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from https://crasch.livejournal.com/676191.html Revelation II: Windmill powered boat - Open Knowledge — LiveJournal Apr. 7th, 2008 04:47 am - Revelation II: Windmill powered boat “The 36 foot catamaran, Revelation II, is powered by 3 20-foot long carbon fiber propellers on a 30 foot rotating mast. The windmill transmits power to a 6 blade propeller underwater, with the net result that the boat can make way even directly into the wind.” The boat was apparently built by Jim Wilkinson who is a member of the AYRS or Amateur Yacht Research Society.

Re: Revelation II: Windmill powered boat I've posted the following already on a couple of blogs since your disbelief seems to be common enough. The windmill powered boat going against the wind does not violate the conservation of energy law. I believe the confusion relating to this topic is the fact that people are confusing over all energy with net force. Consider the equation E=F x d, where E = energy d = distance and F is force. Now consider the fact that the boat is actually travelling in two media (Air and Water) with(on a windy day) differing relative velocities to each. Now while the underwater propeller must create a greater force then the opposing force on the wind turbine a greater energy may still be imparted from the flowing air to the wind turbine than is imparted from the propeller to the water as the distance travelled by the turbine through the air medium is much greater(relativistically speaking) then the distance travelled by the propeller through the water. It is down to the fact that momentum and kinetic energy are two different things. For instance a larger mass of propelled water my have greater momentum and hence provide a greater reaction to the boat but have a lower kinetic energy than a lesser mass of faster moving air. and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1507825.stm Friday, 24 August, 2001, 16:22 GMT 17:22 UK Design puts boat in a spin The boat is driven by a huge underwater propeller A revolutionary sailing boat has been launched, which is fitted with a windmill to provide power. The vessel converts wind power into energy to drive a large underwater propeller. It sails faster into a headwind, than with the wind behind it. The 36-foot (10.97 metres) catamaran has been built at a cost of £300,000 by the Multihull Centre in Millbrook, Cornwall. The energy is gathered through a huge windmill It follows a prototype designed by retired electrical engineer, Jim Wilkinson, from Guernsey. He tried out the idea on a 26-foot (7.92 metres) boat called "Revelation" a decade ago to prove the concept could work. Mr Wilkinson commissioned the boat builder to build a much larger boat to continue to test the design. The extraordinary craft called "Revelation 2" has a 30-foot (9.14 metres) swivelling mast with three 20-foot (6.1 metres) carbon fibre blades. Everyone is asking about it because it looks so different Debbie Patterson It can generate up to 150 horsepower which is transmitted through gears to a huge five-foot (1.5 metres) propeller below the water. The blades can be fully adjusted to alter the boat's speed and while it is moored they can be locked and feathered. What is unique about the boat is that she will be at her fastest when sailing into a headwind, unlike other yachts, which have to tack in a zigzag movement to make progress. 'Completely experimental' The windmill element of the craft was built by Aviation Enterprises near Reading, Berkshire, which normally builds aeroplanes. Debbie Patterson, joint director of the Multihull Centre, said the Revelation 2 was unlike anything they had built before. "It is completely experimental and innovative," she said. "We hope it does work and I cannot see any reason why it shouldn't as it is based on technology used in aeroplanes and on wind farms. "It will be interesting to see how well it works out at sea." She said the only disadvantage she could see was that its large propeller would make it unsuitable for shallow areas. Lifting propeller But she added: "It should be possible to have a lifting propeller which would resolve that problem." The boat has attracted a lot of interest. "People are completely fascinated by it," she said. "Everyone is asking about it because it looks so different but so far the reaction has been very positive." Although at first Mrs Patterson was concerned at the size of the mast, she said once the blades went on she thought it looked quite elegant. The boat will spend several weeks in Plymouth's Mayflower Marina before being taken to the Channel Islands.

apparently another one https://www.boatdesign.net/data/attachments/16/16721-c65ea6fde0794369c7c0b55f53504848.jpg with a good discussion about the concept https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/windmill-or-wind-turbine-powered-boats-how-many-are-out-there-and-are-they-viable.14182/page-8



How much horsepower does it take to hover?

How much horsepower does it take to hover?

Another way to think of it is to hover you need to cancel the velocity of gravity acceleration which is 32 ft per sec.

1 hp is equal to 550 lbs moving 1 ft per second. 550 ft lbs

so for every 1 lb you want to hover you must move it at 32 ft per second to cancel gravity.

in other words 32 ft lb.

so for every lb you need to hover you need 32/550 hp or about .58 hp

so if you want to hover a 200 lb person you need 200 x .58 hp = 11.6 hp

of course that does not include the weight of any engine or propeller and assumes 100% efficiency.

