tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.comments2012-05-30T03:02:21.525-04:00Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00672269613305890690noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-65352437846563854802010-03-23T01:40:39.861-04:002010-03-23T01:40:39.861-04:00http://earthship.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=9&amp;Itemid=70<br /><br /><br />this is where you can rent an earthship!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-59870284058383085502009-09-27T22:00:58.974-04:002009-09-27T22:00:58.974-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.jbuddhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17913884129768283976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-26986794175725140322009-07-20T19:13:20.973-04:002009-07-20T19:13:20.973-04:00smoked bhudda til i finally became one<br />now enlightened feeling like one of the only sane ones<br />tough to word it... but i heard it from within me<br />the answer to creationism is infinity<br />i found, though gods may be a fallacy<br />there&#39;s still something to be gained from spirituality<br />though neur&#39;logical<br />chemistry controls mentality<br />the double slit test shows perception trumps reailty<br />only see in three dimensions, shit is limited<br />when probability of the fourth has already been exhibited<br />we&#39;re still primitive, cant even grasp the truest curse<br />how every thing IS everything AND nothing in the universe<br />atoms are 99% empty, did you know that?<br />two things rarely ever touch and scientists can show that<br />so if a world of empty space force fields sounds surreal<br />grab some bhudda and a physics class and go feel cause it&#39;s so real.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-51863411495490267912009-05-26T21:08:15.963-04:002009-05-26T21:08:15.963-04:00Real sweet video. Just finished reading Dharma Bums and immediately thought of this excerpt from the 21st chapter:<br />"things are empty because they appear, don't they, you see them, but they're made up of atoms that can't be measured or weighed or taken hold of, even the dumb scientists know that now, there isn't any finding of the farthest atom so-called, things are just empty arrangements of something that seems solid appearing in the space, they ain't either big or small, near or far, true or false, they're ghosts pure and simple."<br />-KerouacAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-11044397251147131532009-05-08T05:03:00.000-04:002009-05-08T05:03:00.000-04:00向量张量纯量喜欢加乘不喜欢减除<br /><br /><br />功能原理.移項法則-&gt;W(力場作正功)=deltaEk(動能之增加)=-ΔU(位能之減少)<br />機械能守衡.加減法原理-&gt;deltaEk+deltaUs.deltaUg=0彈.重力場<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />悉怛多缽怛囉阿門南無阿門蔡旻驗義崎獨生子FOR針對陰陽仁去蕪存菁http://www.blogger.com/profile/02346328150693740298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-16091604405799142652009-04-26T23:41:00.000-04:002009-04-26T23:41:00.000-04:00Too bad the areas with the greatest carbon footprints have building code laws that prevent people from doing these types of things, or make it financially hard. (That darn Jane Addams!) Case in point: One town in Monmouth County, NJ proposed a law to charge a special permit fee to homeowners who wanted to install and maintain solar panels.<br /><br />BTW. Current edition of MAKE magazine features a function greenhouse made completely from 20oz soda bottles kept together with silicon glue.jbuddhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17913884129768283976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-54654843633803005482009-04-23T14:25:00.000-04:002009-04-23T14:25:00.000-04:00So cool... I want to visit these places and see what they are really like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-48246736126358873302009-04-22T21:43:00.000-04:002009-04-22T21:43:00.000-04:00http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/22/obama.energy/index.html<br /><br />Happy Earth DayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-51882020553589427952009-04-21T18:22:00.000-04:002009-04-21T18:22:00.000-04:00The realm of Truth to an extent reminds me of Gandahar and the diction belonging to the deformed creatures... What do you think?Celeste C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08359210142662911974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-60636769316134354082009-04-19T02:59:00.000-04:002009-04-19T02:59:00.000-04:00thanks, interesting linkSarahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-73138293440782357472009-04-18T18:27:00.000-04:002009-04-18T18:27:00.000-04:00as in the theory where universes exist as branes?<br /><br />follow this link to a video where they try to explain dimensions up through the tenth dimension - i think it relates<br /><br />http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.phpSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00672269613305890690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-67262217166956096292009-04-18T17:40:00.000-04:002009-04-18T17:40:00.000-04:00I believe the scientific opinion on the matter of expansion/contraction is as follows: Space itself will one day expand at a faster rate than the speed of light, and all matter will be torn apart. Black holes will evaporate, and without matter, there will be no time.