DigitalDingo

Man, this sounds cool! :DI’ve always wondered how they were to do that… Making a picture out of pure air and such… Unbelievable…But something I’ve also though about is if it would be good to have those 3D “televisions”. I mean try to imagine seeing a movie on this TV. The idea of making a beautiful movie using the world’s best photographers is lost because you can see the movie from any angle. It would certainly leave someone unemployed! :DAnd also wouldn’t it be extremely irritating to sit in front of this TV and suddenly the actors stands with their back in front of you expecting you to chance position? Then there’s no throwing on the couch anymore! You would have to stand up and walk around the TV to find the best angle to see the movie from all the time…But I’m sure they’ll think of something. And how will they make it possible to see a night scene movie in the daytime?

I think it’s only a matter of time before we can buy artificially made meat. I mean we’re only getting more and more humans here on Earth and even though “scientists” can produce larger and larger i.e. cattle to meet the future demand animals can only reach a certain weight before they die – just like us humans. So cloned meat will help a lot there and, as it says in the article, it would help a great deal on a spacecraft, especially when we send the first humans to Mars. They’ll need a lot of food and water so anyway we can reduce the need of space would be terrific.

It’s true: the world is very complex – much more complex than a computer as in your example. But you need to remember, that this evolution has taken billions of years! My teacher in history gave a very good example once to understand how long time it is since the first human was found. Lucy, as the skeleton was named, died about 3.5 million years ago. Now, if you draw a 3.5 m long line across a wall, a floor or whatever (we did it on the blackboard) it seems quite long. This timeline represents the time, which humans have existed. Each millimetre is equal to 1,000 years meaning that you only need to go two mm from the end of the line until you land in the Roman Empire! If you step back to watch the line in it’s whole you’ll notice that you barely can the two mm; the Roman Empire. Go 5 or 6 mm from the end of the line, then you’ll meet the very first civilisation on Earth. This is only meant to show how long time humans have existed. And life on our planet has existed much, much longer! In fact, researchers have found evidence that biological life existed 3.5 billion years ago! To make this timeline you would not need 3.5 m but 3.5 kilometres! And still the Roman Empire existed just 2 mm ago – if you can say that. You see how long life has existed? Us humans did not come into existence overnight! The nature had plenty of time to experiment so to say, and see who survived. I will make no secret of the fact that I believe in evolution. Religion was made by humans to have something to find comfort in – if one in the family died it was good to know that the death served a purpose, even though people couldn’t see the purpose. And when I discuss religion with a Christian I always hear the argument “it says in the Bible”. Nothing in the Bible has so far been proved to be right! Oh yes, there once were a man called Jesus, we know that for sure. But just because the man is called Jesus he doesn’t need to be God’s substitute on Earth! I once heard the argument “what about the ‘missing link’?” Actually I see this argument as the best proof for God’s existence. But at the same time I’m sure that someday the archaeologists will find our missing link between the apes and the humans and in that way prove more that ever that God is one of mankind’s inventions and that he only exists in our mind. I believe that the man someday how everything was created. That will not leave much room for a God, but I think he always will be here anyway. A famous astronomer once said, that “someday science will explain how, but it’ll never explain why.” I fully agree with this. We will be able to tell how the universe was created, how our solar system was created, how the Earth was created, how life began and so on. But it’ll never explain why life developed on Earth and not on some other planet, which also has the right conditions for life. There will always be a “why?” and some people will explain it with the presence of God. So in my opinion God will always exist in some peoples’ mind even though science can prove it to be wrong.

If you want to make all sorts of landscapes or other realistic looking scenes you should try e-on softwareâs Vue series. It produces extremely realistic environments, but it can also make some beautiful abstracts. And the render time is one of the shortest ever! You can try a demo at e-onsoftware before buying the program. Itâs really expensive, but if you are a student you can save up to 50%. Also take a look at the images produced by the program there. Sometimes you canât tell if itâs real or not!

Oh yes it is! The idea is to use e.g. solar energy or another clean energy source to decompose H2O to dihydrogen and oxygen. You can then transfer these chemicals to a car with a fuel cell engine. And with a fuel cell you don’t have to ignite the hydrogen! You let the dihydrogen and oxygen react with each other and create water again. Completely clean! And there actually exist a lot of fuel cell cars! One of them is the Peugeot Quark. The Peugeot Quark fuel car It has a maximum speed of 110 km/h (68 mph) and it can drive about 100 km with its 9 L tank. So this technology can be used seriously!

What’s the Navy doing in a desert?Actually NASA is developing secret airplanes – and they have done this since the 1940s. All their planes have been a part of their X-planes project. Among them is the X-1, which was the first plane to fly at the speed of sound. It did that October 14th 1947. One of their most successful planes was the X-15, which was designed to fly with hypersonic speed (five times the speed of sound) and fly outside the atmosphere. It was also NASA who developed the X-18: the first VTOL plane (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) which is a sort of half-way house between a helicopter and an airplane. Most recently NASA has developed the X-43, the scramjet, which flew with Mach 9.6 (11,000 km/h / 7,000 mi/h). So NASA is definitely developing airplanes that the public only knows of when it’s finished.

I just wondered what you all think of the mysterious Area 51. Apparently there is some airbase about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, which the US government will not discuss. This has provided conspirators with new tools for making up new incredible stories. What’s your opinion? Personally I think it’s an airbase used by NASA to test their new aircrafts. It is well known that NASA is developing secret airborne machines all the time and I think Area 51 is the place for the tests. And no, I don’t believe in the aliens kept inside this airbase and no, I don’t believe Michael Jackson is one the aliens either. This is just the place for NASA to test their latest inventions. But that’s only my opinion…

This is just too crazy! At first just the idea of suing anyone because of a space collision is too damn mad. It makes me think about a story I once heard… A woman who broke into a nightclub and while she was climbing in through the window she fell and broke off a part of a tooth. After that she sued the nightclub for several millions (this is of course happening in the US!). Luckily she didn’t win! But I mean how stupid can you be?! Suing anyone because of a space collision, lightning or a break-in? These people just can’t be normal! Honestly these people should locked up somewhere and receive a lot of medicine treatment!They just can’t be normal!

