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Mars Blueberries: Hematite Concretions, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Singularities, & Stardust

Research By Mark Thornally

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Stardust http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html Planets with multiple suns may be abundant http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060112_binarystar_planets.html 20-Sep-2005 The Majesty of the Key: http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/?id=194 by "Whitley Strieber" See also: THE LONG WALK Copyright (c) 1989 by "MT" http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/quad4c.htm e x c e r p t (s) :

[NOTE]-(3) The Big Bang. Older astronomers were originally appalled by the big bang theory, instead preferring the steady state theory which posited that hydrogen was miraculously generated by the void. In light of quantum physics this wasn't such a nutty idea. However, the expansion of space, the red shift of galaxies, and the detection of background radiation all lent credence to the theory that all known matter was once a "singularity" which decided to explode. A decision only higher mathematics can make any sense of. Personally I prefer a multidimensional big bang universe, where singularities are occurring constantly, and universes are bubbling up all over the place only we're cut off from them. [NOTE]-(4) It is highly unlikely that any planet could survive the gravitational effects of five evenly spaced stars, let alone form under such conditions. A pentad star system appealed to my demonic sensibilities.

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THE LONG WALK -- http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/quad4c.htm

Planets with multiple suns may be abundant
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060112_binarystar_planets.html
Deepak Raghavan http://www.chara.gsu.edu/people/grads.html
BART D. EHRMAN "Bart D. Ehrman" behrman@email.unc.eduChair, Department of Religious Studies
http://www.unc.edu/depts/rel_stud/faculty/Ehrman1.html
http://www.unc.edu/depts/rel_stud/faculty/BartCV.htm author of:
Misquoting Jesus: The Story of Who Changed the New Testament and Why.
http://tinyurl.com/dzpfc or  http://www.amazon.com/

Fresh Air from WHYY, December 14, 2005
Scholar Bart Ehrman's new book explores
how scribes -- through both omission and
intention -- changed the Bible.
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who
Changed the Bible and Why is the result
of years of reading the texts in their
original languages. [...]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156

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Assorted Strangeness, Brief Femtoseconds, and Odd Insectoids National Space Biomedical Research Institute

One Baylor Plaza, NA-425, Houston, TX 77030
713-798-7412 (phone), 713-798-7413 (fax)

For more information contact info@www.nsbri.org About NSBRI Established in 1997 through a NASA competition, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute is working on countermeasures to the health-related problems and physical and psychological challenges men and women will face on long-duration missions. The research consortium's primary objective is to ensure safe and productive human space flight.

Projects also address key technologies required to enable and enhance exploration. In particular, NSBRI scientists and physicians are developing technologies to provide medical monitoring, diagnosis and treatment in the extreme environments of the moon and Mars. http://www.nsbri.org/index.html MARS: Q U A S P L A T ! http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/quasplat.htm We need a president and a Congress with the guts not just to invade Iraq, but to also impose a gasoline tax and inspire conservation at home. That takes a real energy policy with long-term incentives for renewable energy - wind, solar, biofuels - rather than the welfare-for-oil-companies-and-special-interests that masqueraded last year as an energy bill.


January 6, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
The New Red, White and Blue
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
http://tinyurl.com/aemu7

Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around Star

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered some of life's most basic ingredients in the dust swirling around a young star. The ingredients -- gaseous precursors to DNA and protein -- were detected in the star's terrestrial planet zone, a region where rocky planets such as Earth are thought to be born.

The findings represent the first time that these gases, called acetylene and hydrogen cyanide, have been found in a terrestrial planet zone outside of our own.

"This infant system might look a lot like ours did billions of years ago, before life arose on Earth," said Fred Lahuis of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and the Dutch space research institute called SRON. Lahuis is lead author of a paper to be published in the Jan. 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Lahuis and his colleagues spotted the organic, or carbon-containing, gases around a star called IRS 46. The star is in the Ophiuchus (pronounced OFF-ee-YOO-kuss), or "snake carrier," constellation about 375 light-years from Earth. This constellation harbors a huge cloud of gas and dust in the process of a major stellar baby boom. Like most of the young stars here and elsewhere, IRS 46 is circled by a flat disk of spinning gas and dust that might ultimately clump together to form planets.

