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People of Planet Earth: Make This Your MEGO Moment . . .

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:45:30 GMT

clipped by: gmentgen
clipper's remarks: This is a MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) point in the "State Of The Planet" .

Visit this website ... NOW !

http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks2.htm

and spread the word to everyone you know.

And when you are in a MEGO state, browse over to this site:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/soil/mann-text/1

People, get involved in saving our soil... seriously involved... your food supply depends on it.

Clip Source: www.poodwaddle.com

SOURCES

These stats may be verified at the listed websites.
World Population: US Census Bureau
Population growth rate: CIA World Factbook
Prison Population: UK Homeoffice
Divorces (US Only): Wikipedia
US Illegal Immigration: Wikipedia
Abortions: Wikipedia
Mothers dying during botched abortions: World Health Organization
HIV infection: Avert
Cancer incidence: UICC
Earth Temp: Wikipedia
Species Extinct: National Wildlife Federation
Oil Production: CIA World Factbook
Cars produced: Mation Master
Bicycle Production: Earth Policy
Computer production: Top Secret
Death stats: World Health Organization

Planet's loneliest bug revealed

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:34:41 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A bug which lives entirely on its own and survives without oxygen in complete darkness underground has been discovered in South Africa.

Desulforudis audaxviator, or bold traveller as it is known in English, relies on water, hydrogen and sulphate for its energy.

Because it gets by without oxygen, it could offer clues as to whether life exists on other planets.

The loneliest living species known to science was found inside a gold mine.

The rod-shaped bacterium was found 2.8km (1.74 miles) beneath the surface of the Earth in Mponeng's Driefontein mine near Johannesburg, living in complete isolation, total darkness and 60C (140F) heat.

The find represents the first known ecosystem with a single biological species, scientists say.

It was identified in DNA extracted from water-filled cracks in the mine.

Tags: nature, bug, oxygen

Toddler Planet and Imaginary Wealth

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:26:48 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: The industrialized world is still incredibly rich without it. If we were all (particularly the people at the top) willing to accept a little less, and stop trying to stick somebody else with the entire loss, we'd all be fine.

But apparently this type of behavior—something I've dubbed "not being a three year-old toddler"—is beyond the capability of humanity. We'd prefer to suffer enormously instead.

Clip Source: www.tinyrevolution.com

Toddler Planet

I first learned about the Great Depression when I was ten or so. And I remember thinking: I don't get it. I was mystified by the way this could have happened—everyone suddenly becoming much poorer for ten years—when nothing whatsoever had changed in physical reality.

I understand the process of the Great Depression now. But it's certainly an education to watch a gigantic financial panic in real time. I look outside, and the sun is shining. The world still has all the same people and buildings and cars and factories—i.e., it's not like we've just suffered from a virulent plague or half the planet's been destroyed by bombs. And yet we really may all become much poorer for the next ten years.

It's completely insane. And it could be avoided if we would all just calm down and look at reality, which is not that scary. So we don't have $8 trillion of imaginary wealth we thought we did. Who cares?

DINOSAUR PLANET

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:51:42 GMT

clipped by: Michael Black
clipper's remarks: WHITE TIPS JOURNEY

Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: documentary

Five-Star Green Hypocrisy

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:39:50 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: junkscience.com

"Join us on a remarkable 25-day journey by luxury private jet," invites the WWF in a brochure for its voyage to "some of the most astonishing places on the planet to see top wildlife, including gorillas, orangutans, rhinos, lemurs and toucans."

This is the very same WWF that says “the current growth in [carbon dioxide] emissions must be stopped as soon as possible” and that blames Americans for emitting 21 percent of global CO2 emissions

Using the carbon footprint calculator on the WWF’s own web site, the 36,800-mile trip in a Boeing 757 jet will burn about 100,000 gallons of jet fuel to produce roughly 1,231 tons of CO2 in 25 days — that’s the equivalent of putting about 1,560 SUVs on the road during those three-plus weeks and that doesn’t even include emissions related to local air, ground and water transport and other amenities.

Because We Don't Need It...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:10:49 GMT

clipped by: monstersmom
clipper's remarks: We don’t need more debts. Palin spent 15 million on a new sports center in the valley, leaving the small town of Wasilla, Alaska in debt to the amount of 22 million. (That’s 22 million more than the debt she took on when taking on this lovely playtime as mayor.)

We don’t need family feuds interfering with duties. I know you feel your ex-brother-in-law was a dick… but trying to get him fired...Sarah?

We don’t need another vote against gay marriage. This is just standard every day equal rights being overlooked. Sarah Palin disagrees.

