This first article I believe came out last month.

Nasa discovers ’significant amount’ of water on the moon

Nasa has found ‘a significant amount’ of water inside a crater on the Moon in a discovery that could pave the way for the first manned lunar base.

The agency announced that last month’s audacious attempt to smash two spacecraft into the Moon’s rocky surface to find ice was a major success.

The £49million bombing raid threw up a mile-high plume of dust - which included chunks of ice locked away in a deep crater at the lunar south pole. The bottom of the crater had not seen sunlight for billions of years.

The revelation may bring closer the day when mankind creates a permanent lunar base, using the water buried in the rocks to drink and generate hydrogen fuel.

A spokesman for Nasa said last night: ‘The discovery-opens a new chapter in our understanding of the Moon.’

There were fears that last month’s experiment had failed when the collision of the two spacecraft failed to produce the expected six-mile-high cloud of dust. Live pictures relayed from the Moon showed no sign of an impact, even though the crafts crashed as planned.
But yesterday, Nasa experts who studied the data said instruments trained on the impact saw a significant amount of water vapour.

Dr Anthony Colaprete, from NASA’s Ames Research Centre, said: ‘Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn’t find just a little bit, we found a significant amount. We are ecstatic.’

The rest of this Dailymail article here +

and now…

Indian scientists detect signs of life on Moon

Bangalore: Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) are on the brink of a path-breaking discovery. They may have found signs of life in some form or the other on the Moon.

They believe so because scientific instruments on India’s first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, picked up signatures of organic matter on parts of the Moon’s surface, Surendra Pal, associate director, Isro Satellite Centre (Isac), said at the international radar symposium here on Friday.

Organic matter consists of organic compounds, which consists of carbon — the building block of life.

It indicates the formation of life or decay of a once-living matter.

Pal said the signatures were relayed back to the Bylalu deep space network station near Bangalore by the mass spectrometer on board the Indian payload, the moon impact probe (MIP), on November 14, 2008.

The relay of data happened moments before it crashed near the Moon’s south pole. The MIP was the first experiment of the Chandrayaan-1 mission, which was launched on October 22, 2008.

Pal, however, did not elaborate, but concluded saying “the findings are being analysed and scrutinised for validation by Isro scientists and peer reviewers”.

“It is too early to say anything,” said the director of Isro’s space physics laboratory R Sridharan, who is heading the team of MIP data analysis and study. He, however, did not deny the finding.

The rest of this DNA India article here +

This was an email that was sent my way through my friend Justin Bern.

Did I mention how much I love it when I see people helping people.
Service to others
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The seedling that never made it.
life wants to live

There’s soul in plant movement.
just my opinion
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Planet Earth from Solstice to Equinox

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of coming attractions.

I saw this on the Huffington Post:

Two of these blocks can power an American home, while one will suffice for a European home. A stack of 64 can power a small business. What is this magical box and where can you get one?

It’s the Bloom Box, essentially a power plant in a box, and it claims to be the latest breakthrough in clean energy technology. You can’t get one yet, but K.R. Sridhar, founder of Bloom Energy, says there will be one in every American home in five to 10 years.

Sridhar has been developing the technology for the past 10 years, and its all been kept relatively under wraps. The company made their first public appearance on 60 Minutes on Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Lesley Stahl preceding the company’s official launch this Wednesday.

Sridhar invented a new kind of fuel cell that is entirely self-sufficient. He feeds oxygen into one side of a cell while fuel is supplied to the other side. The two combine, forming a chemical reaction that produce electricity.

Is it too good to be true? Some, like Michael Kanellos, editor-in-chief of the Web site GreenTech Media, think the cost will be too high to maintain its production on a large scale.

Several big name companies have already signed on, though. Google was the first to sign up for a Bloom Box, and other big names such as Walmart and FedEx have also come on board, touting its efficiency.