It also wont let you rise in the the air. it will only let you hover. To move faster than gravity pulls you down you need more hp.



The ammonia smell in bathrooms and from the decomposition of urine in barns (and perhaps bathrooms) is enough to seriously injure animals and humans.



OR could storing adult diapers in your home be giving you dementia?



here is the quick version

adult diapers store urine. urine breakdowns into ammonia. ammonia is extremely and permanently harmful to the brain in levels that exist when you can smell it. so the likeihood is that if you can smell ammonia in an elderly persons home or bathroom or in an nursing home then that ammonia is probably causing them permanent brain damage!

This is the result of some research after I read this article:

Avoid ammonia at all costs to avoid mental deterioration http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/09566160010372608 http://archive.is/wip/gIJ1C
" Describes how a large ammonia release exposed about 150 nearby residents to this irritating gas and sent seven to hospital emergency rooms. Six weeks later the 41 most symptomatic people completed questionnaires and had physical examinations. The 12 most impaired had subsequent neurobehavioral testing to see if exogenous ammonia was toxic to the brain as is endogenous ammonia in hepatic coma. Spirometry was used to test pulmonary function. Frequencies of 35 symptoms were obtained by questionnaire, as were medical, respiratory and neuropsychiatric histories and data on previous chemical exposures. Comparisons were made with unexposed subjects after adjusting for age, sex, educational level and other determining factors. The exposed group’s mean values were significantly abnormal for simple and choice reaction, balance with eyes open, color discrimination, visual field performance in both eyes and hearing. Also abnormal were cognitive performance on Culture Fair, digit symbol, vocabulary and delayed but not immediate verbal recall. Making trails A and B was slow and fingertip number writing had excessive errors. Spirometric measurements were normal. Confounding features and biases were minimal. Exposure to ammonia, for a few minutes to several hours, was associated with neurobehavioral impairment measured after 22 months. Thus inhaled ammonia shares the toxicity of endogenous ammonia. Effects were persistent and are probably permanent."

from the actual full paper itself we learn the exposures were comparatively small to give these results:

"It was estimated that ammonia concentrations of 200 parts per million (ppm) were reached 700 meters (2,000 feet) from the broken pipe (The JL, 1997). The escape duration was 2.5 hours. Ammonia concentrations of 24ppm were measured 16 meters downwind at 2.20 a.m. by a Hazmat team. After a second leak at about 6.30 a.m., levels were 20ppm at this site.

"Comparison of these exposed subjects individually to predicted values is logical and practical. The group's subsequent comparison with an unexposed group showed statistically significant differences. Strength of association was high, as all these people and none of the control subjects had been exposed to ammonia. Intensity of exposure had caused a mass evacuation and sent these subjects to emergency rooms. Exposure duration varied from 20 minutes to several hours for the first episode and perhaps two hours for the second episode. The specificity seems clear; only ammonia was released. The toxicity of ammonia for the brain, the endogenous ammonia from hepatic failure, is well- known. The history of adverse health effects from ammonia goes back to 1897 (Hunter, 1968)

> "These threads of evidence braid into a coherent picture that puts the astrocyte in the center of responses to ammonia whatever its source; failure of urea formation in the liver or inhalation. In summary, it is tentatively Is inhaled ammonia neurotoxic? 247 concluded that inhaled ammonia produces encephalopathy . The concentrations and durations required cannot be estimated. Exposures of volunteer human subjects to ammonia would be unethical in light of this report. Ammonia resembles inhaled chlorine in producing damage (Kilburn, 1995). The observations suggest that ammonia production, its use as a refrigerant and as a fertilizer should be located away from people, so that they are not at risk from brain damage and death.

Based on this article, I began to wonder if exposure of the elderly to the smell of ammonia in bathrooms and places were the elderly sometimes reside because of the storage of adult underwear before throwing them away might actually cause some mental deterioration in the elderly. Could this possibly be a partial factor in mental deterioration?

So I did some google searching for concentrations of ammonia gas caused by urine and this article popped up.

It turns out decomposing urine causes huge amounts of ammonia gas at levels that are in fact very harmful and could indeed cause both lung and mental deterioration in animals and humans.

From the above linked article from The Horse Ammonia is the Enemy http://www.thehorse.com/articles/16534/ammonia-is-the-enemy http://archive.is/wip/XD6KM

> According to OSHA regulations, employers cannot expose construction workers to ammonia concentrations of more than 50 ppm.

> "That ruling was not chosen arbitrarily," Hayes points out. "It was based on the established long-term, chronic effect on the respiratory system and the eyes."

