just like velcro, non slip surfaces, microwaves..

[bennycog]

maybe we need a thread for the 'so called' new breakthroughs in science and why they are being given to us at these moments in time..




http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/8412315/scientists-trial-mind-reading-computer

It's long been the stuff of science fiction, but scientists say a "mind reader" may be closer than previously thought.

Neuroscientists from the University of California Berkley have invented a computer program which can decode brain activity and translate it into words.

It may be a breakthrough for those whose speech has been affected by stroke or degenerative diseases, but the technology has also raised concerns about the potential to eavesdrop on people’s thoughts.

A recent trial of the technology saw researchers from the university test 15 people who were already undergoing brain surgery to treat epilepsy or brain tumors.

The patients each had 256 electrodes put on the surface of their temporal lobe, which processes speech and images, and then listened to men and women speaking individual words including object and place names.

A computer program analysed the brain activity and reproduced the word they had heard, or something very similar, at the first attempt.

[crosby]

thanks bennycog, this is very interesting. although i feel that this is a remarkable advancement for stroke and degenerative victims, i am inclined to worry about the implications for the eavesdropping implementation. i remember watching a documentary by alex jones where a brief clip stated that the workings were already underway to arrest people for their thoughts of a criminal (or supposed criminal) action, before it is actually done. the true thought police in action. scary thoughts indeed. great thread, with scary implications.
regards, corson

[bennycog]

We here at avalon and awakened ones that listen to whistleblowers are told that civalization is probably hundreds of years advanced in the shadowy part of our planet.. we are told we are living on and off our world.. these scientists are in on it ?
they bring stuff out because it is old news now?
or they have no idea whats behind the curtain?

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/amazing-science-breakthroughs.html

Incredible Science Discoveries


It has been an amazing month for science:
•MIT researchers have succeeded in printing solar panels onto any piece of paper
•Scientists at MIT have designed a drug that can cure virtually any viral infection.
•Scientists at the University of Pennsylvannia have found a way of "turning the patients' own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their [leukemia] cancer cells"
•A Chinese team has developed a fuel cell that can clean water as it generates electricity
•Dutch company PlantLab has figured out how to triple the yield of plants using only 10% of the water typically needed, using a method which doesn't require any pesticides:



When grown outdoors plant photosynthesis is only about 9% efficient. With the correct balance of colored LED light, PlantLab has increased that efficiency to 12 or 15%, aiming for 18%. Double the efficiency means increased yield (or more likely equal yield with less energy). By keeping the plants in a contained system, PlantLab can also recycle evaporated water, which helps them grow crops using just one tenth the water as with traditional greenhouses. Because PlantLab’s harvest is indoors, they don’t have pests (and could quickly isolate rooms that somehow got contaminated) and they don’t need pesticides. Finally, PlantLab’s production facilities can be built almost anywhere: from the Sahara to the Artic, it’s all going to look the same indoors. So everyone’s food can be grown as local as possible. That means fresher food with less costs of transportation.

PlantLab’s Gertjan Meeuws recently discussed some of the other benefits and results of their work on Southern California public radio (KPCC). He claims they’re able to increase crop yield by a factor of three so far.
•Physicists at Niels Bohr Institute maintained quantum entanglement for an hour. Quantum entanglement means that two objects should be too far apart to effect one another but - due to quantum mechanics - change to one instantly induces changes the other. Quantum entanglement will one day allow much better computer cryptography, form the backbone of quantum computing, and may allow for interstellar communication systems between spacefaring humans traveling among the stars, make it possible to store information in black holes, or even allow information to instantly pass from past to future.

•And for the first time ever, scientists filmed (from a spacecraft) a coronal mass ejection from the sun washing over the Earth. Watch the video (40 megs, takes a while to download; the Earth is the blue ball on the left)

Click here for more amazing science discoveries.

[ktlight]

I would like to watch the footage of the coronal mass ejection from the sun over earth. Can you please provide a link?

