I am happy to announce that I am bringing in a new format to Cosmic Blog that I think will improve the site greatly. A couple of my friends are interested in contributing to the site, and after thinking about it, I realized that making Cosmic Blog a multi-author blog will bring in some great posts from authors with different backgrounds and perspectives, and will also promote more discussion on the topics. So far we officially have three authors now, myself with a technology background, Ryan (G-Rock) with a political science background, and Johny with a psychology and history background. I am also running the idea by another 3 people that I think will be great contributors who also have diverse backgrounds including philosophy, engineering, and biology. The diversity is perfect for the site and I think the theme of Cosmic Blog goes along well with these people. Stay tuned for some really great blogging!
May 9, 2006
Damn, it happened in Feb '06 but I just heard. I really liked Dilla and Slum Village. R.I.P.
May 8, 2006
I was raised a Christian, but very early on in my life dismissed the entire religion because it was so obviously B.S. a child can see right through it. But, the more I became interested in the true nature of the universe as I became older, I started to notice little parts here in there in most religions that I strongly felt truth in, which do not even disagree with materialistic science. This led me to believe that possibly some of this religious knowledge actually used to be extremely accurate, just that it has been misinterepted and even purposely distorted over thousands of years. Once I came to this realization, I started looking at religion in a different way, and the more I look into religion, the more I believe this theory to be correct. Now, to me, it seems like our most advanced understandings of the universe, including quantum physics, are really just rediscovering what some so called "religion's" expressed thousands of years ago. A lot of people have heard of books like "Quantum and the Lotus", comparing quantum physics and buddhism, but it goes much deeper than this even. It goes as far back as religion and almost all religions that I know of hint that this theory is true. Today I looked up a topic of interest for the first time, the "Tabula Smaragdina", otherwise known as the Emerald Tablet of Hermes. I came across a great paper called "The Tabula Smaragdina Revisited" by Karen-Claire Voss. It was another great example of the theory. I will not get into great detail here about specific passages but if you have basic understandings of the universe, galaxies, stars, atoms, physics, quantum physics, big bang(theoretical), etc, and you look at the oldest and most original religious passages, you will find many inexplicable consistencies.
May 7, 2006
Reading through Space.com looking for good pictures I found this article. It puts our energy usage into a new perspective. If only we could use energy so efficiently.
"A recent study found that a supermassive black hole’s process of generating energy from the matter falling towards its gravity well is much more efficient than nuclear or fossil fuels. A car with such fuel efficiency could drive for one billion miles on a single tank of gas, they say."
May 4, 2006
What an awe inspiring thing, this universe we live in with all the life it harbors and nurtures and even destroys only to produce new great cycles. From galaxies to black holes, to stars, to planets, to star dust building blocks collected together in cells, collected together in bodies of life forms, all part of one beautiful connected collective. The word beautiful is an understatement, I dont know how to articulate its true beauty. Connections going infinitely deep, because of the "cause and effect" nature of the universe. Producing all these beautiful life forms for me to observe, producing my life to live out.
Experience is a beautiful thing. I believe it is the purpose of our individual existences(Not to be mistaken for the purpose of life existing, as a collective). Experience. That is all we can do. As individuals, our 75 year, blink of an eye, existence and experience is played out in front of our eyes, the only thing your being can do is watch it play out. Whatever events "cause and effect" dictate for our individual lives to experience. It really is just a teasing blink of an eye relative to the billions of years of unlimited experience throughout the universe. But at the same time even that 75 years is so much compared to no experience. I cant complain. I will definately enjoy the experience along the way, as I am forced to play out the role laid before me by the Holy and Great One, the collective universe. So just Be, you cannot escape that, and sit back and experience your Be-ing. The good, the evil, the happiness, the sadness, the consequences, the gluttony, the greed, the rightousness, the love, the hatred, the altruism, the mistakes, the embarassment, the sacrifice, the accomplishment, the victory, the defeat, the adventure, the beauty of LIFE. That is all you can do. You are nothing more than an array of 5 sensors attached to a CPU processing that information and forming it into the experience for "the observer" to watch. Who is this watcher, this observer which is the deepest level of my being? Is it my soul? Does that element exist beyond my physical body and physical life? One thing is for sure, the observer is the common bond that all life in the universe shares. Release your hatred toward any being, we are all brothers and sisters, we all relate.