> Hayes became curious about ammonia levels in horse barns after seeing the OSHA standard. Following the guidelines set by OSHA, she started testing stables using a Drager, a small, bellow-like tool that takes air-quality samples. The results surprised her. "I've gone to fancy, multi million-dollar show barns, lifted up mats, and measured ammonia levels at 450 ppm," she says.

snip

> Whether a barn houses high-end performance horses or trusted lesson ponies, ammonia takes its toll on the animals' athletic abilities and their overall quality of life. The cough related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or heaves, is often considered an unavoidable result of aging, but research suggests these conditions are exacerbated by ammonia exposure, says Fredrick Harper, PhD, equine extension specialist for the University of Tennessee's Department of Agriculture.

snip

> "It's been suggested that a level of just 10 ppm causes problems in other animals, such as calves," Harper says. "It appears that levels in horse stalls are probably so much that we might be challenging or damaging foals."

10 ppm!

Ventilate your bathrooms and dispose of adult underwear promptly. It could be a serious source of airborne ammonia toxicity in your home leading to PERMANENT brain damage

A human can smell ammonia at between 5ppm and 50 ppm according to https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy09/sh-19489-09/fs5-howsmelly.pdf http://archive.is/wip/RPlyB so if you can smell it its bad!

A quick google earch https://www.google.com/search?q=are+adult+underwear+toxic leads to quite a lot of other chemicals in both baby and adult undergarments that are toxic. This goes into it but no one thinks about the airborne gas of ammonia after their use http://www.repairincontinence.net/dipaers-pads-risk.html http://archive.is/wip/AxjeN

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fasting for immunesystem reseting and correcting as well as brain cell regenration

fasting for arterial plague breakdown http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/87936.php

> In this comparison, the odds of having a CAD diagnosis was 45 per cent lower among fasting patients.

>Speculating on the findings, the researchers emphasized that the results did not prove that fasting caused less CAD, but they did suggest a new hypothesis. Perhaps it was down to timing, said Horne:

>"When you abstain from food for 24 hours or so, it reduces the constant exposure of the body to foods and glucose."

>"One of the major problems in the development of the metabolic syndrome and the pathway to diabetes is that the insulin-producing beta cells become desensitized. Routine fasting may allow them to resensitize - to reset to a baseline level so they work better."

scholar.google.com/scholar?q=fasting+effect+on+arterial+blockage&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X

And a reviewed paper pointed out that the real dangers are of QT extensions in the heart in very obese people who do not supplement with postassium and magnesium and do true water only fast for more than a month associated with heart arrythmia and sudden death. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/56/1/230S.full.pdf



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cyclodextrose for areterial plaque breakdown http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/333/333ra50 >Dissolving away cholesterol

Cardiovascular disease resulting from atherosclerosis is one of the most common causes of death worldwide, and additional therapies for this disease are greatly needed because not all patients can be effectively treated with existing approaches. Cyclodextrin is a common FDA-approved substance that is already used as a solubilizing agent to improve delivery of various drugs. Now, Zimmer et al. have discovered that cyclodextrin can also solubilize cholesterol, removing it from plaques, dissolving cholesterol crystals, and successfully treating atherosclerosis in a mouse model. Because cyclodextrin is already known to be safe in humans, this drug is now a potential candidate for testing in human patients for the treatment of atherosclerosis.

http://www.popsci.com/compound-in-powdered-alcohol-can-also-treat-clogged-blood-vessels



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>Powdered Booze could fix your clogged arteries

>Fats and cholesterol that build up along the insides of blood vessels can limit the flow of blood around the heart, causing heart attacks or strokes. To treat this condition, called atherosclerosis, millions of Americans take drugs every day—the most popular of these, statins, alone cost up to $13 billion per year in 2014, and these don’t work for every patient. Now scientists have discovered that a compound already approved by the FDA can dissolve away this buildup in the blood vessels more effectively than existing treatments. The researchers published their study today in Science Translational Medicine.

>The compound is called beta-cyclodextrin, and it’s already used in some pharmaceuticals to bind the active drug to fatty acids in the body where it is most needed.

>Now, here's the good news: beta-cyclodextrin is also the main ingredient used to make powdered alcohol. Pour booze into a heap of cyclodextrin, and the alcohol molecules cling to the ring-shaped cyclodextrin molecules, making a fluffy dry powder that packs a punch.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/cyclodextrin-eyed-to-treat-heart-disease-1459965600 Drug for Rare Disorder Linked to Reducing Cholesterol Plaque Compound being tested in a genetic condition showed promise in treating heart disease in mice

Cyclodextrin, a compound now in testing to treat a very rare genetic disease, may have a potential use in treating a much more common condition too: heart disease.

