Strange Tales - Relic Radio - audio

"Relic Radio" showcases old radio plays from the 1950s. Adventure, Mystery, Suspense, but my favorite are called "Strange Tales", not always the super-natural, but the unnatural. You can sign-up for their podcast or just stream selected episodes.

Imagining the 10th Dimension - video

Multiple realities made easy. Well, as easy as possible. I like to re-watch this 2-part video every few months to expand my brain. A simplified explanation of the first 4 dimensions we're aware of and then expanding on that to imagine what maybe we can't see. Part one. Part two.

Cult of the Superweapon - audio

H.G. WELLS, Pakistani nuclear physicist A.Q. Khan (father of the Islamic nuke), and Tim LaHaye are all connected through what researchers Paul and Phillip Collins call “the cult of the superweapon”.

Basically, Wells’ idea was that a weapon so devastating that it threatened all life on Earth was just what the world needed to overcome the primitive concept of nationhood and local autonomy, and his beliefs have been transformed into reality over the last century.

Who Cares Most? top Google search result on The Future of Humanity

I am always curious who has the most recently refreshed content on different topics. In order to be at the top of the heap in Google Search, you really have to be the person who cares most about any given subject. This week, on WHO CARES MOST? we're Google Stalking...

THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY

This link leads to an evolving hypertext published by Brian Holt, author of Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits. Brian has captured the top two Google Search Slots on "the future of humanity" today.

The first reason I love and want to be one with this text is that Brian has predicted that our universe and therefore timeline ends when we are all eaten up in the destruction of the LAST BLACK HOLE.

I have just spent forty minutes perusing Brian's EXTENSIVE treatise on the nature of human understanding, and it is nearly impossible for me to pick out the best parts. This excerpt is just a taste of what's waiting for you at the hypertext:

Nuclear Catastrophe. Nuclear power could result in three kinds of catastrophe: radioactive pollution, limited nuclear bombing, and general nuclear war. Accidental or deliberate radioactive pollution could kill tens or hundreds of thousands, but is quite unlikely to happen. Regional nuclear conflict in the Middle East or the Indian subcontinent could kill several million. Nuclear terrorism against Washington D.C. or New York City could kill more than a million and set back human progress by up to a decade. General nuclear war would kill hundreds of millions and could trigger a nuclear winter that might starve hundreds of millions more. While such a worst case would set back human progress by one or two centuries, existing nuclear arsenals could neither extinct humanity nor end human civilization.

Cultural Decline. Some humans fear that vice, crime, and corruption indicate ongoing social decline or impending collapse. Other humans fear that problems of class division, pollution, education, and infrastructure indicate economic decline or impending collapse. These fears are perennial and unfounded. Past examples of the drastic decline or collapse of a culture or civilization have almost always been due to environmental change, or infection or invasion by outside humans. But after the advent of continental steam locomotion in the mid-1800s, no society remains unexposed to the infections of the others. Similarly, all societies have been made part of a single global human civilization which is not subject to invasion by outside humans. Environmental change indeed poses a set of challenges, but they seem to represent constraints on growth rather than seeds of collapse.

Cultural stagnation is another possible (but milder) kind of potential catastrophe. As in Ming China, Middle Ages Europe, or the Soviet Bloc, stagnation can result if a static ideology takes hold and suppresses dissent. Such a development seems unlikely, given the intellectual freedom and communication technology of the modern world. Ideologies with totalitarian potential include fideist religions, communism, and ecological primitivism.

Bioterrorism. Could a pathogen be genetically designed to be virulent enough to extinct humanity? A pathogen would have to be designed to spread easily from person to person, persist in the environment, resist antibiotics and immune responses, and cause almost 100% mortality. Designing for long latency (e.g. months) might be necessary to ensure wide distribution, but no length may be enough to infect every last human.

Robot Aggression. Some humans fear that the combination of robotics and artificial intelligence will in effect create a new dominant species that will not tolerate human control or even resource competition. These fears are misplaced. Artificial intelligence will be developed gradually by about 2200, and will not evolve runaway super-intelligence. Even when AI is integrated with artifactual life by the early 2200s, the time and energy constraints on artifactual persons will render them no more capable of global domination than any particular variety of humans (i.e. natural persons). Similarly, humanity's first Von Neumann probes will be incapable of overwhelming Earth's defenses even if they tried. To be truly dangerous, VN probes would have to be of a species with both true intelligence and a significant military advantage over humanity. Such a species would be unlikely to engage in alien aggression.

Nanoplague. Self-replicating nanotechnology could in theory become a cancer to the Earth's biosphere, replacing all ribonucleic life with nanotech life. The primary limit on the expansion of such nanotech life would, as for all life, be the availability of usable energy and material. Since any organic material would presumably be usable, the primary limit on how nanocancer could consume organic life would be the availability of usable energy. Fossil fuels are not sufficiently omnipresent, and fusion is not sufficiently portable, so nanocancer would, like ribonucleic microorganisms, have to feed on sunlight or organic tissues. Ribonucleic photosynthesis captures a maximum of about 10% of incident solar energy, while nanocancer should be able to capture at least 50%. The only way to stop nanocancer would be to cut off its access to energy and material or interfere with its mechanisms for using them.

There is no question in my mind that at this moment, Brian Holt is WHO CARES MOST about THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY. Stay tuned for next week, when we find out who cares most about....

THE LAST BLACK HOLE

X Minus One - audio

Philip K Dick is a science fiction author who believed that all his stories were true. Existing in different realities or different dimensions. He was featured once on "X Minus One", an old radio-play serial from the 1950's. Check out the audio files here.

Not "Aliens", please refer to them as "non-human entities"

Guy Malone believes that the occult teachings of modern (alleged) aliens - as well as intentional disinformation from "shadow government" operatives - needs to be countered with verifiable research, coupled with sound Biblical doctrine. He asserts that thorough examination of all the available evidences argues that the phenomena and entities commonly referred to as "aliens" by popular culture are indeed spiritual in nature (opposed to genuinely extra-terrestrial).

Are we not men?

An editor of a noted scientific journal says he has discovered a genetic defect that seems to set back the clock on human evolution by more than a million years.

Don't say this lacks substance

Is the earth a solid body? Some think not. Throughout time many theories have been proposed that the planet is hollow and any number of beings and creatures could be inside.

Raëlian's offer Tiger Woods advice.

From Wikipedia:

Raëlism, or The Raëlian movement, is a UFO religion which teaches that all life on Earth was created by humanoid extraterrestrials

Raëlian's offer Tiger Woods advice.

Terence McKenna - audio

Terence McKenna is known for his gaining of knowledge through psychedelics, metaphysics, and his concept of novelty theory. A large selection of audio files are available at Lancerules.com.