We don’t need to overlook global warming. Science can now tell us "Yup. That is happening.” Not my words, that is science speak. Sarah Palin disagrees.

Clip Source: portugaltheman.net

We don’t need drilling in some of our most beautiful and untouched land. We need to work towards options. We should be investing and working towards clean fuels. We don’t need to be draining our planet of every last drop before moving on to the next. Sarah Palin disagrees

We needed votes to add the polar bear to the endangered species list. (I know, I know, that polar bear rug would really bring the room together!). Sarah Palin disagreed

We don’t need aerial hunting… Again. We do NOT need this. I don’t know of any true Alaskan that feels it is good sport to shoot an animal from a plane. Sarah Palin disagrees

We don’t need book burners and censors. Sarah Palin pushed to get the librarian of Wasilla fired when certain books were not removed from the public library. Who else in history has banned books? Not very good company is it?

Tags: palin, alaska, drilling, polar bear

for each (vote = 0; vote>0; vote++)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:44:15 GMT

clipped by: Taylor Buley
clipper's remarks: An interesting article about why online voting can, quite literally, be a joke.

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Vote4Rick: Too well. On Tuesday, we logged about 6.7 million recorded votes with the RickVoter. On Wednesday, we're looking about 6.2 million. This number would be much higher, in the 20 million mark, but unfortunately there are still a lot of people using their own home-brewed scripts which are spamming MTV several times a second. So the servers have become unavailable a lot of the time. I guess the aim in the general web community's eyes is to get Rick as many votes as there are people on the planet. This would be fantastic.

Virtual worlds carve out new path

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:42:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The first step is to have virtual worlds as a common medium for ordinary people. It has to become far more ubiquitous, more like a toaster than a DVR,"
What virtual worlds do well is contextualise social encounters in a way that social networking cannot do, he thinks.

"Without places it is hard to have activities. The bowling alley or the alcohol does not matter as much as the people but if you do not have the bowling alley or the alcohol it's just an empty room and no-one comes,"

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Virtual worlds carve out new path

If you are walking with orcs in the World of Warcraft or setting up a business on planet Calypso, the real world is probably very far from your mind.

There is a sharp divide between so-called Massively Multi-player Online games (MMOs) which aspire to draw from the real world, such as Second Life, and those, like World of Warcraft, which proudly inhabit a land of pure fantasy.

Cityscape

Hoping to change that is Twinity, one of a growing number of games determined to make a link between the virtual world and the real.

allows users to hang out in some of the world's most famous cities

Twinity is a virtual world from Metaversum with avatars that walk around real cities. Metaversum chief executive Jochen Hummel says people can feel as though they have been to a city.

Networking avatars

"Virtual worlds are about experimenting and doing something different," she said.

Going one step farther, Myrl has created a social network exclusively for avatars.

Anonymity

Tags: virtual, reality

The New Solar System as of 2008

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:27:51 GMT

clipped by: bakancs

Clip Source: www.librarising.com

The New Solar System

The new solar system as of 2008, with more additions to come

With the additions of the dwarfs and/or plutoids our solar system now has 13 official planets. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars form the inner and smaller group of the classical 8 solar system planets, while Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune form the outer or larger group. Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris comprise the smallest and outermost group of dwarfs or plutoids, whereas Ceres is the lone inner dwarf planet.

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Niki Raapana: Globalist Totalitarian Takeover

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:07:17 GMT

clipped by: WIDEEYECINEMA

Clip Source: wideeyecinema.com

Niki Raapana: Globalist Totalitarian Takeover

There is an old social theory that in order to create a healthier planet, people everywhere must learn the value of collectivism. Its many proponents insist that individual rights and liberties pose a real threat to the health and safety of the “community at large. If we will just put the community before self-centered concerns, mankind can eliminate war and poverty. To many, it is our evolutionary destiny and our moral duty to comply with the spirit of community.

Communitarianism was embraced by leaders in every nation after it was financed by the international banking elite. Today the theory of community influences all aspects of life: news, science, money, law, land use, health, education, policing and employment, not to mention the arts, fashion, fundraising, causes and entertainment.

Scientists meet for alien summit

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:07:07 GMT

clipped by: kkcapricorn
clipper's remarks: I hope they share some of their findings and information with the public

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

An artists impression of the planet going around the star Vega, which the Scuba 2 instrument discovered

The origins of life in our galaxy and the search for alien life outside our solar system will be at the forefront of discussions by experts in Edinburgh

'Are We Alone?'.

There are now more than 300 planets known beyond our own Solar System.

Known as exo-planets, they are likely to be discovered with the completion of instruments such as Scuba 2, a camera to detect dust from the earliest phases of the formation of galaxies and, in the near future, the James Webb Space Telescope, an orbiting telescope to catch the first light of the universe.