Researchers reported Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine that in mice, cyclodextrin was able to reduce plaque and dissolve cholesterol crystals, which some research suggests could play a role in atherosclerosis, or narrowing of the arteries.

https://www.quora.com/In-what-foods-are-cyclodextrins-most-frequently-found

https://notendur.hi.is/thorstlo/cyclodextrin.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/246546437_CYCLODEXTRINS_AS_FOOD_ADDITIVES_AND_INGREDIENTS_NUTRACEUTICAL_APPLICATIONS

https://www.google.com/patents/US4748237

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19618Investigation of curcumin-cyclodextrin inclusion complexation in aqueous solutions containing various alcoholic co-solvents and alginates using an UV-VIS titration method. Studies of curcumin and curcuminoides, XXXV.



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This is the result of some research after I read this

Avoid ammonia at all costs to avoid mental deterioration http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/09566160010372608

Describes how a large ammonia release exposed about 150 nearby residents to this irritating gas and sent seven to hospital emergency rooms. Six weeks later the 41 most symptomatic people completed questionnaires and had physical examinations. The 12 most impaired had subsequent neurobehavioral testing to see if exogenous ammonia was toxic to the brain as is endogenous ammonia in hepatic coma. Spirometry was used to test pulmonary function. Frequencies of 35 symptoms were obtained by questionnaire, as were medical, respiratory and neuropsychiatric histories and data on previous chemical exposures. Comparisons were made with unexposed subjects after adjusting for age, sex, educational level and other determining factors. The exposed group’s mean values were significantly abnormal for simple and choice reaction, balance with eyes open, color discrimination, visual field performance in both eyes and hearing. Also abnormal were cognitive performance on Culture Fair, digit symbol, vocabulary and delayed but not immediate verbal recall. Making trails A and B was slow and fingertip number writing had excessive errors. Spirometric measurements were normal. Confounding features and biases were minimal. Exposure to ammonia, for a few minutes to several hours, was associated with neurobehavioral impairment measured after 22 months. Thus inhaled ammonia shares the toxicity of endogenous ammonia. Effects were persistent and are probably permanent.

which I posted about some time ago in r/science https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2zho8m/exposure_to_airborne_ammonia_caused_measurable/

Based on this article, I began to wonder if exposure of the elderly to the smell of ammonia in bathrooms and places were the elderly sometimes reside because of the storage of adult underwear before throwing them away might actually cause some mental deterioration in the elderly. Could this possibly be a partial factor in mental deterioration?

So I did some google searching for concentrations of ammonia gas caused by urine and this article popped up.

It turns out decomposing urine causes huge amounts of ammonia gas at levels that are in fact very harmful and could indeed cause both lung and mental deterioration in animals and humans.

From the above linked article http://www.thehorse.com/articles/16534/ammonia-is-the-enemy

According to OSHA regulations, employers cannot expose construction workers to ammonia concentrations of more than 50 ppm.

"That ruling was not chosen arbitrarily," Hayes points out. "It was based on the established long-term, chronic effect on the respiratory system and the eyes."

Hayes became curious about ammonia levels in horse barns after seeing the OSHA standard. Following the guidelines set by OSHA, she started testing stables using a Drager, a small, bellow-like tool that takes air-quality samples. The results surprised her. "I've gone to fancy, multi million-dollar show barns, lifted up mats, and measured ammonia levels at 450 ppm," she says.

snip

Whether a barn houses high-end performance horses or trusted lesson ponies, ammonia takes its toll on the animals' athletic abilities and their overall quality of life. The cough related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or heaves, is often considered an unavoidable result of aging, but research suggests these conditions are exacerbated by ammonia exposure, says Fredrick Harper, PhD, equine extension specialist for the University of Tennessee's Department of Agriculture.

snip

"It's been suggested that a level of just 10 ppm causes problems in other animals, such as calves," Harper says. "It appears that levels in horse stalls are probably so much that we might be challenging or damaging foals."

10 ppm!

Ventilate your bathrooms and dispose of adult underwear promptly. It could be a serious source of airborne ammonia toxicity in your home leading to PERMANENT brain damage

A human can smell it at 50 ppm according to the above article so if you can smell it its bad.

A quick google earch https://www.google.com/search?q=are+adult+underwear+toxic leads to quite a lot of other chemicals in both baby and adult undergarments that are toxic.