[bennycog]

hey light.. this is the website it directs you too. you need to download quicktime to watch it ..
http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/solar/cme_earth3.mov

http://www.seti.org.au/spacecom/quantumcom.html

Exploitation of interstellar space has three major hurdles - distance, resources and time. These pose insuperable technical problems unless politically acceptable solutions are found. There are problems. One is the vast distances to be crossed, the next - the enormous risk to human life, the next - retrieving the information within a reasonable time frame, and the last is the resources needed to achieve the result. These problems are not as difficult to solve today as it may once have appeared. This partially speculative paper exposes a way to decimate the problem and create new industries for the future while securing a foothold in space. I have previously discussed one of the problems of interstellar travel which poses further technical problems (20) yet possibly solves the most crucial ones for human travel. This paper explores the possibility of the creation of an interstellar network grid with instantaneous communications facility. Some technologies exist already, others are looming on the horizon of existing technology. No warp drives or wormholes needed to provide the solutions. This proposal attempts to solve all the major objections to human risk, distance, time, and resource utilizing a superficially similar variant of "Bell’s Telephone". The problem also requires major technical advances in exploiting ZPE with comparatively minor advances in other technologies to make it a reality in the near future.

Some preliminary implications involving the SETI Program and the possibility of encountering an existing "alien" network are canvassed.

http://io9.com/5744143/particles-can-be-quantum-entangled-through-time-as-well-as-space

Particles can be quantum entangled through time as well as space


Quantum entanglement says that two particles can become intertwined so that they always share the same properties, even if they're separated in space. Now it seems particles can be entangled in time, too. Who's ready for some serious quantum weirdness?

Of all the ideas in modern physics, quantum entanglement is a serious contender for the absolute strangest. Basically, entangled particles share all their quantum properties, even if they are separated by massive distances in space. The really odd part is that any changes made to the properties of one particle will instantly occur in the other particle. There are some subtle reasons why this doesn't actually violate the speed of light, but here's the short version: this is all very, very bizarre.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110817094920.htm

ScienceDaily (Aug. 17, 2011) — Quantum communication could be an option for the absolutely secure transfer of data. The key component in quantum communication over long distances is the special phenomenon called entanglement between two atomic systems. Entanglement between two atomic systems is very fragile and up until now researchers have only been able to maintain the entanglement for a fraction of a second. But in new experiments at the Niels Bohr Institute researchers have succeeded in setting new records and maintaining the entanglement for up to an hour.

[bennycog]

the body is full of water.. the defense industry would have had something to do with releasing this into the public..

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/8533290/scientists-find-way-to-make-liquid-levitate

In what looks like a magic trick, scientists have developed a way to levitate drops of liquid using sound waves.

The US Department of Energy's national laboratory carried out the study to levitate solutions containing different pharmaceuticals in an effort to improve the drug development process.

Releasing their findings this week, scientists said the experiment may lead to the development of new drugs that are easier for the body to absorb and more effective.

The experiment used a contraption consisting of two small speakers that generate sound waves at roughly 22-kilohertz, just above the range humans can hear.

The speakers were positioned one above the other so their sound waves interfered with each other and created what is known as a standing wave.

At points along the standing wave the acoustic pressure from the sound waves was strong enough to cancel out gravity, enabling light objects to hover in midair.

The phenomenon was first discovered by NASA to stimulate microgravity conditions.

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are now using it to try and develop a way to alter the chemical compounds of drugs so they are easier for the body to absorb.

"One of the biggest challenges when it comes to drug development is in reducing the amount of the drug needed to attain the therapeutic benefit," said Argonne X-ray physicist Chris Benmore, who led the study.

"Most drugs on the market are crystalline — they don't get fully absorbed by the body and thus we aren't getting the most efficient use out of them," said Argonne senior manager Yash Vaishnav.

[lookbeyond]

Hey Benny, twice ive removed the icecube tray in the freezer to find a drop of water has "dripped" up and frozen! still connected to the cube. Can you figure that out? Should have taken a photo...

lookbeyond

[bennycog]

not sure i could figure it out lookb... but i could come up with some useless theories that are unbacked.. or that would suit my own way of thinking ;)

[lookbeyond]

Thatl do !

lookbeyond

[bennycog]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/2012/12/11/17/53/canadian-company-says-it-has-made-invisibility-cloak

Mr Cramer said he could not reveal how the material bent light or show photos of it working "for reasons of security".