The aim of the workshop is to gather researchers from areas including astrophysics, geophysics and biology to discuss astronomical instruments, both present and future, and laboratory based experiments studying extreme environments.

key speakers in astrobiology, atmospheric physics and astrophysics

Tags: universe, alien life, summit, astrophysics

Mirror-Image Clues to Life's Origins

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:33:45 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor
clipper's remarks: From the source:

The meteorites did this by providing building blocks with a slight preponderance of that handedness (known scientifically as chirality) that makes life possible.

"We know that all amino acids start mirror-image the same, but in living things they have this handedness," said Ronald Breslow, a Columbia University researcher who published recently on the topic. "This change doesn't happen spontaneously, and we've never been able to reproduce it in the laboratory" under conditions similar to early Earth.

"The answer to where it comes from looks increasingly like meteorites," he added, "from extraterrestrial bodies falling to Earth. It's a complex story, but we're beginning to understand it better."

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

For more than 150 years, scientists have known that the most basic building blocks of life -- chains of amino acid molecules and the proteins they form -- almost always have the unusual characteristic of being overwhelmingly "left-handed." The molecules, of course, have no hands, but they are almost all asymmetrical in a way that parallels left-handedness.

But research into the question has picked up in recent years, focusing on a 200-pound chunk of rock found 40 years ago in Murchison, Australia. A meteorite that broke off an asteroid long ago, it brought to Earth a rich collection of carbon-based material from far away in the solar system.

The answer they believe they have found is that 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, before life on Earth began, similar meteorites crashed regularly into the planet -- delivering the amino acids that would later be incorporated into all living things.

Tags: science, evolution, meteor, life, earth

Mercury as Revealed by MESSENGER

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:54:49 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor
clipper's remarks: Once again, the Astronomy Picture of the Day brings us current events from way out there to let us know there's more going on than the petty events on our puny planet.

Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Explanation: The planet Mercury has been known since history has been recorded, but parts of the Solar System's innermost planet have never been seen like this before. Two days ago the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft buzzed past Mercury for the second time and imaged terrain mapped previously only by comparatively crude radar. The above image was recorded as MESSENGER looked back 90 minutes after passing, from an altitude of about 27,000 kilometers. Visible in the above image, among many other newly imaged features, are unusually long rays that appear to run like meridians of longitude out from a young crater near the northern limb. MESSENGER is scheduled to fly past Mercury once more before firing its thrusters to enter orbit in 2011.

Tags: astronomy, mercury, nasa, messenger, space, planet

Oct 5-14, 2008: Global Partnership on Cities and Biodiversity

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:08:47 GMT

clipped by: egsnyder

Clip Source: www.countdown2010.net

IUCN World Conservation Congress witnesses launch of the Global Partnership on Cities and Biodiversity

7 October 2008, Barcelona (Spain) Last year was a special year in human history. For the first time, the world became essentially an urban planet with a majority of its population living in cities, a proportion deemed to increase by 2/3 within 50 years. Urban areas cover only 2% of the land surface, cities and their residents consume up to 75% of the Earth resources.

Urbanization is proceeding at high speed in different parts of the world and is affecting the environment at all scales.

Tags: biodiversity, environment, sustainability, survival

Mass UFO Sighting Predicted - Oct 14, 2008

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:17:04 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks:

I believe they feel they have no choice but to show themselves as we verge on self-annihilation, genocide and toxic poisoning. The truth of our inter-galactic lineage will become common knowledge. If I am to believe the vision, the truth of our intergalactic lineage will cause humanity to take one wild ride.

They're coming! I'd love a wild ride. Heh heh...

Clip Song

Clip Source: www.ufodigest.com

Blossom Goodchild’s Predicted Mass UFO Sighting: Will it Force Disclosure to Occur?

rumors of an upcoming mass televised UFO sighting over American skies are taking the Internet by storm.

Blossom Goodchild, an Aussie actress and author, has the international Ufology community on its ear with channeled information concerning the eminent appearance of a massive extraterrestrial spacecraft for October 14th, 2008.

Calling themselves ‘The Federation of Light’, these Beings from another world have stated to Goodchild that they intend not only to make themselves known, but also to remain more or less in place for a full 72 hour period, thereby providing the media with ample opportunity to once and for all capture on film evidence that will silence the skeptics and debunkers forever. The predicted rendezvous point? Alabama.

Whoa.

she isn't the only one making the prediction.

By the year 2008, the fact that we are not alone in the universe will be made undeniably clear to everyone on the planet.