Can the Internet Survive Tyrants?

Folks,

Below is a visual representation of our global Internet, a snap shot of photons, electrons, bits and ideas humming across our world wide Neurosphere at one moment a few years ago. The brightest spots are where the most science, medicine, literature, dumb old emails, bad snap-shots, 'Net phone calls from Mom in America and her daughter in Iraq, and porn are routing in and out.

In the past few weeks some of those dimmer lights in cities across the Middle East and North Africa winked out. Bureaucrats and cops, working at the behest of tyrants, choked off access to the 'Net to uppity Humans that wanted jobs, food, and freedom. It has commonly been thought that even nuclear war could not achieve this. But, in fact, we are only really dealing with miles of wires and piles of machines that undergird the network of networks. Yes, you can turn off access to the population of an entire nation.

However, motivated folks with some junk in their closets or office server rooms, can route around the challenge of censorship in time of revolution. Here are a couple of ways that it can be done.

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Life From Beyond?

Folks,

"The Journal of Cosmology" is a reliable periodical that documents the many astounding, sometimes mundane, and often difficult to understand discoveries in the physics and chemistry of the place we call home; The Cosmos. We now have very solid evidence that Life is not unique to Earth,. The data and analysis were just recently announced and posted for scientific peer review.

Life may have originated on many worlds now shattered into the meteorites that have fallen on our world over aeons. It may have arisen once near the time of our Universe forming, or many times over almost uncountable years.

The article is sort'a technical and physics heavy, and the chemistry stuff is pretty well beyond myself. But, look at the pix, the charts, and read the captions. Scan the article, and you will get the gist. It appears that Life along the lines we know it is something that The Universe is disposed to do rather often.

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Dr. Hoover Discovers Proof of Life Beyond!

Comet P/Borrelly

Folks,

Forty-three years ago, a then young Mick Jagger, just sprung from being hooked on a charge of smoking flowers with his buddy Keith Richards, was invited to talk on the BBC TV with the muckity-mucks of the British establishment class; all lawyers, priests, government ministers. They wanted him to explain why their children seemed to be possessed by the swagger in the boys in the band, the jacked up speed applied to American blues, and naughty words. Those fellows appeared to have never have been young men.

In his turn, Jagger seemed to be perplexed that such questions had to be asked by old men that had to have been teenagers years earlier. Alas, not included in the following clips is a most precise answer, delivered to the priest. "Why are adults afraid of letting their children see you play your music?"

Exasperated, Jagger replies, "They are afraid that their daughters will come home as Negroes!"

More interesting, tho, is what Jagger offered in his less smart ass answers. Judge the meaning as you will, but all that he is really promoting, as I hear it, is that we should all think for ourselves.

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Jagger on World in Action: PT 1

Jagger on World in Action: PT 2

Kick the dirt. Life grows…

Folks,

We may at last have some confirmation that Life is something that the Universe simply does. It's part of the program? More research is required, but now we have hard evidence that it can happen across the vasty deep of cold space and time unimaginable to us critters.

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Thank You Universe…

Fly Me to the Moons…

Dear Friends,

Why not try this… we Earthlings have a little space station in orbit above our heads. Six folks work there every day. Why not strap an ion or fusion rocket on the thing and send it off to the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. Those giant gas bags are sort of in our own backyard, and they have "almost planets" in their gravitational embrace. Under their surface grit and ice are oceans that may contain life. Shall we go, you and I?

With the right rocketry, already invented and tested, the trip would take just a few months. We could stop along the way to take some snapshots on Mars, leave a post card to the future on an asteroid or two or a few, and then, perhaps meet our interplanetary kin.

Jeez… we have spent enough American money in just the time that it took for this amateur to research this topic for my so-called leaders to bomb the hell out of poor folks in places most of my fellows can't locate on a map. Let us pursue this more worthy enterprise.

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A Place to Visit?

Imagining the past to invent the future…

Folks,

Would like a tech that you could stuff in your pocket, one that carried ideas and information that you could share with anyone that could read? I'm not talking about an iPhone, but a pamphlet or newspaper, a phone book or an entire library. Well, we are on the verge of creating an infinite book to include every newspaper ever published, every book, every indent on a clay tablet ever scribed, every painting ever scrawled on a cave wall, and all of Humanities' art… all on something that you can keep in your pocket.

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In the Pocket

The First Newspaper

Watson, Come Now!

Folks,

If you've got a credit card and the ability to write or steal a few million lines of code, the time to scan several terabytes of data into a database, you can have your own SotA AI rig on the end of your modem. Follow the link below to find out how it works.

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Watson, Come Now!

The Cogs and Cams of Babbage's Difference Engine