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<title><![CDATA[Applied Satellite Navigation Using GPS, Galileo and Augmentation Systems]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[El telescopio. 400 Años de asombros  y descubrimientos]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Eder J. Jiménez</dc:creator>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">Por EDER J. JIMÉNEZ</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">Solo bastó con que un aprendiz holandés, erróneamente interpusiera dos lentes pulidos ante sus ojos para darse cuenta de que el campanario de la iglesia se veía más cerca…en ese momento nació el instrumento que hoy nos permite revelar los secretos más celosamente<span> </span>guardados por el Universo, en ese momento nació el telescopio.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">Luego de algunos meses de modificación para uso militar y posteriormente comercial, el telescopio ya se vendía en las principales calles de París y otras ciudades europeas como un objeto simplemente curioso. Aquel extraño aparato cilíndrico y tosco, llegó a manos de un profesor de matemáticas que vivía en Padua, a unos kilómetros de Venecia, su nombre: Galileo Galilei…</span><a href="http://blogciencia.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/galileo183.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-89" title="galileo183" src="http://blogciencia.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/galileo183.jpg" alt="" width="266" height="541" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">Fue en una noche del año 1609, en la que este italiano tomó aquel invento modificado p</span><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">or su mano y apuntó al firmamento; la curiosidad esta vez no mató al gato, creo que más bien, “le dio vi</span><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">da”, pues durante siglos habíamos vivido sumergidos en la ignorancia por creer en verdades absolutas, en pocas palabras, vivíamos como muertos al desconocer la realidad de nuestro mundo, y más aún, de aquellos otros mundos que aprendimos a conocer desde aquellas noches que se convirtieron en sitas de amor, amor por el Cosmos, que luego de muchas observaciones “mostró sus anillos de boda”…La noche en que Saturno sin pudor, mostro la belleza de sus anillos a la Humanidad. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">Fueron pasando los años, y a la vez que veíamos que el universo era más grande de lo que imaginábamos, también nos percatábamos mirada tras mirada por el telescopio, que nuestro mundo era cada vez más pequeño; que incluso nuestro astro rey el Sol, era uno más entre miles de millones en una vasta ciudadela de estrellas llamada Vía Láctea, la cual se derrama a unos 100.000 años luz en todo su tamaño, dejando nuestro pequeño “oasis de vida”-la Tierra-<span> </span>a unos 20.000<span> </span>años luz del extremo y a unos 30.000 de su violento y misterioso centro.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES"> </span><em><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">…”y creíamos que éramos el centro del universo”.</span></em><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES"> Stephen Hawking</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;color:black;" lang="ES">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">1609-2009. Sumados estos años el resultado es igual a 400. Cuatrocientos años desde que por primera vez el padre de la ciencia moderna Galileo Galilei, apuntó su telescopio hacia el espacio, revelando aquel manto celeste que por milenios nuestros antepasados habían observado a simple vista. Una nueva era de la Civilización Humana y la forma en la que estudiábamos el universo, cambió aquella noche de 1609 en la que Galileo desnudo el cosmos con su mirada. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">Hablando de los múltiples descubrimientos y avances tecnológicos y científicos de la época, tardaríamos las suficientes páginas como para escribir un libro; pues definitivamente hablar del universo y de lo que significa su existencia en la más mínima expresión de vida en su expansión, no se puede hacer, si no de forma poética y romántica.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><strong><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES"> ¡Todos a celebrar!</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:115%;"><a href="http://blogciencia.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/iya_logo_sp_peque.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-83" title="iya_logo_sp_peque" src="http://blogciencia.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/iya_logo_sp_peque.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="301" /></a><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">El año 2009 ha sido denominado por la UNESCO y la Unidad Astronómica Internacional (UAI por sus siglas en ingles). Como el <strong>Año Internacional de la Astronomía</strong>, cumpliéndose 400 años desde que el matemático y físico italiano Galileo Galilei, apuntó por primera vez un telescopio al firmamento. La celebración a la que se sumarán más de 140 países, contará con un sin número de actividades que buscan un solo objetivo: Enamorar a las naciones en vías de desarrollo de la Astronomía y sus ciencias afines, incentivándolas así, a dar un pequeño paso hacia el progreso científico, pero un gran sato hacia el progreso social. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><em><span style="font-family:&#34;" lang="ES">Para más información sobre esta celebración visita: <a href="http://www.astronomia2009.es"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">www.astronomia2009.es</span></a></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><strong>Video del Año Internacional de la Astronomía 2009.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Galileo Galilei]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), fue un astronomo, filósofo, matemático y físico que estuvo relac]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://espacioteca.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/galileo1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-361" title="galileo1" src="http://espacioteca.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/galileo1.jpg?w=282" alt="" width="282" height="300" /></a>Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), fue un <span style="color:#336699;">astronomo</span>, <span style="color:#336699;">filósofo</span>, <span style="color:#336699;">matemático</span> y <span style="color:#336699;">físico</span> que estuvo relacionado estrechamente con la <span style="color:#336699;">revolución científica</span>. Eminente hombre del <span style="color:#336699;">Renacimiento</span>, mostró interés por casi todas las <span style="color:#336699;">ciencias</span> y <span style="color:#336699;">artes</span> (<span style="color:#336699;">música</span>, <span style="color:#336699;">literatura</span>, <span style="color:#336699;">pintura</span>). Sus logros incluyen la mejora del <span style="color:#336699;">telescopio</span>, gran variedad de observaciones astronómicas, la <span style="color:#336699;">primera ley del movimiento</span> y un apoyo determinante para el <span style="color:#336699;">copernicanismo</span>. Ha sido considerado como el "padre de la astronomía moderna". Su trabajo experimental es considerado complementario a los escritos de <span style="color:#336699;">Francis Bacon</span> en el establecimiento del moderno <span style="color:#336699;">método científico</span> y su carrera científica es complementaria a la de <span style="color:#336699;">Johannes Kepler</span>. Su trabajo se considera una ruptura de las asentadas ideas <span style="color:#336699;">aristotélicas</span> y su enfrentamiento con la <span style="color:#336699;">Iglesia Católica Romana</span> suele tomarse como el mejor ejemplo de conflicto entre la <span style="color:#336699;">autoridad</span> y la <span style="color:#336699;">libertad de pensamiento</span> en la <span style="color:#336699;">sociedad occidental</span>. <a href="http://cientificosdelmundo.blogspot.com/2008/10/galileo-galilei.html">Seguir leyendo</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Die philosophische Wendeltreppe VII: Der Sinn und das Sein, oder: Die metaphysische Fußangel]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ebmeierjochen</dc:creator>
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Seit Galileo, Descartes und Newton ist der westliche Mensch überzeugt, mit der Mathematik den S]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Seit Galileo, Descartes und Newton ist der westliche Mensch überzeugt, mit der Mathematik den Schlüssel der Natur in den Händen zu halten. Mehr als das. Bei den Schwärmern wie den esoterischen Schmähern der Vernunft, die alle halb Jahrhunderte Konjunktur haben, gilt die Mathematik als deren 'Paradigma' und als Modell alles Logischen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Und tatsächlich haben Messen, Wägen, Zählen und Kalkül seither das Leben der abendländischen Menschen erobert. War es der Geist der mathematisierten Naturwissenschaft, der die westlichen Gesellschaften durchdrungen hat, oder war es vielmehr das Vordringen von Geld- und Berechnungswesen in den Arbeitsalltag, das der mathematischen Weltanschauung den Boden bereitet hat?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Das 17. und 18. Jahrhundert war das Zeitalter der großen metaphysischen Systeme. Die mathematische Weltsicht ist allen gemeinsam: Descartes-Malebranche, Spinoza, Leibniz-Wolff </span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/leviathan1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1669" title="Titelbild von Thomas Hobbes' &#34;Leviathan&#34;" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/leviathan1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="240" height="190" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">und – nicht zu vergessen – Thomas Hobbes. Der Bedarf an Metaphysik war akut. Die in blutigen Kriegen zerrissene Religion hatte aufgehört, den Menschen Gewissheit und Orientierung zu geben. Die brauchten sie aber so nötig wie nie. Wie die katholische Kirche war die ständische Gesellschaftsordnung in den Grundfesten erschüttert. Das Bürgertum schickte sich an, ihre Erbschaft anzutreten. Es suchte nach einer neuen, eigenen Weltanschauung, in der sie ihre Wege vorgezeichnet finden und ihre Taten gerechtfertigt finden konnte. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Der Zweck der Metaphysik ist nicht derjenige der Naturwissenschaft. Wenn sie nach dem <em><span style="color:#008080;">Sein</span> </em>fragt, dann meint sie in Wahrheit dessen <span style="color:#008080;"><em>Sinn</em></span>. Den trägt sie aber heimlich schon lange in ihrer Brust: Rechenhaftigkeit. Wenn es gelingt, das ureigne Wesen des ganzen großen Universums als ein </span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/eiffel_tower_first_platform.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1677" title="System" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/eiffel_tower_first_platform.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="210" height="172" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Rechenexempel zu konstruieren; wenn es zugleich gelingt, daraus das Sosein eines jeden Einzelnen als Bestand-Teil eines ('autopoietischen', würde man heute sagen) <span style="color:#008080;"><em>System</em></span><span style="color:#008080;"><em>s</em></span> herzuleiten - dann war es klar, dass der Sinn im Einzelnen nur der Sinn </span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/eiffel_shutt_1704791.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1678" title="eiffel_shutt_1704791" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/eiffel_shutt_1704791.jpg" alt="" width="84" height="111" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">des großen Ganzen sein kann. 'Rationalität' muss der Sinn der Welt sein, damit sie der Sinn des Lebens sein kann.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Öffentlichkeit ist das Feld, auf dem die Metaphysik gegen die Religion antritt. An die Stelle der konfessionell reglementierten Universitäten treten Gelehrtengesellschaften, die mit dem gebildeten Bürgertum in engster Beziehung stehen, intellektuell und finanziell, und in der Druckerpresse verfügen sie gegen die Kanzeln über eine mächtige Waffe. And die Stelle der Autorität tritt das Argument.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Wenn die Metaphysik nach dem Sein fragt, meint sie in Wahrheit seinen Sinn – war das womöglich schon immer so? Damit hatte die Philosophie begonnen: der Frage nach dem "wahren Sein". Stand hinter der theoretischen Frage 'Was ist?' schon damals die praktische Frage 'Was soll ich tun'?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Die Philosophie im engeren Sinne beginnt mit dem Gegensatz von Heraklit und Parmenides, dem Gegensatz von ewigem Werden und ewigem Sein; einer am östlichen, der andre am westlichen Rand der hellenischen Welt. Mit ihnen beginnt der Anfang vom Ende des mythischen Zeitalters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Ein Beinahe-noch-Zeitgenosse war Sophokles in Athen, dem Zentrum.</span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/amphitheater.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1667" title="Theater in Athen" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/amphitheater.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="166" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;"> Er überführte die Antigone aus dem Mythos in die Tragödie. Dort ist sie nicht mehr bloßes Opfer ihres Schicksals, sondern wählt zwischen Altem und Neuem Gesetz ihren Weg selber. Sie schwankt nicht wie Hamlet hin und her, so modern ist sie nicht. Ihre Wahl steht von Anbeginn fest. Aber modern ist: Es ist nicht die Zuflüsterung dieser oder jener Gottheit, sondern sie ist es selber, die gewählt hat. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Sophokles schrieb für die Öffentlichkeit des perikleischen Athen – in der Blüte der attischen Demokratie, die angewiesen war auf den eigen-sinnigen 'polites'; den Bürger, der für seine Wahl mit allem einstand, das er hatte. Ohne ihn hätte Athen den Pelepponesichen Krieg nicht überlebt. In der Tragödie wird der Übergang vom Mythos zur Vernunft sinnfälliger als in der Philosophie selbst. Die griechische Polis trug deutliche Züge einer bürgerlichen Gesellschaft.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Dann kamen das Römische Reich, die Völkerwanderung, der Verfall städtischer Kultur und die Neugeburt Europas im Zeichen der Feudalität. Nicht die Vernunft trat an die Stelle des Mythos, sondern die katholische Kirche. Sie war so doppelsinnig wie das finstere, bunte, turbulente Mittelalter. Zum einen war sie Dogma, aber zum andern lehrte sie, das Leben als eine Pilgerfahrt aufzufassen, auf der man scheitern kann. Sie lehrte die Menschen, auf ihr Gewissen zu achten – mehr, als es die antike Tragödie vermocht hätte; und <span style="color:#008080;"><em>nur</em></span> auf ihr Gewissen, wenn man es streng nahm. Der Mensch, der im Mythos ein Spielball der Götter war,</span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/stmichael-hildesheim2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1673" title="St. Michael, Hildesheim" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/stmichael-hildesheim2.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="217" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;"> wurde im christlichen Glauben zum verantwortlichen Subjekt, das sein Leben <em><span style="color:#008080;">führen</span> </em><span> </span>muss.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Und als ihm die Pfaffen als Wegweiser suspekt wurden, musste 'die Natur' herhalten. Die Natur durchherrscht vom Logos, der Mensch ein Teil der Natur, seine Vernunft ihr ureigenes Gesetz – das ist der Sinn der Metaphysik. <span style="color:#008080;"><em>Ratio</em></span> – <span style="color:#008080;"><em>reason</em></span>, <span style="color:#008080;"><em>raison</em></span> – heißt Rechnung. Dieser 'Sinn des Lebens', des bürgerlichen Erwerbslebens, war im Voraus längst "gefunden", die Philosophie musste ihn nur noch absegnen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Die Gleichsetzung von Sinn und Sein gehört zu den naiven Selbstverständlichkeiten unseres Denkens. Sie liegt vor aller Reflexion, aller Überlegung, aller… Vernunft. Sie entstammt der kindlichen Annahme, dass das, was da ist, da sein muss; dass das, was in der Wirklichkeit geschieht, mit Notwendigkeit geschieht. Sich gegen das Notwendige stellen ist sinnlos. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Sinn 'gibt es' nicht an und für sich. Es muss immer einer da sein, <em><span style="color:#008080;">für den</span> </em><span> </span>irgendwas Sinn hat oder nicht. Und was kann das heißen: es hat für ihn Sinn? Es heißt, dass irgendeine Entscheidung, die er zu treffen hat, davon abhängt. Worüber kann ich entscheiden? Über das, was ich bin? Nein, über das, was ich tue. Für mich hat all das Sinn, was ich bei meinen Handlungsentscheidungen bedenken muss. Die Frage nach dem Sinn geht von den lebenden Subjekten aus. Bevor wir sie den Dingen stellen, müssen wir sie uns selber stellen. 'Ich bin ein Teil der Natur und unterliege ihrem Gesetz' ist eine Antwort, bevor die Frage gestellt wurde. Sie könnte falsch sein.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Die Gleichsetzung von Sein und Sinn</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;"> ist dasselbe wie die </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Gleichsetzung von Logik und Naturgeschehen. Ihr gemeinsames Drittes ist die "Notwendigkeit". </span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/gesetzmasig.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1675" title="gesetzmäßig" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/gesetzmasig.jpg" alt="" width="348" height="230" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Tatsächlich stammt die Idee eines Not- wendigen nicht aus der Be- obachtung der Natur. Sie stammt aus der Erfahrung unseres Denkens: aus dem richtigen Schlussfolgern. Aus zwei Voraussetzungen ist nur ein Schluss möglich, nicht zwei oder drei. Und nur <em><span style="color:#008080;">d</span><span style="color:#008080;">ieser</span>!</em> Das allein ist <em><span style="color:#008080;">mit Notwendigkeit</span> </em><span> </span>so. Was immer wir in der Welt der Tatsachen beobachten mögen, können wir per Analogie diesem logischen Modell der 'hinreichenden Begründung' nur annähern. Dass in der Wirklichkeit ein Ereignis 'mit Notwendigkeit' aus einem vorangegangenen Ereignis folgt, lässt sich nicht nur nicht beobachten. Es lässt sich nicht einmal sagen, was wir uns darunter <span style="color:#008080;"><em>vorstellen</em></span> sollen.</span></p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ ¿Quieres tener una figura perfecta casi sin esfuerzos? El revolucionario método Galileo te permit]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]&#62;  Normal 0 21   false false false        MicrosoftInternetExplorer4  &#60;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]&#62;   &#60;![endif]--> ¿Quieres tener una figura perfecta casi sin esfuerzos? El revolucionario método Galileo te permite conseguirlo en tan sólo 5 minutos de ejercicio. Porque con sólo 5 minutos de ejercicio conseguirás los mismos resultados que dedicando 1 hora al gimnasio.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">El método Galileo ya lo puedes probar en los principales centros de estética y en muchos gimnasios. Si quieres consultar un listado de los centros de estética donde puedes encontrar la plataforma vibratoria del metodo Galileo haz clic aquí: <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Metodo Galileo Fitness.</span></p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ich war gestern Abend ja wieder fleißig am erfinden. Etwas, das Menschen verbindet soll es für den]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ich war gestern Abend ja wieder fleißig am erfinden. Etwas, das Menschen verbindet soll es für den diesjährigen Galileo Wissenspreis sein. Gestern habe ich ja das Schnurlosdosentelefon erfunden, die Resonanz seitens der Indutrie war riesig! Ich stehe bereits in Verhandlungen mit verschiedenen Endgeräteherstellern. Angespornt von dem großen Erfolg meiner ersten Erfindung habe ich gestern Abend nochmal richtig losgelegt. Ich habe das Thema quasi wörtlich genommen und zwei Menschen miteinander verbunden. Ich werde heute etwas näher auf den Entwicklungsprozess eingehen. Alles fing so an: Ich saß gestern Abend vorm Fernseher und habe wie immer Galileo geguckt, dabei bin ich wie immer eingepennt. Kurz darauf als ich wieder aufwachte, lief Popstars, als ich das sah bekam ich einen psychotischen Anfall und bin in Unterhose durch die Stadt geirrt. Am Hauptbahnhof wurde ich dann von einer sehr freundlichen Frau angesprochen, sie wollte mit mir irgendwohin gehen und brabbelte etwas von Oral 50€, Anal 75€, Perversitäten würde sie nicht machen sagte sie. Ok, ich wurde die Alte irgendwie nicht richtig los da hab ich ihr gesagt, die Kohle bekommt sie in meiner Wohnung. Als wir dort angekommen waren, hab ich ihr erstmal was zum Entspannen gegeben. <a href="http://ariton.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/beruhigungsmittel1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-127" title="beruhigungsmittel1" src="http://ariton.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/beruhigungsmittel1.jpg?w=104" alt="" width="104" height="96" /></a> Das hat sie auch gern angenommen aber irgendwie wollte sie ständig an meine Hose. Ich hatte echt Mühe sie davon fernzuhalten. Darum gab ich einfach alle meine Vorräte, was man nicht alles für die Wissenschaft tut. Wie die Alte also am kiffen war, bastelte ich derweil ein paar elektronische Schaltungen, die in meinem "Elektronik für Dummies" Buch abgedruckt sind. Zwischenzeitlich war die Alte vom Bahnhof eingepennt, keine Ahnung wieso, ich mache hochwissenschaftliche Dinge und die pennt! Nunja ich dachte mir, wenn die grade eh schläft, komm ich vielleicht ohne Narkose aus und hab ihr erstmal ein lustiges Viereck in die Stirn gerizt. Allerdings ist sie davon aufgewacht und ich mußte zu, sagen wir mal, durchschlagenderen Mitteln greifen. Hier ein kleines Bild meiner High Tech Narkose Maschine: <a href="http://ariton.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/narkosemaschine.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-129" title="narkosemaschine" src="http://ariton.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/narkosemaschine.jpg?w=120" alt="" width="120" height="96" /></a><br />
Gut das hat sie dann überzeugt still zu halten und keinen Aufstand mehr zu machen. Danach ging alles recht schnell. Ich musste nur mit meinem Dremel ein Loch bohren und etwas von der Schädeldecke mittels einer Kombizange rausbrechen, geht eigentlich ganz einfach. Danach habe ich meine elektronischen Bauteile durch das Loch gefummelt und den Kopf ein paar mal kräftig durchgeschüttelt. Dann habe ich noch die Verbindungsbuchse eingesetzt und das ganze vernäht. Einige Probleme bereitete mir der Neustart des Systems, das hab ich aber mit Hilfe des Stromkabels meiner Nachttischlampe hinbekommen. Ok die Bahnhofsfrau qualmte etwas aber das hat sie vorher ja auch ununterbrochen getan, also kein Grund zur Sorge. Auf jeden Fall war ich sehr froh als plötzlich die grüne Statusleuchte an ging und das System bootete. <a href="http://ariton.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/netzmensch.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-131" title="netzmensch" src="http://ariton.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/netzmensch.jpg" alt="" width="421" height="226" /></a> Da fiel mir auf, dass ich ja gar nichts hatte, womit ich die Tante nun verbinden konnte. Hmm also nochmal Narkose und ab zum Bahnhof, dort musste ich nicht lange suchen und schon hatte ich ein zweites Testobjekt und außerdem hab ich mir gleich noch neue Beruhigungsmittel besorgt. Als wir dann bei mir ankamen, hat sie bisschen komisch geguckt als sie Testobjekt 1 sah, aber ich hatte meine Narkosemaschine schon bei der Hand, also kein Problem. Ein bisschen gebastel später konnte ich dann auch Testobjekt 2 starten, alles lief wunderbar! Aber als ich die beiden Testobjekte verbunden hatte, lief irgendwas falsch. Die beiden, eh nicht die Intelligentesten, begannen mit geometrischer Geschwindigkeit zu verblöden. Bereits nach 2 Minuten schlug die eine vor, dass man einen Untersuchungsausschuss gründen sollte, der den Zusammenhang von CO2-Ausstoß und dem Temperaturanstieg der letzten hundert Jahre untersuchen soll. Daraufhin empfahl die andere, einige tausend Arbeitnehmer zu entlassen um den Berufsverkehr zu vermindern. Was die Erste widerum zu dem Schluß brachte, dass die beiden einen Arbeitskreis zur Effizienzsteigerung gründen sollten um danach ein Lessons Lerned zu veranstalten, das als Teambildende Maßnahme ausgelegt sein soll und Eventcharackter haben sollte. Daraufhin entschlossen sich beide mich zu managen und haben als erstes meinen Arbeitsplatz nach Weißrussland verlagert, als sich dann allerdings herausstellte, dass von dort keine Ergebnisse kommen, haben die beiden die erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit mit Weißrussland beendet und meinen Arbeitsplatz nach Indien verlagert und erstmal 10 Inder eingeladen die mir bei meiner Arbeit über die Schulter schauen sollten. Dann ist glücklicherweise Testobjekt 2 durchgebrannt und Testobjekt 1 ist abgestürzt. Ich hab mich dann erstmal um Testobjekt 2 gekümmert. <a href="http://ariton.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/entsorgung4.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-139" title="entsorgung4" src="http://ariton.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/entsorgung4.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="300" /></a> Testobjekt 1 habe ich erstmal in meiner Tiefkühltruhe gelagert, ich bin sehr enttäuscht das mein Human Net nicht funktioniert hat, dafür habe ich jetzt aber Human Mett. Naja Rückschläge gibts immer wieder. Bis die Tage denn.</p>
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<link>http://ariton.wordpress.com/?p=112</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ariton</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Ich hab&#8217; gestern mal wieder Galileo geschaut, toll die 7 außergewöhnlichsten Restaurants der]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ich hab' gestern mal wieder Galileo geschaut, toll die 7 außergewöhnlichsten Restaurants der Welt, yeah! Jetzt weiß ich wo ich überall albern aber teuer Essen gehen kann, toll.  Aber dann kam es, Galileo richtet wieder den Galileo Wissenspreis aus. Da hab ich mir gedacht da mach ich mit! Das Thema diesmal ist: erfinde etwas das Menschen verbindet. Gut, hab ich mir gedacht das bekomm ich hin also hab ich mich gestern schon mal an das erfinden gemacht. Ich habe mir vorgenommen mit meinen Erfindungen in ungefähr die Leistungsklasse einer Galileosendung zu erreichen also werde ich wahrscheinlich keinen Quantenteleporter erfinden, braucht ja eh keiner! Aber seht selbst... Als erstes habe ich mich der Telekommunkation angenommen und ein legacy Kommunikationssystem auf Basis mechanischer Wellen in die Moderne überführt, ich rede hier vom guten alten Dosentelefon von dem ich eine Schnurlosvariante erfunden habe. <a href="http://ariton.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dosentelefon1.jpeg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-114" title="dosentelefon1" src="http://ariton.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/dosentelefon1.jpeg" alt="" width="135" height="338" /></a> Die Vorteile des Systems liegen auf der Hand: Es braucht keinen Strom und ist somit weitestgehend CO2 neutral. Das System braucht außerdem keinen Provider, es ist also kostenlos verwendbar! Das System funktioniert immer und unter allen Bedingungen. Als Kritikpunkt ist die noch extrem begrenzte Reichweite zu nennen, ein Problem das aber mit etwas Forschungsaufwand gelöst werden kann. Ich bin mir sicher, wenn ich einen geeigneten Partner finde kann meine Erfindung den Telekommunikationsmarkt binnen kuzer Zeit revolutioniren. Man könnte das System z.B. als Low Cost Telekommunikationslösung in Afrika einführen. Bei einem Gerätepreis von derzeit knapp 5€, je nach verwendeter Dose (Fruchtsalat, Hünersuppe, Annanasscheiben), wird sich das System wohl sehr schnell durchsetzen.</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>urquijo</dc:creator>
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Actualmente, en España, los cantautores brillan por su ausencia, pero también por su calidad. En ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://blogcolumpio.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/columpios2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6" title="columpios2" src="http://blogcolumpio.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/columpios2.jpg" alt="" width="169" height="240" /></a>Actualmente, en España, los cantautores brillan por su ausencia, pero también por su calidad. En las próximas entradas haré un recorrido completo por los mayores autores de canción en nuestro país, espero no dejarme ninguno.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Quiero hacer mención especial a un par de locales en los que se puede disfrutar de estos extraños y excepcionales cantantes. Las <strong>sala</strong>s <strong>Galileo</strong> y <strong>Clamores</strong>, con sus actuaciones denominadas “<strong>Canción de autor</strong>” dan paso a todo tipo de cantautores, desde los nuevos en la profesión hasta los grandes clásicos. Un ejemplo es <strong>Javier Krahe</strong>, el viernes 31 en Galileo.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Otros lugares de interés pueden considerarse la <strong>Sala Búho Real</strong>, el <strong>Café Libertad 8</strong>, o la <strong>sala Zanzíbar</strong>. En estos lugares se vive un ambiente de nostalgia propia de los cantautores. El humo del tabaco se entremezcla con los sentimientos, que están a flor de piel. Guitarras, voces y almas se encuentran en estos lugares para deleite del espectador. Y es que, la conexión entre los autores y el público es total en los conciertos.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">La presencia de cantautores en España puede colocarse sobre <strong>1965</strong>, año en el que <strong>Joan Manuel Serrat</strong> canta sus primeros temas en el programa <em><strong>Radioscope</strong>, </em>en Radio Barcelona. Desde ese punto han surgido en los años 60 y 70 toda una serie de nuevos artistas que se colocan al rededor de las dos grandes figuras del mundo “cantautoril”: el propio Serrat y <strong>Joaquín Sabina</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Los 80 y la movida madrileña explotaron la vena creativa de la sociedad creando la época más prolífica del pop en castellano, entre el que se incluyen a los cantautores. El trío denominado <strong>‘Santísima Trinidad’</strong>, compuesto por <strong>Antonio Vega</strong>, <strong>Enrique Urquijo</strong> y <strong>José María Granados</strong> compusieron las mejores canciones de la época, y también las más tristes. Unas guitarras maravillosas, unas voces frías y unas letras que erizaban la piel hasta al acero.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La década de los 90 proporcionó la última estela de cantautores en España entre los que destaca <strong>Ismael Serrano</strong>. A su lado aparecen otros autores como <strong>Quique González</strong>, <strong>Carlos Chaouen</strong>, <strong>Tontxu</strong>, <strong>Marwan</strong>, <strong>César Rodríguez</strong>, y así todo un reguero de grandes compositores. Esto demuestra que el espíritu de la sociedad sigue vivo, sigue en movimiento, sigue inspirándonos y sigue llenando nuestros corazones. Y que siga por siempre.</p>
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<link>http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/?p=717</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Turk 

Defining A.I. - On October 12 the Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence will conduct ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=392#more-392">Defining A.I.</a> - On October 12 the <a href="http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html">Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence</a> will conduct a formal Turing test of six machines to determine if through the use of complex algorithms if the machines can simulate human conversation so well that testers will not be able to distinguish the machine from an actual human when engaging in a text conversation back and forth. There is a link to a site that displays 2 text conversations, 1 where the subject is talking to a human and the other where they're talking to a machine. So far it's very easy to tell which is which but in time that may be much harder, which raises the question of what would real artificial intelligence entail.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>THIS DAY IN GOD:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/god.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-667" title="god" src="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/god.jpg?w=213" alt="" width="72" height="102" /></a><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/02/mind-control-pattern.html" target="_blank">Insecure minds wired for pattern-finding</a> - Another study shows causation between uncertainty or insecurity and seeing patterns that aren't necessarily really there.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theodoresworld.net/pics/0507/BURKAImage1.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.theodoresworld.net/pics/0507/BURKAImage1.jpg" alt="" width="136" height="182" /></a>Saudi cleric thinks women showing two eyes is just too seductive, and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7651231.stm" target="_blank">has called for women to wear a full veil that reveals only one eye.</a></p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/wZwC-VH8OnI'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/wZwC-VH8OnI&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><a href="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/lesbians-kissing3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-406" title="lesbians-kissing3" src="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/lesbians-kissing3.jpg?w=199" alt="" width="159" height="239" /></a><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/10/a_comprehensive_plan_for_the_e.php">Rev. Dr. Peter Mullen recommends homosexual practices be discouraged "after the style of warnings on cigarette packets"</a> - He also added:</p>
<blockquote><p>"Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS."</p></blockquote>
<p>Oo, what if instead we tatooed numbers on their arms and threw them into concentration camps until such time as we can shove them into ovens and gas chambers? Don't worry; it's cool. Now he says many of his "dear friends" are gay and he was only joking. Yeah, I bet.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>ATHEIST DISCRIMINATION &#38; DENIGRATION:<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://bsalert.com/f-store/The-Atheist-e.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://bsalert.com/f-store/The-Atheist-e.jpg" alt="" width="154" height="244" /></a><a href="http://hankfox.com/?p=281">Hank Fox has quit his job at a newspaper</a> because they ran an unnecessary quote, in spite of his protests that it was blatant bigotry against atheists:</p>
<blockquote><p>The final anecdote of the article was about his plane getting shot down, and one quote the reporter used was him saying something like “My co-pilot was an atheist before, but he’s been a good Christian ever since.”</p>
<p>I flagged the quote with a note to my immediate editor: “Ahem. If this quote said ‘My co-pilot was a Jew before, but he’s been a good Christian ever since,’ would we even think about including it?”</p>
<p>In my head was a very clear understanding that the quote was a serious insult to a certain demographic. I happen to be one, in this case, but I would certainly have flagged the line if it was that equivalent quote about a Jew being converted by the experience into being a Christian, even though I’m not a Jew. If it said “My co-pilot was a black man before, but this scared him white,” I would’ve brought it up, even though I don’t happen to be black. If the story made a similar statement about a gay or lesbian, or a handicapped person, I would have flagged it. . . <span class="entry">Hey, if it’s vital factual information, it goes into the newspaper no matter whose nose gets out of joint. But if it’s just casual insults or jokes that you know in advance will offend, you just don’t throw it in with the attitude of “what the hell, screw ‘em.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_A6yJ7D5u5Ug/Rey-ggMjihI/AAAAAAAAACQ/4TequjF-mh4/s400/caveman.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_A6yJ7D5u5Ug/Rey-ggMjihI/AAAAAAAAACQ/4TequjF-mh4/s400/caveman.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="140" /></a>Here's another great excerpt from his blog:</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span class="entry">Atheists today face discrimination so subtle, so pervasive, that it doesn’t even have a name.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">It's rare to hear stories like this in the modern age of someone taking a stand like that against injustice. If I had some sort of Golden Cajones Award or something, I'd give it to him.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_fImTIYAP7RU/Rn0DpbX3_xI/AAAAAAAAABY/iTnes2GVZqc/s320/militant_atheist.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_fImTIYAP7RU/Rn0DpbX3_xI/AAAAAAAAABY/iTnes2GVZqc/s320/militant_atheist.jpg" alt="" width="169" height="169" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://theedger.org/2008/10/04/in-defence-of-militant-atheism-part-2/">In Defense of 'Militant' Atheism part 2</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>SPACE ALIEN NEWS:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/take-me-to-your-leader.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-381" title="take-me-to-your-leader" src="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/take-me-to-your-leader.jpg?w=202" alt="" width="155" height="231" /></a>First, this would be a good time to remind people that October 14 is the day <a href="http://www.amateurscientist.org/2008/09/ufos-coming.html">UFOs are supposed to reach Alabama,</a> according to Australian actress, writer, and part-time “psychic channeler” Blossom Goodchild. I can't wait to see the post-hoc rationalizations to explain away an epic fail.</p>
<p><a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/9612/sagan_uc.gif"><img class="alignleft" src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/9612/sagan_uc.gif" alt="" width="85" height="85" /></a><a href="http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/300px-galileo.arp.300pix-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/300px-galileo.arp.300pix-1.jpg" alt="" width="71" height="87" /></a><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/10/one_good_name_rescued_from_the.php">Carl Sagan's name reclaimed</a> - Last month <a href="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/news-from-around-the-blogosphere-9208/">I blogged</a> about <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/09/on_the_high_velocity_rotation.php">The Carl Sagan Institute of UFOlogy,</a> a bunch of Brazilian UFO nuts who claimed not only that Jesus is a flying saucer pilot but that Sagan was a secret believer in alien visitations. Well now they've removed Sagan's name from their title <a href="http://forgetomori.com/2008/ufos/ufologists-wont-use-sagans-name-anymore/">and replaced it with Galileo for some reason</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theskepticsguide.org/sgublog/?p=344">Cryptoastronautics</a> - The following video is commonly passed around by UFO believers as proof that aliens have visited our world. But there are far more plausible explanations for the video:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/DxaegClR05I'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/DxaegClR05I&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>EPIC FAIL!</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/epic-fail-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-627" title="epic-fail-2" src="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/epic-fail-2.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="165" height="132" /></a><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/10/scientific_bias_and_the_voidof.php">Astrology and Jell-O</a> - Stuart Buck <a href="http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com/2004/04/more-on-leiter_10.html">persists in claiming that scientists have a bias against the supernatural</a>, and that we dismiss it out of hand. Here is just 1 example of why he's wrong. This is actually the story of an old epic fail. It involves skeptic Robert Grumbine testing a specific claim made by astrologer, Thomas Seers involving Bill Cosby's favorite brand of gelatin. And well, Grumbine falsified Seers' stupid hypothesis. But maybe this instance just happened to occur while Mercury was in retrograde, so maybe that's why the astrologer was made to look like an idiot.</p>
<p><a href="http://static.stickam.com/media/video/converted/1737/9488/2/6b9e3007-17c4-11dc-963e-3fec773ac911.flv.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://static.stickam.com/media/video/converted/1737/9488/2/6b9e3007-17c4-11dc-963e-3fec773ac911.flv.jpg" alt="" width="115" height="86" /></a><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/10/jenny_mccarthy_gets_rickrolld.php">Jenny McCarthy gets Rickroll'd</a> - As previously reported, Jenny was going to be involved in a web chat after her latest Oprah appearance where she'd answer people's questions. As predicted, no actual hardball questions got through but she did not escape being punked with a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0">Rickroll</a>. In case you don't know, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickroll">this is what Rickrolling is</a>. LOL. This is freakin' hilarious:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/Ln5y-kxicu8'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Ln5y-kxicu8&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/06/what-does-your-candidate-think-about-science/">What do your elected officials think about science?</a> - Find out what your duly elected United States politician thinks about science at <a href="http://sharp.sefora.org/people/" target="_blank">the Scientist and Engineers for America website</a>, where they have helpfully listed this info.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/06/two-weeks-to-doomsday-reading/">Phil Plait's new book "Death From The Skies!" drops in bookstores in 2 weeks!</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>AND NOW A MOMENT OF SCIENCE:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/scientist-use-in-case-of-emergency.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-276" title="scientist-use-in-case-of-emergency" src="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/scientist-use-in-case-of-emergency.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="166" /></a><a class="blue" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081006102609.htm">'Engine' That Drives Cell Movement Discovered</a> - "How a cell assembles its internal machinery required for cell movement has been revealed for the first time."</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081006154952.htm">Quarter Of World’s Mammals Risk Extinction</a> - "The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, revealed at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona."</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/glaciers-melting.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-531" title="glaciers-melting" src="http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/glaciers-melting.jpg" alt="" width="187" height="124" /></a><a class="blue" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081006130550.htm">Alaskan Glaciers Are Retreating, Thinning</a> - "Most glaciers in every mountain range and island group in Alaska are experiencing significant retreat, thinning or stagnation, especially glaciers at lower elevations, according to a new book published by the U.S. Geological Survey. In places, these changes began as early as the middle of the 18th century."</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081006093031.htm">HPV And Cancer, HIV Discoveries Win Nobel Prize</a> - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008 with one half to: Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of "human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" and the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of "human immunodeficiency virus."</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081005121337.htm">Earliest Footprints: Animals Walked Sooner</a> - "The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters in diameter -- date back some 570 million years, to the Ediacaran period."</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2008/10/081003122715.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2008/10/081003122715.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="267" /></a><a class="blue" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081003122715.htm">Birds Have 'Thumbs,' Alligator Gene Study Hints</a> - "Bird wings only have three fingers, having evolved from remote ancestors that, like humans and most reptiles, had five fingers. Biologists have typically used embryology to identify the evolutionary origin (homology) of structures; the three fingers of the bird wing develop from cartilage condensations that are found in the same positions in the embryo as fingers two, three and four of humans (the index, middle and ring fingers). However, the morphology of the fingers of early birds such as Archaeopteryx corresponds to that of fingers one, two and three in other reptiles (thumb, index and middle finger). The fossil record clearly shows that fingers four and five (ring and pinky finger) were lost and reduced in the dinosaur ancestors of birds."</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Another bad day for Young Earth Creationists.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Il 4 ottobre 1957 i sovietici lanciano lo Sputnik. Difficile capire, per chi non c&#8217;era: la pi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cinematografo.it/bancadati/consultazione/schedafilm.jsp?codice=36169"><img alt="" src="http://www.cinematografo.it/bancadati/images_locandine/36169/CIELO_D_OTTOBRE_HV.JPG" class="alignleft" width="120" height="186" /></a>Il 4 ottobre 1957 i sovietici lanciano lo <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1">Sputnik</a>. Difficile capire, per chi non c'era: la più clamorosa profanazione della sacralità dei cieli dai tempi di Galileo. Io non c'ero, ma ho conosciuto molte persone nate negli anni '40, che quel 4 ottobre cambiarono le loro vite: decidendo ad esempio di seguire un certo tipo di studi. Ed ho vissuto la fase finale dell'epoca iniziata con quel lancio: l'epoca in cui ogni ragazzino sognava di fare l'astronauta.</p>
<p>Questo sono stati i <em>Rocket Boys</em>: ragazzi con un sogno. E chiunque abbia avuto questo sogno non può trattenere la commozione di fronte ad un razzo che &#8212; anche solo per un attimo &#8212; ci dà l'illusione che l'infinito sia a portata di mano. Un razzo così&#8230; sto cercando un aggettivo, e l'unico che mi viene è <em>perpendicolare</em>.</p>
<p>Il film è un piccolo capolavoro di prevedibile insuccesso. Il regista è <a href="http://www.cinematografo.it/bancadati/consultazione/biografia.jsp?id_anagrafica=61486">Joe Johnston</a>, un esperto di effetti speciali, fino ad allora famoso per <a href="http://www.cinematografo.it/bancadati/consultazione/schedafilm.jsp?codice=30599"><em>Jumanji</em></a>; l'attrice di richiamo è una <a href="http://www.cinematografo.it/bancadati/consultazione/biografia.jsp?id_anagrafica=32934">Laura Dern</a> già in fase calante, che fa una parte importante ma tutto sommato minore. <a href="http://www.cinematografo.it/bancadati/consultazione/biografia.jsp?id_anagrafica=181956">Jake Gyllenhaal</a> è praticamente all'esordio nel ruolo di <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam">Homer Hickam</a>, l'ingegnere della NASA dalla cui autobiografia il film è tratto. <a href="http://www.cinematografo.it/bancadati/consultazione/biografia.jsp?id_anagrafica=25500">Chris Cooper</a> è quel che si dice uno di mestiere. Insomma, niente di eccezionale: ma l'alchimìa funziona alla grande. Nel film c'è tutto quello che ci vuole: un padre vero &#8212; più vero di quel che sembra alla prima visione &#8212; e il desiderio di prenderlo a pugni; un'insegnante che ci crede, ma che purtroppo ha fretta; un preside-sergente che sa riconoscere i suoi errori; e poi la speranza, la tenacia, il sogno americano, la miniera, lo sciopero, il riscatto, l'amicizia, i padroni, gli operai, i fratelli maggiori, il secchione. Perfino qualche ragazza con la gonna a pieghe. E tanti, tantissimi razzi, sempre più perpendicolari.</p>
<p>Sono passati cinquant'anni &#8212; proprio oggi fanno 51, per la precisione &#8212; e i miei studenti sognano di diventare calciatori. Io, tutti gli anni, faccio vedere questo film alle terze medie.</p>
<p>A volte, qualcuno capisce.</p>
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Cielo d'ottobre<br />
[October sky]<br />
di Joe Johnston<br />
con Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern<br />
USA, 1999<br />
105 min</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tag 19:"Du hast echt nen Knall!"]]></title>
<link>http://vorstadtdiva.wordpress.com/?p=119</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Heute hat ein guter Bekannter zu mir gesagt, bzw. mir geschrieben, ich hätte einen Knall. Grund ge]]></description>
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<p>Heute hat ein guter Bekannter zu mir gesagt, bzw. mir geschrieben, ich hätte einen Knall. Grund genug, dem Ursprung dieser Redewendung einmal auf den Grund zu gehen. Dazu eignet sich natürlich eine Suchmaschine ganz besonders gut und diese leitete mich dann ohne größere Umwege zum Lexikon der Pro7-Sendung Galileo.</p>
<p>Also: Diese Redensart hat ihren Ursprung im Mittelalter. Ein Knall ist in diesem Falle ein kurzer, heftiger Schlag auf den Kopf. Dadurch kann das Gehirn natürlich in Mitleidenschaft gezogen werden: der Geschlagene wäre  ggf. verrückt oder dumm.                                                                                                                                                              So. Bin ich also etwas schlauer jetzt, trotzdem verrückt. Oder gar dumm? Ich habe ein großes Problem damit, wenn Menschen, die ich eigentlich mag, sowas zu mir sagen. Ich nehme mir soetwas gleich zu Herzen, bin furchtbar sensibel und wenn ich nicht aufpasse, fliessen sogar Tränen. So auch heute. Es war wie ein Schock. Inzwischen ist dieser einer unterschwelligen Enttäuschung gewichen. Klar, man sagt im Affekt Dinge, die vielleicht nicht so ok sind, ich werfe meinem Bekannten da auch gar nichts vor. Dennoch bin ich es nicht gewohnt, dass Freunde so mit mir sprechen und ich kann mich da auch nur schwer zur Wehr setzen. Für Andere kann ich stark sein, für mich selbst nur dann, wenn es nicht um meine Persönlichkeit geht.</p>
<p>Langsam werde ich verdammt wütend auf mich selber. Warum bin ich so sensibel? Ich bin 28 Jahre alt, hab schon einige schwarze Tage überstehen müssen und habe mir mein Selbstbewusstsein hart erkämpft. Warum also rumheulen?! Dann hab ich eben nen Knall. Was soll's.</p>
<p>Wird mich schon nicht umbringen...  :-)</p>
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<link>http://itravelproject.wordpress.com/?p=80</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In a previous project called AGILE where I acted as a project manager, we looked at the social and c]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a previous project called AGILE where I acted as a project manager, we looked at the social and commercial benefits of GNSS enabled phones.</p>
<p>The point of the project in a nutshell was to promote <a title="Galileo" href="http://www.esa.int/esaNA/galileo.html">Galileo </a>applications, or at least provide a useful insight into the business case for Galileo applications.</p>
<p>The project focused on the mobile handset side of things and before moving onto the subject of this post I thought that I would review some of the conclusions and output from the project, even though the project finished only last year the market moves fast. At the time the project finished the Nokia N95 had only just been released and Nokia had just announced the tie up between themselves and the digital mapping company Navteq.</p>
<p>So lets look at some predictions from the project at the time.</p>
<p><strong>Estimating the size of the GNSS handset market.</strong></p>
<p>So at the end of 2005 the number of mobile subscribers grew to 2.129 billion an increase of about 384 million from the start of the year , this figure is expected to increase to around 3964 billion by the end of 2011 (Source CMS info)</p>
<p>In the same time the population of the world will reach around 7 billion, meaning that if we were to believe the figures and at current growth of mobile phone penetration we can, round about the end of 2009 we should see mobile phone penetration passing the 50% mark.</p>
<p>That in short is a lot of mobile phones!</p>
<p>I won't go into the details of this number, the project did break this figure down by market and region but that is too much for this post.</p>
<p>The next snippet of information from the AGILE is the number of these phones that will have a GNSS capability, and again without going into how the figures were obtained too much, but mostly from combining several sources of analyst data.</p>
<p>The project estimated that by the end of 2020 the number of phones with a satellite positioning capability could reach 1 billion units, my impression is that this number will be exceeded quite easily.</p>
<p>So where is the iPhone in all of this, well the number of iPhone sold is small when compared to Nokia's 40% market share but the key thing about the iPhone as with most Apple products is the ease of use and integration with Apple's iTune store.</p>
<p><a href="http://itravelproject.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/apple-iphone-in-hand-thumb.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-83" title="apple-iphone-in-hand-thumb" src="http://itravelproject.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/apple-iphone-in-hand-thumb.jpg" alt="" width="449" height="509" /></a></p>
<p>The AGILE project, the project looked at some of the GNSS application that users would most like to see was that over 50% of users most want mobile mapping and traffic information services, the project also predicted that there would be a growth in the next 2 to 3 years of.</p>
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<li>Strong move towards usage/content segmentation with an increasing number of POI's and services proposed</li>
<li>Increasing desire for seamless navigation experience across</li>
<li>multiple "location aware " device</li>
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<p>So lets turn our attention to the iPhone, Apple's application store which is an open development platform provides us with a snapshot of the integration of travel applications and a GNSS enabled handset, currently its the first to do this in this way although <a title="t-mobile app store" href="http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/news/tmobile/november-launch-for-tmobile-applications-store_18781332.html">T-Mobile</a> will launch something similar in Nov.</p>
<p>The killer application/s for iPhone is expected to be location based services, which for someone who has been in this industry for a while it is pleasing to note that this will soon be realised.</p>
<p>The reason the LBS seems to be high on the wish list is that in the first weekend of opening the Apple application store there was over 10 million downloads, startup companies and rushing in to develop LBS applications amongst the raft of social networking applications already available.</p>
<p>On apple's own <a title="Apple apps" href="http://www.apple.com/webapps/travel/index_top.html">website </a>for iPhone apps under the travel application category there are currently as of writing 182 travel applications for the USA, while not the highest number for a category it is still impressive, we can then look at how popular the travel applications are by a click of a button in the actual iTunes program, it is difficult at this point to get good data as the itunes stores are filtered by country but we can do a very unscientific poll by looking at each country in turn.</p>
<p>In France, Germany and the UK traffic information, metro maps, and mapping applications are always in the top ten of applications along with guide me applications for cities around Europe. In the USA we see traffic and mapping applications reflecting the choices in Europe.</p>
<p>Now I know that I'm building an opinion based on my subjective evaluation of the i-Tune's store, but the wish for information on traffic, metro, next bus times is quite high. People it seems want this information and in the absence of a unified system they are currently building themselves a selection of applications that deliver their needs.</p>
<p>Mapping with one application, bus times with another, traffic cameras and information with another, hotel booking and searching with one more. Not exactly seamless but at the price for an application being in the few Euros people can afford to do this.</p>
<p>Sometimes it is a struggle I feel, to get the i-Travel concept over to people but its exactly the example of many different applications being needed that we are trying to address, in the USA you can buy a next bus application which is great if you are in certain cites not so good in another where there is no information and what if the traffic network is jammed on the bus route? You would have to use the traffic information from another application and compare it against the bus route.</p>
<p>These are still vertical silo implementations, which is exactly the reason i-travel has been formed to offer an integrated solution.</p>
<p>Our solution to the problem is not to tie all the apps together through use of software, but to bring the traffic information providers, public transport providers and navigation companies together and operate under a single architecture and standard to interface with a digital travel assistant on your mobile phone.</p>
<p>This group of companies would operate under an eMarketplace that has an open architecture with digital rights management, billing and security. Such an organisation to support a multi modal travel journey is not currently a reality.</p>
<p>Under the Apple iPhone developer conditions it is unlikely that there will be  any progress towards bringing together several applications to provide a seamless assistant as  Apple restrict the application developers from talking to one another when they sign up to the develop platform.</p>
<p>While this does mean that there are lots of applications for travel it means that people are forced to use several to get all the information for a seamless journey. This is not in the interests of the traveller nor is it in line with the efforts of organisations like ERTICO who are promoting open architecture and travel without walls.</p>
<p>The experience of iPhone does give us a good indication on the type of information and applications that people want for mobile travel programs, but the development of a single marketplace is something that is still missing, i-Travel is not about building services as developers in  the Apple application store are producing, but we are building the structures to enable services to operate seamlessly together, which is not happening currently.</p>
<p>We started this post looking at the penetration of GNSS mobile phones and went on to look at the travel applications being developed for such phones, it is clear to me that location based travel services will be a reality but the operation of these application together is something that is still missing and this is what the i-Travel consortium is all about.</p>
<p>Seamless travel can only be realised when people providing the services operate under a single standard and architecture, then several iPhone applications could be used together to offer the traveller all the information that they need to get from A to B.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[On Evidence for a Third Force in the Two New Sciences]]></title>
<link>http://scienceahoy.wordpress.com/?p=127</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Aaron Lejon</dc:creator>
<guid>http://scienceahoy.pt.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/on-evidence-for-a-third-force-in-the-two-new-sciences/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Galileo&#39;s Dialogue
A decade before Alan Sokal got away with his hoax, Lawrence Krauss couldn]]></description>
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<p>A decade before Alan Sokal got away with his hoax, <a href="http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_61/iss_10/53_1.shtml?type=PTALERT">Lawrence Krauss couldn't</a> with his.</p>
<p>Here is a portion of his original "research paper" that was "rejected" by PRL because six "reviewers" accepted it...</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>On Evidence for a Third Force in the Two New Sciences: A Reanalysis of Experiments by Galilei and Salviati</strong></p>
<p>Abstract: We have carefully reexamined the experiments described by Salviati on the acceleration of objects at the Earth's surface and find evidence for the existence of a new force. An archival search indicates that this result is supported by earlier work of Aristotle. Submitted to: Physical Review Letters (and the New York Times)</p>
<p>[...] Since this velocity-dependent force appears to have first appeared in the work of Galilei and Aristotle, we suggest that if our analysis is confirmed by later work, the force should be entitled the "third" force, since it was discovered before the strong and weak interactions, and after gravitation and magnetism. We personally find this possibility extremely exciting.</p></blockquote>
<p>Read more about this <a href="http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_61/iss_10/53_1.shtml?type=PTALERT">hilarious spoof</a> as recounted by Prof. Lawrence Krauss himself. And in particular check out the brilliant "referee reports" [<a href="http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_61/iss_10/images/55_.pdf">file in pdf format</a>] generated in house at PRL.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Χρόνια πολλά τηλεσκόπιο...]]></title>
<link>http://vossinakis.wordpress.com/?p=215</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vossinakis</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vossinakis.pt.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/%cf%87%cf%81%cf%8c%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%b1-%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%ac-%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bb%ce%b5%cf%83%ce%ba%cf%8c%cf%80%ce%b9%ce%bf/</guid>
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Σαν σήμερα, 2 Οκτωβρίου του 1608, κρατικοί υπάλληλοι  στη]]></description>
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<p>Σαν σήμερα, 2 Οκτωβρίου του 1608, κρατικοί υπάλληλοι  στην Ολλανδία επεξεργάζονταν μια αίτηση για πατέντα, απο έναν οπτικό ονόματι Hans Lippershey που αφορούσε ενα όργανο με το οποίο κάποιος "μπορούσε να δεί αντικείμενα που βρίσκονταν πολυ μακρυά, σαν να ήταν πολύ κοντά". Αυτή είναι και η πρώτη γνωστή καταγραφή για το τηλεσκόπιο. Μερικούς μήνες αργότερα ενα τέτοιο εργαλείο θα έφτανε στα χέρια του Γαλιλαίου και η ανθρωπότητα δεν θα ήταν ποτέ η ίδια...</p>
<p>Η φωτό είναι απο εξόρμηση στα Πετροκέρασα</p>
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<title><![CDATA[i'm on to something, thank you Berger and Johnny Cash]]></title>
<link>http://psychdreamer.wordpress.com/?p=108</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>psychdreamer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://psychdreamer.pt.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/im-on-to-something-thank-you-berger-and-johnny-cash/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I read this essay for English a few weeks ago by this guy in the 70’s named Berger. It talked abou]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">I read this essay for English a few weeks ago by this guy in the 70’s named Berger. It talked about this idea, mystification he called it. Mystification is the idea that we put our own meanings to a piece of art that aren’t necessarily true, and that often times it is an elite group who tell us what the art means and we go from there. The idea continued into the “language f images” where he talked about how copies of an original have their own meaning based on the perspective of the person copying it</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">The point of this explanation is to familiarize you to my wonderings, so you can understand what I’m trying to say.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">Berger’s talk was of paintings, but I wonder if it can be applied to music, or words. I’ve been listening to a few remakes of songs. The ones that Marilyn Manson remade definitely have a different meaning from the original, which much is clear by the tonal change. But what about “beat it” the remake that Fallout Boy did? It’s very similar to the original in musical tone. Does it have a different meaning? Or does it depend on the listener? I love Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt”, but I cannot stand NIN’s version, NIN is the original. You could ask me why I prefer it, but my answer is merely my perception of the song. It’s not really what the song should be/is. So I guess Berger’s idea of mystification can be applied to anything along with this language f art, as I want to call it now. But then these ideas do pertain to everything.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">What meanings have poets put to something as simple as a tree? Why does a tree evoke something more than just a thought: “this is a tree”. Even I have written about trees overcoming adversity. It is just a tree that grows the way its genetics have programmed it to. It is not overcoming anything. But I perceived it as doing just that and put meaning to it. Why? Why did I hide that a tree is just a tree? Why did I add a layer of mystification to the tree? Why do we write about something that is nothing more than that object with prose and imagery and ideas that may not even pertain to it? Why do we sing about these things? Why do we paint these things? Why do we give meaning to nothing?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">Because we are human and the way we are designed has wired us to NEED meaning in our lives, in everything that we do, to feel important, and to feel like we are significant in the world, in the realm of being. How large is the realm in which we live? How vast? If you judge the realm in terms of earth, then you have a slight significance. But what about beyond what you see? The sky is an illusion. Inhale. What are you breathing in chemical terms? That is sky.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">The sky, what people have praised and cursed and thought so much of, is what we breathe, is a trick of the light. We perceive meanings in this expanse of blue, but there is no meaning.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">For hundreds of years people, civilizations, had believed that everything revolved around us, humans. When it was proved that we revolved around the sun, we, as a race, rebelled. Why? Because it proved that we were that much more insignificant. We were that much more in denial. Man has an innate need to be important and influential. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">In more modern times, we have the theory of evolution that people (mainly religious) rebel against. Why? Because it proves that we are just an accident of nature, that we were not created by some being with the intention of consciousness. We just came into existence.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">Humans are an accident, just like everything else. Consciousness was an accident. Advanced thought has been ostracized for years, till somewhere along the line the same genetic defect that allowed the first person’s idea to come to focus comes around in more numerous quantities and we finally accept that idea as truth. All truths we have found were always there, but we needed a genetic defect to fester and come through in a “survival of the fittest” scenario in order for us to perceive them. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;"><span style="font-size:small;">What is truth? We are nothing. A tree is just a tree. The sky is an illusion. We were not created. Humans need meaning in their lives because we need to feel important, significant in some way.</span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA["Space radiation" knocks GIOVE-B offline]]></title>
<link>http://satellitenavigation.wordpress.com/?p=102</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>satellitenavigation</dc:creator>
<guid>http://satellitenavigation.pt.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/space-radiation-knocks-giove-b-offline/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The BBC are currently reporting that GIOVE-B has been off-air for almost a week as a result of what ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The BBC are <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7646234.stm" target="_blank">currently reporting</a> that GIOVE-B has been off-air for almost a week as a result of what was believed to be a 'surge of solar radiation'. Apparently ESA engineers and scientists are assessing the problem as we speak. </p>
<p>It seems strange that solar radiation should be the cause of such an outage after all, the radiation characteristics of the MEO orbit were the subject of not inconsiderable assessment during the Galileo development activities. Furthermore, GPS and GLONASS satellites (and sister-craft GIOVE-A) have all been operating there for many years quite happily. If this really does turn out to be the cause of the problem then it does not bode well for the engineering of the satellite or for ESA's ability to specify the requirements for a MEO constellation. We are at a solar minima at the moment, if the satellite is this vulnerable to radiation heaven knows how it will survive through solar max (we will really need eLoran!).</p>
<p>Of course it could all just be <a href="http://satellitenavigation.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/further-delays-for-giove-b/" target="_blank">those pesky capacitors</a> again...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Die philosopische Wendeltreppe V : Wurde die Mathematik aus der Natur heraus-gefunden... ]]></title>
<link>http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/?p=1490</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ebmeierjochen</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ebmeierjochen.pt.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/die-philosopische-wendeltreppe-v-wurde-die-mathematik-aus-der-natur-heraus-gefunden/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[   oder vom Menschenhirn in sie hinein-gedacht?

Erst mit Galileo ging, streng genommen, das mythisc]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/galilei_galileo-1643_r.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1491" title="Rechentabelle von Galileo Galilei, ca. 1643" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/galilei_galileo-1643_r.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="543" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Erst mit Galileo ging, streng genommen, das mythische Zeitalter zu Ende. "Der Mythos braucht keine Fragen zu beantworten. Er erfindet, bevor die Frage akut wird und damit sie nicht akut wird."(Hans Blumenberg). Seit Galileo stellen die Wissenschaften nicht nur Fragen, sondern beantworten sie auch, und jede Antwort wirft (mindestens) eine neue Frage auf.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Das Buch der Natur sei </span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/galileogalilei.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1492" title="galileo galilei" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/galileogalilei.jpg?w=275" alt="" width="165" height="180" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;"> in der Sprache der Mathematik geschrieben, hatte Galileo verkündet. Das ist seither zum Gemeinplatz westlicher Bildung geworden.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Descartes hatte die Welt in zwei Substanzen zerteilt, eine <em><span style="color:teal;">res extensa</span></em>, die Materie, die sich durch ihre räumliche Ausdehnung zu erkennen gibt, und die <em><span style="color:teal;">res cogitans</span></em>, den Geist, der außerhalb von Raum und Zeit ist. Doch eines ist ihnen gemeinsam: die mathematische Struktur, und an der erkennt man ihre gemeinsame</span></p>
<p><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/spinoza21.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1495" title="Benedictus de Spinoza (Baruch Despinoza)" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/spinoza21.jpg?w=202" alt="" width="162" height="240" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Abkunft vom selben Schöpfergott. Spinoza tat die beiden Teile wieder zusammen, bei ihm ist es die eine, geistige Substanz, die <span style="color:#008080;"><em>sich selber ausdehnt</em></span>, "deus sive natura", und <span style="color:#008080;"><em>wie</em></span> tut sie das? "More geometrico", auf geometrische Weise! War bei Descartes Gott ein Mathematiker, so ist die Gottnatur bei Spinoza Mathematik. Isaac Newton, der erste Systematiker der modernen Physik, betitelte sein Hauptwerk " Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica", die mathematischen Grundlagen der Naturphilosophie. Und Leibniz endlich, der die strenge Naturwissenschaft in Deutschland eingeführt hat, überlegte ernstlich, ob nicht Gott selber in mathematischen Formel spräche!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Die Herrschaft des Rationalismus war Herrschaft der Metaphysik. Die Metaphysik sei aus der abendländischen </span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/conus_amadis.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1522" title="Conus Amadis" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/conus_amadis.jpg?w=182" alt="" width="109" height="180" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Wissenschaft inzwischen vertrieben? Nur die metaphysische Verpackung ist gefallen. Der Kern bleibt. Der Einfall, die Gesetze der Mathematik seien gleichzeitig die Gesetze der Vernunft und der Natur, bedarf keiner zusätzlichen Metaphysik. Er ist selber metaphysisch.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Die Mathematik ist nicht, wie unsere eigne Schullaufbahn vermuten macht, aus dem kleinen Einmaleins hervorgegangen. Zwar hatten die Babylonier ihr Interesse </span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/kugel1gr.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1496 alignleft" title="Kugel" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/kugel1gr.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="134" height="125" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">auf die Arithmetik konzentriert; aber sie dienten ihnen nur zur Astrologie. <em><span style="color:teal;">Mathematik</span></em> entstand erst, als die Griechen Thales und Pythagoras die Zahlen in den Dienst der Geometrie, der Anschauung räumlicher Verhältnisse nahmen. Das Leitbild der Mathematik - die vollkommene Gestalt - ist ästhetisch. Ihre Verfahren sind Anschauung und Konstruktion. Auf etwelche sinnliche Erfahrung - über die man streiten könnte - ist sie nicht angewiesen. Sie begründet sich aus sich selbst, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">und nur so konnte sie zur Grundlage der allgemeinen wissenschaftlichen Methode werden.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Aber ist nicht gerade die Geometrie aus den Dingen der Welt <em><span style="color:teal;">abgeschaut</span>?!</em></span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/kristall.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1503" title="kristall" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/kristall.jpg" alt="" width="137" height="111" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Plato kannte fünf vollkommene Körper: Kugel, Würfel, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Pyramide; Zylinder, Konus</span>.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Es sind die jeweiligen dreidimensionalen Kombinationen von Kreis, Quadrat und Dreieck. Drei Dimensionen sind 'vollkommener' als zwei, bzw. Körper sind vollkommener als Flächen.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Hat man eines von denen 'von der Natur abgeschaut'? Mehr oder minder runde Formen kommen in 'der Natur' vor; Kugeln nicht. Kugel 'entsteht' als <em><span style="color:teal;">Idee</span></em> des vervollkommneten 'runden' Körpers. Wobei Vollkommenheit ebenb keine logische, sondern eine anschauliche, eine ästhetische Qualität ist! </span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/zylinder_der.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1498" title="zylinder" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/zylinder_der.jpg" alt="" width="105" height="105" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Finden sich Würfel, Pyramiden, Zylinder usw. in der Natur vor? Es finden sich Formen, die wie fehlerhafte Annäherungen aussehen. <em><span style="color:teal;">Damit</span></em> sie so aussehen können, müssen die reinen Formen dem inneren Auge </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">aber schon gewärtig sein. Und das geht nur, wenn das innere Auge die</span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/baumstamm.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1499" title="Zylinder...." src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/baumstamm.jpg?w=184" alt="" width="82" height="134" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;"> Konstruktion aus Kreis, Quadrat und Dreieck schon vorgenommen hat! Das ist eine erhebliche Abstraktions- und Reflexionsleistung.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">(Abstraktion und Reflexion sind nur zwei Sichtweisen auf denselben Denkakt: Absehen <em><span style="color:teal;">auf</span></em><span style="color:teal;"> </span>das jeweils Wichtige ist zugleich Absehen <em><span style="color:teal;">von</span></em> dem jeweils Unerheblichen.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Denn zuvor mussten vor dem inneren Auge die Flächen selber konstruiert werden! Allein den vollkommenen Kreis kann man in der Außenwelt <em><span style="color:teal;">sehen</span></em> – am wolkenlosen Himmel. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wuerfel.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1500" title="wuerfel" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/wuerfel.gif?w=288" alt="" width="113" height="118" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Es ist ja denkbar, dass der Anblick des einzig perfekten Kreises – der Sonnenscheibe – und ihrer imperfekten Parodie, des Mondes – den Anlass zur Idee anschaulicher Vollkommenheit gegeben hat; aber eine erfahrungsmäßige Abstraktion aus dem Anblick vieler perfekten Kreise war es nicht: weil es nur diesen einen gibt; und eine Reihe imperfekter Karikaturen – die werdenden und vergehenden Ringe auf dem Wasser usw... Nachgemacht werden kann dieser eine perfekte Kreis aber nicht auf 'anschaulichem' Weg; er muss konstruiert </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">werden aus Punkt und Radius: wieder eine Abstraktionsleistung.</span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wasserringe.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1501 alignright" title="wasserringe" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/wasserringe.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="192" height="133" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Die andern beiden Grundformen finden sich nicht in perfekter Gestalt in den Natur vor. Sie müssen – vielleicht in anschaulicher Analogie zur Sonnenscheibe – erdacht werden, um bemerken zu können, dass sich in der Natur… unvollkommene Annäherungen vorfinden. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Und erst nach all dem können die fünf perfekten Körper erdacht werden; und kann man sich einbilden, diese Idealentwürfe lägen ihren unvollständigen natürlichen Nachbildungen "in Wahrheit" zu Grunde; in einer verborgenen Wahrheit selbstverständlich.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Die Arithmetik hat ältere Wurzeln, die bis zu den Babyloniern zurückreichen. Ist nun die Zahl ein "Naturverhältnis"? Beruht sie nicht darauf, dass die Dinge 'im Raum' eine Grenze haben und man sie neben einander stellen und also <em><span style="color:teal;">zählen</span></em> kann? Das sieht nur so aus. Tatsächlich zählen wir die Dinge nicht neben-, sondern <em><span style="color:teal;">nach</span></em> einander! Und das geschieht <em>i<span style="color:teal;">n der Zeit.</span></em></span></p>
<p><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/gansemarsch1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1518" title="nacheinander..." src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/gansemarsch1.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="83" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;">Paläoanthropologen haben aus frühester Vorzeit Stäbchen geborgen, die in regelmäßigen Abständen mit Kerben versehen sind. Sie interpretieren sie als Zählstäbe, die Vorläufer der Zahlensysteme; nämlich so, dass ihre Hersteller den Daumennagel auf die erste Kerbe gehalten haben: "zuerst..."; auf die zweiter Kerbe: "dann..."; dritte Kerbe: "und danach...". Da wird das zeitliche Nacheinander der Zahlen archäologisch sinnfällig!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Und wem die erwähnten Zählstäbe der Paläontologen als Indiz zu dürftig scheinen, der kann es ja mit einem Gedankenexperiment versuchen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Was immer Zahlen sonst auch noch sein mögen, eins sind sie ganz bestimmt: Zeichen. Was </span><a href="http://ebmeierjochen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/numerologie.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1524" title="Numerologie" src="http://ebmeierjochen.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/numerologie.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="214" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">muss man bezeichnen? Etwas, das man nicht stets vor Augen hat und doch 'behalten' will. Denn auf alles andere kann man mit dem Finger zeigen. Kleine Mengen hat man stets vor Augen: 3 Äpfel, 4 Beine usw. Bezeichnen müsste man größere Mengen. Mit welchen größeren Mengen könnten aber unsere Vorfahren - ihres Zeichens Jäger und Sammler - regelmäßig zu tun gehabt haben? So regelmäßig, dass sie sie dauerhaft bezeichnen mussten?!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Sie waren Nomaden; große Vorräte kannten sie nicht. Bleibt also übrig - die Zeit. Die Zeiträume müssen bezeichnet werden: wie viele Tage bis Vollmond, Sonnenwende und Tag- und Nachtgleiche, Jahreszeiten, Jahre... Gerade Nomaden, die ihr Leben buchstäblich durch Zeit und Raum führen, müssen mental Zeiträume 'vorweg nehmen' können, müssen wissen, 'wie lange wir brauchen bis...' - z. B. bis zur nächsten Wasserstelle. Denn solange sie keine Wanderkarten und keine Tachometer haben, können sie Wege nur als Zeit darstellen. (Noch im Mittelalter wurden Ackergrößen als 'Tagewerke' gemessen.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Sagt nicht aber schon der gesunde Menschenverstand, dass <em><span style="color:teal;">eins und ein zwei</span></em> sind? 'Ursprünglich', d. h. in unmittelbarer sinnlicher Anschauung, kommen Zahlen nur als Ordnungszahlen vor: als Nacheinander in einem 'an sich' ununterschiedenen Zeitverlauf: erstens, zweitens, drittens… <em><span style="color:teal;">zählen</span></em> kann ich so noch nicht. Denn es könnte bedeuten: erstens ein Lufthauch, zweitens ein Elefant, drittens eine Untertasse. Um aus den Momenten im Zeitverlauf ein Werkzeug ("Denkzeug") zum Zählen zu machen, muss ich von der Zeit selber absehen und auf die zu zählenden Sachen reflektieren.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Vorab: Warum, wozu sind sie 'zu' zählen? Es braucht zunächst einmal eine Absicht; zum Beispiel die Absicht, Sachen zu verteilen. Ich verteile Sachen, die 'in einer gewissen Hinsicht' <em><span style="color:teal;">gleich</span></em> sind, auf so und so viele Posten, die ihrerseits in gewisser Hinsicht gleich sind; zum Beispiel Essbares an Hungrige. Ich muss aus der Mannigfaltigkeit der Sachen dasjenige heraus suchen, das sich unter der Bedeutung des Essbaren zusammenfassen lässt. Danach muss ich auf diejenigen achten, die mir als hungrig bekannt sind. <em><span style="color:teal;">Erst dann</span></em> kann ich aus den Ordnungszahlen erstens, zweitens, drittens… die Zahlen 1, 2, 3… abstrahieren.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Und erst, nachdem all diese Denkleistungen vollbracht wurden, kann von "Erfahrung" geredet werden. Erfahrung ist nicht das bloße Registrieren von Erlebensdaten, sondern ihre sinnvolle Unterscheidung und Anordnung. Die <em><span style="color:teal;">Absicht</span></em> geht voraus. Ohne vorgängige Absicht keine vorfindliche Bedeutung.</span></p>
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<description><![CDATA[It is a long way from Ascot to Santa Anita but John Gosden and Jimmy Fortune will doubtless be looki]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a long way from Ascot to Santa Anita but John Gosden and Jimmy Fortune will doubtless be looking forward to the journey next month.</p>
<p>The duo have at least one true Breeders' Cup contender in Raven's Pass, while Rainbow View will also be popular if she makes the trip to California following their victories in Berkshire.</p>
<p>Gosden, who plied his trade stateside for a number of years, had warned that Raven's Pass was being trained with America in mind and might not be quite at the top of his game for the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.</p>
<p>That view proved totally incorrect as the colt, running in the colours of Princess Haya for the first time, comprehensively reversed the form with old adversary Henrythenavigator.</p>
<p>The latter had proved too good on each of the three previous occasions the pair had met in the 2000 Guineas, St James's Palace and Sussex Stakes but he met his match this time.</p>
<p>Gosden said: "It all went wrong in the Guineas from the draw but he ran a blinder in the St James's Palace.</p>
<p>"We knew this time we would be a little handier, that was the only plan - be handier.</p>
<p>"The plan is now to go to the Breeders' Cup, whether that is for the Mile or the Classic we will have to see - he sees his races out much better now.</p>
<p>"He has been on the go since February, but he looks great in his coat."</p>
<p>Rainbow View also dug deep to maintain her unbeaten record in the Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile and give Gosden and Fortune a notable double.</p>
<p>The Dynaformer filly had won her previous three starts on the bridle but Fantasia served it up to her at the furlong marker and Rainbow View responded in style for a two-and-a-half-length win.</p>
<p>Gosden added: "She's not very big but she's all heart - you find a lot of the very good ones are not big."</p>
<p>Richard Hannon and Richard Hughes collected the biggest of all sales races as Soul City refused to give away the Parknasilla Hotel Goffs Million at the Curragh on Sunday.</p>
<p>The combination's Penny's Gift took the valuable event at Ascot on Friday with a late charge but it was forcing tactics from the front here aboard the French Group Three winner and 5-2 favourite.</p>
<p>He drifted from the rail as Akrisrun challenged up his inside but kept finding more to hold off Jim Bolger's pair Gan Amhras and Intense Focus.</p>
<p>Hannon said: "There's no reason why he would not go on and be a nice three-year-old.</p>
<p>"He's one we could pack up this year and maybe have a go at the Guineas."</p>
<p>Hannon then proceeded to dominate the Parknasilla Hotel Goffs Fillies Million - although Hughes was on the wrong one with Baileys Cacao finishing second to stablemate Minor Vamp.</p>
<p>Favourite Luminous Eyes threw down a determined challenge on the far side but she had no answer to the devastating turn of foot demonstrated by Minor Vamp (10-1) and Michael Kinane in the centre.</p>
<p>A thoroughly respectable third to Rainbow View at Newmarket 50 days ago, she settled the event very quickly, despite a late effort from 9-1 chance Baileys Cacao.</p>
<p>Sea The Stars (7-4) came out on top in a closely-fought renewal of the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes.</p>
<p>Trainer John Oxx, who won this race in 2002 and 2003 with the brilliant pair Alamshar and Azamour, also saddled another leading contender in Mourayan.</p>
<p>But Kinane picked the right one and exuded confidence aboard Sea The Stars.</p>
<p>The half-brother to Galileo took a little while to assert himself once hitting the front, but was in command in the final furlong and had half a length in reserve of Mourayan for a stable one-two.</p>
<p>Bookmakers had mixed reactions on the winner for next year's Derby. He is 12-1 from 20s with Paddy Power, now 14-1 with William Hill - but 20s with VC Bet.</p>
<p>Nearly-horse King's Apostle picked the perfect moment to start winning again in the Group Two John Guest Diadem Stakes at Ascot, while Sixties Icon overcame a sluggish start to take the Grosvenor Casinos Cumberland Lodge Stakes.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Galileo Refracting Telescope]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>edwinmeade</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Get Into Astronomer With A Galileo Refracting Telescope
If you are looking to get into astronomy and]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get Into Astronomer With A Galileo Refracting Telescope</p>
<p>If you are looking to get into astronomy and are uncertain about which telescope might be right for you consider a Galileo Refracting Telescope.  Galileo telescope makers have been around for almost two decades and they pride themselves that you are buying a telescope from people that actually use telescopes. Read further  <a title="Galileo Refracting Telescope" href="http://nasahubbletelescope.blogspot.com/2008/09/galileo-refracting-telescope.html" target="_blank">Galileo Refracting Telescope</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Galileo Reflector Telescope]]></title>
<link>http://telescopecameralens.wordpress.com/?p=21</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>edwinmeade</dc:creator>
<guid>http://telescopecameralens.pt.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/galileo-reflector-telescope/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Learning About the Galileo Reflector Telescope
There is the 8 reflector telescope but there are also]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Learning About the Galileo Reflector Telescope</p>
<p>There is the 8 reflector telescope but there are also many other types that you can choose from, including the Galileo reflector telescope. Before you go out and buy a Galileo reflector telescope however, you should be aware of how they came about and what they offer. Read further  <a title="Galileo Reflector Telescope" href="http://nasahubbletelescope.blogspot.com/2008/09/galileo-reflector-telescope.html" target="_blank">Galileo Reflector Telescope</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Return - II - J-Dramas can be infectious~]]></title>
<link>http://jadephoenix.wordpress.com/?p=20</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[So before my exams, a friend of mine had been claiming that he was going to make a complete J-drama ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So before my exams, a friend of mine had been claiming that he was going to make a complete J-drama fangirl out of me once my exams got over. I kind of didn't really believed in it but as it was something Japanese, I went along with it. Later on, he sent over some selected J-dramas and movies to me. And I started with Hana Kimi as it was the only one I had actually heard about as a manga.</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="488" caption="Hana Kimi"]<img title="Hana Kimi" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/16b632dde1dda0_full.jpg" alt="Hana Kimi" width="488" height="356" />[/caption]
<p>And man, it totally got me hooked! It was your usual gender-bender storyline of girl posing like a boy and entering an all-boys high school to follow her idol, who was a former renowned high jumper, and whom she wanted to start high jumping again. The main story as such isn't cute at all but some of the actors ( and their characters ) are really cool.</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Nakatsu Shuichi"]<img title="Nakatsu Shuichi" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/hanakimi_ikuta_nakatsu.jpg" alt="Nakatsu Shuichi" width="300" height="200" />[/caption]
<p>There's an almost main character, Nakatsu Shuichi, played by Ikuta Toma, who's just awesomely sweet! And his monologues will definitely leave you clutching your sides with laughter! He plays a self-acclaimed 'hot blooded soccer player' high school student, and I really don't think anybody else could have done such justice to the Nakatsu character.</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="216" caption="Kayashima Taiki"]<img title="Kayashima Taiki" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/kayashima.jpg" alt="Kayashima Taiki" width="216" height="288" />[/caption]
<p>Then there's the Kayashima guy who's a psychic and Nakatsu's best friend. He's equally well-developed and the actor ( I forgot his name ) is really suited to him. And I love his glamorous look which is shown just once in one of the ending episodes.</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="255" caption="Nanba Minami"]<img title="Nanba Minami" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/nanba.jpg" alt="Nanba Minami" width="255" height="320" />[/caption]
<p>Nanba Minami, the school playboy and a very responsible dorm leader, is another of my favourite characters. Played by Mizushima Hiro, who also plays Asamoto Soshi, another of my fav character from Zettai Kareshi J-drama, he's loads of fun and really gorgeous, lol.</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="219" caption="Kagurazaka ( Shirota Yuu )"]<img title="Kagurazaka" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/sf_hana_uni20.jpg" alt="Kagurazaka ( Shirota Yuu )" width="219" height="290" />[/caption]
<p>There's another hottie too - Kagurazaka, played by Shirota Yuu ( also played Tezuka in PoT live action movie ). He's like... real hot with an awesome hairstyle. And the way he roams around with his hands in his tracksuit pants and looking about with a detached look - ooh, he's definitely the oomph factor in Hana Kimi. The lead characters, Mizuki and Sano, didn't really get to me much. Mizuki was still pretty good, just too cute for a boy, heh. But Sano totally disappointed me. He was just too... boring. I had a feeling that I won't be able to hang out with him for even an hour, forget spend my high school days bunked in the same room ( like Mizuki ). While Nakatsu, Kayashima and Nanba would definitely guys I'd love to have as my friends! xD Anyway, that's about it~ I'd definitely recommend it to anybody who just wants to have a bit of fun, and not watch something serious or thought-provoking.</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="490" caption="Liar Game"]<img title="Liar Game" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/Liar_Game_Chart.jpg" alt="Liar Game" width="490" height="277" />[/caption]
<p>Moving on, there were two really sensible dramas included as well : Liar Game and Galileo. The former one being based off a corporate company using people to play a money game. It deals with pretty much all of the possible human emotions involved and is one awesome piece, minus some boring repetitions. Still, gets a high recommendation from me because somehow, it gets you hooked once you've watched the first three-four episodes. And Matsuda Shota and Toda Erika have acted their parts pretty well.</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="250" caption="Galileo"]<img title="Galileo" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/Galileo_Japanese_Drama.jpg" alt="Galileo" width="250" height="156" />[/caption]
<p>Galileo, on the other hand, deals with scientific crimes with a supernatural feel. The story revolves around a police detective and a physics professor who solve various seemingly unsolvable cases with a completely scientific approach. Their cases involve spontaneous combustion, soul floating, teleportation, foreseeing dreams to name a few. Each episode is a standalone except the last two. The ending was quite pathetic in my opinion, given the awesome flow of the series otherwise. Those people really knew how to deliver the plot but somehow, messed up the ending quite a bit. Still, I'd watch it for the all the other episodes definitely. Intriguing and detailed, it will surely catch your eye! The only drawback I'd like to mention would be Fukuyama Masaharu's weird laughter. It's seriously horrible, take my word for it! -shiver- xD</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="399" caption="Hana Yori Dango"]<img title="Hana Yori Dango" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/hydgroup.jpg" alt="Hana Yori Dango" width="399" height="285" />[/caption]
<p>The others I caught up with were My Boss My Hero and Hana Yori Dango. The former one is a roller coaster ride of high school fun and feelings - an really good piece of work, while the latter is based off the manga by the same name. And doesn't do any justice to the manga at all! And seriously, I just don't get what the damn is the whole hype about Matsumoto Jun! Okay, so he's kind of cute and sings wells, but that's about it. He totally trashed Tsukasa, the brash and cute lead, and my recent fav character ( yeah, I just have too many favourite characters but the alltime favourite is the one and only Sanzo, from Saiyuki ). The actress who played Makino didn't really feel like her either.</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="180" caption="Matsuda Shota"]<img title="Matsuda Shota" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/hanadan-matsuda-shota.jpg" alt="Matsuda Shota" width="180" height="225" />[/caption]
<p>If there were some actors I liked in this one, they were Makino's family and Nishikado Soujiro, who was played by Matsuda Shota with a glamorous look, quite the opposite of what he had in Liar Game. I'll be downloading HYD Returns but that's just because I love Tsukasa too much to not watch it. Otherwise, I'd suggest you go read the manga or watch the anime but do not go for the drama. -sigh-</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="My Boss My Hero"]<img title="My Boss My Hero" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/my_boss_my_hero_1.jpg" alt="My Boss My Hero" width="384" height="347" />[/caption]
<p>Going back to My Boss My Hero, Tomoya Nagase and <em>Kazuo</em> are totally going to win your hearts! Nagase is a gangster's older son who is forced to complete high school if he wants to inherit his father's position. And thus begins the wonderful adventure of a 27-year old guy acting like a 17-year old school kid, and actually enjoying all the activities later on. He's even the CR as that supposedly equals leading a corporation in his mind and so, the class strengthens and unites under his command. It's a sweet and hilarious piece, which can get quite serious at times, and there can even be times when you can learn something from it. ;-)</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Hachimitsu to Clover"]<img title="Hachimitsu to Clover" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb239/ginryuu_kurochan/400px-Hachimutsu_to_Clover.jpg" alt="Hachimitsu to Clover" width="400" height="232" />[/caption]
<p>The last one for now would be Honey and Clover ( Hachimitsu to Clover ). It's based off the manga, of course, but has been quite changed from what I've heard ( no, I haven't read the manga yet ). Many people I know found it repetitive and boring, but if you ask me, I really liked it. It revolves around five art college friends and their lives - personal, love, 