I love Robotics. I find it fascinating and a solution to our labor problem, among other things. The Japanese are way ahead of us in this field. If there were any race to take along with us as we explore the heavens, it would be the Japanese.
Anyway, here's where we've been:
Where we are at now.
A Robot controlled by brain cells!
Where we are going, if we can sort out our current socio-economic problems.
One of my all time favorite movies. This is the club scene, one of the best in the movie (wasting the pig station was the best, but we'll save that for later).
Cyberdyne Systems Model T101, taking multiple Double-ought buckshot blasts to the chest!
Another one of my favorites. This is a great scene too, though the scene where Sigourney is stripping in the Podcraft is my favorite :)
"You have my sympathies."
This movie is so full of hidden meanings. Can you find them in this scene?
Showing posts with label White Genius. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White Genius. Show all posts
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds
John "Birdman" Bryant
Oct 26, 1943 - Feb 26, 2009
John Demarest Bryant was born October 26, 1943 in Washington DC, the son of Lyle C. Bryant and Nola I. Wingo.
After graduating from Columbia Military Academy, Columbia, TN in 1961 and (after first attending Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH) American University, Wash DC (BA in Math) in 1968, he and his wife moved to San Francisco, CA, where he completed the manuscript "Systems Theory and Scientific Philosophy", and found a publisher for it. Moving back to the East Coast, John delved into commodities trading in and around Philadelphia, PA. He re-found his niche as a writer just before moving to the Tampa Bay area in Dec of 1995.
He was the creator of the website "thebirdman.org" and originator of the weekly (by subscription only) newsletter called the Birdman's Weekly Letter (now discontinued).
He also wrote approx. 40 books, from the "Everything You Wanted to Know ..." (Mortal Words) series to "Better than Shakespeare", a rewrite of the major Shakespearean sonnets.
He assembled a Libertarian Cartoon book, with original cartoons, many of which appeared originally in Instauration and other magazines of the alternative press.
(See also the links:
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Intro/Intro-Bio.html
and http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Intro/WikipediaBio-JohnBryant-22Feb2006.htm (an article originally posted on Wikipedia)
for more detail.)
His memorial gathering will be held at the Asian Star restaurant, 1198 S Pasadena Ave, S, S Pasadena, FL at or around 1 PM, Sunday Mar 8. (Time change that day) All are welcome.
The Pen is as mighty as the sword, and anyone that wields it is just as much a warrior as one who takes the physical fight to the enemy. If there is a Valhalla for resistance writers, They have received the John Byant.
Cattle die, and kinsmen die,
And so one dies one's self;
But a noble name will never die,
If good renown one gets.
Cattle die,and kinsmen die,
And so one dies one's self;
One thing I know that never dies,
The fame of a dead man's deeds.
Each of us all must his end abide
in the ways of the world; so win who may
glory ere death! When his days are told,
that is the warrior's worthiest doom.
Oct 26, 1943 - Feb 26, 2009
John Demarest Bryant was born October 26, 1943 in Washington DC, the son of Lyle C. Bryant and Nola I. Wingo.
After graduating from Columbia Military Academy, Columbia, TN in 1961 and (after first attending Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH) American University, Wash DC (BA in Math) in 1968, he and his wife moved to San Francisco, CA, where he completed the manuscript "Systems Theory and Scientific Philosophy", and found a publisher for it. Moving back to the East Coast, John delved into commodities trading in and around Philadelphia, PA. He re-found his niche as a writer just before moving to the Tampa Bay area in Dec of 1995.
He was the creator of the website "thebirdman.org" and originator of the weekly (by subscription only) newsletter called the Birdman's Weekly Letter (now discontinued).
He also wrote approx. 40 books, from the "Everything You Wanted to Know ..." (Mortal Words) series to "Better than Shakespeare", a rewrite of the major Shakespearean sonnets.
He assembled a Libertarian Cartoon book, with original cartoons, many of which appeared originally in Instauration and other magazines of the alternative press.
(See also the links:
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Intro/Intro-Bio.html
and http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Intro/WikipediaBio-JohnBryant-22Feb2006.htm (an article originally posted on Wikipedia)
for more detail.)
His memorial gathering will be held at the Asian Star restaurant, 1198 S Pasadena Ave, S, S Pasadena, FL at or around 1 PM, Sunday Mar 8. (Time change that day) All are welcome.
The Pen is as mighty as the sword, and anyone that wields it is just as much a warrior as one who takes the physical fight to the enemy. If there is a Valhalla for resistance writers, They have received the John Byant.
