It's Atlantis All Over Again

1. Atlantis was destroyed by an underwater volcano eruption in pre-classical times.
2. The Greek island of Santorini is the remnant of that destruction.
3. That same volcano is showing signs of an imminent eruption.
4. Much of Greece will be lost physically (not just fiscally) when this volcano erupts.

An American scientist from Georgia Tech has been monitoring the movements of the caldera of this volcano for several years. His data indicate an imminent eruption of vast proportions. When that happens, there will be significant loss of life as well as likely interruptions of power and communications in the whole of Europe and Asia Minor.

When will our scientific and political overlords deign to inform the public of this danger? Why won't they issue warnings and evacuation notices?
Has the Greek government taken out huge insurance policies on the area on the Eve of Destruction, hoping to pay off its debts in its wake?
We'll report back when we have more information.

Posted by Listener 43

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At Least We Still Have Strong And Close Allies!

As if we didn't know that president 0bama is challenged when speaking without a teleprompter, and that he doesn't know an ally from an enemy, here's a great video to show just how clueless this twobit banana republic strongman wannabe really is.
Why is it that we have to count on Denmark - our great ally - to expose this crap? Can't ABC, CBS, CNN, or any of the various NBC flavors handle a simple job of reporting any more. Oh, sorry, that was probably best left as a rhetorical question.



Posted by Lewis Cannon

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SETI Channels Philip K. Dick

1. SETI (with the help of the TED Foundation) is asking you to do its job.
2. They've turned the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence into a computer game.
3. By using crowd-sourced pattern-recognition, they're hoping to find artifacts of attempted communication from other civilizations.

No longer content to harness "spare" CPU cycles from home enthusiasts, SETI's leadership is reaching out for active help with their SETI Live program. They're asking us to find the unexpected patterns in images from radio telescopes around the world, much like the game played in the classic novel, Time Out Of Joint, by Philip K. Dick.
What's next - will the Armed Forces start recruiting via video games?

Posted by Procrustes 17

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Results Are Still UnCERNtain

1. Scientists at CERN's LHC had reported clocking neutrinos at speeds faster than light.
2. Without radical changes to all of currently-understood physics, this simply didn't make sense.
3. CERN called for other labs to examine their experiment and help to find the flaws - if there were any.
4. CERN is now claiming to have found two separate problems in the setup of this experiment - one that would overstate the speed, and another that would understate it.

Bowing to pressure from Listener 43, I'm posting a quick response to all this brouhaha, in spite of the fact that nothing has really been determined at this point.
It still seems likely to me that this whole mis-measurement was foisted upon the scientific world as a distraction - a red herring, as it were - to keep other, competing labs from making any progress in their search for the Higgs boson. CERN has consistently seemed to mislead their "colleagues" (read competitors) as to the likelihood of finding the Higgs in various energy levels, and I, for one, see no reason not to think this is simply more of the same.

Still, time will tell (how's that for a punnish ending?)

Posted by Procrustes 17

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CERN Boosts Their Beams

1. CERN plans to boost the energy of the beams at the LHC from 4.5 to 5.0 TeV per beam.
2. They anticipate that a year of experiments at these higher energies should let them find - or rule out - the Higgs boson.
3. They're still publicizing the 124-126 GeV range as the hiding place for the elusive particle.

It seems incredible that anyone is bothering to believe these folks anymore. Several months ago, confirmation of the Higgs boson was just around the corner, and now they're planning on a full year of higher energy experiments to either pin it down or rule it out.

In spite of these higher energies, they are still not running at the top levels for which the LHC was designed. Purportedly, this is to avoid "burning out the power interconnects" - something which one would expect to have been included in the design for those top power levels.

Again, it seems odd that the CERNers are telling everyone where they're looking, and at what energy levels they'll be running these experiments. Does anyone else smell fish? Red herring, to be precise?

This all make me wonder if maybe these LHC folks aren't quite the braniacs they represent themselves to be.
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The Russians Can't Get To Mars, So They'll Drill In The Ice On Earth

1. Russian space probes headed for Mars typically disappear into space or crash into the ocean.
2. Russia recently suffered just such a mishap with the Phobos-Grunt probe.
3. Russian scientists are now drilling into the deepest fresh water lake in Antarctica.
4. They anticipate finding new (to humanity at least) life-forms which have adapted to the high-pressure, low-light, high-oxygen environment.

Why are the Russians drilling in the same place that countless movie and TV producers have found ideal for an alien threat locale?
Why do they insist on drilling into a place where any life they encounter will either be harmed by its contact with Earth-normal conditions, or are likely to cause harm to Earth-normal life?
Why was there a long period of radio silence between the on-site Russian announcement of the impending breakthrough and resumed contact regarding the progress if the drilling?
What happened in those intervening days?

We will continue to monitor the situation, and report back here as more information is acquired.

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Remember - I Told You So!

Imagine an Amerika where the FBI keeps tabs on every citizen's online activities - search, browsing, facebook, whatever. Oh, if you can imagine it, maybe you should be working at the FBI because that's just what those "Justice" Department bureaucrats are dreaming of right now.

Check out this link to see what responsible journalists are saying about this topic before you blow me off as a simple ranting blog troll who makes up stuff to complain about just to be able to have something to post on his blog because that's not who I am, and it's not who I ever want to be.

http://mashable.com/2012/01/26/fbi-social-media-monitoring/
I guess that if we ever got to the place where there was nothing to complain about, I might start making things up so I could keep blogging, but I can't see that happening anytime soon, so you might as well just realize that I'm not just blowing smoke up anybody's short or whatever that expression is.

What possible reason or justification could there be for this kind of thing? Maybe they're just sore at the Supreme Court for saying they need warrants to do their fancy GPS stuff to folks, so they're looking for another way to keep track of everyone and everyone. It's hard to understand how those minds work - at least for a normal guy like me anyway.

It's time to complain to the Justice Department - and to your Representative and Senators. Don't let them just do whatever they want to anyone they don't like. The facebook timeline you protect may be your own.


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