2013: CELEBRATE LIFE; the world did not end in 2012…

That the world was coming to an end in December 2012 revealed how humans are restlessly curious animals, always seeking excitement, even if it meant the end of the world. What now that the world did not end…?

If there are 7 billion people on planet Earth, the New Year should mean something different to each of them, but who cares about 2013, except for most of the Christian West that uses the Gregorian calendar? Not even half of the people on Earth really care about 2013. Muslims (1.5 billion), Chinese (1.5 billion), and India (1.3 billion) are the large groups that alone comprise more than half of the entire planet that don’t use the Gregorian calendar, so in essence, January 1, 2013, is just another day for most of the people of planet earth.

Filipinos are a people of exaggeration who imitate everything with mind-boggling overzealousness.  That overacting character is exemplified by the adoption and extreme practice of Christianity that surprises even the original Christians who introduced it to the Philippines.

Oftentimes, I wonder how Ronald Tubid, the basketball player whose picture/statue at age 17 was adopted by the church to represent Saint Pedro Calungsod, feels whenever he sees people worshiping his picture/statue. How will his children/grandchildren and future generation feels knowing that Saint Pedro Calungsod, whom multitudes worship, was in fact their father/grandfather? In this age and time, a computer-generated face can be created in minutes, if not seconds. I find it strange that the church did not request a computer-generated image based on Pedro Calungsod’s living relatives.

The use of firecrackers is very Chinese in character, which Filipinos adopted with gusto. It causes a lot of injuries with some deaths; a practice that you don’t find anywhere else on the planet, yet neither Christianity nor the celebration of New Year is indigenous to the Philippines. These are alien to Philippine culture that we practice with absurd zealotry.

That there is more fun in the Philippines is no empty slogan. Whatever others can do, Filipinos can do even more…for better or worse :-(

NLK

Israel...Butchers Of Gaza

This is one short video I like to keep in my blog because if there is one who says it better and direct to the point with out mumbling; it’s brother Nathanael not to mention that this is one of the most important event that happened before 2012 fades into oblivion without the world coming to an end :-)

STARSHIP HUMANITY: imagine life 50, 100 AND 150 years from now…

I realized that fifty years from now, my youngest daughter will be at my present age, meaning I will not be there, but she and my grandchildren will be, inshallah!

Scientific American, January 2013 issue, asked prophets of Technology what life would be like 50, 100, and 150 years from now. Reading it right now is like traveling in time because, for sure, it will not be less but probably more than what we can imagine right now. Prophets of technology tend to be conservatively realistic in separating themselves from fiction writers, but when 007 talked to his watch some 45 years ago like a phone, we smiled at it like in a pleasant dream. When pictures were added to fiction, like a live television on James Bond’s wrist, we laughed at it as too much fiction, and yet we live not only to see it happen but to have one in our pockets, while children use it for internet gaming, treating it as a toy.

A week ago, I wrote about how the photos my daughter took with her tablet back home in the Philippines were instantly uploaded to my Google+ account, which I can see. Last night, I discovered something else. You probably know about this, but I didn’t. On your Facebook page, there is a map showing where you live; at least, that's what I thought was shown on your profile. What is your address? I was wrong. I always ignored that face on my Facebook until last night when I saw the map that said I was at the “Mall of Asia.” I said, “What?” I realized that Nishreen had been to 9 different places since she received her tablet 3 weeks ago, the last being at MOA :-) I have no idea if it is a function of her tablet’s GPS or her Google Maps. Fiction…? Nah!

We see flying cars in science fiction movies that we now think are pure fiction. We can’t imagine how it will be possible, but if you are young, you may actually ride in one, maybe even own it. Drones that the USA uses not only to spy but also to murder enemies, with the consequent death of many innocents, will in the future turn into manned space vehicles (MSV) as well, although unmanned space vehicles (USV) will still be around, getting even more sophisticated. Some drones will be the size of your red blood cells that can circulate in your body to spy on your organs and hunt and kill whatever makes you ill. Other drones will be insect-sized, from mosquitoes to birds, that can spy and kill in urban areas. The USA has 7,000 spy/killer drones with unknown numbers in many other countries. If drones can fly 24 hours and carry heavy loads of bombs, why don't humans drive them; you don’t need a driver’s license :-) Drone technology is the next world-changing technology after the internet. Electrical engineers should tread this path or be left behind by those who do.

What truly fascinates me is space travel. Again, 150 years from now, for colonists to live and thrive on Mars is too conservative a time, but, ah, a journey to the stars… 150 years it is. With big businesses and moneyed individuals investing in Mars’ future colonies, I may even live to see it happen. When I see humankind walk on the surface of Mars, I will sail towards the sunset with a smile on my face.

