iON | Norway Spiral

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/J5_8MVctp30?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://achieveradio.com/payday/" target="blank">Payday</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span><b>ob Dobbs’ private session 220, 11 December 2009. Dr Carolyn Dean and Bob Dobbs ask iON about the Norway Spiral anomaly.</b><br /><br /><object data="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf" height="24" id="audioplayer558" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer558&soundFile=http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_norway_spiral.mp3"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="menu" value="false"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object> <div><a href="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_norway_spiral.mp3" target="blank">download mp3</a> <p></p></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2764647/Spiral-UFO-puts-Norway-in-a-spin.html">The Sun</a></b></span> <p></p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> <b>A MYSTERIOUS giant spiral of light that dominated the sky over Norway this morning has stunned experts—who believe the space spectacle is an entirely new astral phenomenon. </b> <p></p>9 December 2009— Thousands of awe-struck Norwegians bombarded the Meteorological Institute to ask what the incredible light — that could be seen in the pre-dawn sky for hundreds of miles — could possibly be. <p></p>The phenomenon has been dubbed ‘Star-Gate’ — as the world’s top scientists and the military lined up to admit they were baffled. <p></p>Theories ranging from a misfired Russian missile, meteor fireball, never-before-seen type of northern light, ‘black hole’ and even alien activity were all proposed. <p></p>Witnesses across Norway, who first glimpsed the space show at 8.45am, all described seeing a spinning ‘Catherine wheel-style’ spiral of white light, centred around a bright moon-like star. <p></p>A blue “streaming tail” appeared to anchor the spiral to earth, before the light "exploded" into a rotating ring of white fire. <p></p>The spiral spectacle — which lasted for two minutes — was seen by vast swathes of the Scandinavian country’s almost five million population, with sightings as far north as Finnmark to Trondelag in the south. <p></p>Chief Scientist Erik Tandberg, at the Norwegian Space Center, was amazed by the appearance of the spiral. He agreed with many other experts that the spiral pattern could have been caused by a missile from Russia – something the Russian military have strongly denied. </div>

iON | Norway Spiral

PaydayBob Dobbs’ private session 220, 11 December 2009. Dr Carolyn Dean and Bob Dobbs ask iON about the Norway Spiral anomaly. download mp3 The Sun A MYSTERIOUS giant spiral of light that dominated the sky over Norway this morning has stunned experts—who believe the space …

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MIT Smart Sand Clones Solid Objects

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fMis7LPZE9M?start=23" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/06/04/188642248/mit-s-magic-bag-of-sand?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130605" target="blank">National Public Radio</a></b></span> <br />Robert Krulwich<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><b>he video above is movie technology, something dreamed up by a screenwriter who imagined it while sitting at a cafe somewhere, far from facts, engineers and common sense—Except it isn’t! To my astonishment, there’s a lab at MIT working on smart cubes, and to my double-astonishment, they look very much like the cubes in the movie, and triple-astonishing, what MIT’s Daniela Rus and Kyle Gilpin plan to do with their cubes is queerer and more fantastic than the movie version. Plus, they’ve already started.</b></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3wShKl0Hbw0?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;">You fill a bag with these little intelligent grains, and then you drop in ... oh, it could be anything—a hammer, a doll house version of a chair—and then you shake. That’s all you do ... shake.<br /><br />What happens is the sand gets bumped around, and eventually the little grains get wedged up against the hammer inside. The hammer is now covered, on all sides, by sand. Here’s the beauty part: Each grain of sand that’s touching the hammer maps its little border, and when all the grains communicate, together they create a perfect silhouette of a hammer.</div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/okciiW26A6c?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;">And then (I should say “AND THEN!” because this is so surprising) ... Kyle Gilpin thinks he can get his bits of sand to send messages to the rest of the sand in the bag—loose sand, not near the hammer. The message is: “Copy this!” And the new grains will create a perfect copy of the hammer! <br /><br />So now we’ve got two hammers in blocks of sand sitting in the bag, the original and the copy, and then (no, let me say AND THEN! ... ), a command is given to “Let go!” And all of the grains that aren’t being hammers fall away, leaving two distinct hammers inside in a pile of loose sand. You can then open the bag, reach in and pull out the original hammer and a perfect, sand-built copy.<br /><br />Or if you like, you can put in a little hammer, and have the smart sand give you a bigger one. When you are done with the hammer, you can drop it back in the bag and give it the ”Disassociate“ command, and it will go back to sand.</div>

MIT Smart Sand Clones Solid Objects

National Public Radio Robert KrulwichThe video above is movie technology, something dreamed up by a screenwriter who imagined it while sitting at a cafe somewhere, far from facts, engineers and common sense—Except it isn’t! To my astonishment, there’s a lab at MIT working on smart cubes, and to my …

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The Making of ‘Man of Steel’

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The Making of ‘Man of Steel’

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PRISM

<iframe frameborder="0" height="480" scrolling="no" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/video/videoEmbed.html?uuid=736102e0-ced6-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497&noheadline=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html" target="blank">The Washington Post</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">US</span> <b>government whistleblowers have leaked details of the secret US National Security Agency (NSA) program called PRISM—after the prisms used to split light, which is used to carry information on fiber-optic cables. The program grants the government access to the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple (more companies will be added in the future) and can collect e-mail, video and voice chat, photos, videos, stored data, video conferencing, social networking details, anything stored on the cloud—pretty much any information online.</b><br /><br />The companies named are responding to requests for comment by flat-out denying awareness or involvement.<br /><br />The top-secret program is authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).<br /><br />Members of Congress are defending the propgram and using Orwellian double-speak to redefine spying on Americans as protecting America.<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/" target="_blank"><br /></a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/" target="_blank">A slide briefing analysts at the National Security Agency about the program touts its effectiveness and features the logos of the companies involved.</a></div><br /><iframe width="853" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/video/videoEmbed.html?uuid=fb15c0fe-cf94-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497&noheadline=0"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;">In the video above, reporter Barton Gellman talks about the source who revealed this top-secret information and how he believes his whistleblowing was worth whatever consequences are ahead.<br /></div>

PRISM

The Washington PostUS government whistleblowers have leaked details of the secret US National Security Agency (NSA) program called PRISM—after the prisms used to split light, which is used to carry information on fiber-optic cables. The program grants the government access to the servers of Microsof…

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