Photos published on the website that are described as a "mock up" show a woman lying on grass draped in a material that looks exactly like the grass around her.

Mr Cramer said the US military and two Canadian military groups had tested the material and could vouch for it working "without batteries, lights or mirrors".

[conk]

Hey Benny, twice ive removed the icecube tray in the freezer to find a drop of water has "dripped" up and frozen! still connected to the cube. Can you figure that out? Should have taken a photo...

lookbeyond
This happens in my freezer all the time! I get little rods that are integral to the cube. Often they are one inch long and stick straight up. They resemble little handles for the cube.

[bennycog]

Hey Benny, twice ive removed the icecube tray in the freezer to find a drop of water has "dripped" up and frozen! still connected to the cube. Can you figure that out? Should have taken a photo...

lookbeyond
This happens in my freezer all the time! I get little rods that are integral to the cube. Often they are one inch long and stick straight up. They resemble little handles for the cube.

add some fresh juice.. and start selling them :)

[Flash]

the body is full of water.. the defense industry would have had something to do with releasing this into the public..

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/8533290/scientists-find-way-to-make-liquid-levitate

In what looks like a magic trick, scientists have developed a way to levitate drops of liquid using sound waves.

The US Department of Energy's national laboratory carried out the study to levitate solutions containing different pharmaceuticals in an effort to improve the drug development process.

Releasing their findings this week, scientists said the experiment may lead to the development of new drugs that are easier for the body to absorb and more effective.

The experiment used a contraption consisting of two small speakers that generate sound waves at roughly 22-kilohertz, just above the range humans can hear.

The speakers were positioned one above the other so their sound waves interfered with each other and created what is known as a standing wave.

At points along the standing wave the acoustic pressure from the sound waves was strong enough to cancel out gravity, enabling light objects to hover in midair.

The phenomenon was first discovered by NASA to stimulate microgravity conditions.

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are now using it to try and develop a way to alter the chemical compounds of drugs so they are easier for the body to absorb.

"One of the biggest challenges when it comes to drug development is in reducing the amount of the drug needed to attain the therapeutic benefit," said Argonne X-ray physicist Chris Benmore, who led the study.

"Most drugs on the market are crystalline — they don't get fully absorbed by the body and thus we aren't getting the most efficient use out of them," said Argonne senior manager Yash Vaishnav.

building of the pyramids explained in one shot. Extrapolation is sooooo easy, how come no one in science has done it yet?

thanks for all these informations.

[RMorgan]

Hey Benny, twice ive removed the icecube tray in the freezer to find a drop of water has "dripped" up and frozen! still connected to the cube. Can you figure that out? Should have taken a photo...

lookbeyond
This happens in my freezer all the time! I get little rods that are integral to the cube. Often they are one inch long and stick straight up. They resemble little handles for the cube.

The same thing happens in caves all around the world, and it´s a pretty much natural thing.

Search for stalactites and stalagmites. ;)

In your case, water will naturally drop from the upper side of you refrigerators, connecting to the ice cubes.

When you remove the icecube tray, it will give the impression that the frozen structure is going from bottom to top, while in fact it´s made of drops that eventually connected to the tray; drop by drop.

Raf.

[ThePythonicCow]

In your case, water will naturally drop from the upper side of you refrigerators, connecting to the ice cubes.

When you remove the icecube tray, it will give the impression that the frozen structure is going from bottom to top, while in fact it´s made of drops that eventually connected to the tray; drop by drop.
I wonder if perhaps there might be another mechanism that could cause this.

Perhaps the water for a new ice cube freezes first on the outside, then as the inner water freezes, it expands and starts pushing out. If there was a small weak spot in the already frozen shell, the water might push out there first, freezing on the surface as it continues to push out.

[conk]

Hey Benny, twice ive removed the icecube tray in the freezer to find a drop of water has "dripped" up and frozen! still connected to the cube. Can you figure that out? Should have taken a photo...

lookbeyond
This happens in my freezer all the time! I get little rods that are integral to the cube. Often they are one inch long and stick straight up. They resemble little handles for the cube.