NLK

STARSHIP

HUMANITY

How future generations will make the voyage from our earthly home to the planets and beyond—and what it means for our species

By Cameron M. Smith

SNIP:

If space colonization is to succeed in the long run, we must consider biology and culture as carefully as engineering. Colonization cannot be about rockets and robots alone—it will have to embrace bodies, people, families, communities and cultures. We must begin to build an anthropology of space colonization to grapple with the fuzzy, messy, dynamic and often infuriating world of human bio-cultural adaptation. And we must plan this new venture while remembering the clearest fact of all regarding living things: they change through time, by evolution. Three main concepts shape current thought about space colonization. First is the colonization of Mars. Widely publicized by the peppery space engineer and president of the Mars Society, Robert Zubrin, Martian colonies would be self sufficient, using local resources to generate water and oxygen as well as to make construction materials. Next is the concept of free-floating colonies—enormous habitats built from lunar or asteroid metals. Popularized by physicist Gerard K. O’Neill in the 1970s, these would house thousands of people, could rotate to provide an Earth-like gravity (as beautifully envisioned in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey), and could either orbit Earth or hang motionless at so-called Lagrangian points, spots where an object’s orbital motion balances the gravitational pull of the sun, moon and Earth. Finally, we might also consider the concept of the Space Ark, a giant craft carrying thousands of space colonists on a one-way, multigenerational voyage far from Earth. I have been working with the nonprofit foundation Icarus Interstellar to design just such a mission. Each of these approaches has its merits, and I think they are all technologically inevitable. But we must never confuse space colonization with the conquest of space. The world beyond ours is unimaginably vast; it will be what it has always been. When humankind begins to make its home in space, it is we who will change.

Scientific American: January 2013

https://www.amazon.com/Nosca-Khalid/e/B01NA7APYQ

Dubai Rotating Tower: MIND-BOGGLING...

There seems to be no limit to human imagination and to human capabilities where the only limit is what else; human imagination. I just concluded a short essay on what life would be 50, 100 and 150 years from now based on the January 2013 issue of scientific American when I saw this on YouTube. While we can predict the future; our predictions are just guesses at best. Sometimes; fictions are better predictor of the future. Watch this 3 minutes video and tell me if it is not fiction made real here and now…

Houses and building in the future will all be made in the factories that you just sort of assemble on a piece of land. A company in china is building sky scrapers in months not in years in fact; the company plans to build the world’ tallest building in just 3 months. Impossible…?

EMPIRE troops to Libya, Sudan, Algeria, Nigeria, Mali and 30 others African countries…

If you think for a moment that the empire is slowing down to take care of problems at home, you are wrong. Since the USA’s economy, if it ever recovers, will take a long time, the empire, like its predecessors, will expand its arms reach to plunder the natural resources of African nations under the pretext of what else; battling Islamic extremists laughably out to bring down the pantheons of democracy. If you are old enough to remember, it is precisely the same reasons that warmonger USA justifies its wars to stop evil godless communists from taking over the planet and taking away your freedom to do evil. The USA’s troops, according to this piece of news, will especially head to Libya, Nigeria, Algeria, Sudan, and Mali: sounds familiar? The empire has obviously declared war on Islam worldwide; the Middle East, South Asia, and now Africa.

 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33431.htm

US Deploying Troops To 35 African Countries 

By Russia Today

December 25, 2012 "Russia Today" -- The United States Army will be deploying troops to nearly three-dozen African nations in the coming year.

Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as 35 African nations, the Associated Press reports.

Citing a growing threat from extremist groups, including those with ties to al-Qaeda, the Department of Defense is hoping to install American soldiers overseas in order to prepare local troops there for any future crises as tensions escalate.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33431.htm

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An Open Letter To All Americans: Shame On You!

QUOTE: I know it isn’t 87 a day. That’s how many die by getting shot: over 30,000 unnecessary deaths a year.

America already has one gun for every adult. Yet the NRA claims that increasing the number of firearms will make Americans safer – they’ll be able to defend themselves.

My comment:

I almost doubled up laughing at the above part of what I was reading. The National Rifle Association (NRA) wants Americans to have even more guns to be able to better defend themselves!

Defend themselves against what, their neighbors? Is this what the USA has become? Obviously, Americans cannot defend themselves against their government’s tyranny because the government has murderous machines (drones), stealth bombers, nuclear devices that can erase from the map an unruly state of the federation, meaning the citizenry is no match for the Empire’s universal soldiers.

Anyway, if you ask me…I say arm them to the teeth. Listen to the NRA. Let them Americans self-destruct. Think of the USA as the Star Wars “Battle Station” that, when disabled, will instantly trigger a cessation of hostilities around the planet. The fall of the beast will be suitable for the peace-loving people of planet Earth.

An afterthought: USA’s 300 million population is 5% of the world’s total, but it consumes 60 % of all psychiatric drugs sold in the market worldwide :-(

An Open Letter To All Americans: Shame On You!:

An Open Letter To All Americans: Shame On You!

By Jim Taylor

December 23, 2012 "Al Jazeera" --  The Sandy Hook shooting should not have surprised you. It’s simply the most recent in a series of multiple murders. Since 1966, when Charles Whitman climbed into a tower on the University of Texas campus in Austin and started picking off random victims, the pattern has been depressingly familiar. The list of massacres rolls off the tongue like a litany: Columbine, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Tucson, Fort Hood, Nickel Mines, Oak Ridge, Sandy Hook…

Has no one set it to music yet?

It’s always the same – go to a place where people gather, where they think they’re safe – a school, a theatre, a place of worship, a shopping mall -- and mow them down.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33422.htm

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Cool; a tour of the inside of the International Space Station (ISS)

Guys this is real cool; a 25 minutes tour of the inside of the International Space Station (ISS) we heard so much about on the news.