“Going from a few to mass-manufacturing’s going to be tough. And then making them so people won’t run away at the price tag,” Kanellos told Stahl. “It needs to be cheaper than solar. It needs to be cheaper than wind.”

But Sridhar claims that he can drive the cost down to under $3,000.

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I have been following the clean or free energy thread for a while now. Keep your eyes peeled because the Bloom Box is not the only option to come. There has been technology that existed behind the veil for a bit now that is going to be released to the public. The technology is nothing short of magical according to what the masses are used to now, and the ramifications of these clean/free technologies will be nothing short of miraculous.

Take it, leave it, you don’t have to believe it.

I am excited for the tomorrow that I was promised long ago
power to the optimists
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now ya Know.

The Robin Hood Tax +

This is a new movement out of England, I can’t wait for the idea to cross the pond. I believe London is the world’s banking center. I am not positive though.

From Robin Hood Tax:
A tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad.

It sounds complicated, but actually it isn’t. A tiny tax on bankers has the power to raise hundreds of billions every year – giving a vital boost to the NHS, our schools, and the fight against child poverty – as well as tackling poverty and climate change around the world.

Not complicated. Just brilliant.

I originally saw this at the Huffington Post +

Did I mention that I looooove the concept of Robin Hood
spread the wealth to all masses!
all classes!

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all the UFO stuff lately, commercials, print ads, sightings, news reports, television shows. Recent sightings in Europe, China, Russia, and now South America. These are the places/videos I have come across, and I am not looking that hard.

These videos are hard to deny.

This video is finished at 40 seconds.

This was interesting too.

In news from NASA a mysterious unidentified space object has captured the imagination of scientists and astronomy enthusiasts. The object, an X shaped anomaly trailing debris like a comet, is puzzling to those studying the phenomena.

Researchers have never actually seen anything quite like it, and some have half-jokingly referred to it as a space ship due to its unusual shape and debris patters. Gizmodo first reported on P/2010-A2, likening it to a “Klingon Bird of Prey” from the Star Trek series. It does after all have the all too familiar X shape.

The object was caught by NASA’s Hubble, reportedly traveling some 11,000 mile per hour.

Here’s the article +

Take it, leave it, you don’t have to believe it
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It looks like my three year dry spell has come to an end.

Back home working on my newest piece.
The show is in April

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Last night I had a dream where I was told
“If you don’t make peace with everything, you’re not peaceful”

I buried Rodney this morning. He was run over sometime last night.



Rodney the day he showed up

Thank you+

In his study of IQ tests scores for different populations over the past sixty years, James R. Flynn discovered that IQ scores increased from one generation to the next for all of the countries for which data existed (Flynn, 1994). This interesting phenomena has been called “the Flynn Effect.” Many of the questions about why this effect occurs have not yet been answered by researchers.

Research shows that IQ gains have been mixed for different countries. In general, countries have seen generational increases between 5 and 25 points. The largest gains appear to occur on tests that measure fluid intelligence (Gf) rather than crystallized intelligence (Gc).

Fluid Intelligence
These tests try to emphasize problem solving and minimize a reliance on specific skills or familiarity with words and symbols. These tests on average have shown an increase of about 15 points or one standard deviation per generation (Flynn, 1994)(Flynn, 1987). Deary (2001) notes that it is these types of tests (i.e., “culturally reduced”) on which we would not expect to see score increases if the cause of the increases was due to educational factors.

Crystallized Intelligence
Tests like the Wechsler-Binet and purely verbal tests measure crystallized intelligence in addition to fluid intelligence. Some questions on these tests measure problem solving abilities but others measure learned information such as vocabulary and math skills. The IQ gains for these tests have been more moderate, with an average of about 9 points per generation (Flynn, 1994)(Flynn, 1987).

My source here +
Flynn Effect on Wikipedia +

Looks like we are getting smarter with every generation, and it has little to do with reading or writing.
Our abstract thinking abilities are expanding.

Thought this was interesting.
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