one day i won't be mad about this anymore. it concerns mostly the revelations i had upon installing and using StarryNight Freeman, which FORCED me to look at the stars. i wanted to anyway. So whatever, so what? Maybe the old system of symbols/consciousness archetypers is breaking up anyway. maybe there is some ego-death that has to happen to people when they look: for example, at the stars when they were born...

i was born at 1:05 AM EDT July 8 1969. Means my sun sign is cancer, right? NO. It means the sun was deep in the heart of Gemini when i was born. But i had to go throug hmost of my life thinking I was a Cancerian...and I like cancerians..whatever they are...

so anyway, i also have read about something calle dthe "AQUARIAN MUTATION."

Once at a party there were maybe ten of us and i started singing "this is the dawning of the age of your hairy ass..." and some people joined in. By the time we got to the whole room singing "YOUR HA-A-AIRY ASS..." everyone was singing along. (which is maybe what aquarius is all about?)

"The ancient city of Teotihuacan lies north of modern Mexico City. It remains largely a mystery, and was so even for the Aztecs, who are credited with founding Mexico City in the 1300s.

Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities in the world around the time of Christ, had an estimated 150,000 inhabitants, and influenced art and architecture as far away as the Yucatan peninsula. However, it had been abandoned and crumbling for centuries by the time of the Aztecs.

The artifacts discovered Wednesday may push the date of Mexico City's founding back to the classic Teotihuacan period of 300-600."

According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the precise time and date for the northern hemisphere winter solstice in 2012 is:

Dec 21, 11:11 Universal Time

Although this is what scientists have long thought of to be true, the Mars Express has just confirmed the existance of water ice on Mars' poles. It has also found canals which are believed to be long dried rivers, but they cannot be sure.

What this could mean for 2012? It is possible that there was once life on this desolate red planet. I don't think I need to point out the signifigance beetween this and possible 2012 scenarios.

It's old news, but now a date has been set for the expedition. The following is from New Scientist, Jan 10 2004, p37:

"Collina-Girard has teamed up with Paul Henri Nargeolet and George Tulloch, the underwater explorers who discovered the wreck of the Titanic. They will head for Spartel in July and use a manned submersible to explore the hilly island, which lies between 55 and 200 metres underwater. The preliminary survey will take 10 days and will involve mapping the island with sonar and sampling sediments for dating"

If it is an ancient inhabited island that shows signs of an advanced culture, I'm sure a lot of people will still look for the "other Atlantis".

If it wasn't for a couple of subtle giveaways, I'd be running around town telling folk about this amazing new product. Worth visiting for the skills of the site designers alone:

NS-5

I still haven't got my head around whether AGNs (active galactic nuclei) can go undetected or not... but it's quite possible that a microquasar might sneek up and zap us in 2012:

" Astronomers are keenly interested in SS 433 because it seems to be a miniature, million-times-scaled-down version of the engines that power quasars and other active galactic nuclei. This bizarre system consists of a fairly normal star and an extremely dense object — either a neutron star or a black hole — that orbit each other every 13 days. A stream of gas is spilling from the "normal" star into the dense companions's deep gravitational field, where it swirls into a hot, brilliantly glowing disk. Somehow, much of the material in the disk ends up within two narrow, oppositely directed jets that shoot away from the collapsed object at a quarter the speed of light. "

(jets that could do serious damage to life on our planet...)

If you are like me, and you notice stuff happening in movies that makes no sense, like:

cars that explode people who are launched into the air when shot by a shotgun hearing explosions in space visible laserbeams

...check out the Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

(they review movies too)

The US army has hired two robotics firms to design robot dogs, for the purpose of carrying equipment.

"Today's soldiers carry as much as 100 pounds of equipment. That's exhausting, even for the toughest grunt. In the future, the Army wants to dump up to half that gear onto the back of a drone"

"We're at the bottom of the pyramid right now," said Ben Krupp, president of Yobotics, which won a $750,000, two-year TACOM grant to build a Great Dane-sized drone. "It's tough just to get a four-legged robot to run across the parking lot without falling down."

(meanwhile the Navy is investing in robo-lobsters)

Bizarre, but true.

The star is in Sagittarius. The planet is almost the size of Jupiter, but is 20 times closer to the star than we are to the sun.

It is on a three day orbit, and as it orbits, a geomagnetic storm or hotspot trails it on the star's surface. The star has a 9 day rotation.

