SciFi's Universal Translator is now a reality

http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/07/30/11339-new-tool-may-enhance-the-way-soldiers-communicate-with-locals-in-theater/

Created to assist troops in communicating with civilians in the field, this devise will help ease the way we communicate with the world... It should also eliminate the need for not-always-friendly translators who could have their own agenda.

Quote of the Day

"Let it not deceive you that those who are bent on denying the truth seem to be able to do as they please on earth"

-Quran (3:196)

General Motors posts a slight loss....

OF nearly $16.5 billion for one quarter! That's a loss which occured over only three months! Not that they're going to seriously do anything about it - other than close some factories and layoff a good portion of their white-collar workers. Some of which are in the research / design departments!

Those are the people that they should have kept and put to work on alternative fuels and other ideas to move forward, oh well...

Arctic Ice Shelf Cracks and some ice falls into the sea.

20 square kilometers of the Artic ice shelf have fallen into the ocean. This area is in the form of two chucks - making up the largest amount in more than 5 years.

BUT global warming is not occuring.

-456 degrees F / -271 degrees C

Now that's COLD - almost as cold as a winter in the northeast... At this temperature Helium forms a super-liquid that conduct heat away from the magnets which will be submerged in the material quicker than anything else...

It's what one of the most expensive devices on the planet and this is the last step in the process to begin it's true existence... The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was created to find the Higgs boson - the "god particle." But this name comes from it's importance in the "standard model." That silly idea that people have about physics and chemistry which relies upon "uncertainty principles," and laws which cannot be proved to be true everywhere.

AT least this is being done under the Swiss / French Alps in the CERN facility that they've been building for the past 3+ years. It is a 27 kilometer tunnel underground!!!

MARS - interesting findings recently

Recenly, new data has proven what many scientists and "off-the-wall" folks have been saying for years. That Mars was a water covered planet and that something came along and changed this - i.e. something smacked into the side of the planet and caused the water to evaporate and cause the one side of the planet to look different than the other.

In addition NASA has stated that asparagus (my least favorite veggie) could grow in the Martian soil. Showing yet again that there was water, nutrients in the soil, and other facts which could have led to actual life on the planet...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/17/2306320.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7473128.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7477310.stm

I just find it a little interesting that these theories have been around for years and that parts of it are being proven finally. I long thought that it was odd that the astroid belt is in our system. All other areas formed into planets or were destroyed long ago. But the astroids in the belt are large enough to appear "recent." A large strike of some object onto Mars could have formed this belt and could also have formed other anomolies throughout the solar system...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7511523.stm

Just some interesting thoughts to ponder! Map below is from... The USGS!

US planned to test Sarin and VX on "diggers"

The United States planned to test at least Sarin and VX nerve agents on Australian troops as recently as the 1960s. This was released by the Australian Defence Department who was recently notified of the declassified information by the USDoD.

We're such wonderful people, aren't we - you don't need to be an enemy to have items used against you. This ranks up there with the radioactive tests on our own troops, and on our own cities from 1940's thru to the late 1980's. During which time, they dropped radioactive debris on such small towns as Miami, OK City, LA, NY, among others. - JUST to see how many more people would go to the ER comapred to the week prior to the drop.