The same thing happens in caves all around the world, and it´s a pretty much natural thing.

Search for stalactites and stalagmites. ;)

In your case, water will naturally drop from the upper side of you refrigerators, connecting to the ice cubes.

When you remove the icecube tray, it will give the impression that the frozen structure is going from bottom to top, while in fact it´s made of drops that eventually connected to the tray; drop by drop.

Raf.I don't believe this is the action with my cubes. The little stick of ice protruding from, and connected to, the cube is often at a 45 or more degree angle. Not at all as if it were dripping from the top. These seem to shoot out from the cube.

[TargeT]

Hey Benny, twice ive removed the icecube tray in the freezer to find a drop of water has "dripped" up and frozen! still connected to the cube. Can you figure that out? Should have taken a photo...

lookbeyond
This happens in my freezer all the time! I get little rods that are integral to the cube. Often they are one inch long and stick straight up. They resemble little handles for the cube.

The same thing happens in caves all around the world, and it´s a pretty much natural thing.

Search for stalactites and stalagmites. ;)

In your case, water will naturally drop from the upper side of you refrigerators, connecting to the ice cubes.

When you remove the icecube tray, it will give the impression that the frozen structure is going from bottom to top, while in fact it´s made of drops that eventually connected to the tray; drop by drop.

Raf.I don't believe this is the action with my cubes. The little stick of ice protruding from, and connected to, the cube is often at a 45 or more degree angle. Not at all as if it were dripping from the top. These seem to shoot out from the cube.


its VERY rare that I don't ask a question to google before I ask a question anywhere else ;)



Ice spikes are odd ice structures that occasionally grow out of ice cube trays. Unlike some of the strange things you might find growing in your refrigerator, ice spikes are made of nothing but ice. Ice spikes are the result of physics, not biology.
Here are some pictures I took of ice spikes that grew in my kitchen freezer. They look a lot like the limestone stalagmites found in caves, although there was no water dripping inside my freezer when these formed.
To see your own ice spikes, make ice cubes in an ordinary ice cube tray, in an ordinary household freezer, but using distilled water, which you can buy in most supermarkets for about a dollar a gallon. We've tried several different freezers, and almost always got some ice spikes to grow.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/multspikesx.jpg http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/spikex.jpg

Ice spikes grow as the water in an ice cube tray turns to ice. The water first freezes on the top surface, around the edges of what will become the ice cube. The ice slowly freezes in from the edges, until just a small hole is left unfrozen in the surface. At the same time, while the surface is freezing, more ice starts to form around the sides of the cube.
Since ice expands as it freezes, the ice freezing below the surface starts to push water up through the hole in the surface ice (see diagram). If the conditions are just right, then water will be forced out of the hole in the ice and it will freeze into an ice spike, a bit like lava pouring out of a hole in the ground to makes a volcano. But water does not flow down the sides of a thin spike, so in that way it is different from a volcano. Rather, the water freezes around the rim of the tube, and thus adds to its length. The spike can continue growing taller until all the water freezes, cutting off the supply, or until the tube freezes shut. The tallest spike we've seen growing in an ordinary ice cube tray was 56mm (2.2in) long.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikeformationx.jpg
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikes.htm


Pretty simple if you think about it, deals with surface tension & pressure due to expanding ice.

[bennycog]

so we see 3d printing going global and into everyones hands..
does that mean the shadowy ones have flesh and bone printing of down to a fine art that this is now shared with us..

i understand that when you see the process of 3d printing, that it is fairly straight forward.. you just need the workable material, the mapping ( mostly through laser ) and the machines to build it up..

http://www.infoniac.com/hi-tech/3d-printing-booth-soon-to-be-opened-in-japan.html

The exhibition is entitled the EYE OF GYRE and it will be opened in Harajuku from November 24 to January 14. It is all very easy - the person enters a photo booth and comes out with a small 3D replica of them.

http://www.infoniac.com/uimg/omote3D-photobooth-infoniac2.jpg