2.10.2010
2.09.2010
Alaska Aerospace Corporation
http://www.akaerospace.com/
The Alaska Aerospace Corporation was established by the State of Alaska to develop a high technology aerospace industry in the state. The corporation has a conventional top down business organization including a Board of Directors, a CEO, a President & COO, Vice Presidents, and Directors who oversee focus areas. AAC’s corporate offices are in Anchorage, Alaska.
AAC conducts business in accordance with standard contracting practices that are Defense Contract Audit Agency compliant. Business operations are facilitated by use of the Enterprise Management System and Universal Documentation System. AAC adheres to Defense Security Service directives and the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual.
AAC’s core business area is space launch, and it developed, owns, and operates the Kodiak Launch Complex, a state-of-the-industry spaceport on Kodiak Island, Alaska, that provides access to space for commercial and government interests. The corporation’s charter encompasses more than space launch, and it participates in other aerospace fields as well.
AAC conducts business in accordance with standard contracting practices that are Defense Contract Audit Agency compliant. Business operations are facilitated by use of the Enterprise Management System and Universal Documentation System. AAC adheres to Defense Security Service directives and the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual.
AAC’s core business area is space launch, and it developed, owns, and operates the Kodiak Launch Complex, a state-of-the-industry spaceport on Kodiak Island, Alaska, that provides access to space for commercial and government interests. The corporation’s charter encompasses more than space launch, and it participates in other aerospace fields as well.
President and Chief Operating Officer
Tom Case
Lt. Gen. USAF (Ret.)
T. Case joined AAC as President and COO in April 2008. He brings 33 years aerospace experience with the United States Air Force.
Case worked at the Pentagon, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, as an action officer, tactical weapons requirements for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition. He was executive officer for the Director of Operational Requirements and was selected as the first Air Force Chief of Staff Chair on the faculty of the National War College.
Mr Case first entered the joint world as Central Command’s Director of Operations and then Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff. Next he came back to Alaska as the Commander of Alaskan Command, Alaska NORAD Region and 11th Air Force. He concluded his active duty service as the Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Pacific Command.
Case worked at the Pentagon, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, as an action officer, tactical weapons requirements for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition. He was executive officer for the Director of Operational Requirements and was selected as the first Air Force Chief of Staff Chair on the faculty of the National War College.
Mr Case first entered the joint world as Central Command’s Director of Operations and then Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff. Next he came back to Alaska as the Commander of Alaskan Command, Alaska NORAD Region and 11th Air Force. He concluded his active duty service as the Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Pacific Command.
Chief Executive Officer
Dale K. Nash
D. Nash joined AAC as the Chief Operating Officer in January 2007 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in February 2008.
Mr. Nash’s background includes 28 years experience in the aerospace industry with the prior 14 years on NASA’s Space Shuttle/Human Space Flight programs and the previous 11 years on DoD ballistic missile systems and solid rocket motors.
Starting in 1995 at United Space Alliance, Nash served in several executive leadership positions on the NASA Space Shuttle / Human Space Flight Programs, including:
Mr. Nash’s background includes 28 years experience in the aerospace industry with the prior 14 years on NASA’s Space Shuttle/Human Space Flight programs and the previous 11 years on DoD ballistic missile systems and solid rocket motors.
Starting in 1995 at United Space Alliance, Nash served in several executive leadership positions on the NASA Space Shuttle / Human Space Flight Programs, including:
- Program Manager on the Lockheed Orion team
- Director Launch Operations at Kennedy Space Center
- Director Ground Systems at Kennedy Space Center
- Director External Tank/Solid Rocket Booster Operations
Kodiak Launch Complex
"From the Last Frontier to the Final Frontier."
KLC was the US’s first commercial spaceport not collocated on a federal range. Located about 44 road miles south of the city of Kodiak at Narrow Cape on Kodiak Island, the spaceport is state-of-the-industry and AAC strives to keep it that way. Vigilance, regularly scheduled maintenance, and periodic upgrades govern day-to-day activity. KLC is situated on 3,717 acres of state owned land, and AAC has authority during launch missions to limit public access to an additional 7,000 acres to assure public safety and security.
KLC is the US’s only high latitude full service spaceport. It features all indoor, all weather, processing and was designed specifically to provide optimal support for space launches to polar orbit, including circular and highly elliptical Molniya and Tundra orbits. KLC offers unrestricted down range launch azimuths ranging from 110° to 220°, and is the only U.S. facility that can launch high inclination (63.4°) missions without land over-flight and the requirement to resort to energy consuming dog leg flight segments. The spaceport, like all U.S. west coast facilities, sits on the seismically active Pacific Rim, and all structures and components are designed to exceed applicable design criteria for seismically active zones.
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The Blue Brain Project
The Blue Brain Project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.
[Source: bluebrain.epfl.ch]
Bedini 10 Coil Energizer Kit
John Bedini and Rick Friedrich assemble and demonstrate
the Bedini 10 Coil Energizer Kit.