Cattle die, and kinsmen die,
And so one dies one's self;
But a noble name will never die,
If good renown one gets.
Cattle die,and kinsmen die,
And so one dies one's self;
One thing I know that never dies,
The fame of a dead man's deeds.
Each of us all must his end abide
in the ways of the world; so win who may
glory ere death! When his days are told,
that is the warrior's worthiest doom.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Surprise! White Man Behind Science That Won 2 Asians and a Jew the Nobel Prize
Never fails. White Men create, Asians copy, Jews steal. How do I know Prasher is not a jew? First, he's not in a lab working on white inventions like a jew would be because jews stick together. Second, He's not kevching and wailing that he's a victim, that's how. He's acting like a White man. And if not for Western Science and Education, those three who won the Nobel Prize wouldn't even know what physics were, let alone be able to build on what Whites create. Don't ever let anyone tell you that your people are not the light among the nations. The jews certainly aren't.
Shuttle driver reflects on Nobel snub
Twenty years ago, Douglas Prasher was one of the driving forces behind research that earned a Nobel Prize in chemistry this week. But today, he's just driving.
Prasher, 57, works as a courtesy shuttle operator at a Huntsville, Ala., Toyota dealership. While his former colleagues will fly to Stockholm in December to accept the Nobel Prize and a $1.4 million check, the former Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist will be earning $10 an hour while trying to put two of his children through college.
"It's a cutthroat world out there," Prasher said during a phone interview yesterday.
Despite his contributions to the groundbreaking research, a Nobel Prize can only be shared among three people.
In 1961, Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole discovered the green fluorescent protein that gives the Aequoria Victoria jellyfish its glow. In the 1980s, Prasher began working with the protein, designated as GFP, after hypothesizing the gene responsible for the protein's fluorescent properties could be used to help view formerly invisible molecular functions.
After the American Cancer Society gave Prasher a $220,000 grant in 1988, he set about isolating and copying the GFP gene.
That caught the attention of Martin Chalfie, another of the Nobel Prize winners announced this week. The Columbia University researcher said yesterday that the organism he was working with at the time was transparent, and he hoped Prasher's work on the luminescent jellyfish protein would provide a way for him to see its molecular functions.
Four years later, as Prasher's grant dried up and he was no longer able to continue his own research, he voluntarily gave samples of the GFP gene to Chalfie.
The cloned gene was also given to Roger Tsien, the third Nobel Prize winner, who has been in the forefront of fluorescent protein research ever since.
"(Prasher's) work was critical and essential for the work we did in our lab," Chalfie said. "They could've easily given the prize to Douglas and the other two and left me out."
But instead of focusing on his hard luck, Prasher said he is happy for his former colleagues. While it was perfectly within his rights not to share the cloned gene with others, Prasher said he felt an obligation to give his research a chance to turn into something significant, even if he was no longer a part of it.
"When you're using public funds, I personally believe you have an obligation to share," Prasher said. "I put my heart and soul into it, but if I kept that stuff, it wasn't gonna go anyplace."
David Mark Welch, assistant scientist of evolutionary biology at MBL, said this sort of situation is a natural byproduct of working in an industry where competition for grant money can be intense. Some grants have 100 applications but will only fund 10 requests, Welch said. That means competition — even from fellow colleagues at the same institution — can be fierce and scientists often feel the need to keep all unpublished research a secret.
Welch praised Prasher's actions and said many researchers are finding it easier to obtain larger grants if they collaborate instead of alienate. "You have to put aside any sort of personal desires to be better than everyone else because if your grant isn't funded, you're in trouble," he said.
Prasher knows that trouble all too well.
After stints at a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory and working for NASA in Huntsville, Prasher was out of work for a year before he took a job at the car dealership.
Prasher said he has suffered from health problems and depression, some of which stems from being out of science for so long. But his sense of humor remains intact.
"If Marty and Roger want to show me some gratitude, they can always send some cash," Prasher said. "I'm accepting gifts and donations."
Prasher hopes the Nobel Prize exposure will lead to a job offer in his field, ideally back to Falmouth, where he said he lived happily for 14 years.
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/NEWS/810110328
Shuttle driver reflects on Nobel snub
Twenty years ago, Douglas Prasher was one of the driving forces behind research that earned a Nobel Prize in chemistry this week. But today, he's just driving.