When the astronomers probed this star's disk with Spitzer's powerful infrared spectrometer instrument, they were surprised to find the molecular "barcodes" of large amounts of acetylene and hydrogen cyanide gases, as well as carbon dioxide gas. The team observed 100 similar young stars, but only one, IRS 46, showed unambiguous signs of the organic mix.

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"The star's disk was oriented in just the right way to allow
us to peer into it," said Lahuis.

For graphics and more information about Spitzer, visit
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer.

For more information about NASA and agency programs
on the Web, visit http://www.nasa.gov/home/

Colin Bennett's Combat Diaries
The Alternative Fortean Times
(Beware of imitations)
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http://www.jupiterfive.blogspot.com http://www.maxpontifex.blogspot.com
Just randomly passing by, saying hello, and
Happy Solstice 2005 to you, yours, & 'Other,' retroactively...
To be heard from…, alas.

MT-2006
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/quad4b.htm

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Assorted Strangeness
by Macbot: http://www.mactonnies.com/strangeness.html Mac's
website: http://www.mactonnies.com Posthuman Blues blog: http://posthumanblues.blogspot.com
Buy "After the Martian Apocalypse" from Amazon!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074348293X

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See also: "The Stargate Conspiracy:
The Truth About Extraterrestrial Life
and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt."
http://www.namebase.org/xtho/Mark-Thornally.html http://www.namebase.org/sources/fL.html ~o0O-O-O0o~

"One femtosecond is to a second like one second
is to 32.6 million years. It's a very small
amount of time." -- Sarah A. Gerhardt
http://www.scu.edu/chemistry/faculty/gerhardt.html ~o0O-O-O0o~

The Singularity is Near
by Ray Kurzweil:
http://www.kurzweilai.net ~o0O-O-O0o~

SEE ALSO: INSECTOID by Mark Thornally:
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/sectoid2.htm

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Why SETI Will Fail (and why we are alone in the Universe)

by Ray Kurzweil http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 The law of accelerating returns implies that by 2099, the intelligence that will have emerged from human-machine civilization will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than it is today, dominated of course by its nonbiological form.

So what does this have to do with SETI (the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)? The naļve view, going back to pre-Copernican days, was that the Earth was at the center of the Universe, and human intelligence its greatest gift (next to God). The more informed recent view is that even if the likelihood of a star having a planet with a technology creating species is very low (e.g., one in a million), there are so many stars (i.e., billions of trillions of them), that there are bound to be many with advanced technology.

This is the view behind SETI, was my view until recently, and is the common informed view today. Although SETI has not yet looked everywhere, it has already covered a substantial portion of the Universe.

[Chart by Scientific American] In the above diagram: http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 (courtesy of Scientific American), we can see that SETI has already thoroughly searched all star systems within 10^7 light-years from Earth for alien civilizations capable (and willing) to transmit at a power of at least 10^25 watts, a so-called Type II civilization (and all star systems within 10^6 light-years for transmission of at least 1 018 watts, and so on). No sign of intelligence has been found as of yet.

In a recent email to my research assistant, Dr. Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute points out that a new comprehensive targeted search, called Project Phoenix, which has up to 100 times the sensitivity and covers a greater range of the radio dial as compared to previous searches, has only been applied thus far to 500 star systems, which is, of course only a minute fraction of the half trillion star systems in just our own galaxy.

However, according to my model, once a civilization achieves our own level ("Earth-level") of radio transmission, it takes no more than one century, two at the most, to achieve what SETI calls a Type II civilization. If the assumption that there are at least millions of radio capable civilizations out there, and that these civilizations are spread out over millions (indeed billions) of years of development, then surely there ought to be millions that have achieved Type II status.

Incidentally, this is not an argument against the SETI project, which in my view should have the highest possible priority because the negative finding is no less significant than a positive result.

It is odd that we find the cosmos so silent. Where is everybody? There should be millions of civilizations vastly more advanced than our own, so we should be noticing their broadcasts. A sufficiently advanced civilization would not be likely to restrict its broadcasts to subtle signals on obscure frequencies. Why are they so silent, and so shy?

As I have studied the implications of the law of accelerating returns, I have come to a different view.