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http://www.foodnavigator.com/Policy/EU-health-claims-for-fructose-and-alpha-cyclodextrin-become-law http://archive.is/wip/rw14l EU health claims for fructose and alpha-cyclodextrin become law

By Caroline Scott-Thomas+, 14-Jun-2013

Two ingredients – fructose and alpha-cyclodextrin – can now carry claims that they lead to a lower blood glucose rise, as the European Union adopts its latest batch of article 13 health claims.

european fiber product called FBCx is alpha cyclodextrin

how does cyclodextrine work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEes6cJu7k a sugar can melt away cholesterol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ouUBhD00I

a proposed model for the removal of cholesterol by cyclodextrin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgvHGHAcMVI

http://www.calorease.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130606060541/http://www.calorease.com/

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/09/edible-nanostructures-stoddart.html http://archive.is/wip/HMpns

Edible Nanostructures

For their edible MOFs, the researchers use not ordinary table sugar but gamma-cyclodextrin, an eight-membered sugar ring produced from biorenewable cornstarch. The salts can be potassium chloride, a common salt substitute, or potassium benzoate, a commercial food preservative, and the alcohol is the grain spirit Everclear.



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curry for anti cancer properties

>Turmeric and green tea: a recipe for B-Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Laura S. Angelo and Razelle Kurzrock

Author information ► Copyright and License information ►

The publisher's final edited version of this article is available free at Clin Cancer Res

Summary

Two naturally-occurring compounds--curcumin (the active ingredient in the spice turmeric) and the green tea extract epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) have marked effects on the apoptotic machinery in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). These results provide a preclinical foundation for future clinical use of these compounds in this disease.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2646173/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19618675

Pharmazie. 2009 Jun;64(6):382-9.

Investigation of curcumin-cyclodextrin inclusion complexation in aqueous solutions containing various alcoholic co-solvents and alginates using an UV-VIS titration method. Studies of curcumin and curcuminoides, XXXV. Hegge AB1, Másson M, Kristensen S, Tønnesen HH.

Author information

Abstract



The effect of pharmaceutical excipients like alcoholic co-solvents and water-soluble polymers on the inclusion complexation of curcumin in hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin and hydroxypropyl-gamma-cyclodextrin was investigated with a UV-VIS titration method. The association constants and the stoichiometries of the inclusion complexes in buffered media containing various amounts dl of alcoholic co-solvents and alginates were determined. The results showed a 1 : 1 stoichiometry between curcumin and both the cyclodextrins investigated in buffered media containing 10% (v/v) alcoholic co-solvents, although some 1 : 2 (host:guest) complexation was suspected between curcumin and hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin. The presence of 0.1% (w/v) sodium alginate or propylene glycol alginate did apparently not change the stoichiometry of the complexes formed. Curcumin was found to have a more than 30-fold higher association constant with hydroxypropyl-gamma-cyclodextrin compared to hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin in buffer containing 0.5% ethanol. Large variation in the association constants between curcumin and the cyclodextrins as a result of different co-solvents in the aqueous complexing media were found. A decrease in the association constant was seen as the chain lenght of the added co-solvent increased. Further, a decrease in the association constants was observed by addition of alginates in the case of hydroxypropyl-gamma-cyclodextrin at 0.5 or 5% (v/v) ethanol. The trend was opposite in the case of hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin, where a 30-90% increase in the association constant was observed in the presence of alginates. The results in the current study showed the large variations in the complexation between curcumin and hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin and hydroxypropyl-gamma-cyclodextrin, resepctively, as a result of various alcoholic co-solvents and alginates in the complexing media. The results also illustrated the importance of optimizing the solvent systems when utilizing cyclodextrins as drug carriers.

PMID:

19618675

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vitamin d and sunlight for MS

https://www.mstrust.org.uk/news/news-about-ms/small-study-shows-high-doses-vitamin-d-may-modify-immune-system-ms http://archive.is/wip/TQ8DN





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chromium picolinate toeliminate or reduce blood sugar peaks and thus prolong health and reduce disease

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-20/news/mn-637_1_chromium-picolinate http://archive.is/wip/LOzCB



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avoiding pork to reduce possible self immune disases and transmission of other diseases carried by pigs which are genetically similiar enough to humans to be usefull as organ donors with slight genetic modifications

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2012/02/pork-did-leviticus-117-have-it-right/ http://archive.is/d9WtP

https://www.google.com/search?q=pork+linked+to+autoimmune&gws_rd=ssl



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Could the heart protective effects of alcohol be due to cyclodextrin's cholesterol removal effects since cyclodextrine is formed from enzymatic transformation of starch which could happen in the fermentation process?





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Japan's new HPC-4c robot is difficult to distinguish from the other female dancers at first glance. The HPC robotic platform is the world's most humanoid robot platform at the least cost (expected to be around US$300,000)



The HPC robot platform without the articulated female head and hands.



See the most popular searched keywords and search terms on google for the past 7, 30 and 90 days in this handy page. Learn what the world is thinking about.

