busy century of development to launch to Alpha Centauri by 2100. The task is harder than "Star Trek" and UFO Folklore might lead one to believe.
The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we CAN imagine.
18 September 2007
10 hours 9 min
I hate to be a stick in the mud about this, but I don't think we deserve to spend money on these grandiose and quite expensive space projects while there are so many people suffering economically right now, and while the planet is being ecologically maimed. These projects almost sound like a capitulation to the idea that our home planet is beyond help and we might as well set our sights on another planet to ruin. I know that a lot of wonderful new technology can issue forth from the space projects, but I just wish the urgency of our problems here on this planet caused us to spend more money trying to solve them rather than shoot ourselves off into space. By the same token we should be drastically reducing expenditures on the military/industrial complex which is justifying itself via false flagged wars. We are deploying our fiscal assets so irresponsibly as to be courting a huge planetary disaster. Our true "space" program ought to be concerning itself with our own "space."