April 23, 2006
Allegedly a new pyramid has been discovered in Europe, the first ever found there. It is located in Visoko, Bosnia. A pyramid shaped hill called Visočica has been declared an ancient pyramid by an "amateur archeologist". It is allegedly taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Excavating just started this month. Apparently so far they have confirmed that under the Earth of the hill is man-made structure made out of stone. Also, they have found an underground tunnel system, which could be connecting this pyramid with other hills in the area suspected of being pyramids themselves. But, these stones and tunnels could possibly be explained without the existance of this alleged pyramid. An astonishing discovery, if it is true, a terrible scandal if it is not. There is much criticism, and the credibillity of the so called archeologist is questionable. It is most probably some kind of hoax I think.
This is also very interesting. While I was looking up info on the pyramid in Bosnia, I ran into another interesting piece of info. A structure was discovered underwater at the Japanese island of Yonaguni. It appears to be a large stone ziggurat. Some believe the structure is natural, some believe it is man-made. If it is man-made it was made arround the end of the last ice age, 8 to 10 thousand years ago, the last time that area and the structure was above the water level. The pictures are spectacular, and it looks very man-made, but who knows. Good site, with pictures.
April 19, 2006
Yes, yes! Here we go. Its been long, long awaited, much anticipated. NHL playoffs are here for the first time in 2 years. So, for the next few weeks, you'll have to catch me in front of the tube.
I'm gonna take this opportunity to pay my respect to all the hockey players out there doin it for the love of the game. So many great players, I couldnt start naming names. I will name one though. Peter Forsberg. On and off the ice, I wish I could become such a spectacular man. The most highly skilled player that has ever played the game! Most definately. Congrats big Joe on winning the scoring race.
- Heres my first round pool picks:
-East- -West-
OTTvsTB – OTT in 5 DETvsEDM – DET in 5
CARvsMTL – CAR in 7 DALvsCOL – DAL in 6
NJvsNYR – NJ in 7 CGYvsANA – CGY in 7
BUFvsPHI – PHI in 6 NSHvsSJ – SJ in 7
***My round 2 picks are in, check the comments.
April 14, 2006
Part one I only talked about global warming. Lets go deeper. First though, the last couple days I've seen a couple new articles that where downplaying global warming. They say that "global warming alarmists" are over-exagerating the situation with the motive of getting more funding for climate research(http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220). So, the same old story arises, one group of people says one thing, the other says the oposite, who do you believe? I don't know. All you can do is look at the facts and decide for yourself. I havent looked in depth yet, so I am un-decided. So that being said, Im gonna add on to my previous post. Of course, there are factors other than climate change that will determine the future of the human race.
Burning of fossil fuel is not the only polution problem we have. Waste, some toxic, is still constantly being pumped out of manufacturing processes with nowhere to go but into the global biosphere. And we are still damaging the ecosystem in other ways. Species are still going extinct from our actions. With the accelerated rate at which our civilization is growing and expanding how long will it be before the ecosystem becomes dangerously deteriorated?
The population on the Earth is approximately six and a half billion people right now (http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop). In thirty years it could be over 10 billion! How 'bout 60 years from now? 14 billion? More? I think there is something like a 250,000 person increase every day. Imagine that. This is a problem obviously. We are already causing so many problems with 6 billion. Will living conditions be better in 30 years? We must learn to stop increasing the population. The more people we bring into this world, the more poverty there will be, and the conditions will continue to deteriorate.
How much longer can we keep expanding and growing the economy? As the economy increases, we manufacture more and extract more resources, thus more damage is done to the environment. What happens in the next 50 years for economy when there is no more oil to burn or when(if) someone comes out with a great alternative energy technology that releases the energy industries grip on people?
War. Our race has been at war with itself since as far back as we know no doubt. Always at war. Just 60 years ago millions of people died in world war two. So many people had to fight. How many wars are still to be fought? Is peace on Earth possible?
Businesses now are bombarding us with subliminal messages, and using psychological effects on the general population to create wants and needs in people to consume their products. To them, it is like a game of manipulating people into buying their products. They are even using psychologists to get into your childrens minds. Business is becoming more powerful even than government.
How do we get our race, as a collective, to take responsibility for the harm we are doing, and avoid a seemingly inevitable self destruction, or a George Orwell 1984 scenario? Or does it even matter? Maybe it is just a natural, never ending struggle. I know this is a very pessimistic view. I do see positive outcomes. I believe the future could be very positive, if we can learn the responsibility required for the power we have recently acquired. And what a beautiful future that could be.
April 10, 2006
Mmm. Girls. There is nothing in this world, in life, that I love, appreciate, and respect more than a beautiful woman. And by beautiful, I dont mean just good lookin. I mean beautiful in body, mind and soul. Thank you god for blessing us with their presence. They are the best thing the human race has going for it. I have so much respect for the Queens out there.