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Mesothelioma or Mezotheleoma is a disease primarily caused by exposure to Asbestos. Heroic rescuers on September, 11 2001 are possibly at risk.

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Follow the latest in space launches from companies like SpaceX and others on my new Spacefan site.

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Implementing American Universal National Health Care may be the ONLY thing big enough to fuel our economic recovery.

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NeverAgainLand. Micheal Jackson is dead.




8:00 am PST June 26 2009

NeverAgainLand. Micheal Jackson is dead. It's a stunning thing. When someone who has been so ubiquitous in your live dies - even if controversial- the feelings are hard to quantify. I finally realized what it was yesterday. Yesterday so many of us aged.

We forever lost access to one of the amazing ferris wheel rides of our youth.

The fact that Micheal Jackson passed away just before we were about to experience him one more time in what would likely have been another groundbreaking musical tour only puts accent on OUR loss.

No matter your opinion of HIS life, Micheal Jackson is now one aspect of OUR lives that we will never again experience in the same way. That makes it a deeply personal loss for everyone.

Now Micheal Jackson's music is a memory of our lives rather than a possible promise of new musical and life experiences. Today his music is being enjoyed by so many people all over again. ( Music Nirvana - The Best Music hourly Hourly bestselling music index.)
At least it makes us all appreciate the past experiences of our lives more to see and here it all over again.
Just click Music Nirvana - The Best Music hourly To see Micheal JAckson's music reclimb the charts.


Now you can find your favorite science fiction by the decade




8:00 pm PST June 21 2009

Have you ever wanted to find science fiction stories from certain decades? now it's easy with our exclusive
Science Fiction By the Decade index. Just click Science Fiction By the Decade and you can find the great old stories from the masters from the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and more or find modern works. You can even find your old favorite stories from childhood.




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Now you can see if you can detect earthquake precursors in Southern California




7:00 pm PST April 06 2009

With the revealation that an Italian Seismologist predicted the recent Italian earthquake, the interest in possible indicators of earthquakes before they happen has peaked.

Southern Californians can watch many possible geophysical precursors for earthquakes at
www.electricquakes.org and see if they see a correlation between those sensors and quakes in southern California or around the world.

The site includes variations in earth's rotation (Length of Day charts), magnetic readings from Fresno, tidal forces, ionization charts and solar wind bursts hitting the planet alongside current earthquake maps.

Designed to put hard to find, dispersed, real time scientific readings in front of regular people, electricquakes offers those with an interest an easy way to follow earth changes and research possible correlations with earthquakes.




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International Date commission moves April 1st forward 6 hrs



6:00 pm PST March 31 2009


In an astounding first, The International Date Commission has decided to move April 1st forward 6 hrs.
(sorry but someone had to go for the earliest April fool's of the year. You have just been RICK FOOLED by the first April Fools Joke of 2009 and perhaps the only early April's fool joke within a joke in history.)
and by popular request (disabled becuase april fools is over!)

Much Funnier April Fools Stuff


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Suddenly a whole new type of aircraft has been born.


4:30 pm PST Oct 20 2008
The coolest thing I have seen since the Rutan X-Prize liftoff. Imagine the skies and parks full of these.

Air Art from flip on Vimeo.

The "Money Honey" Maria Bartelomo is getting upset. "What is this crap" overheard between takes.


5:00 pm PST Sept 29 2008

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CNBC's MARIA BARTIROMO "Closing Bell" Anchor has been uttering some interesting comments between takes that have been caught by open mics all day. Earlier right after the close of the NYSE today their ticker showed the market down about 550 points as the people hammered down the gavel. It was significant because at that moment it DID NOT appear that the DOW had exceeeded it's previous maximum loss of over 600 points in a day. In fact CNBC instantly and briefly ran a ticker line saying it was the worst since another period of time rather than a ticker saying the worst point drop in history. However about two or three minutes later the ticker was showing a loss of 777 points which DID exceed the DOW's greatest previous one day point loss. Maria about that time could clearly be heard saying "what is this crap?" on a mic after she assumed they had gone to commercial. Later in the day at around 4:40pm after another round table discussion they cut away to commercial and she could clearly be heard saying with some frustration "why are you getting rid of the one person who (garbled).." and the host of Kudlow & Company Said "Maria we're done." It's been clear all morning that some of the hosts are getting "expressive" and some are breaking the mold of always trying to sell the Wall St. line. As they do some of the other talking heads have been variously snickering and or laughing outright and perhaps there is a little tension brewing between them.

Falcon rocket finally makes it into orbit burning the perfect fuel- mortgage backed securities. They go down fastest and, in dramatic proof of equal and opposite reactions, the rocket finally makes it up to orbit .


