The SOPA act is another stage in the War on Freedom that is being carried out by the American Political Elite and Corporate interests. Effectively giving corporations and govt the power to shutdown any website they want with no legal process at a moments notice. This legislation represents complete fascism in action.

It just shows how far down the path of suppression the American leaders are prepared to travel. We have already seen the results of 10 years of war in the Middle East. The incredible waste of finite energy resources that have forced up the cost of living, brought the banking system to it’s knees and hastened the inevitable spiral into a post depression global war of attrition as the Elite seek to preserve their status and power in the coming energy crunch.

Now they are attempting to remove the first Amendment right of free speech from their constitution in order to suppress the truth that can readily be found on the internet as the knowledgable ones share their wisdom with the masses bypassing the Mainstream Corporate Media and providing instant enlightenment for those who care to read.

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With the announcement of the decision to commit his own personal wealth earned from the Microsoft empire to funding the next phase of Burt Rutans Scaled Composites Space launch system Paul Allen has jumped back into the space industry with gusto. Forming a new company called “Stratolaunch Systems” and including the former Chief of NASA Michael Griffins on the Board of Directors is a bold move on his part. Given his history of making ridiculous amounts of personal wealth by “leveraging” the work of others before him this move is not out of character. However at least in this case he was one of the initial backers for the first space launch system that allowed Scaled Composites to win the Ansari X prize.

What is slightly more interesting is the list of names that are associated with the new phase of development. First Paul Allen and Burt Rutan are obviously the driving forces behind the plan. Next up are Richard Branson and Elon Musk both of whom have contributed their own personal wealth to other aspects of the development process. In Branson’s case it is by committing his wealth and organisational benefits of his Virgin Empire to the second phase of the Space Launch System which has resulted in Virgin Galactic. For Musk it is his rockets that will be launched by Allen’s Plane.

With the addition of Jeff Bezos who is independently developing a reusable ground launch system it is clear that the commercial space race is being lead by an elite group of wealthy Information Tech heads who having conquered the web are now directing their wealth and organisational skills towards conquering space.

The next question is where are they going to get all the energy required to build, fly and launch the payloads?

Tags: Space, Transport by sparky
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A recent report from Russian Scientists studying the Permafrost surrounding the Arctic Ice Shelf has pointed out that massive amounts of methane are being rapidly released into the Atmosphere due to the increased warming of the Arctic. While the issue of permafrost warming releasing massive amounts of Methane directly into the atmosphere has been flagged as an issue for many years now most reports focused on the permafrost above the ocean as the assumption was made that methane would be converted to carbon dioxide as it escaped from the regions located under the sea.

The Scientists have noticed massive kilometer wide methane plumes that are escaping from the ocean floor as the rapidly warming ocean is also warming the submarine permafrost. Due to the speed with which the plumes are rising and the proximity to the surface the Methane is not converting to Carbon Dioxide and is instead just filling up the atmosphere. Given that Methane is significantly more powerful as a greenhouse gas at trapping heat in the atmosphere this is a serious increase in the speed of the changes that the planet is undergoing as the earth returns to the Eocene age of humidity and warmth.

From a visual perspective the sea floor around the arctic ice shelf is effectively boiling. From a Human perspective we can expect this rapid release of Methane to cause serious changes to the weather. We are already experiencing unseasonable cool in the South Pacific. How this will play out in the Northern climes is yet to be found out.

Tags: Disaster, e=mc2, Environment, Methane, Water by sparky
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The Japanese Leadership have found a way to rationalise the use of $30 million in Tsunami relief funds to pay for the Security flotilla to escort the fishing boats on the Antarctic “Whale” hunt. Once again proving that 10 the people in charge of the purse strings are clinically insane. How they can justify taking funds from people who need them after 10 months of continuous exposure to the Toxic cloud of Death emitting from Fukushima in order to hunt whales in the Antarctic sanctuary is beyond any decision that a sane person could possibly make.