I think that the show was brilliant.The Paul McCartney and U2 opening were outstanding! It was a real great start for a rock-concert! Good to see Paul McCartney on the scene again, and see how brilliant he makes a show.Scissor Sisters – the top of a live concert!When I heard that Scissor Sisters would join the list of artists that should play on the Live 8 concerts, I surely knew that it would be a show, which would be difficult to forget. Their dress wasn’t either easy to forget – a feathered, white dress. It wasn’t only their dress, which was funny and great to look at, also their kind of humour on the scene is so great that it’s hard to sit down and look at them. Green Day – the top of the heavy rock came to GermanyThe Live 8 concert was mostly a rock-concert, and Green Day did a great job in Germany! When Green Day came on the scene and started to play their punk- and rock music, I nearly forgot where I was. They have so much energy, and they really look like they love their business – to make music and play it on the great scene.Live 8 – The Long Walk to Justice Live 8 aren’t – as someone maybe thinks – a concert only for fun. The concerts political thought is to end poverty in the poor world, and as they say: Make Poverty History!

Right you are – but then consider this: there are hundreds of billions of stars in a galaxy and billions of galaxies (then we assume that the universe isn’t infinite – which I don’t believe it is!). What is the possibility that not just a few of these many stars have a planet where life has good conditions? And a planet with water may be quite common actually. The smallest planet scientists have found so far is 6 times the mass of Jupiter (I think), which is an extreme size, compared to Earth. We just don’t have the technology available to discover those tiny planets right now. But it’ll come! But the Earth is also a young planet. There’s still 5 billion years left before the Sun turns into a very unhealthy supernova. And humans have only been traced back around 3.5 million years (Lucy I think the name was) – and that means the Earth could be inhabited by around 1420 different intelligent races before the supernova occurs. I know this is kind of violence towards math, but I’m only trying to put things into a perspective. Like I said, it have taken only a few million years for humans to develop and a few billion years before the first single celled organisms became humans. This process may be a lot faster in other solar systems or it may be slower. But life on Earth did occur and so it could everywhere else in the universe. Right again. They could be very far away – and most likely they are! They could be several billion light years away and we would never discover them. But they would be there – which also is what is thread is about! Also it is worth noticing that many theories say that life (or at least water) most likely came with a comet. If this is true, we’re definitely not the only planet with water on! And further more the place where the comet (and water) came from would not be too far away – most likely it would be in some of our neighbouring stars. So life is not just probable – it would be an extreme case (actually non-existent as others have mentioned) if the Earth was the only planet in space with life inhabiting it!

I too think the US climate politics are completely ridiculous. And thereâs unfortunately ONE big reason for this: The Exxon industry â an oil company which funds both the US government and climate change sceptics. By the way I came across this funny (and however frightening) site: Exxon Secrets Of course one has to admit that thereâs (unfortunately) no proof what so ever of the global warming being a man-made creation. But what we DO know is that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is too high to be a natural increase. And that will never be a good sign. So even though some people donât think the global warming is caused by CO2 this should be no excuse for allowing an amount of CO2 that high in the atmosphere.

Another very attractive (to me!) theory about the creation of our universe is actually quite new. As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t have a “real name”. I don’t think of the universe as an infinite universe – I believe it ends somewhere. My favourite creation theory says that the universe is one out of many “universe bubbles”. Try to imagine an empty black (maybe infinite) space. Now, imagine thousands, millions, maybe even billions of ball-shaped bubbles – each is an independent universe. There has got to be something between these “bubbles” – tachyons are a considered suggestion. Tachyons are hypothetical particles which travel faster than light. They can do this because of their mass being less than zero! These bubbles are surrounded by a sort of sphere making them able to keep their “own” galaxies, stars, etc. inside them. Now, occasionally some of these bubbles will bump into each other – a collision which would produce an extreme amount of energy. A little calculation shows that this collision would be powerful enough to produce a “big bang”. Only this big bang wouldn’t start with a small particle but with the two bubble shell smashing into each other. As I said, this is my favourite explanation also because it explains where background radiation from the big bang, we can measure today, comes from. Too many theories can’t explain the background radiation. Sorry, I made a mistake about the tachyons. It is the mass squared that is less than zero (m^2 < 0). Now, this would seem rather odd to us who have just a little mathematical understanding, but it has something to do with irrational numbers – which haven’t been a part of my education yet so I’ll let somebody else explain them! As I said these particles are hypothetical, i.e. they have never been measured. There are some measurements that could indicate that they exist, but so far no proof has been seen. But if they are discovered they could explain why the universe is expanding faster and faster instead of slower and slower. I found this site helpful if you want to find out more about tachyons.

Today I saw a very interesting program on Discovery Science about Atlantis. And they had a very reasonable explanation of the Atlantis Mystery which I didn’t know. Plato wrote about Atlantis in his two dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. Plato was one of Socrates’ students which means that writing about Atlantis very well could have been an exercise.Socrates could have told his students to write a story about an extremely advanced civilisation in the city of Atlantis – and most important: How Athens was able to defeat this civilisation!Plato’s Atlantis could therefore very well have been the product of an exercise assigned by his teacher Socrates.Now what do you think about that? Is it pure rubbish or could there be some truth in it?