Month: January 2015

January 23, 2015

The Air Force Declassifies Project Bluebook

I read the other day that the U.S. Air Force has finally declassified and released to the public the entire file collection on UFO reports. The complete file can now be found on the Black Vault website: http://www.theblackvault.com To summarize, out of the thousands of reports, a little over 700 are unexplainable, and interestingly, there is no mention of the Roswell incident in 1947 that gave rise to stories of a crashed flying saucer and the retrieval of dead or injured little green men. On further investigation I found out about a secret hostage exchange took place years ago wherein the aliens released some hostages they had been holding in exchange for the bodies. Here is a photo of the aliens releasing their hostages:

Image courtesy of the Sony Corporation

Now, on a totally different subject, I want to briefly discuss the cost of revolution as it applies to my fellow citizens in the USA. I feel that with a Republican Congress and the defiant diatribe of President Obama in his State Of The Union address, the following observation is critical to disseminate to my blog readers:

The U.S. civil war was the deadliest conflict in American history, with the number of men dying exceeding 750,000. This total exceeds all of the combat deaths combined from the revolutionary war of 1776 through the end of the Korean War. At the time of the Civil war, the U.S. population was roughly 31 million, a tenth of today’s population. If it had been fought today, the total number of combat deaths would be about 6.2 million.

So, I have to ask Tea Party boosters and the radical left that presently controls our government, “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?” If you can’t abandon your extremist politics and focus on real long-term solutions to the problems that beset our country, you risk taking us back to those dismal days in the 1860s. You had better remember the times when there was civil discourse in Congress, and representatives cooperated to pass legislation that benefited all of our citizens. None of your constituents, including me, appreciate the grand-standing, and arm twisting that you routinely engage in, and believe it or not, we are not stupid.

January 20, 2015

A Force For Good

I came across another video of my younger brother doing his thing and I thought I would share it with my blog readers. He is fluent in ten different languages and is bringing love to the world in his own way. Besides creating the world-renowned Seacology Foundation, he also started the “Force For Good” Foundation in collaboration with the NuSkin Corporation. I tried to embed the video here but apparently this is not possible with Vimeo videos on Vivaldi, so here is the link: https://vimeo.com/31432947 It is well worth watching.

Paul considers Sweden to be his second home and he is friends with the King, who created a special visiting scholar’s Chair for him at the the University of Uppsala, one of the top 100 universities in the world. He is presently in Qatar, out in the sand dunes collecting Cyanobacteria that may be responsible for triggering ALS brain disease in susceptible people, and perhaps, the Gulf War Syndrome. It is hard to believe that this organism survives such harsh conditions.

January 15, 2015

The Warp Drive Becomes Possible

One of my favorite companies, Lockheed Martin, has unveiled a very compact Fusion Reactor. Here are the details in a Youtube presentation

The page with a detailed release including the Youtube video is here:

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html

I had to laugh at the stories that were spun by the media. Many of their press releases stated that this development was based on ‘Cold Fusion’. Nope, this is the real thing! I also found a Youtube one-hour long tutorial on the Dense Plasma Focus technology which may be complementary to the LMT development here:

And, at CERN, they are learning to create, trap, and store antimatter. See it here:

The energy created by matter/antimatter collisions is far greater than that produced by fusion. This could be an alternate power system for a starship in the future (booted up by the fusion reactor). Consider the NASA project involving Warp Drive here:

The new “Hot” fusion reactor makes all of the foregoing doable, and the NASA effort will get legs…..In the meantime Fusion can get us to Mars in a week, and the outer system within a month.

The main unsolved problem as I see it is how do you avoid interstellar debris? Do you stop forward motion of the starship periodically to chart a pathway that is safe to travel? Can you warp your way around a Neutron star or black hole in the middle of your flight trajectory before it’s too late? Can the space-time bubble surrounding the vessel harmlessly warp objects like a small asteroid out of the road, and do it in time to avoid a horrific collision? And here, Astronomers have spotted objects in the outer reaches of the universe that are apparently traveling much faster than the speed of light.

Could these be aliens zooming around?

January 11, 2015

Why Biology Is Better Than Robotics

I’ve been feeling sort of, well, obsolete lately as I have concluded that there is an inherent risk in creating mechanical beings that can do everything better than we can, including thinking. Superhuman abilities aside, they are made of steel not protein jelly, and can kick our butts!

But, if you take the longer view, say over a billion years of continual evolution, I think biology will win out; the main reason being that WE DON’T RUST!

Not only that, consider the issue of spontaneous resurrection. Biology has proven that it can arise unassisted and unfabricated. It is a naturally occurring electrochemical event in this universe of matter and energy. And, I suspect that it permeates the entire universe in the form of long-chain protein molecules and amino acids. This is not true of Gort the Robot or the Giant Thinking Machine. These are 2^nd order entities that cannot spontaneously arise in nature.

And, in a universe of black holes, colliding galaxies, neutron stars, supernovas, planetoids, asteroids, gas clouds and powerful beams of particles zooming around randomly at the speed of light, the attribute most important for survival is a chemistry that eventually evolves proteins and cellular structures that house and protect RNA and DNA molecules that form from amino acids.

Therefore, the grand cycle of existence consists of endless Big Bangs followed by endless collapses according to the principles of Entropy, and in the interim processes, matter evolves life, which much later evolves artificial life, that will choose to exist alongside living beings, or supersede them.

January 10, 2015

Book Review

I received another five star review of my novel, Secret of the First Immortals recently at Amazon.com. This is the sixth five-star rating so far. If you are an agent or publisher, please contact me regarding making a hard-cover print run for this book. Contact me at: DLCox@ outlook.com

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David L. Warnock (Milledgeville, GA USA)

Secret of the First Immortals

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Thought provoking!, November 27, 2014

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The best kind of speculative fiction.
I recommend it anyone with an open mind.
My rating is based on the detail and thoroughness. Having read thousands of books this one is in the top tier.

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January 7, 2015

The American Guru Speaks (or perhaps, squeeks)

Bad Craziness in Iran

Normally, I would not write about politics in this blog as the topic tends to infuriate people regardless of what is said. I have been tempted to badmouth the Obama Administration on occasion and the Government of North Korea at least weekly, but finally I have to speak out. This time the topic is about a country that after much research I have concluded is a “natural” ally of the United States. The country is Iran.

I have worked with Iranian engineers educated in the United States, and have found them to be hard working, intelligent, and less devious than others I have met that hail from the Middle East, including Israel. The problem is Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This man is my age, and like me is losing his mental faculties, although in his case the condition seems to be accelerating at an alarming pace. I admire the current president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, who appears to be trying to crank down the rhetoric of “Death to America” in favor of edging past this Muslim fanatic who controls the country, and easing the tensions a bit.

This is a good thing, and from what I can tell, he is genuinely concerned with bettering the lives of the average Iranian family. This includes promoting individual freedom, always a good thing. Working together, the USA and Iran could settle the regional wars going on in a heartbeat. Normalized trade relations between Iran and America could do much to relieve the extreme poverty and despair that permeates the entire region, and make the various Islamic extremist groups less appealing to those who are presently disenfranchised.

David the Guru speaks, “Om, Baby”