Prasher, 57, works as a courtesy shuttle operator at a Huntsville, Ala., Toyota dealership. While his former colleagues will fly to Stockholm in December to accept the Nobel Prize and a $1.4 million check, the former Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist will be earning $10 an hour while trying to put two of his children through college.
"It's a cutthroat world out there," Prasher said during a phone interview yesterday.
Despite his contributions to the groundbreaking research, a Nobel Prize can only be shared among three people.
In 1961, Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole discovered the green fluorescent protein that gives the Aequoria Victoria jellyfish its glow. In the 1980s, Prasher began working with the protein, designated as GFP, after hypothesizing the gene responsible for the protein's fluorescent properties could be used to help view formerly invisible molecular functions.
After the American Cancer Society gave Prasher a $220,000 grant in 1988, he set about isolating and copying the GFP gene.
That caught the attention of Martin Chalfie, another of the Nobel Prize winners announced this week. The Columbia University researcher said yesterday that the organism he was working with at the time was transparent, and he hoped Prasher's work on the luminescent jellyfish protein would provide a way for him to see its molecular functions.
Four years later, as Prasher's grant dried up and he was no longer able to continue his own research, he voluntarily gave samples of the GFP gene to Chalfie.
The cloned gene was also given to Roger Tsien, the third Nobel Prize winner, who has been in the forefront of fluorescent protein research ever since.
"(Prasher's) work was critical and essential for the work we did in our lab," Chalfie said. "They could've easily given the prize to Douglas and the other two and left me out."
But instead of focusing on his hard luck, Prasher said he is happy for his former colleagues. While it was perfectly within his rights not to share the cloned gene with others, Prasher said he felt an obligation to give his research a chance to turn into something significant, even if he was no longer a part of it.
"When you're using public funds, I personally believe you have an obligation to share," Prasher said. "I put my heart and soul into it, but if I kept that stuff, it wasn't gonna go anyplace."
David Mark Welch, assistant scientist of evolutionary biology at MBL, said this sort of situation is a natural byproduct of working in an industry where competition for grant money can be intense. Some grants have 100 applications but will only fund 10 requests, Welch said. That means competition — even from fellow colleagues at the same institution — can be fierce and scientists often feel the need to keep all unpublished research a secret.
Welch praised Prasher's actions and said many researchers are finding it easier to obtain larger grants if they collaborate instead of alienate. "You have to put aside any sort of personal desires to be better than everyone else because if your grant isn't funded, you're in trouble," he said.
Prasher knows that trouble all too well.
After stints at a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory and working for NASA in Huntsville, Prasher was out of work for a year before he took a job at the car dealership.
Prasher said he has suffered from health problems and depression, some of which stems from being out of science for so long. But his sense of humor remains intact.
"If Marty and Roger want to show me some gratitude, they can always send some cash," Prasher said. "I'm accepting gifts and donations."
Prasher hopes the Nobel Prize exposure will lead to a job offer in his field, ideally back to Falmouth, where he said he lived happily for 14 years.
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/NEWS/810110328
Friday, October 3, 2008
Apollonian Has His Own Blog Now!
Thanks to the largess of William A. White, well dressed Nazi!
Stop by and say hello to our prolific blog poster!
http://www.answp.com/blogs/apollonian/
Stop by and say hello to our prolific blog poster!
http://www.answp.com/blogs/apollonian/
Sunday, July 20, 2008
White Technology - Helmet to Cure Alzheimers?
Two months ago Clem Fennell was fading fast.The victim of an aggressive type of dementia, the 57-year-old businessmen was unable to answer the phone, order a meal or string more than a couple of words together.
In desperation, his family agreed to try a revolutionary new treatment - a bizarre-looking, experimental helmet devised by a British GP that bathes the brain in infra-red light twice a day.
To their astonishment, Mr Fennel began to make an astonishing recovery in just three weeks.
Dr Gordon Dougal, a GP from County Durham, treated dementia patient Clem Fennell with his infra-red device
"My husband, Clem, was fading away. It is as if he is back" said his wife Vickey Fennell, 55. "His personality has started to show again. We are absolutely thrilled."
While the helmet has yet to be proven in clinical trials, the family say the effects of the 10 minute sessions are incredible. Mr Fennell can now hold conversations and go shopping unaccompanied.
The treatment is the brainchild of Dr Gordon Dougal, a County Durham GP. He believes the device could eventually help thousands of dementia patients.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1034936/Dementia-patient-makes-amazing-progress-using-infrared-helmet.html?ITO=1490
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