The Siphonophore is not one, but many individual jellyfish type creatures that function as a colony. Creepy!
LINK (Pink Tentacle)
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Horrors Ov Nature – Siphonophore
0 CommentsDecember 22, 2008 – 11:28 pm
Death From Above!
0 CommentsDecember 22, 2008 – 10:32 am
Everyone likes balloons right? They are the ideal method for deafening small children or transporting Phileas Fogg. J Storrs Hall (creator of the ‘utility fog‘..yes really…)however, has bigger plans for our globular friends that also involve super cheap synthesized DNA- he calls it the Weather Machine! The basic idea is a fleet of diamond silicate balloons, armed with minute solar mirrors that act as a programmable greenhouse gas, heating or cooling the atmosphere on demand. According to the man himself:
“It completely trumps any natural influence of that kind that’s out there or that we can imagine. If you are worried about our world dying because of global warming, or if you are one of the people who is worried about our world falling into an ice age, we can fix that.”
Of course, anything programmable is also hackable, which means we can all look forward to storm-based super-villainy running rampant in the near future. Ah Progress…
Solar Storms Heading Our Way
0 CommentsDecember 18, 2008 – 11:07 pm
Earths defenses against the Sun have failed.
Data from NASA’s THEMIS satellite showed that a 4,000-mile-thick (6,437-kilometer-thick) layer of solar particles has gathered and is rapidly growing within the outermost part of the magnetosphere, a protective bubble created by Earth’s magnetic field.
Normally the magnetosphere blocks most of the solar wind, flowing outward from the sun at about a million miles (1.6 million kilometers)
Solar winds—charged particles from the sun —help create auroras, the brightly colored lights that sometimes appear above the Earth’s poles.
But the winds also trigger storms that can interfere with satellites’ power sources, endanger spacewalkers, and even knock out power grids on Earth.
“The sequence we’re expecting … is just right to put particles in and energize them to create the biggest geomagnetic storms, the brightest auroras, the biggest disturbances in Earth’s radiation belts,” said David Sibeck, a space-weather expert at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
At least we’ll have something pretty to look at when all the lights go out…
LINK (National Geographic)
Who Wants A Space Shuttle?
0 CommentsDecember 18, 2008 – 9:21 pm
NASA are giving away Space Shuttles. I want one. I want to give it a redneck paint job and cruise around London yelling profanities at pedestrians and playing AD DC very loud while smoking a cigar and wearing a cowboy hat. And no shirt.
Ahem.
But yes, NASA are giving away Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour to…
schools, science museums and “other appropriate organisations” that might be interested in showcasing one of the three remaining shuttles.
Quite frankly I cannot see a more “appropriate organisation” than a small time blog with ideas above its station.
LINK (Telegraph)
Artificial Brain Being Built
1 CommentsDecember 18, 2008 – 8:43 pm
Somebody in America hasn’t watched enough science fiction, as this can only lead to disaster. DARPA – Mad Military Science Kings are funding a project to create an artificial brain, using nanotechnology. There isn’t a reason for doing this clearly stated, but we can assume that DARPA are behind it, it’s going to be used for war. It’s Skynet.
Their aim is to create a machine which will be able to “think for itself” and do various logical tasks.
Like nuking the planet and building a robot army.
The artificial brain will be plastic, so it can change while it learns new things.
I am thinking of Ahnold as The Terminator saying “My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer“
LINK (Nano Medicine Center)