"Russian scientists have found evidence of people living in Arctic Siberia during the Ice Age... 30,000 years ago"

The article is focusing on the possibility of these people becoming the first Americans, without questioning why this area was ice-free back then... (pole shift since... shhhh...)

"The site in Arctic Siberia showed that ancient hunters lived on the Yana River, not far from the Bering land bridge that then connected Asia with North America.

...while much of what is now Europe, Canada and the northern United States was covered in ice, the Yana area was ice free.

It was a dry flood plain, without glaciers, that was home to mammoth, horse, musk ox and other animals.

.... It was not stark tundra as one might imagine."

Scientists still believe that 8-10,000 years ago humans were primitive, and evidence of wine production is amazing and out-of-place, just like planned cities and global sea travel...

"Scientists have discovered the world's oldest wine - a vintage produced by Stone Age people 8,000 years ago."

"Biochemical tests on the ancient pottery wine jars from Georgia are showing that at this early period humans were deliberately adding anti-bacterial preservatives to grape juice so that the resulting wine could be kept for longer periods after fermentation."

"Intriguingly, the area lies adjacent to the region associated with one of the world's first recorded drunks, the biblical figure Noah, whose first non-religious act after the flood was to plant a vineyard."

[ Also, 12,000 years ago the Chinese were using pots to cook snails ]

"The robot's eyes work using two cameras and software that detects where objects are and how fast the Mantis is moving relative to objects around it."

Apart from all the good uses such a machine can be put to, it doesn't take much to think of what it could be used for in the wrong hands...

Some old (but important) news that has resurfaced:

"The formation of the Solar System was hurried along by a nearby gamma- ray burst, two astrophysicists in Ireland suspect. Rather than aborting the birth of planets, the flood of energy may have melted primordial dust grains, seeded the formation of meteorites and helped form the rocky planets, including Earth.

....calculate that a gamma-ray burst within 300 light years would have flooded the dusty disc circling the young Sun with enough energy to fuse up to 100 Earth masses of material into droplets that cooled into chondrules."

So we find ourselves asking:

• if the gamma ray burst can fuse material in such a way that planets eventually form, how would it affect us if it happened today?
• could it happen again in our lifetime?

There are more than 1,000 stars within 300 light years of Earth, with over 200 being closer than 30 light years, and the closest being just 4 light years from us. The galactic centre, at a distance of about 25,000 light years is outside of the nominated range.

I have always thought that you can't just rendevous with other planets on any day you choose, and that the motions of the solar system dictate it quite heavily. But I have no expertise in the matter.

What concerns me is that, in this era of "too good to be true" stories (finding Saddam looking like that in a hole), the fact that the European Space Agency's Beagle 2 spacecraft will be landing on Mars on Xmas Day has me scratching my head for two reasons:

1. There was plenty of suspicion that NASA's venture to Mars never really happened, and they just showed red-filtered footage of a desert on Earth.

2. When NASA landed on Eros, it just happened to be on Valentine's Day

• Run
• Jump
• Dance
• Keep balance
• Protect itself if it falls
• Get up again
• Fight?
• See with stereo vision
• Recognise faces and voices.
• Converse
• Show emotion

I say fight because "If pushed by someone, QRIO will take a step in the direction it was pushed to keep from falling over." We all know that push and shove can lead to an all out brawl.

Prediction: within 10 years people will be mugged by robots.

What does it mean? I have no idea... maybe someone else can work it out for us. <br.

Older than its British counrepart by two millenia, and with very obvious solstice alignments. It's well overdue for someone to catalog all the henges and standing stones and provide an answer!

It had been thought that the reason why the Chinese had such a similar flood / creation myth as the Indians and Egyptians is because it originated in one of those places.

Now an expert has concluded that it originated in China, and developed independently. The people of Laibin "still celebrate a traditional Pan Gu Festival, tell centuries-old tales, sing lyrics and stage operas about the God," he said. "Many villages, mountains and grottoes have been named after Pan Gu, too."

It has long been thought that most of our DNA is just evolutionary garbage, it's there but is no longer useful for anything. But some Japanese researchers have fiddled with a piece of this "junk DNA" in some mice, and it killed them - proving that the piece of junk was actually doing something.

My proposition is that junk DNA is a storehouse of bits and pieces for the future, that cosmic radiation can cause overnight evolution via intelligent, deliberate mutation.

This is the from the piece I found in Scientific American: