Lunar Alien Architecture

Not sure if it's real, but it's very beautiful in it's organic nature and very different from our own style of functional constructs. Very much like one would imagine alien architecture..like H.R.Gigers' Alien movie concepts. Maybe too much like that. This is allegedly a city on the moon taken from a cryptic youtube user that I've mentioned before in previous posts. There are very low resolution versions of these images that are available on the NASA website but they look like mexico from the space-station...just blotches of light were there should be no light...especially those on the dark side...are we supposed to believe that this is some sort of crystalline structure emanating it's own light source? Judge for yourself but more information is coming out that our closest celestial body is a lot more interesting than we ever thought.

The Theory of Everything

This is a great BBC documentary about what is apparently the long-sought-after "Theory of Everything" for theoretical physics.

Ancient Spacecraft on the Moon

A new youtube user just started posting some incredible footage of what he claims is footage of a secret apollo mission to investigate an ancient spacecraft on the surface of the moon. Retiredafb claims to be a 76 year old Air Force Officer located in Rwanda.
Now I've been a computer graphics professional for over a decade and the footage below looks very good..the interaction of the shadows, lens flares and surface are impressive if it's a hoax.
According to the user, he has limited technical resources in Rwanda and was unable to get the audio right so he added his own captions. He claims the findings of the mission determined that the spacecraft was 1.5 million years old and had been excavated before we did.
He also claims that the government will have be forced to disclose the information by September 2007.
View it and judge for yourself.
First, the stills (which can be seen with less detail in the public missions)-

And the video with much more detail -

My Friend, Dr. Michio Kaku

Dr. Michio Kaku is my friend!

Well, on MySpace anyway. I'm still stoked. He's one of my favorite futurists. Hold on to yourself and check out his myspace site and his main site and prepare to have your perception of reality expanded.

Great article on the ultimate future at the UK Daily Telegraph. Linked from the Ray Kurzweil site.
Seems that Frank Tipler's theory of the ultimate future put forth in the Physics of Immortality is becoming the prevailing model for forward thinking theoretical physicists.
Excerpt below.

In the distant future, billions to trillions of years from now, the stars will exhaust their nuclear fuel, the oceans will freeze, the universe will turn dark and temperatures will plunge to almost zero. It appears inevitable that all intelligent life will perish when the universe itself freezes over.

This possibility of "unyielding despair" was explored by the mathematician Bertrand Russell, who wrote, in one of the most depressing passages in the English language, that "no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can preserve a life beyond the grave... all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system; and the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins..."

Today, we believe that space arks might one day preserve life after the death of the Sun in five billion years. But can you build a space ark to escape the death of the universe itself?

The only possible way to avoid the death of the universe is to leave. Perhaps civilisations billions of years ahead of ours will harness enough energy to punch a hole in space and escape, in a hyper-dimensional space ark, to a new universe.

Although it seems far-fetched, even preposterous, physicists have seriously considered this possibility using the known laws of physics. Einstein's equations, for example, allow for the possibility of "Einstein-Rosen bridges" connecting two parallel universes. (Imagine two horizontal parallel sheets of paper connected by a thin vertical tube.)

The energy necessary to create such a "wormhole" connecting two universes is truly immense - the Planck energy, or 1019 billion electron volts (a quadrillion times the energy of our largest atom smasher).

In desperation, an advanced civilisation might create huge banks of laser beams and atom smashers to create the unbelievably intense temperatures, energy and densities necessary to open up holes in space and leave the universe.

Calculations show that these gigantic machines must be the size of star systems, but this might be possible for civilisations billions of years ahead of ours. Unfortunately, some preliminary calculations show that the wormhole might only be microscopic in size. If so, an advanced civilisation might resort to shooting molecular-sized robots, called "nanobots", through the wormhole.

Once on the other side, these nanobots would then create huge DNA factories to grow clones and replicas of their creators. Since they would contain the entire database of their civilisation, they would use this to resurrect it in another universe.

Although the physical bodies of these individuals will die when the universe freezes over, their genetic twins will live on, so that their civilisation, like a Phoenix, may flourish again.

As incredible as these scenarios are, they are consistent with the known laws of physics and biology.

So, when contemplating the question raised by Huxley in 1863, our true role in the universe might be to spread the precious germ of intelligent life throughout it and, one day, to spread the seed of life by leaving a dying universe for a warmer one.

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Mars and Back in 90 Days

Wow..this is cool -

New propulsion concept could make 90-day Mars round trip possible

A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.

Read Article | Source: Washington University