In addition they will certainly be getting the attention of the Australasian Naval forces as a significant armed naval presence in Antarctic waters at this stage in the global crisis is a flagrant display of agression to all pacific peoples.

There are moves in play to make the Japanese leadership aware of the significance that this move on the international chess board has created. The initial response from all Major Pacific nations with significant Naval presence was that this is a very bad move on the part of the Japanese.

What is most incredible is that they have the spare energy resources available for such an expedition. Obviously it takes massive amounts of fuel to send a fleet of ships to the Antarctic from Japan and with the whole nation reeling from the continuing impact of the Twin Tsunami and Fukushima disasters they surely don’t have enough spare fuel to get this naval fleet all the way to Antarctica and back home again.

Which leaves the question. What is the real reason for Japanese Naval Agression in the Pacific Theater?

Tags: Corruption, Disaster, e=mc2, Government, Nuclear, Society by sparky
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The team at the Automotive Research Experiment Station from Michigan State University have been developing a new prototype engine system that they claim can get 60% efficiency from conventional fossil fuels. They also claim the weight of the engine is significantly less than a standard ICE which greatly increases fuel economy due to weight savings. They are currently in the process of building and installing a functional system in a vehicle.

The engine has a rotor that’s equipped with wave-like channels that trap and mix oxygen and fuel as the rotor spins. These central inlets are blocked off, building pressure within the chamber, causing a shock wave that ignites the compressed air and fuel to transmit energy.

The Wave Disk Generator uses 60 percent of its fuel for propulsion; standard car engines use just 15 percent. As a result, the generator is 3.5 times more fuel efficient than typical combustion engines.

Researchers estimate the new model could shave almost 1,000 pounds off a car’s weight currently taken up by conventional engine systems.

Tags: e=mc2, Research, Water by sparky
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This latest video from Nasa shows the updated Radar movie of “asteroid” 2005 YU55.

“The animation reveals a number of puzzling structures on the surface that we don’t yet understand. To date, we’ve seen less than one half of the surface, so we expect more surprises.”

Each of the 28 frames required 20 minutes of data collection by the Goldstone radar. At the time of the observations, 2005 YU55 was approximately 860,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) from Earth. The resolution is about 13 feet (4 meters) per pixel. 2005 YU55 takes approximately 18 hours to complete one rotation, so the rotation in the movie appears much more rapid than the actual asteroid rotation speed.

The Goldstone observations utilized a new system to obtain images with a resolution of 4 meters, which is five times finer than the highest resolution previously possible at Goldstone.

“The encounter with 2005 YU55 has produced an enormous amount of data that is still being processed.” said radar astronomer Lance Benner, the principal investigator for the 2005 YU55 Goldstone observations, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “The sequence of images we obtained shows unprecedented fine-scale detail on this asteroid, which is comparable in size to the Empire State Building. The Goldstone images show evidence for concavities, a ridge near the asteroid’s equator, and numerous features that may be large boulders.”

The diameter of the object is roughly the same measurement as the height of the Empire State Building, but the volume is much much greater. They are obviously not large boulders since the object (although bigger than NASA said in the previous sentence) is not so big as to be meaningfully self gravitating. There would be nowhere near enough gravity to get the spheroidal surface.

Next, someone should calculate the centripetal acceleration on the inside surface of the object (assuming it is mostly hollow) for the measured axial rotation. If it comes close to 1 g, one could draw even more
interesting conclusions.

Of course NASA, DARPA and the rest of the Worlds military will have taken as much footage as possible of this mysterious object. No doubt plans are being hatched to send a spacecraft up to visit the object as soon as they have processed the masses of information.

Keep in mind that at the constant acceleration of 1 g it would be possible to travel around the galaxy in 200 human years. Of course that would work out to about 200,000 earth years due to relativity so any civilisation that existed at the launch time would be gone by the time you arrived back in the region.

Tags: e=mc2, Space, Transport by sparky
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