1:10 pm PST Sept 29 2008

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The Falcon 1 rocket from SpaceX corporation finally made it into orbit today on the companies fourth try. The company spokesperson exclaimed" We made the connection between the speed of the falling exhaust and the speed of the rocket rising, and it was like a light bulb went on. Our engineers identified the fuel they thought could go down fastest out of the back of the rocket and it was clear that Mortgage Backed Securities paper was our fuel of choice. Even better -the price was right. We can pick up mortgage backed paper for virtually nothing these days while rocket fuel is rare everywhere except in the drinking water supply of the USA (and the EPA won't let us take it out). So we stuffed those mortgage backed securities into the rocket and lit that candle!"

The proof was in the results - the rocket did not explode although the mortgage backed securities exploded with great power. Indeed one key to the success was the securities fell so quickly out of the back of the rocket their destructive power was fully contained by the nozzle. Witnesses exclaimed they had never seen paper burn with such virulence. In keeping with classic physics the tremendous rate at which the mortgage backed securities fell out of the back of the rocket and detonated into nothingness pushed the rocket right up into space at tremendous speed.

(the above story is satire the following story is not satire unfortunately)


NY Mice hail hero on trial for killing sadistic cat



8:30 am PST Sept 29 2008

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(Satire)
Heroic waiter/actor Joseph Petcka barely escaped conviction after killing the sadistic mouse torturing cat of his ex girlfreind, and NY Mice are taking to the street vocally in his defense. Mick the Mouse squeaked loudly for the cameras "That cat mercilessly clawed swatted and played 'Cat and mouse' with my cousin last year and then left him to die on the neighbor's stoop. Petcka is a hero and should be credited with saving the lives of hundreds and perhaps thousands of defenseless mice that would have died in the next few years. No one should pity this serial mouse killing cat. Are the lives of mice any less than the lives of other animals? WE SAY NO!" Later some mice lamented that the success of the TV show Dexter about a serial killer may have desensitized people to the serial killer nature of cats.

Later the growing crowds gathering in front of Petcka's apartment building cheered wildly as PETM (People for the Ethical Treatment of Mice) showed up naked waving only signs and their asses. Actresses in PETM chanted "We show our glands as we take stands for defenders of Innocent Mice." Spokeswoman and aspiring model/actress Tiffany Bountiful stated "Petcka and others who care about mice are often persecuted in this country. WHEN WILL the country stop the hypocrisy of valueing one furry critter more than another? Will it take a strike by mice everywhere and piles of crumbs so big they stop traffic before mice are recognized as the valuable members of society that they are? We are here today so THAT costly social strike can be avoided."

The pro Petcka celebration was only slightly dampened when one mouse was arrested after it was noticed that he carried a small camera as he scurried under the skirtless PETM members taking video. Skeptics stated "Clearly that mouse was a plant by the police to discredit the protest. No mice claimed to have ever seen the arrested mouse before and it was beleived he was given suspiciously good cheese while in detention before being inexplicably bailed out by police officers. The video was seized and is being reviewed extensively in the precinct for it's evidentury value. Other police sceptics complained that, since the passage of bills allowing ads to be run on the Police precint website, it is likely the video will appear in full there very shortly and the whole arrest was a money making ploy combined with an attempt to discredit those defending mice everywhere. Legal scholars noted that since none of the PETM members were actually wearing skirts during the protest the videographer mouse could not be charged for taking upskirt videos.



(Not Satire unfortunately)


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I was heavily involved in the search for Steve Fossett leading an effort to round up some very generous volunteers of extremely advanced scientific equipment to help with the search for the lost aviator when the official stuff just wasn't being done with the most advanced equipment. Before that I helped track down phone numbers in a community effort to indentify public hypocritics regarding the arrest of the DC madam. The stories are below.

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November 2007 *****The Hollywood Writer's Strike Coverage*****


Recently I have begun reporting on the Hollywood writer's strike picket lines. It is the first strike I have ever reported on and I am sure for many americans around my age they have never been involved in a strike either.