<br /><br />What do you think of multiverses though?Sarahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-72264633474967678302009-04-15T01:18:00.000-04:002009-04-15T01:18:00.000-04:00While a nice application of metaphor, I think Tom Morris endues an incredulous naivete on both "Plato's Cave" and the global economic situation. <br /><br />Contrary to Morris, I don't believe "the economic events of our time have arisen out of many of these illusions." These were not illusions at all: these economic events stem from malfeasance and greed. Madoff is not an illusion. The badly structured housing policies that created the sub-prime market were not an illusion. Even bankers who knew this was bad had to play the sub-prime lending game because the government changed the rules of competition. AIG bonus packages of millions of dollars for executives were not an illusion. If Tom Morris wants us to believe this is an illusion, what is his stake in the game? Is he trying to distract us with his own illusion? How can we "learn from mistakes", if something real didn't happen?<br /><br />As for Plato's Cave (Republic VII), this is more than a story about illusions and reality. Like most of the Republic it advocates totalitarian ideology. The republic is a hegemony, with philosopher kings at the top of the pyramid. I disagree with Morris' assertion that the philosopher yields truth to the people in the cave. Rather, the philosopher is encouraged to be amongst the cave prisoners but never to liberate them! Rather, they should go along with the illusions, while seeing better than they do - this is manipulation by understanding others' weaknesses.jbuddhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17913884129768283976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-79592431250691829632009-04-14T22:37:00.000-04:002009-04-14T22:37:00.000-04:00I loved the article :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-64294204160623287742009-04-11T22:34:00.000-04:002009-04-11T22:34:00.000-04:00Accidents can happen! Maybe you meant "electrical outlet", but I like "the briefcase has an electoral outlet". It is just how I envision the electoral college and the graceful process of the U.S. elections!<BR/> <BR/> Take that as you may. Perhaps Cthulu is the nightmare behind it all. Or, perhaps the Illuminati. Or, maybe its the Scientologists! <BR/><BR/> BTW, I really like the white space in the image. It reminds me of William S. Burroughs' artwork. Don't give into horror vacui! Well, not unless you really want to.jbuddhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17913884129768283976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-52460245370125752552009-04-10T15:31:00.000-04:002009-04-10T15:31:00.000-04:00I agree completely, and hadn't thought about the ecological repercussions of overpopulation, but there's certainly more waste coming from a family than a single automobile. I think we need to be a bit more confrontational about the slow (but significant) weaning of oil usage, because we debate how long the remaining supplies will last us, but it is nonrenewable and the population is growing. We can't know for sure in an uncontrolled set of circumstances how quickly we will exponentially consume in the future. I think it needs to get put aside, especially when there are so many examples of renewable sources being pushed further than a Green Day feature experiment (http://www.pickensplan.com/act/). That link is for oil tycoon T. Boone Picken's current solar power ventures. He's a pretty no bullshit guy from what I've seen. He acknowledges he stands to profit and that he is a capitalist, but he sees the tide for change and responsible power options.athomichttp://openid.aol.com/athomicfalloutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-2509659974126522332009-04-09T00:40:00.000-04:002009-04-09T00:40:00.000-04:00it is hard to avoid sounding like a eugenics proponent when talking realistically about the human population, but let's get real. this is out of control. There is no need for a couple to have more than one kid. I know everyone with siblings may resent this idea, but the fact is unless we can curb and reverse the direction of our population, many lives will be lost to things such as famine and disease due to the overcrowding. Human kind needs to take responsibility. We have had sterile sex available for years, we must begin using it!<BR/><BR/>think about it. Whats the bigger carbon footprint, or to be more accurate, what leaves the biggest ecological footprint [since carbon is only one of many contributors to a degrading environment. So whats the biggest ecological footprint, one left by someone driving a hummer, or by someone who has four kids. Think about it. Mother earth can only support so much. <BR/><BR/>We must get our population under control. Not by death but by responsible life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-34741088911454087762009-04-05T23:21:00.000-04:002009-04-05T23:21:00.000-04:00Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.<BR/> - Anonymous<BR/><BR/>is what Amir's google homepage says.