Because exponential growth is so explosive, it is the case that once a species develops computing technology, it is only a matter of a couple of centuries before the nonbiological form of their intelligence explodes. It permeates virtually all matter in their vicinity, and then inevitably expands outward close to the maximum speed that information can travel. Once the nonbiological intelligence emerging from that species' technology has saturated its vicinity (and the nature of this saturation is another complex issue, which I won't deal with in this essay), it has no other way to continue to evolve but to expand outwardly. The expansion does not start out at the maximum speed, but quickly achieves a speed within a vanishingly small delta from the maximum speed.

What is the maximum speed? We currently understand this to be the speed of light, but there are already tantalizing hints that this may not be an absolute limit. There were recent experiments that measured the flight time of photons at nearly twice the speed of light, a result of quantum uncertainty on their position. However, this result is actually not useful for this analysis, because it does not actually allow information to be communicated at faster than the speed of light, and we are fundamentally interested in communication speed.

Quantum disentanglement has been measured at many times the speed of light, but this is only communicating randomness (profound quantum randomness) at speeds far greater than the speed of light; again, this is not communication of information (but is of great interest for restoring encryption, after quantum computing destroys it). There is the potential for worm holes (or folds of the Universe in dimensions beyond the three visible ones), but this is not really traveling at faster than the speed of light, it just means that the topology of the Universe is not the simple three dimensional space that naļve physics implies. But we already knew that. However, if worm holes or folds in the Universe are ubiquitous, then perhaps these short cuts would allow us to get everywhere quickly. Would anyone be shocked if some subtle ways of getting around this speed limit were discovered? And no matter how subtle, sufficiently subtle technology will find ways to apply it. The point is that if there are ways around this limit (or any other currently understood limit), then the extraordinary levels of intelligence that our human-machine civilization will achieve will find those ways and exploit them.

So for now, we can say that ultra high levels of intelligence will expand outward at the speed of light, but recognize that this may not be the actual limit of the speed of expansion, or even if the limit is the speed of light that this limit may not restrict reaching other locations quickly.

Consider that the time spans for biological evolution are measured in millions and billions of years, so if there are other civilizations out there, they would be spread out by huge spans of time. If there are a lot of them, as contemporary thinking implies, then it would be very unlikely that at least some of them would not be ahead of us. That at least is the SETI assumption. And if they are ahead of us, they likely would be ahead of us by huge spans of time. The likelihood that any civilization that is ahead of us is ahead of us by only a few decades is extremely small.

If the SETI assumption that there are many (e.g., millions) of technological (at least radio capable) civilizations is correct, then at least some of them (i.e., millions of them) would be way ahead of us. But it takes only a few centuries at most from the advent of computation for that civilization to expand outward at least light speed. Given this, how can it be that we have not noticed them?

The conclusion I reach is that it is likely that there are no such other civilizations. In other words, we are in the lead. That's right, our humble civilization with its Dodge pick up trucks, fried chicken fast food, and ethnic cleansings (and computation!) is in the lead. Now how can that be?

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http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1

Perhaps there are extremely advanced technological civilizations out there, but we are outside their light sphere of intelligence. That is, they haven't gotten here yet. Okay, in this case, SETI will still fail because we won't be able to see (or hear) them, at least not before we reach Singularity.

Perhaps they are amongst us, but have decided to remain invisible to us. Incidentally, I have always considered the science fiction notion of large space ships with large squishy creatures similar to us to be very unlikely. Any civilization sophisticated enough to make the trip here would have long since passed the point of merging with their technology and would not need to send such physically bulky organisms and equipment. Such a civilization would not have any unmet material needs that require it to steal physical resources from us. They would be here for observation only, to gather knowledge, which is the only resource of value to such a civilization. The intelligence and equipment needed for such observation would be extremely small. In this case, SETI will still fail because if this civilization decided that it did not want us to notice it, then it would succeed in that desire. Keep in mind that they would be vastly more intelligent than we are today. Perhaps they will reveal themselves to us when we achieve the next level of our evolution, specifically merging our biological brains with our technology, which is to say, after the Singularity. Moreover, given that the SETI assumption implies that there are millions of such highly developed civilizations, it seems odd that all of them have made the same decision to stay out of our way.

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Continued ay Ray Kurzweil's site:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1

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