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Friday, October 31, 2003
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 Timothy Wilken writes: When we examine the biological needs of a number of single celled organisms surviving as individuals versus the needs of the same number of cells working together within the body of an organism, we find the cells working together are able to reduce their biological needs by 100 to 1000 times. The bodies of all living systems are organized synergically. That means the cells work together and solve the problems of survival as a unified team. Imagine, what could be possible if the entire human species were a single organization. The synergic strategies of Ortegrity could be used to organize all of humanity into a single level 12 Ortegrity up to a limit of 13,841,287,201 humans. In our present world, with its obsession with growth and growing larger, whenever I have presented the Ortegrity to business people, they have been excited by the possibility of increasing production. However, they tend to overlook the point that these systems could be 100 to 1000 times more efficient. Now being more productive doesn't mean you have to produce more. It also means you could produce what you need in less time and then have more time for yourself and your family. Being more efficient means you can do with a lot more with less energy and matter. ...What this efficiency means is that the ecological footprint of 6 billion synergically organized humans could be as low as that of 60 million to 6 million of today's adversary-neutrally dis-organized humans. (10/31/03)
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 Terence R. Wilken writes: Well time once again to return to the world of finance. The markets have been holding their own, and we are being told that it is only a matter of time before we will hit Dow 10,000. Of course we did have a "healthy" correction this last week. We have been told that is the case. From some though there is a WATCH OUT BELOW warning. Who are we to believe? Maybe this next week will give us an indication. Bonds have been holding up nicely, and you can feel comfortable with lower interest rates. I know that rates are the lowest in years because I am still getting about 40 E-Mails a day telling me that they are at an all time low, and it is the opportune time to refinance my home. Of course the dollar is falling, but then who pays attention to that. You can rest assured that the government does even if it is not a big factor in the normal scheme of things. Because of the falling dollar, the cheap goods that we have gotten used to will start becoming more expensive. Now how can that come about? To those regular readers it is understood that we currently buy most of our goods from China, and the Chinese have pegged their money to the dollar. In that way they can continue to sell us cheap products no matter what happens to our currency. This is about to change. It has been deemed to not be fair. Anything that is not fair has to be changed. (10/31/03)
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 BBC Science -- A disease similar to the fatal human illness CJD can be prevented and reversed in mice, scientists say. All CJD-like illnesses occur when normal nerve cell proteins - prions - convert into an abnormal form, causing dementia and death. Mutant mice that lacked normal prions did not get sick, researchers found, even if abnormal prions were present. This suggests that the disease is caused by the conversion process - not the abnormal prions. The findings are published in the journal, Science. When a prion becomes abnormal or 'rogue', scientists believe it changes all the surrounding prions into an abnormal form as well. The result of this process is a crippling disease which, in humans, causes a slow descent into a vegetative state and, ultimately, death. It has been the natural assumption that these symptoms are due to the build up of abnormal prions. It was thought something about them - their odd shape perhaps - caused the brain to degenerate. For this reason, most research has focused on finding ways to prevent the accumulation of abnormal prions in nerve tissue. But, when tried out on laboratory animals, these therapies were disappointing. Now researchers, led by John Collinge and Giovanna Mallucci of University College London, believe previous experiments focused on the wrong step of the process. (10/31/03)
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 BBC Technology -- One of the ambitions of nanotechnology, building motors on a molecular scale, has been realised by scientists in America. Researchers at Berkeley at the University of California created the world's smallest electrical device earlier this year - one hundred million of which could fit on the end of a pin. The motors finally realised one of the visions of the 'prophet' of nanotechnology, Richard Feynman. His 1959 talk, There's Plenty Of Room At The Bottom, is seen as the foundation script of nanoscience. "He issued a series of challenges to really jumpstart the field of science that would ultimately be called nanotechnology," nanoscientist Mike Roukes of the California Institute of Technology told BBC World Service's Discovery programme. "One of the challenges was to build a motor. He envisioned mass production of miniature motors, far smaller than the scale that anyone could possibly assemble by hand. "This ultimately was realised some 40 years later in the field of micro electrical mechanical systems." Nanotechnology promises to revolutionise medicine, electronics and chemistry. It holds the promise of powerful computers the size of a grain of sand, smart fabrics that could sense the presence of toxic chemicals or nanoscale filters to clean the environment. ... The motors - the work of Berkeley researchers Alex Zettl and Adam Fennimore - were built using a atom-fine point of a nano-probe, inserting the circuits into place on a silicon chip. The motor sits in the middle of a silicon chip four millimetres square. The motor itself is much, much smaller - the shaft is a half a tenth of a thousandth of a millimetre thick. "The axle element is about 20-40 nanometres in diameter, and that's really the part of the motor that enables it to spin," explained Dr Fennimore. (10/30/03)
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 BBC Science -- All our lives in the year 2020 could be startlingly different from today, the UK's Environment Agency believes. ... The attempt at futurology on the part of the Environment Agency (EA) is intended to make people think about where we might be headed if certain polices are adopted - or not. The portrait of Britain's future is being debated at the Environment 2003 conference held in London this week. The attempt at futurology on the part of the Environment Agency (EA) is intended to make people think about where we might be headed if certain polices are adopted - or not. Their vision: 1) High oil prices mean imported foods are no longer affordable - local produce dominates, 2) A household windmill and solar panels generate surplus electricity which is pumped back to the grid, earning the family money, 3) Homes have their own purification plants, 4) Toilets automatically analyse samples of family excretions, and digitally send the information to a computer at the doctor's surgery, 5) A domestic greenhouse gas allowance is debited automatically from a smartcard, and 6) Much of the world is uninhabitable - the West Coast of Ireland is under water, much of central Africa has turned into desert. (10/30/03)
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 BBC Nature -- The ice covering the Arctic ocean is getting thinner as summers lengthen, say British scientists. Melting seen in recent years is set to continue, they warn, with the eventual disappearance of ice during the summer months. It puts the habitat of the polar bear, which relies on the ice to hunt for seals, under increasing threat. Melting will also increase the effects of global warming in the northern hemisphere, say researchers from University College London (UCL) and the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. The study, reported in the journal Nature, is based on ice thickness measurements from two European Space Agency (Esa) satellites, ERS-1 and ERS-2. The team also used microwave images from an American satellite. Lead researcher Dr Seymour Laxon of UCL said the results from the American satellite show that the length of summers has increased over the last 25 years. ... Ice in the Arctic Ocean has already thinned by 40% in the past 40 years, according to the results of submarine surveys. Any further loss could spell disaster for the polar bear, which stands to lose its natural habitat. It also has implications for global warming. As the ice melts, more sunlight is absorbed rather than being reflected back into space, amplifying the effects. (10/30/03)
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