It is an interesting experience I can tell you! I am going to present a real inside look at it and you will be able to walk the picket lines with me.
The strike effort involves the WGA writers and is supported by SAG and many actors icluding the casts of many Hollywood TV shows including The Unit, Desperate Housewives, Big Love, Las Vegas and many more. Television production is rapidly shutting on almost all the Tv shows although there are some movies still shooting. I have photographed actors such as Bill Paxton, Gary Cole, Ray Ramono, Doug Savant, Minnie driver, Sara Silverman, Kathy Griffin, Eva Longoria, Robert Patrick and many more on the picket lines. Most of these actors are people I know and I have worked with because I have been on about 100 productions in the last 2 or 3 years usually as a non speaking actor (although I have gotten a few speaking parts lately). I have interviewed some of these writers and actors and will be posting those videos here. The first of several news stories and videos will be linked here. The first video is a news photo essay called "The Writers Cause" can be watched for free on the internet on metacafe.com. Please rate it highly with Metacafe and vote it up so it will gain more visibility for the writer's cause! If you have a comment on it you can email me at asfvolunteera at vivzizi dot com (get ride of the a's in the first part and put the normal @ and . in to email me)



The Writer's Cause - More amazing videos are a click away





September *** Steve Fossett Search effort*****







Renowned aviator Steve Fossett is missing after taking off from a Nevada Airstrip on Sept 3rd at 9am.

****Oct. 2007 Updated!****


I became heavily involved in locating the most high tech equipment and methods available to be used in the search. A person's life was a stake and I knew I could bring some resources and fast focus to this that would otherwise not be available to the man's family. Although unfortunately we have not yet been able to locate his aircraft, I brought some techniques and equipment to the search that had never before been used to search for a downed aircraft. The story and thanks to those experts around arounfd the country who helped me assemble the technology and the team will go here soon.


Original post from early September:
I have found an indication of a mountain top fire from a Sept 3rd 11:35 AM PST MODIS NASA satellite photo in the general search area. NASA Modis satellites take high rez photos of all parts of earth each day and automatically identify fire signatures on the ground they fly over. I searched the sept 3rd photo for Southern California taken at 11:35 PST and noticed an automatic fire identification red square on the satellite image in the high mountains just west of Morro Lake which is just west of the search area.
The search team HAS BEEN NOTIFIED and they contacted me and are following up on this possible lead. I hope it can help find this aviation pioneer in time. One can hope so since just yesterday a person was found alive after an unrelated car accident after having been trapped in his car for 7 days. .
Look at the modis image here.(right click on it and say open in new tab or open in new window.)
The MODIS image indicating a small fire on that morning in the general area Steve Fossett went missing
It is the small red square on the mountain tops directly west of Morro Lake. Start at San Franciso bay and go East. when you hit the snowy mountains just west of the round lake on the other side (Morro Lake) you will see a small red square the satelite system automatically places when it thinks it has found a fire. Further analysis in Google earth of this area shows a small grey blur typical of smoke on a satellite image in a relatively cleared pine forest on a mountaintop on the way to San Fran from Morro lake so it is a conceivable ditch site. Lat 37.912807 Long 119.727580 elevation 7106 ft click on and open or download and open in google earth the kmz link below to see it in google earth.
Fossett Google earth marker file at site of possible smoke

That whole cleared mountaintop area deserves a flyover.
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***The DC madam's Phone records effort***





(Temporarily offline due to increased traffic) We are hosting a fast, partial and NOT cross checked and not completed electronic index of the phone records images recently published by Deborah Jeane Palfrey. She has become known as the "DC Madam" and she ran "Pamela Martin and Associates".

Ms. Palfrey made photos of her phone records available on her web site, www.deborahjeanepalfrey.com. Within minutes reddit.com readers elevated a project to get together and process those record images so they could begin to determine who was on the list. I was drawn to this project because of the technical challenge, and becuase I thought it would likely would expose some truth about some of those politicians making moral pronouncements. It was just a gut feeling which proved true as a Congress member's phone number was found on the list. I became one of the primary team members and we quickly made fast progress using advanced techniques. Our efforts at http://redditgoestodc.pbwiki.com have resulted in several partial phone lists converted to actual data. It was done with great speed and little cross checking and therefore absolutely should not be considered accurate. This list used automatic OCR processes to look at the images and have the computer attempt to read the phone numbers. Then that list was reduced so all duplicate phone numbers were removed. It is only partially complete as the group hasn't finished scanning all the phone records in yet. You can be assured this list has errors and wrong numbers. It should be used only as a guide for quick reference and other automated attempts to scan the numbers and THEN THAT PHONE NUMBER SHOULD BE MANUALLY RECHECKED ON THE ORIGINAL IMAGE FILES TO SEE IF THE NUMBER LISTED IN THIS LIST IS IN FACT ON HER RECORDS. It quite possibly could be a transcription error on this list. Remember also that some of these phone numbers go back years. People who have them today may not have had those phone numbers years ago.

With the link below you can know the numbers that appeared the most!


(Temporarily taken offline to preserve bandwidth during the writer's strike coverage. It will reappear again in the future. please stay posted!) Go here for great new DC Madam phone list research tool!


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