John Bedini is the founder of Bedini Electronics and the proprietary inventor of this patented technology. John is an alternative energy inventor and a developer of electrical amplifiers. John has also done research and development into suppressed alternative medicine related to the work of Raymond Rife. John’s work on alternative energy is originally inspired and based on the ideas of Nikola Tesla.
It may be hard for some to conceive but John
has had a free energy generator since the 80’s.
[Below, Panacea University's 'John Bedini Technology' dossier...]
¿Revolución tecnológica o cambio social?
http://www.diagonalperiodico.net/Revolucion-tecnologica-o-cambio.html
Los sistemas operativos con interfaz gráfica o los nuevos móviles multifunción han determinado un cambio importante en la manera en que el mundo se nos presenta. Caminamos de una interacción visual, propia de la Modernidad, a una interacción auditiva, propia de la época precedente, en términos que McLuhan usó en La Galaxia Gutemberg para describir los cambios en la percepción y en la conciencia determinados por la imprenta en los siglos XVI y XVII.
En este sentido del término, cuando oímos un sonido, éste de alguna manera nos rodea, nos sumergimos en él y nos perdemos en él. El sonido nos somete más de lo que pueda hacer la visión, no es tan fácil decidir no oír, y no podemos (la mayoría de nosotros) apartar el oído y no escuchar. Mientras que mirar supone una decisión activa, tenemos que dirigir la mirada hacia lo que queremos, y podemos alejar los ojos de lo que no queremos ver.
La señal más inmediata de la transición a una experiencia auditiva es la presencia masiva de aparatos multimedia en nuestra vida. El término ‘multimedia’ debería, etimológicamente, aplicarse a cualquier combinación de dos o más canales de comunicación pero, en práctica, el término excluye la escritura, y las imágenes fijas juegan en él un papel marginal. Los dispositivos multimedia nos rodean con vídeos y audios que no necesitan nuestro enfoque.
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por Simone Santini
Los sistemas operativos con interfaz gráfica o los nuevos móviles multifunción han determinado un cambio importante en la manera en que el mundo se nos presenta. Caminamos de una interacción visual, propia de la Modernidad, a una interacción auditiva, propia de la época precedente, en términos que McLuhan usó en La Galaxia Gutemberg para describir los cambios en la percepción y en la conciencia determinados por la imprenta en los siglos XVI y XVII.
En este sentido del término, cuando oímos un sonido, éste de alguna manera nos rodea, nos sumergimos en él y nos perdemos en él. El sonido nos somete más de lo que pueda hacer la visión, no es tan fácil decidir no oír, y no podemos (la mayoría de nosotros) apartar el oído y no escuchar. Mientras que mirar supone una decisión activa, tenemos que dirigir la mirada hacia lo que queremos, y podemos alejar los ojos de lo que no queremos ver.
La señal más inmediata de la transición a una experiencia auditiva es la presencia masiva de aparatos multimedia en nuestra vida. El término ‘multimedia’ debería, etimológicamente, aplicarse a cualquier combinación de dos o más canales de comunicación pero, en práctica, el término excluye la escritura, y las imágenes fijas juegan en él un papel marginal. Los dispositivos multimedia nos rodean con vídeos y audios que no necesitan nuestro enfoque.
· ¿Un adelanto o retroceso?
· Falta de verdades objetivas
Talking to the Freemason on the Streets of Manhattan
"The black and whites are very easy to understand,
but the grey areas are more difficult."
- cveitch
2.08.2010
Cognitive Dissonance through Self-Imposed Ignorance
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/01/cable_news.php
A new paper by Shawn Powers of USC and Mohammed el-Nawawy of Queens University of Charlotte looked at the effect of international cable news on the ideology of its viewers. Not surprisingly, they found that people were only interested in "news" that didn't contradict what they already believed:
Powers and el-Nawawy show that global media consumers tuned in to international news media that they thought would further substantiate their opinions about U.S. policies and culture, and provide them with information on the international issues that they deemed most important. The study found a strong relationship between the participants' attitudes toward U.S. policy and culture and their choice of broadcaster. Those who were dependent on BBC World and especially CNNI were overall more supportive of U.S. foreign policy.
[...]
The Princeton political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels analyzed survey data from the 1990's to prove this point. During the first term of Bill Clinton's presidency, the budget deficit declined by more than 90 percent. However, when Republican voters were asked in 1996 what happened to the deficit under Clinton, more than 55 percent said that it had increased. What's interesting about this data is that so-called "high-information" voters (these are the Republicans who read the newspaper, watch cable news and can identify their representatives in Congress) weren't better informed than "low-information" voters. According to Bartels, the reason knowing more about politics doesn't erase partisan bias is that voters tend to only assimilate those facts that confirm what they already believe. If a piece of information doesn't follow Republican talking points (and Clinton's deficit reduction didn't fit the "tax and spend liberal" stereotype) then the information is conveniently ignored.
The bleak lesson is that we turn the spotlight of attention into an information-filter, a way to block-out disagreeable points of view. Consider this experiment, which was done in the late 1960's, by the cognitive psychologists Timothy Brock and Joe Balloun.