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-63888785614564090292009-03-29T18:41:00.000-04:002009-03-29T18:41:00.000-04:00dude I definitely should have been the one who suggested this to you but I dont think I did. Saw it a few months ago the art is fucking amazing. The alien plants/landscapes/activities are awesome. <BR/><BR/>Also cool to note, the original story presented allegorically through Fantastic Planet is the Communist impact on I think Czech Republic or some other Eastern European country. Without knowing this though, the movie seems like a metaphor for soo much more.<BR/><BR/>-1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-55608463939270242502009-03-20T21:59:00.000-04:002009-03-20T21:59:00.000-04:00some of those quotes hit the nail on the muhfuckin headAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-42295849335944336752009-03-17T21:13:00.000-04:002009-03-17T21:13:00.000-04:00http://www.hhmi.org/senses/b210.html<BR/>The patient had great difficulty pouring coffee into a cup. She could clearly see the cup's shape, color, and position on the table, she told her doctor. She was able to pour the coffee from the pot.<BR/><BR/>But the column of fluid flowing from the spout appeared frozen, like a waterfall turned to ice. She could not see its motion. So the coffee would rise in the cup and spill over the sides.<BR/><BR/>More dangerous problems arose when she went outdoors. She could not cross a street, for instance, because the motion of cars was invisible to her: a car was up the street and then upon her, without ever seeming to occupy the intervening space.<BR/><BR/>Even people milling through a room made her feel very uneasy, she complained to Josef Zihl, a neuropsychologist who saw her at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, in 1980, because "the people were suddenly here or there but I did not see them moving."<BR/><BR/>The woman's rare motion blindness resulted from a stroke that damaged selected areas of her brain.<BR/><BR/>What she lost—the ability to see objects move through space—is a key aspect of vision. In animals, this ability is crucial to survival: Both predators and their prey depend upon being able to detect motion rapidly.<BR/><BR/>In fact, frogs and some other simple vertebrates may not even see an object unless it is moving. If a dead fly on a string is dangled motionlessly in front of a starving frog, the frog cannot sense this winged meal. The "bug-detecting" cells in its retina are wired to respond only to movement. The frog might starve to death, tongue firmly folded in its mouth, unaware that salvation lies suspended on a string in front of its eyes.<BR/><BR/>While the retina of frogs can detect movement, the retina of humans and other primates cannot.<BR/><BR/>"The dumber the animal, the smarter its retina," observes Denis Baylor of Stanford Medical School. The large, versatile brain of humans takes over the job, analyzing motion through a highly specialized pathway of neural connections.<BR/><BR/>This is the pathway that was damaged in the motion-blind patient from Munich. Compared to the complex ensemble of regions in the visual cortex that are devoted to perceiving color and form, this motion-perception pathway seems relatively streamlined and simple. More than any other part of the cortex, it has yielded to efforts to unveil "the precise relationship between perception and the activity of a sensory neuron somewhere in the brain," says Anthony Movshon, an HHMI investigator at New York University.<BR/><BR/>Consider what happens when we watch a movie, suggests Thomas Albright of the Salk Institute. Each of the 24 frames projected per second on the theater screen is a still photograph; nothing in a movie truly moves.<BR/><BR/>The illusion of movement is created by the motion-processing system, which automatically fuses, for instance, the images of legs that shift position slightly from frame to frame into the appearance of a walking actor. The Munich patient is unable to perform this fusion. In life or in the movie theater, she sees the world as a series of stills.<BR/><BR/>"The motion system must match up image elements from frame to frame, over space and time," says Albright. "It has to detect which direction a hand is moving in, for instance, and not confuse that hand with a head when it waves in front of someone's face."<BR/><BR/>— Geoffrey MontgomeryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-84446395765477786442009-03-11T16:29:00.000-04:002009-03-11T16:29:00.000-04:00add an elephant or an oliphaunt somewhere...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-75143612945167268652009-03-10T23:25:00.000-04:002009-03-10T23:25:00.000-04:00where's the petri dish of life?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-45194295083879357352009-03-10T18:45:00.000-04:002009-03-10T18:45:00.000-04:00One small step for man,<BR/><BR/>One giant leap for space-faring reptiles.Cris Slotshttp://www.myspace.com/seaspraymusicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870116285219182159.post-13057425687566037982009-03-08T18:11:00.000-04:002009-03-08T18:11:00.000-04:00the books are real sweet. I like &#39;an owl with knees&#39; too<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgn2Gsgm6ak&amp;feature=relatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com