National Geographic MARS

National Geographic Mars miniseries is really really good. If you haven't seen it look for it on your local listing or find it where ever you can. Try http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/mars/ for information or episode. This is how channels like National Geographic should present scientific ideas to the public. There should be more a scripted story intermingled with presenters giving scientific facts. I hope National Geographic does more of this.

Car Concepts and Designs 2

NOVA scienceNOW with Neil deGrasse Tyson

NOVA scienceNow: Where did we come from?
Origins of the Solar System, the start of life, how head lice figures in human evolution, erasing memories.


NOVA scienceNow: Can we live forever?
Slow down Aging, replacement body parts, virtual replica of you.



NOVA scienceNow: How smart are animals?
How smart are dogs? How smart are dolphins? How smart are Octopus? Talking parrot Alex, how intelligent was he?


NOVA scienceNow: How does the brain work?
How does the brain pay attention? Magnetic mind control. Artificial Intelligence. Neuroscience and synesthesia.


NOVA scienceNow: What is the next big thing?
Robots, earthquake forecasting, automated vehicles, Smart grid, designer microbes (synthetic biology).

The MONO

The Mono or BAC Mono is a English made performance sports car made by Briggs Automotive Company. I first saw the single seater on the British television program TOP GEAR on BBC AMERICA. It's a beautiful car.

Owning the Weather

This is a documentary about GEO-ENGINEERING... Controlling the weather.

Best line (paraphrasing) The idea of controlling the weather use to be believed to be in the realm of Gods and magicians but now we think we can do it too.
Next best line (paraphrasing) The people for geo-engineering want me to believe that the same creature that can't control how many chili dogs he intakes should be in control of the weather.

Climate Change is a good reason for wanting to be able to control the weather. However after looking at the last century people's responsibility with technology and weapons I'm not all that optimistic.

Ionizing the air is an insane idea. I don't care if it is Russian technology or not. Stay away from this.

There is a treated since the Vietnam war to not use weather modification in Hostile ways... war, weapons, military, etc I imagine. The things I learn we have treaties for. I'm surprised to learn they use weather modification during the Vietnam war.

Instead of telling Nixon not make corporations and the country to stop putting more pollution into the air they decide hey lets do some crazy geo-engineering scheme so we don't have to actually be responsible.

Interesting subject.

Things WRONG With AMERICA

I've decided to write short analyzes on the practices, policies, and programs I think need to be changed, reformed or completely done with in the United States of America. However I'm not naive enough to believe a profit based society like the one in the US will completely change for the better of all it's citizens, but I do believe that many things can change for better opportunities of all it's citizens.

I won't focus much, if at all on silly social arguments, for example, to much sex in media or lack of, or too much religion. I find these arguments are used more by people that either have very little understanding, are trying to distract or are simply focused on a small tree in a very large regional forest.

I will attempt to point out a the problem, and then give a simple solution. However I will not even pretend I'm an expert. Only a guy with a bit of insight.

The Future of Food

This film is about how food has, is and will be changed, thanks to technology, corporations and politics.

SYNTHETIC LIFE

This is a new era of science... It's a whole new science.
Synthetic life is artificial life. Basically synthetic life is a cell created by humans (with computers) from the fundamental molecules and chemicals of life that make DNA.


Synthetic life will change the world. There is no doubt. Everything from new "bio-fuels" to synthetic biological limbs, to synthetic vaccines, to growing building, to growing synthetic people is possible. (No one will probably make synthetic people but it is possible.)
However it does have it dark side, as all technologies do. One can create some very dangerous bio-weapons from this life as well. Also the same type of fear of "Gray Goo", that came with nanotechnology robots can be attributed to this self replicating artificial life. Also what happens if such life mutates.
Take it even further in the future you could terraform planets. The next ten to twenty years is going to be insanely wondrous technologically.

Synthetic life was created by the same man and team (Craig Venter and the J. Craig Venter Institute) that mapped the human genome. They have mapped more of the diverse genetic microbial life of the oceans than anyone else.



This video can explain Synthetic life creation better than I.


Your world has change more than you may know.