Brock and Balloun played a group of people a tape-recorded message attacking Christianity. Half of the subjects were regular church-goers while the other half were committed atheists. To make the experiment more interesting, Brock and Balloun added an annoying amount of static (a crackle of white noise) to the recording. However, they allowed listeners to reduce the static by pressing a button, so that the message suddenly became easier to understand. Their results were utterly predicable and rather depressing: the non-believers always tried to remove the static, while the religious subjects actually preferred the message that was harder to hear. Later experiments by Brock and Balloun demonstrated a similar effect with smokers listening to a speech on the link between smoking and cancer. We silence the cognitive dissonance through self-imposed ignorance.
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Powers and el-Nawawy show that global media consumers tuned in to international news media that they thought would further substantiate their opinions about U.S. policies and culture, and provide them with information on the international issues that they deemed most important. The study found a strong relationship between the participants' attitudes toward U.S. policy and culture and their choice of broadcaster. Those who were dependent on BBC World and especially CNNI were overall more supportive of U.S. foreign policy.
[...]
The Princeton political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels analyzed survey data from the 1990's to prove this point. During the first term of Bill Clinton's presidency, the budget deficit declined by more than 90 percent. However, when Republican voters were asked in 1996 what happened to the deficit under Clinton, more than 55 percent said that it had increased. What's interesting about this data is that so-called "high-information" voters (these are the Republicans who read the newspaper, watch cable news and can identify their representatives in Congress) weren't better informed than "low-information" voters. According to Bartels, the reason knowing more about politics doesn't erase partisan bias is that voters tend to only assimilate those facts that confirm what they already believe. If a piece of information doesn't follow Republican talking points (and Clinton's deficit reduction didn't fit the "tax and spend liberal" stereotype) then the information is conveniently ignored.
"Voters think that they're thinking, but what they're really doing is inventing facts or ignoring facts so that they can rationalize decisions they've already made."
The bleak lesson is that we turn the spotlight of attention into an information-filter, a way to block-out disagreeable points of view. Consider this experiment, which was done in the late 1960's, by the cognitive psychologists Timothy Brock and Joe Balloun.
Brock and Balloun played a group of people a tape-recorded message attacking Christianity. Half of the subjects were regular church-goers while the other half were committed atheists. To make the experiment more interesting, Brock and Balloun added an annoying amount of static (a crackle of white noise) to the recording. However, they allowed listeners to reduce the static by pressing a button, so that the message suddenly became easier to understand. Their results were utterly predicable and rather depressing: the non-believers always tried to remove the static, while the religious subjects actually preferred the message that was harder to hear. Later experiments by Brock and Balloun demonstrated a similar effect with smokers listening to a speech on the link between smoking and cancer. We silence the cognitive dissonance through self-imposed ignorance.
Pentachoron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentachoron
[Source: en.wikipedia.org]
In geometry, the pentachoron is a four-dimensional object bounded by 5 tetrahedral cells. It is also known as the 5-cell, pentatope, or hyperpyramid. It is a 4-simplex, the simplest possible convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a polyhedron), and is analogous to the tetrahedron in three dimensions and the triangle in two dimensions.
The regular pentachoron is bounded by regular tetrahedra, and is one of the six regular convex polychora, represented by Schläfli symbol {3,3,3}.
The pentachoron is self-dual, and its vertex figure is a tetrahedron. Its maximal intersection with 3-dimensional space is the triangular prism.
The regular pentachoron is bounded by regular tetrahedra, and is one of the six regular convex polychora, represented by Schläfli symbol {3,3,3}.
The pentachoron is self-dual, and its vertex figure is a tetrahedron. Its maximal intersection with 3-dimensional space is the triangular prism.
A 3D projection of a 5-cell performing a double rotation about two orthogonal planes
2.07.2010
2.05.2010
Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy
· First, they teleported photons, then atoms and ions. Now one physicist has worked out how to do it with energy, a technique that has profound implications for the future of physics.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24759/
The technique relies on the strange quantum phenomenon called entanglement, in which two particles share the same existence. This deep connection means that a measurement on one particle immediately influences the other, even though they are light-years apart. Bennett and company worked out how to exploit this to send information. (The influence between the particles may be immediate, but the process does not violate relativity because some informatiom has to be sent classically at the speed of light.) They called the technique teleportation.
[...]
But Masahiro Hotta at Tohoku University in Japan has come up with a much more exotic idea. Why not use the same quantum principles to teleport energy?
[...]
All this is possible because there are always quantum fluctuations in the energy of any particle. The teleportation process allows you to inject quantum energy at one point in the universe and then exploit quantum energy fluctuations to extract it from another point. Of course, the energy of the system as whole is unchanged.
[...]
There is a growing sense that the properties of the universe are best described not by the laws that govern matter but by the laws that govern information. This appears to be true for the quantum world, is certainly true for special relativity, and is currently being explored for general relativity. Having a way to handle energy on the same footing may help to draw these diverse strands together.
Energy-Entanglement Relation for Quantum Energy Teleportation
· Masahiro Hotta ·
· Masahiro Hotta ·
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